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Vol. 149 WASHINGTON, THURSDAY, MARCH 20, 2003 No. 45—Part II Senate CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET FOR mandatory spending. That is what the NAYS—48 THE U.S. GOVERNMENT FOR FIS- record shows. That is where it comes Akaka Dayton Landrieu CAL YEAR 2004—Continued from. Baucus Dodd Lautenberg Bayh Dorgan Leahy The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under Mr. KYL. Mr. President, since the Biden Durbin Levin the previous order, the Senate will re- distinguished Senator from North Da- Bingaman Edwards Lieberman sume consideration of S. Con. Res. 23. kota intruded into the time, let me re- Boxer Feingold McCain Breaux Feinstein Mikulski AMENDMENT NO. 288, AS MODIFIED iterate, this funding is from function Byrd Graham (FL) Murray The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under 920, across-the-board discretionary Cantwell Harkin Pryor the previous order, there are 2 minutes funding. That is the fact. There is no Carper Hollings Reed Medicare, Medicaid, or Social Security Chafee Inouye Reid evenly divided on the Kyl amendment Clinton Jeffords Rockefeller No. 288, as modified. Who yields time? offset, period. Collins Johnson Sarbanes The Senator from North Dakota. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- Conrad Kennedy Schumer Mr. CONRAD. Mr. President, the Kyl Corzine Kerry Snowe ator’s time has expired. Daschle Kohl Stabenow amendment would move up the time of Mr. CRAIG. Regular order. making permanent the elimination of NOT VOTING—1 Mr. NICKLES. I ask for the yeas and the estate tax by 1 year. That costs $46 nays on the amendment. Miller billion. The Senator has proposed pay- The amendment (No. 288), as modi- ing for it by cutting the Finance Com- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a fied, was agreed to. mittee jurisdiction. That means cut- sufficient second? ting Medicare, Medicaid, Temporary There appears to be a sufficient sec- AMENDMENT NO. 294 Assistance for Needy Families, the ond. The PRESIDING OFFICER. There State Health Improvement Program, The question is on agreeing to are now 2 minutes evenly divided on and the earned-income tax credit. amendment No. 288, as modified. The the Graham of Florida amendment. This is the wrong way to go. We clerk will call the roll. Who yields time? ought to reform the estate tax, not re- The assistant legislative clerk called Mr. GRAHAM. Mr. President, we are peal it. I hope my colleagues will resist the roll. about to take the Medicare vote of the the Kyl amendment. Mr. REID. I announce that the Sen- year 2003. Last year, the Senate cast 52 The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- ator from Georgia (Mr. MILLER) is nec- votes for the plan that this amendment ator from Arizona. essarily absent due to a family medical would allow us to consider again. It Mr. KYL. Mr. President, what my matter. failed with 52 votes because we were distinguished colleague just told you is operating under a budget resolution absolutely false. If it were true, then I The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there which required us to have 60 votes. would not support the amendment. any other Senators in the Chamber de- Our amendment cuts from the discre- siring to vote? This amendment will allow us to pass tionary funding across the board. The result was announced—yeas 51, the same prescription drug plan that a There is no Medicare. There is no Med- nays 48, as follows: majority of Senators wanted to do a icaid. There is no Social Security. We [Rollcall Vote No. 62 Leg.] year ago. The alternative, if we do not pass this amendment, is going to be to would not do that. That would be fool- YEAS—51 ish. It would not be prudent. We are adopt the President’s prescription drug Alexander Domenici Murkowski plan which will require seniors to be in not doing that. Allard Ensign Nelson (FL) All this does is advance by 1 year the Allen Enzi Nelson (NE) HMOs in order to have access to pre- repeal of the death tax. We repealed it Bennett Fitzgerald Nickles scription drugs. I don’t believe that is permanently in this body, starting Bond Frist Roberts what this Senate wants to do. Brownback Graham (SC) Santorum with the year 2010. All this amendment Bunning Grassley Sessions The amendment I offer will do two does is start it in the year 2009. That is Burns Gregg Shelby things. It will add $219 billion to the all it does. Since we have already Campbell Hagel Smith Medicare account; it will put $177 bil- Chambliss Hatch Specter adopted the permanent repeal, I hope Cochran Hutchison Stevens lion over the next 10 years toward def- my colleagues will support moving this Coleman Inhofe Sununu icit reduction. That is a responsible up by 1 year. Cornyn Kyl Talent program that will secure a good Medi- Mr. CONRAD. Mr. President, the Craig Lincoln Thomas care prescription drug benefit and Crapo Lott Voinovich Senator yesterday said he took it from DeWine Lugar Warner make a significant contribution toward the Finance Committee jurisdiction for Dole McConnell Wyden deficit reduction.

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VerDate Dec 13 2002 01:26 Mar 22, 2003 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G20MR6.133 S20PT2 S4110 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE March 20, 2003 I close by thanking my colleagues rifices. Are we going to spread them Lugar Santorum Sununu McCain Sessions Talent Senator DORGAN and Senator evenly? Or will we force those who McConnell Shelby Thomas STABENOW for their great assistance. have worked hard to make the United Murkowski Smith Voinovich Mr. SARBANES. Mr. President, I rise States the great Nation that it is to Nelson (NE) Snowe Warner in support of an amendment offered by carry an unnecessarily heavy load? I Nickles Specter Roberts Stevens Senators GRAHAM, DORGAN, STABENOW, fail to see how it is appropriate, at this and others that would increase funding time, to pass a tax benefit that benefits NAYS—44 in the budget resolution by $220 billion the wealthiest Americans without pro- Akaka Durbin Levin for a Medicare prescription drug ben- viding adequate resources to provide a Bayh Edwards Lieberman efit, providing a total of $620 billion for Biden Feingold Lincoln prescription drug benefit for Medicare Bingaman Feinstein Mikulski a comprehensive benefit. This amend- beneficiaries. Our older Americans and Boxer Graham (FL) Murray ment would also reduce the tax cut by the disabled individuals who rely on Byrd Harkin Nelson (FL) nearly $400 billion and reduce the def- Medicare deserve more than this budg- Cantwell Hollings Pryor Carper Inouye Reed icit by $250 billion. et resolution provides. I strongly urge Clinton Johnson Reid According to a study by the Kaiser Conrad Kennedy my colleagues to support the Graham- Rockefeller Corzine Kerry Family Foundation, 38 percent of sen- Dorgan-Stabenow amendment. Sarbanes iors and disabled Americans have no Daschle Kohl The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- Dayton Landrieu Schumer prescription drug coverage whatsoever. ator from Iowa. Dodd Lautenberg Stabenow Wyden Instead of finding ways to help these Mr. GRASSLEY. I ask my colleagues Dorgan Leahy individuals and improve access to care to oppose this amendment, not because NOT VOTING—1 for those with coverage, President Medicare is not a very legitimate sub- Miller Bush has proposed pushing Medicare ject of discussion; it is. The difference The motion was agreed to. beneficiaries into private health plans between this year and last year, last as a means of receiving drug coverage. The PRESIDING OFFICER. There year we did not have a budget resolu- are now 2 minutes equally divided on And the level of coverage that could be tion. The process this year is a very or- provided under this scenario is ques- the Rockefeller amendment. derly process toward getting us a pre- The majority leader. tionable. Given the history of the scription drug program as part of Medi- ORDER OF BUSINESS Medicare+Choice program, many of my care. That very orderly process is, first Mr. FRIST. Mr. President, I will give colleagues and I are skeptical that of all, to have a budget resolution. It is everybody an outline of what we can such a proposal would be successful. a very orderly process. We are going to expect over the next 24 hours before we Many private insurers have withdrawn have a budget resolution this year. We begin what will be the last vote of the from the Medicare program or severely are going to have $100 billion more for evening. limited service areas in recent years. Medicare/prescription drugs than the Following this next vote, which will Of those who have remained, many last time we debated this. plans have decreased prescription drug begin shortly, there will be approxi- Most of the people on the other side mately 5 hours remaining for consider- benefits and other benefits so much so of the aisle 2 years ago helped us get a that they offer little or no advantage ation of the budget resolution. Our $300 billion figure. We have a $400 bil- plans are that we will stay in session over the traditional Medicare fee-for- lion figure. We have a Senate majority service program. It is unclear how the tonight. The chairman and ranking leader who is committed to the com- member will remain this evening to de- President’s proposal will avoid similar mittee process working. Out of the Fi- problems. bate the amendments with others, and nance Committee in June, we will to participate in that debate until all This amendment would increase produce a good prescription drug pro- funding in the budget resolution for a time has expired. gram for the Senate to debate this The plan will be to reconvene tomor- prescription drug benefit in the Medi- summer. care Program that is available to all row at 9:30 in the morning. And it will I urge Members to vote against the beneficiaries. In addition, it specifies be a long day. At 9:30 we will begin our amendment. I move to table the that prescription drugs should be pro- rollcall votes, a series of rollcall votes. amendment and I ask for the yeas and vided on an equal basis with respect to I know the two managers are com- nays. benefit level regardless of whether mitted to try to make this an orderly The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a beneficiaries remain in the traditional process as we complete the budget res- sufficient second? Medicare fee-for-service program or en- olution. That, in part, means they need roll in a private plan like those pro- There is a sufficient second. to have all amendments, and they will posed by the administration. This is The question is on agreeing to the accomplish an ordering of those consistent with the approach that the amendment. amendments so we can start right in at supporters of this amendment and I The clerk will call the roll. 9:30 and start clicking through the favor. We have been working toward The assistant bill clerk called the amendments at the appropriate speed legislation that would create an afford- roll. tomorrow. able, comprehensive, and voluntary Mr. REID. I announce that the Sen- I do ask Members to notify the man- Medicare drug benefit and lower costs ator from Georgia (Mr. MILLER), is nec- agers if they intend to offer an amend- for all Americans by increasing access essarily absent, due to a family med- ment during the voting sequence to- to lower priced drugs. ical matter. morrow. Once the voting begins tomor- It is clear that even this additional The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. row, we will remain until the budget funding would not completely meet the CHAMBLISS). Are there any other Sen- resolution is completed. needs of Medicare beneficiaries. A re- ators in the Chamber desiring to vote? I thank all Members for their real co- cent Congressional Budget Office esti- The result was announced—yeas 55, operation today. Again, it was a chal- mate suggests spending for prescrip- nays 44, as follows: lenging day for all of us. And it has tion drugs by and on behalf of Medicare [Rollcall Vote No. 63 Leg.] worked out almost perfectly, beneficiaries would total $1.84 trillion YEAS—55 seamlessly in many ways, as we were able to recognize the service of our over the next 10-year period. However, Alexander Chambliss Fitzgerald this amendment moves us much closer Allard Cochran Frist military personnel and the President of to meeting the needs of Medicare bene- Allen Coleman Graham (SC) the United States and at the same time ficiaries while simultaneously reducing Baucus Collins Grassley continue the budgeting process. Bennett Cornyn Gregg the deficit. Bond Craig Hagel Mr. DASCHLE. Will the majority Our Nation is facing serious chal- Breaux Crapo Hatch leader yield for a question? lenges at home and abroad. And we Brownback DeWine Hutchison I know that before the agreement know that challenging times often re- Bunning Dole Inhofe was reached regarding the resolution Burns Domenici Jeffords quire sacrifice. We must ask ourselves Campbell Ensign Kyl on our troops, we had made a promise who will bear the brunt of these sac- Chafee Enzi Lott that those who could not speak prior to

VerDate Dec 13 2002 01:26 Mar 22, 2003 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G20MR6.135 S20PT2 March 20, 2003 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S4111 the vote could have the opportunity to ments with respect to the resolution A discussion with the Democratic speak as soon as these votes have been that was passed just a short while ago? leader and myself today was under the completed. Mr. FRIST. Mr. President, it is in understanding—again, no unanimous The majority leader did not mention order to do so. But I will turn to the consent agreement—under the under- that, but I assume that has not two managers of the bill to respond to standing that if people were going to be changed. I asked earlier whether we that. If statements are made, part of talking about the Iraq resolution, time could ensure that those comments the 5 hours will be used up for the would be coming off the time on the would be printed in the RECORD prior to statements. budget. the vote, as well. If that could be ac- Mr. CONRAD. If the majority leader Let me also clarify the earlier state- commodated, that would be helpful. will yield, let me attempt to make a ment. If our side is speaking on the The PRESIDING OFFICER. The ma- clarification because I do not think we Iraq resolution, it will come out of the jority leader. want a misunderstanding on this ques- 2 1⁄2 hours of our time. If your side is Mr. FRIST. Mr. President, indeed, tion. speaking on the Iraq resolution, it will those statements, written and oral The majority side has yielded back come out of your time. statements, will appear at the appro- all of their time. I have something like I yield to the Senator from Okla- priate place in the RECORD. 41⁄2 hours remaining on this side. But homa. Also, we would encourage people to- the way the rules work, there are three Mr. NICKLES. I wanted to make that night to take advantage of the fact pending amendments, and the Repub- clarification. For the information of that we are going to be here in session. lican side gets half on each of those our colleagues, I guess theoretically we We have agreed that that time will be amendments. could spend a lot of time talking about on the budget, the 5 hours that are re- My understanding is—and I think it amendments pending and not allow maining. I think it is 5 hours. And peo- is the appropriate inclusion here—that time to be discussed on Iraq. That is ple are welcome to speak tonight. time on the war resolution from your not our intention. I will be happy to Again, I remind people they will have side would come off your amendment share time with my colleague from other opportunities to express them- time, not off my time. North Dakota and others who wish to selves on support for the troops, as Mr. FRIST. Mr. President, that is speak on Iraq. We will be here until well. correct. midnight. If people want to speak Mr. NICKLES. Will the majority Mr. CONRAD. I thank the Senator. longer on amendments, I am happy to leader yield? I say to my colleagues on our side, if do that, too. I want to be as accommo- Mr. FRIST. Yes. I may, please understand that when dating as possible but still try to com- Mr. NICKLES. I just request of the they say there is 41⁄2 hours left, there is plete this resolution by tomorrow majority leader if we might start the 41⁄2 hours left in total. Even though night. I will be happy to yield some votes at 9:45 instead of 9:30 to accom- they have given back all of their time, time if it would help some of our col- modate one of our Members. I also re- because there are three amendments leagues. quest of our colleagues, I know some pending, they get half of the time on Mr. SARBANES. If the Senator will people—Senator CONRAD and I do not each of those amendments. So we do yield on that point, we are, obviously, want vote-aramas. And I hate for any- not have 41⁄2 hours. We have much less on a track to complete this budget res- body to come back and say: I have not than that left potentially. olution. As I understood it, the 3 hours had a chance to debate my amendment. We have significant amendments to of debate from 2 to 5 before the vote on We will be here tonight to discuss debate. I know there are colleagues the resolution did not come out of the amendments, and we will work to- who would like to speak, still, on the time on the budget; is that correct? gether to schedule amendments accord- war resolution. We will attempt to ac- Mr. NICKLES. The Senator is cor- ing to Senators’ wishes. But we need to commodate them. But my intention is rect. see copies of the amendments in ad- to give them 2 minutes each because Mr. SARBANES. All I am suggesting vance, and then we will try to schedule otherwise we are not going to have is given there are some additional the amendments. We will work ener- time to debate very consequential Members who wish to speak, that we getically—as soon as we get copies of amendments with respect to reducing have another hour after this vote unre- amendments—to work out some of the size of the tax cut, with respect to lated to time on the budget resolution these amendments, maybe accept some the transportation infrastructure to discuss the support for our troops amendments if we have some advance amendment that is very significant, resolution. notification. We are going to try to be with respect to other amendments that Mr. NICKLES. I would be happy to, as cooperative as possible. are pending, Senator HARKIN’s IDEA out of the time we have in the bank, So my first request would be, hope- amendment, and others. you might say, for the amendments, to fully, to move the first rollcall vote to So we are going to have to use a lot allow Members to speak up to an hour 9:45. And then I just urge our col- of discipline and forbearance for people on the Iraq resolution, if they so de- leagues, if they wish to debate their to have an opportunity to debate very sire. I don’t want to yield all of it, but amendments tonight, please do so. And consequential items and discuss the I will be happy to do that. I don’t think if not, I request that they submit us war. that is going to be necessary. I will be copies of the amendments as early as Mr. SARBANES. Will the Senator happy to work with our colleagues. possible so we can do some work on yield? Mr. SARBANES. It seems to me that those amendments tonight. Mr. CONRAD. I am happy to yield. this is a matter of such consequence. Mr. SARBANES. Will the majority Mr. SARBANES. I ask a question of Mr. STEVENS. You should have been leader yield? the majority leader. here this afternoon. Mr. FRIST. Mr. President, with re- In light of the statement Senator Mr. SARBANES. I was here this gard to the 9:45 start, the surgeon in CONRAD just made, would it not be pos- afternoon, in response to my colleague me says we ought to start at 8 o’clock, sible to have, say, an hour, after this who raised that point. There was a very but we will start at 9:45. vote, for the making of statements on long list of people wishing to speak. Mr. NICKLES. I thank the leader. the resolution unrelated to taking time There wasn’t time to speak within the Mr. FRIST. Was there a second re- away from consideration of the budget? time that was allotted. quest? This is an important resolution. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The ma- Mr. NICKLES. No. There are many Members who did not jority leader controls the time. Mr. SARBANES. Will the majority get a chance before the vote to make a Mr. FRIST. Let’s have regular order. leader yield for a question? statement. It seems to me a reasonable AMENDMENT NO. 275 Mr. FRIST. Yes. accommodation in light of what the The PRESIDING OFFICER. There Mr. SARBANES. Do I understand ranking member of the committee has are now 2 minutes equally divided prior correctly, from the exchange that just just stated. to a vote on amendment No. 275. Who took place, immediately after this vote Mr. NICKLES. Will the leader yield? yields time? The Senator from West there will be an order to make state- Mr. FRIST. I will yield in 1 second. Virginia.

VerDate Dec 13 2002 01:26 Mar 22, 2003 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00003 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G20MR6.137 S20PT2 S4112 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE March 20, 2003 Mr. ROCKEFELLER. Mr. President, I just cannot afford to hire more first re- This relief is hugely important, and I ask unanimous consent to add Sen- sponders or give them the training and urge my colleagues to support it. I ators LANDRIEU, SPECTER, JOHNSON, equipment they need. And that is a have actually offered a State fiscal re- and DAYTON as cosponsors of the huge mistake. lief package that provides $50 billion in amendment. So we need fiscal relief so States and aid to States, and I am hopeful that we The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without local governments can provide for first can get some action on that package. objection, it is so ordered. responders. My bill would set aside $10 Passing this amendment is the first Mr. ROCKEFELLER. This amend- billion for that. and most important step we can take ment is a simple sense-of-the-Senate But fiscal relief is about more than to ending a fiscal crisis that benefits amendment. That is all it is. It asks homeland security. It is about our en- nobody. that there be no less than $30 billion tire economy. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- over the next 18 months of which half Virtually every American has felt ator from Maine. must be for Medicaid to be given to the this economic downturn. They have Ms. COLLINS. Mr. President, this bi- States for fiscal relief within the stim- felt it from North Carolina to Nevada, partisan sense-of-the-Senate resolution ulus package. from the biggest cities to the smallest would help ensure that any economic Our States are broke. Quite frankly, towns. They have felt it in convenience growth package includes $30 billion in the $98 billion that States spend on stores, in factories, in hospitals—they desperately needed fiscal aid to the Medicaid today actually turns into $280 have felt it everywhere. Two million States. Half of the money would have billion of fiscal stimulus. So it is fiscal jobs lost, wages down, stock market to be used for the Medicaid Program stimulus. If we don’t do this, 1,700,000 down—and the list goes on. All Ameri- which has been severely cut. Forty- more people will lose their Medicaid, cans deserve a better economy than we nine States are facing budget short- lose their health care. They are our have got right now. falls. most vulnerable citizens. I ask that our Now, the state fiscal crisis is seri- This approach would have no impact colleagues support this amendment of- ously hurting our economy. Here is on the deficit. It would not change the what is happening. Let’s say you are a fered by Senator COLLINS, Senator NEL- caps in this resolution. I urge my col- governor, and you are facing a massive SON, and myself. leagues to vote yes on the Rockefeller, I ask for the yeas and nays. deficit. In North Carolina, we have a Collins, Nelson, and Smith amendment. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a deficit of close to $1.7 billion. What do The PRESIDING OFFICER. The sufficient second? you do? You can’t print money like a question is on agreeing to amendment There is a sufficient second. President can. You can’t borrow like a No. 275. The yeas and nays have been The yeas and nays were ordered. President can. You have only two ordered. Mr. EDWARDS. Mr. President, I want choices. You can raise taxes—property The clerk will call the roll. to say just a few words in support of taxes or income taxes or sales taxes. Or The legislative clerk proceeded to the amendment, No. 275, offered by my else you can cut spending on priorities call the roll. like homeland security, education, and friend Senator ROCKEFELLER on behalf Mr. REID. I announce that the Sen- health care. Or you can do a little of of Senators COLLINS, Senator BEN NEL- ator from Georgia (Mr. MILLER)) is nec- both. SON, Senator CLINTON, Senator SCHU- essarily absent due to a family medical States are already calling for $14 bil- MER, myself and others. This amend- matter. lion in tax increases. Portland, OR, ment is extraordinarily important for The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there will likely cut 5 weeks from its school our homeland security, our families, any other Senators in the Chamber de- year. Hundreds of California nursing and our entire economy. siring to vote? homes may go bankrupt. In Florida, This amendment says that any eco- The result was announced—yeas 80, 26,000 low-income people may lose med- nomic growth package has got to in- nays 19, as follows: ical coverage. [Rollcall Vote No. 64 Leg.] clude at least $30 billion for State fis- So this economic downturn hurts our YEAS—80 cal relief. I think that is exactly right. families. They pay more in taxes, or I have offered a bill that would provide they get less from their schools, their Akaka Dayton Leahy Alexander DeWine Levin $50 billion in relief. At this time, in the hospitals, their police forces. Or both— context of the budget resolution, this Baucus Dodd Lieberman they pay more and get less. Bayh Dole Lincoln amendment—at least $30 billion—is the At the same time, our whole econ- Bennett Domenici Lugar most important thing we can do. omy gets hurt. At a time when we Biden Dorgan Mikulski With our troops at war today, their Bingaman Durbin Murkowski should be investing more, tax hikes Bond Edwards security is first on everybody’s minds Murray and education cuts mean we end up in- Boxer Feingold Nelson (FL) today. Our thoughts and prayers are vesting less. According to the Center Breaux Feinstein Nelson (NE) Brownback Fitzgerald with these men and women who are Pryor on Budget and Policy Priorities, the Bunning Frist Reed risking their lives for our freedom and state spending cuts and tax increases Burns Graham (FL) Reid safety even as we speak. Byrd Grassley now likely will make our economy 1 Roberts At the same time, we are also think- Campbell Hagel percent smaller. That is 1 percent of Rockefeller ing about security here at home. We Cantwell Harkin our economy, gone because of the fiscal Carper Hatch Sarbanes know there is a real risk of an attack crisis. And according to the Center on Chafee Hollings Schumer now that we are at war. Just as we Budget, ‘‘The only way this blow to the Chambliss Hutchison Smith Snowe must always make sure our troops on economy can be mitigated is through Clinton Inouye Cochran Jeffords Specter the frontlines abroad have what they federal fiscal relief for the states.’’ Coleman Johnson Stabenow need, we also need to make sure our Now, it is unthinkable to offer noth- Collins Kennedy Stevens troops on the frontlines at home have ing for the States right now. This fiscal Conrad Kerry Talent what they need. And the troops on the crisis was caused by the current eco- Cornyn Kohl Voinovich Corzine Landrieu Warner frontlines at home are our police and nomic downturn, and now this fiscal Daschle Lautenberg Wyden our firefighters. They need the best crisis is making the current economic NAYS—19 protective gear, the best bomb detec- downturn even worse. The only way tion equipment, the best emergency out is to stop the crisis with fiscal re- Allard Gregg Santorum Allen Inhofe Sessions training, and the best communications lief. Craig Kyl Shelby systems in the world. As I have said before, I believe we can Crapo Lott Sununu They aren’t getting that right now. and must pay for this fiscal relief over Ensign McCain Thomas Enzi McConnell And one reason they aren’t getting it is the long term. It would be irresponsible Graham (SC) Nickles that States can’t afford to provide aid not to do that. And the way to pay for because of their deficits. We are seeing it over the long run is to cut wasteful NOT VOTING—1 the largest State fiscal crisis since spending, close needless loopholes, and Miller World War II—deficits of over $100 bil- roll back some of the tax cuts for the The amendment (No. 275) was agreed lion. And with those shortfalls, States very wealthiest Americans. to.

VerDate Dec 13 2002 01:26 Mar 22, 2003 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00004 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G20MR6.139 S20PT2 March 20, 2003 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S4113 The PRESIDING OFFICER. Who a magnificent job and we are all ex- only for yielding and his nice com- yields time? tremely proud of the work he and his ments about what we are attempting Mr. SARBANES. Mr. President, what staff have done in trying to fashion to- to do, but I also congratulate him on is the parliamentary situation? gether a budget debate that allows for the very difficult job of serving as The PRESIDING OFFICER. There a meaningful discussion of the impor- ranking member on the Senate Budget are 4 hours 52 minutes remaining on tant issues that are included in this Committee. This is a very difficult job. the resolution, with time controlled by budget discussion. He has handled it with a great deal of the Senator from North Dakota. I, like many, regret we have not had finesse and maturity and under- Mr. SARBANES. Will the Senator a chance to talk about and include in standing about the intricacies of the yield me a few minutes? the budget debate, obviously, the issue budget process. Mr. CONRAD. I am more than of the cost of the conflict in the Middle Mr. CONRAD. I thank the Senator. pleased to yield 2 minutes to the Sen- East, the cost of reconstruction—not AMENDMENT NO. 339 ator from Maryland. because we necessarily disagree with it Mr. BREAUX. Mr. President, I have Mr. SARBANES. I appreciate that at all; in fact, I supported the resolu- an amendment at the desk and ask it very much. In light of the discussion tion last fall—but it ought to be part of be reported. that was earlier held, my own view is the debate and discussion of the budg- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there that we should have allowed more time et. Those matters have to be left for objection to setting aside the pending to talk about the resolution with re- another day as we go through this amendment? spect to Iraq straight out, without budget resolution. Mr. BREAUX. I ask the amendment mixing it into the budget resolution (The remarks of Mr. DODD are printed be set aside and ask the amendment at problem. It is obviously the issue fac- in today’s RECORD in the debate on S. the desk be reported. ing the country. I think Members Res. 95.) The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without wanted to address it, and I do not be- Mr. CONRAD. Mr. President, I agree objection, the clerk will report the lieve it ought to be truncated. But I completely with the Senator from Con- amendment. understand the difficult position in necticut. I deeply regret the decision The legislative clerk read as follows: was not made to spend this day dis- which the able Senator from North Da- The Senator from Louisiana [Mr. BREAUX], kota, who has done such an excellent cussing the war. I said this morning, I for himself, Ms. SNOWE, Mr. BAUCUS, and Mr. job in terms of his efforts on the budg- find it very difficult to understand, as VOINOVICH, proposes an amendment num- et resolution, now finds himself. So I much as I value the budget and the bered 339. will try to limit my time in that re- budget process, after spending my en- Mr. BREAUX. I ask unanimous con- gard. I thank the ranking member for tire time in the Senate on the Budget sent the reading of the amendment be his courtesy. Committee. That is not, frankly, the dispensed with. focus of the attention of the American (The remarks of Mr. SARBANES are The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without people today. The war is the focus of printed in today’s RECORD in the debate objection, it is so ordered. on S. Res. 95.) the attention of the American people The amendment is as follows: Mr. CONRAD. I yield to the Senator today and we should have spent this (Purpose: To reduce tax cuts by $375 billion from Connecticut. entire day on the war. We should have and to reduce projected deficits by $464 bil- How much time is the Senator seek- put off the budget discussion and the lion) ing? budget debate until later. On page 3, line 9, increase the amount by The majority refused to do that. The Mr. DODD. Four minutes. $10,433,000,000. majority insisted the budget was the Mr. CONRAD. I yield 4 minutes to On page 3, line 10, increase the amount by priority and we would have limited $33,015,000,000. the Senator from Connecticut, who has time to discuss the war. That is a mis- On page 3, line 11, increase the amount by been very patiently waiting. take. It is not right. That is where we $27,962,000,000. Mr. DODD. I yield to my colleague are. On page 3, line 12, increase the amount by $22,167,000,000. from Iowa. The Senator from Wisconsin is seek- Mr. HARKIN. If I could have 2 min- On page 3, line 13, increase the amount by ing time, and I yield 3 minutes to the $16,893,000,000. utes. Senator from Wisconsin. Mr. CONRAD. I yield 2 minutes to On page 3, line 14, increase the amount by (The remarks of Mr. KOHL are printed $16,183,000,000. the Senator from Iowa. in today’s RECORD in the debate on S. On page 3, line 15, increase the amount by Mr. HARKIN. I thank my colleague. Res. 95.) $15,879,000,000. (The remarks of Mr. HARKIN are Mr. CONRAD. I thank the Senator On page 3, line 16, increase the amount by printed in today’s RECORD in the debate from Wisconsin. I thank him very $15,992,000,000. on S. Res. 95.) On page 3, line 17, increase the amount by much for his patience. Again, I want to $52,874,000,000. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- express my regret that we are forced ator from Connecticut. On page 3, line 18, increase the amount by into this circumstance of limiting time $79,512,000,000. Mr. DODD. Mr. President, I join first on such a consequential subject. But On page 3, line 19, increase the amount by of all with my colleague from Mary- the rules unfortunately dictate the cir- $84,090,000,000. land in expressing some regret we have cumstance we are in, and the unwill- On page 3, line 23, increase the amount by to ask unanimous consent to have re- ingness of the other side to give us an $10,433,000,000. On page 4, line 1, increase the amount by marks added to the RECORD here at a extended time for discussion; instead moment like this when 300,000 Ameri- $33,015,000,000. to be locked into the budget discussion, On page 4, line 2, increase the amount by cans in uniform are presently engaged which is regrettable. $27,962,000,000. in conflict in the Middle East. I would The Senator from Louisiana has also On page 4, line 3, increase the amount by have thought, like he, there would be a been extraordinarily patient, not just $22,167,000,000. little more time for everyone to ex- today but for several days. He has an On page 4, line 4, increase the amount by press our strong sense of support to amendment that is one of the most $16,893,000,000. On page 4, line 5, increase the amount by these men and women rather than to consequential to come before the body find ourselves limited because of the $16,183,000,000. on this subject. So I apologize to the On page 4, line 6, increase the amount by budget debate; that more time would Senator from Louisiana. He has been, $15,879,000,000. have been allocated. Given the serious- as always, a gentleman. How much On page 4, line 7, increase the amount by ness of this situation, I would be hard time would the Senator seek? $15,992,000,000. pressed to think of another situation in Mr. BREAUX. Can I have 10 minutes? On page 4, line 8, increase the amount by recent times that is as serious as this. Mr. CONRAD. I am happy to yield 10 $52,874,000,000. It would certainly command the atten- minutes to the Senator from Lou- On page 4, line 9, increase the amount by $79,512,000,000. tion and time of this institution. isiana. If he would like additional On page 4, line 10, increase the amount by Having said that, I add my words of time, we will do that as well. $84,090,000,000. commendation for my friend and col- Mr. BREAUX. Mr. President, I thank On page 4, line 14, decrease the amount by league from North Dakota. He has done the ranking member. I thank him not $77,000,000.

VerDate Dec 13 2002 01:26 Mar 22, 2003 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00005 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G20MR6.141 S20PT2 S4114 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE March 20, 2003 On page 4, line 15, decrease the amount by On page 6, line 19, decrease the amount by try’s history. We have a war, and we do $899,000,000. $44,425,000,000. not know how long it is going to last, On page 4, line 16, decrease the amount by On page 6, line 20, decrease the amount by whether it be 4 days or 4 weeks or 4 $2,687,000,000. $75,073,000,000. months. We have a war and we have no On page 4, line 17, decrease the amount by On page 6, line 21, decrease the amount by $4,364,000,000. $101,605,000,000. concept of how much it is going to On page 4, line 18, decrease the amount by On page 6, line 22, decrease the amount by cost. We have estimates from $50 bil- $5,762,000,000. $124,259,000,000. lion, $60 billion, $100 billion, depending On page 4, line 19, decrease the amount by On page 6, line 23, decrease the amount by on how long the conflict lasts. $7,003,000,000. $147,445,000,000. We have a financial situation in this On page 4, line 20, decrease the amount by On page 6, line 24, decrease the amount by country where we have a $300 billion $8,294,000,000. $171,619,000,000. deficit that is now facing us in the On page 4, line 21, decrease the amount by On page 6, line 25, decrease the amount by short term. Yet we have a budget rec- $9,640,000,000. $197,250,000,000. On page 4, line 22, decrease the amount by On page 7, line 1, decrease the amount by ommending that we now take the ac- $12,035,000,000. $262,159,000,000. tion of cutting revenues to pay for the On page 4, line 23, decrease the amount by On page 7, line 2, decrease the amount by cost of the war by about $1.36 trillion, $16,276,000,000. $357,947,000,000. of which the budget request adds $726 On page 4, line 24, decrease the amount by On page 7, line 3, decrease the amount by billion be protected by the process of $21,605,000,000. $463,643,000,000. budget reconciliation which would pre- On page 5, line 4, decrease the amount by On page 40, line 2, decrease the amount by vent any effort to filibuster that, on $77,000,000. $77,000,000. On page 5, line 5, decrease the amount by On page 40, line 3, decrease the amount by behalf of our Republican colleagues. $899,000,000. $77,000,000. In addition, we all know in this Con- On page 5, line 6, decrease the amount by On page 40, line 6, decrease the amount by gress we are faced with additional costs $2,687,000,000. $899,000,000. in health care, particularly in the On page 5, line 7, decrease the amount by On page 40, line 7, decrease the amount by Medicare Program where we are at- $4,364,000,000. $899,000,000. tempting to add a prescription drug On page 5, line 8, decrease the amount by On page 40, line 10, decrease the amount by benefit plan to a Medicare Program $5,762,000,000. $2,687,000,000. On page 5, line 9, decrease the amount by which is desperately in need of addi- On page 40, line 11, decrease the amount by tional funds. We have all of our Gov- $7,003,000,000. $2,687,000,000. On page 5, line 10, decrease the amount by On page 40, line 14, decrease the amount by ernors and all of 50 States saying how $8,294,000,000. $4,364,000,000. they do not have enough revenues to On page 5, line 11, decrease the amount by On page 40, line 15, decrease the amount by adequately run their State Medicaid $9,640,000,000. $4,364,000,000. Program. On page 5, line 12, decrease the amount by On page 40, line 18, decrease the amount by Indeed, it is not only interesting $12,035,000,000. $5,762,000,000. times, it is very confusing times in the On page 5, line 13, decrease the amount by On page 40, line 19, decrease the amount by $16,276,000,000. sense of trying to rationalize how we as $5,762,000,000. a nation, with the pending demands we On page 5, line 14, decrease the amount by On page 40, line 22, decrease the amount by $21,605,000,000. $7,003,000,000. have on our society, financial demands On page 5, line 17, increase the amount by On page 40, line 23, decrease the amount by that are legitimate and pressing, espe- $10,511,000,000. $7,003,000,000. cially the conduct of a war in the coun- On page 5, line 18, increase the amount by On page 41, line 2, decrease the amount by try of Iraq, and at the same time we $33,914,000,000. $8,294,000,000. are asking to cut revenues by a total of On page 5, line 19, increase the amount by On page 41, line 3, decrease the amount by $1.36 trillion. $30,648,000,000. $8,294,000,000. I remember back when we looked at On page 5, line 20, increase the amount by On page 41, line 6, decrease the amount by the last major tax reduction and tax $26,532,000,000. $9,640,000,000. On page 5, line 21, increase the amount by On page 41, line 7, decrease the amount by cut in this country, back in the year $22,654,000,000. $9,640,000,000. 2001. We passed and ultimately enacted On page 5, line 22, increase the amount by On page 41, line 10, decrease the amount by a $1.35 trillion tax cut. Times were dif- $23,186,000,000. $12,035,000,000. ferent. Times were not as confusing. In On page 5, line 23, increase the amount by On page 41, line 11, decrease the amount by those days we had a $5.6 trillion sur- $24,173,000,000. $12,035,000,000. plus. We had $5.6 trillion more in the On page 5, line 24, increase the amount by On page 41, line 14, decrease the amount by $23,632,000,000. Federal Treasury than we needed to op- $16,276,000,000. erate and serve the people of this coun- On page 5, line 25, increase the amount by On page 41, line 15, decrease the amount by $64,909,000,000. $16,276,000,000. try. When you have a surplus of that On page 6, line 1, increase the amount by On page 41, line 18, decrease the amount by magnitude, it is appropriate that you $95,788,000,000. $21,605,000,000. give some of the money back to the On page 6, line 2, increase the amount by On page 41, line 19, decrease the amount by taxpayers of this country. We had a $105,696,000,000. $21,605,000,000. surplus. We were not at war. Condi- On page 6, line 5, decrease the amount by On page 45, line 24, decrease the amount by tions were different. Times were dif- $10,511,000,000. $375,000,000,000. On page 6, line 6, decrease the amount by ferent. They were not confusing. We $44,425,000,000. Mr. BREAUX. This amendment I knew what we were facing. On page 6, line 7, decrease the amount by have sent to the desk is on behalf of Today that has changed, completely, $75,073,000,000. our colleague on the Republican side, totally, 180 degrees. We are at war, On page 6, line 8, decrease the amount by Senator SNOWE; on behalf of the rank- Medicare is on the verge of collapse, $101,605,000,000. ing member of the Senate Finance Medicaid is in fact collapsing, and we On page 6, line 9, decrease the amount by Committee, Senator BAUCUS; and also have a deficit, not a surplus. Yet we $124,259,000,000. on behalf of our Republican colleague, are faced today with a proposal that On page 6, line 10, decrease the amount by $147,445,000,000. Senator VOINOVICH from Ohio. says in those conditions, one of the On page 6, line 11, decrease the amount by I remember that a great Chinese phi- most important things we can do is cut $171,619,000,000. losopher once said: May you live in in- revenues, and cut revenues not by an On page 6, line 12, decrease the amount by teresting times. insignificant amount but, rather, by a $197,250,000,000. I would also add today that we are total of $1.36 trillion over the next 10 On page 6, line 13, decrease the amount by actually living in very confusing times. years. $262,159,000,000. The bombs began to drop on the I know of only a small number of On page 6, line 14, decrease the amount by country of Iraq last night. We have people who say that makes common $357,947,000,000. On page 6, line 15, decrease the amount by over 200,000 men and women engaged in sense. What business that is in debt $463,643,000,000. a war in a far off country. We have a and losing money would declare a divi- On page 6, line 18, decrease the amount by country that is presently on orange dend? What government that is facing $10,511,000,000. alert, the second highest in our coun- war, and in fact is in war, with a net

VerDate Dec 13 2002 01:26 Mar 22, 2003 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00006 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A20MR6.046 S20PT2 March 20, 2003 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S4115 deficit of over $300 billion in 1 year, lion. That is not insignificant. It Senator from Montana and the Senator would say we need less revenues to should be more, but this is what we from Ohio—to reconcile some of the meet our demands when in fact just the have the potential, and the political re- issues with respect to the central ques- opposite is true: That is the issue that ality, of accomplishing. tion in this budget resolution in terms is facing us. So for those on my side, it is very im- of the extent to which we should have Some Members on the Republican portant to understand, if this amend- a growth package—what type, what side of the aisle think the number of ment does not pass, the likelihood of size, and what should be included in the tax cut at $726 billion in this budg- what passes is much larger and in- that growth package. et under reconciliation protection is creases the deficit substantially. By Obviously, the policy will not be de- just the right number. There are some voting for our amendment, you have a termined in the budget resolution. But on our side who think, no, we should chance to reduce the Federal deficit by certainly we can determine the size have no tax cut until we know what $464 billion over the next 10 years. That that could dictate ultimately the pol- the costs and demands are in our soci- is real progress for people who believe icy in the days and weeks ahead. ety. They would suggest we should in economic balanced budgets. I appreciate our ability to work have a zero tax cut until we know the It is, in fact, the conservative thing across the political aisle to help craft cost of the war, and how much we are to do, I say to my Republican col- this amendment. As the Senator from going to need for Medicare and pre- leagues, because you don’t spend Louisiana indicated, it is an amend- scription drugs and Medicaid, and how money you don’t have. Whether it is ment that will reduce the size of the much we are going to have to pay for for a tax cut or whether it is for some tax cut from $726 billion to $350 billion. homeland security. They take the posi- spending program, they both have the And the remaining $376 billion would tion that until we know those answers, same results. We have to pay for them. be applied towards deficit reduction. we should not be reducing and cutting So I think what we offer today is an Through this alone, we would achieve and slashing the revenues that we need amendment that should, hopefully, find $86 billion savings in interest costs. to run Government. comfort and support from both sides of I happen to believe this is a respon- Tax cuts are popular, but they also the aisle. That is what we have at- sible, well balanced approach that will have to be realistic. Tax cuts are not tempted to do. And that is what this both stimulate our economy in the free. We do not just eliminate $726 bil- amendment, in fact, does. short term and protect our economy lion in revenue and think it is going to I know some would like a much larg- from the effects of unnecessary deficits come out of the sky. In fact, we have to er tax cut, but in looking at what we in the long term. That is particularly pay for it. And to pay for provisions in have offered, I think it does represent a important because when we compound this legislation is simply adding to the tax cut, so that we in the Finance future deficits, we raise the likelihood deficit of this country at a time of Committee, and later in the full body, we will drive up long-term interest great demands and at a time when we will be able to craft something that has rates. do not know what the future holds. meaning, that really adds stimulus to I understand the challenges of bring- I think that is not good policy. I the economy. And we would support ing forth a budget resolution. First, I would prefer no tax cut at this time, that. That type of program can pass commend the chairman of the Budget but that is not politically possible. So with a significant number of Demo- Committee, in his new position as what my colleagues and friends, in a cratic votes joining with our Repub- chairman, for having the persistence bipartisan fashion, have tried to do is lican colleagues in a bipartisan fash- and the determination, as well as the to say there must be some meeting of ion. dedication, to bring this budget resolu- the minds, somewhere in the middle, It should not be all or nothing. That tion before the Senate. between $726 billion in tax cuts and is too risky. It is too irresponsible. So I commend him for his tireless work zero in tax cuts. That is why two what my colleagues and I have offered in forging and producing the budget we Democrats and two Republicans—who together is a compromise, a bipartisan have debated on the floor this week. As have worked weeks and weeks together compromise, which I think makes a a former member of the Budget Com- to come up with this—are now pre- great deal of sense for everyone who is mittee, I know what goes into this senting this amendment to our col- concerned about the future of this process. I also know that Senator NICK- leagues in the Senate. country. LES wants what we did not have last We have met with economists. We It is difficult in challenging times. year, which was a budget resolution. It have met with tax experts. We have These are confusing times. These are is critical because it imposes structure met with the Chairman of the Federal uncertain times. And in these times, I and discipline and defines the priorities Reserve, Alan Greenspan, to get his would suggest the right course of ac- in Federal expenditures. ideas and to get his suggestions about tion is to be a little more conservative That is a fundamental responsibility what we need to do. with how we spend our Nation’s money, of Congress. That is why it is so crit- What we have before the Senate now as we prepare to face obligations which ical and instrumental to get it done, to is a reflection of that. It is the only bi- no one can be certain how large or for pass a budget resolution, so we can ad- partisan amendment being offered that how long they are going to continue. vance the budget process that ulti- I think has a realistic chance of pass- Mr. President, I yield the floor. mately will determine the policy as ing. It is clear in my mind, for those on The PRESIDING OFFICER. Who well as the appropriations, so we do not my side of the aisle who would prefer yields time? have what we had this year. This year, zero in tax cuts, that if they do not Mr. BREAUX. Mr. President, I yield the first month and a half was devoted vote for this amendment, with a $350 time, on behalf of the ranking member, to the unfinished business of the last billion tax cut, they in effect are vot- to the distinguished Senator from Congress—half of the domestic budg- ing for a $726 billion tax cut. Because it Maine, Ms. SNOWE. et—because we had failed to pass a is clear in my mind, and I think in the The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- budget resolution. So that is impor- minds of others, that if our amendment ator from Maine. tant. does not pass, the tax cut that remains Ms. SNOWE. I thank the Senator for That is why I and the Senator from is $726 billion. yielding. Louisiana, the Senator from Montana, I know for those who say, I don’t Mr. President and Members of the and the Senator from Ohio worked to- want any, it is difficult for them to Senate, these obviously are very dif- gether, because we understood, in order vote for $350 billion. But let me say to ficult times and, obviously, the point to pass a bipartisan budget resolution, them, what they are doing, in doing at which we find ourselves in trying to it was also important to focus on some that, is reducing the tax cut by a sub- reconcile some of the more significant of the issues that would divide us. One stantial amount and a significant issues that are incorporated in this of those questions was, of course, on amount. In fact, they would be reduc- budget resolution. the size of the growth plan as proposed ing the tax cut by $375 billion by voting As the Senator from Louisiana indi- by the President. for our amendment. They would be re- cated, several of us have been working I commend the President for his lead- ducing the Federal deficit by $464 bil- across the political aisle—with the ership in initiating the debate on the

VerDate Dec 13 2002 01:26 Mar 22, 2003 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00007 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G20MR6.159 S20PT2 S4116 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE March 20, 2003 necessity of stimulating our economy. sibility to carefully evaluate the im- It all comes back to setting prior- I happen to share his belief that we pact of any tax reduction and spending ities. That is what we said time and should take steps to rejuvenate this increases in this budget is that much again in all those years that we were sluggish economy, to try to do what we greater. fighting for a balanced budget that was can in the short term to strengthen the That is the context in which we must accomplished right here in the Senate economy. shape this budget. These are realities back in 1996. That is what we talked I also happen to believe that our that we cannot afford to ignore. In- about, establishing priorities, getting budget resolution has to bear the deed, our projected Federal deficit for our fiscal house in order. Now that is stamp of the totality of the extraor- this fiscal year is now estimated to be what we need to do in this budget reso- dinary historic events and times in $246 billion. That is an increase of 54 lution. We have to draw lines, and we which we live. In the last 2 years, it has percent. That is without any new have to draw distinctions. been an extraordinary transformation spending or tax cuts. There were only 3 What I am saying tonight is, if those for America, in the aftermath of the other years in the last 32 years in proposals that are nonstimulative to most horrific event, the devastating at- which we saw higher deficit levels in change our tax structure are part of a tack on American soil, the ongoing war terms of real dollars. What is required long-term economic growth plan or are on terrorism, the initiation of military in this budget resolution is careful part of tax reform, those proposals action in Iraq and more than 250,000 calibration, if we are to produce short- should be fully paid for so as to not ex- troops poised for potential war. We also term benefits for our economy without acerbate our future economic situation have grave concerns about the nuclear jeopardizing long-term fiscal responsi- and lead to greater problems down the proliferation on the Korean peninsula. bility and economic growth. road. That is not my view. It is the All of these global uncertainties have Let there be no mistake, just as the prevalent view among economists— cast a dark shadow over a domestic need for short-term economic stimulus Chairman Greenspan and so many oth- economy that was already on shaky is compelling, so, too, is the need to re- ers across the board—because we are ground even before September 11. The turn to balanced budgets and, indeed, dealing with so many challenges and events of September 11 catapulted an surpluses as soon as possible. crises simultaneously. already shaky economy into a reces- I have been in Congress, both the How much can we afford to do now? sion. House and Senate, for 25 years. I have How much? How much is too much? Indeed, over the past year our Na- seen how difficult it is to achieve a bal- Should it be $726 billion? Should it be a tion’s economy has only grown worse. anced budget. After all, it took 18 years trillion? Should it be $2 trillion? We The economy grew at an anemic .7 per- of my career before we saw the realiza- have to draw lines. That is why I am cent in the fourth quarter, the weakest tion, the accomplishment of a balanced here tonight. That is why I reached quarterly gain since the end of the re- budget amendment. We all cheered on across party lines, to work together so cession, and just last month 308,000 the success, that for the first time we we can pass a bipartisan budget resolu- people joined the unemployment rolls, were able to escape the chronic budget tion that reaches a consensus on this bringing our unemployment to an 8- deficits that had characterized the key issue of whether or not we should year high. Since the recession began, budgetary process for decades. Then a have a growth plan, and, if so, how we now have lost more than 2.3 million year later we were able to have the much can we afford to do now? I drew the line on what was stimulus jobs in the private sector. Without first on-budget surplus. We have been versus nonstimulus. We need to have a question, we need to have a stimulus able to have 4 years of surpluses from carefully calibrated growth plan that is package to address the short-term, im- 1998 to 2001. I don’t want that to be an limited, of short duration, to have an mediate economy. anomaly. I want deficits to be an immediate impact on the economy and As Allen Sinai said, chief economist anomaly. that will not have a negative impact on for Decision Economics, the fiscal As I said, over the last two decades, long-term interest rates. I saw the progression of the deficits. I stimulus is ‘‘absolutely essential’’ be- I looked at the outyears because I saw the progression of various proce- cause the U.S. and world economies are wanted to get exactly a snapshot of struggling. dures and how we were going to attack where we are today and where we are In short, failing to act now by pass- deficits, from Gramm-Rudman-Hol- going in 2013. All I can see down the ing an immediate growth package in lings to every other mechanism. There road are deficits as far as the eye can this budget is to risk contributing to a were those who said we should not have see. We have deficits every year. We jobless recovery or incurring a double a balanced budget because they said it have deficits through 2013, the year in dip recession. We cannot afford to wait was a gimmick. I said, if it was a gim- which we will also have the onset of 77 until our military action in Iraq is con- mick, we would have passed it a long million baby boomers retiring. So we cluded. time ago. It wasn’t a gimmick. It will have a convergence of not only This is the right time. This is the worked. that massive wave of retirement that right vehicle for action. We can always We cannot risk the impact of undue will impact Social Security and Medi- debate further issues later. But we will deficits in the long term because those care, but we will also continue to have never be able to turn the clock back to chronic deficits drive up interest rates. deficits. jump-start the economy. That is going to stymie our ability to I looked at the projections by CBO. When we were involved in delibera- do what we need to do for future gen- What I found were interesting facts. tions about a stimulus package in 2002, erations. It will diminish our ability to CBO projects a return to surpluses in we had numerous discussions with address the problems associated with 2008. But let it be clear, the assump- Chairman Greenspan and other experts. Social Security and Medicare. tions do not account for real budget The one thing we did hear was this: If That is how I am approaching this costs—the war in Iraq, tax cuts, pre- you want to effect the short-term be- economic growth question in the budg- scription drugs, more spending on de- havior of the economy, you have to do et resolution. What will stimulate the fense and homeland security, all na- it as soon as possible to have the max- economy today versus what will not? tional imperatives. imum impact on short-term behavior. And for those measures in this pack- In fact, CBO’s baseline assumes real So we cannot afford to lose time. I be- age, and the funding measure that we discretionary spending will remain lieve we should have a growth package are including in this budget resolution constant. That certainly contravenes in this budget. At the same time, given are not strong, immediate, and of lim- the recent trends of around 8 percent these unprecedented times and the con- ited duration, if they truly have merit growth in spending. According to the fluence of circumstances on which they in their own right, then they should be Brookings Institute, it said: are defined, whether it is the economic paid for as we go. Such assumption implies real outlays will uncertainties, the war in Iraq, the pro- We need to ask ourselves in this cur- fall by 9 percent relative to population, and jection of higher and higher budget rent circumstance, can we really afford by 20 percent relative to gross domestic deficits, the domestic fiscal challenges to deficit finance nonstimulative pro- product over the next decade. that lurk on the horizon because of So- posals? Maybe we could do it in a dif- I do not think anybody seriously be- cial Security and Medicare, our respon- ferent time or place, but not now. lieves that is realistic. Putting these

VerDate Dec 13 2002 01:26 Mar 22, 2003 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00008 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G20MR6.161 S20PT2 March 20, 2003 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S4117 costs into the budget, we could have a We know why we are in this situation that will help us get a budget on a deficit this year of over $300 billion and today. No one questions that. The timely basis, a number that will help next year it could approach $400 bil- question is, how do we get back to us to stimulate the economy. lion. If we anticipate a supplemental of where we were? That is my concern. I happen to believe the amendment $100 billion or more in the short term, When I look at the long-term projec- we are offering today strikes the right that will push our deficit near 4 per- tions, when I look at the fact that in balance. It represents the most effec- cent of GDP, and that will be a histor- the year 2013, we will be using $2.5 tril- tive way, I believe, that we can ad- ical high. I have heard time and again lion in the Social Security trust fund vance a growth plan that can achieve these deficits represent a minimal surpluses to mask the true condition of the strongest possible support but, amount as a percentage of the GDP. I the bottom line, that is of concern. more importantly, have the maximum heard those arguments through the That should be a concern to all of us, effect on our economy without affect- eighties. I heard them in the nineties. particularly at a time in which we will ing the long-term future. We know How much is too high? Today it is 2 see as well the first wave of baby these are extraordinary times, but I percent. Tomorrow it will be 3 percent. boomers retiring. hope we will not abandon our goals for With the supplemental next week, it These are serious times. We cannot fiscal discipline. I hope we will not could be 4 percent. afford to diminish our ability to compound the outlook, the chronic fu- Why are we not focusing on how we strengthen Social Security and Medi- ture budget deficits, and diminish our can return to a balanced budget as care. We have looked to this next dec- ability to address and finance our secu- soon as possible? Are balanced budgets ade, the decade we are in, as a window rity in Medicare. We need to lift the no longer part of the political and eco- of opportunity to return to surpluses to economy but without adding to future nomic lexicon? We should be devoting prepare us for the future challenges. deterioration. our time to figuring out, given all But as we have seen over the last 18 I hope we are not retreating in the these exigencies, extenuating cir- months, we can see how projections notion that we can never return to bal- cumstances which, without question, dramatically change and opportunities anced budgets. I hope we will con- need to be funded, how much can we do have evaporated. We know we had a centrate on the goal of returning to now in terms of a tax cut? We had a tax $5.6 trillion surplus just 2 years ago, balanced budgets as soon as it is pos- cut in 2001. We had a tax cut in 2002, but we also understand what happened sible. I hope we can begin now. and in my entire career, I have sup- on September 11 that transformed this I yield the floor. ported tax cuts, but now we are look- country. We obviously had to address The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. ing at multiple challenges on the hori- emergencies, homeland security, the CHAFEE). Who yields time on the zon that demand significant Federal war on terrorism, and 68 percent of the amendment? expenditures. surpluses were evaporated as a result Mr. CONRAD. Mr. President, how Therefore, I say, let’s be prudent, of the declining economy. much time is the Senator seeking? let’s be proportional, let’s be practical, So I do believe we need to have a Mr. VOINOVICH. I seek 15 minutes. and target the growth plan to $350 bil- growth plan, but we must exercise cau- Mr. CONRAD. I yield 15 minutes to lion that would be sufficient to have an tion so that we do not aggravate the the Senator from Ohio. effect on the short-term economy to long-term picture and threaten our The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- turn this economy around. ability to address long-term priorities. ator from Ohio. Some people say wait until after the We have to be cautious because when Mr. VOINOVICH. Mr. President, be- conflict with Iraq is over. If you have a you have fluctuations, and as the ones fore I address the merits of this amend- weak economy, we have no way of that have been as dramatic as they ment, I commend the chairman of the prognosticating the future in terms of have been over the last few years, it Budget Committee for his successful what the economy will look like in the can increase or it can decrease the efforts to bring a budget resolution to aftermath of Iraq. We may have fun- amount of revenues that are available the floor. I would like to particularly damentals strong enough that we can for other programs and certainly can commend the chairman for including rebound. Certainly Chairman Green- decrease the amount of revenues com- several important budget reform ini- span has indicated he thinks that will ing in to the Federal Treasury. tiatives that will control spending and be the case. If not, we do not want to Just a 1-percent fluctuation in the impact the soaring deficit: Extension take the risk, particularly because it GDP can decrease tax receipts by $120 of supermajority enforcement, reestab- affects the well-being of the American billion over 5 years and increase out- lishment of discretionary spending lim- people and particularly those who have lays by $52 billion over 5 years—just a its in the Senate, reestablishment of lost their jobs. So let’s put something 1-percent change. Think of where we restrictions on advance appropriations in place now. Mr. President, $350 billion have been in terms of economic growth in the Senate, providing a clear defini- seems to me to be a right size approach and the fluctuations that have oc- tion of emergency legislation, reestab- to do that for the short term. curred. lishment of the pay-as-you-go point of Some people say that is just splitting That is why I think we have to be order in the Senate. Those are good the difference, 726, 350, it is half a loaf. prudent. The President was right to things, but I must say I take issue with It is splitting the difference. It is the offer a growth plan, but I think we can- the reconciliation instructions con- moderate’s approach to splitting it in not ignore the impact of all the chal- tained in the budget resolution. As half. It is not about splitting the dif- lenges we face. If we step back and much as I oppose deficit spending, I ference, it is about making a distinc- take the long view, I do believe we also oppose deficit tax reduction, and tion. It is making a distinction be- have to make a decision in terms of these reconciliation instructions have tween what is a stimulus and what is how much we can afford to do now, and the opposite effect of the budget re- not, what we can pay for now and what what we need to do is to stimulate the forms in the resolution. we can pay for in the future. That is short-term economy. What we cannot I say to my colleagues this evening the difference, and that happens to be a afford to do, without paying for it, that we are on the edge of a serious cri- major difference. without adding to the deficit, is ad- sis in terms of our Federal budget. In Finally, when I look to the future, I vancing long-term economic growth the past decade, conservatives worked think we all share the concern about plans, tax reform, nonstimulative pro- hard to return the Federal Government the fact that we now have reverted posals. to a balanced budget. For a short time back to using the surplus of the Social I hope my colleagues will give this after hand-to-hand combat, we met our Security trust fund to mask the size of very serious consideration in support goal for 2 years in 1999 and 2000. We bal- the true deficit. As I said earlier, we of this amendment. I do not offer this anced the budget without raiding the broke that chronic pattern of bad fiscal lightly. I have taken this responsibility Social Security surplus. We had an on- behavior. We were able to finally real- very seriously. I happen to believe it is budget surplus. That means we did not ize that moment where we could say important to get a strong bipartisan use Social Security in 1999. In 2000, that we no longer use the surpluses budget resolution with the right size again we did not use Social Security from the Social Security trust fund. number for a stimulus plan, a figure and we had a true on-budget surplus of

VerDate Dec 13 2002 01:26 Mar 22, 2003 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00009 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G20MR6.164 S20PT2 S4118 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE March 20, 2003 $87 billion. Ever since 2000, we have the importance and effect of the debt. Stimulus, I believe, is still needed. been increasing our budget deficit to In contrast, Federal Reserve Chairman But not $700 billion worth of stimulus. the extent that if the budget deficit for Greenspan has consistently stated that Our amendment calls for $350 billion in 2003 is projected, it will be $408 billion, all things being equal, a declining level stimulus. And realistically, tax cuts the largest budget deficit we have ex- of Federal debt is desirable because it larger than $350 billion appear to have perienced in the Senate. holds down long-term interest rates, very little support on either side of the Unfortunately, as I said, our bal- thereby lowering the cost of capital Hill. It might not be possible to pass ancing the budget was short lived. and elevating private investments. any stimulus proposal if the pricetag is Today, instead of reducing our $6.2 tril- Even the proponents of using the too large. The all or nothing approach lion national debt, we are expanding it. debt-to-GDP ratio as a measure of fis- could rob us of the opportunity to give In 2001, we suffered an on-budget deficit cal responsibility must acknowledge business the stimulus it needs. That is of $33 billion. In 2002, we suffered an on- our current situation is not good. As unacceptable. We need to cooperate budget deficit of $314 billion. CBO now recently as 2000, we had a surplus-to- and enact a $350 billion stimulus pack- projects that if Congress were to go GDP ratio of 2.4 percent. In 2001, when age and get the economy moving as home and not legislate any further— we passed the last stimulus package, rapidly as possible. and that does not include costs associ- the ratio of deficit to GDP was only 1.5 I say to the Presiding Officer, when I ated with the economic stimulus, a percent. Currently, CBO estimates the was Governor of Ohio, if I suggested a drug benefit for Medicare, or the war— GDP ratio for 2003 will be 3 percent and $700 billion package of tax reductions we would suffer an on-budget deficit, as could go higher. We have doubled that to the legislature and they came back I mentioned, of $408 billion. It is clear percentage in 1 year without including to me and said on a bipartisan basis, that increased discretionary spending the cost of the war. we will give you $350 billion, I would has led to these exploding Federal defi- In January, Federal Reserve Chair- have taken it and ran. We believe that cits. man Alan Greenspan described the ef- $350 billion will cover what is needed to This discretionary spending reached fort to bring deficits under control and help rev up the economy, especially a post-cold-war low in 1995 of $502 bil- decisions needed to maintain fiscal dis- given the fact we will be borrowing lion. At the current rate of growth, dis- cipline. He said: Achieving a satisfac- each and every dollar used for the tax cretionary spending will exceed $1 tril- tory budget posture will depend on en- cut. lion in fiscal year 2008. In terms of defi- suring that the new initiatives are con- Reconciliation instructions at the cits, the future does not look very sistent with our longer run budgetary $350 billion level provide the financing good. CBO recently prepared an anal- deficits. As you craft the budget strat- committee the ability to enact one large tax reform proposal, several ysis of OMB’s budget proposals and, ac- egy for the coming years, you may small reforms, or a combination of me- cording to this report, if these pro- want to consider provisions that in dium and small reforms. It is reason- posals are enacted, we can expect a some way would limit decreasing tax able to expect future economic growth whopping on-budget deficit of $452 bil- and spending initiatives if specified within 10 years would begin to pay for lion in fiscal year 2003, which does not targets for the budget surplus and Fed- the cost of tax reforms limited to $350 include costs associated with war, and eral debt were to be satisfied. $512 billion in fiscal year 2004. Again, In other words, in putting our budg- billion. It is also important to note our that does not include the costs associ- ets together, we have to look down the amendment does not preclude Congress ated with the war. road to the day of reckoning when the The fact of the matter is that in 2003 from passing a larger economic stim- baby boomers retire and we are in a po- and 2004, if we include Social Security, ulus package this year. It just says we sition where we can take care of their we are going to be borrowing over half need to pay for it. retirements. a trillion dollars to run our Govern- We should honor the principle em- Many foreign investors believe budg- bodied in pay-go. If people want more ment. et deficits demonstrate the relative Currently, as I said, we have a $6.2 than $350 billion in tax reductions, pay strength of an economy. In addition, trillion debt. The administration has for them with offsets. Even proponents they believe this ratio gives a fair idea recently asked Congress to again raise of dynamic scoring can see it would of Government policies and political the debt ceiling. I am sure they are re- take much longer than 10 years for eco- luctant to come over here and ask us aspects of the individual nation’s mon- nomic growth to begin to pay for tax to raise the debt ceiling at the same etary systems. Consequently, the reductions of more than $350 billion. time we are talking about a $726 mil- Maastrich Treaty requires the EU Although many have agreed to vote for lion reduction in taxes. countries not to exceed a debt-to-GDP final passage of the budget resolution, The current Federal debt represents ratio of 3 percent. When the costs of I can guarantee we will not support a an obligation of more than $21,000 for the anticipated supplemental spending package larger than $350 billion. each man, woman, and child in the related to the war are added, the cur- The Senate should also clearly recog- United States, including the Budget rent budget deficit will exceed 3 per- nize bipartisanship is the best stimulus chairman’s new grandson Nicholas and cent of GDP in 2004. we can provide the American people at my new granddaughter Emily. Under The U.S. Federal budget would dem- this time. The Senate did not even con- CBO’s baseline, again, assuming Con- onstrate less fiscal discipline than Eu- sider a budget resolution on the floor gress goes home and does not legislate ropean nations are imposing on them- last year. It led to partisan gridlock anymore for the next 10 years and selves. This change in perception would and failure to enact appropriations spending grows at inflation, we will tend to increase interest costs for Fed- bills before the end of the 107th Con- reach a total debt of $8.7 trillion by eral borrowing since the United States gress. Major programs, including many 2008 and $9.7 trillion by 2012. However, finances a large portion of its debt held related to homeland security, were left under current policy assumptions, by the public through the sale of T- in limbo. We must not repeat this mis- which include costs associated with bills. And it will become progressively take. The Senate, the administration, economic stimulus and a drug benefit more difficult to finance continued and the American people are best for Medicare, but not the war, OMB’s deficits or pay future Social Security served through bipartisan support for budget projects Federal debt will ex- benefits. budgetary initiatives. ceed $9.3 trillion by 2008. The Presi- That being said, and despite my con- The people are watching us. They dent’s budget did not even include a cerns regarding the expanding national want to see us work together. We are projection for debt of 10 years. debt, I think most agree that some eco- at a time of war. Given the current I say to my colleagues that debt does nomic stimulus is needed to provide a economic and geopolitical climate, we matter. Every dollar we add to the shot in the arm to our economy, al- should avoid excessive partisanship Federal debt today must be repaid in though many economists, including which breeds uncertainty and discour- the future with interest, and there is Alan Greenspan, have said the problem ages business investment. Enacting a no way around it. is geopolitical, that after the cloud of a budget resolution with only a one or I am also concerned about the seem- war is over our economy will move for- two vote margin tells financial mar- ingly new message which minimizes ward. kets that Congress is likely to drag out

VerDate Dec 13 2002 01:26 Mar 22, 2003 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00010 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G20MR6.167 S20PT2 March 20, 2003 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S4119 the whole process, including reducing The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- problem is that this enormous tax cut taxes and passing appropriations bills ator from Montana. is not paid for. The Federal budget is when they are needed. In contrast, en- Mr. BAUCUS. Mr. President, I rise facing huge annual deficits. acting a budget resolution with strong today to join my fellow colleagues, This is happening at the worst pos- bipartisan support will signal stability, Senators BREAUX, SNOWE and sible time. In a few short years, the tell financial markets that Congress is VOINOVICH, in support of this important huge baby boom generation will begin likely to manage Federal finances effi- amendment that works to reach a mid- to retire. The added costs for Social Se- ciently and effectively, and encourage dle ground. curity, Medicare and Medicaid will put business investment. This is a bipartisan amendment and a huge amount of additional stress on Additionally, I think it is very im- will allow Congress to pass a respon- our budget. And on our economy too. portant that we act in a unified man- sible economic stimulus package, a With these budgetary and economic ner, supporting the President due to package that will provide a real boost pressures looming, we should be run- the war. I disagree strongly with my to the economy while not burdening ning surpluses—not deficits—as soon as Republican colleagues who maintain our future generations with sky- the economy returns to full employ- that not passing the President’s larger rocketing deficits. ment in the near-term. We should be package will look bad for him. I don’t The budget resolution we are debat- retiring debt, not creating it when the economy is at full employment. agree with that. Instead, I believe pass- ing today includes a ‘‘reconciliation’’ If this amendment does not pass, we ing a $350 billion package with strong instruction for the Finance Committee to reduce revenues by up to $725 billion are going to add an additional $375 bil- bipartisan support will be looked upon lion in debt and deficits during the very favorably by the American public, over 10 years. This is the same amount of the Presi- next ten years. This is during a period that the Congress and the President dent’s economic stimulus package. And when the economy should be at full can work together to move things while I support tax cuts and have employment. ahead on a bipartisan basis. worked closely with the President in What difference does it make if we Let’s send a signal to Wall Street, the past to enact tax cuts, I am very run large deficits when the economy is Main Street, and the rest of the world concerned by the size of his current at full employment? that during this time of crisis we are package. The answer is that large deficits eat able to overcome our differences and First, we are at war and the imme- up savings that would otherwise be unify behind fiscal policies with a diate and long term costs of the con- used by businesses to invest in new broad base of support. flict and reconstruction are unknown. plant and equipment. Without these in- I yield the floor. Our economy is sluggish and we face vestments, the economy will grow The PRESIDING OFFICER. Who rising unemployment. This is not the more slowly. And our future standard yields time? time to enact a package of tax cuts as of living will be reduced. As well as the Mr. CONRAD. Mr. President, I ask large as the President has suggested. standard of living of our children and unanimous consent that the time I recognize that the economy needs a grandchildren. yielded to Senators BREAUX, SNOWE, shot in the arm. So I have joined my Once the economy is at full employ- and VOINOVICH be taken from the fellow Senators in offering this amend- ment, large deficits will also cause amendment time rather than the reso- ment to keep a stimulus package at long-term interest rates to go up. This lution time. $350 billion. And ensure that the $375 will increase the cost of mortgages. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without billion which is saved goes toward def- And car loans. This will hurt the con- sumer. But it also will hurt the econ- objection, it is so ordered. icit reducing measures. Mr. CONRAD. Just to comment, first, Our amendment does not dictate omy. Because people will buy fewer I respect very much my colleagues, what tax cuts should be passed out of homes and cars. The simple truth is this. We cannot Senator BREAUX, Senator SNOWE, Sen- the Finance Committee. It simply re- afford to increase Federal budget defi- ator VOINOVICH, and Senator BAUCUS duces the size of the tax cut. And I be- cits by an additional $375 billion. If for offering this amendment. They lieve if this amendment is not passed, come from a centrist tradition of the anything, we should reduce deficits, the Federal budget and the U.S. econ- not add to them. Senate of which I was long a member omy will be hurt significantly. before I got into this position, and it is With the concerns about the costs of As my colleagues know well, ‘‘rec- a war and growing deficits, many of really no longer appropriate for me to onciliation’’ instructions ensure that be part of that group. I have enormous you may be asking why aren’t we try- any legislation that is reported out by ing to eliminate the entire $725 billion respect for them. I thank them. a Committee pursuant to those in- package? The Senator from Montana is seeking structions enjoys special privileges The answer is that right now, the 15 minutes off the amendment. when it is brought to the Senate floor. economy is not at full employment. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- That means that the legislation only That means that we need to encourage ator from Montana. needs a simple majority of 51 votes to more spending. More spending will Mr. BENNETT. Will the Senator pass. In contrast, without reconcili- stimulate more production. And that yield? ation protection, legislation takes a will increase employment and return The PRESIDING OFFICER. Seven supermajority of 60 votes to pass. economic growth to its full potential. minutes remain. Legislation under reconciliation in- The $350 billion of tax cuts that we Mr. BENNETT. How much time structions is also protected from non- are leaving intact, therefore, should be would be available on the amendment germane amendments. Such amend- used for tax cuts and program initia- for those who are opposed to the ments can create serious obstacles to tives that would increase spending amendment? the passage of legislation. But passage right now. The PRESIDING OFFICER. One of a non-germane amendment to rec- And, the incentives to encourage hour. onciliation legislation requires a super- more spending must also be temporary. Mr. BENNETT. I ask unanimous con- majority of 60 votes. And this is usu- Once the economy returns to full em- sent that I be allowed to speak fol- ally difficult to achieve. ployment, the decrease in savings that lowing the Senator from Montana in What these special privileges really would result from the increase in con- opposition. mean is that reconciliation legislation sumption will reduce investment. And The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without is more likely to pass the Senate. that will lower our standard of living objection, it is so ordered. Unfortunately, passing legislation to in the long-run. Mr. CONRAD. Might I revise my re- reduce revenues by $725 billion would Again, I want to emphasize that we quest. There are only 7 minutes; we hurt our budget and our economy. I be- do not dictate what the tax cuts should take 7 minutes off the amendment and lieve the budget resolution should not be—we simply say the amount should give an additional 8 minutes off the instruct the Finance Committee to be lower. But I believe there are three resolution so the Senator from Mon- make $725 billion of tax cuts. specific areas we should consider to ef- tana would have 15 minutes. Why do I believe $725 billion of tax fectively stimulate the economy in the Mr. BAUCUS. I thank the Senator. cuts is inappropriate? The most serious short-run.

VerDate Dec 13 2002 01:26 Mar 22, 2003 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00011 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G20MR6.170 S20PT2 S4120 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE March 20, 2003 First, probably the best short-run are other proposals that we should con- private plan options in Medicare, we stimulus is increasing aid to state gov- sider. Some of these other proposals in- have seen a dramatic drop in the num- ernments on a one-time basis. The re- clude increased funding for highway ber of HMOs participating in the pro- cession and subsequent weak economy construction, health insurance tax gram. And as a result, an estimated 2.4 has severely reduced state revenues. credits for businesses, and allowing million beneficiaries have lost their States are facing budget deficits in the small businesses to deduct more of health plan. upcoming fiscal year of $70 to $85 bil- their investments in plant and equip- As you can see by this chart, only 875 lion. ment. counties across the country currently Unlike the Federal Government, al- A reconciliation instruction of $350 have a Medicare managed care plan. most all states have annual balanced billion of tax cuts to the Finance Com- That is out of a total of 3,200 counties. budget requirements. So even though mittee can be used for several types of So more than 2,300 counties don’t have the economy is weak, States must lay economic stimulus without increasing access to managed care plans or PPOs. off workers, cut spending programs, long-run deficits. But we cannot add to Looking at this map, I might add and increase taxes in order to balance that a larger tax cut that will increase that the counties without these plans their budgets. long-run deficits. That would weaken are predominantly rural. These actions make the economy our economy. We cannot let that hap- And it is not that plans are under- even weaker. They also reduce impor- pen. paid, as some might try to argue. The tant services that state governments Therefore, I urge my colleagues to average payment to Medicare+Choice provide. support this amendment. plans is currently 104 percent of local There is a remedy, however. By in- Mr. President, while I have the floor, fee-for-service costs. That figure creasing Federal aid to states, states I also want to say that I will be pro- doesn’t tell the whole story, but it does can avoid layoffs. Avoid cutting pro- posing another amendment this suggest that simply increasing pay- grams. And avoid increasing taxes. In evening, or tomorrow. ments will not draw private plans into contrast, any attempts by Congress My amendment is a very simple rural areas. that lack a state relief component will amendment. It would clarify the Medi- My own state of Montana is a good ultimately fail to stimulate the econ- care reserve fund language to say that example. The floor payment for omy. Because efforts to spur the econ- beneficiaries who choose to remain in Medicare+Choice plans in Montana is omy will fail if, at the same time, the current fee-for-service program 128 percent of local fee-for-service states are forced to raise taxes, cut which, I might add, is 89 percent of all costs. Yet, we don’t have any HMOs or spending, and eliminate jobs. seniors right now should get the same PPOs in my state. Increased aid to state governments drug benefit as those who choose to en- Let me repeat that: despite a pay- should only be made on a temporary roll in a private plan. ment rate that is 28 percent higher basis, however. Once the economy im- Let’s put aside the question of than traditional Medicare, private proves, the increased aid must stop. whether $400 billion is enough for an health plans are still not serving Mon- Second, cutting taxes on households adequate drug benefit. Having spent a tana seniors. who are likely to spend those tax cuts lot of time reviewing the cost of dif- All this leads me to the second rea- quickly effectively stimulates the ferent benefit levels, I know that $400 son I do not support the President’s economy. The President’s plan includes billion buys a rather paltry benefit. proposal it doesn’t save any money. an acceleration of many of the tax cuts But whatever benefit level we can af- Moving beneficiaries into private plans that were enacted in 2001. ford with that amount, we should make will not save the program for the next I fully support acceleration of some sure that the same benefit is available generation and will do nothing to ad- of the tax cuts that are primarily di- to seniors who choose to stay in the dress Medicare solvency. rected to those taxpayers who will fee-for-service program as those who We can all talk about coordination of spend most of the tax cuts they re- enroll in an HMO, a PPO or any other care, disease management, and the po- ceive. Such as accelerating the reduc- sort of private plan in Medicare. tential efficiencies private plans might tions in the marriage penalty or the in- I believe that is the commitment be able to achieve. But at the end of creases in the child tax credit. many of us have made to our seniors, the day, private health plans are sub- But, a portion of America’s house- and that is the commitment we ought ject to the same cost pressures affect- holds will not receive any benefit at all to fulfill. ing the entire health care system. Just under the President’s plan. Therefore, I Earlier this month, President Bush look at the Federal Employees Health believe we also need to accelerate the unveiled his vision for Medicare re- Benefits Plan, FEHB. This plan serves reduction of marriage penalties for form. I am pleased that he doubled the federal employees, retirees, and their households receiving the earned in- amount of money he is willing to spend dependents and has been held up as a come tax credit. And we also need to on a prescription drug benefit over model for Medicare reform. Yet we find accelerate the refundable portion of what he proposed last year. that FEHB premiums have increased, the child tax credit from the 2001 tax But I am concerned that the Presi- on average, by more than 10 percent cut. dent’s vision for reform is to privatize each year in the last 5 years. Far faster Acceleration of these tax cuts will the program. He would give a com- than Medicare’s per capita costs. give the economy a boost in the short prehensive drug benefit to seniors who Third, and finally, I don’t support a run. But without increasing deficits in enroll in private plans. But those who differential drug benefit, because it is the long-run. Because the revenue choose to stay where they are now, in just not fair to make beneficiaries losses are in the years when the accel- the fee-for-service program, would get move into a private plan to get a drug eration takes place. There is no rev- only a discount card and catastrophic benefit. In Montana, virtually all bene- enue loss in the years after that. coverage. ficiaries are in traditional Medicare. Third, we can stimulate the economy That is not something I am willing to That means, in order for them to get a by completely eliminating the income support. Let me explain why. drug benefit, they would need to drop tax on the first $3,000 of wages. This First, we already know that private their supplemental coverage and enroll proposal also puts money into the plans have had difficulties serving the in a private plan accepting all the re- hands of taxpayers who will spend it. Medicare population. Many of my col- strictions, preferred networks, and cov- Especially if we make it refundable. leagues may recall that the reason erage limitations that come along with Which will provide a tax cut to the 30 Medicare was created in the first place the plan. million Americans who are left out of was because so many seniors were ill- For a senior who may be older, used the President’s program. served by the private market. About to what she currently has, and to any- These are just three ways to stimu- half of the elderly were uninsured in one with a chronic health condition, late the economy—aid to the states, 1965. Because of Medicare, now nearly this is a frightening proposition. acceleration of some tax cuts, and all elderly are covered. As the chairman of the Energy and elimination of income tax on the first More recently, since Medicare+ Commerce Committee, Mr. TAUZIN so $3,000 of wages. Needless to say, there Choice was created in 1997 to expand aptly said recently, ‘‘You couldn’t

VerDate Dec 13 2002 01:26 Mar 22, 2003 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00012 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G20MR6.172 S20PT2 March 20, 2003 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S4121 move my own mother out of Medicare The second thing I think we need to families would mortgage their farms, without a bulldozer. She trusts it, be- understand as we enter this debate is sell everything they had, to buy a sin- lieves in it. It’s served her well.’’ the nature of the recession we have gle bulb, in the hope they could sell That is the case with millions of sen- just gone through. I have referred it to that bulb to somebody else for more iors around the country. They like as the first recession of the informa- money later on. When the tulip mania what they have now, and they want to tion age. burst, the economy of Holland was stay there. They need a drug benefit, The recession in 1990–1991, I believe, damaged for close to a century, as they they have been pressing Congress to was the last recession of the industrial had to deal with it. act for months, years now, and they age. That is why this recession is so Well, that is an overstatement of don’t believe they should have to swal- different from any others we have had. what we went through in the late 1990s, low such far-reaching reforms to get I want to make it very clear, we are but we went through a fascination with the help they need. And the more we not currently in a recession. The press dot-coms and with high-tech companies delay, the more expensive it gets to talks as if we are. I have heard speech- and IPOs, where we had an investment provide this benefit. es on the floor saying: This is the worst bubble. And the bubble burst. When it In the 4 years that Congress has been economy in 50 years. This is not the burst, we had a tremendous decrease in seriously debating Medicare prescrip- worst economy in 50 years. This is not what economists refer to as ‘‘the tion drugs, we have considered a range close to the worst economy that we wealth effect,’’ as Wall Street saw a of options. And we’ve seen the CBO have had in this last half century, in correction to that overenthusiasm of scores for these proposals go up and up any way. the time. It was not brought about by as we’ve taken longer and longer to It is different. It feels different. For a traditional business cycle. It was act. some people, it feels terrible. For other brought about by a new kind of over- While there are differences in the people, these are booming times. If you exuberance in the business cycle. bills we have debated, they all have one are in the housing business right now, The Wall Street numbers were in- thing in common. They would offer all you say: What recession? Because hous- flated improperly. They had to come seniors the same level of drug benefit if ing has been booming all through the down. But when they came down, the they chose to enroll in the new benefit. recession period. confidence was lost, the wealth effect Not just private plan or HMO enrollees, If you look at the unemployment was gone, and people who had over- but all beneficiaries. rate—when I went to school, I was invested then decided they were going In closing, I would like to point out taught in economics that 6 percent un- to stop investing. So we had an investment-led reces- that 90 Members of the Senate who are employment was full employment, that sion for the first time. As that reces- here today voted in favor of legislation you could not get below 6 percent un- sion was coming, but before it hit, we last summer that would uphold this employment without causing strains in had the projection of a $5.6 trillion sur- principle. the economy. We proved that wrong in plus over the next 10 years. That was I think we should keep the commit- the 1990s. We got down to the point given to us by the same models that ment we made last summer. I am where we thought 3 percent unemploy- now talk about deficits as far as the happy to work with the administration ment was normal. eye can see. They were not bad people and my colleagues across the aisle on Well, we hit 6 percent unemployment who made those decisions. The models ways to improve and increase private as a result of the recent recession. We worked themselves out. The problem plan participation in Medicare. But we are now backing off from that number. was, the assumptions that went into need to make sure that the benefit is The last number was 5.7 percent. the models, seemingly logical at the provided in full to fee-for-service bene- If we were to take the economic num- time they were made, produced that ficiaries as well as private plan enroll- bers that currently apply to the United ees. kind of a situation. States and transport them to Ger- What happened to the surplus? We For the sake of America’s seniors, many, the Germans would feel they particularly the oldest, the sickest, have heard a lot of rhetoric about who were in the strongest recovery they is responsible for destroying the sur- and the most frail, and for the sake of could imagine, because unemployment America’s rural seniors, I urge adop- plus. Some of the rhetoric has been there is double digits. quite political. Let’s just look at the tion of this amendment. Last year—a sluggish year, a year Mr. President, I yield the floor. same numbers for the $5.6 trillion sur- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under that Alan Greenspan referred to as a plus and say, all right, as we feed in the previous order, the Senator from ‘‘soft patch’’—we grew at 2.7 percent of current numbers, what happened to the Utah is to be recognized. GDP. The Germans are not growing. surplus? Mr. BENNETT. Thank you, Mr. The Japanese are not growing. The This in dark blue is the Bush tax cut. President. I yield myself such time as I French are not growing. They would be Yes, that was done deliberately on the may consume. delighted to have our numbers. And grounds that the surplus could afford The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there they are clearly not nearly as bad as it. The surplus said we should bring an objection? people are talking about them. But taxes down. I will talk about that in a Without objection, it is so ordered. they are a soft patch. And the soft moment. Mr. BENNETT. Mr. President, I have patch is too soft, and it is going on too The gray over here, light blue, de- been very interested in the discussions long. And we need to address the ques- pending on what you see it as, 45 per- we have had up until now. I think there tion of what we do about it. cent of the loss of the $5.6 trillion sur- are several things that need to be said. I have said, this is the first recession plus is the weak economy and changes Even though they have been said be- of the information age. It is not a re- in the estimates. In other words, these fore, they need to be stressed again. cession driven by inventory imbalances estimates were made before we realized With respect to the projections that which usually has signaled a recession where we were in the excesses of the are made about the future, and the in the industrial age. This recession 1990s. And as the economy contracted numbers we are looking at, the one was created by overinvestment, some- and people changed the estimates, ob- thing we can be sure about, with re- thing that in the industrial age we viously, while the tax cut represented spect to the projections, is they are never saw. And, indeed, as an invest- 25 percent of the surplus, and that was wrong. What we cannot be sure of is ment recession, it has to be dealt with done deliberately, this hit us because whether they are wrong on the high with an investment solution. we didn’t make the right calculations. side or the low side. But we can be sure We saw the excitement, almost to the To be sure and to be fair to the people they are wrong. point of ‘‘tulip time,’’ that occurred in who made the calculations, they did We also can be sure they will be ad- the late 1990s. I say ‘‘tulip time’’ to not anticipate September 11. They did justed, revised, and issued with the refer to the great tulip mania of the not anticipate all of the shock waves same pronouncement of certainty a Dutch in the Middle Ages, where the that came out of that situation. They year from now. They will be different a price of a tulip bulb rose so high, as did not anticipate what would happen year from now, but we will be told: people thought tulips would always when the economy hit the investment These are the numbers. continue to increase in value, that recession to which I referred.

VerDate Dec 13 2002 01:26 Mar 22, 2003 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00013 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G20MR6.173 S20PT2 S4122 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE March 20, 2003 The red represents increased spend- Here is another way of dem- Let’s look at the historic tax burden ing, increased spending at 28 percent. onstrating how the projections went we have had in the United States meas- We have spent more than the tax cut. wrong and the impact of the spending. ured in the only way that really makes Some of that, again, we did not antici- These were the revenues in that boom any sense; that is, as a percentage of pate. We did not anticipate we would time. And then we began to see the rev- the economy. For those who say: Oh, have to spend $40 billion to rebuild New enues start to slack off just as outlays no, that does not matter, let me repeat York. We did not anticipate we were that were increasing at one level began again a personal experience that I going to have to spend the amount of to increase very sharply. Here again is think demonstrates it does matter. money that we have spent in homeland the responsibility of where we are. As I have said before, before I came security. We did not anticipate all of Here is the chart answering the ques- to the Senate, I ran a business. When I the other. But a lot of that spending tion about the impact of the Presi- was hired as the CEO of that business, came out of the mentality that, gee, we dent’s growth plan. This shows the the total debt of the business was have a $5.6 trillion surplus; we can total taxes that will be paid in the next $75,000. When I stepped down as the spend a little more here and we can 11 years, $29.3 trillion. And the Presi- CEO of that business prior to running spend a little more there. And a little dent’s growth plan says we will have for the Senate, the total debt of that more here and a little more there $725 billion, or 2.4 percent of that business was $7.5 million. If you are turned out to be a lot more when added amount, that will come out of the over- going to measure my stewardship by to the problems. And this is what we all pie. If you add the $725 billion to the the size of the debt, you can say Ben- get. $29.3 trillion that will still be paid, you nett was a lousy steward and we are Now let’s put it in 2004 because we come up with $30 trillion. It is obvious good to get rid of him because he took have had a lot of rhetoric about this that the $30 trillion is a nice round fig- a little tiny debt of $75,000 and ran it particular fiscal year and the budget ure, which will be wrong. It will once up to $7.5 million, and now we have to we are facing. Here are the same num- again be wrong on the high side or pay off that debt and he left us in this bers with respect to the projections wrong on the low side, but no one with terrible hole. that were made for the surplus for fis- any certainty can look out 11 years and Let me add a few more facts. When I cal year 2004. The Bush tax cut for that add up the exact amount of tax revenue took over as the CEO of the company, original projection of the surplus: 19 that will come in. It is simply not hu- they were doing about $300,000 a year in percent. It is a smaller percentage of manly possible. total business; $75,000 in debt rep- the deficit for 2004 than it is for the 10- The best estimate that can be made resented 25 percent of the sales and, in- year. The weak economy: 51 percent. It says: Well, it will be, and it is rounded deed, threatened the survival of the is a bigger number affecting 2004 than off, at $30 trillion. So you take $30 tril- business because the business could not it does the 10-year picture. Increased lion, and we are talking about 2.4 per- service a $75,000 debt on $300,000 in spending, 24 percent; and then other cent of that. sales. Indeed, the business was losing tax relief becomes a bigger issue. The net effect of this over the next 11 money at $300,000 a year in sales and Mr. CONRAD. Will the Senator yield years is, if I might use a phrase we are could not survive unless we did some- for a question? all familiar with, within the margin of thing. Mr. BENNETT. I am happy to. error. It is clear that the estimate of When I stepped down as the CEO of Mr. CONRAD. On the previous chart, the business, we were doing over $75 if you could go back to that for a mo- what this will be cannot be that close, million in sales, and the $7.5 million in ment, might I just ask, is the Presi- to a 2.4 percent accuracy. It is within debt represented 10 percent of the sales dent’s additional proposed tax increase the margin of error. We are not talking instead of 25 percent of the sales. Fur- included in that chart? about a major impact. Seven hundred Mr. BENNETT. No. This is the tax in- twenty-four billion sounds like a huge thermore, we were earning enough crease that was enacted. amount of money, and of course it is. money, our margins were strong Mr. CONRAD. That is the tax in- But when it is stretched out over 11 enough that we had over $7 million in crease already passed and imple- years and when it is compared to $30 the bank. mented? trillion, then you put it in perspective. You say: Why didn’t you pay off the Mr. BENNETT. That is correct. Many people say: Why should we be debt? Because the debt represented pri- Mr. CONRAD. If I could inquire of cutting taxes at all? Let’s err on the marily mortgages on real estate that the Senator, if the additional proposed prudent side and get that money in. had prepayment penalties on them. We tax increase by the President were The fact is, of course, that we cannot had borrowed the money to build the added to that chart, can the Senator assume that if we set the tax burden at facility. We needed to run the business, tell us then what one would see in a certain level, the economy will yield and it was cheaper for us to earn inter- terms of the calculation of the dis- that kind of tax revenue. est on the money in the bank than it appearance of the surplus and what is I was in Ireland with a group of my was to pay the prepayment penalty on the primary culprit? colleagues last summer, and the Irish the mortgage. Mr. BENNETT. I happen to have an- economy was booming, growing more I frankly think I did a pretty good other chart. I will get to that if the rapidly than any other economy in Eu- job at that company. I think my stew- Senator will be patient. I appreciate rope. We said to the Prime Minister of ardship was proper, if you measure it his willingness to listen. Ireland: To what do you attribute your solely on the basis of the debt, though Back to 2004, we see once again the growth? He said: We attribute it to the I took a $75,000 debt and ran it up to impact of the soft patch. We see that if fact we cut our corporate tax rate to 10 $7.5 million. If you take the total value we are going to look at this and say, percent, and we immediately started of the company, it was failing, and at what can we do to get this money back, booming. the point of extinction with a $75,000 the first thing we can do, the best I will concede immediately that is a debt, it had a market cap of $200 mil- thing we can do, is get rid of this. simplistic answer and there must have lion or $300 million with the $7.5 mil- Fifty-one percent of the whole comes been other reasons involved, but I will lion debt. from the weak economy. Another good not concede that the decision to cut Applying that same principle, and I thing we can do is hold down this: 24 the corporate tax rate to 10 percent think it is legitimate to do so, we percent comes from increased spend- was a trivial one or that it did not have should look at our debt now not in ing. a major impact on seeing that the Irish terms of how big is it in numbers, but For those who said, we will solve our economy became the strongest econ- how big is it with respect to the size of deficit problem if we just repeal the omy in Europe. the economy, and it is now at a level tax cut—and we have heard that rhet- I think it is not an accident that with respect to the size of the economy oric on the floor—no, that is the least they have the lowest tax rates and the less than it was at the time of the Ei- effective way to get this back where it highest rate of growth. I think there is senhower administration. belongs. I am glad people who have said some correlation between those two, The highest point of our debt as a let’s repeal the tax cut are backing while conceding that there are other percentage of gross national product away from that position. aspects. was in 1945 at the end of the Second

VerDate Dec 13 2002 01:26 Mar 22, 2003 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00014 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G20MR6.192 S20PT2 March 20, 2003 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S4123 World War. We were running a total peared before us every year. I am on is about half of the $720 billion that we debt of close to 11⁄2 times the size of the the Joint Economic Committee, and he are talking about. I think those are all economy. Adding in the Social Secu- appears there every year. For the first salutary. I think those will all help, rity trust funds and all of the rest of it, few years, I did not break the code, but and I am prepared to vote for them. it is about 60 percent. We are way I think I am now beginning to under- Then we come to the other half, below a level that at one time in our stand Greenspan speak. which is the elimination of the double history we demonstrated we could sur- This is a point he made to a group of taxation on dividends. If we pass this vive with. us that I think is essential to this de- amendment, the conventional wisdom Putting that same calculation to the bate: You can set expenditures at al- is that the elimination of double tax- issue of taxation, here is a demonstra- most any level you want. You cannot ation on dividends is dead, that it will tion of taxes as a percentage of GDP. set revenues at any level you want. never come out of the Finance Com- We have drawn a line at 20 percent of Revenues are a function of the econ- mittee. GDP. When did taxes get higher than 20 omy, and if you do something wrong in Let me focus on why the passage of percent in our history? Once back in fiscal policy that causes the economy the President’s proposal with respect 1945, again responding to the Second to fail, you are not going to get the to the elimination of double taxation World War when we had a debt that revenues you may project. on dividends will go directly to the was three times GDP, and we imme- One can, on the spending side, com- heart of the softness on this chart and diately brought the taxes down to 15 mit themselves to long-term, built-in why it is the investment solution to percent and started to see the economy obligations that they cannot then deal with an investment recession. growing in such a fashion that the debt cover if the revenues are not there. If we go back to the excesses of the started coming down in dramatic fash- This is the ominous number on this late 1990s and look at them now his- ion as a percentage of GDP. chart. If we can get the revenues back torically, we find that one of the things With the tremendous surge of tax up by getting the economy back up, that drove the excesses on the stock revenue that came primarily as a func- back to the first chart—get this part of market, and indeed got us into trouble tion of the high-tech run up in the late it solved, the weakness in the econ- as far as corporate management is con- nineties and the realization from cap- omy—then we will be just fine. cerned, was the tremendous desire to ital gains when, in this Chamber, we Now we come to the amendment. drive up stock prices. Stock prices cut the capital gains tax rate so people After all of the presentation, we come were driven up by driving up earnings started cashing in their dot-com stocks to the question of how big should the estimates. Enron, WorldCom, and the and paying enormous capital gains rev- growth package be? Should it cost $724 rest of these companies did everything enues to the Treasury, even though the billion over 11 years or can we get rid they could to create the notion that rate went down, the rate went down of this part of the softness for only $350 they had tremendous earnings. They but the realizations went up. We saw, billion over the next 11 years? I think drove it up partly by leverage. Lever- once again, for the first time since the that is the wrong question to ask be- age, by definition, means borrowing, Second World War the total tax take as cause it is a mathematical question to and they were borrowing because they a percentage of GDP go above 20 per- which there is no correct answer. could deduct the interest. They could cent. As I said at the beginning, all of get the money, they could deduct the To me that was the more compelling these projections are wrong. All of interest, they could produce the lever- argument than the one that even the them will be revised. No one can, with age, and in the case of Enron they President made when he said: We are certainty, make a prediction of what is could lie about it. Make no mistake, taking too much of your money; we going to happen in 11 years in this there was tremendous greed and chica- need to give it back to you. I said how economy and be anywhere near close. nery going on, but the whole system does it fit overall in the economic pat- So the question to ask is, Will the pro- was geared towards debt as the pri- tern? posals the President has made actually mary source of capital. Historically, when the tax take be- produce a structural change within the If you go to the equity market and gins to get up to this 20-percent line, it economy that has a chance of dealing try to entice people to give you sound is a signal that you have too much bur- with the softness in the economy? equity investments, you have to say to den on the economy and you need to I go back to the other thing I said, them, we cannot pay you a return on bring the tax take down below 20 per- which is this particular recession was your investment because dividends are cent. That is why I supported the an investment recession. So the funda- taxed at an effective 60-percent rate, so President’s decision and supported the mental question to ask is, Will the pro- your only return on investment will be President’s position in the Tax Code posals the President has made address if you can sell your shares to somebody that said: OK, let’s bring it down. the investment side of the soft patch else at a higher price than you bought You always see tax revenues drop in we are in? them. Sound like tulips? Yes, there is a time of recession. We had the tax cut, Well, we had a tax cut. Part of it ad- some similarity. The greater fool the- and then it was followed by the reces- dressed the consumer side and we ory—the bigger fool theory: I buy this sion. This is the estimate of what will thought: that is going to stimulate the stock hoping that there is a bigger fool happen under current law if we do not economy. We sent out checks, 300 than me out there who I can sell it to do something about making the tax cut bucks for everybody who had filed a at a higher price. permanent. We will be in a historic tax return. We discovered that it was That is not really the way the stock area until the tax cut expires and goes not stimulative. Why not? Because it market works, but that is the way it back up, at which point we will bounce was aimed at the consumer side. It was seemed to work in the late 1990s. Re- back over 20 percent of GDP. not aimed at the investment side. And member when Alan Greenspan warned I want GDP to grow more rapidly it did not produce any major structural us against irrational exuberance in the than Government expenditures. If GDP change to give us the kind of growth stock market? The Dow was at 6,000. grows more rapidly than Government we needed. It did not even hit the con- Today, it is over 8,000, and we are say- expenditures, we have no need to worry sumer side to the point that we pro- ing it is the worst economy in 50 years. about the future. But if it does not, we jected because many consumers we now It got to 12,000 before tulip time finally cannot tax our way to prosperity. We know did not spend it. They used it to hit and it backed down. cannot tax our way to a balanced budg- pay down personal debt, which is a If we change the situation so a com- et. very logical thing for many people to pany can go to the equity market and There have been a lot of quotations do. But it upset all of the projections say, if you give us equity capital in- of Alan Greenspan around here. I hap- we made of what would happen. stead of going to the debt market to pen to be a great Greenspan supporter. So as I see it, the President’s pro- get debt capital, we can give you a re- Sometimes I am a little surprised to posal has two big groups. The first turn on your equity capital that will think I can understand him. I have group is a collection of tax cuts: the only be taxed once, we can give you a been in the Senate now 10 years and on marriage tax penalty, the elimination return that will make it logical for you the Banking Committee, and he has ap- of the death tax, the child credit. That to hang in with us over the long term,

VerDate Dec 13 2002 01:26 Mar 22, 2003 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00015 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G20MR6.195 S20PT2 S4124 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE March 20, 2003 even if the stock does not go up imme- fair allocation of the additional inter- product. In 1993, we passed a plan to diately in the short term, you can hold est costs from the tax cut has to be at- bring down spending and to raise rev- the investment because you are going tributed to the tax cut, not to spend- enue. We did them both. The economy to get your dividends and your divi- ing. was weak. When we did that plan, we dends are only going to be taxed once. Those two things change the picture were told by the other side it would This is a structural change that the quite dramatically. What we see is, crater the economy. We were told: You economy badly needs. This is a struc- over the decade, if you take the Presi- are going to increase deficits; you are tural change, once again to quote the dent’s tax cuts already implemented going to decrease economic growth. I guru that has been talked about, that and the tax cuts proposed, and at- can remember the debate in the Senate Alan Greenspan has endorsed as good tribute the interest costs of the tax so well, being told it would crater the for the economy. This is a structural cuts to the tax cuts, the biggest culprit economy. change that can begin to address the in the disappearance of the surplus, They were wrong. We raised revenue, question of the weaknesses in the econ- and in fact, moving to deficit, is the we cut spending, and we helped a surge omy that can have long-term con- tax cuts. of economic growth unprecedented in sequences. And this is a structural The Senator makes a very important our history, the longest period of sus- change that will make us more com- point on what will work. The Senator tained economic growth in U.S. his- petitive with the rest of the world be- believes the additional tax cuts the tory, the lowest unemployment in 30 cause the rest of the world does not tax President has proposed will help grow years, the lowest inflation in 30 years. dividends at the same rate we do. the economy. I don’t believe it. Not We turned deficits into surpluses, and That is what this debate really only don’t I believe it, but a whole we did it the old-fashioned way; we got should be about. It should not be about group of economists do not believe it. revenue above expenditures. numbers: Is 350 too little or is 350 too This chart is the work of Macro- Now look at what happened. Our much? Is 724 too big or is 724 too little? economic Advisors. These folks are friends are showing the chart. It is It should be about whether these pro- under contract to the White House, true, revenue collapsed. Part of that is posals work. I believe they will. they are under contract to the Con- the tax cuts. It is true that spending If we have identified that they will gressional Budget Office to do macro- has gone up. Why has spending gone work, then the question is, How much economic analysis. What they have up? Where did the spending go? In 2001, money do we need to put in the budget concluded is the President’s plan will 73 percent of the increase in spending to allow them to go forward? give a short boost—this is the green went to national defense. We all sup- So the number comes after the deci- line—if you do nothing; the black line ported it. Fifteen percent of the in- sion of whether the program makes is if you do the President’s policy. creased spending went to homeland se- sense rather than the number driving After 2004, they say the President’s curity. We all supported it. And 7 per- the program. In my opinion, this is a plan will actually reduce growth from cent went to New York City relief. We gamble well worth taking. what we would have if we did nothing. had to rebuild New York. We all sup- Back to the total tax take that we Why? Because they say, as Chairman ported it. In 2002, 55 percent of the increase are talking about, where the 2.4 per- Greenspan has said, you will get a went to national defense, 21 percent to cent of the estimate is within the mar- crowding out effect because the Presi- homeland security, 19 percent to re- gin of error, this is not a serious gam- dent’s tax cuts are not financed by cut- building New York; 95 percent of the ble. In my opinion, if one were to say, ting spending, they are financed by spending increase in those 2 years was OK, we are going to cut this in half at borrowing the money. national defense, homeland security, 350 so the 2.4 percent goes down to 1.2 You cannot borrow your way to pros- percent, that is really what we are rebuilding New York. perity. What happens when you borrow In 2003, 73 percent is defense, 15 per- talking about, 1.2 percent of a $30 tril- the money is you reduce the pool of so- cent is homeland security, and 88 per- lion pie when the evidence is over- cietal savings; you reduce the amount cent of the spending increase went for whelming, in my view, that the divi- of money available for investment; you the purposes of homeland defense and dend thing will work. reduce economic growth. national defense. How does it have to work in order to Let’s talk about real world tests of That is where the money has gone. pay for itself? It has to make the econ- that theory. In the 1980s, we had a real We all supported it. The question is, omy 1.2-percent more efficient. The world test of the notion of running How are we going to pay for it? What studies out of the business roundtable deficits and having tax cuts and that my colleagues are proposing is to keep from the econometric model down at would spur the economy. the revenue line down below the spend- the University of Maryland say this Let me finish, and I will be more ing line for the entire rest of this dec- will add 2 points to GDP growth. What than happy to yield. ade. will happen to this $30 trillion pie if it Mr. BENNETT. I just want to talk The reason that is so dangerous, in grows at 2 points higher than the about your chart. this Senator’s opinion, is this decade is present estimate? It is a gamble worth Mr. CONRAD. Let me complete this like no other in our economic history. taking. That is why I oppose this thought, and I will be happy to talk What is coming is not a projection. amendment. about this chart or your chart or other What is coming is the retirement of the Mr. CONRAD. I yield myself such charts. baby boom generation that is going to time as I may consume. In the 1980s, we tried the big tax cut, double the number of people eligible Mr. President, the reason I inquired the big deficits. In the 1990s, we tried for Social Security and Medicare. It of the Senator what his chart depicted the alternative, which was to eliminate will explode the cost to the Federal was that he has only shown the tax cut deficits and to have restraint, to re- Government of those two programs. advocated by the President that has al- duce spending, actually increase reve- Those programs right now are throw- ready been implemented. He did not nues. ing off big cash surpluses in their trust show the additional effect of the tax I have a chart that shows the long- funds, but in the next decade they start cut the President has proposed, which term spending revenue. This is a very to go cash negative. When they do, is even larger than the one that has al- important debate to have. The red line that is the very time the President’s ready been implemented. shows spending from 1981 projected out tax cut, which is the red bar—the trust He showed on his chart that 25 per- to 2018. The red line is spending as a fund is green, and blue is Medicare-So- cent of the $5.6 trillion surplus went to percentage of GDP, which the Senator cial Security surplus, the red is the the President’s first tax cut. He does from Utah indicated is an appropriate President’s tax cut—the very time the not talk about the additional tax cut way to judge these things. I agree en- costs explode, the costs of tax cuts ex- that costs $1.9 trillion when you add tirely. The blue line is the revenue plode, leading to deficits totally the associated interest costs. line. unsustainable. Second point: On the Senator’s chart In the 1980s, we had an enormous gap We just got released today the re- he attributes the additional interest with big budget deficits. Spending went sults of the Federal Open Market Com- cost of the tax cut to spending. Any up to over 23 percent of gross domestic mittee meeting of January 28 and 29.

VerDate Dec 13 2002 01:26 Mar 22, 2003 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00016 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G20MR6.197 S20PT2 March 20, 2003 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S4125 There is a lag before the releasing of retirement years of the baby boomers. what I believe. I think it is a mistake. the results of the meeting. Here is The place where we differ is whether That is where we differ. what the report says: A number of this proposal the President has put be- I am not going to interfere any fur- members expressed the hope that the fore us will prepare us for a more effi- ther in this other discussion we prom- legislation would not encompass provi- cient economy in that period and ised people they could have. How much sions that would lead to permanently thereby give us the strength we need or time is the Senator seeking? large Federal deficits with negative whether it will do damage. The Senator Mr. BOND. I ask for 20 minutes. consequences for the economy over the obviously believes this proposal will Mr. CONRAD. I yield 20 minutes to longer term. damage the economy. I, obviously, be- the distinguished Senator from Mis- That is precisely what is wrong with lieve it will better the economy. souri. the President’s plan and wrong with As long as we are quoting economists Mr. BOND. Mr. President, let me ex- the budget plan from the committee. It back and forth, I once again say that press my sincere thanks to my good is going to lead to large budget deficits Alan Greenspan has endorsed the divi- friend from the Dakotas, and thank over time. That is going to hurt eco- dend thing as a logical long-term struc- him for the work he has done on the nomic growth. Don’t take my word for tural change. Budget Committee as the ranking it. The deficits in the budget resolution Mr. CONRAD. Could I just say on member. I thank my friend from Okla- are right here. They are large and con- that point, you have to read very care- homa, the chairman of the Budget Committee, as we are seeing that being tinuing. The President’s own docu- fully what Chairman Greenspan said. on the Budget Committee is one of the ments go out to 2050 and they show He said the dividend proposal, as long most thankless jobs around. You have these are the good times. Even though as it is revenue neutral—not financed to read economic analysis, tons and they are record budget deficits now, his by borrowing—is good for the economy. tons of pages, and 50-year economic own documents, page 43 of ‘‘analytical If it is financed by borrowing, it is not analyses. Then you come out with a perspectives,’’ show the deficits now good for the economy. bill that is a series of numbers. It is all are the good times because, as you go Mr. BENNETT. When Mr. GREENspan supposed to work out. Then people like forward and adopt the President’s pol- comes before the Joint Economic Com- me come along and try to change it. It icy, the cost of the tax cuts explodes at mittee, I will explore that with him in depth, so we can get it nailed down. is with some experience on the Budget the very time the cost of the retire- Committee that I express my apprecia- ment of the baby boomers explodes and The point I want to make off the Senator’s chart, where he has the black tion for the work that has been done. you have deficits of such enormous Mr. CONRAD. I thank the Senator. size: 10 percent, 11 percent of GDP, 2 1⁄2 line demonstrating the impact of the President’s policy and the green line AMENDMENT NO. 358 times what they are today. That is to- Mr. BOND. Today, along with a num- representing the base, he shows the tally unsustainable. ber of my colleagues, I want to address President’s policy would indeed The conclusion of many economists an amendment which is at the desk, produce a significant beneficial change is those tax cuts will actually hurt eco- amendment No. 358 to the Senate budg- in 2004. nomic growth. It is the dead weight of et resolution. I am very pleased to be those deficits and debt that will hurt The question, of course, is whether or joined in this by Senator REID of Ne- economic growth. The fundamental not the projections beyond that are re- vada, Senator INHOFE, Senator JEF- liable. Once again, my experience in reason is the President’s tax cuts are FORDS—all three from the EPW com- this body is that everything gets not offset by spending reductions. He is mittee—as well as Senators SHELBY, changed year to year, as you go for- not proposing offsetting them by SARBANES, WARNER, MURRAY, MUR- ward. To get us out of this soft patch spending reductions. He is proposing KOWSKI, BYRD, CHAFEE, FEINSTEIN, COL- we are in, it would be very nice to have increases in spending. I do not fault LINS, SPECTER, LEVIN, LOTT, REED of that kind of a spike in 2004. him for that. He is talking about in- Rhode Island, and BROWNBACK. creasing defense—we have to do it; in- But even if we accept the chart ex- This amendment would increase the creasing homeland security—we have actly as it is presented, is it not true budget allocations to $255 billion for to do it. But we have to pay for it. If we that the black line ends up, long-term, highway infrastructure, and $56.5 bil- do not, on the eve of the retirement of above the green line? That in the years lion for mass transit needs over the 6- the baby boom generation we will sad- out there, it shows the long-term im- year period fiscal year 2004 to fiscal dle this country with so much deficit pact of the President’s proposed policy year 2009. and so much debt that it will serve as is a better economic result than the Before these numbers startle some of a dead weight on this economy and it baseline, and that, if it is true, is the my colleagues and good friends, like will inhibit, it will limit, it will reduce argument I am making that the long- my friends on the Budget Committee, the pool of societal savings, and it will term structural change of the Presi- let me remind my colleagues we are reduce the amount of money available dent’s proposal will give us, long term, not abandoning the ‘‘user pays’’ con- for investment. a healthier economy, and long term is cept of the Highway Trust Fund. In I am not going to take longer. I could where the Senator and I both agree the fact, over the past several years, a go on, on this subject, for a long time. problem lies. great deal of money has been stolen or But I am happy to respond to an in- With that, I do not want to prolong diverted out of the Highway Trust quiry from my colleague. this. I have taken up too much of the Fund, paid in by highway users, that Mr. BENNETT. Mr. President, if the Senate’s time on it and I appreciate rightfully should have gone for road Senator will put back the one chart, I the indulgence of my colleagues as I improvements. would like to address that chart. The have gone on. I appreciate the openness For example, highway users started one which the Senator quotes as com- and candor and expertise of the Sen- paying a 2.5 cent tax in 1990 with the ing from the President. ator from North Dakota. Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of Mr. CONRAD. Yes—no, this is not Mr. CONRAD. I have enjoyed this de- 1990 that never went to road improve- from the President. This is from Mac- bate. Let me just say to my colleague, ments. It went to the general fund in- roeconomic Advisers, which is under I wish I had—I am asking my staff to stead. The tax even grew to as high as contract to the White House and under get it, but I do not want to interrupt 6.8 cents in 1994 and 1995, and over the contract to CBO. the discussion any further. years, highway users have paid well Mr. BENNETT. Under contract to the Let me just say the text of the anal- over $40 billion—that is a conservative White House. ysis from Macroeconomic Advisers estimate—$40 billion which never went Mr. CONRAD. Yes. makes clear they believe the long-term into the highway trust fund. Mr. BENNETT. First, let me say, in impact is negative. Because of the In addition, the highway trust fund another time and place, and I know crowding-out effect, because it is bor- lost revenues as a result of alternative others wish to speak, I think the Sen- rowed money, it is because that re- fuel vehicles. I support alternative fuel ator and I could explore this at some duces the pool of societal savings. I vehicles, whether they run on hydrogen greater depth. I agree with him abso- have loads of other economic analysis or electricity or some other form of en- lutely that the problem is ahead in the that concludes the same thing. It is ergy. But we also must remember that

VerDate Dec 13 2002 01:26 Mar 22, 2003 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00017 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G20MR6.199 S20PT2 S4126 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE March 20, 2003 these alternatively fueled vehicles The transportation system is a life- if I remember correctly—I was a travel on the roads. They use the roads. line of our country and our economy. I youngster at the time—our Nation’s They crowd the roads. They are, in was a student of American history. The defense was the primary focus, the na- fact, burdens on the roads. And they economic history of America really tional defense highway system. must somehow pay some share, just as began when railroads tied together this Now terrorism threatening our home- those vehicles fueled by gas or diesel Nation and brought it as a whole eco- land requires an adequate defense net- pay for a share. nomic unit. Railroads were the tie that work to get the people, the law en- Some very significant constituents bound us together in the 19th century. forcement, the military, to prevent ac- have spoken out about the needs for In the 20th century, it became the tions, to bring in responders where the highway trust fund. I have letters highway system. The highway system there is an action, to give people a of support, that I will offer later, from provides mobility. It provides transpor- means away from an area of danger. affiliated labor unions engaged in tation for economic activities. It, in es- These all require good roads and high- transportation, construction, and the sence, brings jobs. ways. broader Transportation Construction I can tell you, in the years I spent as To demonstrate the enormity of this Coalition, the Highway Users Alliance, Governor of Missouri, I spent an awful crucial task of relieving congestion the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the lot of time working on economic devel- and building highway infrastructure, National Governors Association, and opment. It was one of my top prior- we have to examine the costs involved. others. ities. And I could see, economic devel- A report by the Nation’s State trans- I daresay we have all heard from our opment was going by where the roads portation officials found that $92 bil- respective State transportation offi- went. If you build a good four-lane lion will be needed on an annual basis cials, our metropolitan planning orga- road, jobs will go there. just to maintain the current conditions nizations, from our labor unions, our Jobs and economic opportunity re- of highways and to keep traffic from friends in the transportation indus- quire good transportation. Not all jobs. getting worse. tries, and others about the needs. But We have e-mail and telecommuni- However, if our goal were to be as I perhaps more importantly, we have all cations. But distribution requires a think it should be—to improve signifi- seen the congestion, the potholes cov- good transportation system. cantly the overall condition of U.S. ered with steel plates, the bridges down I can tell you, for the 21st century, it highways, enhancing safety standards, to one lane. is not only good railroads, it is not reducing traffic congestion; a goal that If any of you who have done what I only good roads and highways, it is I think is critical to the protection of have done, and had an open meeting in good transportation systems, it is good American lives as well as our economy, a townhall forum in the last several air transportation, it is good water the study showed that more would be months as we came up on the reauthor- transportation, and it is good mass needed, a total of $125 billion annually. ization of TEA–21, you have heard that transportation that is going to be es- Now, those figures do not even in- our citizens are concerned about inad- sential for our growth. clude the additional $19 billion in cap- equate transportation. They are really Looking at the road side of it, in my ital investments required each year to chafing at the bit because in too many home State of Missouri the problems maintain existing road conditions and areas our country is strangling. are diverse and complex. To highlight service levels. Clearly, this will be a Now, we have all waited in traffic, just a few of the glaring examples: massive and expensive effort. hoped our car’s alignment would not be Commercial truck traffic is expected to Increased funding for transportation permanently damaged, and looked increase 89 percent by the year 2020. will also have other beneficial effects. down through a bridge to see the water The cities of St. Louis and Kansas City It creates jobs at a time when many below. We have also comforted far too many spend over $1 billion each year on costs businesses around the country are friends and families who have lost associated with traffic congestion. Fa- heading in the reverse and are con- loved ones because of unsafe roads or talities on Missouri highways are con- tracting. The added investment for bridges. I still correspond with families siderably higher than the national av- transportation will serve to directly who have made getting decent high- erage—nearly 7,000 people were killed stimulate the economy. Every billion ways their cause to remember a loved between 1995 and 2000 on our highways. dollars of investment is 47,000 jobs. one who was killed because of an inad- How will this broad range of prob- Naturally, this will contribute to the equate highway system with too much lems be adequately and appropriately prosperity of American communities traffic on it. addressed? The answer simply is in- by bringing a wide variety of benefits Our Nation has some needs. This lit- vestment—investment in the future of to people in every State and every lo- tle chart shows in red what the Presi- our Nation’s surface transportation to cation across the country. The in- dent proposed in his budget. What the promote safety, to increase employ- creased investments in roads will help Budget Committee has come out with ment, to decrease congestion, and to satisfy many of our needs currently is shown in green. And what this Bond- enhance security. and for the future. Reid amendment would do is shown in In order to meet these needs, Fed- Unfortunately, the administration’s blue. As you can see, these start going eral, State, and local government in- 2004 budget provides allocations that up a little bit. vestment will have to be significantly remain wholly inadequate for con- You may ask, what is this big yellow increased. Our amendment we offer quering the ever-growing needs of the line way up here above all of them, today will allow it to do so at a very people who use our Nation’s transpor- even well above the blue line? Well, it modest rate compared to the true tation infrastructure. It is the status is simply this administration’s own es- needs, but without raising gas taxes quo funding. timate of the cost simply to maintain and diesel taxes at this time. Again, our amendment will increase the current system; that is, not to get I want to emphasize to my col- spending authority on highways to $255 it any better. Just to keep it as it is, leagues, this transportation responsi- billion and on mass transit to $56.5 bil- we should be spending this much, as bility is a duty of the Federal Govern- lion over the 6-year life of the TEA–21 shown in yellow. Right now, this budg- ment. Road building is one activity reauthorization bill. As my colleagues et has us spending what is shown in the that the Government should admin- know, a budget resolution amendment green. We really need to get up at least ister but in coordination with the pri- is all about numbers and not about spe- to this high, as shown in the blue, so vate sector and other levels of govern- cific requirements. However, I will we can begin to try to keep up with the ment. If we do not want the responsi- offer some ideas and thoughts because needs. bility at the national level, or if we are there is a menu of sources and options, We know our Nation’s transportation unwilling to fund it, then let’s quit so you can understand where that needs are staggering and our con- calling our I–70s, our I–80s, our I–5s, our money comes from. strained transportation system is cost- I–95s, and our other interstates by Let me go over a few of the aspects. ing our country a whole lot of time and those names. The $255 billion increase over the budg- money. We know it is time to do some- When President Dwight Eisenhower et, where does that come from: 5.2 thing about it. first proposed the interstate highways, cents on the ethanol tax incentive fix,

VerDate Dec 13 2002 01:26 Mar 22, 2003 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00018 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G20MR6.203 S20PT2 March 20, 2003 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S4127 something the Finance Committee is work is necessary over FY 2004–2009. This ation of the pending FY 2004 budget resolu- going to work on; spending down the federal share is the amount necessary to tion will have irreversible impacts on our na- trust fund balances. This was proposed begin the process reducing highway deaths tion’s transportation infrastructure as Con- by the President in his budget, and it is and injuries, and the traffic congestion that gress moves to consideration of the transpor- is costing the nation $67 billion per year in tation reauthorization legislation later this proposed in the Budget Committee’s lost productivity and wasted motor fuel. year. markup that we extend that. We pro- The USDOT report shows that a $50 billion Transportation infrastructure is the en- vide interest credit on the balances, per year federal highway investment is nec- and we restore a lost $8 billion in TEA– gine that powers our economy. Investments essary to simply maintain the current phys- in surface transportation and highway 21; $8 billion just disappeared from the ical conditions and system performance of projects provide greater returns than any trust fund. We put that back. We main- the nation’s highways and bridges. A $12 to other area of government spending. In fact, tain the historic relationship between $14 billion annual investment in public for every $1 billion of federal highway invest- contract authority and obligation limi- transportation, the report suggests, is nec- ment, 42,000 jobs are generated. The trans- essary to meet our pubic transportation tations. I will forgo a description of the portation industry accounts for 11 percent of needs. To actually improve these vital facili- the nation’s economic activity, and accounts contract authority and obligation lim- ties, greater levels of investments are nec- its. I don’t think it is necessary to add for one out of every five dollars of total essary. household spending. further confusion at this point. But let The bipartisan leadership of the Senate me say we straighten out the problem Environment and Public Works Committee TEA–21 significantly increased investment that the underlying budget amendment (EPW)—and perhaps other senators—will in our nation’s transportation system by in- has. offer amendments to increase transportation creasing funding levels to help meet our Then we ought to have fair share funding in the FY 2004 Budget Resolution. transportation needs. Historically, however, investment levels in surface transportation funding for alternative fuel vehicles— We urge you to support the Senate EPW amendment, which would provide a very sig- have been insufficient to meet the growing electric hybrids, natural gas, recog- nificant step forward toward meeting the transportation needs of our country. In order nizing the loss to the fund for these ve- needs identified by the USDOT through the to maintain the transportation system now hicles which pay little or nothing into TEA–21 reauthorization process. in place and address myriad pressing needs, the trust fund but cause the same dam- Sincerely, revenues invested in surface transportation age to roadways. This is vitally impor- THE TRANSPORTATION CONSTRUCTION must be increased. tant, as is cracking down on tax eva- COALITION. On behalf of the nation’s Governors, we sion and compliance initiatives, deal- thank you for your leadership and attention ing with those who avoid the taxes or NATIONAL HEAVY to the transportation needs of our country. & HIGHWAY ALLIANCE, Sincerely, otherwise have been excluded from Washington, DC, March 18, 2003. paying for their use of our roads and PAUL E. PATTON, DEAR SENATOR: During the debate on the DIRK KEMPTHORNE, highways. Fiscal Year 2004 budget resolution, there is Governors. This increased investment authorized likely to be an amendment offered by the bi- by our amendment will decrease con- partisan leadership of the Senate Environ- gestion, enhance security, help to cre- ment and Public Works Committee. The pur- THE ASSOCIATED GENERAL CONTRACTORS OF AMERICA, ate jobs, stimulate the economy, and, pose of the amendment will be to increase spending for the federal-aid highway pro- Alexandria, VA, March 19, 2003. most importantly, will save American Hon. HARRY REID, lives by improving safety on the high- gram from FY 2004 to 2009 to a $255 billion in- vestment level. In addition, the amendment U.S. Senate, Senate Hart Building, ways. will also increase federal transit spending to Washington, DC. These are the highway-related fatali- the $55 billion level over the same time pe- DEAR SENATOR REID: As the Senate debates ties in thousands, beginning with 39.3 riod. the Fiscal Year 2004 budget resolution, the thousand in 1992, reaching as high as Given the recent US Department of Trans- Associated General Contractors of America 42.1 thousand in 1996, and again in 2001, portation’s Conditions and Performance Re- (AGC) urges you to support the Bond-Reid- over 40,000 people killed in each of port, the proposed amendment seriously be- Inhofe-Jeffords amendment to increase high- these years, too many of them because gins to address our country’s surface trans- way and transit funding in the legislation. of inadequate highways. It is not an op- portation needs. The funding level contained The amendment would allow highway fund- tion to stand idle in the wake of these in the Senate Budget Committee’s resolution ing to be increased to $255 billion and transit is completely inadequate to either maintain funding to $56 billion over the six years in conditions. or improve our highway and transit infra- the upcoming reauthorization of the Trans- I urge my colleagues to support our structure systems as reflected in the DOT portation Equity Act for the 21st Century amendment. I ask unanimous consent Report. We commend the leadership of the (TEA–21). to print letters of endorsement for this Senate Environment and Public Works Com- The importance of substantially increasing mittee for realistically addressing the crit- proposal. funding for our surface transportation pro- ical surface transportation needs in our There being no objection, the mate- grams is well documented. A report by the country. rial was ordered to be printed in the American Association of State Highway and We strongly urge you to support the higher RECORD, as follows: Transportation Officials (AASHTO) found investment levels in the proposed amend- that the current $65 billioin annual level of MARCH 18, 2003. ment to help stimulate our economy and to DEAR SENATOR: As the Senate begins de- highway investment by all levels of govern- create jobs. bate on the Fiscal Year (FY) 2004 Budget ment will have to increase by 42 percent, to Sincerely, Resolution, the 28 national associations and $92 billion annually, to keep highways in RAYMOND J. POUPORE, labor unions working together in the Trans- their current condition, including keeping Executive Director. portation Construction Coalition urge inclu- traffic congestion from getting worse. sion of the highest level possible for invest- NATIONAL GOVERNORS ASSOCIATION, The AASHTO report found that it would ment in highway and public transportation take nearly doubling current highway in- infrastructure programs. This is particularly Washington, DC, March 19, 2003. Hon. BILL FRIST, vestments, to $125 billion annually, to critical, as later this year the Congress must imporove significantly overall conditions of work to reauthorize the Transportation Eq- Majority Leader, U.S. Senate, The Capitol, Washington, DC. the nation’s highways, including improve- uity Act for the 21st Century (TEA–21). ments in safety and reduction in traffic con- Unlike many federal initiatives, invest- Hon. THOMAS A. DASCHLE, gestion. ment in improved transportation infrastruc- Democratic Leader, U.S. Senate, ture provides tangible benefits that impact The Capitol, Washington, DC. To begin addressing these documented the safety and quality of life for every Amer- DEAR SENATOR FRIST AND SENATOR needs we must boost investment in the high- ican on a daily basis. An efficient transpor- DASCHLE: As you debate the fiscal year (FY) way and transit programs. The Bond-Reid- tation infrastructure system is also a key 2004 budget resolution, the nation’s Gov- Inhofe-Jeffords amendment will help address component of national security and emer- ernors would like to reiterate the impor- the investment shortfall. AGC urges you to gency response activities. tance of adequate transportation funding suppoort this amendment, which will enable The U.S. Department of Transportation levels. The nation’s Governors support us to address the needs and improve our (USDOT) surface transportation Conditions growth in Highway Trust Fund revenues and highway and transit systems. and Performance Report just sent to Con- an increased federal funding commitment to Sincerely, gress provides data clearly showing that a transportation to enable states to maintain PETER J. LOUGHLIN, $375 billion federal investment in the federal- safe, secure, and reliable highway and tran- Executive Director, aid highway and public transportation net- sit systems. Decisions made during consider- Governmental Affairs & Federal Markets.

VerDate Dec 13 2002 01:26 Mar 22, 2003 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00019 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G20MR6.205 S20PT2 S4128 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE March 20, 2003 AMERICAN ROAD & TRANSPORTATION support the Bond-Reid amendment to 2009 to simply maintain the existing BUILDERS ASSOCIATION, S. Con. Res. 23 which increases funding system. March 19, 2003. for highways to $255 billion and in- Again, quoting from the Conditions DEAR SENATOR: Thursday, March 20, the and Performance report: U.S. Senate will start debate and then cast creases funding for transit to $56.5 bil- votes that will determine the level of surface lion. The amendment does not assume Despite the historic investments in high- transportation program funding that will be a tax increase. Nor do I take lightly way infrastructure and improving conditions included in the FY 2004 Budget Resolution. that I am asking my colleagues to in- on many roads and bridges, operational per- This will be the first important vote in Con- crease spending. Let me be very clear formance—the use of that infrastructure— gress this year on future highway and transit has steadily deteriorated over the past dec- on this next point. This amendment ade. In 1987, for example, a trip that would investment. The funding levels adopted in does not have to mean deficit spending. the Budget Resolution will likely frame the take 20 minutes during non-congested peri- parameters for the Senate TEA–21 reauthor- There are choices we as a body can ods required, on average, 25.8 minutes under ization bill that will authorize annual fed- make to offset the increased spending. congested conditions. By 2000, the same trip eral highway and transit investment levels I share the same reservations that under congested conditions required 30.2 through 2009. many of my colleagues do about deficit minutes, or an additional 4.4 minutes. The bipartisan leadership of the Senate spending. Colleagues, this resolution simply Environment & Public Works Committee Normally, I would be down here urg- does not adequately address the needs. and other transportation supporters will ing you to vote against any such The Bond-Reid amendment sets a rea- offer an amendment during the Thursday morning debate that would boost the Budget amendment. I would like you to con- sonable spending level of $39.2 billion Committee’s recommended highway funding sider the following before you make up in FY04 and moves us in a direction contract authority level by at least $49 bil- your mind on this amendment. that at least maintains existing infra- lion over six years. The Bond-Reid-Inhofe- The primary purposes of federal structure. Jeffords Amendment would set total high- spending are to support a strong na- My colleagues on the Budget Com- way investment over FY 2004–FY 2009 at $255 tional defense and to invest in and mittee will argue that this amendment billion—an average $42.5 billion annually. maintain a strong national infrastruc- breaks the link between user fees and The amendment would set transit invest- ture. highway spending because it does not ment over the period at $56.3 billion—or an Unfortunately, we are coming out of assume an increase in gas taxes. That average of 9.4 billion annually. This amend- ment would go a long way toward closing the an extended period in which we ne- is not correct. We can pay for this in- $13 billion per year ‘‘maintain existing con- glected defense spending and we are creased spending as I will outline. In ditions and performance’’ federal highway now having to play catch up. During the final analysis, the relevant Com- investment gap and transit needs detailed in the Clinton Administration, 1993–2001, mittees and this body will determine the U.S. Department of Transportation’s 2002 defense spending was $407 billion under the best ways to pay for this amend- report to Congress. the rate of inflation. Yet during that ment if we choose to do so. The federal highway and transit program same period, government spending in- I will now talk about how we can in- should be considered one of the nation’s crease spending on transportation and most important weapons in the fight to im- creased. This increased spending went prove public health and safety. Forty-two to domestic programs. I personally be- pay for it without increasing the def- thousand Americans die each year on Amer- lieve that, given this wartime environ- icit. ica’s roads. Over 3 million Americans are in- ment, those domestic programs should First, the trust fund needs to be re- jured annually in motor vehicle crashes. now shoulder an across the board cut. I imbursed the $8 billion in highway user Traffic accidents are the leading cause of am not here to make that argument fees that were transferred to the gen- death of Americans 6 to 28 years of age and today, but rather to discuss the impor- eral fund during the drafting of TEA21. result in more permanently disabling inju- tance of increased transportation Those were dollars paid by highway ries to young Americans than to any other users and should be used on highway type of accident. spending. These grim statistics should be an outrage Projected highway trust fund re- infrastructure. This is a moral issue. to every American. Particularly when poor ceipts do not support the level of When the motorist pays the gas tax at roadway conditions or outdated alignments spending in the amendment. However, the pump, they rightly expect that the are a factor in nearly one-third, or 14,000, of we need to be honest in our analysis dollars they pay in taxes will be used those deaths annually, according to the U.S. and recognize that the lag in trust fund for transportation infrastructure. We Department of Transportation. This unac- receipts is temporary because of a slow broke faith with them when we allowed ceptable safety performance can be ad- economy and a sharp increase in the the $8 billion transfer to the general dressed by upgrading the overall conditions fund. of our highway system, by increasing overall cost of fuel. Once the economy recovers surface transportation capacity, building and gas prices stabilize, receipt will in- Furthermore, we as a nation have more forgiving roads, and targeting road and crease above the current projections. made some policy choices to encourage bridge improvements that have documented Additionally, we need to get the rev- the use of certain fuels that cost the positive cost-benefit ratios. enue currently lost to the trust fund highway trust money. Most of us un- Motor vehicle crashes cost American soci- from users of the system who do not derstand that the 5.2 cent tax incentive ety more than $230 billion each year, accord- for ethanol use comes directly from the ing to the National Highway Traffic Safety pay their fair share. As much as it pains me to say this, highway trust fund because ethanol Administration. That’s more than six times users do not pay the full 18.4 cents per what the federal government is investing in this budget resolution fails to provide highway and public transportation improve- sufficient funding to maintain our na- gallon. I believe most would agree that ments this year. tion’s infrastructure, much less im- the highway trust fund should be com- Without surface transportation capability prove it. The Federal Highway Admin- pensated for this amount which is esti- additions, traffic congestions will also con- istration’s, FHWA, recent 2002 Status mated to be over $9 billion. A vehicle tinue to increase in all major U.S. urban of the Nation’s Highways, Bridges, and that uses an alternative fuel creates communities, according to the Texas Trans- Transit: Conditions and Performance the same wear and tear on the system portation Institute’s 2002 Urban Mobility Re- as a gasoline powered vehicle. port. The economic cost to the nation in lost report states the following: productivity and wasted motor fuel caused . . . maintaining the overall conditions Additionally, there is a national pol- by traffic gridlock will grow from $67.5 bil- and performance of highways and bridges at icy to encourage the purchase of hybrid lion in 2000, to almost $100 billion by 2009. current levels would require significantly and electric vehicles. While these vehi- Please vote for American jobs, safety and more investment by all levels of govern- cles address an important policy goal mobility by increasing transportation in- ment.... the average annual investment of promoting clean burning transpor- vestment in the FY 2004 Budget Resolution. [needs] to be . . . 17.5 percent larger. tation, they also cost the highway We urge you to co-sponsor and vote for the The resolution before us sets spend- trust fund money. They either pay a bipartisan Bond-Reid-Inhofe-Jeffords ing at $30.5 billion in FY04, increases it limited amount of fuel taxes because Amendment to the FY 2004 Budget Resolu- tion. Thank you. to $35.1 billion in FY05 and then flat their vehicles are hybrids, or in the Sincerely, lines it at that level through FY09, for case of electric vehicles they do not sue ———. an average investment of $34.3 billion gasoline at all and thus do not pay any- Mr. INHOFE. Mr. President, I come per year. This represents a significant thing into the highway trust fund. Yet to the floor to ask my colleagues to shortfall of over $80 billion from 2004 to the highway trust fund is expected to

VerDate Dec 13 2002 01:26 Mar 22, 2003 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00020 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A20MR6.151 S20PT2 March 20, 2003 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S4129 pay for the infrastructure for their use. ment and Public Works Committee the my colleagues to support adoption of Currently there are 640,000 hybrid vehi- head room we need to write a bill. this amendment. cles on the road. It is estimated that Support the Bond-Reid amendment Mr. BYRD. Mr. President, I am by 2009 there will be 5 million. This is and know that it can be done without pleased to join with several of my col- going to be a real problem in the future increasing the deficit by using some of leagues to offer an amendment to boost in terms of how we fund transportation the above mentioned options. transportation funding for the 6-year infrastructure. It is irresponsible to Mr. SHELBY. Mr. President, I rise in period to be covered by the next high- not address this before it becomes a support of the amendment offered by way bill. crisis. We need to work now on coming Senator BOND which I am pleased to co- The enactment of a new surface up with a fair mechanism whereby the sponsor along with a number of my col- transportation bill will be a mammoth highway trust fund is compensated for leagues. This bipartisan amendment task for the 108th Congress. No group these vehicles using the highway sys- would increase highway spending to of Senators is more familiar with the tem. I believe that could result in up to $255 billion and transit spending to depth of this challenge than the prin- $10 billion of new revenue into the $56.5 billion over the next 6 years. cipal cosponsors of this amendment. trust fund. This amendment is essential to pro- In my more than 56 years in elected Indexing the current gas tax to infla- vide for continued growth in the Fed- office, I have always served in a legis- tion would result in about a one-half eral investment in mass transit and lative body. I served in the West Vir- cent increase per year and yield $17 bil- highway infrastructure across the ginia House of Delegates and the West lion from 2004–2009. country. Together, these increases will Virginia Senate. I served three terms Additional options include: ensure that much needed resources are in the U.S. House of Representatives Interest on the trust fund cash bal- in place to help meet our Nation’s stag- before joining the Senate roughly 45 ance—$3 billion plus; gering surface transportation needs. years ago. Over all those years, I have Fuel Tax Evasion Measures—$6 bil- The Transportation Equity Act for been called on to vote on thousands of lion; the 21st Century, TEA–21, expires on amendments. As such, I learned a long Lost interest on the $8.1 billion September 30, 2003, and as we move for- time ago to take careful note, not just transfer—$2 billion; ward, it is important that we maintain of the substance of each amendment, Retroactive Interest on TEA–21 cash our commitment to improving the na- but also who is offering it. balance, 1991–2003, $4.5 billion; tion’s transportation systems. I believe As such, I ask all Senators to take Bonding—$30 billion, American Asso- it is critical that we invest signifi- careful note of the principal cosponsors ciation of State Highway Officials; cantly in transportation funding in of this amendment. They include the Clinton Gas Tax Increase Paid into order to address the growing demand chairman and ranking member of the General Fund—over $40 billion. for new and safer roads and new and Environment and Public Works Com- On this last option, I realize it is not better transit systems for all commu- mittee; the chairman and ranking feasible, but that doe not take away nities. Our transportation systems con- member of that committee’s Sub- the fact that this money belongs to the nect America. committee on Surface Transportation; highway trust fund. Continued investment in these areas the chairman and ranking member of Added together, these ideas generate helps to relieve congestion, stimulate the Banking, Housing and Urban Af- more than enough to offset the in- the economy, improve productivity and fairs Committee; the ranking member creased spending proposed by this generally enhance the quality and safe- of the Appropriations Committee; and, amendment. ty of our highways and transit sys- the chairman and ranking member of Again, I oppose deficit spending and tems. the Transportation Appropriations will not ask my colleagues to do so. If Federal, State and local investment Subcommittee. I did not believe that there was a way in our nations’ transportation infra- What unites all these Senators is an to get this spending without increasing structure is vitally important to a acute knowledge of the challenges that the deficit, I would not be down here growing economy. The U.S. Chamber of stand in front of us as we seek to reau- today asking you to vote for it. Person- Commerce has estimated that each $1 thorize the TEA–21 law. What also ally, I support across the board cuts to billion invested in transportation cre- unites us is an acute knowledge of the pay for the amendment, but again, I ates 47,500 jobs. true needs of our transportation sys- recognize others do not share my feel- Additionally, the Federal investment tem, whether it is the need to renew ings on this and so I have given several that we are proposing today will lever- our aging highway infrastructure or very viable options from which to age State and local dollars, as well as expand the capacity of our mass tran- choose. generate significant private invest- sit systems. While we are required to Finally, I realize that in times of eco- ment in local communities all over reauthorize every 6 years, many of us nomic downturn and the war, Senators this country. face these issues every year. Indeed, are hesitant to further increase spend- This amendment provides additional both Senators BOND and REID, in addi- ing. I don’t think my reputation resources necessary to maintain the tion to their authorizing responsibil- around here is that of someone who gains that have been made in mass ities, serve with me on Senator SHEL- goes out of his way to increase govern- transportation and highway infrastruc- BY’s and Senator MURRAY’s Transpor- ment spending. I would hope that most ture development. Recognizing these tation Appropriations Subcommittee. recognize that I am a strong advocate benefits, since 1982, transit has been al- Just last month, we all worked to- of slowing down the rate of government located 20 percent of all new surface gether to reject the Bush administra- spending and in most cases I favor cut- transportation funding. This amend- tion’s attempt to cut highway spending ting spending. In this instance, I be- ment will assure that this balance in by some $8.6 billion. We were successful lieve it is the right thing to increase funding between highways and mass in restoring almost every penny of that spending because we cannot strengthen transit is continued. cut. our economy unless we have an effi- Under this amendment, in fiscal year But when we assess the current con- cient transportation system. In order 2009, transit would be allocated 20 per- ditions of our highway system and the to improve our transportation system cent of total amount of highway and growing demands our society places on we need to invest significantly more transit funding. This is particularly that system, each one of us knows that than is assumed by this budget resolu- important because we have seen evi- holding steady at the current level of tion. dence that improvements in mass tran- funding is simply not adequate. And Today’s vote is the first step in draft- sit have stimulated economic growth that is what brings this bipartisan ing a bill that will govern how and and enhanced the quality of life for group of Senators to the floor today. where our transportation dollars are millions of Americans. Together, we are offering an amend- spent. If we short change ourselves This amendment provides funding to ment to substantially boost our level today we won’t get a bill that improves assure that the highway and transit in- of investment in both highways and transportation or adds to the national frastructure is in place to allow our mass transit. And we ask all Senators economy. I ask you give the Environ- economy to continue to grow. I urge to join with us in this effort.

VerDate Dec 13 2002 01:26 Mar 22, 2003 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00021 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A20MR6.139 S20PT2 S4130 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE March 20, 2003 In a just a few weeks time, the Envi- Reid amendment to ensure that we in- 21st Century also known as the TEA–21. ronment and Public Works Committee vest in our transportation infrastruc- This bill includes resources not just for and the Banking Committee will begin ture. highways, but for highway safety and in earnest to draft their portions of the Time and again, in our daily lives mass transit. This will be an enormous surface transportation bill. During and in the news we hear and see that task for four separate Senate author- that time, I expect that each of my fel- our Nation’s roads and transit systems izing committees and will require a low Senators will be approaching the are crowded. On our way to work or on great deal of resources if we are to be chairman and ranking member of these our way to visit family, we spend able to develop a consensus package committees to articulate the most countless hours stuck in traffic or that will get on and off the Senate critical transportation needs for their waiting for a bus. floor. states. For some Senators, their focus But this congestion is more than just What we do in this budget resolution will be deteriorating highway bridges; a personal inconvenience. Indeed, we will set the stage for TEA–21 reauthor- for others it will be alternative fuel know from studies by the Texas Trans- ization and demonstrate to the Amer- buses, or the widening of existing high- portation Institute and others that ican people just how committed we are ways or the construction of new high- traffic congestion costs our economy to investing in our nation’s transpor- ways. Some Senators will be focused on $67.5 billion every year. That’s billions tation infrastructure; to reducing con- the need to provide seismic retrofits of in lost productivity. gestion and improving the environment bridges near earthquake faults while Sadly, the budget resolution before in our cities; to making our transpor- other Senators will be looking for new us fails to provide the resources needed tation system safer; and to putting commuter rail lines or even ferry ter- to meet these demands. It even fails to people back to work. Simply put, the minals. meet the level of funding that the ad- budget resolution as currently written No matter what the transportation ministration’s own Department of simply doesn’t do enough. needs are in their State, I implore each Transportation believes are necessary The amendment before us would in- and every Senator to reflect seriously if one reads the DoT’s report on the crease the highway program to $255 bil- on these needs before they come to the conditions and performance of our Na- lion and the transit program to $56.5 floor and vote against this amendment. tion’s highways and transit systems. billion over the next 6 years. The Fed- Much has been said over the last Fortunately, the bipartisan amend- eral Highway Administration’s own week about the need for this budget ment offered by the Senate’s leaders on ‘‘Conditions and Performance Report’’ resolution to be based on the true transportation policy would ensure states that in order to improve our budgetary realities that we face as a that we have the resources to maintain aging transportation infrastructure we nation. We need to focus on the real and modernize our roads, bridges, and should be investing an additional $42 world cost of the war. We need to focus transit systems. billion in highways and bridges and $20 on the real costs of a meaningful pre- By providing a total of $255 billion billion in mass transit each year. scription drug benefit for our Medicare for highways and $56.5 billion for tran- The benefits of increasing transpor- recipients. sit, this amendment makes sure we tation funding are multifaceted. First Here are some other real world facts have the resources to repair aging and most importantly, increased trans- that we must attend to: bridges and improve transit service. portation investment will help stimu- Approximately 30 percent of the Last year, as the chairman of the late our struggling economy since bridges along our Nation’s highway subcommittee with jurisdiction over every billion dollars of highway fund- system are either structurally defi- our Nation’s transit programs, we ing generates 47,500 jobs and every dol- cient or functionally obsolete. heard repeatedly from witnesses who lar in transit investment generates $6 It would require $42 billion more in represented transit systems of all sizes more in economic returns. I don’t know annual investment to actually make from all over the country about the about your State, but in my home progress to improve the conditions of success of TEA–21. When I asked why State of Washington, we can use every our Nation’s highways. Put another TEA–21 was successful, every witness bit of economic stimulus that we can way, if we continue as a nation to pro- had the same answer: resources. It was get because Washington State was vide only inflationary increases in the the resources that brought fast, envi- ranked either first or second in the Na- current rate of highway spending, the ronmentally sound transit to growing tion’s unemployment rate for much of condition of our Nation’s highways will cities like Denver and helped transit the last two years and we have lost a just continue to deteriorate. attain the highest growth rate of any staggering 74,000 jobs in the last 18 These are not the observations of mode of transportation. This amend- months. ROBERT C. BYRD—they are the observa- ment will ensure that we continue this Second, improving our nation’s high- tions of the Bush administration’s own success. ways and transit systems will also report on the Condition and Perform- In addition, during a time of eco- mean that Americans will spend less ance of our National Transportation nomic uncertainty, this amendment time in traffic and more time with System. means jobs and a great stimulus to our their families and loved ones. And the We must face these realities head on economy. Indeed, an estimated 47,000 people of Washington State—particu- as we draft the next surface transpor- well-paying jobs are created for each $1 larly in the Everett to Seattle cor- tation bill. And to do so, we are going billion we invest in transportation. ridor—know something about conges- to need more resources—far more re- I want to thank my colleagues, Sen- tion and the toll it takes on family life sources than are called for under the ators BOND, REID, SHELBY, and SAR- and the pocketbook since this area is budget resolution we are currently de- BANES, for their leadership on this ranked third in the nation in conges- bating. amendment. I look forward to its pas- tion. Nationwide, the value of travel So I urge all Senators to join with sage and preservation in conference delay and wasted fuel that occurs in me and the leadership of both the with the House. congested traffic is estimated at over transportation authorizing committees Mrs. MURRAY. Mr. President, a few $67 billion annually. and the transportation appropriations days ago I spoke about the serious con- And finally, every year over 40,000 subcommittee in setting us on a path cerns I had with the budget resolution Americans die on our Nation’s roads where we can make meaningful im- that was proposed by the new majority. and highways—we need to continue to provements to our highway and transit One of the areas where the resolution invest in transportation to make sure systems. I commend the bipartisan before us falls woefully short is trans- our infrastructure is safe; that trucks leadership of the transportation au- portation funding. We have an oppor- and vehicles meet safety standards; thorizing committees and I intend to tunity before us to increase funding for and that Americans drive responsibly stand with them as we seek to advance Federal highway and transit programs by wearing their seatbelts and without the cause of our Nation’s mobility and by adopting the Bond/Reid amendment. the influence of drugs or alcohol. prosperity. As all Senators know, this year the We have much work ahead of us as Mr. REED. Mr. President, I want to Congress is scheduled to reauthorize we move forward with TEA–21 reau- voice my strong support for the Bond- the Transportation Equity Act for the thorization. We have an opportunity to

VerDate Dec 13 2002 01:26 Mar 22, 2003 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00022 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G20MR6.189 S20PT2 March 20, 2003 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S4131 help our economy by creating good allow Congress to fund important surface transportation system for the transportation jobs and to improve the transportation components—such as next decide and beyond. The decisions quality of life for millions of Ameri- intelligent transportation systems—to we make will be critically important cans by ensuring that we have a trans- better monitor and move people during to our Nation’s future economic portation system that is safe and effi- rush hours, and during emergencies. strength, the quality of our environ- cient. I urge my colleagues to support This is real economic stimulus. More ment, and our national security. the Bond-Reid amendment. than anything else we are doing. Therefore, as we consider this budget Mr. REID. I ask unanimous consent These funds can also be used to facili- resolution, and engage in the debate that Senator BEN NELSON be added as a tate secure and efficient international about how best to use our limited Fed- cosponsor. border crossings and fund administra- eral resources, I believe it is appro- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without tion security proposals. priate to take a few moments to con- objection, it is so ordered. This will be important for States sider what is contained in this budget Mr. CONRAD. Mr. President, the sharing borders with Canada or Mexico, resolution, what this amendment seeks Senator from Vermont is seeking time. such as my home State of Vermont. to accomplish, and the importance of I propose that he take 15 minutes off President Eisenhower saw our high- our surface transportation system for the amendment of the Senator from ways as important to the national de- America’s future. Missouri. fense—and the economy—and it ap- Unfortunately, the budget resolution The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- pears that this Administration will before us does not come close to mak- ator from Vermont off of which amend- recommend provisions to the Congress ing the necessary investment in sur- ment? which they see as critical. face transportation. Instead, the budg- Mr. CONRAD. The Bond amendment. A report by the Nation’s State trans- et as written would actually cut the The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Bond portation official found that Federal, highway program next year, grow fund- amendment is not pending. State, and local governments must sig- ing somewhat the following year, and Mr. CONRAD. I don’t think it makes nificantly increase investment in high- then flat-line the program for the re- much difference. Does it make a dif- ways and bridges to improve safety en- mainder of the authorization period. ference to you, Mr. Chairman? I took hance security relieve congestion, and The budget’s numbers for transit call Senator BOND’s time off the resolution. protect bridges and harbors. for annual increases below the Presi- I am not sure it makes much dif- According to that national study, we dent’s projected rate of inflation, not ference, whichever one is top on your must invest $92 billion annually to just to mention the projected ridership list there. to maintain current conditions, and growth. This budget calls for only $206 The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without improving the system’s conditions and billion for highways and $46 billion for objection, it is so ordered. The Senator from Vermont. performance would cost $125 billion an- transit over the next 6 years, far less Mr. JEFFORDS. Mr. President, I rise nually. than what is needed. I am deeply con- in support of the Bond-Reid transpor- This bipartisan amendment will in- cerned that this budget would move us tation amendment. This is probably crease the highway program to $255 bil- backward, not forward, in our efforts the most important amendment we lion over the next 6 years and will pro- to meet the mobility needs of the Na- will vote on in the next few days, as far portionately increase transit invest- tion. This amendment would grow these as really doing something meaningful ments to $56.5 billion. programs by $49 billion and $10.5 billion to our economy. This amendment will thus signifi- I urge my colleagues to vote in favor cantly increase the number of well- respectively over what is included in of the bipartisan Bond-Reid amend- paying construction jobs and improve the budget resolution, increasing in- ment on transportation offered by the the safety and security of our citizens. vestment in our highway program to chairman of the Transportation Sub- This amendment is the first step to- $255 billion over the next 6 years, and ward a strong bipartisan effort to revi- committee—Senator BOND—and the our transit program to $56.5 billion. By talize our Nation’s economy through ranking member, Senator HARRY REID growing our investment, we will not and myself. investments in transportation. only help to preserve and maintain the I appreciate the strong leadership in The spending that we authorize systems that we have in place, we will this effort provided on the Republican today will help Vermont and all our begin to make progress toward im- side by Senators INHOFE, BOND, SHELBY States, keep pace with road and bridge provement. Further, by the end of the and many others. repair, transit demand and improved next reauthorization cycle, surface On the Democrat side, Senator, safety and security needs. We will sup- transportation investment will reach HARRY REID has done a tremendous job. plement this spending by attracting its goal of a 4 to 1 balance between I want to note that Senator SARBANES private capital to expand freight capac- highways and transit. This goal was es- has taken the lead on transit with Sen- ity and relieve congestion. tablished in TEA–21, and this amend- ator SHELBY. I hope we can pass this amendment ment reaffirms that decision. The Bond-Reid amendment will allow with the support of all of my col- The transportation needs of this Na- the Congress to write a strong trans- leagues. tion are significant, as more and more portation bill which, in part, can ad- I yield the floor. communities find themselves con- dress many of the administration’s Mr. SARBANES. Mr. President, as fronting the problems of traffic conges- ideas for enhancing the mobility and ranking member of the Senate Com- tion and delay. According to the Texas security of our transportation modes. mittee on Banking, Housing and Urban Transportation Institute, in the year The chairman of the full EPW Com- Affairs, which was jurisdiction over the 2000, Americans in 75 urban areas spent mittee, Chairman INHOFE, supports this Federal transit program, I am pleased 3.6 billion hours stuck in traffic, with effort, as do I as ranking member of to join in this effort with Chairman an estimated cost to the nation of $67.5 the EPW Committee. SHELBY and Senator JACK REED, rank- billion in lost time and wasted fuel. As The chairman and ranking member ing member of the Housing and Trans- these figures show, congestion has a of the Banking Committee, Senators portation Subcommittee, as well as my real economic cost to the nation, in ad- SHELBY and SARBANES, with jurisdic- colleagues on the Enviroment and Pub- dition to the psychological and social tion over transit issues, also support lic Works Committee, Senators BOND, costs of spending hours each day sit- this amendment. REID, INHOFE, and JEFFORDS, and my ting in traffic. It is clear that we must This amendment allows us to en- other colleagues who support this im- increase the capacity of our transpor- hance the security of our vital trans- portant amendment. tation infrastructure to handle the portation networks, to better protect As has already been noted, the Trans- growing demands for mobility of both against the unexpected, and to enhance portation Equity Act for the 21st Cen- people and goods to keep our economy the mobility of our citizens and com- tury, known as TEA–21, will expire on moving. merce. September 30 of this year. This Con- Investment in our transportation in- This amendment will also create gress will have the opportunity to craft frastructure has other economic bene- hundreds of thousands of jobs and legislation that will shape America’s fits as well. According to the U.S.

VerDate Dec 13 2002 01:26 Mar 22, 2003 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00023 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A20MR6.155 S20PT2 S4132 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE March 20, 2003 Chamber of Commerce, each $1 billion made by transit operators on that day cans. In Montana, its our lifeblood. We invested in transportation infrastruc- to move thousands of people quickly count on highway money for our eco- ture creates 47,500 jobs. At a time when and safely out of city centers. As more nomic development and we count on our economy is struggling, investing in and more Americans are using public transit money to give our rural areas transportation is one of the smartest transportation, it is clear that transit access to goods and services and peo- actions that government can take. In- must be a vital component of any ple. creased investment creates jobs today city’s evacuation plan. In 1998 Congress passed one of the and leads to economic growth tomor- While September 11 showed the im- most successful and bipartisan bills in row. portance of transit in responding to an recent memory—the ‘‘Transportation Let me take a few moments to focus emergency, it also raised our aware- Equity Act for the 21st Century’’, bet- on the transit program, which I have a ness of the unique challenges transit ter known as ‘‘TEA–21.’’ I am honored particular interest in as the ranking faces in the safety and security area, as to have been an author of that piece of member of the Banking Committee. several witnesses discussed. Transit legislation and I look forward to work- During the last Congress, that Com- agencies are taking great pains to im- ing on the next reauthorization act. mittee, along with the Housing and prove the security of their systems, but TEA–21 passed overwhelmingly in Transportation Subcommittee, chaired these efforts are not without cost. 1997 because there was a 40 percent in- by my colleague Senator REED, held a It is clear to me that we will have to crease, on average, in funding. So, even series of eight hearings to begin laying greatly increase Federal support for if some states got a lower percentage of the groundwork for the reauthoriza- transportation to help local commu- funds than their neighbor, everyone tion. What those hearings clearly dem- nities make the investments in infra- brought home more dollars than under onstrated is that investing in transpor- structure and system preservation that ISTEA. That 40 percent increase was tation, particularly public transpor- will be required to move America into primarily derived by the transfer of the tation, pays off in terms of economic, the 21st century. The Department of 4.3 cent gas tax from the general fund environmental, and mobility benefits Transportation has identified $14 bil- to the Highway Trust Fund, the new for our nation. lion per year in capital needs simply to budgetary treatment for highways and TEA–21’s increased investment in maintain the conditions and perform- the ‘‘protected’’ status of the Highway transit stimulated a surge in transit ance of our transit systems—$20 billion Trust Fund. ridership. As Federal Transit Adminis- is needed to improve conditions and We are hoping to build on the success trator Jennifer Dorn testified last performance. Other estimates show an of TEA–21 by ensuring that our Budget April: ‘‘Transit has experienced the even greater need. A report by the Na- Resolution can accommodate higher highest percentage of ridership growth tion’s State transportation officials es- levels of spending for highways and among all modes of surface transpor- timated that an annual investment of transit. These higher levels of spending tation, growing over 28 percent be- $19 billion is needed just to maintain will enable the successor to TEA–21 to tween 1993 and 2001.’’ our transit systems at their current become law. In order to pass a TEA–21 reauthor- Of course, the benefits of TEA–21’s levels, and $44 billion would be needed ization bill, we will need more money. investment are broader than increased to improve conditions and perform- Increasing funds into the Highway ridership. The economic development ance. According to the same study, al- Trust Fund is the sole responsibility of impact of transit is becoming more and most $100 billion is needed annually the Senate Finance Committee. Sen- more apparent as new systems have just to maintain the current condition ator GRASSLEY and I have been work- come into service under TEA–21. For of our nation’s roads and bridges. Fail- ing very hard to find ways to increase example, the Banking Committee ure to make the needed investment funding for both highways and transit. heard testimony that over $1 billion will result in the continued deteriora- We are absolutely committed to grow- has been invested in private develop- tion of our existing infrastructure. ing the programs without raising ment along Dallas’s existing and future As we debate the priorities of this taxes. light rail lines, raising nearby property Nation in the context of this Budget I can’t emphasize enough that the values and supporting thousands of Resolution, I urge my colleagues to be single principal feature of any new jobs. We learned that BellSouth relo- mindful of a comment that Dr. Beverly highway reauthorization bill has to be cated almost ten thousand employees Scott, then General Manager of the its increased funding for the program, from scattered sites in suburban At- Rhode Island Public Transportation something that will help all States and lanta to three downtown buildings near Authority, made before the Banking all citizens. Our first step is this blue- MARTA rail stations, in part because, Committee on April 25, 2002, regarding print for our budget. in the words of BellSouth Vice Presi- the reauthorization of TEA–21. Dr. The Finance Committee believes that dent Herschel Abbott, commuting by Scott said: ‘‘As Americans, mobility is the levels included in this amendment transit ‘‘saves employees time. It saves one of the greatest and most precious to the Budget Resolution can be employees money. It saves wear and freedoms that we enjoy. This basic cor- reached. $255 billion for Highways and tear on the employees’ spirit.’’ And nerstone of American life—who can or $56.5 billion for transit over 6 years can that has real returns for their em- cannot get from place to place, how we be achieved without raising taxes. I ployer. plan and conduct our daily lives, the know this because over the past 3 Transit is about more than our eco- choices we make about what we do, and months finding this money has been a nomic life; it is also about our quality even more importantly, what we can priority for myself and my chairman, of life. During the Committee’s hear- do—are hanging in the balance.’’ That Senator GRASSLEY. ings, we heard a great deal about the is what is at stake here. This Congress Let me sum up by saying that the importance of transit to our senior will shape the future of transportation Senate Finance Committee has the re- citizens, young people, the disabled, in American, which will have a very sponsibility to figure out how to grow and others who rely on transit for their real impact on every one of our citi- the highway and transit programs. We daily mobility needs. Several of our zens. Passage of this amendment is es- believe that we can come up with in- witnesses observed that the increased sential if we are to keep America mov- creased funding for both highways and investment in transit and paratransit ing. I urge my colleagues to join me in transit. We can do it without raising services under TEA–21 has provided the supporting it. taxes. This amendment gives us the crucial link between home and a job, a Mr. BAUCUS. Mr. President, I rise room to achieve that. school, or a doctor’s office, for millions today to support the amendment to in- I urge all my colleagues on both sides of people who might otherwise have crease highway and transit spending of the aisle to vote yes for increased in- been unable to participate fully in the levels in the budget resolution. vestment in infrastructure. I say both life of their communities. Increasing transportation spending is sides of the aisle because, as I’ve said And transit can be a lifetime in other an important objective. Highway in- in the past, there are no Democratic ways as well, as we discovered on Sep- vestments create jobs, increase the roads or Republican bridges. We will all tember 11, 2001. We heard testimony productivity of our economy, and im- benefit from this investment. We during our hearings about the efforts prove the quality of life for all Ameri- should all support it.

VerDate Dec 13 2002 01:26 Mar 22, 2003 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00024 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A20MR6.147 S20PT2 March 20, 2003 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S4133 The PRESIDING OFFICER. Who As the Senator from Missouri has in- along with a bipartisan group of eight sen- yields time? dicated with his charts, safety is still a ators have proposed to the Senate Budget Mr. REID. Mr. President, being au- serious problem. When 45,000 people a Resolution is critical to Nevada’s continued thorized by the ranking member of the year are being killed on the roads, I economic vitality. As you know, our state has experienced the committee, I will speak on the amend- think that says it all. In addition to largest growth rate in the nation. The popu- ment that is almost pending, we the people who are killed, we have peo- lation of Nevada is currently estimated to thought it was pending, whatever. ple who are paraplegic, quadriplegic, grow to 2.44 million residents by 2005, a 64% The PRESIDING OFFICER. The people who are hurt in many different increase from 1994. These new residents have Democratic whip. ways in automobile accidents that are put unprecedented demands on Nevada’s Mr. REID. The Bond amendment. caused because of unsafe highways. transportation infrastructure. This is a really fantastic proposal of According to the Department of The federal highway and transit programs the Senator from Missouri. It is spon- Transportation, our Nation’s fatality have been critical in our ability to meet sored by the chairman of the com- these demands. While we could not have kept rate per million vehicle miles traveled pace with our transportation needs without mittee, Senator INHOFE; the ranking has decreased, but the number of fa- the federal program, Nevada has not shirked member, Senator JEFFORDS; the chair- talities has increased, with the dis- its responsibilities either. Nevada’s revenue man of the subcommittee on transpor- proportionate share of these occurring derived from our own citizens has risen from tation, Senator BOND; the ranking on rural roads. We really do not give $279.5 million to $365.7 million in 2002. This member of the subcommittee, the Sen- any attention to speak of to rural 31% increase in revenue from state sources is ator from Nevada; the chairman of the roads. in addition to the $234.7 million Nevada re- full Banking Committee which handles In addition to the personal tragedy ceived in federal funds in 2002. Nevada’s local jurisdictions have stepped up to the plate transit matters, Senator SHELBY; the associated with traffic accidents, acci- with self-imposed taxes to supplement the ranking member of the Banking Com- dents cost an estimated $137 billion per state and federal contribution, as well. Just mittee, Senator SARBANES; and many year in property losses, losses in pro- this past year Washoe and Clark County vot- others. ductivity, and medical costs. ers approved increased local taxes to pay for I thank my friend from Missouri, System maintenance costs do not in- transportation needs. Senator BOND, for his work on this clude the cost to improve the system’s Under TEA–21 Nevada has experienced a amendment. He has shown great lead- access and mobility to allow for the ef- steady increase in federal funds that has ership. I am pleased to join him in ficient and timely flow of citizens and kept pace with our own contributions. With- sponsoring this bipartisan highway and out similar expansion under the coming re- commerce throughout the country. authorization bill we will fall behind, endan- transit amendment. America’s congestion problems con- gering our economic future with clogged This amendment represents an im- tinue to get worse. The Texas Trans- highways, compromised traffic safety, and portant step in the reauthorization of portation Institute estimates this year decreased air quality. the country’s surface transportation residents in the top 75 metropolitan Thank you again for your support of Ne- system. We made significant gains over areas will lose more than 3.6 billion vada’s transportation needs. the life of TEA–21, and we must keep hours due to traffic congestion and $67 Sincerely, this momentum as we move forward. billion in wasted time and fuel. KENNY C. GUINN, Despite these gains in TEA–21, there is The problems in Washington, DC, are Governor. much that remains to be done. legendary, but as a result of the man Mr. REID. Mr. President, I indicated This budget debate is about choices, with the tractor in the reflecting pool, that the chairman of the Banking Com- and I understand that. I also under- it took one of my friends traveling mittee, Senator SHELBY, and the rank- stand that we need to prioritize given from over the bridge in Virginia 21⁄2 ing member, Senator SARBANES, have these perilous times. I firmly believe hours to get to work because of the also approved this legislation. The rea- that a well-maintained transportation added congestion because of the tractor son they do so is because they are re- infrastructure is a foundation for a in the reflecting pool. Traffic in Wash- sponsible for the transit aspect of the healthy, vibrant national economy. ington, DC, and the rest of the country highway bill. Our Nation’s surface transportation is in deep trouble. In years past, we divided the money system is critical to the free flow of The Governor of the State of Nevada, we get on highways; 20 percent of it ba- citizens and the free flow of commerce. a friend of mine by the name of Kenny sically goes to transit. Why? For every This amendment adds an additional Guinn, has written a letter dated yes- person who is riding on a train, that is $50 billion for highways and $10 billion terday. He is a Republican Governor. that much less traffic congestion and for transit over the next 6 years. The He supports this amendment. It is im- burden on our highways. It has worked Federal Highway Administration’s 2002 portant because the population of the well for decades. We need to continue Conditions and Performance Report es- State of Nevada has increased during that. timates that the annual Federal in- the past 10 years by 64 percent, and this This amendment recognizes addi- vestment in roads must increase by 17 problem is going to continue to grow. tional highway capacity alone will not percent per year simply to maintain We in Nevada are not depending on solve the problems of congestion; the Nation’s existing highway and the Federal Government alone to sat- therefore, we should provide Americans bridge system. isfy the needs of highways. In fact, the with other transportation options such I will not take a lot of time, but the State of Nevada spends more by some as transit. It is part of important con- Senator from Louisiana, who is on the $40 million than the Federal Govern- gestion relief. It is also a lifeline for floor, has brought to my office on two ment. This is very rare. The Governor millions of Americans to health care, separate occasions people from Lou- of the State of Nevada fully endorses to jobs, and to schools. isiana who have desperate needs for this amendment. Nevada is an example. Ten years ago, transportation improvement. It is crit- I ask unanimous consent that the for us to talk about needing transit ical that we get more money for pro- letter dated March 19 from Gov. Kenny money would have been unheard of. grams that can meet the demands of Guinn, be printed in the RECORD. But now we are badly in need of it. We the folks from Louisiana and the folks There being no objection, the mate- are building the only commercial mon- from Nevada. It can only be done if this rial was ordered to be printed in the orail that will go from the airport up amendment is adopted. I hope it does. RECORD, as follows: and down the strip which will save mil- Improving the system will cost more OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR, lions of hours in travel time and make than the report of the estimates of Las Vegas, NV, March 19, 2003. it a much easier trip from the airport Federal investment of roads needing to Hon. HARRY REID, to the many vacation spots along the be increased by 17 percent. This admin- Assistant Minority Leader, S–321, The Capitol, Las Vegas strip and downtown. istration calculates current Federal in- Washington, DC. We have duty to every American to DEAR SENATOR REID: I am writing to ex- vestment must increase by as much as press my support for your efforts to increase invest in a balanced transportation 65 percent to basically improve our funding for the federal highway and transit system. That is what this amendment Federal infrastructure as it relates to program to $255 billion and $55 billion over is about. I ask for the support of the highway. the next five years. The amendment you Senate. This is a bipartisan measure,

VerDate Dec 13 2002 01:26 Mar 22, 2003 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00025 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G20MR6.207 S20PT2 S4134 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE March 20, 2003 and I hope it has a strong bipartisan lion to the underlying budget resolu- in the full Spectrum of Operations. Readi- vote tomorrow. I appreciate very much tion providing an extra billion dollars ness is our focus as we stretch every dollar the Senator from North Dakota yield- of the $400 billion that is in the budget to maximize efficiency and effectiveness. The Fiscal Year 2004 Budget Request sup- ing me the time. for defense. So it is a minor increase in ports peacetime operational levels and pro- The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. the scheme of things but very impor- vides $5.514B to train, educate, and prepare COLEMAN). The Senator from Okla- tant to the beneficiaries of this amend- military personnel (MPA Budget Activity 8); homa. ment. $4.211B in operations and training support; Mr. NICKLES. Mr. President, I am Those beneficiaries, of course, are all and $168M for construction acquisition, and going to speak on both the economic the citizens of the United States, the rehabilitation of facilities. This request rep- package and the highway bill, but I see citizens of Iraq, and the citizens of our resents a program (above cost and price in- my friend and colleague from Lou- coalition, as well as the people it di- creases) of $102.2M or 1.9% in the MPA BA 8 appropriation; a program decrease of $125M isiana. Does she wish to speak? rectly affects, which are the Guard and or ¥3.0% in the Operations and Maintenance Ms. LANDRIEU. I wish to offer an Reserve, Guard and Reserve members Army National Guard (OMNG) appropria- amendment. who have been called up to stand tion; and a program decrease of $73M or Mr. NICKLES. We will be happy to alongside the Active Duty. ¥30% in the Military Construction Army have you discuss it, but prefer you not I ask unanimous consent to have sev- National Guard (MCNG) appropriation. send it to the desk immediately. eral letters printed in the RECORD. The Department has focused resources on I yield to my friend and colleague be- There being no objection, the mate- Operations & Maintenance, Collective Train- fore speaking. rial was ordered to be printed in the ing and Sustainment Restoration Mainte- nance (SRM) and has taken risk in Base Op- Mr. CONRAD. Will the Senator yield RECORD, as follows: erations. Within Pay and Allowances the for a moment so I can thank the Sen- Hon. IKE SKELTON, budget provides for the statutory require- ator for his courtesy in doing that? House of Representatives, Washington, DC. ments for Inactive Duty Training and An- That is a gracious act, especially at DEAR CONGRESSMAN SKELTON: In response nual Training, continued progress towards this time of night. I appreciate it very to your letter of 29 January 2003, we are pro- the goal of 85% Duty MOSQ, and Special much. viding a combined Navy and Marine Corps Training to bring ARNG capabilities in sup- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Who list of our unfunded ‘‘Naval’’ programs to port of the Combatant Commanders. which additional funding could be applied. yields time to the Senator from Lou- The Army National Guard has received re- While we are grateful for and have benefited cent increases in our Total Obligation Au- isiana? from the increased resources recently pro- thority. We are grateful to the Congress and Mr. CONRAD. I yield time. vided by the President and the Congress, to the Army for these increases, proving that The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- there still remain additional shortfalls that we are all part of the same team. However, ator from Louisiana. are detailed herein. much remains to be done. There are several Ms. LANDRIEU. I thank the Chair. The Department’s FY 2004 Budget con- specific requirements that must be met in Mr. President, I rise to discuss an tinues to focus on our new defense strategy order to continue to keep our soldiers ready amendment I plan to offer. First, I and emergent challenges of the 21st Century. as the Global War on Terrorism continues. The resources contained in this budget go far Attached are lists of our top personnel, read- thank the leadership, particularly the in helping both services to maintain height- Senator from Oklahoma for his gra- iness and transformation shortfalls and our ened readiness in uncertain times, to provide top twenty-five equipment needs. cious yielding because the time is get- further investment in transformational pro- The nation asks a grant deal of its citizen- ting very late tonight and there are grams, and to take care of our Sailors, Ma- soldiers. Before we put them in harm’s way, other colleagues on the floor who wish rines and their families. However, the road it is our responsibility to ensure that our to speak briefly on some amendments to attaining our shipbuilding and aircraft soldiers receive the best possible training, about which they feel strongly. As we procurement program goals remains excep- are maneuvering in the most current aircraft try to offer these amendments and tionally challenging. Additionally, the Glob- and armored combat vehicles, and are armed al War on Terrorism and current operations state our case, we realize these votes with the most lethal weapons systems. Our incident to the Iraqi question continue to ability to be ready when called upon by the will take place tomorrow. I thank my stretch our resources in many areas. American people is, and will always be, our colleague from Oklahoma for his lead- For FY 2004, Naval unfunded programs top priority and our bottom line. ership and my colleague from North total $6.5 billion. These unfunded items are ROGER C. SCHULTZ, Dakota. listed under Enclosure (1) for Navy programs Lieutenant General, First, I have somewhat mixed feel- and Enclosure (2) for Marine Corps programs. Director, Army National Guard. ings about offering this amendment or As you know, the items identified on these any amendment tonight. I was in the lists are important to the long-term efficacy SECRETARY OF THE AIR FORCE, of our Navy/Marine corps Team. minority of Senators who believed we Washington, February 21, 2003. If we may be of any further assistance, Hon. JOHN W. WARNER, should have taken a break from this please let us know. Chairman, Committee on Armed Services, discussion at least for the next couple Sincerely, U.S. Senate, Washington, DC. of days as this war is raging in Iraq. VERN CLARK, DEAR MR. CHAIRMAN: The Department’s Literally, as we speak, all, I would ven- Admiral, U.S. Navy, FY04 budget reflects an efficient and effec- ture to say, of the television sets in Chief of Naval Oper- tive investment of resources designed to sus- this Nation and many around the world ations. tain our forces and enhance our capabilities MICHAEL W. HAGEE, and radios and Internet communica- for the future. The budget will help fight and General, U.S. Marine win the war against terrorism, continue tion are focused on this extraordinary Corps, Commandant transforming the service to meet the chal- undertaking that is underway as we of the Marine Corps. lenges of this century, and provide for re- speak and 250,000 of our finest citizens cruiting and retaining of a quality fighting are mobilized and en route—land EXECUTIVE SUMMARY force to meet the commitments of this na- forces, air forces—in the battle. I was The Army National Guard (ARNG) plays a tion. We need your support for these objec- hoping we could take some time and key role in the defense of our Nation. Wheth- tives and for the budget we have proposed to come back to this early next week er responding to Combatant Commander’s achieve these goals. The Unfunded Priority when we had a better sense. But as the requirements worldwide, answering our Na- List (UPL) that I forward today com- tion’s Homeland Security requirements, or plements these objectives, but in no sense is Senate, in its will, decided to move for- helping communities respond to natural dis- an alternative to the fundamental priorities ward, I wanted to come forward and at asters, the Army National Guard remains an of our President’s Budget request. We ask least offer one amendment, not that all integral part of our Nation’s defense strat- that, as you consider the list, you remain the others are not significant and rel- egy. Citizen-soldiers of the ARNG are mindful of the context in which it is pre- evant and most certainly part of this trained, experienced, and motivated. Within sented. debate, but this particular amendment our ranks are some of the finest Americans Our list emphasizes programs already actually affects the lives, safety, equip- the country has to offer. In order to keep planned that can be brought forward plus a ment, and strategy of the war we are them trained and ready they require Full number of areas where additional investment Time Support (FTS), modernized equipment can be helpful. In any budget there is a need fighting. that is compatible with the active Army, up- to balance investment and thus to balance The amendment I hope to have voted to-date facilities to maintain equipment and risk, so there will always be areas where ad- on tomorrow and will discuss just train at, and additional training time and re- ditional funding can be effectively applied. briefly is very simple. It will add $1 bil- sources to remain relevant as a viable force With this in mind, we have been careful to

VerDate Dec 13 2002 01:26 Mar 22, 2003 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00026 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G20MR6.209 S20PT2 March 20, 2003 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S4135 assure that the list consists of proposals that budget to add a billion dollars for the because we are no longer fighting can be executed in a timely manner and that Guard and the Reserves. World War II. We have done that. We will not disrupt the program we have laid I have a couple of facts that might have been there. We did it and we won. out in the President’s Budget or the Future help people understand why this is so We are now fighting an international Years Defense Plan. For the military con- critical and why I really believe we struction entry, we have included an addi- war on terrorism and it takes quick tional list which provides the project detail. should—and hope we can do this in a mobility, lethal action, smart bombs, However, we do not address unbudgeted costs bipartisan way—take this positive strategic guidance missile systems, related to Operation Noble Eagle, Operation step. In 1990, there were 2.5 million men stealth, unmanned vehicles. It takes a Enduring Freedom, or other emerging costs and women in the Active Forces of the different makeup of our Armed Forces. of the Global War on Terrorism, recognizing United States. Today, there are only When we fought World War II, we had that a supplemental request which brings to- 1.4 million. The Reserve and Guard gether a Department-wide estimate is the make up a larger portion of our fight- months to get ready to fight. We had more appropriate vehicle for presenting ing force than ever before in the his- months to build up. Today, we do not these requirements. Finally, we have in- tory of the world. There are 860,000 men know where the attack is going to cluded two items that address the need we and women in the Guard and Reserve. come. It came to New York City on have to recapitalize our aging tanker force. September 11. It might come to Wash- We are in the process of working issues asso- They are from the States of my col- leagues, as well as my own State. We ington, DC, tomorrow morning. It ciated with a potential lease of tankers and might come to San Francisco next will inform the Congress of that outcome as all know and have people on our staffs, soon as it is decided. The list reflects the in our families, our neighbors, who week. We have to move immediately. costs required to implement that lease and signed up basically to be weekend sol- So we do not have the luxury of build- an alternative, if the lease is not approved, diers and weekend warriors, but they ing up for 12 months or 18 months as we that brings forward dollars to accelerate a have ended up being regular warriors did in New Orleans when for 2 years we buy of new tanker aircraft. because of the transformation that is built the best boats that were built We thank you for the opportunity to pro- occurring. The transformation is that that won World War II, the Higgins vide you our UPL. Our Armed Forces are boats. We do not have that luxury. winning the war on terrorism and through the Active and Reserve units of this your diligence and assistance we eagerly Nation are playing a vital role in our So we are restructuring our force in look forward to launching into the 2nd cen- protection, not just on the weekends, a wise and smart way, which is to say tury of powered air and space flight. not just in training but in the real-life that we will count on our Reserve A similar letter has been sent to the Rank- battles. They are as much a part of this units. They are not in the Active, so it ing Minority Member of your Committee. war that is underway tonight as our is a cost-effective way to keep our Sincerely, actives. strength up. We have to give them hel- JAMES G. ROCHE. As a member of the Armed Services mets and rifles. We have to give them Ms. LANDRIEU. It is shocking what Committee, I am mindful that we are helicopters that fly. We have to give has come to my attention as a former going through a great transformation them training dollars. member of the Armed Services Com- in our military. It is something that is mittee and now as a member of the Ap- supported in a bipartisan way and that We are underfunding our Guard and propriations Committee: The lack of this country supports. It is like trying Reserve. In fact, there are two units equipment, the lack of money in this to turn a large aircraft carrier around. that are actually in transit tonight, a budget to fund their current oper- It cannot be done right away. It cannot Virginia unit and a Georgia unit, and I ations. be done quickly, but if directions need ask unanimous consent to have this This amendment asks to take a bil- to be changed, that directional change printed in the RECORD. lion dollars away from a tax cut that I needs to be ratcheted so you can go in There being no objection, the mate- think could give an extra billion dol- a different direction. We are trying to rial was ordered to be printed in the lars and transfer that room in this move our forces in a different direction RECORD, as follows: STRATEGIC EQUIPMENT, WEAPONS, AND TECHNOLOGY NEEDS OF THE NATIONAL GUARD AND RESERVE SERVING IN AFGHANISTAN AND IRAQ

Service—System Cost

Air Force Reserve. WC–130J Radar—Upgrades Reserve Radar to specifications needed by Active forces ...... $50,000,000 F–16 LITENING II AT Upgrade Modification—Provides Reserve Tactical Fighters with same radar upgrades as active forces; reserve fighters flying same missions ...... 16,200,000 F–16 LITENING II AT Pod Procurement—Provides Reserve Tactical Fighters with same radar upgrades as active forces; reserve fighters flying same missions ...... 14,400,000 A–10 TARGETING PODS—Provides Reserve Tactical Fighters with same radar upgrades as active forces; reserve fighters flying same missions ...... 48,000,000 B–52 TARGETING PODS—Provides Reserve B–52s with same radar upgrades as active B–52s; performing same missions ...... 4,800,000 TACTICAL RADIOS—Provides radio upgrades for interoperability with active forces ...... 14,900,000 Land Mobile Radio Infrastructure ...... 12,000,000 Total ...... 160,300,000

Navy Reserve: VAW–78—EC–2 Squadron—Funding Prohibits decommissioning in FY05 of this currently deployed unit ...... 10,160,000 VFA–203—F/A–18 Squadron—Funding prohibits decommissioning in FY04 of this currently deployed unit ...... 20,110,000 Littoral Surveillance System—Procures one additional system to upgrade port surveillance by Navy Reserve ...... 14,500,000 F/A–18 Advanced Targeting FLIR—Procures radars for 5 squadrons to make compatible with Active Navy ...... 14,700,000 P–3 Aircraft Improvement Program (AIP)—Would upgrade 28 of 42 Reserve P–3s to have same capabilities as Actives; AIP allows P–3s to better operate against surface combatants and improve sur- veillance and targeting ...... 29,700,000 P–3 Block Modification Upgrade Program (BMUP)—Brings all Reserve P–3s into compliance with each other, not Actives—gives all Reserve P–3s similar computers and acoustics sensors ...... 33,000,000 F/A–18 ECP 560 Precision Guided Munitions Upgrade—Provides 1 Reserve F/A Squadron with precision guided munitions similar to Active F–18...... 33,240,000 CBR–D Equipment Storage and Logistics—Funds shortfall of 10,000 bio-chem suits for Navy Reservists ...... 8,000,000 Total ...... 163,410,000

Army Reserve: High Frequency Radios (Interoperability for Special Ops Reservists) ...... 57,138,816 M–4 Rifles ...... 1,200,000 M–16 Rifles ...... 1,200,000 Tactical Electrical Power (5–60KW)TQG ...... 5,404,000 Tactical Electrical Power (3KW)TQG ...... 3,000,000 Truck Tractor Line Haul ...... 12,420,000 Improved Ribbon Bridge ...... 22,400,000 Truck Cargo PLS 10X10 M1075 (T40999) ...... 6,936,000 Trailer PLS 8X20 M1075 (T93761) ...... 1,320,000 Spreader Bituminous Module PLS 2500 Gal. (S13546) ...... 2,080,000 Mixer Concrete ...... 1,375,000 Dump Body Module ...... 3,496,000 Engineer Mission Module Water Distributor ...... 9,630,000 Airborne/Air Assault Scraper (S30039) ...... 7,575,000 Distributor Water Self-Propelled 2500 Gal...... 2,970,000 Truck Transporter Common Bridge (CBT) (T91308) ...... 8,360,000 Truck Dump 20 Ton ...... 7,215,000 Generator Smoke Mechanical ...... 11,667,600 Tent Expandable Modular (Surgical) ...... 729,000

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Service—System Cost

Total ...... 166,116,416

Army National Guard: Black Hawk Helicopters ...... 223,200,000 SINCGARS (Radio Systems) ...... 34,900,000 Air National Guard: F–16 Targeting Pods ...... 35,100,000 A–10 Targeting Pods ...... 70,200,000 C–130H2 AN/APN–241 Radar ...... 24,500,000 F–15 AIFF/IFF (Data Link Systems) ...... 31,300,000 F–15 220E Engine Kits ...... 98,000,000 Total ...... 517,200,000

Marine Corps Reserve: Reserve Training Center Vehicle Maintenance Facility, Mobile, AL ...... 8,000,000 Reserve Tank Maintenance Facility, Columbia, South Carolina ...... 3,800,000 Reserve Training Center Vehicle Maintenance Facility, Camp Lejeune, NC ...... 8,100,000 Uniform and Equipment needs ...... 13,200,000 Weapons System Repairs ...... 7,300,000 Total ...... 40,400,000

Grand total ...... 1,047,426,416

Ms. LANDRIEU. There is an EC–2 provide the Reserve tactical fight ter- not only about doing what is right and squadron out of Virginia that is in ritories, the fighters that we see in the fair, this is about keeping our strength transit, and an F–18 squadron out of battle as we are watching the tele- in the battlefield, funding the items Georgia in transit. In the current budg- visions, they need the same radar up- that help protect them and keep our et, they have been decommissioned be- grades as the Active Forces. The fight- forces safe and being true to the cause there is no money in the current er planes for Active have one kind of amendments that we speak about on budget for these troops that are en radar, and then the Reserve fighters do the floor. route to fight the battle that is being not have the same radar. So when we For too long, the Guard and Reserve waged. say let’s keep our troops out of harm’s have received hand-me-downs from the There is something wrong, and what way, one thing that would help is to Active component. Maybe there was a is wrong is we are underfunding our have the same sophisticated radar that time that was appropriate because they Guard and Reserve. Perhaps we are our Reserve and our National Guards- served as supplemental, but now they putting too much of an emphasis on men are using as are the Actives. That are carrying a big weight, and they are tax cuts and not enough of an emphasis would be one smart way to keep them doing it magnificently and at great on the strength that this country needs out of harm’s way. personal sacrifice to their businesses, at this time, and sharing those re- If we were talking about $100 billion, to their communities, and to their fam- sources with the Guard and Reserve if we were talking about $50 billion, if ilies, because in many instances their and plussing them up. we were talking about a lot of money, pay goes down. In addition, when the Guard and Re- I would say maybe we do not have it. Let us invest in our Guard and Re- serve members go, they leave their jobs But, most certainly, if we are talking serves and make sure we are giving behind, they take a cut in pay, and un- about trillions of dollars of tax cuts, them what they need and to honor our fortunately they do not get the same we could find $1 billion to make a commitment to them and to win future benefits that many of our Active do. slight adjustment to pay and put some battles. We need the Guard and Re- This has to change if we are going to money up for our Guard and Reserve. serve. Let’s give them their rifles, their ask them to serve not just on the I know the leadership is probably helmets, and their tactical equipment weekends, not just once every couple of going to come back and say we have so we can, as we know we will, win this years, these units have been out plans, we are going to put this money war. there—some of them are on their in the supplemental. I realize there are Let’s remember that when the fight- fourth rotation. other times that we could potentially ing is over in Iraq and Afghanistan, the I just want to discuss my amend- do this, but I would make two argu- Guard and Reserve will be there for us, ment, to vote on it at the appropriate ments: One, in the past, the rule has protecting us. Let’s give them the tools time, whenever the leadership thinks been that we do not put new items in they need to succeed. we can take a few minutes. I hope we the supplemental. This is sort of ongo- Before I yield the floor, let me spend can take quite a long time to discuss ing items that are funded. You run out 1 minute supporting my colleague who this, but I know there are other impor- of them so you are sort of will be coming up next, the Senator tant amendments. I do not know what supplementing it because you are not from Delaware, who is about to offer could be more important than trying going to make it through the end of what I think might be the best amend- to make a few tweaks to this major the year. While we anticipate a very ment of all in terms of balancing the budget resolution that might send not large supplemental, I think it would be needs to boost our economy, to re- only a positive signal, but it would ac- very meaningful if we would think strain spending, as well as to give the tually back up in real meaningful about making an adjustment right now people of this Nation the tax relief that terms the resolution that we voted on for the thousands of Guard and Reserve will help get this economy moving 99 to 0 a few hours ago that said we that need this help and support. again. The Senator from Delaware will love our troops, we support our troops, I finish by asking my colleagues to offer an amendment. I am proud to add our prayers are with our troops. Then look at this chart. These are two of our my name as a cosponsor. The Concord let us send some money to our troops, young men. In this list I am holding up Coalition has looked at all the pro- particularly to our Guard and Reserve. of things that are unfunded, some of posals—the President’s proposal, this This billion dollars would go a long our units need helmets. Some of our proposal, that proposal, the leadership way. units need biological and chemical cov- proposal—and today they came out and We went through the unfunded list. ering. Because of the way we have de- supported Senator CARPER’s amend- This is a list that the Guard and Re- signed a lot of these suits, if they are ment. I think he should be very proud serve say, look, we desperately need used once they have to be thrown of that. They said this would put us on this money. We have listed it in a pri- away. Then they need a new one. the path back to economic develop- ority. This is not luxury. These are If they get attacked and one is con- ment, restraint on spending, fiscal dis- things we actually need. To upgrade taminated, they are going to have to cipline, and hopefully prosper, giving the Air Force Reserve, let me give an come home because we cannot leave us the strength we need to win the example. This is a $48 million item to them out there without suits. So this is wars ahead.

VerDate Dec 13 2002 01:26 Mar 22, 2003 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00028 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A20MR6.163 S20PT2 March 20, 2003 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S4137 This may not be the only one we Again I am not faulting anyone, but might rise. A lot of well-respected indi- have to fight and win in the next few there was a precipitous decline in viduals—Lehman Brothers—say any- months and years ahead. We should re- wealth, precipitous decline in market where from 5 percent to about 15 per- serve our financial strength to be able value and, to some extent, that contin- cent. Most said it would be a positive to make sure we win the war first and ued in the year 2001, particularly after benefit to the market. then do that which is necessary to pro- September 11. Alan Greenspan testified: tect our freedoms and give us strength. Add those things together and the In my judgment, the elimination of the I yield the floor and I add my name market falls, revenues fall, we have a double taxation of dividends will be helpful as a cosponsor to the next amendment. big deficit. 2001 caused a lot of increase to everybody. There is no question that this The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without in expenditures, helping those people particular program will be, net, a benefit to objection, it is so ordered. who needed help and rebuilding our cit- virtually everybody over the long run, and Mr. NICKLES. Mr. President, I yield ies and the Pentagon, and so on, the that is one of the reasons I strongly support it. myself such time on the Breaux amend- war on terrorism. A lot happened to ment. cause enormous deficits. That was in his testimony before the The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- Most of us ask, what can we do to im- House on February 12 of this year. ator is recognized. prove this? How can we turn the econ- So I just make those comments. I Mr. NICKLES. Most agree we need to omy around? I mentioned in 1997 we re- hate to see a proposal that is before do something to grow the economy. duced the capital gains rate, we had a us—I should not say that. I welcome There are different ideas, and I com- very positive increase of revenues to the alternatives that are offered by my pliment my colleagues for some of the the Government even when we reduced friends and colleagues, that are sup- ideas. We have some very good ideas on taxes. So we are trying to think, what porting the so-called $350 billion pro- both sides. Maybe we can come up with can we do now to help the economy? posal. The tax reduction in the 350 pro- some of the best. I wish to talk about That certainly worked in 1997. I don’t posal is really $323.3 billion. The bal- our plan a little bit and also make a think anyone disputes that. What can ance of that is additional refundable couple of comments on the highway tax credits; in other words, the Govern- bill, as well. we do in the year 2003 that might help the economy? ment is writing a check. We are dealing with a budget. We I am afraid, if that amendment is have a deficit, and a lot of people ask, I think we should eliminate the dou- ble taxation of dividends. People some- agreed to, and we will be voting on it why do we have a deficit? Revenues tomorrow—I have great respect for my have declined, and declined substan- times who maybe do not follow the eco- colleagues, Senators BREAUX, tially. In the year 2000 revenues were nomic markets, tax policy, and so on, VOINOVICH, SNOWE, who offered this over $2 trillion, and last year they were are shocked when I say, did you know amendment, Senator BAUCUS. I have $1.85 trillion. That is a reduction of we tax dividends twice? We tax divi- dends higher in the United States than great respect for them and served with $175 billion. If you look at the history them for many years in my Senate ca- of the United States, almost every year any other country in the world but Japan, and Japan and the United reer and have the pleasure of serving there has been some increase. Hardly with them on the Finance Committee. ever have we seen a decrease 2 years in States are taxed about the same. High- The Finance Committee will take a row. That is a decrease together of 9 er than anyone. The effective rate is whatever number we give them out of percent. That is a reason we have a def- about 70 percent. The corporate rate is the budget, and they will fashion to- icit, coupled with the fact expenditures 35 percent. Individual rates could be gether a growth package. are up. Revenues went down 9 percent 38.6 or 35 percent or 27 percent, but the I am afraid if we went with a growth and expenditures went up by 12 per- combined rate, if it is 35 percent and package that is limited to tax reduc- cent. I am not casting blame. That is the individual rate is 30 percent, is 65 tion of $323 billion, we will not be able the situation and where we are today. percent. That is two-thirds of the Right now we spend more than we money going to Government. So if a to do this dividend proposal, we will take in. That is a $160 billion difference corporation makes money and they not be able to follow the advice of Mr. and the projection is worse for this want to distribute to their owners, the Greenspan and Mr. Schwab and many year. Government gets two-thirds and the others who really think this would help How do we get this number to grow? owners get one-third. That is not a big grow the economy. I don’t want to take This is a real reduction. What caused deal. That discourages investment. the growth out of the growth package. that? We look at gross domestic pro- Who wants to invest in a company if I do want us to be innovative enough to duction and the economy really de- that is what they get back? I owned say, wait a minute, if we can change clined. It started declining in the year and operated a company. It does not tax policy and grow the economy, let’s 2000. We had robust economic growth make sense to distribute earnings in do it. If you find effective tax rates through the mid-1990s. In 1997, when we the form of dividends. The Government anywhere above 60 percent, that is very reduced the capital gains tax from 28 would be the primary beneficiary, the suffocating to economic growth. It percent to 20 percent, that created an owner would be the secondary bene- dampens it to such an extent, a lot of economic explosion that helped the ficiary. That did not make good sense. people say, why make the investment? stock market and helped the economy The President is proposing elimi- Why would people invest, if they are grow. More companies were paying nating double taxation of dividends. primarily interested in dividends, if more bonuses and the economy had a That is exactly right. We would be they realize the complicated and very robust growth. closer to other countries. It is embar- heavy burden of taxation that is in the Chairman Greenspan said it is irra- rassing to me to see we tax dividends present law? Especially when you can tional exuberance because the market at a rate greater than the French, invest in other countries and the tax- climbed precipitously. It started fall- greater than Hungary, greater than the ation rate is not nearly as high. ing in the year 2000 and we had nega- Czech Republic, greater than Greece. It Now we have such an international tive three quarters which is called a re- is time for a change. investment system, with the home PC, cession, the last part of 2000; it fell People whom I respect, what do they you can invest anywhere in the world down in the first three quarters of 2001. say? Charles Schwab says: any time of the day you want. It is It was negative so we had recession. It I can’t think of any other tax policy that wonderful, the opportunities we have bounced up in 2002, but still very soft. would, at one stroke, be more beneficial to in the United States. You don’t have to If you look at what happened in the ordinary investors. The impact [of dividend invest in the United States. stock market, there was a lot of reduc- relief] would be enormous. What has really happened as a result, tion of wealth in NASDAQ which was I think he is right. I don’t think he people realize the economic con- up to 5,000 in March of 2000, and by De- was doing that for personal interest. sequences of investing in companies cember of 2000 it was half that amount, Here is the analysis by several ana- that pay large portions of their pro- less than 3,000; 2,800 I believe. NASDAQ lysts in their projection of what they ceeds in dividends, so they shy away fell about half in the last 9 months of think, by eliminating double taxation from those companies, in many cases, 2000. of dividends, how much the market and go towards what we would call

VerDate Dec 13 2002 01:26 Mar 22, 2003 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00029 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G20MR6.213 S20PT2 S4138 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE March 20, 2003 growth stocks, stocks that do not pay ples. Marriage penalty relief—some- talking about—the Federal Govern- dividends but they have greater grow- body says, what are you doing? We are ment is estimated to take in $28 tril- ing potential. They may be more vola- taking the individual tax rate of 15 per- lion. So if you talk about $350 billion tile, may be a little more risky, but the cent—and individuals who have taxable over $28 trillion, that is a very small taxation rate on those companies—not income of $28,000 pay 15 percent. Above percentage. We are proposing you need on distribution of dividends, it is on that, they pay 27 percent. We are say- to have a little more if you are really capital gains—taxed at 20 percent. It is ing, why don’t we double that for a going to have an impact on the econ- not double taxed. Capital gains would couple. The present law doesn’t do omy. be capped at 20 percent, about half the that. So we expand the 15 percent Is it too much? Is 725? Well, $725 bil- rate of dividends. So you have a real bracket for couples from about $46,000 lion is really not the tax cut. The real encouragement. Frankly, you have had to $56,800. What is the impact of that? tax cut portion is $698 billion—again, an explosion in growth of those compa- That means that for a couple, a mar- spread out over 10. nies vis-a-vis the companies that pay ried couple, if they have a combined in- Somebody will say, Wait a minute, dividends. come up to $56,800, their tax rate is 15 your budget proposal is more. The Why should we disadvantage compa- percent. That will save them about President had $1.5 trillion; you have nies that distribute the benefits of $1,222. $1.3 trillion. What we are reconciling is their earnings to their owners through Think about that. I heard somebody this $698 billion. By reconciling, for the form of cash? say about the tax proposal, I know the those who are not familiar with Senate I think the administration is right on bulk of this goes for the wealthy. That language, that means we are telling target. I think they have come up with is not correct. That is very significant the Finance Committee: Report out a a good proposal that would benefit, not tax relief for a lot of married couples bill that would do such-and-such. We just investors, not just the people who today, $1,200, if they have combined in- didn’t say put the entire package over own a lot of stock, they would benefit come up to $56,000. If they have two the next 10 years, this $1.3 trillion in the fireman, benefit the policeman, the kids, they get an additional tax credit the package. We are telling the Fi- teacher, the civil servant, they would per child. The present law is $600; we nance Committee, take about half of it benefit anybody who happened to have would accelerate that to $1,000 per and make it law this year because we money in a retirement fund that hap- child. want to grow the economy this year; pens to invest in stocks. And most all My daughter just gave birth to a new we want to do it now. Part of the tax retirement funds do. son, my grandson Nicholas. They will cut could be done anytime up to the So, let’s do something to help the be able to get a $1,000 tax credit for year 2010. Because we are basically just teachers and the firemen and let’s do Nicholas and that’s true for every child extending present law. something that would help government in America—$1,000. That is significant. We have several years to do that. employees and other people, individ- If you have four kids, that is $4,000 This needs to be done now. This needs uals, to help grow the economy. When to be done now because we need to cre- somebody wouldn’t be paying taxes on. we do that, we will see the stock mar- ate jobs now. They will be able to use that money for ket grow and we will see capital gains So I just mention that. I have the their education, for their health care, being paid again; we will see more rev- greatest respect for my colleagues, for taking care of them. This is very enues coming into the Government; we some of whom are sincere deficit family friendly. I think it is also very will see more investment, more jobs hawks, and they believe maybe if we friendly for growing the economy. did this, we might not be good for the created. We also provide expensing for small It is estimated that this proposal on deficit. I think we need to do some- business. I used to own and operate a dividends alone would create well over thing more aggressive to help grow the small business. I had a janitorial serv- a million jobs—I think 1.4 million jobs economy. just in the first year. ice with my wife, and that was a small We have a legitimate difference of Also, on family relief, there are a business. We would be able to expense opinion. I have great respect for their couple of packages we have. We have things, not amortize them. That is a opinion. I have great respect for col- the investment proposal, and I want to positive thing. That means you get to leagues who have different ideas. We talk about that primarily. Also, the recoup your investment over a very have had proposals that will be consid- package we have that the administra- short period of time—actually, imme- ered tomorrow, or we have already had tion proposed and that we are hopeful diately. Up to $75,000 you get to ex- them on the floor, from $100 billion, to will be reported out of the Finance pense it, not write it off over years. It more than that, $350 billion, $700 bil- Committee—again, we don’t write the makes sense to write it off in the year lion—you name it. There may be some- bill on the floor. I think some people you write the check, rather than one who has it for more. think we do that in the budget. We do spread it over several years. It makes I think the President has a pretty not, unless Senator CONRAD and I can you more likely to make the invest- good balance. I encourage my col- come up with an amendment and ment, which means you would make leagues to not vote for the amendment change the way we do business. We just more investments and create more which would cut the growth package in give the Finance Committee an in- jobs. It is a very positive, progrowth, half. struction. But the instruction we are probusiness change. AMENDMENT NO. 358 hoping to give would allow them to If you look at several of these provi- Mr. President, I wish to make a cou- eliminate double taxation of dividends sions in the President’s package, I ple of other comments. and also provide what I would call think they would help the economy, My friend and colleague, Senator small business and family relief. We help the stock market, help small busi- BOND, discussed an amendment dealing would do, I think, some wonderful, long nesses, help American families. They with transportation. He talked about overdue things that would help grow would help taxpayers. highways. Frankly, every Member of the economy. We would tax individuals If we cut it in half, I am afraid we Congress—probably every elected offi- no more than we tax corporations. will not be able to do the things either cial in any elected capacity—happens Why in the world would we tax indi- for the family or do the things for in- to be a friend of highways. viduals at a rate about 10 percent high- vestment. We will not be able to grow If you are in a city council, someone er than we tax corporations? We do the economy. We won’t be able to cre- is talking to you about roads; if you that today. We will not if we are able ate jobs. I am afraid if we cut the pack- are the mayor of Minneapolis or St. to pass this package. age in half, we would basically be tak- Paul, people are talking to you about Why in the world would we have ing the growth out of the growth pack- roads. If you are in State government, heavy taxes on families? The proposal age. It might be some tax relief, but you spend half your time talking about we have before us would provide tax re- the net result would be, I am afraid, highways. lief to 92 million taxpayers. It is very you wouldn’t get much growth. I used to be in the State senate. They profamily. You say: Why is that, $350 billion ran me off. But everybody is concerned We would have marriage penalty re- sounds like a lot of money. Over this about highways. Everybody is con- lief that would benefit 42 million cou- 10-year period—and that is what we are cerned about infrastructure. And they

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We four times as much from the Federal don’t think they should be, if they are have a lot of compelling infrastructure Government. You think about that. We tearing up the road. needs. have not done that in the past. We have some cases where maybe But I have some reservations about Now, we made some changes. I look even some groups do not pay highway the amendment offered by my col- back. In 1990—guess what—the Federal taxes and they are on the highway. league from Missouri, and, frankly, my program for highways was $10 billion. Let’s stop that. They are using the colleague from Oklahoma, for whom I Today, it is over $30 billion. This is 12 highways. They should pay for them. have the greatest respect, and other years later, and we are spending three Some people in my State will not like people who are supporting this. I think times what we spent in 1990. me saying that because we have a lot they are as well intended as anybody In 1997, we were spending less than of individuals who are doing that you will find. But I am concerned $20 billion, $18.7 billion. Today, we are today. So let’s close whatever loop- about what I am afraid the amendment spending over $30 billion. That was just holes we can and get whatever money would do. about 5, 6 years ago that we were could come into the highway fund as a It would move us away from the idea spending $18.7 billion. Now we are result. of user taxes to pay for roads. That is spending over $30 billion. But the proposal that is before us a tradition that we have had certainly Congress even changed the formula now, that we will be voting on—and it since Eisenhower, since we started when we had gasoline revenues going may well pass; I can count votes building the Interstate System. Since up. We did, and the economy was really around here probably as good as some— we have had a Federal highway pro- going well. Frankly, when the economy would increase that $31 billion pro- gram, we have had gasoline taxes pay is going well, you have more highway gram. The President’s request was $29 for highways. And then we take off a usage, and you have more money com- billion. We were able to scrape it percentage of gasoline taxes to pay for ing into the trust funds. So the fund around and come out with, what, $32.1 mass transit. But basically it is the formulas were altered to allow the billion. That is about the best we can user fees that pay for the expansion of highways to get more of that money do out of the money that is coming the program. more immediately. I supported that. It into the fund. I am open to ideas. If we can do bet- And looking back, I remember debat- seemed good. More money was coming ter, I am happy to consider that. We ing, in 1982 or 1983—I think there was a in, so let them have it. It is a user fee. put in language that says, if we in the nickel-a-gallon gasoline tax, and we Let the user fee apply. Finance Committee raise more money had a filibuster that lasted right before But the formula also said, if the one way or another through a user fee, Christmas. It was over whether or not highway funds decline, they will be re- whatever they would do, great, they there would be a nickel-a-gallon gaso- duced. That was agreed to. That is part get the money. Power to them. If they of law. That was part of the agreement. line tax increase. I was opposing it at raise gasoline prices, they index gaso- Well, guess what? Revenues declined, that time, thinking the States should line prices, they put on an excise tax and then everybody said: No. Whoa. We have to have the right if they wanted on tires, whatever the committee can’t take a decline. And so, in the last to do it, the State should have the op- might do, if they close the loophole be- year’s appropriations bill—actually tion, not a Federal mandate. I lost that cause they find out certain groups are debate, but it was a long and inter- this year; we just passed it in Janu- on tax-exempt vehicles that ought to esting debate. But I can see the de- ary—it said, instead of going down, ac- be paying taxes, power to them. What- mand by people who want to have more cording to law, what, to $24 billion, it ever they can get, they should come in. highways built, and maybe a Federal came in at $31.6 billion. It was supposed And maybe we have underestimated it. gasoline tax, and so on. to go down to $24 billion. Congress said: The Finance Committee does a great I am a lot more sympathetic now to No, no, no. We don’t want to have a re- job or the Ways and Means Committee. listening to the demands. People say: duction of that percentage even though If they can find more ways of closing We want more for highways. I certainly we agreed to it. We decided to put more loopholes, power to them; they get 100 want to listen to them, but I think money in more quickly, but we were percent of the money. they should be paid by gasoline taxes. supposed to reduce it if it started fall- But the proposal we have before us Some people are proposing that we ing. now just basically let’s you increase now have a significant infusion of gen- Highway revenues started falling be- that by about $8 billion. Let’s take eral revenue funds to pay for highways. cause of different reasons, maybe be- that $32 billion and make it a $40 bil- You might say: Why are you opposed to cause of terrorism or gasoline prices, lion program. It increases costs over that? Because there is no limit as to but the total money coming into the what we have proposed in the first 6 how much that would cost the Federal fund went down. But Congress said: No. years of our budget, about almost $60 Government. There is no limit to the Let’s spend more money. So we went billion for 6 years. Our budget is a 10- demand for more money for highways, from $31.3 billion. year budget. But for the first 6 years, it absolutely no limit, no limit whatso- The administration requested $29.3 is about $10 billion a year. ever. billion in 2004. And I will tell you, as Now, that is a big increase: $10 bil- You could take any program before the chairman of the Budget Com- lion a year being highways and mass us, and you could multiply it by five, mittee, we squeezed every way we transit. That is a big increase. And it is and somebody could legitimately say could. We came up with: Can we not paid for by gasoline taxes. It is ba- that is not enough—legitimately be- squeeze the trust fund down quicker? sically paid for by an increase in the cause there are a lot of demands. You Can we move some money into the deficit. And maybe even worse than can take these figures and multiply trust fund that should have been in that, it breaks this tradition of paying them. There are a lot of demands for there? Yes, we found some gasohol for roads and highways through user more highways. money going into general revenue fees. But, to me, it is a serious mistake funds. We put that in. That was about I will say again, the reason why I am and maybe a budget breach. If you say $700 million per year. We did some speaking very strongly about this is we are going to use general revenues to other things. that I think that is a terrible precedent pay for highways, then a lot of people If it is a legitimate user fee concept, to set. If we are going to be general think, if it comes from the Federal I am willing to consider it. I think funding highways, we are opening our- Government, it doesn’t cost anything. there are vehicles driving around today selves up to unlimited demands on Fed- It doesn’t cost you anything because it that are tax exempt, that do not pay eral money, especially if you stay with

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Mr. President, I will over the 40 years. with more requests and put in more take a couple of minutes. I apologize The Senator from Oklahoma’s chart general revenue funds. for this, but it is important for the and the arguments he made suggest I understand the highway lobby is RECORD that we address the famous that all corporate income is taxed at powerful. I understand they are out in chart my colleague has shown over and the maximum corporate and individual the Halls. I understand they have lots over on the comparison of corporate tax rates. This goes to the Senator’s of cosponsors. I understand they are tax rates. We have seen several ref- question. I hope the chairman will lis- making phone calls: We need this to erences to this chart that is entitled ten to this. At least a quarter of cor- get our road; we need this to get a bet- ‘‘United States, Second Highest in the porate profits are not taxed at all be- ter ratio for our State, our State has World Combined Corporate and Divi- cause of various tax preferences. That been a donor State for years. dend Taxes.’’ translates into a zero-percent effective I want to see that corrected. Some The chart says that the U.S. has a tax rate. Another half of corporate in- people see this as a solution for cor- tax rate of 70 percent, second only to come is taxed once at the corporate recting it. If you go general revenue Japan. My colleague and my friend, the level, but not taxed again because it funds, we will regret it. At least if you Senator from Oklahoma, has referred goes to pension funds and other stock- have a user fee concept, it is limiting to this chart so often that I decided to holders who do not pay individual in- the growth of the program because go off and do a little independent re- come taxes. That again lowers it. The there is a negative on raising gasoline search on that chart. Senator is showing nominal tax rates, taxes. People can see it, and they are Let me tell you what I found. First, not effective tax rates. having a hard time paying their gaso- let’s look at corporate taxes alone. Finally, the chart being used as- line prices right now, with gas line When we look at corporate taxes alone sumes that all corporate income goes prices at $1.75 and $2, in some cases. this is for 2000 as a percentage of GDP, to individuals in the top individual tax Maybe the war in Iraq will go well which Senator BENNETT said is the ap- bracket at the Federal, State, and local and can be over soon. I hope and pray propriate way of looking at it—a much level. In recent years, corporations that it does. God bless our troops and different picture emerges about where have used stock buybacks to convert our leaders. They are doing a fantastic we fit in. their profits into individual capital job. If that happens, my guess is oil This is from OECD, the international gains which have an effective tax rate prices will come tumbling down as will scorekeeper. What they have found is of less than 10 percent. gasoline prices, and maybe then it will the United States ranks 22nd out of 29 How can it be at 10 percent when the be more palatable to be raising gaso- in effective corporate tax rates. The capital gains rate we all know is double line taxes. Senator from Oklahoma shows nominal that? The reason for that is the defer- If my colleagues vote for a gasoline ral that is inherent in capital gains tax rates, the tax rate that appears in tax increase, power to them. I hope which gives you a much lower effective the Tax Code. We all know that is not every dime of it goes into highways. tax rate than the nominal tax rate. But to get something started where what people actually pay. When you I say this because it is important to look at what they actually pay, you you end up having about 25 percent of have in the RECORD that this notion highways being built with general rev- see a much different picture: 22nd out that we have a 70-percent rate on cor- enue funds, I think would be a mistake. of 29 in effective corporate tax rates as porate profits is not accurate. That is I also don’t think the President will a percentage of gross domestic product. not the effective tax rate. It is nowhere sign the bill. So I mention these We are down here, 22nd out of 29. near that. And if one compares cor- things. It is important for us to pass a Mr. NICKLES. Will the Senator porate taxes in this country to other highway bill and to get it passed. yield? countries on a fair comparison basis, I make a commitment to work with Mr. CONRAD. I will. we are not a high tax jurisdiction. We my friends and colleagues, Senator Mr. NICKLES. That is percentage of just are not. I offer that for the GDP. We have a much bigger percent of INHOFE and Senator BOND, others who RECORD. have a very strong interest in this. I GDP, but a tax rate is a tax rate. The Senator from Delaware has been want to work with them. I want a good I ran a corporation. When I made extraordinarily patient. How much highway bill to be signed by the Presi- profits, I paid that rate. Maybe some- time would he like? dent, and I would like to think that we body was able to figure out some Mr. CARPER. Two hours? Ten min- would put one on his desk that would Enron-type schemes and things. This utes would be just fine. be responsible as well. corporation didn’t. Most corporations, Mr. CONRAD. I yield 10 minutes to I am afraid that the bill we have be- a lot of corporations do not. I wanted the Senator from Delaware. fore us, going from basically $10 billion to make sure, the percentage GDP, be- Mr. CARPER. Mr. President, a couple in 1990 to $18 billion in 1997 and now we cause we have the largest GDP in the of weeks ago Senator BLANCHE LINCOLN are at $31, $32 billion, to try to jump world, I don’t think is the relevant of Arkansas invited several of us that up immediately at 40 with general type of analysis to use. Democratic Senators to a briefing in revenue funds is wrong. If we do it Mr. CONRAD. Well, I respect my col- her office on Capitol Hill. She also in- through some other type of a user fee, league’s view. Let me just say, this is vited several Members of the House of that might be more palatable. how OECD does the scorekeeping on ef- Representatives who are Democrats. I encourage my colleagues. I don’t fective tax rate comparisons, what peo- There were several of them in the think this is really sustainable, if we ple are actually paying. This is their room. They call themselves Blue Dog don’t do something different. I know conclusion about where the United Democrats. there is some flexibility among some of States fits in. The Blue Dog Democrats, for those the proponents. I commit that I will Let me continue because the Senator who have not heard that term before, work with them to try to come up with raises an important point. There is an tend to be budget hawks. They believe something that will be agreeable, sus- implication that we have a competitive balanced budgets do matter, and the tainable, and something that can be problem because our tax rate is so idea of running chronic budget deficits signed. high. year after year is not good for this I mention those reservations with The fact is, as this chart shows, over country. In fact, it is very troublesome the greatest respect to the proponents. 40 years, corporate taxes have fallen as for this country. Blue Dogs are willing I will urge my colleagues to vote no on a share of our economy but risen for to take tough votes on defense spend- the amendment tomorrow. other industrial economies. This line ing, nondefense spending, entitlement

VerDate Dec 13 2002 01:26 Mar 22, 2003 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00032 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G20MR6.221 S20PT2 March 20, 2003 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S4141 spending, and taxes as well to get us resentatives, the Blue Dogs took the day, we will pay as a nation in interest closer to a balanced budget. President’s defense discretionary num- on the national debt roughly $1 billion. I served for 10 years in the House of bers and put that in their proposal. In That is not principal; that is interest Representatives and as Governor of the Senate, we elected in our version of on our debt, $1 billion. We will pay that Delaware. I guess I was a Blue Dog be- our budget alternative to take the de- tomorrow, the next day, and the next fore we had Blue Dogs. I believe I am fense numbers proposed by the Budget day after that. today. Committee. They are a bit less than We are a nation marching off to war. Tomorrow a number of us, including the President’s proposal, I think, by Tonight we have tens of thousands of a Republican, Senator LINCOLN CHAFEE, about $85 billion over a 10-year period young men and women on the march in Senator MARY LANDRIEU, Senator of time. But we embrace the numbers a war I hope is mercifully brief for both DIANNE FEINSTEIN, and I will offer a from the committee itself. sides. There is a great irony here as we budget alternative that is modeled We then take that roughly $85 billion are sending tens of thousands of our after the approach offered by the Blue and use those moneys to add to the do- young people marching off to war. We Dog Democrats in the House of Rep- mestic discretionary spending side to are actually talking about reducing the resentatives which was voted on earlier help pay for No Child Left Behind, to revenues available to finance that war, this evening and I understand received help meet some of the health care to mobilize the troops, the cost of the about 170, 175 votes. It fell short, but it needs in this country, and to help meet war, the postwar occupation, and in- was a respectable showing. I want to some of the agricultural needs in this stead of raising the revenue and the talk about the provisions of that ap- country. It is roughly $80 billion to $85 means of financing the war, we are tak- proach and why I think it makes sense. billion. It would shift from the defense ing away those resources, which sits A number of my colleagues talked to- side to the nondefense discretionary logic on its head, at least for me. night about the need to stimulate the side. As we send those tens of thousands of economy and the need to do so in part Even at the end of that, we would young men and women marching off to with tax policy. In the alternative we still be spending above the baseline of war, their parents and grandparents will propose tomorrow, we do just that. more than the rate of inflation over are on a different kind of march, but a Those who want to effect the 10-per- the next 10 years for defense and a lit- march nonetheless, with a different cent rate cut to accelerate it, we do tle less than the baseline in our domes- destination. It is called retirement, and that, in fact, this year. Those who want tic discretionary spending. But I like the baby boomers, which I am one, are to accelerate the 27-percent tax brack- the balance a little bit better than on the march and starting at roughly et cut, we accelerate that this year. what was debated and voted on in the the end of this decade and throughout Those who want to expand and increase House earlier tonight. the course of the next decade. the child credit, we do that this year. The third piece we address is budget The impact that is going to have on To those people who would like to controls. I will focus on one, but there Social Security, Medicare, and other allow small businesses to expense not are actually several others that are in- spending is the boomers, as they march just $25,000 in investments they make cluded in the measure we will offer to- off into their golden years, will create but $75,000, we let them do that this morrow. a financial burden that we are not even year to encourage that kind of invest- Pay-go: The concept is if a Senator a little bit prepared to address. My fear is if we take the course that ment. or a House Member wants to cut taxes, To those who want to eliminate the or a Senator or House Member wants has been proposed by the administra- marriage tax penalty—we did that in to raise spending in a way that makes tion and is incorporated in this budget resolution, we will have not really been Delaware when I was Governor—we the deficit larger, they have to figure consistent with what the President would do that immediately under the out a way to pay for that so it is budg- said in his State of the Union Message. proposal that will be before us. et neutral starting now, not starting I think one of the finest statements We raise the exclusion for the estate next week or not starting next month he said in his State of the Union Mes- tax to $6 million for a couple, and we but starting now. sage is when he said the American peo- do that this year, effective imme- In our alternative, in our substitute, ple, our Government, should not pass diately, and leave it at that rate. pay-go provisions become effective on the problems of today to the next Those are some of the provisions we now. They are reinstated now. If any- President, to the next Congress, or to do right now. It would have an imme- one wants to increase spending, they the next generation. diate impact, and I think a very posi- are free to have at it. If they do, they I am afraid this is exactly what we tive impact on the economy at this have to offset it by cutting spending are prepared to do with respect to the time. somewhere else, or if they cut taxes in way we spend our money and the way For those people who happen to be in one area, they have to raise taxes in we meet our financial obligations. We the 10-percent bracket, they would re- another area or do something on the do not have to do that. We can do the alize some tax savings, but so would spending side to offset that. right thing. those people whose income is not just We have budget controls that address I have been looking for months for an $15,000 or $20,000 but $150,000. They issues of emergency spending and other approach that I could believe in and would realize a savings, too, by accel- provisions as well. I will not go into all say let’s do this because it is the right erating the tax cut for those in the 27- those tonight because it is late. That is thing to do. This is the right thing to percent bracket. We are not just help- an important component of what we do. ing people in the middle-income por- are trying to do. I thank those who join me in offering tion of the spectrum, but it also helps Let me sum up. We reduce taxes, we this substitute tomorrow. I especially people at the top of the income spec- do a number of things that have an ef- thank the Concord Coalition for em- trum. fect immediately this year, but we pay bracing it today and the Blue Dog What we do not do in our approach is for them. The overall effect of the tax Democrats for giving us the inspiration reduce further the 35-percent rates and reduction over 10 years is roughly $100 in the first place. I yield back my time. the rate to the 38.6 rate, the top two billion, $115 billion. Most of that is Mrs. FEINSTEIN. Mr. President, I rates. We defer those cuts until two loaded in the first year or two. rise in support of a bipartisan, fiscally things happen: One, we pay for the war We provide real spending restraint responsible budget amendment, which I in Iraq; and, two, until we have actu- both on the defense side and on the have sponsored with Senators TOM ally balanced the budget. That is what nondefense discretionary side, and we CARPER and LINCOLN CHAFEE. we do on the taxing side. That is what put in place budget controls, some of Our amendment would provide imme- was offered in the House of Representa- which have been allowed to lapse. We diate tax relief to every taxpayer in tives this evening as well. put them back into effect to strength- this country, while balancing the budg- On the spending side, what we have en in the way they ought to be effec- et 4 years earlier than the resolution done is to essentially embrace the dis- tive. currently being considered. cretionary spending numbers proposed Today it is March 20. The day is al- Instead of driving the Nation further by the President. In the House of Rep- most over. During the course of this into debt, our budget would cost $50

VerDate Dec 13 2002 01:26 Mar 22, 2003 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00033 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G20MR6.224 S20PT2 S4142 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE March 20, 2003 billion over 10 years—a fraction of the tax bracket from 2004 to 2003; Increase only make future compromises all the $1.7 trillion the underlying resolution the child tax credit from $600 to $700; more difficult. would add to the deficit over the next and Accelerate marriage penalty relief The PRESIDING OFFICER. Who decade. from 2005 to 2003. yields time? Our budget corrects for the Budget Our budget also includes: The Senator from New Jersey. Committee’s low discretionary spend- Immediately increase the individual Mr. CORZINE. I yield myself up to 10 ing limits after 2008 by recognizing the estate tax exemption to $3 million per minutes. need, at a minimum, to increase do- individual and $6 million per couple— The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without mestic discretionary spending with in- something not included in the budget objection, it is so ordered. flation. In contrast, the Budget Com- which was reported out of Committee. Mr. CORZINE. Mr. President, I had a mittee’s mark would increase those This would exempt all but one percent statement earlier today, but I would limits by an average of only 1.5 percent of estates from any tax liability what- like to briefly say that I am pleased after 2008, a rate of increase which is soever. my colleagues passed the supporting simply unrealistic. Increase small business expensing resolution today for our troops. We Were it not for that needed adjust- limits from $25,000 to $75,000, allowing need a strong and unequivocal expres- ment to discretionary spending, our them to make needed capital improve- sion of support for the courageous men budget would actually increase revenue ments and expand their operations. and women who are fighting for our due to a 10-year net surplus on the tax All of those cuts are retroactive to values and defending America tonight side. January 1, 2003, and would immediately in the Persian Gulf. It is important to Many members of this Chamber have put money in every taxpayer’s pocket. say that this is an expression that is expressed concerns about pursuing a This budget amendment would pay far more than just a personal expres- $726 billion tax cut at a time of massive for these tax cuts in part by freezing sion. It is an expression of feelings that projected budget deficits and rising un- planned reductions to the top two tax the people of New Jersey—I see my col- certainty about the cost of the war rates—the rates that apply to adjusted league from New Jersey, Senator LAU- with Iraq. gross incomes above $143,500 for indi- TENBERG, is in the Chamber as well, In fact, neither the administration’s viduals. and I know both of us feel powerfully budget, nor the one currently being Yet even those who pay taxes at this for the mothers, the fathers, the broth- considered, nor our budget for that rate would receive tax relief—from the ers, the sisters, the spouses all of those matter, includes funding to cover the expansion of the 10 percent bracket, who have loved ones in harm’s way, cost of a war with Iraq, despite esti- marriage penalty reduction, a larger that we strongly stand with them, and mates that range from $60 billion to child tax credit, and a cut to the 27 per- the people across this country do as $100 billion or more. cent bracket. well. The added cost of this conflict could This budget does not increase taxes The gist of my statement is that no push our budget deficit this year to for any American, but instead is a bal- matter how we may have felt and de- over $500 billion, if the surplus in the anced blueprint designed to promote bated and deliberated these issues, our Social Security Trust Fund is not in- fiscal responsibility. united view is unshakable as we go for- cluded. Although no proposed budget When I came to the Senate in 1992, ward. accounts for the cost of the war in we faced a record budget deficit of $290 Mr. President, I rise to speak about Iraq, our budget proposal faces the re- billion, a record which we will almost an amendment I would like to bring up ality of significant new costs head-on certainly surpass this year. tomorrow. It would increase funding by bringing us back to balance quickly. After securing commitments from for environmental protection and nat- I share the concerns of many of my Senate moderates in the Centrist Coa- ural resource conservation, reduce pol- colleagues, and I believe our primary lition, we were able to hold the line on lution, and improve America’s quality responsibility is to pass a budget that new spending and further tax cuts. of life. meets our nation’s long-term needs. Those efforts paid off in 1998, when the If I had my druthers, we would all be And this is what our amendment seeks Federal Government returned to sur- dealing with a ‘‘patriotic pause,’’ as far to do. plus for the first time since the John- as I am concerned, until we were able Why do I support this amendment? son Administration. to get a better handle on some of the Our budget accepts the discretionary It was no coincidence that the path costs. It seems incongruous to me that spending limits laid out in President back to surplus, and the following as our men and women are sacrificing Bush’s budget proposal. Despite con- three years of consecutive surpluses, on the ground in the Middle East, we cerns about the impact of those limits coincided with the greatest period of are unwilling to think about and factor on many critical priorities, I have economic expansion in American his- in those costs in this budget process as agreed to those spending limits in an tory. we go forward. I think it is particularly effort to support a realistic com- The single biggest impediment to re- unusual to understand that maybe as promise which addresses our fiscal turning to similar rates of economic soon as next week we will get a supple- needs conservatively. growth, however, is the tremendous un- mental that covers this, and it may be I believe that without real bipartisan certainty facing the United States. literally hundreds of billions of dollars compromise, it will prove impossible to While we now face a war in Iraq and of expenditures that are not considered return to a balanced budget. ongoing stand-off in North Korea, we in the context of a budget that is al- Therefore, I join with Senators CAR- can do a better job in managing our do- ready estimated at $300 billion on a PER and CHAFEE today, because we all mestic economy. unified basis, on an on-budget basis, value fiscal responsibility and recog- Pushing through a $726 billion tax and on an off-budget basis $400 billion. nize the need for balanced budgets. cut now would only increase deficits It is hard for me to understand, but I I must state clearly, however, that and uncertainty, and would lead to a am a realist. It is a quarter of 11 at this budget does include a $10 billion spike in long-term interest rates as we night, and we will be debating amend- reserve fund for homeland security in take on trillions in new debt. ments that make a real expression fiscal year 2004, and does not commit I urge my colleagues to support this about what our budget is about, our to the specific programmatic cuts de- budget. It is a compromise which priorities. I think it is absolutely es- tailed in the President’s Budget. makes sense. sential that the budget process be The Carper/Chafee/Feinstein budget By adopting this budget amendment, about difficult choices and an expres- keeps those elements of the President’s we can bring the budget back into bal- sion of those choices. proposed tax cut that would benefit all ance in six years, stop raiding the So- For millions of Americans, and cer- Americans and stimulate the economy. cial Security Trust Fund in ten, and tainly for myself, I strongly believe we It would: forego nearly $2 trillion in new debt by cannot neglect the environment and Immediately expand the 10 percent 2013. our natural resources, and our budget income tax bracket from $6,000 to The alternative, which does not rec- should reflect that importance. I ask $7,000; Accelerate cuts to the 27 percent ognize our current fiscal crisis, will my colleagues to consider in that vein

VerDate Dec 13 2002 01:26 Mar 22, 2003 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00034 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G20MR6.227 S20PT2 March 20, 2003 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S4143 that the President’s fiscal year 2004 Nation. Forty-nine States have Super- ment would add funding that is critical budget request increases discretionary fund sites. One in four Americans lives to the Superfund program. My col- spending at an average rate of 4 per- within a mile of a Superfund site. That league and friend, Senator CORZINE, cent for all discretionary spending. But is a real health issue, a quality of life just talked about his intention to offer with respect to his requests with re- issue, and it is one that needs to be ad- an amendment that is going to help us gard to the environment and conserva- dressed. maintain a quality of environment tion issues, the President’s budget ac- There are lots of ways to go. We are that he and I feel is necessary for tually cuts spending on the environ- cutting down the number of cleanup America. ment. sites. Two years ago, we had 87 Super- I appreciate one part of that because By the way, in the House budget res- fund cleanups in a year. It has dropped this budget falls short of protecting olution—that is where we will be nego- below 40 now. We need to do better. We Americans from deadly toxins in their tiating when we go to conference—that need to work at this now. communities. Too many communities is a cut of $1.3 billion relative to the Of course, there are brownfield sites in this country live near toxins left be- enacted levels in fiscal year 2003. in every State in the Nation. We were hind by polluting industries. Each day Fortunately, the Senate resolution all very proud that we passed the we delay cleanups is another day we does restore some of that, but in my Brownfields Revitalization and Envi- expose families to poisonous chemicals. view we could do a lot better, and we ronmental Restoration Act of 2001, but The numbers are alarming: 70 million should do a lot better. My amendment getting around to funding that at au- people in this country live within 4 is a simple 1-year amendment to im- thorized levels has not happened. My miles of a Superfund site and 10 million prove that, to meet that 4 percent dis- amendment would make this possible of the people exposed to the chemicals cretionary standard that might be how in fiscal year 2004. The amendment at those sites are children, the most we are looking at other spending. would fund important natural resource defenseless among us. Ten million chil- In dollar terms, my amendment conservation programs, conservation dren who must eat their meals, brush would increase our investment in envi- programs that fight sprawl, protect their teeth and sleep within a few miles ronmental protection and resource con- open space, and improve quality of life of harmful poisons that will persist in servation by up to $30.4 billion. That is for all Americans. their soil and ground water for decades $2.4 billion above what the President We have a long tradition of valuing and longer. Children are the most vul- has asked for and $1.1 billion over the and fighting to protect parks, nerable among us to arsenic and DDT Senate resolution. The spending is off- wildlands, wildlife, open spaces, recre- and brain-damaging heavy metals such set by a corresponding reduction in the ation resources, and cultural treasures. as lead and mercury found at the con- size of the tax cut. This is important to the heart and soul taminated sites. By adopting this amendment, the of this country, special places that On March 3, just 2 weeks ago, the Senate would make a strong statement need to be addressed. EPA announced the latest scientific that even in these difficult times we Several years ago, as we entered the data that show small children have a have not lost the desire, the faith, the 21st century, we started the Conserva- tenfold higher risk of developing can- will, to provide for environmental pro- tion Trust Fund that would fund land cer when exposed to chemicals than do tection and natural resource conserva- and water conservation programs in a adults. Across the Nation, each site tion. They are really continuing impor- way that the toolbox would be avail- cleanup—and we have successfully tant priorities of the American people. able across the country to work on cleaned up over 800 so far—reduces By adopting this amendment, the these issues—the sprawl, taking in those threats to our children: threats Senate would make it possible to fund parklands, and protecting our shore- of cancer, learning disabilities, and a number of very vital environmental lines. It is unfortunate that we are not other chronic and painful health prob- programs. I will itemize a couple. The adequately dealing with this issue that lems. amendment funds clean water and will impact every American’s life. This amendment enables the equiva- drinking water State revolving funds— So I hope we can consider this lent of 28 additional sites a year to be something that is important for eco- amendment. It is funded, as I sug- cleaned up, allowing thousands more nomic expansion—at a combined level gested, out of the tax cuts, and we can families to get out from underneath of $3 billion. It is only about $800 mil- do a lot to really improve our society the shadow of living next to a toxic lion over the level that is asked for in with relatively minimal expenditures dump. An extra 25 sites may not sound the budget resolution. This money in such an overwhelmingly large budg- like a lot unless you and your family flows directly to the State loan funds et. live next door to an empty lot laced and will be used to build sewage treat- By adopting my amendment, the with arsenic and dioxin. ment plants and water purification fa- Senate will boost vital environmental This amendment would eventually cilities, an important part of our infra- protection and natural resource con- close the gap between the program’s structure. servation programs. It will mean clean- need and what has been budgeted. This Forty percent of our Nation’s lakes er water, more Superfund sites and amendment assumes reinstatement of and rivers still do not meet the goal of brownfields cleaned up, and more acres the original structure and guiding prin- the Clean Water Act of being fishable of open space and wildlife habitat pro- ciple of Superfund and assumes the res- and swimmable. It is about 80 percent tected. I hope the Senate will affirm toration of minimal taxes to get that in New Jersey. this commitment to the environment job done. For example, in the case of While my amendment will not get us as an important funding priority in our the oil industry, the tax would be less all the way there, it goes a long way to budget. I look forward to bringing up than 10 cents a barrel for every 42 gal- close the gap between where people es- this amendment for debate tomorrow. lons of oil. This is a small investment timate we should be over the next 25 I yield the floor. for the large dividends it would pay. years and the $535 billion expenditure The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- The end result would be measured in it will take to get us there. ator from New Jersey. thousands of happier and healthier Second, my amendment will also Mr. LAUTENBERG. Mr. President, I children and families. fully fund efforts to enforce environ- yield myself such time as I may con- The amendment will permit the addi- mental laws, clean up toxic waste sume, probably less than 20 minutes. I tion of $300 million to the Superfund dumps, and redevelop abandoned ask unanimous consent that I be given reserve each year for 10 years. That is brownfield sites. Superfund is critical that time. less than the approximately $350 mil- to my home State. My colleague from The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without lion the Congressional Research Serv- New Jersey has been one of the most objection, it is so ordered. ice estimates the budget will fall short articulate advocates in making sure we Mr. LAUTENBERG. I rise to talk of when it tries to meet next year’s fully fund Superfund. He was one of the now about an amendment I intend to projected needs for Superfund cleanup, original authors of building this law in offer with Senators BOXER, CORZINE, but it is close. our Nation. We have 111 Superfund REED of Rhode Island, SARBANES, and At the same time, by making the pol- sites in New Jersey, most of any in the MURRAY as cosponsors. This amend- luter pay, this amendment increases

VerDate Dec 13 2002 01:26 Mar 22, 2003 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00035 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G20MR6.228 S20PT2 S4144 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE March 20, 2003 total Federal revenues by well over $1 down across the country. But it did. I hope we will have the support for billion a year for the next 10 years, Rail served as a critical alternative for passenger rail and support for Amtrak. contributing to the deficit reduction those who otherwise would have been I thank the President, the occupant and helping to lower the public debt. stranded. of the chair, for his indulgence of this The Superfund needs new life in- Now, many passengers have shifted wee hour of the night. I thank my col- jected into it because this administra- to rail on a more permanent basis. In league from Washington, also, for per- tion has significantly slowed the pace fact, more people take the train to New mitting me to talk about my amend- of cleanups, cutting the rates in half. It York from Washington than catch a ments. is time Congress and the administra- flight each day. September 11, 2001, The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- tion stopped refusing to force polluters showed us we need to maintain an ator from Washington. to pay. They are the ones who ought to intermodal transportation system. We Ms. CANTWELL. Mr. President, I pay for it. They did it. They spoiled the cannot put all our resources into avia- rise at this late hour to address an Earth and the area, and they ought to tion, and we cannot put all of our re- amendment that will be offered tomor- pay for this. sources into highways. If we want a row dealing with the issue of workforce No other American President, Demo- 21st century transportation system, we training. I applaud both of my col- crat or Republican, has ever said that must invest in Amtrak and passenger leagues from New Jersey for being here taxpayers, not polluters, should pay to rail. My amendment would provide at this late hour to articulate a variety clean up their toxic mess, and neither Amtrak with the $1.8 billion that has of needs in Superfund cleanup and in- should this one. President Ronald been requested by the Amtrak board of frastructure. Reagan understood the importance of directors. This is the funding level that I would like to address an issue about the Superfund trust fund in making the will ensure the trains run in 2004 and our human infrastructure and our in- polluter pay. In 1986, not only did he beyond. This is also the funding sorely vestment in job training and education reauthorize the original Superfund tax, needed for capital investments to im- at a time when we have in the North- he approved two in Superfund taxes, a prove infrastructure and improve the west are experiencing some of the high- tax on imported chemical derivatives, system’s reliability. These capital in- est unemployment in the country, over and corporate income tax of .12 percent vestments are also needed to help Am- 7 percent in the States of Washington, on taxable income above $2 million. trak lower its operating costs. We can- Oregon, and Alaska, and a very high Reinstating the polluter-pays prin- not continue to let them run a railroad average national unemployment rate. ciple is fair, it has a proven record of held together by duct tape. Without The question we are debating on the working, and I would urge my col- Amtrak, congestion on the roads and floor this week is how do we move for- leagues to support this good govern- in the skies would be substantially ward with a budget resolution and ance amendment. worse. Amtrak helps to remove 18,000 what should our priorities be? I am I have one more short amendment to cars a day from the congested North- here tonight to advocate that our pri- discuss, an amendment I will offer on east corridor between Philadelphia and orities should be about a program that behalf of myself and Senator ROBERT New York, and 27,000 cars a day be- will help put people back to work by BYRD to adequately fund our national tween New York and Boston. Everyone making sure they have the skills that passenger rail system, Amtrak, at $1.8 knows if there were that many more are necessary in today’s economy. billion. cars on the road, it would be impossible While we hear a lot about the high As it stands now, the budget before to travel on these highways. unemployment, we also know from em- the Senate assumes that funding level But Amtrak does more than alleviate ployers that they can’t find the skill of only $900 million for Amtrak. That congestion in densely populated high- level that they are looking for in the is about half of what the railroad way and air corridors. In many cases, workplace among the employees out needs. That would be a devastating cut. Amtrak also provides residents of there today. Why do they say that? We The funding in this fiscal year 2004 small rural towns with their only form know for a fact that there are thou- budget is nearly 22 percent lower than of intercity transportation. Each year, sands of jobs in our State in the health this year’s level. Without question, it some 22 million passengers depend on care field that cannot be filled. There would result in the bankruptcy of our Amtrak for transportation between are thousands of jobs in the Informa- national passenger railroad system urban centers and rural locations. Am- tion Technology field, but people can’t halfway through the fiscal year 2004. trak provides service in 45 of the 50 be hired because the skill level just This Senate cannot stand idly by and States. This country of ours, this most isn’t there. Yet we have 110,000 dis- allow this budget to bankrupt Amtrak. advanced Nation in the world, needs a located workers in my State of Wash- Amtrak is critical to our Nation’s world-class passenger rail service. We ington who would love to have those transportation system. We have a new can already board a high-speed train jobs. president, an impressive fellow, CEO at from New York’s Penn Station and ar- It is about matching those unem- Amtrak, David Gunn. David Gunn has rive in Washington in less than 3 hours. ployed workers with job opportunities demonstrated his ability to find com- That is city to city. It is without the that employers would like to give monsense solutions to tough problems, hassle and the problems one takes them. The missing ingredient is fund- particularly around rail and transit. going to the airports these days. ing, as we have in the past, adequate We should give Mr. Gunn the tools he But we should also be able to take a levels of job training dollars to train needs to put Amtrak back on the high-speed train from Atlanta to Char- workers to meet the skills gap. track. Everyone feels confident he has lotte or Miami. We should be able to People consider this issue and think: the capability of doing that if we give travel from Los Angeles to San Fran- Isn’t this about whether we help an in- him the tools. cisco or St. Louis to Chicago by high- dividual worker? And it is. It is about In many areas across the Nation, rail speed rail. retooling the American workforce. It is is as important to the transportation September 11 and the lingering ter- about retooling our workforce in an in- system as aviation. Amtrak is critical rorist threat shows us that we need a formation age economy. But it is also to business and the economy in many viable alternative to aviation for inter- about helping our national economy. communities and improves the quality city travel. But the budget before us Think of it for a second. What happens of life for many Americans who use rail would cripple our Nation’s passenger when you help re-train somebody and as an alternative to traffic jams on rail system. they upgrade their skills, as we have highways and the headaches we find Once again, I look to my colleagues done in Washington State? now at the airport. to think the problem through thor- I know a woman who was working, In the days following the September oughly, to recognize even if Amtrak is employed in the timber industry. She 11 attacks, our entire aviation system not a primary mode of transportation went back to a community college, was was shut down. The unbelievable took in their State, that it is part of the na- re-trained, got an Information Tech- place. It was never conceived some- tional network that we have to have in nology job, and made twice as much thing could happen in our aviation sys- a society as advanced and as crowded money. That was good for her but what tem that would shut the whole thing as ours has gotten to be. was also good was that firm that hired

VerDate Dec 13 2002 01:26 Mar 22, 2003 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00036 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G20MR6.231 S20PT2 March 20, 2003 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S4145 her found a needed employee to help an economy that is changing, where who work for companies that offer improve the productivity and bottom companies have to compete in a global health benefits, but who can’t afford line of that company. That bottom line environment. Any company will tell their share of the premium. I think productivity and improvement in that you that their workforce has to be ro- most Americans would be surprised to company also helped our local econ- bust. By robust they mean well edu- know that more than 80 percent of all omy. It produced a better output and a cated and ready to shift to new prod- uninsured children and adults live in better general economy for the State. ucts and services as they meet the families where there is at least one So by investing in workforce training competition from other companies in a working adult. Most of the uninsured— we are actually helping our entire na- world that is changing much more rap- two thirds of them—go without health tional economy. idly. insurance for more than 6 months. Why at a time with high unemploy- Even in the best of economic times, I I learned another sobering statistic ment, why at a time when our economy would say we should be greatly increas- last week: almost 75 million Americans is transitioning and we are trying to ing our investment in the workforce. In were insured for at least some time come up with a budget that will stimu- bad economic times, we ought to be over the past 2 years. That is almost late growth for the future, would we filling that gap in an even much more one of every three Americans under age cut such an economic development tool aggressive fashion, to make sure we do 65. as job training? I know there will be not fall behind and that more of these I don’t know about what all this some people tomorrow who will say we jobs do not go, either overseas inter- means to you, but to me, this spells are not really cutting programs, in- nationally because the skill level isn’t crisis. Our health care system is in cri- stead we are actually just moving the here, or to foreign workers who are sis, and it is up to us to fix it. dollars around. coming into our country on green cards Last month, Senator CLINTON and I Earlier in this year we also heard and filling these jobs because they are called on our colleagues on the Budget that there were carryover funds to fund the skilled workers. Committee to provide real dollars to these job training program. However, Tomorrow we have an important op- cover the uninsured. While in the end my State has spent those dollars. They portunity, with this workforce develop- the Senate Budget Committee did set have actually committed those dollars ment amendment I will be offering, to aside a reserve fund of $50 billion to to retrain people and upgrade their say to people in this country that it is cover the uninsured over the next 10 skills. We will hear tomorrow that, no, not just a tax cut to the wealthiest years, I just don’t think this is enough the money is there. But, what is really Americans that will get our economy to make a sizeable dent in a problem of happening is that we are actually de- growing. I disagree with that. But even this magnitude. The sense of the Senate before you creasing the money to fund important if you do make some of those tax cuts today asks the Senate to make it a pri- programs like the dislocated worker to those brackets, you have to be say- ority to expand access to health care program or adult training program by ing to Americans who are unemployed coverage in the United States. It asks as much as $678 million dollars. The and unable to find work at a time when that, to the extent that additional President FY 04 budget proposal simply employers are saying I can’t find the funds are made available, a significant transfers dollars from other existing workers either, when the health care portion of these funds should be dedi- job training accounts and consolidates industry is saying there are thousands cated to expanding access to health them into one adult training account of nursing jobs to be filled or there are care coverage so that fewer Americans under the Workforce Investment Act thousands of Information Technology have to live without health care cov- and calls that an increase. We are real- jobs, just give me the skills and we will erage, and the safety net is protected ly robbing Peter to pay Paul. What I hire them. We need to be making that and strengthened. would like to be advocating is that investment. Americans are losing their jobs as those job training dollars need to be in- So I hope that my colleagues will the economic downturn continues, creased beyond prior years. What we join me tomorrow in supporting this without the benefit of any economic should be talking about is, not the 2002 very important amendment, to make stimulus legislation from us in Con- level, but a much higher level in 2004, if the right priorities and the right deci- gress. There can be no doubt what will we want to reap the benefits of having sions about where our workforce, our happen this year—it has already begun. a fully employed workforce. That economy needs to go in the future. Through no fault of their own, many should be our goal. Mr. SMITH. Mr. President, I rise employers will have to raise copay- I would even advocate we ought to be today to introduce a sense-of-the Sen- ments and premiums, while reducing looking at the GI bill for job training ate amendment regarding the unin- benefits . . . if they are able to con- and education this year as we reau- sured. Last week was Cover the Unin- tinue to offer insurance to their em- thorize WIA and the Higher Education sured Week, a week dedicated to focus- ployees at all. The bottom line is that Act. That is the best way for us to keep ing attention on the plight of the mil- this year, more people will lose their our competitive edge in a global econ- lions of uninsured Americans. This health insurance. omy. week, I want to continue the momen- These facts and figures should dis- Think about it. What is going to hap- tum from this historic event by talking turb all who see them. But behind pen? I have been in the private sector. about the uninsured in the context of every single one of those 41 million I hired lots of people for a high-tech the Federal budget. people is a face and a story. And as I firm. What is going to happen when We have all heard the statistics: travel around Oregon for townhalls you as an employer can’t find the more than 41 million Americans do not with my friend and colleague Ron workforce because they are not skilled? have health insurance. Forty-one mil- Wyden, we look into the faces of the You don’t stop looking. You can’t. You lion people. We have heard the number uninsured, and we hear their stories, have to ship products. You have to de- so many times that it seems to have and we see their pain. velop your services. You go find the lost its impact. But let’s look at that While the stories are always dif- workforce wherever they exist. In this number more closely. Forty-one mil- ferent—and many of them are tragic— case they might be foreign workers. lion people—that is about one in six the circumstances that have brought What we are really saying tomorrow nonelderly Americans from every con- them to these places are often similar. is this: By cutting the workforce dol- ceivable walk of life: children, preg- The loss of a job. An increase in insur- lars by this budget proposal, we are nant women, parents, single adults, ance premiums. A serious illness. Un- really saying we would rather have for- full time workers, self-employed indi- avoidable circumstances that could eign skilled workers in nursing, in In- viduals, and students. happen to any one of us. formation Technology and other pro- These 41 million people include those I urge my colleagues to support this fessions. Let foreign workers take who have lost their jobs as the econ- amendment, and ask you to join the these jobs rather than helping Amer- omy has worsened. It includes people growing coalition as we struggle to ican workers to fill these jobs. who work hard for small companies cover the uninsured. I don’t think that is what we want. that can’t afford to offer health bene- Mrs. FEINSTEIN. Mr. President, I We want to put the best foot forward in fits to employees. It includes people rise to support the amendment offered

VerDate Dec 13 2002 01:26 Mar 22, 2003 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00037 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G20MR6.234 S20PT2 S4146 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE March 20, 2003 by the Senator from South Carolina to 11 terrorist attack—about 18 percent of economy to a halt. One estimate sug- increase funding to our Nation’s ports. the money available. However, accord- gests that it would take 6 months to This amendment will provide more ing to the Bureau of Transportation screen all of the containers in the sys- funding to help all ports prevent a fu- Statistics, California ports handle al- tem on any given day. So we must do ture terrorist attack. It will provide $1 most 50 percent of maritime container everything in our power to prevent an billion annually for the next 2 years— imports. attack from happening in the first an increase of $2 billion total. In other words, if international ter- place. We all know U.S. seaports are a gap- rorists overseas put a ‘‘dirty bomb’’ in Simply put, more funding is of crit- ing hole in our Nation’s system of de- a container, the odds are 50–50 that this ical importance when you consider the fense against terrorism. We have container would pass through a Cali- October 2002 report by former Senators beefed up security at our airports, but fornia port. Mr. President, $16 million Gary Hart and Warren Rudman. The as our Nation fights a war in Iraq, we is simply not enough to stop such an followup Hart-Rudman report points are not doing enough to increase the attack—especially now when we are on out, ‘‘Only the tiniest percentage of security of our seaports. the brink of war. containers, ships, trucks, and trains Last year, Congress approved legisla- I hope the Department of Homeland that enter the United States each day tion, the Maritime Transportation Se- Security will ensure that California are subject to examination—and a curity Act, sponsored by Senators ports receive their fair share of port se- weapon of mass destruction could well FRITZ HOLLINGS, BOB GRAHAM, and oth- curity grants in future allocations. be hidden among this cargo.’’ ers designed to increase security at our However, this Congress can and must The report recommends revising ports. do more. transportation security because ‘‘the In my view, this legislation was a I will soon be introducing legislation vulnerabilities are greater and the good first step, but our ports remain that takes a comprehensive approach stakes are higher in the sea and land extremely vulnerable to attack. One to port security and focuses our lim- modes than in commercial aviation. reason our ports are still vulnerable is ited resources where they are needed Systems such as those used in the avia- that the Federal Government has not most. Among other things, the bill tion sector, which start from the as- provided them with enough money to would do the following: sumption that every passenger and enable them to increase security. Update our criminal code to ensure every bag of luggage poses an equal For example, the Coast Guard has es- that terrorists who strike at us at or risk, must give way to more intel- timated that the present value cost of through our seaports can be appro- ligence-driven and layered security ap- complying with existing and upcoming priately prosecuted and punished; proaches that emphasize prescreening international and national security re- Create a container profiling plan that and monitoring based on risk-criteria.’’ quirements will be about $6 billion over would concentrate on identifying high- The bottom line: We must do a better 10 years. The 10-year present value cost risk cargo early in the shipping proc- job of profiling and inspecting cargo for facility security will be $4.4 billion ess; and that could put our Nation and our citi- and the cost to comply with section 102 Secure the international supply zens at risk. This will take time, of the Maritime Transportation Secu- chain by requiring the government to money, and cooperation from indus- rity Act alone will be $477 million. come up with a plan to inspect con- try—but it is a necessary and critical These figures do not account for the tainers overseas, before they arrive in part of our homeland security effort. funds that will be needed to pay for ad- the United States—once a weapon of A year and a half has passed since ditional security measures that can mass destruction in a container our Nation was struck by terrorists and should be taken to protect against reaches the United States, it is too from the sky. We can’t afford to wait a terrorist attack at or through our late. for a similar—or potentially greater— ports. Mr. President, I visited two ports last tragedy to provide adequate funds for Thus, I am very concerned that, year, Hong Kong and Los Angeles/Long port security. apart from some specific projects and Beach, and I learned firsthand how dif- I yield the floor. earmarks, Congress has appropriated ficult it is to protect our Nation from Mr. GRASSLEY. Mr. President, I less than $400 million for seaport secu- an attack through a seaport. start by congratulating the chairman rity grants since September 11, 2001. I According to the U.S. Bureau of of the Budget Committee, Senator was disappointed to see that President Transportation Statistics, about 13 NICKLES, on his fine work. Bush has not requested a single dime million containers, 20-foot equivalent One of the reasons for the problems for seaport security grants in his fiscal units, came into U.S. ports in 2002. of last session was the absence, for the year 2004 budget. However, only about 2 or 3 percent of first time in a generation, of a budget We also need to provide greater sup- these containers are inspected. This resolution. Chairman NICKLES has car- port to the Federal agencies enforcing translates into millions of tons of ried the President’s budget to the floor our border security laws. Coast Guard, cargo moving through our ports with and been a loyal lieutenant for our Customs, and TSA need additional no real scrutiny, any one of which Commander in Chief. It looks as if funds for port security vessels, new could contain an explosive or weapon much of the President’s budget may re- screening and detection equipments, of mass destruction. main intact, but it is also true that the and cargo security programs, and to If attacked, casualties at our ports budget will change somewhat. implement an identification card pro- and surrounding cities could run in the Let me make it clear. I support the gram. thousands and our Nation’s economy President’s budget, including the tax Port security is a crucial national se- could be brought to a standstill. Just cut number and the growth package. curity issue—like immigration and imagine if a container holding up to I believe we need a bold response to other border security functions. We 60,000 pounds of explosives slips unde- the flagging economy. It is our obliga- need to ensure that more of the money tected into a harbor and is detonated— tion to the folks that sent us here. We to protect our borders is used to safe- blowing up a ship, a bridge, or even an need to respond. Both sides agree on guard our ports. We simply cannot entire seaport. that need, as do the centrists, led by leave the Nation’s ports in the lurch, Or worse, picture a nuclear device or Senators BREAUX and SNOWE. Where forced to pay the bill to protect our radiological ‘‘dirty bomb’’—no bigger the Democratic caucus, the Republican citizens from terrorism. than a suitcase—installed in a con- caucus, and the centrists differ is on I am particularly concerned that tainer, shipped to the United States, the number we allocate for growth pro- California’s ports are not getting and exploded at a port or somewhere posals. enough funds to help prevent a ter- within the interior of our country. The debate we have this afternoon is rorist attack. Beyond the human toll, such an at- about that number. Really, though, the For example, California ports have tack would mean that every container debate is about whether we should be received about $16.405 million from the in the system would have to be in- bold, cautious, or timid. The President seaport security grant program estab- spected to ensure that there wasn’t an- and most of the Republican caucus lished by Congress after the September other bomb out there—grinding our want to be bold. We want American

VerDate Dec 13 2002 01:26 Mar 22, 2003 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00038 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A20MR6.156 S20PT2 March 20, 2003 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S4147 businesses, small and large, to grow. addressed by an amendment I intend to meningitis. There are only three doctors on We want every American who wants a offer tomorrow. duty, one Physician Assistant, and one Nurse job to be able to get a job. We don’t Through treaties and Federal stat- Practitioner. The only pediatrician is the want to take any chances. ute, the Federal Government has prom- Clinical Director who will not see any pa- tients, even though there is a serious need The Democratic leadership’s pro- ised to provide health care to American for the services of a pediatrician. Several of posed growth package yields a net tax Indians and Alaska Natives. In the In- these children have presented with breathing increase of $11.7 billion. That package dian health amendments of 1992, Con- problems, high fever, and severe vomiting. also contains new spending of $118.7 bil- gress specifically pledged to ‘‘assure The average waiting time at the clinic has lion. I call that a timid response to the the highest possible health status for been four and six hours. The average time at flagging economy. Indians and urban Indians and to pro- the emergency room is similar. Most babies Now, let’s turn to the Breaux-Snowe- vide all resources necessary to effect have been sent home without any testing to Baucus-Voinovich amendment. I under- that policy.’’ determine what they have and with nothing stand the concerns of my friends from but cough syrup and Tylenol. In at least Sadly, we haven’t even come close to three cases, the baby was sent home after the Centrist Coalition. They are wor- honoring this commitment. The IHS is these long waits two or more times with ried about long-term deficits. I am too. the only source of health care for many cough syrup, only to be life-flighted soon I am more worried about the spend- Indians, and is required to provide it, thereafter because the child could not ing side of the ledger. The Centrists are yet funding has never been adequate. breathe. The children were all diagnosed by focusing on the tax cut side only. It is The chronic underfunding has only the non-IHS hospital with RSV [Respiratory important that the Centrists’ amend- grown worse in recent years, as appro- Syntactical Virus]. No babies have died yet, ment does place the tax cut reduction priations have failed to keep up with but the Tribe sees no justification for wait- into deficit reduction. There is, how- ing until this happens when these viruses are the steep rise in private health care completely diagnosable and treatable. ever, no guarantee that the $375 billion spending. will not be spent in subsequent amend- The results are startling and dis- I couldn’t agree more. It is abso- ments on this resolution. turbing. While per capita health care lutely unacceptable to put the lives of Senators BREAUX and SNOWE have a spending for the general U.S. popu- these children at risk. And we can do long history of trying to secure bipar- lation is about $4,400, the Indian Health something to help. On more than one tisan consensus. In 2001, they, along Service spends only about $1,800 per occasion, I have heard horror stories of with Senator BAUCUS, were critical person on individual health care serv- pregnant mothers delivering children supporters of the bipartisan tax relief ices. The Government also spends con- in circumstances that no expectant package. They are widely known for siderably less on health care for Indi- mother or child should have to endure. their efforts to find bipartisan con- ans than it spends for Medicare bene- For example, right now the Service sensus on Medicare. I will be looking to ficiaries, Medicaid recipients, and vet- Unit at Eagle Butte in South Dakota this group when we take up Medicare erans. does not have an obstetrician. The legislation later this year. This level of funding is woefully in- Eagle Butte Service Unit is funded at Senators BREAUX and SNOWE suggest adequate to meet the health care needs 44 percent of the need calculated by the that the middle ground is splitting the of Native Americans—who have a lower Indian Health Service. The facility has difference between the President’s life expectancy than other Americans, a birthing room and 22 beds, but there number of $726 billion and the Demo- and disproportionately suffer from a are only two to three doctors to staff cratic leadership’s position. number of serious medical problems. the clinic, hospital and emergency I am opposed to this amendment be- Indians have higher rates of diabetes, room. Naturally, as a result, many cause we need more than $350 billion to heart disease, sudden infant death syn- children and expecting mothers do not do the job the right way. Don’t get me drome (SIDS), and tuberculosis. There receive the care they need and deserve. wrong. If $350 billion is the number, is also a great need for substance abuse Due to budget constraints, the IHS pol- that is the number the Finance Com- and mental health services. icy is to allow only one ultrasound per mittee will work with. The Finance More funds are needed if the IHS is to pregnancy. The visiting obstetrician is Committee will develop the best pack- provide necessary health care services available only every couple of weeks. age we can. to Indians. The current shortage of The story of Brayden Robert Thomp- My point is that the Finance Com- funds is having serious consequences. son points out how dangerous this situ- mittee can do more growth incentives Native Americans are often denied care ation is. On March 3, 2002, Brayden’s with a number above $350 billion. that most of us take for granted and, mother was in labor with a full-term, Now, some view the net $350 billion in many cases, would consider essen- perfectly healthy baby. Brayden’s um- as a vote against the President’s pro- tial. They can be required to endure bilical cord was wrapped around his posal to eliminate the double taxation long waits before seeing a doctor and neck, but, without ultrasound, that of dividends. may be unable to obtain a referral to went undetected. The available med- I support the President’s proposal to see a specialist. Sometimes lack of ical staff didn’t know what to do about eliminate the double taxation of divi- funds means care is postponed until In- his lowered heartbeat, abnormal uri- dends. It is good tax policy and it is dians are literally at risk of losing nalysis or the fact that his mother was good economic policy. their lives or their limbs. Other Indians not feeling well. Despite the symptoms, This vote is not about the dividends receive no care at all. IHS refused to provide an ultrasound or proposal. The Finance Committee, in This rationing of care means that all to send her to Pierre to see an obstetri- its bipartisan way, will decide the com- too often Indians are forced to wait cian. Brayden was stillborn. This trag- position of the growth package. until their medical conditions become ic death was completely preventable, To my moderate friends, let me say more serious—and more difficult to but tough choices are being made every something in conclusion. No matter treat—before they may access health day at IHS facilities throughout the where the number ends up, I expect care. This is a situation none of us country because there simply isn’t Senator BAUCUS and I will produce a bi- would find acceptable, yet this is the enough money to provide the care that partisan growth package. reality in Indian country. every American deserves. The Breaux-Snowe amendment, while Last year, Gregg Bourland and Har- The Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in well intentioned, does not provide the old Frazier, then the chairman and vice my State of South Dakota built a Finance Committee with the tools nec- chairman of the Cheyenne River Sioux beautiful new hospital and health care essary to do the job of delivering a bold Tribe in South Dakota, sent a letter to center. In many ways, they are growth package to the American peo- the IHS. This is how they described the equipped to provide state-of-the-art, ple. situation in Eagle Butte: coordinated care. But they cannot re- AMENDMENT NO. 363 tain health care professionals because In January and February 2002, the Eagle Mr. DASCHLE. Mr. President, I want Butte Service Unit on the Cheyenne River of low payment schedules and inad- to bring to the attention of the Senate Sioux reservation has been swamped with equate training opportunities for local the critical shortfall in funding for the children with Influenza A, RSV [Respiratory people. Their shiny new labor and de- Indian Health Service, IHS—a shortfall Syntactical Virus], and one fatal case of livery rooms, surgery rooms and even

VerDate Dec 13 2002 01:26 Mar 22, 2003 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00039 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A20MR6.160 S20PT2 S4148 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE March 20, 2003 dental chairs stand empty, and individ- cuts for our Nation’s wealthiest citi- they risk the loss of a limb, their treatment uals on the reservation are forced to zens than to provide Native Americans is deferred for higher priority cases. travel long distances to receive these the health care they have been prom- Additionally, local health care providers outside of the IHS system feel the con- vital services. This also is the case on ised but denied. Some defend that posi- sequences of this lack of funding. Because the neighboring Rosebud Indian Res- tion by saying that someday, somehow, IHS is so under-funded and is often unable to ervation. these Native Americans will benefit offer the full range of necessary care, the This is not solely an Indian issue. from the tax cuts extended to others, agency contracts with local hospitals and This is a community issue. It affects that the benefit will ‘‘trickle down’’ to other health care facilities and often is un- surrounding rural community hos- them. It is their right to take that po- able to reimburse these non-IHS facilities for pitals, ambulance services, and other sition, but they could not be more the services they provide, resulting in seri- health care providers who work with ous budget shortfalls for the contract facili- wrong. ties. IHS. For example, the Lake Andes- A woman going into labor cannot Once again, we urge you to join members Wagner ambulance district in north- wait for economic benefits to trickle on both sides of the aisle in supporting this eastern South Dakota is facing finan- down to her. A child in respiratory dis- $2.9 billion increase as we work towards cial disaster, in part because they have tress cannot wait, either. How is it pos- eliminating the health disparities plaguing not been reimbursed properly by the sible that we can afford to delve deeper Indian Country. I hope I can count on your Indian Health Service. This ambulance into debt to fund additional tax cuts support, and should you require further in- formation, please contact J.T. Petherick, service offers emergency transport for for those doing relatively well in this National Indian Health Board Deputy Direc- citizens of Charles Mix County and country, but we cannot afford to dedi- tor of Legislative Affairs at (202) 742–4262 or Yankton Sioux tribal members, since cate a small fraction of that amount to by e-mail at [email protected]. We look for- the Wagner IHS hospital cannot afford fund the most basic health care serv- ward to working with you to address the to operate its own service. If this am- ices for some of the poorest people in health challenges facing American Indian bulance service shuts down, what will America who have been guaranteed and Alaska Native communities. these residents—Indian and non-In- that care? Sincerely, dian—do when they face an emergency? We must not tolerate this situation JULIA DAVIS-WHEELER, Chairperson, National Indian Health Board. Bennett County hospital in the any longer. southwestern part of the South Dakota The problem is real; the solution is simple. Give the Indian Health Service FRIENDS OF INDIAN HEALTH, is located between the Pine Ridge and March 20, 2003. Rosebud Indian Reservations, and suf- the funds it needs to provide Native DEAR SENATOR: Our organizations are writ- fers similar IHS reimbursement prob- Americans the health benefits they ing to urge you to support the Daschle budg- lems, as do other non-IHS providers in were promised. Yes, it will require a et amendment to S. Con. Res. 23 that calls South Dakota and throughout rural slight decrease in the reduction of the for increasing funding for FY 04 for Indian America. From 1998 to 2001, the most top tax rate. But those top-bracket Health Services clinical services. taxpayers will still get the benefit of The state of Indian health is at a crisis recent year for which IHS has data, level and appears to be worsening compared IHS contract denials have increased 75 every other rate reduction and every to all other races in the nation. According to percent. other tax break available to them, and mortality data collected by the IHS, between In his budget request for the next fis- almost 2 million Native Americans will FY 1997–1999, death rates for American Indi- cal year, the President requested only have health care coverage. ans/Alaska Natives (AI/AN) from diabetes, $1.99 billion for clinical services for In- I ask unanimous consent that letters cancer, suicide and injuries rose signifi- dians. This represents only a small in- from the National Indian Health Board cantly. These increases have resulted in an and Friends of Indian Health be printed overall increase in the death rate for AI/ANs crease over what the President re- while rates for all other Americans have in the RECORD at the close of my re- quested for fiscal year 2003, and vir- been dropping. This health disparity gap will tually no increase over what was fi- marks. likely continue unless access to treatment nally included in the omnibus appro- There being no objection, the mate- and preventive services are significantly im- priations bill. We can and must do bet- rial was ordered to be printed in the proved. ter. RECORD, as follows: An increase of $2.9 billion would allow the The amendment I am proposing NATIONAL INDIAN HEALTH BOARD, IHS to restore lost services. Since 1992, due would increase funding for clinical Washington, DC, March 18, 2003. to budget shortfalls, the IHS has experienced DEAR SENATE MEMBER: On behalf of the Na- an almost 20% loss of spending power. Re- services by $2.9 billion over the Presi- peated failures to fund mandatory costs for dent’s request for fiscal year 2004. It is tional Indian Health Board, we are writing to urge your support of a floor amendment population growth and inflation, have re- the minimal amount that is necessary providing a $2.9 billion increase over the sulted in the tribes, urban Indian programs to provide basic health care to the cur- President’s FY 2004 funding request to en- and the IHS absorbing close to three-quar- rent IHS user population. The full cost hance the Indian Health Service (IHS) clin- ters of $1 billion in program costs. As a re- over the next 10 years would be $38.7 ical services budget. Further, we urge you to sult our organizations have seen decreases in participate in the floor discussion and join important primary care services including: billion. The amendment also devotes A 37% decline in well child services be- other American Indian and Alaska Native an equal amount to deficit reduction, tween FY 1992–97 health advocates on both sides of the aisle as all offset by a corresponding decrease A 35% decline in physical exams between in the top tax rate reduction. we work together to educate other Senate FY 1994–97 and, members about the health needs in Indian A 26% reduction in people receiving dental The amendment is cosponsored by Country and how the $2.9 billion increase to Senators INOUYE, BINGAMAN, DORGAN, services between FY 1992–99. IHS clinical services would save many lives. We believe that in order to meet the health MURRAY, WYDEN, JOHNSON, LEAHY, While we understand the difficult decisions care needs of the AI/AN population, the FY CANTWELL, REID, and KENNEDY. It is the United States government is facing re- 2004 budget resolution must include realistic also supported by a wide range of garding the FY 2004 budget due to military funding levels to restore clinical and preven- health organizations, native and non- action in Iraq, a sluggish economy and the tive services and attract a viable workforce native. war on terrorism, it is equally important of health care providers. This budget resolution is a test of that the federal government honor its trust Thank you for your consideration of this responsibility to American Indians and Alas- this Nation’s priorities. Some will say matter of vital importance to America’s In- ka Natives by ensuring that IHS has ade- dians. We hope we can count on your sup- that it doesn’t matter, that it is purely quate funding to meet basic health care port, and please let us know if we may assist symbolic. But the whole point of the needs. Adoption of an increase in the clinical your efforts. If you have any questions or budget resolution is to establish an en- services budget of the Indian Health Service need more information on this issue please forceable fiscal framework and make of $2.9 billion for FY 2004 will move us one contact Judy Sherman at [email protected] room in our budget for needs that we critical step closer to that goal. or (202) 789–5164. believe are worthy of our national at- Medical care for American Indians and Sincerely, Alaska Natives is currently rationed, which tention. American Academy of Ophthalmology; has created a health care crisis. Patients are American Academy of Pediatrics; American I know there are some in this body faced with a ‘‘life or limb’’ test that dictates Association of Colleges of Nursing; American who honestly believe that it is more whether they may or may not receive IHS Association of Colleges of Pharmacy; Amer- important to eliminate the taxation of health services. In most situations, unless ican College of Obstetricians and Gyne- stock dividends—or accelerate huge tax their lives are immediately threatened or cologists; American Dental Association;

VerDate Dec 13 2002 01:26 Mar 22, 2003 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00040 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G20MR6.237 S20PT2 March 20, 2003 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S4149 American Dental Education Association; The question that we are confronted ka Native, the likelihood that you will American Diabetes Association; American with today is: What promises did the die from diabetes is 390 percent higher Optometric Association; American Podiatric United States make to the Native peo- than for other Americans. Medical Association; American Psychiatric As a Native person, your chances of Association; American Psychological Asso- ple of America in treaties and what re- ciation; American Public Health Associa- sponsibilities did the United States un- dying from tuberculosis are 500 percent tion; Association on American Indian Af- dertake in subsequently enacted Fed- higher than other Americans. fairs, National Kidney Foundation. eral laws, and how do those commit- And if you are a newborn or an infant Mr. INOUYE. Mr. President, I rise in ments measure up to what is provided Native child, your mortality rate is 25 support of the amendment proposed by to other Americans today in the arena percent higher than other infants. Rates of cardiovascular disease are my leader, the Senator from South Da- of health care services? twice those for the general public and kota. I believe that the reason my col- I think it is important to review league from South Dakota has come they continue to increase while the in- briefly the history that brought us to forward today with his amendment is cidence of cardiovascular disease is this point today. that he sees in his home State of South going down amongst the general popu- A few hundred years ago, before the Dakota the same dynamic that we see lation. first Europeans landed on the shores of across Indian country—a health care To complete this picture, we also what is now the United States, the In- system that is woefully underfunded need to look at the health care system dian nations exercised dominion and and alarmingly understaffed, with fa- that is designed to serve the needs of control over 550 million acres of the cilities that are in such a state of dis- Native people. Health care in Native America is pro- land which became America. repair that many of them have been vided through the Indian Health Serv- By the time of the Revolutionary condemned. ice system of hospitals and clinics, War, relations with the Indian tribes As a veteran and as ranking member through tribally operated hospitals and were well established, and it was the of the Defense Appropriations sub- clinics, through urban Indian health Native people of this land who provided committee, I have had the opportunity care programs, and through govern- food to General George Washington and to compare the investments our Nation ment contracts with private hospitals his troops that sustained them makes in the health care provided to throughout the harsh winter at Valley and health care providers. our veterans, to our men and women in In some of the most heavily popu- Forge. active duty service and their depend- Native warriors fought beside the lated areas of Indian country, particu- ent, and to our Federal employees. larly California, Oregon, and Wash- revolutionary soldiers, and their valu- I think these comparative expendi- ington State, there are no Indian able contributions to the success of the tures should interest our colleagues— Health Service hospitals and clinics, so war for independence was widely chron- for they tell the story and paint a dra- Native people in those states must rely icled. matic picture of disparities that are so on either a tribal health care system or Later, as our Founding Fathers un- large and frankly, so shocking, that we dertook the task of developing a con- on contract health care services. would be negligent and irresponsible But because of the severe constraints stitution for a new Nation, it was the were we to fail to address them. governmental structure of the Iroquois that have been imposed on funds avail- Let’s look at veterans. The Veterans’ able for the purchase of contract Confederacy that they chose as the Administration expended $5,214 for model for our democracy and the foun- health care services, those who must medical care for each eligible veteran seek care outside the Indian Health dation of our government. in 2001. In 1999, Medicare expended In contemporary times, more Indian Service system have to prove that $5,915 per eligible Medicare enrollee. men and women, on a per capita basis, their condition is either life-threat- The average medical expenditure in have put on the uniform of our country ening or that they may lose a limb in the United States on a per capita basis and placed themselves in harm’s way in the absence of treatment. in 1999 was $5,065 per patient. defense of our country than any other So if you have severe diabetes and re- For Medicaid enrollees, $3,879 was ex- ethnic group. sultant kidney damage, for example, as This dedication to a nation that has pended for each eligible Medicaid pa- a Native person you wouldn’t be eligi- many sad and sorry chapters in its his- tient in 1998. ble for kidney dialysis until you were tory of relations with the Native peo- For inmates in Federal prisons, $3,803 at death’s door. Physicians would in- ple of this land is remarkable. were expended for health care services struct us that by that time, it is often Nonetheless, Indian people have provided to each inmate in 1999. too late to save the life of a patient. served in the Armed Forces of the Just a little less—$3,725—was pro- In this category alone, there is a United States in greater numbers than vided to Federal employees in 1999 for shortfall of $20.6 million of what is any other segment of the population, health care services under an eligible needed for contract health care serv- on a per capita basis, in World War II, Federal health care plan. ices. the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Compare all of these figures with To bring the 55 most poorly funded Gulf War and Desert Storm, and in that provided to patients of the Indian tribal health care systems up to 40 per- every military action in which our Health Service in 2002—a shocking cent of the identified health care country has been engaged in modern $1,914 per patient for medical care and needs, it would require $34 million. times. $619 for nonmedical care such as pre- And to bring tribal communities These are the people whose ancestors ventive health care services. across the Nation up to just 60 percent ceded 500 million acres of land to So if you are an Indian person and of the identified health care needs, it America, in exchange for certain fun- you are in need of health care services, would require $388 million. damental commitments on the part of you would have twice as much provided The Indian Health Service is also the United States, including the provi- for your health care as a Federal prison charged with providing safe water and sion of health care. inmate than you would as a law-abid- sanitation facilities for Indian commu- So, as has been observed more than ing Native citizen of the United States. nities, but there is a $1.753 billion back- once in this Chamber, the Native peo- If you were a veteran, 60 percent log in sanitation facilities. ple of the United States has paid their more would be dedicated to providing For basic primary health care serv- dues. health care to you, and if you were eli- ices—services which most Americans They have sacrificed their sons and gible for Medicare, the percentage take for granted because their access is daughters, mothers and fathers, uncles would be even higher. unlimited—for Native people the need and aunts in the defense of our Nation. This is the relative nature of the that is unmet is $6.336 billion. And through their treaties with the manner in which we carry out our com- For Indian people suffering from can- United States, and their cession of mil- mitments to the Native people of this cer, the health care service need that is lions of acres of land to the United land. currently unmet is $294 million. States, the Native people of this land Now let’s look at some health statis- For those Native patients with heart purchased the first prepaid health plan tics of the Native American popu- disease, the unmet need for health care in America. lation. If you are an Indian or an Alas- services is $369 million.

VerDate Dec 13 2002 01:26 Mar 22, 2003 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00041 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A20MR6.176 S20PT2 S4150 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE March 20, 2003 Native Americans with diabetes have rate for diabetes mellitus that is 249 is not to just listen to and be their an unmet need for health care treat- percent higher than the death rate for voice in Washington. ment of $452 million. all races in the United States, a pneu- We also have to respect and follow I could go on and on with such tragic monia and influenza death rate that is the traditions, rules and processes of statistics—and if they were just num- 71 percent higher, a tuberculosis death our duties that have been entrusted to bers it might be a different matter— rate that is 533 percent higher, and a us. but each of these statistics represents death rate from alcoholism that is 627 Whether it is following the com- thousands of Native people who are percent higher.’’ This is unacceptable. mittee process to get a bill to the floor, going without the most fundamental When I meet with tribes from Wash- or allowing an up or down vote on a health care. ington State and around the country, president’s judicial nominee, we have These are the people who have given improving access to health care for un- to remember that the Senate is only as this country their land so that we derserved populations—from neo-natal great as those who serve in it. could build a new nation. care for pregnant women to care for el- I think the Senate suffered last year These are the people who have sac- ders—almost always comes up. I under- when for the first time in nearly three rificed their lives in the defense of our stand that narrowing the health gap decades we did not even consider a country. that exists between Native Americans budget resolution. These are the people who have given and non-natives is a complex chal- It then took us almost a full year to the most and who are in turn, provided lenge. Good health care for Native get all of our work done. We didn’t pass the least. Americans depends in part on decreas- last year’s appropriations bills until Most of the Indian Health Service ing poverty and unemployment, im- just 2 months ago. hospitals are over 30 years old. They proving education, strengthening eco- Last year we failed and we have to are so badly in need of repair and re- nomic development, and overcoming improve. The result was a broken proc- placement that the minimum unmet physical and cultural barriers to ac- ess that limped along for months and need is $610 million. cessing good health care. months. This year we have to do better Year after year, the costs associated But it also depends on adequate re- and I believe we will. with providing care—salaries of doctors sources, and I believe we must do more We face a tough budget for 2004. and nurses and other health care pro- in this area. In 2003, medical inflation While I am happy the budget resolution fessionals serving Indian country—fail exceeded 12 percent in the Pacific before us balances the budget within 10 to keep pace with those employed in Northwest. With medical inflation in years, we do face some large deficits in the Department of Defense and Vet- the double digits and growing Native the near term. erans’ Administration health care sys- American populations, we cannot ac- These large deficits primarily occur tems, or with medical inflation rates. cept cuts to the Indian Health Service. because we have had a steep decline in Not surprisingly, these valued profes- Nor can we accept only minimal in- revenue. sionals leave Indian country for more creases in funding for IHS programs Contrary to what some of my col- pay, better working conditions, and as year after year. leagues try to argue, our revenue prob- caring people—for the promise that the But that is what this Budget Com- lems are caused by a weak economy patients they see on a daily basis won’t mittee has proposed, in keeping with and not tax cuts. have to wait until their lives are hang- President Bush’s 2004 budget request. The evidence is overwhelming that ing in the balance before they can re- This Budget Resolution assumes no tax cuts stimulate the economy. They ceive care. discretionary increases in funding for create jobs, and increase economic ac- If treaties mean anything—and the IHS. The Bush Administration has tivity, that leads to more revenue. U.S. Supreme Court has repeatedly asked for an increase of only 2 percent And that is why we need tax cuts held that treaties are the highest laws for IHS clinical services. This is woe- now—to get the economy out of a rut fully inadequate. of the land—then this Nation has not and to help improve the budget fore- I urge my colleagues to support this only a moral duty but a legal obliga- cast. amendment to increase funding to en- tion to fulfill its treaty commitments If American businesses are not gener- sure good health care for Native Amer- to the Native people of this land. ating profits, if American workers are icans. This amendment to the budget And I think that these numbers resolution will provide an increase of not working, the result is a lot less make it abundantly clear why the $2.9 billion for IHS clinical services in money coming into the Federal Gov- amendment proposed by my friend fiscal year 2004 and a $40 billion in- ernment through various taxes. from South Dakota is conservative. crease over the next ten years. The Decreased tax receipts do not mean It won’t meet all of the health care cost of these increases for the Indian taxes are too low; they mean the econ- needs in Indian country, but it would Health Service is paid for by a decrease omy is too slow. We cannot make these be a good beginning in addressing con- in the proposed tax cut. budget numbers look better in the long ditions that are devastating and tragic The Daschle amendment provides a term without a strong economy. by any measure—conditions which por- crucial first step towards securing in- Many of my friends argue against tax tray a shameful picture that a benevo- creased appropriations for Indian cuts and at the same time complain lent and prosperous nation appears to health care. Over 90,000 Indian people about falling revenues. care so little about its First Ameri- in the Northwest, and more than 1.5 If they really want to increase fed- cans. million Native Americans nationwide, eral receipts and provide more funding Mrs. MURRAY. Mr. President, I depend on IHS funds and services. We for their favorite programs, tax cuts strongly support Senator DASCHLE’s can no longer let down American Indi- are the answer. amendment to increase funds for the ans by continuing to under-fund vital Our budget committee, under the Indian Health Service’s clinical serv- health care services. I hope my col- leadership of chairman NICKLES, has ices by $2.9 billion. I believe access to leagues will support this amendment. crafted a strong budget. good health care services is a basic Mr. BUNNING. Mr. President, I rise Besides this budget outlining our fed- human right. This is especially true for to express my support for the budget eral spending priorities, it also address- Native Americans, for whom the Fed- resolution. es one of the most important chal- eral Government has the trust respon- First I would like to say that it is lenges facing our country today— sibility to deliver health care services. nice to actually have a budget on the strengthening the economy. But statistics tell us that when it floor in the Senate. We didn’t ever get At its core, this budget recognizes comes to ensuring good health for Na- to vote on one last year, and I would that we must grow our economy. That tive Americans, we are failing. like to compliment Chairman NICKLES is why the budget committee chose to The Indian Health Care Improvement on moving this resolution swiftly include a jobs and growth package at Act, S. 212, which I cosponsored last through the budget committee and to the very core of this budget and to in- year, includes some sobering statistics. the Senate floor. clude that package in reconciliation. The bill reads, ‘‘In death rates for ex- We have to remember that part of We have a fundamental responsi- ample, Indian people suffer a death our responsibility to our constituents bility to the American people to make

VerDate Dec 13 2002 01:26 Mar 22, 2003 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00042 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A20MR6.170 S20PT2 March 20, 2003 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S4151 this economy stronger and to return it The President’s plan will accelerate has shown up there to grab these bonds to a growth pattern we have enjoyed in the expansion of the 10 percent tax and hand them out to the rich. That is the past. bracket—which benefits all American just a bogus claim. Many here have expressed concerns taxpayers. Over 69 million taxpayers The President’s growth package is for our men and women who are fight- will benefit from this provision, includ- just that—an economic growth pack- ing for our freedoms and to liberate the ing 879,000 Kentuckians. age. We recently passed an extension of people of Iraq. Over 35 million married couples—al- unemployment benefits and President We all pray for their safety and their most 500,000 of them in Kentucky—will Bush signed that into law. While this quick return home to their loved ones. benefit from the President’s accelera- may provide a quick—yet short—stim- But in addition to our responsibility to tion of marriage penalty relief. ulus to the economy, what we really do what we can to insure their safety We also accelerate the reduction of need is a long-term jobs and economic overseas, we must also focus upon our the marginal tax rates. It is estimated growth plan. responsibilities to them when they re- this will provide 28 million taxpayers We cannot spend our way into pros- turn. with a tax cut—including the 85 per- perity. We have seen governments try While we continue to pray for a quick cent of America’s small businesses this and fail. It may make some of us and decisive end to this war, we have which pay personal income taxes rath- feel good to write check after check to think about what our soldiers and er than corporate taxes. from the government, that is simply sailors will have to come home to. Approximately 79 percent of the tax the wrong approach. An economy with an unemployment relief provided by accelerating the re- Governments don’t create jobs and rate of 5.8 percent is not good enough. duction in the top bracket to 35 per- wealth. Free individuals with an idea An economy that’s barely growing is cent would go to small business own- and a source of capital create jobs and not good enough. ers. As my colleagues are aware, it is wealth. We have to do better. We have to the entrepreneurs and small business We can grow ourselves into pros- make sure they have choices and op- owners which create two-thirds of the perity. We have done it before. The fun- portunities in the American job mar- new jobs in the United States. damental question is: Who knows bet- ket that will allow them to support Another component of the Presi- ter what is good for Americans—the themselves and their families. dent’s jobs and growth package is the Federal Government or the American It is not going to do us any good to elimination of the double taxation of people? win the war and lose the economy. We dividends. The strength of the American econ- have to do both at the same time. This could be the most effective pro- omy is not from the government and We have to get this economy moving vision of all of the President’s pro- more Federal programs. It is the Amer- and Americans working. And the jobs posals contained in the President’s ican people—the workers, entre- and growth package included in this budget. But because of the usual class preneurs, investors, and risk takers— budget resolution is the answer to our warfare mantra from its opponents, it who keep the American dream alive. economic troubles. may be the toughest to sell. It is better to allow Americans to The council of economic advisors es- Half of all households in America keep more of their money to make timates that this economic growth own stock and 50 percent of all divi- spending, savings and investment deci- plan will create 510,000 new jobs in 2003 dend income goes to our country’s sen- sions. We cannot decide here what job and another 891,000 new jobs by the end iors. So a reduction in the tax rate skills different people need, or what of 2004. that dividends face—currently in the new equipment companies should pur- The business roundtable estimates range of a 60 to 70 percent marginal chase, or how to organize a small busi- that around 3.5 million jobs will be cre- rate—could have a real impact on our ness’ growth plan. ated over that same time frame. economy by allowing more dollars to The Federal Government cannot Between these two estimates, that is be spent by consumers. make these investments for them. Big 1.5 million to 3.5 million Americans This reduction in the double taxation brother does not know best. We in Con- that will not be working over the next of dividends not only assists current gress do not know what investments two years if we eliminate the Presi- dividend recipients, but it assists all will best suit the particular interests dent’s growth package from this budg- who own stock. of American families, entrepreneurs et. Some private-sector estimates indi- and business owners. The majority of the Budget Com- cate that market increases from this But what we can do is allow Ameri- mittee believe strongly in the wisdom proposal could be up to 20 percent. This cans to have access to more of the of this jobs and growth package. And would be welcome news to Americans money they work for and earn. And that is why we provided for the pack- who have been hard hit by the loss of then we have to trust them to make age under the special procedures of rec- about $7 trillion in the value of U.S. the necessary decisions within the onciliation. stocks since March 2000. economy to invest and create more Through the accelerated procedures An added bonus to eliminating the jobs. provided by reconciliation, we will be double taxation is the change it will But to do this, we need to pass this able to enact changes to help our econ- have on the debt-to-equity ratios of budget resolution with its jobs and eco- omy sooner rather than later. The fast- American businesses. nomic growth package in tact. And er we can implement these policies, the Treasury Secretary Snow estimates therefore, I urge my colleagues to sup- better it will be for all of us. we could see changes in the debt-to-eq- port this resolution as it was passed by While the details of any growth pack- uity ratios in the range of 5 to 8 per- the Budget Committee. age will be determined by the Senate cent. This movement of corporations Finally, I want to say a few words Finance Committee, I hope that any toward the use of more equity and less about the Medicare prescription drug bill that comes out of that committee, debt would leave them less vulnerable benefit provision in the resolution. on which I serve, will include many, if to economic downturns. We all agree that Medicare is an im- not all, of the proposals that have been And before we hear the usual cries portant program. It provides health put forward by President Bush. from the opponent’s of the President’s coverage to 41 million Americans, in- High on the list are the acceleration tax relief package—who say we are cluding almost 630,000 Kentuckians. of a number of proposals we passed in raiding the Social Security Trust Fund When Medicare was created back in 2001 which are scheduled to totally to pay for tax cuts for the rich—let me 1966, it ensured that seniors would be phase-in and become effective in later set the record straight. able to receive health care coverage. years. As the law requires, we invest social However, medicine has advanced so The President’s plan will imme- security funds in government bonds rapidly and prescription drugs play a diately increase the child tax credit to which are the safest and most reliable major role in the health care of many. $1000. This will benefit over 25 million investment out there. For years, Congress has debated var- American families—342,000 of them in These bonds are kept in a secure fa- ious proposals for adding a drug benefit Kentucky. cility in Clarksburg, WV. And no one to Medicare. So far, we haven’t gotten

VerDate Dec 13 2002 01:26 Mar 22, 2003 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00043 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A20MR6.192 S20PT2 S4152 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE March 20, 2003 the job done. I am hopeful this year The PRESIDING OFFICER. All time tend if you want to improve your vot- will be different for several reasons. is yielded back. ing record. It is not a good day to miss First, our seniors need our help now Mr. NICKLES. I thank my colleague if you want to have a good voting more than ever. They shouldn’t have to from North Dakota. record for the year. make tough decisions about which pre- We have now completed the debate Mr. CONRAD. Mr. President, let me scriptions they can afford to fill each and discussion time for consideration thank my colleague, the chairman of month, or whether or not they should of the budget resolution. The statute the committee. He has been gracious divide pills or skip meals. calls for 50 hours. We have yielded back throughout this process and a gen- This is one of the biggest issues we a few hours, but for the most part we tleman. I have very much enjoyed hear about from our constituents. have probably spent some 40-odd hours working with him. There are a lot of Kentuckians who on the floor of the Senate debating and The fact is, now we have over 90 would benefit. Almost 144,000 seniors in discussing various amendments. It has amendments pending at the desk—I Kentucky are below 200 percent of pov- been a very high level debate. We con- think 93. At 10 minutes apiece, that is erty, and almost 58,000 are below the sidered several amendments. We have over 15 hours of voting, and that is if poverty level. adopted amendments. We have agreed we voted every 10 minutes. We all know Second, this budget resolution sets to adopt additional amendments. that won’t occur. So we would be talk- aside $400 billion over the next 10 years Unfortunately, as sometimes happens ing about a very long day tomorrow. to create a medicare drug program. in budget resolutions, when we con- I will just send a message out to any This is a great increase over what the clude the scheduled time for debate, of our colleagues or any of their staffs President proposed before and shows the 50 hours, we have not dealt with all who are listening, to those who have his dedication to this issue. the pending amendments. We still have amendments pending: If this is some- In fact, the President proposed $153 many amendments. Sometimes that thing that you think is a good idea but billion for Medicare prescription drugs leads to a lot of votes. So tomorrow we you really don’t need to do now, that in his fiscal year 2002 budget. will begin that. We will begin it at 9:45. you could offer on an appropriations For fiscal year 2003, this number in- I urge all my colleagues to be here bill or some other vehicle, we encour- creased to $190 billion. and, for the most part, to stay on the age you to do that. And for fiscal year 2004, President floor. We will work with all of our col- This is a very difficult process. I Bush has more than doubled last year’s leagues who have amendments filed or think the record is 34 votes in a day. I amount to $400 billion. pending or feel that they are compelled remember that day. I think the chair- For Congress’s part, this $400 billion to offer amendments. We encourage man remembers that day. It was not figure is also a substantial increase. them not to. But knowing a little his- pretty. I don’t look forward to a rep- In the fiscal year 2001 budget resolu- tory, I would expect a lot of rollcall lication. But that is what the rules are. tion, we set aside $40 billion over five votes tomorrow. I will say on behalf of That is where we are. The only way it years for a Medicare prescription drug colleagues on my side and others, we is going to be better is if we use re- benefit. will be happy to work with colleagues. straint. I just hope colleagues and In the fiscal year 2002 budget resolu- I would hope that maybe we could get staffs are listening and that tomorrow tion, Congress allocated $300 billion some amendments accepted by voice restraint is demonstrated. We don’t over 10 years. vote, or maybe the sponsors of the need to vote on every one of these 93 Of course, last year, we didn’t pass a amendment might decide it might be a amendments. The chairman and I will work dili- budget. And, this year, we have set better time to offer their amendment gently to try to clear amendments, to aside $400 billion over 10 years. at another date for which we would get agreement on amendments, to Third, the finance committee will be give them great credit and applause. work through amendments that could allowed to consider and report a bill to Regardless, I expect that we would be accepted. We ask our colleagues, we the floor this year. And I am hopeful have a lot of votes beginning at 9:45 to- implore them to work with us tomor- we can avoid many of the problems we morrow morning. encountered last year. I expect the time for the votes will be row, to avoid this being an unpleasant Last year we voted on four prescrip- limited to 10 minutes for the informa- and unproductive experience. Again, I thank the chairman and our tion drug proposals. But because the tion of our colleagues. We will provide colleagues who have worked coopera- bill didn’t come from the finance com- periodic breaks for individuals so they tively today to make progress. mittee as it should have, all these pro- can have maybe some chance for us to Mr. NICKLES. Mr. President, I thank posals required 60 votes to pass. Need- regroup and reconsider the order and my friend and colleague, the ranking less to say, none came close. priority of amendments. member of the Budget Committee. He Also, these four proposals ranged Mr. President, I ask unanimous con- is exactly right. There are 90-some widely in price from as low as $295 bil- sent that 9:45 the Senate proceed to amendments. I would hope most of lion to over $600 billion. The tri-par- votes in relation to the following them would not be called up, and I tisan plan, which I and many of my amendments in the order mentioned: hope the balance will be voice voted, colleagues voted for, was estimated to Schumer amendment No. 299; Cochran and maybe we will have a couple roll- cost $370 billion over 10 years. on homeland security; Feingold on war call votes and finish at decent hour. We have a real chance for a bipar- reserve; Lautenberg on defense; Hol- I would like the Senate to conduct tisan effort this year. An overwhelming lings on no tax cut; Sarbanes on a itself in a way that we would be proud. majority in this body have indicated water related amendment; Crapo on a In years past that has not always been their support for a Medicare prescrip- water related amendment; Conrad on the case, when we are doing these rapid tion drug benefit. IDEA, Gregg on IDEA; and Senator MI- fire amendments. I urge my colleagues to vote for this KULSKI on long-term care. resolution. It will create jobs if we can The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there f pass it with the President’s job and tax objection? MORNING BUSINESS package in tact. And the Medicare pre- Mr. CONRAD. No objection. Mr. NICKLES. Mr. President, I ask scription drug benefit package it in- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without unanimous consent the Senate proceed cludes is what seniors not only need, objection, it is so ordered. to a period for morning business. but what they deserve. Mr. NICKLES. I thank my colleague, The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. TAL- Senator CONRAD. He has been a pleas- objection, it is so ordered. ure to work with through the first sev- ENT). Who yields time? f The Senator from Oklahoma is recog- eral days of this resolution. I expect nized. that we might have a long day tomor- BIOLOGICAL, CHEMICAL, AND RA- Mr. NICKLES. Mr. President, I yield row. I hope not. But we will be in as DIOLOGICAL WEAPONS COUNTER- to my colleague. long as necessary to complete this res- MEASURES RESEARCH ACT Mr. CONRAD. Mr. President, I yield olution, and I encourage all of our col- Mr. HATCH. Mr. President, I rise to back our time. leagues, tomorrow is a good day to at- speak about my cosponsorship, with

VerDate Dec 13 2002 01:26 Mar 22, 2003 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00044 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A20MR6.198 S20PT2 March 20, 2003 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S4153 Senator LIEBERMAN, of the bipartisan tember 11th and the October, 2001 an- be restored by more than five years and Biological, Chemical, and Radiological thrax attacks. then only if the effective patent term Weapons Countermeasures Research Last year, Senators GREGG, KENNEDY, does not exceed 14 years regardless of Act of 2003. Senator LIEBERMAN and I and FRIST led the effort to pass impor- whether the FDA review takes longer also offered similar legislation, S. 3148, tant bioterrorism legislation to im- than five years. prove the public health infrastructure in the 107th Congress. The legislation also grants a ten year I think that when our colleagues, the so that our country can better respond period of marketing exclusivity for any administration, academic biomedical to public health emergencies. approved countermeasure, regardless of researchers, patient advocacy organiza- The Bush administration is currently a product’s patent status. This means tions, and the general public study the working closely with Congress on the that FDA could not approve a compet- ambitious set of incentives contained Project BioShield program. We salute itor product until that period expires. in the Lieberman-Hatch bill, they will these efforts. We are pleased that the This provision operates in parallel with conclude that this measure can materi- Administration is now embracing the patent protections and serves as a floor ally improve our national security. If concept of a guaranteed market that time period during which generic adopted, this legislation will allow the was part of last year’s Lieberman- versions of the pioneer countermeasure families of Utah and in our sister Hatch bill, S. 3148. We urge the Admin- product could enter the market. Cur- states across America to live with a istration and Congress to adopt other rent U.S. law only provides for a five greater measure of safety. critical features of Lieberman-Hatch. Although this is a complex piece of The Lieberman-Hatch bill is a bold year marketing exclusivity period legislation, its goal is simple. The attempt to move the ball closer to the while most European Union countries Lieberman-Hatch bill will establish a goal line. Our bill attempts to com- and Japan already provide a ten year unique public-private sector relation- plement all the previous efforts to marketing exclusivity period. ship that will result in stimulating the build up the capacity for public sector The Lieberman-Hatch bill also allows private sector to increase its scope and responses with a set of incentives de- certain types of biotechnology compa- pace of research and development ac- signed to unleash the creative genius nies, specifically those with less than tivities for a wide range of medical and substantial resources of the pri- $750 million in paid-in capital, to ex- products intended to deter and respond vate sector actors within our Nation’s tend any patent by two years if the to acts of biological, chemical, or radi- biomedical research enterprise. firms successfully develop a counter- ological terrorism. Let me quickly summarize the major measure. Senator LIEBERMAN and I believe that features of the bill. I can tell you that these substantial the best way to discourage and prevent The Department of Homeland Secu- changes in the area of intellectual acts of bioterrorism is to be able to rity sets the countermeasures research property will get a positive reaction in demonstrate our capacity to develop, agenda so that firms know beforehand corporate boardrooms; resources will produce, and distribute biological, the research targets. Interested compa- flow in the direction of products eligi- chemical, and radiological weapons nies register with DHS and become ob- ble for these new intellectual property countermeasures. ligated to report their activities and protections and products will be devel- In short, if our medicine chest is full subject their plants to inspection. oped to help our country respond to and we show the world that we have The legislation allows a participating bioterrorist threats. the ability to rapidly discover new company seeking to fund eligible re- countermeasures, we will decrease the search to elect from among four types In addition to the guaranteed market likelihood of ever having to deploy of tax incentives. First, we provide for provisions, targeted tax breaks, and in- these countermeasures in the first the establishment of R&D limited part- tellectual property incentives, the place. For example, in the last 18 nerships. Second, we create the author- Lieberman-Hatch legislation also con- months we have made great strides in ity for qualified firms to issue a new tains liability provisions; accelerated ramping up production of, and our ca- class of stock that would be subject to FDA approval procedures, and a lim- pacity to distribute, smallpox vaccine. no capital gains tax. Third, we create a ited antitrust exemption. In fact, few, in any, countries could re- new tax credit to help fund the re- In summary, the Lieberman-Hatch spond more effectively than the United search. Fourth, we allow for a special bill contains an array of incentives de- States to the introduction of smallpox. tax credit for research conducted at signed to spur a robust response from Our enemies in Baghdad and those hid- non-profit and academic research insti- the private pharmaceutical sector. If ing in mountains of Afghanistan might tutions. we are going to increase our ability to do more harm to themselves and their Anyone familiar with the current dis- defend the American homeland, we neighbors if a worldwide smallpox out- mal financial state of affairs within need to be certain that both the public break occurs. the biotechnology industry will under- and private sectors’ are fully engaged. Unfortunately, there are dozens, and stand the attraction of these tax provi- That is exactly what our bill will help perhaps many more, biological and sions. Many struggling firms might accomplish by unleashing the energy chemical threats for which we have no find it prudent to explore the benefits and resources of those private sector adequate response. As well, this latest of adjusting their research portfolios to firms engaged in biomedical research outbreak of antibiotic- and antiviral- include countermeasure research and and development. resistant pneumonia points out the development. need to develop responses to new public The legislation authorizes funding I urge all of my colleagues and others health threats whether they are spread for a program whereby companies suc- with an interest in homeland security intentionally or naturally. This bill cessfully developing countermeasures to study the bipartisan Lieberman- tries to create a new paradigm for the that secure FDA approval can be guar- Hatch Biological, Chemical, and Radio- development of vital bioterrorism anteed a market at a pre-negotiated logical Weapons Countermeasures Re- countermeasures that could also serve price and pre-negotiated quantities. search Act of 2003. I believe that when as a model for stimulating private sec- Our legislation also contains some our legislation is examined, it will at- tor drug discovery activities in other fundamental revisions in pharma- tract broad and strong bipartisan sup- important areas such as cancer, heart ceutical intellectual property laws. As port. disease, and infectious and rare dis- author of the Drug Price Competition Let me close by commending my eases. and Patent Term Restoration Act of friend from Connecticut, Senator JOE Senator LIEBERMAN and I praise the 1984, I hold these provisions near and LIEBERMAN, for his vision, energy, and work that has already been done to dear. leadership in this critically important help our nation meet this new type of Essentially, the bill adopts a policy area. I would also like to commend the threat. Senators BYRD, STEVENS, SPEC- of day-for-day patent term restoration efforts of our bipartisan group of part- TER, and HARKIN made available a sub- for each day lost during FDA review. ners in the House, Congressmen TOM stantial amount of new resources im- Under the current provisions of the DAVIS, CAL DOOLEY, CURT WELDON, and mediately in the aftermath of the Sep- 1984 Hatch-Waxman law, no patent may NORM DICKS.

VerDate Dec 13 2002 01:26 Mar 22, 2003 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00045 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G20MR6.180 S20PT2 S4154 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE March 20, 2003 HONORING FRAN AGNES tions in support of the legislation. Sen- and writings from the war. My father Mrs. MURRAY. Mr. President, at this ator PAUL SARBANES, Senator FRANK was like most veterans of his genera- hour, the men and women of our Armed MURKOWSKI, and Congressman LANE tion who did not talk about their expe- Forces face great dangers in the Middle EVANS joined the effort and provided riences. Fran was like that, too. I saw East. We are thinking of them and important leadership. Fran many times over the years. He praying for them in the challenges The Department of Defense opposed came to Washington with the Amer- they encounter. As a nation, we have our legislation. With Fran’s encourage- ican Ex-Prisoners of War. I saw him at faced many conflicts before, and we ment, we set out to address the DoD’s veterans events all over my State. If I have relied upon the bravery, skill, and concerns. Ultimately, we offered an attended a veterans event, you can bet honor of our military personnel. amendment to the Defense authoriza- Fran would be there—proudly wearing Today I am honored to share with my tion bill, and it was agreed to unani- the maroon coat of the American Ex- colleagues and with the American peo- mously. Similar legislation passed the Prisoners of War. ple the example of a remarkable man House of Representatives. Together, we In all the time Fran and I spent to- named Fran Agnes, who served his succeeded in changing the law and en- gether, he never asked me to do any- country and his fellow veterans and suring the Department of Defense thing for himself. It was always things their families for many decades. would provide honor guards when re- for other veterans and their families. I know his name is familiar to many quested by a veteran’s family. Fran He asked me to help the widows of our of my colleagues and to anyone who Agnes raised this issue and touched a veterans. He asked me to support the has worked on veterans issues. I am nerve all across our country. And he POWs’ lawsuit against the Japanese sad to report that Fran Agnes passed helped change the law for veterans. companies that profited from slave away on February 9 of this year. He That is just one example of Fran’s labor during World War II. He would was surrounded by his loving family. service. ask about helping another veteran who I suspect that if Fran were here Fran was also the visionary leader might be having a problem with the today at the start of this new war, he behind the campaign to create the Ta- VA. would say, ‘‘Make sure we are prepared koma National Cemetery for Washing- Fran Agnes did not boast of his serv- to take care of the soldiers, sailors, and ton’s veterans. He was its greatest ice. He didn’t complain to me about in- airmen we send over there. They need champion, and I worked closely with juries or problems from his time as a to know, and their families need to him to authorize and build it. Fran prisoner of war. Fran would call my of- know, that we will be there for them.’’ loved Takoma. Washington State vet- fice just to check in. He usually didn’t Today, I want to pay tribute to Fran erans are proud that when Fran was have a request. He would just call and Agnes and discuss a bill that bears his taken from us last month, the Takoma say, ‘‘I know you’re working for us. name. I am especially honored that National Cemetery was there to wel- Keep it up.’’ Fran’s family members and friends are come him home with full military hon- Because Fran, like so many veterans, here in Washington, DC, today. ors. did not boast of his own accomplish- I don’t recall exactly when or where Fran Agnes lived a life of service to ments, I want to share them with the I met Fran, but it is a sure bet that he his family, to his fellow veterans and Senate today. I cannot let this moment walked up to me, shook my hand, to his community. He coached Little pass without sharing some of the smiled, and said: ‘‘You don’t know me, League baseball for 20 years. He was re- things about Fran that he didn’t talk but I’m Fran Agnes and I want to help sponsible for building ballfields for about. you help veterans.’’ young Washingtonians in both the Spo- Fran Agnes was born in 1922 in North Boy, he wasn’t kidding. As I look at kane and Everett areas. He was in- Dakota. His father was an Irish immi- the things Fran worked on over the volved in both the Elks and the Eagles. grant who moved the family to years, that is exactly what he did. I was fortunate to know and work Wenatchee, WA, for a WPA job during For example, 7 or 8 years ago Fran with Fran Agnes. I was blessed by his the Great Depression. started talking to me about the impor- support and friendship. Washington Fran graduated from high school and tance of making honor guards available State is a stronger community because enlisted to join the war effort. In 1941, at the funerals of veterans. We talked of Fran Agnes, and veterans in my he was stationed with the 20th Pursuit about the nearly 30,000 World War II State had no greater friend or advocate Squadron in the Philippines. He was veterans who pass away every month— than Fran. captured early in 1942. who take with them an important part As I mentioned, Fran passed away on Fran Agnes endured the Bataan of our history. Fran was upset that we February 9, 2003, with his loved ones at Death March—a 100-mile forced march as a nation were allowing veterans to his side. At his service a few days later, conducted without food or water. Dur- be laid to rest without the appropriate his family was joined by the veterans ing the march, men would drop out of honors. community, the State of Washington, column due to fatigue, dehydration, ill- We discovered that the military was and a truly grateful nation to pay trib- ness, and injury. This ‘‘disobedience’’ relying more and more on volunteers ute to Fran as he was laid to rest in his would cause the Japanese guards to to perform funeral honors. And more beloved Takoma National Cemetery. rush up, shouting commands in Japa- often than not, the volunteers them- Secretary of Veterans Affairs Tony nese to get back in the group. When selves were older veterans who strug- Principi sent a moving letter to Fran’s that approach failed, shots would ring gled to meet the demand. We found wife Marlene Agnes. The letter from out, killing those who would not or case after case of families all across Secretary Principi states, ‘‘Fran’s serv- could not rise. the country who couldn’t find an honor ice to America is legend in the vet- Many of those failing to obey the guard to present a flag with the words erans’ community. He and all the men order to march were killed instantly by ‘‘On behalf of a grateful nation’’ at the and women of his generation will long sword-wielding Japanese soldiers who funeral service of a veteran. We even be remembered for their monumental were guarding the men on the march. had a case at Arlington National Ceme- struggle and decisive victory. However, Seventy thousand Americans were tery where a local family could not se- Fran’s service and sacrifice at Bataan, forced on the Bataan Death March. cure an honor guard for a veteran. and later as a prisoner of war, were as Only 54,000 made it to the Japanese Fran asked me to get involved in the great as any American has ever been prisoner-of-war camps that awaited the issue. We worked together to come up asked to endure.’’ survivors. Fran turned 20 years old on with legislation to require the Depart- I ask unanimous consent that the the Bataan Death March. He survived ment of Defense to provide honor full letter appear in the CONGRESSIONAL and was detained at Camp O’Donnell, guards for veterans’ funerals. We RECORD at the conclusion of my re- which was used as a holding station. worked with the American Ex-Pris- marks. Most prisoners stayed there for about oners of War. Fran was an enthusiastic Several years ago, my father passed 50 days. Eventually, it would house member of the organization and served away. He, too, was a World War II vet- 50,000 men. Conditions there were as its national commander. We built a eran. It wasn’t until after my father’s grossly underequipped for the volume coalition of veterans service organiza- death that we discovered his letters of men passing through its gates. For

VerDate Dec 13 2002 01:26 Mar 22, 2003 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00046 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G20MR6.182 S20PT2 March 20, 2003 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S4155 example, there were only two water health care, but I know he would take LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT ACT spigots available for all the prisoners. special pride in the passage of this leg- OF 2001 The men were fed tiny portions once a islation because it is so important to Mr. SMITH. Mr. President, I rise day. our prisoners of war who survived such today to speak about the need for hate Fran spent 6 months at Camp harsh treatment at the hands of the crimes legislation. In the last Con- O’Donnell before being moved to Camp Japanese in World War II. I encourage gress, Senator KENNEDY and I intro- Cabanatuan. Fran spent an additional all of my colleagues in the Senate to duced the Local Law Enforcement Act, year at that camp. He worked mostly support the Francis W. Agnes Prisoner a bill that would add new categories to in the hospital—helping other POWs of War Benefits Act of 2003. current hate crimes law, sending a sig- survive their imprisonment. Fran Agnes was a great American. I nal that violence of any kind is unac- Finally, Fran was transferred to was blessed to know him and work ceptable in our society. Japan where he was kept at the Hiro with him. Veterans everywhere were I would like to describe a terrible Hata POW camp and forced to work blessed to have him as a fellow soldier crime that occurred August 24, 2000 in slave labor. He was held 30 miles from and airman. With his passing, it is time Allentown, PA. A 24-year-old man, Mi- Hiroshima. He would later describe the we acknowledge his service and com- chael Gambler, shot a 15-year-old at a atomic bomb that signaled the end of mit his memory to our history as an party after the teen touched him on World War II and the end of his 31⁄2 example to us all. the arm. According to witnesses, party- years of captivity. goers suggested the teen was gay and On September 2, 1945, the men at the Even though I can’t call upon him for teased the victim and Gambler prior to Hiro Hata prison camp conducted a lib- his guidance and support, Fran will al- the shooting. After the teen touched eration ceremony. The men gathered ways be there for me. After all the his arm, Gambler retrieved a shotgun together and sang ‘‘The Star Spangled time we spent together—and all the ef- and shot the victim in the forehead. Banner.’’ Fran Agnes returned home to forts we worked on together—I feel I believe that Government’s first the United States weighing approxi- that I know what he would want me to duty is to defend its citizens, to defend mately 100 pounds. do. And I pledge to continue to work Most of us can only imagine the hor- very closely with veterans from my them against the harms that come out ror that men like Fran Agnes endured State and with his family to build on of hate. The Local Law Enforcement as prisoners of war at the hands of the his legacy. Enhancement Act is a symbol that can Japanese. After a short stint back at become substance. I believe that by I hope this tribute captures for the passing this legislation and changing home in Wenatchee, Fran re-enlisted Senate the many contributions of a with the Army Air Corps before it be- current law, we can change hearts and true patriot. Mr. President, Fran Agnes minds as well. came the Air Force. He served in the called himself a survivor. We—those Air Force for two decades and retired who knew him and his life of service to f at the rank of Captain. Fran worked others—call him an inspiration. ASSASSINATION OF SERBIAN for Washington State for 25 years. PRIME MINISTER ZORAN DJINDJIC Fran had a big family as well. In ad- There being no objection, the mate- dition to his wife Marlene, he had three rial was ordered to be printed in the Mr. LIEBERMAN. Mr. President, I daughters: Rose, Sonya, and Kathleen. RECORD, as follows: rise to honor a man of courage, convic- I spent a few minutes with Fran’s THE SECRETARY OF tion and integrity who was recently daughters yesterday, and in each of VETERANS AFFAIRS, taken from his people and this world in them, I was reminded of their father. Washington, DC, February 13, 2003. the most brutal and shocking of cir- Mrs. MARLENE AGNES, cumstances. Fran also had two sons, David and Everett, Washington. Gregory, as well as 13 grandchildren On Wednesday, March 12, Serbian and 5 great-grandchildren. DEAR MRS. AGNES: On behalf of America’s Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic was 25 million veterans, please accept my sin- slain in Belgrade, assassinated, gunned Fran was involved in numerous vet- cerest condolences on the death of your hus- erans service organizations, particu- band, Fran. Although I am aware that mere down, leaving his Belgrade office. He larly the American Ex-Prisoners of words cannot ease your sorrow, or that of was, tragically, only 50 years old, and War, which is holding its winter meet- your children and grandchildren, be certain was taken from us long before his time. ing here in Washington, DC, this week. that my thoughts and prayers are with you. To his wife Rizica and his two young Fran served as national commander of Fran’s service to America is legend in the children, Jovana and Luka, I extend the American Ex-POWs in 1990 and veterans’ community. He and all the men my deepest condolences. 1991. He was also chairman of the Gov- and women of his generation who answered I had the pleasure of meeting Prime ernor’s Advisory Action Committee in America’s call during World War II, will be Minister Djindjic in 2001, during a visit Washington State. Fran was chairman long remembered for their monumental to Belgrade. He was best known to of the Tahoma National Cemetery struggle and decisive victory. However, Americans and the international com- Fran’s service and sacrifice at Bataan, and Group in Washington. munity for his central role in the later as a prisoner of war, were as great as downfall of former Yugoslav dictator, I think it is appropriate that we me- any American has ever been asked to endure. morialize Fran’s many sacrifices and Slobodan Milosevic, in October 2000. It his great service to our Nation. Today, Fran was an American patriot who served was Djindjic who, in 2001, took the his country twice-over. Once in a uniform of principled decision to render Milosevic I have asked my staff to work with the its military services, and once-again as a pil- Tahoma National Cemetery, with the lar of the Nation’s veterans constituency. As to the War Crimes Tribunal in The Agnes family, and with the Washington National Commander of America’s Ex Pris- Hague, where he is at this moment fac- veterans community to discuss naming oners of War, Fran’s leadership bore the ing trial for genocide and crimes an appropriate place at Tahoma after same indelible hallmarks that distinguished against humanity. Fran Agnes. his wartime service . . . exemplary ability, It was this courage, this stand for in- In addition, I call upon my Senate great honor, unfailing courage, and true tegrity, that won Prime Minister colleagues to join me in support of the compassion. His contributions at once Djindjic not only the respect of the strengthened our Republic and enriched the internation community, but the love Francis W. Agnes Prisoner of War Ben- lives of its citizen-soldiers who, like him, efits Act of 2003. This legislation clari- had borne the burden of captivity. and admiration of the people of Serbia, fies who is eligible for POW benefits whom he helped to free from the grips Quite simply, Fran was an ordinary Amer- of dictatorship, oppression, and cru- through the VA and ensures our POWs ican who served in extraordinary ways. He can receive care for a number of ail- represented the best of what it means to be elty. ments related to their captivity. The an American, and our Nation is lessened by Prime Minister Djindjic was someone legislation is important to all POWs, his passing. who fought for the needs of his people. and a similar measure has been intro- Mrs. Agnes, we who were privileged to He devoted his life to the fight for duced in the House of Representatives. know Fran, mourn with you and your family. progress, reform, and democracy, and a Fran wouldn’t ask us to single out Sincerely yours, better life for the people of Serbia. Ul- his fellow Pacific theatre POWs for ANTHONY J. PRINCIPI. timately, he gave his life for that fight.

VerDate Dec 13 2002 01:26 Mar 22, 2003 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00047 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G20MR6.183 S20PT2 S4156 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE March 20, 2003 He was imprisoned for his activities not only to the people of Serbia, but to percent of that amount is for families as a student dissident against the re- the entire region. President Stjepan who have left welfare. Since the money pressive Communist Yugoslav regime Mesic of Croatia has rightly described doesn’t benefit their kids, fathers are in the 1970s, but this did not diminish the assassination as ‘‘an act of mad- discouraged from paying support. And his zeal. In 1989, Djindjic, along with a ness,’’ and raised concerns that this as- mothers have no incentive to push for group of dissident writers and intellec- sassination will ‘‘slow down [Serbia’s] payment since the support doesn’t go tuals, founded the Serbian Democratic progress towards democracy.’’ to them. Party. One year later, he was elected I certainly understand the Croatian The current rules withhold a key its chairman, and in 1994, its president. President’s concern. It would be a dis- source of income for low-income fami- In the 1990s, as a member and a leader honor to the memory of Prime Min- lies that could help them maintain of Serbia’s Parliament, he remained at ister Djindjic were his fears to be real- self-sufficiency. For low-income work- the forefront of the dissident move- ized. After centuries of conflict and ing families receiving child support, ment, resisting the oppression of a new decades of oppression and crippling vio- that support is the second-largest generation of post-Communist dic- lence, Serbia and the entire Balkan re- source of income for those families, tators, this time bent on ethnic cleans- gion have made remarkable strides to- after wages, according to the Urban In- ing and genocide. ward peace, democracy, economic de- stitute, a nonpartisan organization As his courage grew, so did the peo- velopment, and a better life for the that studies social and governance ple’s respect for him. In 1996, the people people of all nations in the region. The issues. Families who receive child sup- of Belgrade freely elected him the first United States has played a crucial role port can often avoid going on welfare. non-Communist mayor sine World War in furthering that progress. For the When low-income working families get II. It was in that position that he built past 10 years, in Bosnia Hercegovina, in child support, but not welfare, child the popular base and credibility that Kosovo, the United States has fought— support makes up 35 percent of their served him so well in the historical diplomatically and militarily—to stop income. role he was about to play, in the down- the forces of oppression and genocide, It is time for Congress to change this fall of Slobodan Milosevic. Djindjic was and to support the forces of liberty and system and encourage States to dis- one of the chief strategists behind the democracy. tribute more child support to families. September 24, 2002, Yugoslav Presi- There can be no greater way to re- My home State of Wisconsin has al- dential elections and the October 5, member this man than to ensure that ready been doing this for several years 2000, uprising that resulted in his death will not be in vain, that his and is seeing great results. In 1997, I Milosevic’s overthrow. In December life’s work will continue. And so, I urge worked with my State to institute an 2000, he led the Democratic Opposition all of us who are friends and supporters innovative program of passing through of Serbia—a coalition of 18 parties of democracy, and those who fight for child support payments directly to spanning a broad range of the political it, to redouble our commitment to and families. An evaluation of the Wis- spectrum—into Serbia’s parliamentary solidarity with those who stand, as consin program clearly shows that elections, and won an impressive 65 Prime Minister Djindjic did, for a bet- when child support payments are deliv- percent of the popular vote. The DOS ter, freer, more democratic future for ered to families, noncustodial parents elected Djindjic to be Prime Minister the people of Serbia. are more apt to pay, and to pay more. of Serbia on January 25, 2001. In addition, Wisconsin has found that, That popularity speaks well of Zoran f overall, this policy does not increase Djindjic, but it speaks volumes about THE CHILD SUPPORT government costs. That makes sense the people of Serbia. After years—dec- DISTRIBUTION ACT because ‘‘passing through’’ support ades—of Communist and fascist dicta- Mr. KOHL. Mr. President, I rise payments to families means they have torship, the spirit of the Serbian people today to state my strong support for more of their own resources, and are arose valiant, triumphant because the the Child Support Distribution Act of desire for freedom cannot be crushed. less apt to depend on public help to 2003, which Senator SNOWE and I intro- Prime Minister Djindjic was, in a large meet other needs such as food, trans- duced yesterday. I want to thank Sen- sense, the embodiment of their deter- portation or child care. ator SNOWE for continuing to work We now have a key opportunity to mination, their yearning to be free. with me over the years on this impor- encourage all States to follow Wiscon- Each time this man spoke of freedom tant issue. sin’s example. This legislation gives and liberty, of reform and democracy, This bill takes significant steps to- States options and strong incentives to the people of Serbia supported him, ward ensuring that children receive the sustained him, elevated him to lead send more child support directly to child support money they are owed and them, and followed them into the families who are working their way deserve. In fiscal year 2001, the public brighter future that he hoped fervently off—or are already off—public assist- child support system collected child to help them build. ance. Not only will this create the It appears that it was, ultimately, support payments for only 44 percent of right incentives for noncustodial par- his pledge and his actions to stamp out its total caseload, up from 19 percent in ents to pay, but it will also simplify corruption and widespread organized 1995. Obviously, we still need to im- the job for States, who currently face crime that brought him into the assas- prove, but States are making real an administrative nightmare in fol- sin’s sights. progress. It is time for Congress to lowing the complicated rules of the In February, a truck swerved from take the next step and help States current system. its lane, headed directly for the motor- overcome a major obstacle to col- We know that creating the right in- cade carrying the Prime Minister, and lecting child support for families. centives for noncustodial parents to narrowly missed. Prime Minister There are many reasons why non- pay support and increasing collections Djindjic very well could have been custodial parents may not be paying has long-term benefits. People who can killed. Djindjic himself suggested that support for their children. Some are count on child support are more likely the incident might be the handiwork of not able to pay because they don’t have to stay in jobs and stay off public as- members of organized crime rings, jobs or have fallen on hard times. Oth- sistance. which flourished under Miloservic and ers may not pay because they are un- This legislation finally brings the remain linked to him to this day. fairly prevented from spending time Child Support Enforcement program Just as he did not permit prison to with their children. into the post-welfare reform era, shift- diminish his energy, Prime Minister But other fathers don’t pay because ing its focus from recovering welfare Djindjic did not let this danger impede the public system actually discourages costs to increasing child support to him or dim his spirit. He pressed on, them from paying. Under current law, families so they can sustain work and valiantly, in his campaign against the $2.2 billion in child support is retained maintain self-sufficiency. After all, it crime and corruption that corrodes his every year by the State and Federal is only fair that if we are asking par- society. Governments as repayment for welfare ents to move off welfare, stay off wel- The news of the Prime Minister’s benefits—rather than delivered to the fare, and take financial responsibility death has been a tremendous shock, children to whom it is owed. Fifty-six for their families, then we in Congress

VerDate Dec 13 2002 01:26 Mar 22, 2003 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00048 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A20MR6.178 S20PT2 March 20, 2003 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S4157 must make sure that child support main routes. To the contrary, tens of ing of American history and civics has de- payments actually go to the families to thousands of settlers set out from clined and why; and, finally, why the three whom they are owed and who are work- other places, and many of the memo- Latin words that were the first motto of our ing so hard to succeed. rable, if not most important, events oc- nation, E Pluribus Unum, are still in the right order—Out of Many, One—even though I am pleased that there has been curred along historical side roads and some are trying mightily to turn them widespread bipartisan support for this alternate routes that were chosen be- around to say that we are ‘‘Many, out of legislation. In 2000, a House version of cause of inclement weather, lack of One.’’ In other words, in the United States of this bill passed by an overwhelming bi- water, and conflicts with Native Amer- America, I believe unity still trumps diver- partisan vote of 405 to 18. Our legisla- ican tribes, among other reasons. sity. tion was also included in last year’s Since the original passage of the Na- YOU CAN’T BECOME JAPANESE TANF reauthorization bill that passed tional Trails System Act, the Park Now to do this, I want to ask for your help. out of the Senate Finance Committee Service has conducted endless hours of So, will you please imagine that we are in with bipartisan support. research, and now has a more accurate a federal courtroom in Nashville, where I In addition, I am pleased that the ad- picture of the story of our Western pio- was on October 2001. It is naturalization day. ministration and the House of Rep- neers. There has been a great deal of The room is filled with anxious persons, talking among themselves in halting resentatives both included child sup- support shown by State and local com- English. They are obviously with their fami- port provisions in their TANF reau- munities which want to broaden the lies and closest friends. They are neatly thorization legislation. However, while act to include this new knowledge. dressed, but for the most part, not so well those provisions are an important first However, the Park Service has deter- dressed. step in the process, I am concerned mined that legislation is required to do Most faces are radiant. Only a few faces that both the House bill and the ad- this. The Pioneer National Historic are white. There are 77 persons from 22 coun- ministration’s proposal fall short in re- Trails Studies Act will enable the Park tries who have passed their exams, learned forming child support. Their approach English, passed a test about American gov- Service to identify those routes most ernment, survived a character investigation, would not benefit all States equally, worthy of being included in our trails paid their taxes and waited in line for five has more limited benefits for families system. This legislation will highlight years to be a citizen of the United States. who are currently on TANF, and im- our Western history, and it will do so The bailiff shouts, ‘‘God Save this Honor- poses fees on some low-income fami- without any infringement of the rights able court,’’ and the judge, Aleta Trauger lies. I hope as the TANF reauthoriza- of private property owners. walks in. She asks each of the applicants to tion process continues, we can all work Mr. President, I thank the Senate for stand. together to address these concerns and Now—here is where I need your help. the opportunity to address this impor- I will be Judge Trauger. ensure that all children receive the tant issue today, and I urge my col- I want you to be the 77 new citizens. support they are owed and deserve. leagues to support this legislation. Will you please stand, actually stand, raise We must keep this bipartisan mo- f your right hand, and repeat after me. I want mentum going in this Congress. It is you to listen carefully to this oath. time that we finally make child sup- TEACHING OF AMERICAN HISTORY ‘‘I, and state your name. port meaningful for families, and make AND CIVICS ‘‘Hereby declare, on oath, that I absolutely sure that children get they support Mr. ALEXANDER. Mr. President, I and entirely renounce and abjure all alle- giance and fidelity to any foreign prince, po- they need and deserve. ask unanimous consent that the text of tentate, state or sovereignty, of whom or f a speech I gave before the Heritage which I have heretofore been a subject or cit- Foundation on March 14 be printed in PIONEER NATIONAL HISTORIC izen; the RECORD. ‘‘That I will support and defend the Con- TRAILS STUDIES ACT There being no objection, the mate- stitution and laws of the United States of Mr. HATCH. Mr. President, I rise rial was ordered to be printed in the America against all enemies, foreign and do- today to introduce the Pioneer Na- RECORD, as follows: mestic; tional Historic Trails Studies Act. This ‘‘That I will bear true faith and allegiance REMARKS OF SENATOR LAMAR ALEXANDER to the same; bill would require the National Park PUTTING THE TEACHING OF AMERICAN HISTORY ‘‘That I will bear arms on behalf of the Service to study the Pony Express, the AND CIVICS BACK INTO OUR CLASSROOMS United States when required by the law; Oregon, the California, and the Mor- ‘‘That I will perform noncombatant service OUT OF MANY, ONE: E PLURIBUS UNUM mon National Historic Trails and make in the Armed Forces of the United States recommendations to Congress on pos- I am glad to have this privilege to come to when required by the law; Heritage today to talk about the two sub- sible additions to these trails that were ‘‘That I will perform work of national im- jects I care about the most: the education of portance under civilian direction when re- used by the early pioneers of the West. our children and the principles that unite us For various reasons, early settlers quired by the law; and that I take this obli- as Americans. I salute Heritage for providing gation freely without any mental reserva- often used routes to arrive in the West public forums on issues that are important tion or purpose of evasion: which were variations of the main to our nation. ‘‘So help me God.’’ routes now recognized as National His- At a time when we are asking young Amer- You may be seated. Thank you for doing toric Trails. These routes were used by icans to give their lives to defend our values, that. large numbers of westward pioneers. we are doing a poor job of teaching just what Now, that is quite an oath. those values are. Since the enactment of the National Sounds like it might have been written by That is why, last week, in my maiden ad- some rowdy patriots in Philadelphia or Wil- Trails System Act in 1968, support has dress—we still call it that in the United liamsburg, and I wonder if anything like been building to broaden the law to in- States Senate—I proposed ways to put the that could be written into law today? clude alternate routes that branch off teaching of American history and civics back Judge Trauger then addressed the new citi- the main trails. The Pioneer National in our schools so our children can grow up zens in Nashville with these words: Historic Trails Studies Act allows for learning what it means to be an American. ‘‘You are now an American citizen. On be- the feasibility study and designation of The Senate will hold hearings on April 10 half of your fellow countrymen, I congratu- side trails and variant routes taken by on my proposal. The proposal is to create late you. You have studied hard and achieved Presidential Academies for Teachers of much. You know more about the matters of pioneers otherwise associated with the American History and Civics and Congres- citizenship than many of us born into it. main trails. sional Academies for students of American Even so, I would like to speak to you for a These trails are the highways of our history and Civics—residential summer few minutes about what I think it means to history. They are central to the great academies at which teachers can learn better be an American citizen,’’ she said. story of the West. But unfortunately, how to teach, and outstanding students can Continuing to quote, ‘‘Americans, unlike because of the confining ‘‘point to learn more about the key events, persons many other people, are not Americans sim- point’’ wording now found in the Trails and ideas that shaped the institutions and ply because of accidents of geography or cen- Act, many crucial parts of the story democratic heritage of the United States of turies of tradition. Instead, we Americans America. based our citizenship on our foundation of are not being told. Not every pioneer Today I want to discuss, first, why Amer- shared ideals and ideas brought from many embarked on his journey from Omaha ica is exceptional—not always better than countries, races, religions and cultures.’’ or Independence, and not every great other countries, but in important ways dif- The judge said, ‘‘We are Americans because or tragic event took place along the ferent; second, how the teaching and learn- we also share certain fundamental beliefs.

VerDate Dec 13 2002 01:26 Mar 22, 2003 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00049 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G20MR6.181 S20PT2 S4158 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE March 20, 2003 We are bound together by the unique set of children the three Rs and what it means to course—even for one semester—in American principles set forth in documents that cre- be an American with the hope they would government. ated and continue to define this nation. We then go home and teach their parents.’’ The results of this are evident everywhere find our heritage and inspiration in the pro- Diane Ravitch reminds us that McGuffey’s in American life. found words of the Declaration of Independ- reader sold 120 million copies and helped to For example, some federal judges—who ence: ’All people are created equal and en- create a common culture of literature, patri- seem not to know that the first Congress en- dowed with unalienable right to life, liberty otic speeches and historical references. acted both the first amendment and paid the and the pursuit of happiness.’ We pledge alle- President Roosevelt made sure those who first senate chaplain—these judges are un- giance to the Republic as one nation under charged the beaches of Normandy knew they able to reconcile our religious traditions God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for were fighting for Four Freedoms. with the separation of church and state— all. But the greatest expression of our na- But then things changed, for a variety of producing absurd decisions like the one re- tional identity is the constitution of the reasons. moving ‘‘under God’’ from the pledge of alle- United States which established the respon- One reason was that McCarthyism gave giance. sibilities and rights that go with citizen- ‘‘Americanism’’ a sour taste. A United States Congresswoman actually ship.’’ And the judge continued. The Vietnam War and other challenges to says that ‘‘Osama Bin Laden and these non- These were the words that fall day in 2001 authority questioned prevailing attitudes in- nation state fighters with religious purposes of Judge Aleta Trauger to 77 incredibly cluding our founding principles. are very similar to those kinds of atypical happy new citizens, their families and The end of the Cold War removed a pre- revolutionaries that helped to cast off the friends in the Nashville courthouse. occupation with who we were not, making it British crown.’’ This happens almost every month, in al- less important to consider who we are. Schools remove the names of George Wash- most every federal courthouse. That same And our history textbooks, which had done ington and Thomas Jefferson because it is year, about 900,000 new citizens took this a good job of teaching some traditional his- discovered they owned slaves, without re- oath and heard words like this. tory, left out a lot. The contribution of membering they also created a country Judge Trauger, may I say, is not some Spanish explorers was undervalued. The dis- whose principles led to the inevitable end of right wing, super patriotic extremist nomi- eases those explorers brought with them that horrible practice. nated for the federal bench by the Bush that devastated Native Americans was rarely And, according to the Princeton Review, White House. She was appointed by a Demo- mentioned. our presidential debates (and I participated cratic president. No Tennessee history book taught me in these) are now conducted at a sixth or sev- But Democrats as well as Republicans—al- about men like Kunta Kinte, the seventh enth grade vocabulary level as compared most all of us as Americans—agree with generation ancestor of Alex Haley, a Ten- with the Lincoln—Douglas debates in the what Judge Trauger’s exposition of what it nessean who won a Pulitzer Prize for his 1850’s which were conducted at a level of vo- means to be an American. family story, Roots, the struggle for freedom cabulary expected of high school seniors. For example, after 9/11 President Bush and equality. TRUST CLASSROOM TEACHERS There was very little mention of men like spoke of the American character. So, to help put the teaching of American my ancestor John Rankin, a conductor in Former vice-president Al Gore said the history and civics back in its rightful place the underground railway, and about the next day we ‘‘must defend the values that in our schools, I have proposed that we cre- slave-catchers from Kentucky who tried to bind us together.’’ ate Presidential Academies for Teachers of assassinate him. Judge Trauger, the President and the American History and Civics and Congres- And finally, the largest number of new former vice-president were invoking a creed sional Academies for Students of American Americans in our country’s history came to of ideas and values in which most of us be- History and Civics. our shores—and in the last few years, the lieve. ‘‘It has been our fate as a nation,’’ the These residential academies would operate prevailing notion became let’s just celebrate historian Richard Hofstader wrote, ‘‘not to in the summer for two weeks for teachers all those cultures, and we forgot to remind HAVE ideologies but to BE one.’’ and four weeks for students. Their purpose new Americans of the principles that have Those who love and hate the United States would be to inspire better teaching and more always united our many, new cultures. love and hate us not so much for what we do learning of these subjects. but for who we are. OSAMA BIN LADEN AND GEORGE WASHINGTON The idea for these academies is based pri- And it IS different being an American. One So, just at a time when there should have marily upon my trust and respect for class- major difference is how you get to be an been an acceleration in the teaching and room teachers. American, just as those citizens did. learning of American history and civics—it I believe that if, for example, 200 Tennessee You can’t become Japanese by moving to declined. teachers come together for two weeks in the Japan and taking some oath. In Dr. Ravitch’s words, instead of incom- summer to discuss how to do a more com- A Turk with great difficulty might immi- plete history and simplistic patriotism, we plete, inspiring and effective job of teaching grate to Germany and become a citizen, but went to the other extreme—‘‘Public schools American history and civics, they will light he will find himself described as a Turk liv- with an adversary culture that emphasized up their classrooms with their enthusiasm ing in Germany, not as a German. the nation’s warts and diminished its gen- during the next year. Because of their Pakistani roots, the fam- uine accomplishments.’’ In the same way, good students who spend ily of the recently arrested Al Qaeda leader, So imagine the plight of teachers. As- a month with such teachers will go back to Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, could not become saulted by simplistic patriotism on one side their classrooms not only inspired them- Kuwaiti when they moved to Kuwait. and multiculturalism on the other, teachers selves but serving as good examples for other But if a Japanese, or a Turk or a Pakistani dove for cover, textbooks became sanitized students. came to America and wanted to be a citizen, and boring, and we’ve seen the embarrassing I know this works because I have seen it they would have to take that oath to become results. happen before. Tennessee’s Governors’ sum- an American. And they do that based not on Christopher Hitchens, in a 1998 article in mer schools for teachers and students were race, creed or color but by taking an oath Harper’s, summarizes the evidence: the best education spending, dollar for dol- and pledging allegiance to a common set of 59 percent of 4th graders do not know why lar, our state has ever done. Teacher after principles. Pilgrims and Puritans first voyaged to teacher, student after student told me these WHAT HAPPENED TO OUR COMMON CULTURE? America. schools literally changed their lives. There What principles? 68 percent of 4th graders can’t name the are more than 100 such Governor’s schools in Judge Trauger mentioned most of them. first 13 colonies. 28 states, almost all with great experiences. Until recently in our country, most people 90 percent of 8th graders can’t recount any- Our pilot program would start with 12 learned these principles in school, in their thing about the debates of the constitutional Presidential Academies for Teachers and 12 churches, at home, from the media, in patri- convention. Congressional Academies for students. We’d otic celebrations that were a part of every- Today, three quarters of 4th, 8th and 12th spend $25 million a year for four years and day life. graders—this is according to the National see if it worked. The schools would be spon- Thomas Jefferson spent his retirement eve- Assessment of Educational Progress—are not sored by educational institutions. The grants nings at Monticello teaching overnight proficient in civics knowledge and one third would be awarded for two years at a time by guests what he had in mind when he helped of them do not have basic knowledge, mak- the National Endowment for the Humanities create America. ing one third of our students ‘‘civic after a peer review process. Each grant Other founders took extensive notes and illiterates.’’ would be subject to rigorous review after wrote long letters explaining what it means Children are not learning American his- three years to see if the program is worth to be an American. tory and civics because they are not being continuing. At the Alamo, Col. William Barrett Travis taught it, or at least they are not being This is not only something that will work; appealed for help simply ‘‘in the name of the taught it well. American history has been it is something parents want. A Public Agen- American Character.’’ watered down and civics is too often dropped da survey showed that 84 percent of parents Former American Federation of Teachers entirely from the curriculum. with school age children said they believe President Albert Shanker, said that the pub- Today, more than half the states don’t that the United States is a special country, lic school ‘‘was invented to teach immigrant have a requirement for students to take a and they want schools to convey the belief to

VerDate Dec 13 2002 01:26 Mar 22, 2003 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00050 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A20MR6.315 S20PT2 March 20, 2003 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S4159 their children by teaching about its heroes vision about what it means to be an Amer- As the Bush administration recently and traditions. ican. stated, Tunisia has become a force for President Bush has taken leadership in We should join our President in this Na- tolerance and moderation in the re- this. He created a ‘‘We the People Program’’ tional discussion. gion. to develop curriculum and sponsor lectures One way would be for each school to start on American history and civics. He is also each day the way the Senate does—with the It has been a vital partner with the sponsoring a White House forum on the sub- Pledge of Allegiance, followed by a teacher United States in our efforts to facili- ject soon. or student saying in his or her own words for tate dialogue in the Arab world. This Last year the Senate authorized $100 mil- three minutes ‘‘what it means to be an role has become increasingly impor- lion to schools for the teaching of traditional American.’’ It would be a daily lesson in tant in this turbulent time. American history and civics. A dozen sen- American history and civics for the whole I would also like to express my ap- ators, including the Democratic Whip, Harry school. preciation for Tunisia’s continued sup- Reid of Nevada, have joined in sponsoring When I decided to run for the Senate a port and cooperation in the fight our legislation. Congressman Roger Wicker year ago, I was a member of the faculty at and colleagues in the House of Representa- Harvard’s school of government, teaching a against terrorism. tives have introduced it there. course in ‘‘The American Character and By working together against this I have one more thing I need to say. America’s Government.’’ common enemy, we will eliminate the I want to read you one sentence from my The students and I were trying to figure threat of terrorism and ensure inter- so-called ‘‘maiden speech’’ to the Senate last out if there is ‘‘an American way’’ to solve national peace and security. week, because it elicited what one newspaper tough public policy problems. Our shared commitments towards described as ‘‘harsh criticism from the civil It was easy for us to define the principles rights community.’’ this end will only serve to strengthen that unite us, such as: liberty, equal oppor- our relations in the future. This is the sentence: ‘‘Some of our na- tunity, rule of law, laissez faire, individ- tional leaders have celebrated multi- ualism, e pluribus unum, the separation of I hope my colleagues will join me in culturalism and bilingualism and diversity church and state. congratulating the government and at a time when there should have been more But applying those principles to real prob- people of Tunisia on the occasion of emphasis on a common culture and learning lems turned out to be hard work. The Senate their 47th anniversary of independence. English and unity.’’ was reminded of this yesterday when we de- f There are some real differences of opinion bated partial birth abortion: it was the lib- reflected in the criticism I got for saying erty of a woman versus the life of a baby. ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS that. We see these conflicts of principle when we Some believe that America is just another discuss President Bush’s faith-based charity country, and that it is embarrassing for us to proposal because on the one hand, ‘‘In God IN CELEBRATION OF THURGOOD claim it is truly exceptional. We Trust,’’ but on the other hand, we don’t Some believe it is old fashioned and wrong MARSHALL AWARD RECIPIENT trust government with God. to try to define the principles that unite us DALE MINAMI I want the federal government to pay for as Americans because in the past it led us to scholarships that would follow children to ∑ Mrs. BOXER. Mr. President, I take excesses such as McCarthyism, because it any accredited school—public, private or re- this opportunity to recognize Dale can seem exclusionary and that we would be ligious. To me that is equal opportunity. To Minami, the 2003 recipient of the Amer- better off just being comfortable as descend- the National Education Association it is the ants of wherever we came from. ican Bar Association’s Thurgood Mar- Most important, we have not been able to violation of separation of church and state shall Award. put behind us the memory that the ancestors and of the principle of e pluribus unum. Mr. Minami has had a successful law of some of us who didn’t come for the same As Samuel Huntington has written, most practice in San Francisco for many of our politics is about conflicts among prin- reasons most did. Native Americans were al- years. Additionally, for over 30 years, ready here, and the ancestors of most Afri- ciples that unite us—and about disappoint- ments that occur when we try to live up to Mr. Minami has worked tirelessly to can-Americans, like Kunta Kinte, were cap- promote civil liberties and social jus- tured in their villages, transported in the our greatest dreams.’’ ‘‘All men are created stinking bellies of slave ships to this country equal,’’ we say, but there is still racism in tice. He has selflessly provided pro and sold into bondage. It is hard to put that America. ‘‘We will pay any price, bear any bono legal representation to minorities out of one’s memory. burden to defend freedom,’’ President Ken- and disadvantaged communities. Be- nedy said, but we didn’t go to Rwanda, and WHY UNITY TRUMPS DIVERSITY cause of his dedication, Mr. Minami there is a great debate about going to Iraq. has become an accomplished leader in Here is what I believe. If the conflicts among these principles and I believe that America’s variety and diver- our disappointment in not reaching them is the national civil rights community. sity is a magnificent strength. I have always what most of our politics and government Among his many accomplishments in sought that in my own life and for my chil- are about—then we had better get busy the courtroom, Mr. Minami is known dren. teaching them again. for successfully reopening the land- But diversity is not our greatest strength. My best student in my last class at Har- Jerusalem is diverse. mark Supreme Court cases of Fred vard was Natalia Kubay. She had grown up The Balkans are diverse. Korematsu, Gordon Hirabayashi, and The greatest challenge we face in Iraq is in Ukraine, married a Peace Corps worker Minoru Yasui. The Supreme Court sub- not winning a war but turning diversity into and moved to Boston. She was waiting for sequently overturned their convictions unity after the war. her citizenship. Her enthusiasm for her new country was so great that it infected all of for refusal to be interned during WWII. The greatest accomplishment of the United Mr. Minami cofounded the Asian Law States of America, after establishing free- us who were privileged to be in the class- dom and democracy, is that we’ve found a room with her. She hopes one day, after she Caucus, the first Asian Pacific legal way to take all our magnificent variety and is a citizen, to run for office and serve in service organization in the Nation, es- diversity and unite as one country. government. tablished in 1972. Mr. Minami also I preside a great deal as a freshman sen- Natalia is proud of her family and her na- helped establish the Asian American ator. Engraved above the Senate president’s tive country. When she takes the oath of a Bar Association of the Greater Bay chair, for every C-SPAN viewer to see, are naturalized citizen in the federal courthouse Area in 1976, the first Asian American the three Latin words that form the original in Boston, as you did today, she will be liv- ing in this nation of immigrants, proud of Bar Association in the country. Addi- motto of our country, E Pluribus Unum—Out tionally, he helped found the Asian Pa- of many, one. where she came from, but prouder to be able It is NOT many, out of one. to say, ‘‘We are all Americans.’’ cific Bar of California. He has also As Samuel Huntington has observed, if it Thank you. taught and lectured at various colleges were many out of one, we would be the Mr. STEVENS. Mr. President, I and universities and has spoken widely United Nations, not the United States of would like to take this opportunity to across our country. America. commemorate the 47th anniversary of Mr. Minami has also been involved in ‘‘PLEDGE PLUS THREE’’ Tunisia’s independence. developing public policy and legisla- Now, since 9/11, there has been a different Since the establishment of the Re- tion. He has volunteered his time on tone in our country. The terrorists focused public of Tunisia, it has made signifi- numerous boards and commissions, in- their cross hairs on the ideas that unite us— cant progress in the areas of social and cluding California’s Fair Employment forcing us to remind ourselves of those prin- ciples, to examine and define them, and to economic development, transparency and Housing Commission, the Cali- celebrate them. of the electoral process, respect for fornia Attorney General’s Asian Pa- President Bush has been the lead teacher, human rights, and the promotion of cific Advisory Committee, and the literally taking us back to school on tele- women’s rights. Civil Liberties Public Education Fund

VerDate Dec 13 2002 01:26 Mar 22, 2003 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00051 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A20MR6.317 S20PT2 S4160 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE March 20, 2003 Commission. I am pleased and honored ever inducted into the prestigious Ala- Irons’ life as an athlete, university ed- to say that Mr. Minami also served as bama Sports Hall of Fame. He is also ucator, military serviceman, and com- a member of my Judicial Screening the only person inducted by both Ala- munity leader will continue to serve as Committee, from 1993 to 1996. Mr. bama Sports Hall of Fame and the Ala- an inspiration for future generations.∑ Minami did an outstanding job on the bama Men’s Hall of Fame. f committee, and his contributions were While a student at the University of JAMIL DADA, RECIPIENT OF THE invaluable. He has been a successful ad- Alabama, he was spotted by Coach BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA FIVE vocate for increasing the selection of Hank Crisp running across the campus NATIONS DISTRICT 2003 DISTIN- African Americans, Latinos, Native because he was late to class. Coach GUISHED CITIZEN GOOD SCOUT Americans, and Asian Americans for Crisp promptly put him on the track OF THE YEAR AWARD executive and judicial appointments at team where he set a collegiate record both State and Federal levels. the first time he pulled on a Crimson ∑ Mrs. BOXER. Mr. President, I would Dale Minami embodies the legacy of Tide uniform. Remarkably, his records like to take this moment to reflect on Thurgood Marshall. I commend him for still stand today. the exceptional work of Jamil Dada, his dedication, hard work, and many Before the days of the million-dollar who will be honored by the Boy Scouts achievements in the areas of civil lib- band at major football games, halftime of America’s Five Nations District erties and social justice and wish him entertainment consisted of a sport with its 2003 Distinguished Citizen well in all future endeavors. He is the called road racing. After laps in the Good Scout of the Year Award on kind of person who makes my State stadium runners would speed over a March 21, 2003. and our country a better place. ∑ hill-and-dale course, about 4 miles, fin- Jamil Dada is exceptionally qualified f ishing as the halftime show. In this for this award, with a strong record of realm, his feats have been heralded by serving others in his community in COMMEMORATING THE 47TH ANNI- as the greatest of his era. Riverside County and the broader re- VERSARY OF TUNISIA’S INDE- The Men’s Hall of Fame was created gion. His contributions to both local PENDENCE by the Alabama Legislature in 1987 to and regional community organizations Mr. INOUYE. Mr. President, today, honor posthumously those men who in have made a significant difference to Tunisia commemorates the 47th anni- their chosen professions have made na- countless Californians. versary of its independence from tional and international impact for the Mr. Dada’s most prominent role is France. Our two countries share a long betterment of humanity. Past induct- that of chairperson for the Riverside friendship that began in 1797, when Tu- ees include some of America’s most County Workforce Development Board, nisia was one of the first countries to distinguished leaders: Warner Von working to ensure a healthy, well- sign a Treaty of Peace and Friendship Braun, famed scientist who developed trained workforce for the county. In with the United States. In 1956, when rockets which propelled American as- addition, Mr. Dada devotes his time as Tunisia gained independence from tronauts to the Moon; George Wash- a board member for the Boy Scouts of France, the United States was one of ington Carver, botanist who mutated America Inland Empire Council, the the first countries to recognize plants to create vital food sources Family Service Association of Western Tunisia’s independence. This long rela- throughout the South; and James A. Riverside County, the Magnolia Center tionship has served as the backdrop for ‘‘Brother’’ Bryan, who gave sacrifi- Division of the Greater Riverside our increased cooperation in the efforts cially to fellow Alabamians during Chamber of Commerce, the Police Ac- to combat international terrorism. Our some of the severest economic times. tivities League in Moreno Valley, the shared commitments to peace, secu- Its most recent inductee, Dr. Irons, Planned Giving Advisory Board of UC rity, and stability in the world will re- joined the Howard College (now Riverside, the Riverside Community main the most important principles Samford University) staff in 1933, the College Foundation, and the United guiding our relationship throughout depth of the Great Depression. On his Way of the Inland Valleys. the 21st century. first day the College President asked In the city of Moreno Valley, he dem- I am pleased by Tunisia’s commit- him to report to the bank to try to onstrates his broad capacity for leader- ment to further strengthen the demo- stop mortgage foreclosure on the ship as the vice chairman of the cratic values that our two countries school. At this time, the school owed Moreno Valley Chamber of Commerce, share as the foundation for free and over a half million dollars. Dr. Irons’ the treasurer of the Moreno Valley open societies, and I am confident its personality and persuasion on behalf of Substance Abuse Task Force, and vice leaders will continue to work toward the college won the day, saving the president of the Community Assistance promoting greater political freedom school from foreclosure. During dif- Program, which provides food to those and respect for human rights through- ficult economic times, he often taught in need. out the region. for the salary of an IOU and in his Mr. Dada is also an Honorary Com- I wish the Tunisian people the best as spare time he coached the college mander at March Air Reserve Base, they celebrate their country’s success- track team and fired the dorm furnace. where he serves as vice president of the ful transition from colony to republic. In 1962 he received Freedom Founda- March Field Air Museum, chairman of I look forward to many more years of tion’s George Washington Medal of the Friends of March Field, and treas- cooperation and friendship between the Honor for his speech: ‘‘Freedom, Amer- urer of the March Air Reserve Base United States and Tunisia. ica’s Weapon of Might.’’ It was broad- Forum. f cast worldwide on the U.S. Armed It is clear that Jamil Dada is an out- Forces Network. He was the first Ala- standingly active, concerned citizen, HONORING DR. GEORGE V. IRONS, bamians to win this award. He also dis- and I am extremely proud to extend my SR.’S INDUCTION INTO THE ALA- tinguished himself through military sincere congratulations to him on this BAMA MEN’S HALL OF FAME service in World War II and was a re- much deserved recognition from the ∑ Mr. SESSIONS. I rise today to honor spected leader in civic, social, and pro- Boy Scouts of America Five Nations Dr. George V. Irons, Sr.’s induction fessional organizations. District. into the Alabama Men’s Hall of Fame. Dr. Irons was elected to the Alabama I send my best wishes for a memo- Dr. Irons was Distinguished Professor Men’s Hall of Fame as the representa- rable celebration of Jamil Dada’s ac- of History and Political Science at tive of the entire 20th Century. J.L.M. complishments and for his continued Samford University for 43 years and a Curry, former Congresswoman and am- success.∑ prominent civic leader. As a professor, bassador whose statue as one of Ala- f he taught 17 students who became uni- bama’s two representatives in the Cap- versity presidents—a record in Amer- itol’s Statuary Hall collection, was CELEBRATING NATIONAL SAFE ican education. elected for the nineteenth century. PLACE WEEK Dr. Irons was also one of Alabama’s It is good this revered Hall of Fame ∑ Mr. CRAIG. Mr. President, as our true athletic greats—the only Univer- honors those heroes who celebrate the country faces imminent war with Iraq, sity of Alabama track field athlete best of our past. I am hopeful that Dr. and current events of the day may turn

VerDate Dec 13 2002 01:26 Mar 22, 2003 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00052 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G20MR6.153 S20PT2 March 20, 2003 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S4161 our attention overseas, it is essential Dorothy was one of the dearest middle of the crowd. He noted that to remember the ongoing battle that friends anyone could have. She was a ‘‘when the crowd prepared to parade off many of our young citizens face each fiercely loyal Democrat who was a to Vilas Park, several folks said good- day here at home. Our youth are the long-time, prominent fixture in the bye to the white-haired activist. ‘Good- future of this Nation and must be pro- Wisconsin political scene when I first bye?’ asked Shannon. ‘Oh, no, I’m tected. We not only value the young ran for public office over 20 years ago. ready to march.’ ’’ As Nichols wrote, people of this country, but recognize As it was to so many candidates, ‘‘Dorothy Shannon was always ready to that they are capable individuals and Dorothy’s support, and that of her hus- march. And rally. And campaign.’’ can take an active role in creating a band Ted, was crucial to me in that No matter what the progressive healthier living situation. first campaign, and they have been cause or issue, Dorothy was there. She I come to the Senate floor today to staunch supporters and advisors ever was steadfast in her commitment, and talk about a tremendous initiative be- since. it extended well beyond party politics. tween the public and private sector Growing up in a union household in She served on the Middleton Plan Com- that has been reaching out to youth for Toledo, OH, during the Great Depres- mission, and was active in the League 20 years: Project Safe Place. I am sion, Dorothy’s activism came natu- of Women Voters, the University pleased that the Senate unanimously rally to her. She came out of the Roo- League, and Friends of Pheasant adopted S. Res. 70, a resolution intro- sevelt Democratic tradition, and it Branch. duced by Senator DIANE FEINSTEIN and stayed with her. She would remind me It is still hard for me to fully grasp myself to designate the week of March to ‘‘be a Democrat, like Franklin Dela- Dorothy’s passing. I have known Ted 16, 2003, as National Safe Place Week, no Roosevelt.’’ and Dorothy Shannon for half of my in recognition of this partnership. After her serving in the Navy during life. And that is how we all thought of Over the past 20 years, Project Safe World War II, she earned her masters them. Ted and Dorothy. We always said Place has acted as an outreach effort of in early childhood education at Yale, their two names as one word. If you the YMCA Center for Youth Alter- where she met and married Ted. They wanted to mention just one of them, it natives—a short-term shelter for youth moved to Madison in 1950 and had lived took a little effort. It slowed up the at risk. Nearly 64,000 young people there ever since. conversation. have received help at over 12,200 des- As Dorothy told national columnist Now, Dorothy is gone, and conversa- ignated Safe Place locations. Young John Nichols, it did not take her and tions will be slowed all around Wis- people can easily recognize a safe place Ted long to get involved in Democratic consin. under a well-known symbol of safety politics. She recalled how one day, I offer my deepest condolences to Ted for in-crisis youth. The success of the when they were living in university and his family. I will always remember program, beginning in Louisville, KY, housing, a young fellow named Bill Dorothy, my dear friend, and cherished has prompted the implementation of Proxmire knocked on their door, and supporter.∑ this youth shelter outreach program in asked them to sign up to join the Wis- f over 100 cities throughout the United consin Democratic Party. Ted and UVM CENTER MATT SHEFTIC CEN- States. Even though the program has Dorothy joined Bill Proxmire and a few TERS HIS PRIORITIES ON HIS already been established in 41 States other hardy souls, that included such FAMILY across the country, there are still too future notables as Carl Thompson, Jim many communities that don’t know and Ruth Doyle, and Gaylord Nelson. ∑ Mr. LEAHY. Mr. President, today I about this valuable youth resource. They formed the core of what was to pay tribute to a young Vermonter Safe Place is a nationally acclaimed become the modern Wisconsin Demo- whose priorities are in the right place. program that is easily implemented in cratic Party. Ted and Dorothy helped Matt Sheftic is the center for the Uni- communities across the country. This put Bill Proxmire and Gaylord Nelson versity of Vermont basketball team, program unites the business sector, in the U.S. Senate, as they helped me the first Catamounts team to reach the volunteers, and youth service agencies over three decades later. NCAA tournament. in a community to provide temporary Long before I ran for the U.S. Senate, Before choosing to play basketball safe havens for youth in crisis. I urge though, Ted and Dorothy helped me for Coach Tom Brennan, Matt was a all my colleagues: if your State does win in my first race, for the Wisconsin standout for the Essex Junction Hor- not already have a Safe Place organiza- State Senate, and they were at every nets, leading them to the 1998 Vermont tion, please consider facilitating this event I ever had for the next 20 years. State Championship. He was a first worthwhile resource so that young peo- No matter what the weather, no matter team all-state selection twice, and in ple who are abused, neglected, or whose what their health was, they were al- 1999 was named Vermont’s Mr. Basket- futures are jeopardized by physical or ways there, always encouraging me. ball by the Burlington Free Press, and emotional trauma will have access to Dorothy’s commitment to progres- was Vermont’s Gatorade Player of the immediate help and safety in their sive causes inspired many, and in the Year. At UVM, he also serves his coun- community. early 1980s, Democrats in Dane County try as a member of the U.S. Army National Safe Place Week celebrates made her their cochair, along with a ROTC program. that outstanding program and honors friend of hers, Jim and Ruth Doyle’s Aside from his successes on the bas- the efforts of thousands of dedicated son. This past January, 20 years later, ketball court, in the classroom, and in Safe Place volunteers who selflessly Dorothy attended the inauguration of the ROTC program, Matt is first and devote time and resources to protect the Doyles’ son, Jim Doyle, as Gov- foremost dedicated to his family. When our Nation’s young people. I hope this ernor of Wisconsin. his sister Lauren battled an unexpected commemoration helps to raise aware- As was noted in her obituary, Doro- serious illness, Matt left the basketball ness of the number of troubled young thy chaired the Mondale-Ferraro Presi- team to help care for her. His priorities people in our Nation and provides more dential campaign in Dane County, and speak volumes about him as an out- youth and their families with the she was credited with helping to orga- standing young man, about the close- knowledge that help is often right in nize the largest public rally in support ness of the Sheftic family, and about their own neighborhood.∑ of the Democratic ticket that year. the wonderful job his parents have f I was at that rally. I remember it done raising him. well. Everyone who was there will re- Matt Sheftic’s story is told in an ar- IN MEMORY OF DOROTHY member it for the rest of their lives. It ticle by Joe Burris in the March 20 edi- SHANNON was a remarkable outpouring of en- tion of the Boston Globe. Today, in ∑ Mr. FEINGOLD. Mr. President, a pre- ergy, idealism, and hope for the future, honor of Matt Sheftic and his family, cious friend of mine and of progressive and as such it was the perfect embodi- and in memory of Lauren Sheftic, I ask causes passed away earlier this week. ment of Dorothy’s qualities. that the article ‘‘For Vermont’s Dorothy Shannon died early on the John Nichols reported that last Au- Sheftic, family came first’’ be printed morning of Wednesday, March 19, 2003. gust, at an antiwar rally and march in into the RECORD. She was 85. Madison, Dorothy was seated in the The article follows:

VerDate Dec 13 2002 01:26 Mar 22, 2003 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00053 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A20MR6.050 S20PT2 S4162 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE March 20, 2003 There being no objection, the article ‘‘I don’t know if I’ve consciously taken it friends and family, and these games mean was ordered to be printed in the upon myself to be a leader,’’ said Sheftic. ‘‘I everything to me.’’∑ RECORD, as follows: try to help out the team wherever I can.’’ f Last season, Sheftic didn’t play at all. [From the Boston Globe, Mar. 20, 2003] Lauren took ill during winter 2000. Sheftic, TAYLOR COPPENRATH, PRIDE OF COMEBACK PLAYER; FOR VERMONT’S SHEFTIC, the oldest of five children and the only male, WEST BARNET, VERMONT FAMILY CAME FIRST endured the 2000–01 season, but during the ∑ Mr. LEAHY. Mr. President, today I (By Joe Burris) fall of last year, weeks before the start of the season, he decided to take a redshirt to salute a key member of the first Uni- BURLINGTON, VT.—Big men get nervous, spend more time with his ailing sister. versity of Vermont men’s basketball too. Vermont center Matt Sheftic—a 22-year- ‘‘It was really an unbelievable time for team ever to participate in the NCAA old junior with Jack Sikma’s shooting touch me,’’ said Sheftic. ‘‘Thinking back on it now, and Paul Bunyan’s body—stood on the side- Tournament. Taylor Coppenrath is the it was like a dream, a nightmare. My sister line moments before the Catamounts’ Amer- Vermont version of Larry Bird, a ended up with a brain aneurysm and was ica East final against Boston University, smalltown boy who found huge success really sick, and we had a really tough season pondering how he would play in the biggest on the basketball court. the previous year, when we finished 12–17. game of his career. Worry set in; Sheftic’s Taylor’s basketball excellence has I’m a business major, and my classes are melon-sized calves trembled. really tough. transformed his hometown, tiny West But he knew it wasn’t too late to dial ‘‘Making a decision to leave the team, it Barnet, VT, into perhaps, on a per cap- heaven. As he often does during the national just became too much for me. I just felt to- ita basis, our State’s most basketball- anthem, Sheftic called upon his sister tally overloaded. I felt like I was drowning, crazy town, and with good reason. Dur- Lauren—who died in 2001 at age 18 from a like I couldn’t get up to the surface to brain aneurysm after a courageous struggle ing his career at St. Johnsbury Acad- breathe with my school work, going back that lasted nearly a year—and asked if she emy, Taylor did not make the varsity and forth to the hospital, trying to help my would loan him ‘‘the strength she showed’’ squad until his junior year, but when family out, trying to be there for my par- for the next two hours. ents. he finally arrived, his presence was Sheftic missed his first shot, with 18:04 ‘‘You just didn’t know what was going to felt. Taylor was named Vermont’s 2000 left. With 17:25 left, he turned the ball over. happen. Phone calls from my mother would Player of the Year by USA Today and In fact, he didn’t score until the 11:01 mark range from, ‘Lauren’s making great progress Gatorade, and Mr. Basketball by the of the first half, on his second shot of the today,’ to ‘We took 10 steps back today, she’s Burlington Free Press. game. By then Vermont had raced out to a sick again.’ It was an emotional roller coast- When Taylor joined Coach Tom Bren- double-digit lead and Sheftic began to settle; er I was on, as well as the season, just trying legs that once trembled became sturdy nan’s University of Vermont Cat- to get up for games, when I felt like all my amounts, he had an immediate impact, enough to help carry his team. emotions were with my sister.’’ With 8:33 left, he scored on an up-and- Sheftic went to Brennan’s office and re- and was named the 2002 America East under post move. BU left him open at the top layed his desire to sit out the season. ‘‘He Rookie of the Year, and earned All- of the key with 5:43 left and he capitalized was looking across at me and saying, ‘T.B., I America East, second team honors. with a basket. He scored two more soft- just can’t do it,’ ’’ said Brennan. ‘‘They were During this season, he was named the stroke baskets to finish the first half with 10 very, very close, and it really ripped his Kevin Roberson America East Player points on 5-for-10 shooting. heart out. He told me, ‘I really need to spend Over the last 9:41, when BU rallied and sub- of the Year, an honor appropriately time with her. Basketball doesn’t mean as named for one of UVM’s all time great- sequently forged ahead, Sheftic was the Cat- much to me.’ ’’ amounts’ go-to guy, scoring 8 points. His During his sister’s battle, he battled his est players. Taylor has attracted na- poise helped keep Vermont close in a contest own sense of grief while helping his three tional attention, including a mention at a time when the partisan BU crowd was youngest sisters cope. Then, he said, his sis- on ESPN.com’s The Radar Screen. An loudest. ter suffered her biggest setback. opposing coach, Tim Welsh of Provi- ‘‘After I hit a couple shots, I really settled ‘‘She went in to get a routine shunt in her dence College said of Taylor, ‘‘I’m glad down and I started to get my confidence, and head, which is a procedure where they drain we only have to play him once this all of my nervousness in my legs just left,’’ pressure in her head,’’ Sheftic said. ‘‘And said Sheftic. year.’’ when they went to drill into her head, they Taylor Coppenrath’s story is perhaps Vermont’s David Hehn won it for the Cat- hit her brain with the drill, and it caused an- amounts with a fadeaway baseline basket other brain aneurysm. So almost a year best told by award-winning writer Sam with 5.6 seconds left, but Sheftic was named later, we were in the exact same spot. Hemingway of the Burlington Free most outstanding player, scoring 23 points ‘‘We had to make a decision. My mom had Press in his column of Wednesday, on 10-for-17 shooting and adding 6 boards to spent every single day of her recovery with March 19. I ask that the column ‘‘Bas- lead UVM to its first NCAA Tournament bid. Lauren. And one day [before the surgery], ketball Star Makes West Barnet The Catamounts are the 16th seed in the Lauren told her that if anything like this Proud’’ be printed into the RECORD. West and will meet top-seeded Arizona in happened again she didn’t want to do it The article follows: Salt Lake City today. again, because it was so painful for her and BASKETBALL STAR COPPENRATH MAKES W. ‘‘I was just thinking that she was with me such a long road.’’ Sheftic was at his sister’s BARNET PROUD at the [high school] state championship bedside when she died shortly after the sur- game, and just how awesome it would have gery. [From the Burlington Free Press] been for her to be there for [last Saturday’s] ‘‘I think my family has become so much (By Sam Hemingway) game,’’ said Sheftic about Lauren, who was more important to me,’’ said Sheftic. ‘‘Fam- Shortly after 3 p.m. Thursday, the quiet three years younger. ‘‘But I knew she was ily is always important, but I don’t know: hamlet of West Barnet will grow even quiet- watching anyway, and I really felt like she You sometimes start to take your family for er. was there with me.’’ granted. They’d be at my basketball games Sharon Roy will put her small, seldom- For Sheftic, his involvement with Vermont and I loved the support, but I guess you don’t used black-and-white television on the basketball this season is a far cry from last realize how good it is to go home until counter at the West Barnet General Store season. He enters today’s Arizona game as you’ve gone through some kind of adversity and see whether she can capture WCAX-TV the team’s second-leading scorer (10.8 points with your family.’’ Channel 3 on the screen. per game) and rebounder (6.4 rebounds) and Sheftic returned this season and picked up Meg Clayton has a better plan. Her good is third with 54 assists. The Essex Junction, where he left off as a sophomore, when he friends, the Coppenraths, have a satellite Vt., resident who chose to stay home rather averaged 10 points per game. In his first dish, and because they’’ll be away in Utah, than accept lures from big-name programs game back, he recorded a double-double: 20 she intends to stop by and ‘‘check on their such as Providence and Southern California points and 10 boards against Eastern Michi- cat’’ for a couple of hours. has led UVM in scoring in five games and in gan. That was followed by a 22-point, six-as- Over at the Barnet School, the afternoon rebounding in six. Moreover, the 6-foot-8- sist contest against Albany, where he went in-service session for teachers should end in inch, 260-pound widebody has been a team 10 for 10 from the floor. time for the staff to check out the cable tele- leader. He has helped to alleviate pressure ‘‘Sheftic as a recruit was a star. When we vision hook-up installed at the school this from other players—including sophomore got Sheftic, it was like, ‘Wow, this is a tre- week. Taylor Coppenrath, the America East Player mendous recruit,’ ’’ said Brennan. ‘‘And yet The focus of all this television attention: of the Year. he has never said, ‘I need the ball more. hometown hero Taylor Coppenrath. The 6- ‘‘We had a situation where when somebody You’re not running plays for me.’ He has fit foot, 8-inch forward will be on network tele- said something about Taylor, that he wasn’t in really well since he’s been back.’’ vision, leading the University of Vermont that good, Sheftic became his big brother Said Sheftic: ‘‘Feeling as much pain as I men’s basketball team in its first-ever NCAA and his protector,’’ said coach Tom Brennan. did that year, I’m so much more thankful appearance, against the University of Ari- ‘‘It was really a neat thing to watch.’’ and appreciative of having good times and zona.

VerDate Dec 13 2002 01:26 Mar 22, 2003 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00054 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A20MR6.056 S20PT2 March 20, 2003 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S4163 The funny thing is, no one in these parts rection of Head Coach John McDonnell. 107–297) are not being vested, provided really saw this day coming five years ago. At the University of Arkansas, Coach that, upon satisfaction of the judg- The funnier thing is that, now that it’s hap- McDonnell has led his teams to more ments on which such writs are based, pening, no one’s that surprised about it. national championships, triple crowns any reminder of such expected amounts ‘‘He’s such a sweetie,’’ said Karen Stewart, the principal of Barnet School. ‘‘He was al- and conference titles than any other shall, without further action, be con- ways very mellow, very easy going.’’ coach in history. His most extraor- fiscated and vested. He still is. Neighbor Liddy Roberts recalled dinary accomplishment is winning 29 I have delegated to the Secretary of how, last year, Coppenrath and her son, consecutive conference cross country the Treasury authority to undertake Jimmy, were home on spring break and championships. He has coached 20 all other action of the President and spent a whole day making an igloo for a Olympians and over 140 athletes to All- all functions of the President set forth youngster in town albeit one big enough for American status. We celebrate Coach in section 203(a)(1)(C) of IEEPA with Coppenrath to stand up inside. John McDonnell’s success at the Uni- respect to any and all property of the ‘‘And, of course, he and Jimmy had to go Government of Iraq, including its agen- out and cook up some hot dogs inside the versity of Arkansas and his continued igloo afterward,’’ she said. dedication to the Razorback Track and cies, instrumentalities, or controlled Under that unassuming exterior lurks the Field and Cross Country programs. entities, and to take additional steps, heart of a lion, however. including the promulgation of rules As a kid, Coppenrath played so hard at re- f and regulations as may be necessary to cess, some teachers said, the school created MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT carry out the purposes of this order. the Taylor Coppenrath Rule: If you come in I am enclosing a copy of the Execu- from recess soaked in sweat like he did, tive Order I have issued, which is effec- make sure you have a set of dry clothes to REPORT RELATIVE TO THE ADDI- tive immediately. put on afterward. I have exercised these authorities in Name a game, and Coppenrath was ready TIONAL STEPS TAKEN WITH RE- to play it. Games filled the idle hours for SPECT TO THE NATIONAL EMER- furtherance of Executive Orders 12722 kids in the village, none more so than bas- GENCY WHICH WAS DECLARED and 12724 with respect to the unusual ketball. The sound of a bouncing basketball IN EXECUTIVE ORDER 12722 OF and extraordinary threat to our na- often echoed through town from dawn to AUGUST 2, 1990 BY EXERCISING tional security and foreign policy posed dusk. THE STATUTORY AUTHORITY TO by the policies and actions of the Gov- Sometimes the games involved Coppenrath CONFISCATE AND VEST CERTAIN ernment of Iraq. I intend that such and his two best friends, Clayton’s son Chris PROPERTY OF THE GOVERN- vested property should be used to as- and Roberts’ son Jimmy. Other times, it sist the Iraqi people and to assist in drew in entire families, passers-by, anyone MENT OF IRAQ—PM 28 who wanted to play. the reconstruction of Iraq, and have de- The PRESIDING OFFICER laid be- termined that such use would be in the ‘‘We even had family tournaments,’’ said fore the Senate the following message George Coppenrath, Taylor’s father. ‘‘You interest of and for the benefit of the from the President of the United had mothers, fathers, sons, daughters, all United States. bumping and shoving each other out there. It States, together with an accompanying The power to vest assets of a foreign was fun.’’ report; which was referred to the Com- government with which the United Basketball became such a fixture in West mittee on Banking, Housing, and States is engaged in armed hostilities Barnet that six years ago a paved, full-sized Urban Affairs: is one that has been recognized for basketball court with two backboards and hoops was built smack dab in the middle of To the Congress of the United States: many decades. This power is being used the village. Pursuant to section 204(b) of the here because it is clearly in the inter- Still, the chances of a small-town kid from International Emergency Economic ests of the United States to have these Vermont making a big splash in Division 1 Powers Act, 50 U.S.C. 1703(b) (IEEPA), funds available for use in rebuilding college basketball are as remote as West and section 301 of the National Emer- Iraq and launching that country on the Barnet itself, tucked into the hills 15 miles gencies Act, 50 U.S.C. 1631, I hereby re- path to speedy economic recovery. In southwest of St. Johnsbury. port that I have taken additional steps addition, this authority is being in- Coppenrath, who kept growing taller voked in a limited way, designed to throughout high school, was a late-blooming with respect to the national emergency star. He didn’t make the varsity at St. declared in Executive Order 12722 of minimize harm to third parties and to Johnsbury Academy until his junior year, a August 2, 1990, by exercising my statu- respect existing court orders as much year after his two West Barnet buddies had tory authority to confiscate and vest as possible. made the team. certain property of the Government of GEORGE W. BUSH. Only as a senior did he finally receive the Iraq and its agencies, instrumental- THE WHITE HOUSE, March 20, 2003. recognition he deserved: Vermont’s Gatorade ities, or controlled entities. f Player of the Year, The Burlington Free Consistent with section 203(a)(1)(C) of Press’ Mr. Basketball and a full scholarship MESSAGE FROM THE HOUSE IEEPA, 50 U.S.C. 1702(a)(1)(C), as added from UVM. This winter he led the Cat- At 2:54 p.m., a message from the by section 106 of the USA PATRIOT amounts in scoring and was named the play- House of Representatives, was deliv- ACT, Public Law 107–56, I have ordered er of the year in the America East basketball ered by Mr. Hays, one of its reading conference. that certain blocked funds held in the clerks, announced that the House has How crazy is this town for basketball now? United States in accounts in the name passed the following bills, in which it George Coppenrath has taken to making of the Government of Iraq, the Central requests the concurrence of the Senate. video tapes of UVM games and leaving them Bank of Iraq, Rafidain Bank, Rasheed at the two stores in town for people to bor- Bank, or the State Organization for H.R. 314. An act to amend the Fair Debt row and watch. Collection Practices Act to exempt mortgage Tuesday, all of the West Barnet General Marketing Oil are hereby confiscated servicers from certain requirements of the Store’s copies were out on loan. and vested in the Department of the Act with respect to federally related mort- f Treasury. I have made exceptions for gage loans secured by a first lien, and for any such funds that are subject to the other purposes. RECOGNITION OF COACH JOHN Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Re- H.R. 417. An act to revoke a Public Land McDONNELL AND THE UNIVER- lations or the Vienna Convention on Order with respect to certain lands erro- SITY OF ARKANSAS TRACK AND Consular Relations, or that enjoy neously included in the Cibola National FIELD PROGRAM Wildlife Refuge, California. equivalent privileges and immunities H.R. 519. An act to authorize the Secretary Mrs. LINCOLN. Mr. President, on be- under the laws of the United States, of the Interior to conduct a study of the San half of all Arkansans, I want to con- and are or have been used for diplo- Gabriel River Watershed, and for other pur- gratulate the University of Arkansas matic or consular purposes. In addi- poses. Razorback Track and Field program on tion, such amounts that, as of the date H.R. 699. An act to direct the Secretary of their 17th NCAA Indoor Track and of the order, are subject to post-judg- the Interior to conduct a comprehensive Field championship this past weekend ment writs of execution or attachment study of the Rathdrum Prairie/Spokane Val- ley Aquifer, located in Idaho and Wash- at the Randal Tyson Track Center in in aid of execution of judgments pursu- ington. Fayetteville, AR. This is the program’s ant to section 201 of the Terrorism H.R. 975. An act to amend title 11 of the 37th overall NCAA crown under the di- Risk Insurance Act of 2002 (Public Law United States Code, and for other purposes.

VerDate Dec 13 2002 01:26 Mar 22, 2003 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00055 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G20MR6.152 S20PT2 S4164 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE March 20, 2003 H.R. 1307. An act to amend the Internal EC–1672. A communication from the Chair- ment of Health and Human Services, trans- Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a special man, United States Merit Systems Protec- mitting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule rule for members of the uniformed services tion Board, transmitting, pursuant to law, entitled ‘‘Listing of Color Additives Exempt in determining the exclusion of gain from the report entitled ‘‘The Federal Selection from Certification; Mica-Based (Pearlescent the sale of a principal residence and to re- Interview: Unrealized Potential’’ received on Pigments; Confirmation of Effective Date) store the tax exempt status of death gra- March 17, 2003; to the Committee on Govern- (Doc . No. 00C–1321)’’ received on March 17, tuity payments to members of the uniformed mental Affairs . 2003; to the Committee on Health, Education, services, and for other purposes. EC–1673. A communication from the Chair- Labor, and Pensions. H.R. 1308. An act to amend the Internal man, United States International Trade EC–1685. A communication from the Dep- Revenue Code of 1986 to end certain abusive Commission, transmitting, pursuant to law, uty Chief Counsel, Office of Foreign Assets tax practices, to provide tax relief and sim- the report of the fourth edition of the Com- Control, Department of the Treasury, trans- plification, and for other purposes. mission’s Strategic Plan and the Perform- mitting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule ance Plan for fiscal year (FY) 2002, received entitled ‘‘31 CFR Parts 560–575—Authoriza- f on March 17, 2003; to the Committee on Gov- tion of Certain Humanitarian Activities by MEASURES REFERRED ernmental Affairs . Nongovernmental Organizations in Iraq and EC–1674. A communication from the Chair- Iran’’ received on March 17, 2003; to the Com- The following bills were read the first man, Broadcasting Board of Governors, mittee on Foreign Relations. and the second times by unanimous transmitting, pursuant to law, the Commer- EC–1686. A communication from the Dep- consent, and referred as indicated: cial Activity Report for the Broadcasting uty Chief Counsel, Office of Foreign Assets H.R. 314. An act to amend the Fair Debt Board of Governors (BBG), received on Control, Department of the Treasury, trans- March 17, 2003; to the Committee on Govern- Collection Practices Act to exempt mortgage mitting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule mental Affairs. servicers from certain requirements of the entitled ‘‘Cuban Assets Control Regulations: EC–1675. A communication from the Sec- Act with respect to federally related mort- Family and Educational Travel-Related retary of State, transmitting, pursuant to Transactions, Remittance of Inherited gage loans secured by a first lien, and for law, the Department of State Performance other purposes; to the Committee on Bank- Funds, Activities of Cuban Nationals in the and Accountability Report for Fiscal Year United States, Support for the Cuban People, ing, Housing, and Urban Affairs. 2002, received on March 17, 2003; to the Com- Humanitarian Projects, and Technical H.R. 417. An act to revoke a Public Land mittee on Governmental Affairs. Amendments’’ received on March 18, 2003; to Order with respect to certain lands erro- EC–1676. A communication from the Chair- neously included in the Cibola National man, Federal Energy Regulatory Commis- the Committee on Foreign Relations. EC–1687. A communication from the Chief, Wildlife Refuge, California; to the Com- sion, transmitting, pursuant to law, the Fed- Regulations Branch, Customs Service, De- mittee on Energy and Natural Resources. eral Energy Regulatory Commission’s Fiscal partment of the Treasury, transmitting, pur- H.R. 519. An act to authorize the Secretary Year 2002 Performance Report, received on suant to law, the report of a rule entitled of the Interior to conduct a study of the San March 17, 2003; to the Committee on Govern- ‘‘Implementation of the Andean Trade Pro- Gabriel River Watershed, and for other pur- mental Affairs . poses; to the Committee on Energy and Nat- EC–1677. A communication from the Sec- motion and Drug Eradication Act (1515– ural Resources. retary of Health and Human Services, trans- AD19)’’ received on March 18, 2003; to the H.R. 699. An act to direct the Secretary of mitting, pursuant to law, the report relative Committee on Finance . the Interior to conduct a comprehensive to surplus real property transferred for pub- EC–1688. A communication from the Chief, study of the Rathdrum Prairie/Spokane Val- lic health purposes, received on March 17, Regulations Branch, Customs Service, De- ley Aquifer, located in Idaho and Wash- 2003; to the Committee on Governmental Af- partment of the Treasury, transmitting, pur- ington; to the Committee on Energy and fairs. suant to law, the report of a rule entitled Natural Resources. EC–1678. A communication from the Chair- ‘‘Trade Benefits Under the African Growth man, Equal Employment Opportunity Com- and Opportunity Act (RIN 1515–AD20)’’ re- f mission, transmitting, pursuant to law, the ceived on March 17, 2003; to the Committee MEASURES READ THE FIRST TIME Equal Opportunity Commission’s Govern- on Finance. ment Performance and Results Act Fiscal EC–1689. A communication from the Chief, The following bills were read the first Year 2002 Annual Program Performance Re- Regulations Branch, Customs Service, De- time: port, received on March 17, 2003; to the Com- partment of the Treasury, transmitting, pur- H.R. 5. An act to improve patient access to mittee on Governmental Affairs. suant to law, the report of a rule entitled health care services and provide improved EC–1679. A communication from the Chair- ‘‘Compliance with Inflation Adjustment Act medical care by reducing the excessive bur- man, Federal Election Commission, trans- (RIN 1515–AD25)’’ received on March 17, 2003; den the liability system places on the health mitting, pursuant to law, the Annual Report to the Committee on Finance. care delivery system. regarding the implementation of the Govern- EC–1690. A communication from the Chief, H.R. 975. An act to amend title 11 of the ment in the Sunshine Act for Calendar Year Regulations Branch, Customs Service, De- United States Code, and for other purposes. 2002, received on March 12, 2003; to the Com- partment of the Treasury, transmitting, pur- H.R. 1047. An act to amend the Harmonized mittee on Governmental Affairs. suant to law, the report of a rule entitled Tariff Schedule of the United States to mod- EC–1680. A communication from the Sec- ‘‘Trade Benefits Under Caribbean Basin Eco- ify temporarily certain rates of duty, to retary of Homeland Security, transmitting, nomic Recovery Act (RIN 1515–AD22)’’ re- make other technical amendments to the pursuant to law, the report relative to a plan ceived on March 17, 2003; to the Committee trade laws, and for other purposes. ensuring the elimination, to the maximum on Finance. EC–1691. A communication from the Chief, H.R. 1308. An act to amend the Internal extent practicable, of unwarranted dispari- Regulations Branch, Customs Service, De- Revenue Code of 1986 to end certain abusive ties in the pay and benefits of employees partment of the Treasury, transmitting, pur- tax practices, to provide tax relief and sim- being transferred to the Department of suant to law, the report of a rule entitled plification, and for other purposes. Homeland Security (DHS), received on March 12, 2003; to the Committee on Govern- ‘‘Entry of Certain Steel Products (RIN 1515– f mental Affairs. AD15)’’ received on March 17, 2003; to the EXECUTIVE AND OTHER EC–1681. A communication from the Comp- Committee on Finance. troller General, General Accounting Office, EC–1692. A communication from the Chief, COMMUNICATIONS transmitting, pursuant to law, a list of Gen- Regulations Branch, Customs Service, De- The following communications were eral Accounting Office reports for the month partment of the Treasury, transmitting, pur- laid before the Senate, together with of January 2003; to the Committee on Gov- suant to law, the report of a rule entitled accompanying papers, reports, and doc- ernmental Affairs. ‘‘Deferral of Duty on Large Yachts Imported EC–1682. A communication from the Chair- For Sale (RIN 1515–AC58)’’ received on March uments, and were referred as indicated: man, Federal Maritime Commission, trans- 17, 2003; to the Committee on Finance. EC–1670. A communication from the Direc- mitting, pursuant to law, the Federal Mari- EC–1693. A communication from the Dep- tor, Financial Management, General Ac- time Commission’s Annual Program Per- uty Secretary of Defense, transmitting, pur- counting Office, transmitting, pursuant to formance Report covering Fiscal Year 2002, suant to law, the report relative to options law, the Fiscal Year 2002 Annual Report of received on March 17, 2003; to the Committee for sustaining the space launch industrial the Comptrollers’ General Retirement Sys- on Governmental Affairs. base and developing an integrated, long- tem; to the Committee on Governmental Af- EC–1683. A communication from the Chair- range, and adequately funded plan for assur- fairs. man and President, Export-Import Bank, ing access to space by the United States, re- EC–1671. A communication from the Archi- transmitting, the 2003 annual report for the ceived on March 19, 2003; to the Committee vist of the United States, National Archives Export-Import Bank’s Sub-Saharan African on Armed Services. and Records Administration, transmitting, Initiative, received on March 12, 2003; to the EC–1694. A communication from the Assist- pursuant to law, the Fiscal Year 2002 Annual Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban ant Secretary, Legislative Affairs, Depart- Report for the National Archives and Affairs. ment of State, transmitting, pursuant to Records Administration; to the Committee EC–1684. A communication from the Direc- law, the report relative to certification that on Governmental Affairs. tor, Regulations and Management, Depart- Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan,

VerDate Dec 13 2002 01:26 Mar 22, 2003 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00056 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A20MR6.063 S20PT2 March 20, 2003 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S4165 Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan are committed to ting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule en- EXECUTIVE REPORTS OF the courses of action described in section titled ‘‘State Implementation Plan Revisions COMMITTEES 1203(d) of the cooperative Threat Reduction to Particulate Matter, California—San Joa- Act of 1993, received on March 18, 2003; to the quin Valley (FRL 7470–6)’’ received on March The following executive reports of Committee on Armed Services. 18, 2003; to the Committee on Environment committees were submitted: EC–1695. A communication from the Acting and Public Works. By Mr. HATCH for the Committee on the Principal Deputy Associate Administrator, EC–1704. A communication from the Acting Judiciary. Environmental Protection Agency, transmit- Principal Deputy Associate Administrator, James V. Selna, of California, to be United ting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule en- Environmental Protection Agency, transmit- States District Judge for the Central Dis- titled ‘‘Approval and Promulgation of Imple- ting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule en- trict of California. mentation Plans; State of Missouri (FRL titled ‘‘Withdrawal of Revisions to the Water Theresa Lazar Springmann, of Indiana, to 7467–8)’’ received on March 18, 2003; to the Quality Planning and Management Regula- be United States District Judge for the Committee on Environment and Public tion and Revisions to the National Pollutant Northern District of Indiana. Works. Discharge Elimination System Program in Cormac J. Carney, of California, to be EC–1696. A communication from the Acting Support of Revisions to the Water Quality United States District Judge for the Central Principal Deputy Associate Administrator, Planning and Management Regulations (FRL District of California. Environmental Protection Agency, transmit- 7470–2)’’ received on March 18, 2003; to the Philip P. Simon, of Indiana, to be United ting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule en- Committee on Environment and Public States District Judge for the Northern Dis- Works. titled ‘‘Approval and Promulgation of Imple- trict of Indiana. EC–1705. A communication from the Direc- mentation Plans; State of Missouri (FRL Gregory A. White, of Ohio, to be United 7468–1)’’ received on March 18, 2003; to the tor, Fish and Wildlife Service, Department of the Interior, transmitting, pursuant to law, States Attorney for the Northern District of Committee on Environment and Public Ohio for the term of four years. Works. the report of a rule entitled ‘‘Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Deter- Thomas Dyson Hurlburt, Jr., of Florida, to EC–1697. A communication from the Acting be United States Marshal for the Middle Dis- Principal Deputy Associate Administrator, mination of Endangered Status for the Sonoma County District Population Seg- trict of Florida for the term of four years. Environmental Protection Agency, transmit- Christina Pharo, of Florida, to be United ting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule en- ment of the California Tiger Salamander (1018–AI61)’’ received on March 18, 2003; to States Marshal for the Southern District of titled ‘‘Approval and Promulgation of Imple- Florida for the term of four years. mentation Plans; State of Missouri (FRL the Committee on Environment and Public Works. Dennis Arthur Williamson, of Florida, to 7468–4)’’ received on March 18, 2003; to the be United States Marshal for the Northern Committee on Environment and Public EC–1706. A communication from the Acting Principal Deputy Associate Administrator, District of Florida for the term of four years. Works. Richard Zenos Winget, of Nevada, to be EC–1698. A communication from the Acting Environmental Protection Agency, transmit- United States Marshal for the District of Ne- Principal Deputy Associate Administrator, ting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule en- vada for the term of four years. Environmental Protection Agency, transmit- titled ‘‘Imazethapyr; Pesticide Tolerance ting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule en- (FRL7294–1)’’ received on March 18, 2003; to (Nominations without an asterisk titled ‘‘Interim Final Determination to Stay the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, were reported with the recommenda- and/or Defer Sanctions, Bay Area Air Qual- and Forestry. EC–1707. A communication from the Board tion that they be confirmed.) ity Management District, and San Joaquin of Director, National Railroad Retirement Valley Unified Air Pollution Control District f Investment Board, transmitting, pursuant to (FRL 7460–6)’’ received on March 18, 2003; to law, the Annual Management report on oper- INTRODUCTION OF BILLS AND the Committee on Environment and Public ations and financial condition; to the Com- JOINT RESOLUTIONS Works. mittee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and For- EC–1699. A communication from the Acting The following bills and joint resolu- estry. Principal Deputy Associate Administrator, EC–1708. A communication from the Board tions were introduced, read the first Environmental Protection Agency, transmit- Members, Railroad Retirement Board, trans- and second times by unanimous con- ting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule en- mitting, pursuant to law, the calendar year sent, and referred as indicated: titled ‘‘Revision to the Arizona State Imple- 2002 annual report, received on March 18, mentation Plans, Arizona Department of En- By Mrs. BOXER (for herself, Mr. REID, 2003; to the Committee on Governmental Af- and Mr. BAUCUS): vironmental Quality (FRL 7460–9)’’ received fairs. on March 18, 2003; to the Committee on Envi- S. 670. A bill to designate the United ronment and Public Works. f States courthouse located at 95 Seventh EC–1700. A communication from the Acting REPORTS OF COMMITTEES Street in San Francisco, California, as the Principal Deputy Associate Administrator, ‘‘James R. Browning United States Court- Environmental Protection Agency, transmit- The following reports of committees house’’; to the Committee on Environment ting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule en- were submitted: and Public Works. titled ‘‘Revisions to the California State Im- By Mr. GRASSLEY, from the Committee By Mr. GRASSLEY: plementation Plan, Bay Area Air Quality on Finance, without amendment: S. 671. An original bill to amend the Har- Management District, Sacramento Metro- S. 671. An original bill to amend the Har- monized Tariff Schedule of the United States politan Air Quality Management District, monized Tariff Schedule of the United States to modify temporarily certain rates of duty, and San Joaquin Valley Unified Air Pollu- to modify temporarily certain rates of duty, to make other technical amendments to the tion Control District (FRL 7460–5)’’ received to make other technical amendments to the trade laws, and for other purposes; from the on March 18, 2003; to the Committee on Envi- trade laws, and for other purposes (Rept. No. Committee on Finance; placed on the cal- ronment and Public Works. 108–28). endar. EC–1701. A communication from the Acting By Mr. HATCH, from the Committee on By Mr. ENSIGN: Principal Deputy Associate Administrator, the Judiciary, without amendment and with S. 672. A bill to require a 50 hour workweek Environmental Protection Agency, transmit- a preamble: for Federal prison inmates and to establish a ting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule en- S. Res. 48. A resolution designating April grant program for mandatory drug testing, titled ‘‘Revisions to the California State Im- 2003 as ‘‘Financial Literacy for Youth and for other purposes; to the Committee on plementation Plan, Imperial County Air Pol- Month’’. the Judiciary. By Mr. HATCH, from the Committee on lution Control District, Mendocino County By Mr. BOND: the Judiciary, with an amendment and with Air Quality Management District, and Mon- S. 673. A bill to amend part D of title III of a preamble: the Public Health Service Act to authorize terey Bay Unified Air Pollution Control Dis- S. Res. 52. A resolution recognizing the so- grants and loan guarantees for health cen- trict (FRL 7456–6)’’ received on March 18, cial problem of child abuse and neglect, and ters to enable the centers to fund capital 2003; to the Committee on Environment and supporting efforts to enhance public aware- needs projects, and for other purposes; to the Public Works. ness of the problem. EC–1702. A communication from the Acting By Mr. HATCH, from the Committee on Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Principal Deputy Associate Administrator, the Judiciary, without amendment and with Pensions. Environmental Protection Agency, transmit- a preamble: By Ms. COLLINS (for herself, Mr. ting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule en- S. Res. 58. A resolution expressing the SANTORUM, Mr. SARBANES, Mr. ED- titled ‘‘Revision to the California State Im- sense of the Senate that the President WARDS, Mr. FEINGOLD, Mr. KENNEDY, plementation Plan, Imperial County Air Pol- should designate the week beginning June 1, Mr. SCHUMER, Mr. KERRY, Mrs. FEIN- lution Control District (FRL 7460–8)’’ re- 2003, as ‘‘National Citizen Soldier Week’’. STEIN, Mr. LIEBERMAN, Mr. DODD, and ceived on March 18, 2003; to the Committee By Mr. HATCH, from the Committee on Ms. MIKULSKI): on Environment and Public Works. the Judiciary, without amendment: S. 674. A bill to amend the National Mari- EC–1703. A communication from the Acting S. 330. A bill to further the protection and time Heritage Act of 1994 to reaffirm and re- Principal Deputy Associate Administrator, recognition of veterans’ memorials, and for vise the designation of America’s National Environmental Protection Agency, transmit- other purposes. Maritime Museum, and for other purposes; to

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the Committee on Commerce, Science, and CHAFEE, Mr. CHAMBLISS, Mrs. CLIN- S. 56 Transportation. TON, Mr. COCHRAN, Mr. COLEMAN, Ms. At the request of Mr. JOHNSON, the By Mr. ENSIGN (for himself, Mr. SES- COLLINS, Mr. CONRAD, Mr. CORNYN, name of the Senator from Minnesota SIONS, Mr. CRAPO, and Mr. KYL): Mr. CORZINE, Mr. CRAIG, Mr. CRAPO, (Mr. DAYTON) was added as a cosponsor S. 675. A bill to require the Congressional Mr. DAYTON, Mr. DEWINE, Mr. DODD, of S. 56, a bill to restore health care Budget Office and the Joint Committee on Mrs. DOLE, Mr. DOMENICI, Mr. DOR- Taxation to use dynamic economic modeling GAN, Mr. DURBIN, Mr. EDWARDS, Mr. coverage to retired members of the in addition to static economic modeling in ENSIGN, Mr. ENZI, Mr. FEINGOLD, Mrs. uniformed services. the preparation of budgetary estimates of FEINSTEIN, Mr. FITZGERALD, Mr. S. 138 proposed changes in Federal revenue law; to GRAHAM of Florida, Mr. GRAHAM of At the request of Mr. ROCKEFELLER, the Committee on Governmental Affairs and South Carolina, Mr. GRASSLEY, Mr. the names of the Senator from Min- the Committee on the Budget, jointly, pursu- GREGG, Mr. HAGEL, Mr. HARKIN, Mr. nesota (Mr. DAYTON) and the Senator ant to the order of August 4, 1977, with in- HATCH, Mr. HOLLINGS, Mrs. structions that if one Committee reports, HUTCHISON, Mr. INHOFE, Mr. INOUYE, from Washington (Ms. CANTWELL) were the other Committee have thirty days to re- Mr. JEFFORDS, Mr. JOHNSON, Mr. KEN- added as cosponsors of S. 138, a bill to port or be discharged. NEDY, Mr. KERRY, Mr. KOHL, Mr. KYL, temporarily increase the Federal med- By Mr. BAUCUS (for himself, Mr. Ms. LANDRIEU, Mr. LAUTENBERG, Mr. ical assistance percentage for the med- CRAIG, Mr. BAYH, and Mr. ROCKE- LEAHY, Mr. LIEBERMAN, Mrs. LIN- icaid program. FELLER): COLN, Mr. LOTT, Mr. LUGAR, Mr. S. 140 S. 676. A bill to establish a WTO Dispute MCCAIN, Ms. MIKULSKI, Mr. MILLER, Settlement Review Commission, and for Ms. MURKOWSKI, Mrs. MURRAY, Mr. At the request of Mrs. FEINSTEIN, the other purposes; to the Committee on Fi- NELSON of Florida, Mr. NELSON of Ne- name of the Senator from Connecticut nance. braska, Mr. NICKLES, Mr. PRYOR, Mr. (Mr. LIEBERMAN) was added as a co- By Mr. CAMPBELL (for himself and REED, Mr. ROBERTS, Mr. ROCKE- sponsor of S. 140, a bill to amend the Mr. ALLARD): FELLER, Mr. SANTORUM, Mr. SAR- Higher Education Act of 1965 to extend S. 677. A bill to revise the boundary of the BANES, Mr. SCHUMER, Mr. SESSIONS, loan forgiveness for certain loans to Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Mr. SHELBY, Mr. SMITH, Ms. SNOWE, Head Start teachers. Park and Gunnison Gorge National Con- Mr. SPECTER, Ms. STABENOW, Mr. S 153 servation Area in the State of Colorado, and STEVENS, Mr. SUNUNU, Mr. TALENT, . for other purposes; to the Committee on En- Mr. THOMAS, Mr. VOINOVICH, and Mr. At the request of Mrs. FEINSTEIN, the ergy and Natural Resources. WYDEN): name of the Senator from Georgia (Mr. By Mr. AKAKA (for himself, Ms. COL- S. Res. 95. A resolution commending the MILLER) was added as a cosponsor of S. LINS, Mr. DASCHLE, Mr. JEFFORDS, President and the Armed Forces of the 153, a bill to amend title 18, United Mr. INOUYE, Ms. MIKULSKI, and Mr. United States of America; considered and States Code, to establish penalties for SARBANES): agreed to. aggravated identity theft, and for S. 678. A bill to amend chapter 10 of title By Mr. BOND (for himself and Mr. HOL- 39, United States Code, to include post- LINGS): other purposes. masters and postmasters organizations in S. Res. 96. A resolution to express the sense S. 157 the process for the development and plan- of the Senate that the Federal investment in At the request of Mr. CORZINE, the ning of certain policies, schedules, and pro- programs that provide health care services name of the Senator from North Caro- grams, and for other purposes; to the Com- to uninsured and low-income individuals in lina (Mr. EDWARDS) was added as a co- mittee on Governmental Affairs. medically underserved areas be increased in sponsor of S. 157, a bill to help protect By Mr. BIDEN (for himself, Mr. KOHL, order to double access to health care over the public against the threat of chem- Mr. BINGAMAN, Mr. BAUCUS, Mrs. the next 5 years; to the Committee on Appro- CLINTON, Ms. STABENOW, Mr. ED- priations. ical attacks. WARDS, Mr. SARBANES, Mrs. MURRAY, By Mr. VOINOVICH (for himself and S. 170 Mr. KERRY, Mr. LEAHY, Mr. LEVIN, Mr. DEWINE): At the request of Mr. BUNNING, his Mr. DURBIN, Mr. LIEBERMAN, Mr. KEN- S. Con. Res. 25. A concurrent resolution name was added as a cosponsor of S. NEDY, Mr. HOLLINGS, Mr. NELSON of recognizing and honoring America’s Jewish 170, a bill to amend the Federal Water Nebraska, Ms. MIKULSKI, Mr. BAYH, community on the occasion of its 350th anni- Pollution Control Act to authorize ap- Ms. CANTWELL, Mr. DORGAN, Mr. versary, supporting the designation of an CONRAD, Mrs. FEINSTEIN, Mr. ‘‘American Jewish History Month’’, and for propriations for State water pollution CORZINE, Mr. CARPER, Mr. JEFFORDS, other purposes; to the Committee on the Ju- control revolving funds, and further Mr. JOHNSON, Mr. ROCKEFELLER, Mr. diciary. purposes. SMITH, Mr. DAYTON, Mr. AKAKA, Mr. By Ms. LANDRIEU (for herself, Mr. S. 251 REED, Mr. BREAUX, Mr. NELSON of HAGEL, Mr. JOHNSON, Mr. DASCHLE, At the request of Mr. LOTT, the Florida, Mr. HARKIN, Mr. SCHUMER, Mr. LEAHY, Mr. SPECTER, Mr. BINGA- names of the Senator from Utah (Mr. Mrs. BOXER, Mr. DODD, Mr. SPECTER, MAN, Mr. INOUYE, and Mr. BREAUX): Ms. LANDRIEU, Mr. DASCHLE, Mr. S. Con. Res. 26. A concurrent resolution HATCH) and the Senator from Alaska BYRD, Mr. LAUTENBERG, Mr. PRYOR, condemning the punishment of execution by (Ms. MURKOWSKI) were added as cospon- Mrs. LINCOLN, and Mr. REID): stoning as a gross violation of human rights, sors of S. 251, a bill to amend the Inter- S. 679. A bill to provide reliable officers, and for other purposes; to the Committee on nal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the technology, education , community prosecu- Foreign Relations. 4.3-cent motor fuel excise taxes on rail- tors, and training in our neighborhoods; to By Mr. BOND (for himself, Ms. roads and inland waterway transpor- the Committee on the Judiciary. LANDRIEU, Mr. HAGEL, and Mr. FITZ- tation which remain in the general By Mr. HATCH: GERALD): S. 680. A bill to amend the Internal Rev- S. Con. Res. 27. A concurrent resolution fund of the Treasury. enue Code of 1986 to enhance book donations urging the President to request the United S. 271 and literacy; to the Committee on Finance. States International Trade Commission to At the request of Mr. SMITH, the take certain actions with respect to the tem- f name of the Senator from Texas (Mrs. porary safeguards on imports of certain steel HUTCHISON) was added as a cosponsor of SUBMISSION OF CONCURRENT AND products, and for other purposes; to the Com- S. 271, a bill to amend the Internal SENATE RESOLUTIONS mittee on Finance. Revenue Code of 1986 to allow an addi- The following concurrent resolutions f tional advance refunding of bonds and Senate resolutions were read, and originally issued to finance govern- referred (or acted upon), as indicated: ADDITIONAL COSPONSORS mental facilities used for essential gov- By Mr. FRIST (for himself, Mr. S. 32 ernmental functions. DASCHLE, Mr. WARNER, Mr. LEVIN, At the request of Mr. KYL, the name S. 289 Mr. MCCONNELL, Mr. REID, Mr. of the Senator from Vermont (Mr. JEF- At the request of Mr. GRASSLEY, the AKAKA, Mr. ALEXANDER, Mr. ALLARD, FORDS) was added as a cosponsor of S. name of the Senator from New Mexico Mr. ALLEN, Mr. BAUCUS, Mr. BAYH, 32, a bill to establish Institutes to con- (Mr. DOMENICI) was added as a cospon- Mr. BENNETT, Mr. BIDEN, Mr. BINGA- MAN, Mr. BOND, Mrs. BOXER, Mr. duct research on the prevention of, and sor of S. 289, a bill to amend the Inter- BREAUX, Mr. BROWNBACK, Mr. restoration from, wildfires in forest nal Revenue Code of 1986 to improve BUNNING, Mr. BURNS, Mr. CAMPBELL, and woodland ecosystems of the inte- tax equity for military personnel, and Ms. CANTWELL, Mr. CARPER, Mr. rior West. for other purposes.

VerDate Dec 13 2002 01:26 Mar 22, 2003 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00058 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A20MR6.069 S20PT2 March 20, 2003 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S4167 S. 303 (Mr. DAYTON) was added as a cosponsor S. 605 At the request of Mr. HATCH, the of S. 501, a bill to provide a grant pro- At the request of Mr. SMITH, the name of the Senator from Illinois (Mr. gram for gifted and talented students, name of the Senator from Kansas (Mr. DURBIN) was added as a cosponsor of S. and for other purposes. ROBERTS) was added as a cosponsor of 303, a bill to prohibit human cloning S. 504 S. 605, a bill to extend waivers under and protect stem cell research. At the request of Mr. ALEXANDER, the the temporary assistance to needy fam- S. 328 names of the Senator from Georgia ilies program through the end of fiscal At the request of Mr. NELSON of Flor- (Mr. CHAMBLISS) and the Senator from year 2008. ida, his name was added as a cosponsor Massachusetts (Mr. KENNEDY) were S. 647 of S. 328, a bill to designate Catoctin added as cosponsors of S. 504, a bill to At the request of Mr. KENNEDY, the Mountain Park in the State of Mary- establish academics for teachers and names of the Senator from New Mexico land as the ‘‘Catoctin Mountain Na- students of American history and (Mr. BINGAMAN), the Senator from Min- tional Recreation Area’’, and for other civics and a national alliance of teach- nesota (Mr. DAYTON) and the Senator purposes. ers of American history and civics, and from Maryland (Ms. MIKULSKI) were S. 338 for other purposes. added as cosponsors of S. 647, a bill to At the request of Mr. LAUTENBERG, S. 518 amend title 10, United States Code, to the names of the Senator from Arkan- At the request of Ms. COLLINS, the provide for Department of Defense sas (Mr. PRYOR) and the Senator from name of the Senator from Georgia (Mr. funding of continuation of health bene- Minnesota (Mr. DAYTON) were added as CHAMBLISS) was added as a cosponsor of fits plan coverage for certain Reserves cosponsors of S. 338, a bill to protect S. 518, a bill to increase the supply of called or ordered to active duty and the flying public’s safety and security pancreatic islet cells for research, to their dependents, and for other pur- by requiring that the air traffic control provide better coordination of Federal poses. system remain a Government function. efforts and information on islet cell S.J. RES. 4 S. 385 transplantation, and to collect the At the request of Mr. HATCH, the At the request of Mr. DASCHLE, the data necessary to move islet cell trans- name of the Senator from New Hamp- names of the Senator from Ohio (Mr. plantation from an experimental proce- shire (Mr. SUNUNU) was added as a co- DEWINE) and the Senator from Michi- dure to a standard therapy. sponsor of S.J. Res. 4, a joint resolu- gan (Ms. STABENOW) were added as co- S. 539 tion proposing an amendment to the sponsors of S. 385, a bill to amend the At the request of Mr. DOMENICI, the Constitution of the United States au- Clean Air Act to eliminate methyl ter- name of the Senator from New York thorizing Congress to prohibit the tiary butyl ether from the United (Mr. SCHUMER) was added as a cospon- physical desecration of the flag of the States fuel supply, to increase produc- sor of S. 539, a bill to authorize appro- United States. tion and use of renewable fuel, and to priations for border and transportation S.J. RES. 8 increase the Nation’s energy independ- security personnel and technology, and At the request of Mr. BROWNBACK, the ence, and for other purposes. for other purposes. names of the Senator from South Da- S. 451 S. 580 kota (Mr. JOHNSON) and the Senator At the request of Ms. SNOWE, the At the request of Mr. LUGAR, the from New Mexico (Mr. BINGAMAN) were names of the Senator from New Mexico names of the Senator from Arizona added as cosponsors of S.J. Res. 8, a (Mr. BINGAMAN), the Senator from Ohio (Mr. KYL), the Senator from Nebraska joint resolution expressing the sense of (Mr. DEWINE) and the Senator from (Mr. HAGEL) and the Senator from Mis- Congress with respect to raising aware- Connecticut (Mr. DODD) were added as sissippi (Mr. LOTT) were added as co- ness and encouraging prevention of cosponsors of S. 451, a bill to amend sponsors of S. 580, a bill to authorize sexual assault in the United States and title 10, United States Code, to increase the extension of nondiscriminatory supporting the goals and ideals of Na- the minimum Survivor Benefit Plan treatment (normal trade relations tional Sexual Assault Awareness and basic annuity for surviving spouses age treatment) to the products of Russia. Prevention Month. 62 and older, to provide for a one-year S. 595 S. CON. RES. 7 open season under that plan, and for At the request of Mr. HATCH, the At the request of Mr. CAMPBELL, the other purposes. names of the Senator from Virginia names of the Senator from North Da- S. 457 (Mr. ALLEN) and the Senator from kota (Mr. DORGAN), the Senator from At the request of Mr. LEAHY, the South Dakota (Mr. DASCHLE) were Massachusetts (Mr. KENNEDY) and the name of the Senator from Florida (Mr. added as cosponsors of S. 595, a bill to Senator from Kentucky (Mr. MCCON- GRAHAM) was added as a cosponsor of S. amend the Internal Revenue Code of NELL) were added as cosponsors of S. 457, a bill to remove the limitation on 1986 to repeal the required use of cer- Con. Res. 7, a concurrent resolution ex- the use of funds to require a farm to tain principal repayments on mortgage pressing the sense of Congress that the feed livestock with organically pro- subsidy bond financings to redeem sharp escalation of anti-Semitic vio- duced feed to be certified as an organic bonds, to modify the purchase price lence within many participating States farm. limitation under mortgage subsidy of the Organization for Security and S. 470 bond rules based on median family in- Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) is of At the request of Mr. SARBANES, the come, and for other purposes. profound concern and efforts should be name of the Senator from Georgia (Mr. S. 596 undertaken to prevent future occur- CHAMBLISS) was added as a cosponsor of At the request of Mr. ENSIGN, the rences. S. 470, a bill to extend the authority for name of the Senator from Pennsyl- S. CON. RES. 14 the construction of a memorial to Mar- vania (Mr. SANTORUM) was added as a At the request of Mr. SMITH, the tin Luther King, Jr. cosponsor of S. 596, a bill to amend the name of the Senator from New York S. 480 Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to en- (Mrs. CLINTON) was added as a cospon- At the request of Mr. HARKIN, the courage the investment of foreign earn- sor of S. Con. Res. 14, a concurrent res- name of the Senator from Nevada (Mr. ings within the United States for pro- olution expressing the sense of Con- REID) was added as a cosponsor of S. ductive business investments and job gress regarding the education cur- 480, a bill to provide competitive grants creation. riculum in the Kingdom of Saudi Ara- for training court reporters and closed S. 604 bia. captioners to meet requirements for At the request of Mr. BAYH, the name S. CON. RES. 15 realtime writers under the Tele- of the Senator from Louisiana (Ms. At the request of Mr. ALLEN, the communications Act of 1996, and for LANDRIEU) was added as a cosponsor of names of the Senator from Virginia other purposes. S. 604, a bill to amend part D of title IV (Mr. WARNER), the Senator from Indi- S. 501 of the Social Security Act to provide ana (Mr. LUGAR), the Senator from In- At the request of Mr. GRASSLEY, the grants to promote responsible father- diana (Mr. BAYH), the Senator from name of the Senator from Minnesota hood, and for other purposes. Georgia (Mr. MILLER), the Senator

VerDate Dec 13 2002 01:26 Mar 22, 2003 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00059 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A20MR6.071 S20PT2 S4168 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE March 20, 2003 from Oklahoma (Mr. INHOFE) and the Senator from Nebraska (Mr. NELSON) the Reclamation Wastewater and Senator from Alaska (Mr. STEVENS) were added as cosponsors of amend- Groundwater Study and Facilities Act were added as cosponsors of S. Con. ment No. 278 intended to be proposed to to authorize the Secretary of the Inte- Res. 15, a concurrent resolution com- S. Con. Res. 23, an original concurrent rior to fund projects within the Irvine memorating the 140th anniversary of resolution setting forth the congres- Basin. the issuance of the Emancipation Proc- sional budget for the United States This bill will authorize up to $19 mil- lamation. Governments for fiscal year 2004 and lion in funds in order to cover up to 25 S. RES. 44 including the appropriate budgetary percent of the costs of constructing At the request of Mr. GRAHAM of levels for fiscal year 2003 and for fiscal three water projects in Southern Cali- South Carolina, the name of the Sen- years 2005 through 2013. fornia. Water is an issue of paramount ator from Wisconsin (Mr. FEINGOLD) AMENDMENT NO. 282 importance in California, and these was added as a cosponsor of S. Res. 44, At the request of Mr. BROWNBACK, the projects provide innovative examples a resolution designating the week be- names of the Senator from Tennessee of ways that we can improve our water ginning February 2, 2003, as ‘‘National (Mr. ALEXANDER) and the Senator from quality and increase our water supply. School Counseling Week’’. Illinois (Mr. FITZGERALD) were added as The first project, called the Natural S. RES. 48 cosponsors of amendment No. 282 pro- Treatment System, will build a net- At the request of Mrs. MURRAY, her posed to S. Con. Res. 23, an original work of wetlands to filter surface name was added as a cosponsor of S. concurrent resolution setting forth the water and urban runoff in the San Res. 48, a resolution designating April congressional budget for the United Diego Creek Watershed and Upper New- 2003 as ‘‘Financial Literacy for Youth States Governments for fiscal year 2004 port Bay. Based on the performance of Month’’. and including the appropriate budg- a single constructed wetland in the etary levels for fiscal year 2003 and for AMENDMENT NO. 270 area, we expect the Natural Treatment fiscal years 2005 through 2013. At the request of Mr. DURBIN, his System to filter out 126,000 pounds of name was added as a cosponsor of AMENDMENT NO. 283 nitrogen and 21,000 pounds of phos- amendment No. 270 proposed to S. Con. At the request of Mrs. FEINSTEIN, the phorus from the watershed each year Res. 23, an original concurrent resolu- name of the Senator from Texas (Mrs. and reduce levels of harmful bacteria tion setting forth the congressional HUTCHISON) was added as a cosponsor of such as fecal coliform by as much as 26 budget for the United States Govern- amendment No. 283 intended to be pro- percent. posed to S. Con. Res. 23, an original ments for fiscal year 2004 and including The second project, the Irvine concurrent resolution setting forth the the appropriate budgetary levels for Desalter, will clean brackish ground- congressional budget for the United fiscal year 2003 and for fiscal years 2005 water and provide drinking water for States Governments for fiscal year 2004 through 2013. between 40,000 and 50,000 people. By al- and including the appropriate budg- AMENDMENT NO. 275 lowing the Irvine Basin to access an- etary levels for fiscal year 2003 and for other water source, the desalter will At the request of Mr. ROCKEFELLER, fiscal years 2005 through 2013. the names of the Senator from Lou- reduce our dependence on imported AMENDMENT NO. 285 isiana (Ms. LANDRIEU), the Senator water and take considerable pressure At the request of Mr. SCHUMER, the from Pennsylvania (Mr. SPECTER), the off of our other water resources. names of the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Senator from South Dakota (Mr. JOHN- The final project will construct a re- DURBIN) and the Senator from Indiana SON) and the Senator from Minnesota gional brine line to dispose of brine di- (Mr. BAYH) were added as cosponsors of (Mr. DAYTON) were added as cosponsors rectly into the ocean. Like much of amendment No. 285 intended to be pro- of amendment No. 275 proposed to S. California, the Irvine Ranch Water Dis- posed to S. Con. Res. 23, an original Con. Res. 23, an original concurrent trict is a leader in water reclamation concurrent resolution setting forth the resolution setting forth the congres- and recycling efforts. Buildup of too congressional budget for the United sional budget for the United States much salt in the system can hamper States Governments for fiscal year 2004 Governments for fiscal year 2004 and these reclamation efforts. The brine and including the appropriate budg- including the appropriate budgetary line will allow the District to continue etary levels for fiscal year 2003 and for levels for fiscal year 2003 and for fiscal its innovative efforts to ensure that fiscal years 2005 through 2013. years 2005 through 2013. water is used more than once while in- AMENDMENT NO. 294 creasing use of brackish water re- AMENDMENT NO. 276 At the request of Mr. DORGAN, his sources. At the request of Mr. SARBANES, the name and the names of the Senator names of the Senator from Massachu- These projects shows us how Cali- from New York (Mrs. CLINTON) and the fornia and the West can improve our setts (Mr. KENNEDY), the Senator from Senator from Minnesota (Mr. DAYTON) water situation. Projects like these Washington (Mrs. MURRAY), the Sen- were added as cosponsors of amend- show us the way forward. I urge my ator from Michigan (Ms. STABENOW), ment No. 294 proposed to S. Con. Res. colleagues to support this bill. the Senator from New York (Mrs. CLIN- 23, an original concurrent resolution TON), the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. setting forth the congressional budget f LAUTENBERG), the Senator from Con- for the United States Governments for STATEMENTS ON INTRODUCED necticut (Mr. DODD), the Senator from fiscal year 2004 and including the ap- Massachusetts (Mr. KERRY) and the BILLS AND JOINT RESOLU- propriate budgetary levels for fiscal TIONS—March 19, 2003 Senator from New Mexico (Mr. BINGA- year 2003 and for fiscal years 2005 MAN) were added as cosponsors of through 2013. By Mr. CRAIG (for himself, Mr. amendment No. 276 intended to be pro- BAUCUS, Mr. ALEXANDER, Mr. f posed to S. Con. Res. 23, an original ALLARD, Mr. ALLEN, Mr. BEN- concurrent resolution setting forth the STATEMENTS ON INTRODUCED NETT, Mr. BOND, Mr. BREAUX, congressional budget for the United BILLS AND JOINT RESOLU- Mr. BROWNBACK, Mr. BUNNING, States Governments for fiscal year 2004 TIONS—March 18, 2003 Mr. BURNS, Mr. CAMPBELL, Mr. and including the appropriate budg- By Mrs. FEINSTEIN: CHAMBLISS, Mr. COCHRAN, Mr. etary levels for fiscal year 2003 and for S. 649. A bill to amend the Reclama- COLEMAN, Ms. COLLINS, Mr. fiscal years 2005 through 2013. tion Wastewater and Groundwater CORNYN, Mr. CRAPO, Mrs. DOLE, AMENDMENT NO. 278 Study and Facilities Act to authorize Mr. DOMENICI, Mr. DORGAN, Mr. At the request of Mr. BIDEN, the the Secretary of the Interior to partici- ENSIGN, Mr. ENZI, Mr. FRIST, names of the Senator from Illinois (Mr. pate in projects within the San Diego Mr. GRAHAM of South Carolina, DURBIN), the Senator from Vermont Creek Watershed, California, and for Mr. GRASSLEY, Mr. GREGG, Mr. (Mr. JEFFORDS), the Senator from other purposes, to the Committee on HAGEL, Mr. HATCH, Mrs. Maryland (Ms. MIKULSKI), the Senator Energy and Natural Resources. HUTCHISON, Mr. INHOFE, Mr. from Nevada (Mr. REID), the Senator Mrs. FEINSTEIN. Mr. President, I JOHNSON, Mr. KYL, Ms. from Michigan (Ms. STABENOW) and the rise to introduce legislation to amend LANDRIEU, Mrs. LINCOLN, Mr.

VerDate Dec 13 2002 01:26 Mar 22, 2003 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00060 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A20MR6.073 S20PT2 March 20, 2003 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S4169 LOTT, Mr. MCCONNELL, Mr. MIL- STATEMENTS ON INTRODUCED study will also be mandated under this LER, Ms. MURKOWSKI, Mr. NEL- BILLS AND JOINT RESOLUTIONS provision. Current federal law does not SON of Nebraska, Mr. NICKLES, By Mrs. BOXER (for herself, Mr. mandate a minimum work week for the 100,000 inmates in the Federal prison Mr. REID, Mr. ROBERTS, Mr. REID, and Mr. BAUCUS): SANTORUM, Mr. SESSIONS, Mr. S. 670. A bill to designate the United system. Sadly, the average workday for SHELBY, Mr. SMITH, Mr. SPEC- States courthouse located at 95 Sev- a prisoner in the United States is 6.8 TER, Mr. STEVENS, Mr. SUNUNU, enth Street in San Francisco, Cali- hours. This is absolutely unacceptable. Mr. TALENT, and Mr. THOMAS): fornia, as the ‘‘James R. Browning American taxpayers should not have to S. 659. A bill to prohibit civil liability United States Courthouse’’; to the work full-time to provide rest and re- laxation for our nation’s prisoners. actions from being brought or contin- Committee on Environment and Public ued against manufacturers, distribu- Federal prisoners would be paid for Works. the work they do, but their pay would tors, dealers, or importers of firearms Mrs. BOXER. Mr. President, I am re- or ammunition for damages resulting be divided and dispersed in the fol- introducing legislation today to name lowing manner: 25 percent would offset from the misuse of their products by the courthouse at 95 Seventh Street in the cost of prisoner incarceration, 25 others; to the Committee on the Judi- San Francisco, California, as the percent would go to victim restitution, ciary. ‘‘James R. Browning United States 25 percent would be made available to Mr. BAUCUS. Mr. President, I rise to Courthouse.’’ the inmate for necessary costs of incar- urge my colleagues to support the Pro- Judge Browning was appointed to the ceration, 10 percent would be placed in tection of Lawful Commerce in Arms court by President Kennedy and has a non-interest bearing account to be Act that I and my good friend from spent 40 years as a circuit judge on the paid to the inmate upon release, and Idaho, Senator CRAIG, have introduced Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. the remaining 15 percent would go to yesterday. This bill already enjoys For twelve of those years, he served as states and local jurisdictions that oper- strong bi-partisan support—Senator Chief Judge. As chief judge, Judge ate correctional facilities which have CRAIG and I are joined by over 50 other Browning reorganized and modernized similar programs. co-sponsors, both Democrat and Repub- the administration of the Ninth Cir- Second, this legislation requires the lican. cuit. Now, he is on Senior Status. Bureau of Prisons to establish a zero- This bill will correct a significant in- He is originally from Montana and tolerance policy for the use or posses- justice that threatens the viability of a graduated from Montana State Univer- sion of illegal contraband. A drug-free lawful United States industry, the fire- sity in 1938 and from Montana Univer- environment is essential to any hopes arms industry. An increasing number sity Law School in 1941, achieving the of rehabilitation for our federal prison of lawsuits are being filed against the highest scholastic record in his class inmates. Under these provisions, in- firearms industry seeking damages for and serving as editor-in-chief of the mates would be subject to random wrongs committed by third persons law review. Before being appointed to searches and inspections for drugs not who misuse the industry’s products. the Court, Judge Browning served in less than 12 times each year. Federal These lawsuits seek to impose liability the U.S. Army and worked for Depart- prisons would be required to offer resi- on lawful businesses for the actions of ment of Justice and in private practice. dential drug treatment for all inmates. people over whom the firearms indus- I can think of no more appropriate And finally, any employee hired to try has no control. honor for Judge Browning than to work in a federal prison would undergo This is just outrageous. Businesses place his name on the courthouse a mandatory drug test, and all employ- that comply with all applicable Fed- building where he has worked for 40 ees would be subject to random testing eral and State laws, that produce a years. at least twice each year. product fit for its intended lawful pur- I understand that many State and pose—be it elk hunting, duck hunting, By Mr. ENSIGN: local prisons would also be interested S. 672. A bill to require a 50 hour target shooting or for personal protec- in starting programs to get a drug-free workweek for Federal prison inmates tion—should not be subject to frivolous prison, and for that reason have in- and to establish a grant program for lawsuits that have only one goal—to cluded a new grant program. Any State mandatory drug testing, and for other put them out of business. This an unac- or unit of local government may apply purposes; to the Committee on the Ju- ceptable burden on lawful interstate for grants if they meet the same drug- diciary. commerce. testing requirements that are man- Mr. ENSIGN. Mr. President, I rise dated for federal prisons under this leg- That’s why Senator CRAIG and I have today to introduce the Mandatory Pris- introduced the Protection of Lawful islation. oner Work and Drug Testing Act of Third, the Mandatory Prisoner Work Commerce in Arms Act. The bill is 2003. This legislation is the continu- and Drug Treatment Act includes a re- carefully tailored to bar actions ation of work I did while in the House quirement that all inmates in the Fed- against firearms manufacturers or of Representatives to rein in the eral prison system participate in a boot dealers that are based solely on the undeserved privileges that are cur- camp for not less than four weeks. This criminal or unlawful misuse of fire- rently given to Federal prisoners. boot camp program would include arms by third parties. The bill would Today’s criminal justice system is strict discipline, physical training, and not block legitimate actions against failing, partly because of what hap- hard labor to deter crime and promote the firearms industry for cases involv- pens, or more specifically, doesn’t hap- successful integration or reintegration ing defective firearms, breaches of con- pen, once convicted criminals arrive in of the offender into the prison commu- tract, criminal behavior by a firearm prison. What prisoners are doing is nity. Those prisoners that choose not manufacturer or seller, or the neg- watching cable television, getting high to participate or are physically unable ligent entrustment of a firearm to an on drugs, lifting weights, and learning to participate are required to be con- irresponsible person. to be better criminals. What they are fined to their cells for not less than 23 This is only fair and right. The U.S. not doing is working and paying back hours per day during the duration that firearms industry serves America’s gun their victims. That’s not justice. they would otherwise be spending in owners and sportsmen well, and pro- The purpose of the Mandatory Pris- this program and be allowed only those vides good-paying jobs for many Amer- oner Work and Drug Testing Act is to privileges that are granted under Fed- icans. They shouldn’t be penalized just help establish a Federal prison system eral law. for legally producing or selling a prod- that provides discipline and rehabilita- These boot camps work. In fact, the uct that functions as designed and in- tion for our Nation’s prisoners and re- Federal Bureau of Prisons already sup- tended. quires that they make restitution to ports two such programs, one for men I would ask all of my colleagues to their victims. and one for women. These programs support this important piece of legisla- First, this legislation requires that place inmates in highly structured, tion. It is very important that we take all Federal prison inmates have a 50- spartan environments where they un- up and pass this bill as soon as pos- hour work week. Job training, edu- dergo physical training and labor-in- sible. cational and life skills preparation tensive work assignments, coupled

VerDate Dec 13 2002 01:26 Mar 22, 2003 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00061 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A20MR6.076 S20PT2 S4170 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE March 20, 2003 with education and vocational train- Mr. BOND. Mr. President, I rise LINGS to double access to health cen- ing, substance abuse treatment, and today to introduce an important piece ters by doubling funding over a five- life skills programs. They focus on pro- of new legislation to help an essential year period. In addition, President moting positive changes in inmates’ part of our health care safety net—our Bush has proposed that we double the behavior, including responsible deci- Nation’s health centers—serve the un- number of people that health centers sion-making, self-direction and posi- insured and medically-underserved. care in the years ahead. tive self-image. In fact, boot camps The Building Better Health Centers But over the next few years, as we have worked so well that over 30 states Act will promote health centers’ mis- hopefully see additional resources flow now have them in place. sion of providing care to anyone who to health centers, we will increasingly Finally, this legislation will further needs it by getting rid of an artificial encounter problems that stem from an restrict inmates’ activities and posses- distinction existing in current law. artificial distinction we see in current sions. Under this legislation inmates Right now, federal grant dollars to law. As I mentioned, Federal health would not be allowed to possess or health centers can be used for most center grants are currently allowed to smoke tobacco, view or read porno- things a health center needs to do—in- be used for most purposes—including graphic or sexually explicit material, cluding salaries, supplies, and basic up- salaries for health professionals and or view cable television that is not edu- keep. But federal grants to health cen- administrators, medical supplies, basic cational in nature. Inmates would not ters cannot be used for one of the most upkeep of clinic facilities, even lease be allowed to possess microwave ovens, critical and expensive needs a health payments if the health center rents. hot plates, toaster ovens, televisions, center, or any business or nonprofit or- But they simply cannot be used for or VCRs. They would not be allowed to ganizations, will ever face—capital im- capital improvements. listen to music that contains lyrics provements. This means that unless health cen- that are violent, vulgar, sexually ex- Unless we correct this silly distinc- ters can find some other way to finance plicit, glamorize gang membership or tion, many of our health centers are their capital needs—and I will talk in a activities, demean women, or dis- destined to be shackled to slowly dete- moment about the significant barriers respect law enforcement. We have to riorating facilities. Over time, this will they face in doing this—major projects remember that these individuals are in sap their ability to provide care. If we that could provide substantial benefit Federal prison to be punished for a are serious about maximizing health to patients will never happen. crime they committed. There is no rea- centers’ ability to deal with our health It means that an urban community son for inmates to be given the same, care access needs, we must allow Fed- health center that has been slowly ex- or better, privileges than law-abiding eral grant dollars to be used to meet panding staff and services over many citizens have. No one can tell me that our health centers’ capital needs. years until it’s bursting at the seams an inmate has to have cable television I’ve been down here on the Senate of its modest two-story building will when many law-abiding, taxpaying floor many times to talk about health have to continue to find ways to cope, families cannot afford such a perk. centers, but let me cover the basics even if that prevents additionally- We need to work to ensure that our once again. Health centers—which in- needed expansion or even if upkeep nation’s criminals understand the clude community health centers, mi- costs on the old building begin to spiral gravity of the crimes they committed. grant health centers, homeless health out-of-control. I understand that many of our nation’s centers, and public housing health cen- It means that a rural community jails and prisons use activities like ters—address the health care access health center in an area desperately in weight lifting as rewards for their in- problem by providing primary care need of dental services may not be able mates. My legislation does not restrict service in thousands of rural and urban to expand the facility and purchase that kind of activity. This legislation medically-underserved communities dental chairs, X-ray machines and simply states that it is no longer ac- throughout the United States. other major dental equipment needed ceptable for our nation’s inmates to And as we all know, the health care for the desired expansion into dental leisurely go about their day instead of access problem remains a serious issue services. working to pay for the crimes they in our country. Many health care ex- It means that even if Federal Govern- committed. It is time that our govern- perts believe that Americans’ lack of ment is willing to commit grant funds ment send a clear message to the vic- access to basic health services is our to open a new health center in one of tims of these crimes that these crimi- single most pressing health care prob- the hundreds of underserved commu- nals will pay, and that restitution, to lem. Nearly 50 million Americans do nities nationwide which lacks any the maximum extent possible, will be not have access to a primary care pro- health care professionals for miles made. vider, whether they are insured or not. around, the new center may never Quite simply, we need to stop the re- In addition, over 41 million Americans come to be due to lack of funding for a volving doors of our prison system. A lack health insurance and have dif- study released in June, 2002, by the facility in which to house it. ficulty accessing care due to the inabil- This is more than theory—the evi- U.S. Department of Justice found that ity to pay. dence shows that many existing health among nearly 300,000 prisoners released Health centers help fill part of this centers operate in facilities that des- in 15 states in 1994, 67.5 percent were re- void. More than 3,400 health center perately need renovation or moderniza- arrested within three years. It is my clinics nationwide provide basic health hope that if Federal prisoners were re- tion. Approximately one of every three care services to more than 12 million quired to work and given drug treat- health centers reside in a building Americans, almost 8 million minori- ment, instead of perks like cable tele- more than 30 years old, and one of ties, nearly 850,000 farmworkers, and vision and weight training time, these every eight operate out of a facility individuals would be deterred from almost 750,000 homeless individuals more than half a century old. committing another crime and return- each year. The care they provide has Moreover, a recent survey of health ing to prison. been repeatedly shown by studies to be centers in 12 states showed that more I hope that my colleagues will sup- high-quality and cost-effective. In fact, than two-thirds of health centers had a port this legislation and help me in health centers are one of the best specifically-identified need to ren- getting it passed this year. health care bargains around—the aver- ovate, expand, or replace their current age yearly cost for a health center pa- facility. The average cost of a needed By Mr. BOND: tient is just over one dollar per day. capital project was $1.8 million, and S. 673. A bill to amend part D of title I believe that one of the most effec- the needs ranged from ‘‘small’’ projects III of the Public Health Service Act to tive ways to address our health care of $400,000 to major $5 million efforts. authorize grants and loan guarantees access problem is by dramatically ex- The survey demonstrates that there for health centers to enable the centers panding access to health centers. And I may be as much as $1.2 billion in to fund capital needs projects, and for am pleased to report a strong con- unmet capital needs in our nation’s other purposes; to the Committee on sensus is developing to do exactly that. health centers. Health, Education, Labor, and Pen- The Senate has voted in support of a And that is just for existing health sions. proposal I have made with Sen. HOL- centers. As I mentioned, hundreds of

VerDate Dec 13 2002 01:26 Mar 22, 2003 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00062 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G20MR6.176 S20PT2 March 20, 2003 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S4171 medically-underserved areas lack—and We simply need to get rid of the arti- But let me point out that we limit cap- could desperately use—the services of a ficial distinction we have right now ital assistance to five percent of all health center. This further shows the and allow our health center grant dol- health center funding. Based on this need for new facilities—and more cap- lars to go to further the health center year’s funding level, this would mean ital—as we expand access to new com- mission in the best way possible—and up to $75 million for facility grants and munities. that is going to mean at times that we loan guarantees. Because the loan So what about possible sources of should support some new construction guarantee program would allow some capital? There are plenty of ways—in or major renovation projects. If a of this money to be stretched, this theory—that health centers might be crumbling building is constantly in level of support could easily mean help able to get money for capital improve- need of repair, is soaking up money, for more than $200 million in health ments. Businesses—large and small—do and is reducing the number of patients center capital projects. But the main it all the time. So do other nonprofit a health center can reach out to, the point is that capital projects are abso- organizations like universities and hos- Federal Government should help with lutely limited to five-percent of health pitals. They use built-up equity. They the major renovation or the new con- center funding, which prevents any take out loans. They float bonds. They struction needed. possible runaway spending. raise money through private donations The Building Better Health Centers Finally, we should ask ourselves as part of a capital campaign. Act authorizes the Federal Govern- whether or not Federal assistance is But unfortunately, health centers ment to make grants to health centers going to give a free pass to commu- just aren’t quite like most other busi- for facility construction, moderniza- nities, which really should be expected nesses or nonprofits, and many times tion, replacement, and major equip- to help out with public-minded projects these options are unrealistic as a way ment purchases. If our goal is to help like the construction or renovation of to provide the entire cost of a major health centers provide high-quality a health center. In my bill, local com- project. care to as many uninsured and medi- munities are expected to help. No more Health centers simply don’t have cally-underserved people as possible, loads of cash in the bank. The revenue than 90 percent of the total costs of a we need to get rid of barriers to doing these clinics are able to cobble to- major project can come from Federal that, including capital barriers. gether from federal grants, low-income sources—and this is the absolute upper Behond just the possibility of grant limit. Much more likely are evenly- patients, Medicaid, private donations, funding, the bill goes further and per- and other health insurers is typically shared costs or situations in which fed- mits the Federal Government to guar- all put back into to patient care. eral support represents a minority of Health centers already work hard to antee loans made by a bank or another the capital investment. This bill does maximize the money they can raise private lender to a health center to not give local areas a free ride. through private donations and non- construct, replace, modernize, or ex- The quick rationale for this bill is Federal grant sources. In fact, an aver- pand a health center facility. This loan simple. Many health centers are ham- age of 9 percent of health center rev- guarantee is an additional tool that pered in their efforts to provide health enue comes from these sources. Most of will help allay the fears of banks and care to the medically-underserved by this private and public funding is used other private lenders by limiting their inadequate facilities. It doesn’t make to meet operating expenses, and it is exposure if a health center defaults on sense to help these vital community difficult to go back to the same sources a loan. An additional advantage of loan clinics only with day-to-day expenses if to request further donations for capital guarantees is that you can stretch their building is literally crumbling needs. In fundraising, health centers funds farther. When guaranteeing a $1 around them. million loan, the Federal Government also face a huge disadvantage com- I urge my colleagues to join me in need only set aside a much smaller pared to nonprofit organizations like supporting this legislation. I look for- amount of appropriated money—per- universities and hospitals because ward to working with my colleagues in haps only a twelfth to a tenth of the health centers lack a natural middle- the Senate and on the Health, Edu- loan total—to insure against that and upper-class donor base. And raising cation, Labor, and Pensions Committee loan’s possible default. This multiplier private funds is particularly hard in to aggressively help our nation’s factor means that for every dollar ap- isolated rural areas that are often health centers meet their dire capital propriated for this purpose, many dol- quite poor and which can have the needs by making this bill law. most dire health care access problems. lars worth of loans can be guaranteed. There is actually tremendous poten- Finally, health centers have difficul- By Ms. COLLINS (for herself, Mr. tial for these two new options—the fa- ties obtaining private loans for capital SANTORUM, Mr. SARBANES, Mr. cility grants and the facility loan guar- needs for a variety of reasons. The high EDWARDS, Mr. FEINGOLD, Mr. antees—to work together. Sharing in number of uninsured patients health KENNEDY, Mr. SCHUMER, Mr. up-front costs through grant funding, centers treat and the poor reimburse- KERRY, Mrs. FEINSTEIN, Mr. and helping further by guaranteeing a ment rates received from most Med- LIEBERMAN, Mr. DODD, and Ms. icaid programs mean health centers loan that covers the remainder of a MIKULSKI): rarely have significant operating mar- project’s cost may well be the best ap- S. 674. A bill to amend the National gins. Without these margins, banks are proach. This will balance the need to Maritime Heritage Act of 1994 to reaf- leery about loans because they don’t make sure specific projects get enough firm and revise the designation of feel assured that a health center will grant funding to make them realistic America’s National Maritime Museum, have sufficient cash flow to success- and the need to spread capital assist- and for other purposes; to the Com- fully manage loan payments. Banks are ance among as many projects as pos- mittee on Commerce, Science, and made even more nervous by the high sible. proportion of health center revenue Let my try to respond in advance to Transportation. that comes from sometimes-unreliable a few potential criticism of this legis- Ms. COLLINS. Mr. President, I am government sources—such as the lation. First, to those who simply pleased to be introducing America’s health centers’ grant funding and Med- think on principle that the government National Maritime Museum Designa- icine and Medicaid reimbursements. should stay out of private-sector bricks tion Act of 2003. This legislation would So what should we do? This isn’t ex- and mortar projects, I would say we’re designate an additional 19 maritime actly rocket science. We have a need— already at least halfway pregnant. In museums as ‘‘America’s National Mari- many health centers require signifi- just about every appropriations bill, we time Museums’’ nationwide. Maritime cant help to build or maintain ade- have dozens if not hundreds of specific Museums are dedicated to advancing quate facilities because they can’t projects earmarked for major building maritime and nautical science by fos- raise the money or obtain the loans or renovation projects. tering the exchange of maritime infor- themselves. And we have an existing Some might worry that the potential mation and experience and by pro- law that prevents the federal govern- large costs of construction projects moting advances in nautical education. ment from using health center funding could get out of hand and squeeze out The America’s National Maritime to do exactly that. funding actually used for patient care. Museum designation would include a

VerDate Dec 13 2002 01:26 Mar 22, 2003 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00063 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A20MR6.091 S20PT2 S4172 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE March 20, 2003 commitment on the part of each insti- experience shows this assumption is would affect each and every tax paying tution toward accomplishing a coordi- completely off-base. The idea that tax American. nated education initiative, resources relief and investment incentives American families face the challenge management program, awareness cam- strengthen our economy is not new to of paying their tax burden; providing paign, and heritage grants program. the 21st Century. food, clothing and shelter for their Maritime museums in America are On April 15, 1986, President Reagan children; and must work even harder to dedicated to illuminating humankind’s talked about the positive effect of tax have money leftover so they can afford experience with the sea and the events relief on economic growth. He stated: to pay their medical bills, enjoy a fam- that shaped the course and progress of Whatever you want to call it, supply side ily vacation, save for education costs, civilization. economics or incentive economics . . . it’s or put money away for retirement. Museum collections are composed of launching the American economy into a new We know that when government hundreds of thousands of maritime era of growth and opportunity . . . Our basic takes money away from working fami- items, including ship models, scrim- ingredients for a tax package have not lies, it stifles growth. We also know changed: tax rate reductions, thresholds high shaw, maritime paintings, decorative enough so hard-working Americans aren’t that when the government gives money arts, intricately carved figureheads, pushed relentlessly into higher brackets, back to the working families that working steam engines, and much some long-overdue tax relief for America’s earned it, we encourage growth. more. Maritime museums offer a vari- families, and investment incentives for busi- I should clarify that this legislation ety of learning experiences for children ness. . . does not negate the Congress’ use of and adults through hands-on work- What President Reagan stated so elo- the currently used static scoring shops and programs that focus on mari- quently in 1986 holds true today. Eco- model. This bill simply directs OMB time history. nomic growth is more easily achieved and the Joint Tax Committee to use Maritime lecture series offer an op- in an atmosphere where more Ameri- both static and dynamic scoring. portunity to learn about the history cans are able to save and invest their This will create a system that will and lore of the sea from some of the money. Tax relief provides economic allow Congress a slide-by-slide analysis Nation’s leading maritime experts. growth, and when we draft legislation, of both scoring methods. In a Wash- Visitors learn the broad concept of sea we should understand not just the cost ington Post editorial on January 31, it power—the historic and modern impor- of tax relief to the Federal budget, but was suggested that dynamic scoring tance of the sea in matters commer- also the benefits that tax relief pro- could be useful as a way to present tax cial, military, economic, political, ar- vides to the economy and the long- or spending policies as an additional tistic, and social. term increase in revenues to the fed- alternative scenario. The editorial The legislation that I am proposing eral government that tax relief can states that it would do no harm to the would help museums better interpret provide. traditional way that CBO goes about maritime and social history to the pub- The current static estimates that we its job to set up a dual scoring method. lic using their extensive collections of use imply that tax policy changes have This is not, as some of my colleagues artifacts, exhibits and expertise. These no effect on our economy, never on the other side of the aisle have sug- programs and facilities are used by produce higher or lower revenues and gested, ‘‘fantasyland scoring.’’ schools, civic organizations, genealo- never cause resources to shift within By using both static and dynamic gists, maritime scholars, and the vis- our federal budget. This is simply in- scoring methods, Mr. President, iting public, thus, serving students of correct. Tax policy changes can have a through time we will all understand all ages. huge impact on our economy. which approach is more realistic, and I urge all members of the Senate to The belief that tax policy changes di- only then, I believe, can we then con- join me in support of The America’s rectly impact our economy is not just fidently do away with the antiquated, National Maritime Museum Designa- a Republican ideal. unrealistic static model we use today. tion Act of 2003. In 1962, President John F. Kennedy I ask unanimous consent that the remarked: text of the bill be printed in the By Mr. ENSIGN (for himself, Mr. It is increasingly clear that no matter RECORD. SESSIONS, Mr. CRAPO, and Mr. what party is in power, so long as our na- S. 675 KYL): tional security needs keep rising, an econ- Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep- S. 675. A bill to require the Congres- omy hampered by restrictive tax rates will resentatives of the United States of America in sional Budget Office and the Joint never produce enough jobs or enough profits. Congress assembled, Committee on Taxation to use dynamic Tax relief provides jobs and profits, SECTION 1. SENSE OF CONGRESS. economic modeling in addition to stat- no matter who is in the White House It is the sense of Congress that it is nec- ic economic modeling in the prepara- and no matter who holds the majority essary to ensure that Congress is presented tion of budgetary estimates of proposed in Congress. It is time that Congress with reliable information from the Congres- changes in Federal revenue law; to the looks at the real world implications of sional Budget Office and the Joint Com- Committee on Governmental Affairs our tax policy before we decide the mittee on Taxation as to the dynamic mac- and the Committee on the Budget, roeconomic feedback effects to changes in overall cost and how much relief we Federal law and the probable behavioral re- jointly, pursuant to the order of Au- can afford to give to American fami- sponses of taxpayers, businesses, and other gust 4, 1977, with instructions that if lies. parties to such changes. Specifically, the one Committee reports, the other Com- The debate on dynamic versus static Congress intends that, while not excluding mittee have thirty days to report or be scoring may sound like an inside-the- any other estimating method, dynamic esti- discharged. Beltway squabble, but as I have said mating techniques shall also be used in esti- Mr. ENSIGN. Mr. President, I rise today, the decision on how to estimate mating the fiscal impact of proposals to today to introduce legislation to in- revenues does have important real change Federal laws, to the extent that data struct the Joint Committee on Tax- are available to permit estimates to be made world implications. in such a manner. ation and the Congressional Budget Of- For example, better revenue esti- SEC. 2. ESTIMATES OF THE JOINT COMMITTEE fice to employ dynamic scoring models, mating methods would make it easier ON TAXATION. alongside static scoring when esti- to implement tax rate reductions. This In addition to any other estimates it may mating the fiscal effect of tax policy would put more money into the pock- prepare of any proposed change in Federal changes. ets of taxpayers, which would have a revenue law, a fiscal estimate shall be pre- For too long, Congress has debated very real positive affect on our econ- pared by the Joint Committee on Taxation tax changes without considering how omy. of each such proposed change on the basis of those changes might affect the econ- Another example, shifting to a more assumptions that estimate the probable be- omy. simple, fair tax code would be less dif- havioral responses of personal and business taxpayers and other relevant entities to that The current method, static scoring, ficult if revenue estimators were al- proposed change and the dynamic macro- assumes tax cuts or tax hikes have no lowed to consider the positive impact economic feedback effects of that proposed effect on how taxpayers work, save and of tax reform on economic perform- change. The preceding sentence shall apply invest their money. Not surprisingly, ance. Clearly a simplified tax code only to a proposed change that the Joint

VerDate Dec 13 2002 01:26 Mar 22, 2003 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00064 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G20MR6.177 S20PT2 March 20, 2003 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S4173 Committee on Taxation determines, pursu- The Byrd Amendment adds no burden applying the rules under which it oper- ant to a static fiscal estimate, has a fiscal whatsoever on imports. But despite ates. impact in excess of $250,000,000 in any fiscal this, a WTO panel has inexplicably I hope that my colleagues will join year. ruled that this law imposes an imper- me in helping to pass this important SEC. 3. ESTIMATES OF THE CONGRESSIONAL legislation. BUDGET OFFICE. missible penalty for dumping. In addition to any other estimates it may I would note here that the Adminis- I ask unanimous consent that the prepare of any proposed change in Federal tration has proposed repealing the text bill be printed in the RECORD. revenue law, a fiscal estimate shall be pre- Byrd Amendment. I strongly oppose There being no objection, the bill was pared by the Congressional Budget Office of that. And so does an overwhelming ma- ordered to be printed in the RECORD, as each such proposed change on the basis of as- jority of the Senate. follows: sumptions that estimate the probable behav- In fact, last month 70 Senators sent a S. 676 ioral responses of personal and business tax- Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep- payers and other relevant entities to that letter to the President in support of this important law. resentatives of the United States of America in proposed change and the dynamic macro- Congress assembled, Another area that I have great con- economic feedback effects of that proposed SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; FINDINGS; PURPOSE. change. The preceding sentence shall apply cerns about involves the softwood lum- (a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as only to a proposed change that the Congres- ber dispute. The WTO currently found the ‘‘World Trade Organization Dispute Set- sional Budget Office determines, pursuant to that Canada subsidizes its lumber in- tlement Review Commission Act’’. a static fiscal estimate, has a fiscal impact dustry, and I applaud that decision. (b) FINDINGS.—Congress finds the fol- in excess of $250,000,000 in any fiscal year. But then the WTO undercut the bene- lowing: SEC. 4. DISCLOSURE OF ASSUMPTIONS. fits of that decision. They ruled that (1) The United States joined the World Any report to Congress or the public made Trade Organization (in this Act referred to by the Joint Committee on Taxation or the when determining a market price, as the ‘‘WTO’’) as an original member with Congressional Budget Office that contains an Commerce must use the subsidy-dis- the goal of creating an improved global trad- estimate made under this Act of the effect torted Canadian timber prices rather ing system and providing expanded economic that any legislation will have on revenues than the market-based U.S. prices. opportunities for United States firms and shall be accompanied by— This practice is wholly inconsistent workers, while preserving United States sov- (1) a written statement fully disclosing the with previous WTO practice. ereignty. economic, technical, and behavioral assump- We need to start seriously examining (2) The American people must receive as- tions that were made in producing that esti- why it is that we are losing these and surances that United States sovereignty will mate, and be protected, and United States interests (2) the static fiscal estimate made with re- other cases. will be advanced, within the global trading spect to the same legislation and a written In my view, it is because WTO panels system which the WTO will oversee. statement of the economic, technical, and have ceased intepreting our trade (3) The WTO’s dispute settlement rules are behavioral assumptions that were made in agreements and have begun legislating. meant to enhance the likelihood that gov- producing that estimate. Instead of following the rules, they are ernments will observe their WTO obliga- SEC. 5. CONTRACTING AUTHORITY. flouting the rules. And they are sub- tions. These dispute settlement rules will In performing the tasks specified in this stituting their own judgment in place help ensure that the United States will reap Act, the Joint Committee on Taxation and the full benefits of its participation in the the Congressional Budget Office may, sub- of carefully negotiated principles. WTO. ject to the availability of appropriations, In the process, they are eroding U.S. (4) United States support for the WTO de- enter into contracts with universities or trade laws, taking away rights the U.S. pends on obtaining mutual trade benefits other private or public organizations to per- bargained for, and imposing new obli- through the openness of foreign markets and form such estimations or to develop proto- gations we never agreed to accept. the maintenance of effective United States cols and models for making such estimates. Just as troubling, they are doing so and WTO remedies against unfair and other- mostly under the radar of Congress and wise harmful trade practices. By Mr. BAUCUS (for himself, Mr. the American public. (5) Congress passed the Uruguay Round Agreements Act based on its understanding CRAIG, Mr. BAYH, and Mr. The purpose of the legislation Sen- ROCKEFELLER): that effective trade remedies would not be ator CRAIG and I are proposing is to S. 676. A bill to establish a WTO Dis- eroded. These remedies are essential to con- open the performance of WTO panels to pute Settlement Review Commission, tinue the process of opening foreign markets public debate. to imports of goods and services and to pre- and for other purposes; to the Com- Under the legislation, the President, vent harm to American industry and agri- mittee on Finance. in consultation with Congress, would culture. Mr. BAUCUS. Mr. President, I rise (6) In particular, WTO dispute panels and today to offer, along with Senator create a Commission by appointing 5 retired federal appellate judges to the Appellate Body should— CRAIG, much needed trade legislation. I (A) operate with fairness and in an impar- serve 5-year terms. also want to thank Senators BAYH and tial manner; The Commission would review WTO ROCKEFELLER for their support for this (B) not add to the obligations, or diminish legislation. decisions adverse to the United States the rights, of WTO members under the Uru- The bill that we are introducing to examine whether the panelists have guay Round Agreements; and (C) observe the terms of reference and any would create a Commission to review exceeded their authority. The Commis- sioners would then report their find- applicable WTO standard of review. decisions of the World Trade Organiza- (c) PURPOSE.—It is the purpose of this Act tion. ings to Congress. to provide for the establishment of the WTO Why is this legislation necessary? Increasing the transparency of the Dispute Settlement Review Commission to Simply put—we must ensure that the WTO in this manner is entirely con- achieve the objectives described in sub- United States is getting the benefit of sistent with the Administration’s stat- section (b)(6). the agreements we negotiated. ed objectives. It would also allow us to SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS. WTO panels have handed down sev- discuss openly and fairly whether the In this Act: eral decisions recently that go well be- WTO is working as it should. (1) ADVERSE FINDING.—The term ‘‘adverse yond the scope of their authority. The legislation offers something for finding’’ means— (A) in a panel or Appellate Body pro- These decisions have had a wide-rang- everyone. If the Commission finds that ceeding initiated against the United States, ing impact, undermining our ability to the WTO is applying the rules properly a finding by the panel or the Appellate Body use antidumping and safeguard laws it will silence critics—and perhaps earn that, any law or regulation of, or application and calling major portions of the U.S. converts. thereof by, the United States, or any State, tax code into question. But if the WTO is in fact straying be- is inconsistent with the obligations of the Most recently, the WTO ruled that yond the carefully negotiated bound- United States under a Uruguay Round Agree- the so-called ‘‘Byrd Amendment’’ vio- aries of our trade agreements, Congress ment (or nullifies or impairs benefits accru- lates WTO rules. In fact, the Byrd needs to have the oversight in place so ing to a WTO member under such an Agree- Amendment simply takes duties col- that we can remedy the situation. ment); or (B) in a panel or Appellate Body proceeding lected on unfairly traded products out I understand and support the need for in which the United States is a complaining of the U.S. Treasury and redistributes a global trading system. But we need party, any finding by the panel or the Appel- them to companies and workers hurt to ensure that the WTO is respecting late Body that a measure of the party com- by that unfair trade. the limits of its authority and honestly plained against is not inconsistent with that

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party’s obligations under a Uruguay Round (B) UNEXPIRED TERM.—An individual cho- SEC. 5. POWERS OF THE COMMISSION. Agreement (or does not nullify or impair sen to fill a vacancy shall be appointed for (a) HEARINGS.—The Commission may hold benefits accruing to the United States under the unexpired term of the member replaced. any hearings, sit and act at any time and such an Agreement). (d) MEETINGS.— place, take any testimony, and receive any (2) AFFIRMATIVE REPORT.—The term ‘‘af- (1) INITIAL MEETING.—Not later than 30 evidence as the Commission considers advis- firmative report’’ means a report described days after the date on which all members of able to carry out the purposes of this Act. in section 234(b)(2) which contains affirma- the Commission have been appointed, the The Commission shall provide reasonable no- tive determinations made by the Commis- Commission shall hold its first meeting. tice of a hearing held pursuant to this sub- sion under paragraph (3) of section 4(a). (2) SUBSEQUENT MEETINGS.—The Commis- section. (b) INFORMATION FROM INTERESTED PARTIES (3) APPELLATE BODY.—The term ‘‘Appellate sion shall meet subsequently at the call of Body’’ means the Appellate Body established the chairperson. AND FEDERAL AGENCIES.— by the Dispute Settlement Body pursuant to (e) QUORUM.—A majority of the members of (1) NOTICE OF PANEL OR APPELLATE BODY RE- Article 17.1 of the Dispute Settlement Under- the Commission shall constitute a quorum, PORT.—The Trade Representative shall ad- standing. but a lesser number of members may hold vise the Commission not later than 5 days after the date the Dispute Settlement Body (4) DISPUTE SETTLEMENT BODY.—The term hearings. ‘‘Dispute Settlement Body’’ means the Dis- (f) CHAIRPERSON AND VICE CHAIRPERSON.— adopts the report of a panel or Appellate pute Settlement Body established pursuant The Commission shall select a chairperson Body that is adverse to the United States and vice chairperson from among its mem- to the Dispute Settlement Understanding. and shall immediately publish notice of that bers. advice in the Federal Register, along with (5) DISPUTE SETTLEMENT PANEL; PANEL.— (g) AFFIRMATIVE DETERMINATIONS.—An af- notice of an opportunity for interested par- The terms ‘‘dispute settlement panel’’ and firmative vote by a majority of the members ‘‘panel’’ mean a panel established pursuant ties to submit comments to the Commission. of the Commission shall be required for any (2) SUBMISSIONS AND REQUESTS FOR INFOR- to Article 6 of the Dispute Settlement Un- affirmative determination by the Commis- derstanding. MATION.—Any interested party may submit sion under section 4. comments to the Commission regarding the ISPUTE SETTLEMENT UNDERSTANDING (6) D .— SEC. 4. DUTIES OF THE COMMISSION. The term ‘‘Dispute Settlement Under- panel or Appellate Body report. The Commis- (a) REVIEW OF WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION sion may also secure directly from any Fed- standing’’ means the Understanding on Rules DISPUTE SETTLEMENT REPORTS.— and Procedures governing the Settlement of eral department or agency any information (1) IN GENERAL.—The Commission shall re- the Commission considers necessary to carry Disputes referred to in section 101(d)(16) of view— the Uruguay Round Agreements Act. out the provisions of this Act. Upon request (A) all reports of dispute settlement panels of the chairperson of the Commission, the (7) TERMS OF REFERENCE.—The term ‘‘terms or the Apellate Body of the WTO in pro- of reference’’ has the meaning given such head of that department or agency shall fur- ceedings initiated by other parties to the nish the requested information to the Com- term in the Dispute Settlement Under- WTO that are adverse to the United States standing. mission. and that are adopted by the Dispute Settle- (3) ACCESS TO PANEL AND APPELLATE BODY (8) TRADE REPRESENTATIVE.—The term ment Body; and DOCUMENTS.— ‘‘Trade Representative’’ means the United (B) upon request of the Trade Representa- States Trade Representative. (A) IN GENERAL.—The Trade Representative tive, the chairman or ranking member of the shall make available to the Commission all (9) URUGUAY ROUND AGREEMENT.—The term Committee on Ways and Means of the House ‘‘Uruguay Round Agreement’’ means any of submissions and relevant documents relating of Representatives, or the chairman or rank- to the panel or Appellate Body report, in- the Agreements described in section 101(d) of ing member of the Committee on Finance of the Uruguay Round Agreements Act. cluding any information contained in sub- the Senate, any other report of a dispute set- missions identified by the provider of the in- (10) WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION; WTO.—The tlement panel, or the Appellate Body that is terms ‘‘World Trade Organization’’ and formation as proprietary information or in- adopted by the Dispute Settlement Body. formation treated as confidential by a for- ‘‘WTO’’ mean the organization established (2) SCOPE OF REVIEW.—In the case of a re- pursuant to the WTO Agreement. eign government. port described in paragraph (1), the Commis- (B) PUBLIC ACCESS.—Any document which (11) WTO AGREEMENT.—The term ‘‘WTO sion shall conduct a complete review and de- Agreement’’ means the Agreement Estab- the Trade Representative submits to the termine whether the panel or Appellate Commission shall be available to the public, lishing the World Trade Organization en- Body, as the case may be— tered into on April 15, 1994. except information which is identified as (A) exceeded its authority or its terms of proprietary or confidential. SEC. 3. ESTABLISHMENT OF COMMISSION. reference; (4) ASSISTANCE FROM FEDERAL AGENCIES; (B) added to the obligations, or diminished (a) ESTABLISHMENT.—There is established a CONFIDENTIALITY.— commission to be known as the World Trade the rights of the United States under the (A) ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANCE.—Any Organization Dispute Settlement Review Uruguay Round Agreement that is the sub- agency or department of the United States Commission (in this Act referred to as the ject of the report; that is designated by the President shall pro- ‘‘Commission’’). (C) acted arbitrarily or capriciously, en- vide administrative services, funds, facili- gaged in misconduct, or demonstrably de- ties, staff, or other support services to the (b) MEMBERSHIP.— parted from the procedures specified for pan- Commission to assist the Commission with (1) COMPOSITION.—The Commission shall be els and Appellate Bodies in the applicable composed of 5 members, all of whom shall be the performance of the Commission’s func- Uruguay Round Agreement; and tions. retired judges of the Federal judicial cir- (D) deviated from the applicable standard cuits, and who shall be appointed by the (B) CONFIDENTIALITY.—The Commission of review, including in antidumping, coun- shall protect from disclosure any document President, after consultation with the Major- tervailing duty, and other unfair trade rem- ity Leader and Minority Leader of the House or information submitted to it by a depart- edy cases, the standard of review set forth in ment or agency of the United States which of Representatives, the Majority Leader and Article 17.6 of the Agreement on Implemen- Minority Leader of the Senate, the chairman the agency or department requests be kept tation of Article VI of the General Agree- confidential. The Commission shall not be and ranking member of the Committee on ment on Tariffs and Trade, 1994. Ways and Means of the House of Representa- considered to be an agency for purposes of (3) AFFIRMATIVE DETERMINATION.—If the section 552 of title 5, United States Code. tives, and the chairman and ranking member Commission makes an affirmative deter- of the Committee on Finance of the Senate. mination with respect to the action of a By Mr. CAMPBELL (for himself (2) DATE OF APPOINTMENT.—The appoint- panel or an Appellate Body under subpara- and Mr. ALLARD): ments of the members of the Commission graph (A), (B), (C), or (D) of paragraph (2), shall be made not later than 90 days after S. 677. A bill to revise the boundary the Commission shall determine whether the of the Black Canyon of the Gunnison the date of enactment of this Act. action of the panel or Appellate Body mate- National Park and Gunnison Gorge Na- (c) PERIOD OF APPOINTMENT; VACANCIES.— rially affected the outcome of the report of (1) IN GENERAL.—Members of the Commis- the panel or Appellate Body. tional Conservation Area in the State sion first appointed shall each be appointed (b) DETERMINATION; REPORT.— of Colorado, and for other purposes; to for a term of 5 years. (1) DETERMINATION.—Not later than 120 the Committee on Energy and Natural (2) SUBSEQUENT TERMS.—After the initial 5- days after the date that a report of a panel Resources. year term, 3 members of the Commission or Appellate Body described in subsection (a) Mr. CAMPBELL. Mr. President, shall be appointed for terms of 3 years and is adopted by the Dispute Settlement Body, today I introduce the ‘‘Black Canyon of the remaining 2 members shall be appointed the Commission shall make a written deter- the Gunnison National Park and Gun- for terms of 2 years. mination with respect to matters described nison Gorge National Conservation (3) VACANCIES.— in subsection (a) (2) and (3). Area Boundary Revision Act of 2003.’’ I (A) IN GENERAL.—Any vacancy on the Com- (2) REPORTS.—The Commission shall report mission shall not affect its powers, but shall the determination described in paragraph (1) introduced a similar bill in the 107th be filled in the same manner as the original to the Committee on Ways and Means of the Congress. I am confident that the 108th appointment and shall be subject to the House of Representatives and the Committee Congress will quickly pass this bill on same conditions as the original appointment. on Finance of the Senate. to the President for his signature so

VerDate Dec 13 2002 01:26 Mar 22, 2003 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00066 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A20MR6.078 S20PT2 March 20, 2003 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S4175 that we can continue to celebrate this map entitled ‘Black Canyon of the Gunnison SEC. 5. GUNNISON GORGE NATIONAL CONSERVA- special place. National Park and Gunnison Gorge NCA TION AREA BOUNDARY REVISION. My bill improves upon my earlier ef- Boundary Modifications’ and dated January Section 7(a) of the Black Canyon of the 21, 2003.’’. Gunnison National Park and Gunnison Gorge forts designating the park. National Conservation Area Act of 1999 (16 (b) ADMINISTRATION.—Section 4(b) of the The Black Canyon of the Gunnison U.S.C. 410fff–5(a)) is amended— Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Gorge is a national treasure to be en- (1) by striking ‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—There is Park and Gunnison Gorge National Con- joyed by all. The park’s combination of established’’ and inserting the following: servation Area Act of 1999 (16 U.S.C. 410fff– ‘‘(a) ESTABLISHMENT.— geological wonders and diverse wildlife 2(b)) is amended— ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—There is established’’; make it one of the most unique natural (1) by striking ‘‘Upon’’ and inserting the areas in North America. and following: (2) by adding at the end the following: The first person to survey the can- ‘‘(1) LAND TRANSFER.— ‘‘(2) BOUNDARY REVISION.—The boundary of N GENERAL.—On’’; and yon, Abraham Lincoln Fellows, noted ‘‘(A) I the Conservation Area is revised to include (2) by striking ‘‘The Secretary shall’’ and in 1901, ‘‘our surroundings were of the the addition of not more than 7,100 acres, as inserting the following: wildest possible description. The roar depicted on the map entitled ‘Black Canyon ‘‘(B) ADDITIONAL LAND.—On the date of en- of the water . . . was constantly in our of the Gunnison National Park and Gunnison actment of the Black Canyon of the Gunni- ears, and the walls of the canyon, tow- Gorge NCA Boundary Modifications’ and son National Park and Gunnison Gorge Na- dated January 21, 2003.’’. ering half mile in height above us, were tional Conservation Area Boundary Revision seemingly vertical.’’ Similarly, today, Act of 2003, the Secretary shall transfer the SEC. 6. ACCESS TO WATER DELIVERY FACILITIES. The Commissioner of Reclamation shall re- visitors can enjoy hiking the deep land under the jurisdiction of the Bureau of tain administrative jurisdiction over, and gorge to the Gunnison River raging Land Management identified as ‘Tract C’ on access to, land, facilities, and roads of the the map described in subsection (a)(2) to the below, or look overhead to marvel at Bureau of Reclamation in the East Portal administrative jurisdiction of the National eagles and peregrine falcons soaring in area and the Crystal Dam area, as depicted Park Service for inclusion in the Park. the sky. on the map identified in section 4(a)(2) of the ‘‘(2) AUTHORITY.—The Secretary shall’’. This bill modifies the legislative Black Canyon of the Gunnison National boundary of the Gunnison Gorge Na- SEC. 3. GRAZING PRIVILEGES AT BLACK CANYON Park and Gunnison Gorge National Con- tional Conservation Area allowing even OF THE GUNNISON NATIONAL PARK. servation Area Act of 1999 (as added by sec- greater access to the park’s many rec- Section 4(e) of the Black Canyon of the tion 2(a)(2)) for the maintenance, repair, con- reational opportunities including boat- Gunnison National Park and Gunnison Gorge struction, replacement, and operation of any National Conservation Area Act of 1999 (16 facilities relating to the delivery of water ing, fishing, and hiking. under the jurisdiction of the Bureau to users This important legislation would ex- U.S.C. 410fff–2(e)) is amended— (1) in paragraph (1)— of the water (as of the date of enactment of pand the National Park by 2,725 acres, (A) by redesignating subparagraphs (B) and this Act). for a total of 33,025 acres. The Con- (C) as subparagraphs (C) and (D), respec- servation area will be increased by tively; and By Mr. AKAKA (for himself, Ms. 5,700 acres, for a total of 63,425 acres. In (B) by inserting after subparagraph (A) the COLLINS, Mr. DASCHLE, Mr. JEF- total this bill adds approximately 8,400 following: FORDS, Mr. INOUYE, Ms. MIKUL- acres to provide habitat for several ‘‘(B) TRANSFER.—If land authorized for SKI, and Mr. SARBANES): listed, threatened, endangered and grazing under subparagraph (A) is exchanged S. 678. A bill to amend chapter 10 of BLM sensitive species including, the for private land under this Act, the Sec- title 39, United States Code, to include retary shall transfer any grazing privileges postmasters and postmasters organiza- Bald Eagle, the River Otter, Delta to the private land acquired in the exchange Lomation, and Clay-Loving Buck- in accordance with this section.’’; and tions in the process for the develop- wheat. (2) in paragraph (3)— ment and planning of certain policies, Furthermore, I have added specific (A) in subparagraph (A), by striking ‘‘and’’ schedules, and programs, and for other language to ensure that the Bureau of at the end; purposes; to the Committee on Govern- Reclamation retains its traditional ju- (B) by redesignating subparagraph (B) as mental Affairs. risdiction over water and water deliv- subparagraph (D); Mr. AKAKA. Mr. President, I rise ery systems. (C) by inserting after subparagraph (A) the today to introduce the Postmasters Eq- This legislation helps preserve a following: uity Act of 2003, and I am pleased to ‘‘(B) with respect to the permit or lease unique national resource and a source issued to LeValley Ranch Ltd., a partner- have Senators COLLINS, DASCHLE, JEF- of national pride. ship, for the lifetime of the 2 limited part- FORDS, INOUYE, MIKULSKI, and SAR- I urge quick passage of this impor- ners as of October 21, 1999; BANES join me as original cosponsors. tant bill. I ask unanimous consent that ‘‘(C) with respect to the permit or lease Our bill modifies legislation I offered the text of the bill be printed in the issued to Sanburg Herefords, L.L.P., a part- in the 107th Congress. That bill, S. 177, RECORD. nership, for the lifetime of the 2 general the Postmasters Fairness Act, enjoyed There being no objection, the bill was partners as of October 21, 1999; and’’; and the bipartisan support of 49 members of (D) in subparagraph (D) (as redesignated by ordered to be printed in the RECORD, as the U.S. Senate. Its House companion follows: subparagraph (B))— (i) by striking ‘‘partnership, corporation, bill, H.R. 250, had 291 cosponsors. S. 677 or’’ in each place it appears and inserting The measure I introduce today differs Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep- ‘‘corporation or’’; and from its predecessor in that it provides resentatives of the United States of America in (ii) by striking ‘‘subparagraph (A)’’ and in- postmasters the option of fact finding Congress assembled, serting ‘‘subparagraphs (A), (B), or (C)’’. rather than binding arbitration if the SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. SEC. 4. ACQUISITION OF LAND. postmasters management associations This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Black Can- and the Postal Service are unable to yon of the Gunnison National Park and Gun- (a) AUTHORITY TO ACQUIRE LAND.—Section reach agreement on specific issues. nison Gorge National Conservation Area 5(a)(1) of the Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park and Gunnison Gorge National Fact finding would allow for an unbi- Boundary Revision Act of 2003’’. ased review of the issues in dispute and SEC. 2. BLACK CANYON OF THE GUNNISON NA- Conservation Area Act of 1999 (16 U.S.C. TIONAL PARK BOUNDARY REVISION. 410fff–3(a)(1)) is amended by inserting ‘‘or the the issuance of non-binding rec- (a) ESTABLISHMENT.—Section 4(a) of the map described in section 4(a)(2)’’ after ‘‘the ommendations. The measure would Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Map’’. also define the term postmaster for the Park and Gunnison Gorge National Con- (b) METHOD OF ACQUISITION.— first time. servation Area Act of 1999 (16 U.S.C. 410fff– (1) IN GENERAL.—Land or interest in land Extending the option of fact finding 2(a)) is amended— acquired under the amendments made by to postmasters will enable them to (1) by striking ‘‘There is hereby estab- this Act shall be made in accordance with take a more active and constructive lished’’ and inserting the following: section 5(a)(2)(A) of the Black Canyon of the role in managing their individual post ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—There is established’’; Gunnison National Park and Gunnison Gorge offices and discussing compensation and National Conservation Area Act of 1999 (16 (2) by adding at the end the following: U.S.C. 410fff–3(a)(2)(A)). issues with the Postal Service. The ‘‘(2) BOUNDARY REVISION.—The boundary of (2) CONSENT.—No land or interest in land Postal Reorganization Act of 1970 cre- the Park is revised to include the addition of may be acquired without the consent of the ated a consultative process for post- not more than 2,725 acres, as depicted on the landowner. masters and other non-union postal

VerDate Dec 13 2002 01:26 Mar 22, 2003 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00067 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A20MR6.079 S20PT2 S4176 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE March 20, 2003 employees to negotiate pay and bene- resenting supervisors)’’ and insert ‘‘that a managerial pay policies. The postmasters or- fits. However, under the current sys- postmaster organization represents a sub- ganization (or organizations) and the Postal tem, postmasters have seen an erosion stantial percentage of postmasters (as de- Service shall each designate 1 individual of their role in improving the quality fined under subsection (j)(3)), or that a man- from the list to serve on the panel. If, within agerial organization (other than an organiza- 10 days after the list is provided, either of of mail services to postal patrons and tion representing supervisors or post- the parties has not designated an individual managing their local post offices. This masters)’’; and from the list, the Director of the Federal Me- has been particularly true for post- (ii) by striking ‘‘relating to supervisory’’ diation and Conciliation Service shall make masters responsible for small and me- and inserting ‘‘relating to supervisory, post- the designation. The first 2 individuals des- dium sized post offices where they masters,’’; ignated from the list shall meet within 5 serve as front line managers. These cir- (3) in subsection (c)(1), by inserting ‘‘, and days and shall designate a third individual cumstances are among factors contrib- the Postal Service and the postmasters orga- from the list. The third individual shall nization (or organizations),’’ after ‘‘super- uting to the decline in the number of chair the panel. If the 2 individuals des- visors’ organization’’; ignated from the list are unable to designate postmasters since the reorganization of (4) in subsection (d)— a third individual within 5 days after their the Postal Service over three decades (A) in paragraph (1)— first meeting, the Director shall designate ago. (i) in the matter preceding subparagraph the third individual. At the present time, postmasters (A), by inserting ‘‘and the postmasters orga- ‘‘(3)(A) The panel shall recommend stand- lack recourse when consultation fails, nization (or organizations)’’ after ‘‘the super- ards for pay policies and schedules and fringe and my bill extends to our Nation’s visors’ organization’’ both places it appears; benefit programs affecting the members of (ii) in subparagraph (B), by striking ‘‘orga- the postmasters organization (or organiza- postmasters what is currently enjoyed nization’’ and inserting ‘‘organizations’’; and by postal supervisors. While postal su- tions) for the period covered by the collec- (iii) in subparagraph (C), by striking ‘‘orga- tive bargaining agreement specified in sub- pervisors have the same consultation nization’’ and inserting ‘‘organizations’’; section (e)(1) of this section. The standards process as postmasters, the supervisors (B) in paragraph (2)— shall be consistent with the policies of this also have fact finding, which provides (i) in subparagraph (A), by inserting ‘‘and title, including sections 1003(a) and 1004(a) of them with greater ability to negotiate the postmasters organization (or organiza- this title. with USPS management. tions)’’ after ‘‘supervisors’ organization’’; ‘‘(B) The panel shall, consistent with such The Postal Service estimates that and standards, make appropriate recommenda- (ii) in subparagraph (B), by striking ‘‘orga- each day seven million customers tions concerning the differences between the nization’’ and inserting ‘‘organizations’’; parties on such policies, schedules, and pro- transact business at post offices. We (C) in paragraph (3)— expect timely delivery of the mail, six grams. (i) in subparagraph (A), by inserting ‘‘and ‘‘(4) The panel shall make its recommenda- days a week, and the Postal Service the postmasters organization (or organiza- tion no more than 30 days after its appoint- does not disappoint us. Given the regu- tions)’’ after ‘‘supervisors’ organization’’; ment, unless the Postal Service and the post- larity of mail delivery and the number and masters organization (or organizations) of Americans visiting post offices (ii) in subparagraph (B), by striking ‘‘orga- agree to a longer period. The panel shall hear daily, it is no wonder that we have nization’’ and inserting ‘‘organizations’’; and from the Postal Service and the postmasters (D) in paragraph (4), by inserting ‘‘, and the come to view our neighborhood post of- organization (or organizations) in such a Postal Service and the postmasters organiza- manner as it shall direct. The cost of the fices as cornerstones of our commu- tion (or organizations),’’; nities. In fact, many of our towns and panel shall be borne equally by the Postal (5) in subsections (e)— Service and the postmasters organization (or cities have developed around a post of- (A) in paragraph (1), by inserting ‘‘and the organizations), with the Service to be re- fice where the postmaster served as the postmasters organization (or organizations)’’ sponsible for one-half the costs and the post- town’s only link to the federal govern- after ‘‘supervisors’ organization’’; masters organization (or organizations) to be ment. (B) in paragraph (2), by inserting ‘‘, the responsible for the remainder. postmasters organization (or organiza- Our Nation’s postmasters are on the ‘‘(5) Not more than 15 days after the panel tions),’’ after ‘‘The Postal Service’’; and has made its recommendation, the Postal front line to ensure that the mail gets (C) in paragraph (3), by inserting ‘‘and the Service shall provide the postmasters orga- delivered in a timely manner, and they postmasters organization (or organizations)’’ nization (or organizations) its final decision help fuel the infrastructure that con- after ‘‘supervisors’ organizations’’; on the matters covered by factfinding under tinues to boost the performance rat- (6) in subsection (h)— this subsection. The Postal Service shall (A) in paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘and’’ ings of the Postal Service. Postmasters give full and fair consideration to the panel’s after the semicolon; have enabled us to communicate with recommendation and shall explain in writing (B) in paragraph (2), by striking the period one another since the dawn of this any differences between its final decision and inserting a semicolon; and great republic. I urge my colleagues to and the panel’s recommendation. (C) by inserting after paragraph (2) the fol- ‘‘(i) Not earlier than 3 years after the date join me in showing their support for lowing: of the enactment of this subsection, and our Nation’s postmasters by cospon- ‘‘(3) ‘postmasters organization’ means, from time to time thereafter, the Postal soring this legislation. with respect to a calendar year, any organi- Service or the postmasters organization (or I ask unanimous consent that the zation whose membership on June 30th of the organizations) may request, by written no- preceding year included not less than 20 per- text of the bill be printed in the tice to the Federal Mediation and Concilia- cent of all individuals employed as post- RECORD. tion Service and to the other party, the cre- masters on that date; and There being no objection, the bill was ation of a panel to review the effectiveness of ‘‘(4) ‘postmaster’ means an individual who ordered to be printed in the RECORD, as the procedures and the other provisions of is the manager-in-charge, with or without this section and the provisions of section follows: the assistance of subordinate managers or 1003 of this title. The panel shall be des- S. 678 supervisors, the operations of a post office.’’; ignated in accordance with the procedure es- Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep- and tablished in subsection (h)(2) of this section. resentatives of the United States of America in (7) by redesignating subsection (h) as sub- The panel shall make recommendations to Congress assembled, section (j), and inserting after subsection (g) Congress for changes in this title as it finds the following: SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. appropriate.’’. This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Postmaster ‘‘(h)(1) If, notwithstanding the mutual ef- forts required by subsection (e) of this sec- (b) TECHNICAL AND CONFORMING AMEND- Equity Act of 2003’’. tion, the postmasters organization (or orga- MENT.— SEC. 2. POSTMASTERS AND POSTMASTERS ORGA- nizations), believes that the decision of the (1) SECTION HEADING.—The section heading NIZATIONS. Postal Service is not in accordance with the for section 1004 of title 39, United States (a) IN GENERAL.—Section 1004 of title 39, provisions of this title, the organization Code, is amended to read as follows: United States Code, is amended— may, within 10 days following its receipt of ‘‘§ 1004. Supervisory, postmaster, and other (1) in subsection (a), by inserting ‘‘, post- such decision, request the Federal Mediation managerial organizations’’. master,’’ after ‘‘supervisory’’ both places it and Conciliation Service to convene a fact- (2) TABLE OF SECTIONS.—The table of sec- appears; finding panel (in this subsection referred to tions for chapter 10 of title 39, United States (2) in subsection (b)— as the ‘panel’) concerning such matter. (A) in the first sentence, by inserting ‘‘, ‘‘(2) Within 15 days after receiving a re- Code, is amended by striking the item relat- postmaster,’’ after ‘‘supervisory’’; and quest under paragraph (1) of this subsection, ing to section 1004 and inserting the fol- (B) in the second sentence— the Federal Mediation and Conciliation lowing: (i) by striking ‘‘or that a managerial orga- Service shall provide a list of 7 individuals ‘‘1004. Supervisory, postmaster, and other nization (other than an organization rep- recognized as experts in supervisory and managerial organizations.’’.

VerDate Dec 13 2002 01:26 Mar 22, 2003 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00068 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0655 E:\CR\FM\A20MR6.081 S20PT2 March 20, 2003 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S4177 SEC. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE. pended.’’ Local police will be called a ‘‘broad national impact’’ on the lev- The amendments made by this Act shall upon to pick up the slack once the FBI els and styles of policing, and that it take effect 60 days after the date of enact- is forced to pull almost half of its provided ‘‘significant support for the ment of this Act. agents out of traditional crime-fight- adoption of community policing By Mr. BIDEN (for himself, Mr. ing work. around the country.’’ KOHL, Mr. BINGAMAN, Mr. BAU- The fight to secure our streets does It’s not just criminologists and think tanks who agree with me that COPS CUS, Mrs. CLINTON, Ms. not end with preventing terrorism. works. Leading law enforcement offi- STABENOW, Mr. EDWARDS, Mr. Crime is up again. The newest figures cials share the view. Last year, our SARBANES, Mrs. MURRAY, Mr. tell us the historic crime drop the na- friend and former colleague Attorney KERRY, Mr. LEAHY, Mr. LEVIN, tion experienced during the 1990s is General Ashcroft called COPS a ‘‘mi- Mr. DURBIN, Mr. LIEBERMAN, over. Property crimes—offenses that raculous sort of success.’’ He said, ‘‘it’s Mr. KENNEDY, Mr. HOLLINGS, tend to jump in a week economy—are one of those things that Congress hopes Mr. NELSON of Nebraska, Ms. rising particularly fast. The FBI re- will happen when it sets up a pro- MIKULSKI, Mr. BAYH, Ms. CANT- cently reported a 4 percent hike in bur- glaries and motor vehicle thefts last gram.’’ At a conference last July, the WELL, Mr. DORGAN, Mr. CONRAD, Attorney General endorsed the theory Mrs. FEINSTEIN, Mr. CORZINE, year alone. Where fighting violent crime and bank robberies used to be that COPS cuts crime. ‘‘Since law en- Mr. CARPER, Mr. JEFFORDS, Mr. forcement agencies began partnering JOHNSON, Mr. ROCKEFELLER, Mr. among the FBI’s highest priorities, the FBI is now focused on counter- with citizens through community po- SMITH, Mr. DAYTON, Mr. AKAKA, licing, we’ve seen significant drops in Mr. REED, Mr. BREAUX, Mr. terrorism efforts. Increasingly, local police departments, statewide crime rates,’’ he noted. NELSON of Florida, Mr. HARKIN, The administration offers a second crimefighting task forces and drug- Mr. SCHUMER, Mrs. BOXER, Mr. reason for wanting to eliminate COPS: fighting projects are being told by the DODD, Mr. SPECTER, Ms. The disparity between ‘‘officers hired’’ Bush administration that they are on LANDRIEU, Mr. DASCHLE, Mr. and ‘‘officers funded’’. Because COPS their own when it comes to fighting BYRD, Mr. LAUTENBERG, Mr. has funded 117,000 cops, but only 87,000 PRYOR, Mrs. LINCOLN, and Mr. crime. are on the street, the President argues, What’s worse, all of this is happening REID): the program is not accountable. That during a time of unprecedented eco- S 679. A bill to provide reliable offi- assertion overlooks the operations of nomic hardship in our cities and cers, technology, education, commu- the Office of community Policing Serv- States. States are facing dramatic nity prosecutors, and training in our ices. Few Federal programs operate budgetary shortfalls. A new report neighborhoods; to the Committee on with as much oversight and internal finds that budget gaps for State gov- the Judiciary. review as does COPS. The disparity Mr. BIDEN. Mr. President, I rise ernments soared by nearly 50 percent that seems to so concern the Adminis- today to introduce legislation to reau- in the past three months and state leg- tration is simple to explain: It takes thorize the COPS program through islatures face a minimum $68.5 billion time to hire a new cop. Once COPS 2009. budget shortfall for the coming fiscal awards a hiring grant, it can take any- Since September 11, our local police year. Mayors nationwide report that where from six to eighteen months to have been asked to do more for their cities spent $2.6 billion through the end find, hire, train and deploy the new of- communities than ever before. Walk of last year on new security costs. ficer. There is no accounting problem. the beat. Be on guard against terror- The response of the administration It is good public policy for police de- ists. Secure critical infrastructures. to these concerns has been dis- partments to take the appropriate And gather intelligence on future ter- appointing. This year, for the second amount of time to find suitable can- rorist acts when possible. Washington budget cycle in a row, the President didates for new community policing has a role in securing the homeland, proposes to eliminate the COPS hiring positions, and this discrepancy between but the burdens fall heaviest on our program. COPS is the only initiative in officers funded and officers hired is the local communities. the entire Federal Government that result. There are more than 700,000 police of- targets its resources directly towards Post 9/11, COPS is about much more ficers and sheriffs in the country, com- police. There is no middleman. There is than fighting crime. It’s about home- pared with nearly 11,000 FBI agents. It very little red tape. Police chiefs re- land security. The Attorney General is our local police chiefs and sheriffs port they have never worked with such again said it best last July when he who are called upon more and more to a responsive, effective Federal pro- noted that ‘‘COPS provides resources protect us against the new threats gram. And yet the administration that reflect our national priority of from abroad. We had a sobering re- wants to shut it down. terrorism prevention.’’ The new assist- minder this week. As President Bush Since we created COPS as part of the ant director at the FBI in charge of co- braced the Nation for war in Iraq, 1994 Crime Bill, the program has ordinating with local law enforcement Homeland Security Director Tom awarded grants to hire and redeploy agreed: ‘‘The FBI fully understands Ridge ratcheted our alert level back up 117,000 police officers to the streets. that our success in the fight against to orange and called all 50 governors to 87,300 are on the beat. In the most re- terrorism is directly related to the request that they provide an increased cent year of hiring grants, 2002, 4,400 of- strength of our relationship with our police presence at airports. ficers were hired or redeployed. State and local partners.’’ These aren’t Our mayors and police chiefs are The President’s budget gives several my words. They’re the words of the top hurting. Local budgets are incredibly justifications for shutting down COPS. cops. tight—some communities have been First, the administration claims the COPS does not just hire new officers. forced to lay officers off, or to consider program doesn’t work, that it hasn’t It requires these officers to practice freeing criminals before their sen- cut crime. That is a curious assertion. community policing. Community polic- tences are up, to cut costs. Even before Crime dropped for seven straight years ing is a philosophy that gives more 9/11, it was clear that the crime drop of after COPS resources began to be put power to line officers. They get as- the nineties was coming to a close. to use in cities and towns. There was a signed to fixed geographic areas. This Last winter, the FBI reported that 28 percent drop in crime from 1994 to decision-making power and neighbor- crime jumped for the second straight 2000. hood familiarity can be invaluable in a year. The FBI has had to necessarily Two studies support the assertion crisis, when relationships with commu- refocus its resources. Recently, the that COPS grants help cut crime. One, nity residents and the ability to make Washington Post reported that the FBI released just this past November by the quick decisions is critical. Community has plans to ‘‘mobilize as many as 5,000 American Society of Criminology, relationships that come from COPS can agents to guard against terrorist at- found that COPS hiring grants have also help unearth intelligence about tacks’’ during hostilities with Iraq. ‘‘resulted in significant reductions in potential terrorist actions. The FBI’s criminal surveillance oper- local crime rates.’’ In 2000, the urban By taking cops out of their cars and ations ‘‘would be temporarily sus- Institute concluded that COPS has had having them walk the streets, police

VerDate Dec 13 2002 01:26 Mar 22, 2003 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00069 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A20MR6.082 S20PT2 S4178 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE March 20, 2003 officers get to know the residents of my colleagues to continue the COPS book inventory to a qualified school, the neighborhood where they’re as- program. library, or literacy program is eligible signed. This has proven extremely ef- for the enhanced deduction. This fective at building trust and partner- By Mr. HATCH: means that booksellers and publishers ship between local police and the resi- S. 680. A bill to amend the Internal would receive a higher tax benefit for dents they protect. Community resi- Revenue Code of 1986 to enhance book donating the books rather than throw- dents consistently sing the praises of donations and literacy; to the Com- ing them away and would thus be en- community policing. It pays dividends mittee on Finance. couraged to go to the extra trouble and by creating a climate in which neigh- Mr. HATCH. Mr. President, I rise expense of seeking out qualified donees borhood residents partner with police, today to introduce legislation designed and making the contributions. not only providing police with valuable to clarify and enhance the charitable My home State of Utah, like the rest information about criminal activity in contribution tax deduction for dona- of the Nation, has a problem with illit- their neighborhood, but restoring over- tions of excess book inventory for edu- eracy. According to the National Insti- all confidence in the criminal justice cational purposes. This proposal would tute for Literacy, between 21 and 23 system. simplify a complex area of the current percent of the adult population of the We need to continue the COPS pro- law and eliminate significant road- United States, about 44 million people, gram. The Justice Department reports blocks that now stand in the way of are only at Level 1 literacy, meaning that for the past several grant-making businesses with excess book inventory they can read a little but not well cycles, demand for new police hiring to donating those books to schools, li- enough to fill out an application, read grants has outstripped available funds braries, and literacy programs, where a food label, or read a simple story to by a factor of almost three to one. To they are much needed. a child. Another 25 to 28 percent of the meet this need, the legislation I intro- Unfortunately, our current tax law adult population, or between 45 and 50 duce today authorizes $600 million per contains a major flaw when it comes to million people, are estimated to be at year over the next 6 years, enough to the donation of books that are excess Level 2 literacy, meaning they can usu- hire up to 50,000 more officers. We have inventory for publishers or booksellers. ally can perform more complex tasks made this portion of the program more The tax benefits for donating such such as comparing, contrasting, or in- flexible: up to half of these hiring dol- books to schools or libraries are often tegrating pieces of information but lars can be used to help police depart- no greater than those of sending the usually not higher level reading and ments retain those community police books to the landfill. And, since it is problem-solving skills. Literacy ex- officers currently on payroll. In an- generally cheaper and faster for a com- perts tell us that adults with skills at other change from current law, a por- pany to simply send the books to the Levels 1 and 2 lack a sufficient founda- tion of these funds can be used for offi- dump, rather than go through the trou- tion of basic skills to function success- cer training and education. ble and cost of finding donees, and of fully in our society. We make a key change to the current packing, storing, and shipping the While this bill is not a cure-all for COPS program in the bill I introduce books, it often ends up being more cost the tragedy of illiteracy, it will in- today. In response to the needs of first effective and easier for companies to crease access to books, both for adults responders across the country, the bill truck the books to a landfill or recy- and for children. Our tax code should authorizes a new, permanent COPS cling center. not encourage the destruction of per- Overtime Program. This initiative, While there are provisions in the cur- fectly good books while schools, librar- funded at up to $150 million per year rent law where a larger deduction is ies, and literacy programs go begging for 6 years, will help ease the homeland available for the donation of excess for them. security burdens faced by police de- books, many companies have found The Senate is already on record in partments across the country by reim- that the complexity and uncertainty of unanimous support of this bill. During the floor debate on the Economic bursing local police departments for dealing with the requirements, regula- Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation the homeland security overtime ex- tions, and possible Internal Revenue Act of 2001, I offered this proposal as an penses they incur. I was pleased that Service challenges of the higher deduc- amendment, which was accepted with- the Appropriations Committee in- tion serve as a real disincentive to out opposition. Unfortunately, the pro- cluded a 1-year, $60 million version of making a contribution. vision was dropped in the conference this program in the recently-passed This is a sad situation, when one con- with the House. Moreover, the Finance omnibus appropriations bill. The per- siders that many, if not most, of these Committee has also approved this pro- manent COPS Overtime Program in books would be warmly welcomed by vision, having included it in S. 476, the this bill builds on that appropriations schools, libraries, and literacy pro- CARE Act, which is currently pending provision. grams. The heart of the problem is that on the Senate calendar. The legislation also provides funding The Joint Committee on Taxation es- under the current law, the higher de- for new technologies, so law enforce- timates this provision would decrease duction requires that the donated ment can have access to the latest revenues to the Treasury by $283 mil- books be used only for the care of the high-tech crime fighting equipment to lion over a ten-year period. This esti- needy, the sick, or infants. This re- keep pace with today’s sophisticated mate helps demonstrate the extent of criminals. Also included are funds to quirement makes it difficult for the value of the books that are cur- help local district attorneys hire more schools to qualify as donees and also rently being discarded that could be community prosecutors. These pros- frequently prohibits libraries and adult utilized to help America’s adults and ecutors will expand the community literacy programs from receiving such children. justice concept and engage the entire deductions. This is because these I hope our colleagues will join us in community in preventing and fighting schools, libraries, and literacy pro- supporting this bill. It is wrong for our crime. The statistics we have on com- grams often serve those who are not tax code to encourage book publishers munity prosecutions are quite prom- needy or are over the age of 18. Further to send books to the landfill instead of ising, and we should increase the funds complicating the issue, the valuation to the library. Let’s correct this prob- available to local prosecutors, a piece of donated book inventory has been the lem. of our criminal justice puzzle that has subject of ongoing disputes between I ask unanimous consent that the too often gone overlooked. taxpayers and the IRS. The tax code text of the bill be printed in the I would like to thank the men and should not contain obstacles that pro- RECORD. women of law enforcement for their vide disincentives to charitable dona- There being no objection, the bill was service and heroism during these dif- tions of books that can enhance learn- ordered to be printed in the RECORD, as ficult times. They are up to the chal- ing. follows: lenge, but we should support them any The bill I am introducing today ad- S. 680 way we can. The bill I introduced today dresses the obstacles of donating excess Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep- gives local police the support they de- book inventory by providing a simple resentatives of the United States of America in serve. I look forward to working with and clear rule whereby any donation of Congress assembled,

VerDate Dec 13 2002 01:26 Mar 22, 2003 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00070 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A20MR6.101 S20PT2 March 20, 2003 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S4179 SECTION 1. CHARITABLE DEDUCTION FOR CON- SUBMITTED RESOLUTIONS port their efforts, as well as the men and TRIBUTIONS OF BOOK INVEN- women of civilian national security agencies TORIES. who are participating in the military oper- (a) IN GENERAL.—Section 170(e)(3) of the In- SENATE RESOLUTION 95—COM- ations in the Persian Gulf region, for their ternal Revenue Code of 1986 (relating to cer- MENDING THE PRESIDENT AND professional excellence, dedicated patriotism and exemplary bravery; tain contributions of ordinary income and THE ARMED FORCES OF THE (3) commends and expresses the gratitude capital gain property) is amended by redesig- UNITED STATES OF AMERICA of the Nation to the family members of sol- nating subparagraph (C) as subparagraph (D) Mr. FRIST (for himself, Mr. DASCHLE, diers, sailors, airmen, Marines and civilians and by inserting after subparagraph (B) the Mr. WARNER, Mr. LEVIN, Mr. MCCON- serving in operations against Iraq who have following new subparagraph: NELL, Mr. REID, Mr. AKAKA, Mr. ALEX- borne the burden of sacrifice and separation ‘‘(C) SPECIAL RULE FOR CONTRIBUTIONS OF from their loves ones; ANDER, Mr. ALLARD, Mr. ALLEN, Mr. BOOK INVENTORY FOR EDUCATIONAL PUR- (4) expresses its deep condolences to the BAUCUS, Mr. BAYH, Mr. BENNETT, Mr. POSES.— families of brave Americans who have lost ‘‘(i) CONTRIBUTIONS OF BOOK INVENTORY.—In BIDEN, Mr. BINGAMAN, Mr. BOND, Mrs. their lives in this noble undertaking, over determining whether a qualified book con- BOXER, Mr. BREAUX, Mr. BROWNBACK, many years, against Iraq; tribution is a qualified contribution, sub- Mr. BUNNING, Mr. BURNS, Mr. CAMP- (5) joins all Americans in remembering paragraph (A) shall be applied without re- BELL, Ms. CANTWELL, Mr. CARPER, Mr. those who lost their lives during Operation gard to whether— CHAFEE, Mr. CHAMBLISS, Mrs. CLINTON, Desert Shield and Operation Desert Storm in 1991, those still missing from that conflict, ‘‘(I) the donee is an organization described Mr. COCHRAN, Mr. COLEMAN, Ms. COL- including Captain Scott Speicher, USN, and in the matter preceding clause (i) of subpara- LINS, Mr. CONRAD, Mr. CORNYN, Mr. the thousands of Americans who have lost graph (A), and CORZINE, Mr. CRAIG, Mr. CRAPO, Mr. their lives in terrorist attacks over the ‘‘(II) the property is to be used by the DAYTON, Mr. DEWINE, Mr. DODD, Mrs. years, and in the Global War on Terrorism; donee solely for the care of the ill, the needy, DOLE, Mr. DOMENICI, Mr. DORGAN, Mr. and or infants. DURBIN, Mr. EDWARDS, Mr. ENSIGN, Mr. (6) expresses sincere gratitude to British ‘‘(ii) AMOUNT OF REDUCTION.—Notwith- ENZI, Mr. FEINGOLD, Mrs. FEINSTEIN, Prime Minister Tony Blair and his govern- standing subparagraph (B), the amount of Mr. FITZGERALD, Mr. GRAHAM of Flor- ment for their courageous and steadfast sup- the reduction determined under paragraph port, as well as gratitude to other allied na- ida, Mr. GRAHAM of South Carolina, Mr. (1)(A) shall not exceed the amount by which tions for their military support, logistical the fair market value of the contributed GRASSLEY, Mr. GREGG, Mr. HAGEL, Mr. support, and other assistance in the cam- property (as determined by the taxpayer HARKIN, Mr. HATCH, Mr. HOLLINGS, Mrs. paign against Saddam Hussein’s regime. HUTCHISON, Mr. INHOFE, Mr. INOUYE, using a bona fide published market price for f such book) exceeds twice the basis of such Mr. JEFFORDS, Mr. JOHNSON, Mr. KEN- property. NEDY, Mr. KERRY, Mr. KOHL, Mr. KYL, SENATE RESOLUTION 96—TO EX- ‘‘(iii) QUALIFIED BOOK CONTRIBUTION.—For Ms. LANDRIEU, Mr. LAUTENBERG, Mr. PRESS THE SENSE OF THE SEN- purposes of this paragraph, the term ‘quali- LEAHY, Mr. LIEBERMAN, Mrs. LINCOLN, ATE THAT THE FEDERAL IN- fied book contribution’ means a charitable Mr. LOTT, Mr. LUGAR, Mr. MCCAIN, Ms. VESTMENT IN PROGRAMS THAT contribution of books, but only if the re- MIKULSKI, Mr. MILLER, Ms. MURKOWSKI, PROVIDE HEALTH CARE SERV- quirements of clauses (iv) and (v) are met. Mrs. MURRAY, Mr. NELSON of Florida, ICES TO UNINSURED AND LOW- ‘‘(iv) IDENTITY OF DONEE.—The requirement Mr. NELSON of Nebraska, Mr. NICKLES, INCOME INDIVIDUALS IN MEDI- of this clause is met if the contribution is to Mr. PRYOR, Mr. REED, Mr. ROBERTS, CALLY UNDERSERVED AREAS BE an organization— Mr. ROCKEFELLER, Mr. SANTORUM, Mr. INCREASED IN ORDER TO DOU- ‘‘(I) described in subclause (I) or (III) of SARBANES, Mr. SCHUMER, Mr. SESSIONS, BLE ACCESS TO HEALTH CARE paragraph (6)(B)(i), or OVER THE NEXT 5 YEARS ‘‘(II) described in section 501(c)(3) and ex- Mr. SHELBY, Mr. SMITH, Ms. SNOWE, Mr. empt from tax under section 501(a) (other SPECTER, Ms. STABENOW, Mr. STEVENS, Mr. BOND (for himself and Mr. HOL- than a private foundation, as defined in sec- Mr. SUNUNU, Mr. TALENT, Mr. THOMAS, LINGS) submitted the following resolu- tion 509(a), which is not an operating founda- Mr. VOINOVICH, and Mr. WYDEN) sub- tion; which was referred to the Com- tion, as defined in section 4942(j)(3)), which is mitted the following resolution; which mittee on Appropriations. organized primarily to make books available was considered and agreed to: S. RES. 96 to the general public at no cost or to operate S. RES. 95 Whereas the uninsured population in the a literacy program. Whereas Saddam Hussein has failed to United States is approximately 43,000,000 and ‘‘(v) CERTIFICATION BY DONEE.—The require- comply with United Nations Security Coun- is estimated to reach over 53,000,000 people ment of this clause is met if, in addition to cil Resolutions 678, 686, 687, 688, 707, 715, 949, by 2007; the certifications required by subparagraph 1051, 1060, 1115, 1134, 1137, 1154, 1194, 1205, 1284, Whereas nearly 80 percent of the uninsured (A) (as modified by this subparagraph), the and 1441; population are members of working families donee certifies in writing that— Whereas the military action now underway who cannot afford health insurance or can- ‘‘(I) the books are suitable, in terms of cur- against Iraq is lawful and fully authorized by not access employer-provided health insur- rency, content, and quantity, for use in the the Congress in Sec. 3(a) of Public Law 107– ance plans; donee’s educational programs, and 243, which passed the Senate on October 10, Whereas minority populations, rural resi- ‘‘(II) the donee will use the books in its 2002, by a vote of 77–23, and which passed the dents, and single-parent families represent a educational programs. House of Representatives on that same date disproportionate number of the uninsured ‘‘(vi) BONA FIDE PUBLISHED MARKET PRICE.— by a vote of 296–133; population; For purposes of this subparagraph, the term Whereas more than 225,000 men and women Whereas the problem of health care access ‘bona fide published market price’ means, of the United States Armed Forces are now for the uninsured population is compounded with respect to any book, a price— involved in conflict against Iraq; in many urban and rural communities by a ‘‘(I) determined using the same printing Whereas over 200,000 members of the Re- lack of providers who are available to serve both insured and uninsured populations; and edition, serves and National Guard have been called to active duty for the conflict against Iraq Whereas community, migrant, homeless, ‘‘(II) determined in the usual market in and other purposes; and and public housing health centers have prov- which such a book has been customarily sold Whereas the Senate and the American peo- en uniquely qualified to address the lack of by the taxpayer, and ple have the greatest pride in the men and adequate health care services for uninsured ‘‘(III) for which the taxpayer can dem- women of the United States Armed Forces, populations, serving more than 5,000,000 un- onstrate to the satisfaction of the Secretary and the civilian personnel supporting them, insured patients in 2002; that the taxpayer customarily sold such and strongly support them in their efforts; Whereas health centers care for nearly books in arm’s length transactions within 7 Now, therefore, be it 14,000,000 patients, including nearly 9,000,000 years preceding the contribution of such a Resolved That the Senate— minorities, nearly 850,000 farmworkers, and book.’’. (1) commends and supports the efforts and almost 750,000 homeless individuals each (b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments leadership of the President, as Commander year; made by this section shall apply to contribu- in Chief, in the conflict against Iraq; Whereas health centers provide cost-effec- (2) commends, and expresses the gratitude tive comprehensive primary and preventive tions made after the date of the enactment of the Nation to all members of the United care to uninsured individuals for nearly $1.00 of this Act. States Armed Forces (whether on active per day, or $425 annually, and help to reduce duty, in the National Guard, or in the Re- the inappropriate use of costly emergency serves) and the civilian employees who sup- rooms and inpatient hospital care;

VerDate Dec 13 2002 01:26 Mar 22, 2003 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00071 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A20MR6.083 S20PT2 S4180 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE March 20, 2003 Whereas current resources only allow get prenatal care so she does not risk Whereas the Commission is designating health centers to serve 12 percent of the Na- her health and the baby’s health by September 2004 as ‘‘American Jewish History tion’s 43,000,000 uninsured individuals; waiting until late in the pregnancy. Month’’: Now, therefore, be it Whereas past investments to increase The REACH initiative will help make Resolved by the Senate (the House of Rep- health center access have resulted in better sure that a 6-year-old boy who is living resentatives concurring), That Congress— health, an improved quality of life for all (1) recognizes— Americans, and a reduction in national in a deep rural Missouri community, a (A) the 350th anniversary of the American health care expenditures; community that otherwise would not Jewish community; and Whereas Congress has already begun to in- have any health care providers at all, (B) ‘‘The Commission for Commemorating crease access to health care services for un- has a place to get regular checkups so 350 Years of American Jewish History’’ and insured and low-income people in advance of he can stay healthy at home and in its efforts to plan, coordinate, and execute health care coverage proposals by expanding school. commemorative events celebrating 350 years the availability of services at community, The REACH initiative will help make of American Jewish history; migrant, homeless, and public housing sure a young couple without any place (2) supports the designation of an ‘‘Amer- health centers; and to go will be able to get their infant ican Jewish History Month’’; and Whereas the President has proposed to daughter immunized to protect her (3) urges all Americans to share in this double the number of people served by health from a variety of dreaded disease. commemoration so as to have a greater ap- centers: Now, therefore, be it These Americans, and millions like preciation of the role the American Jewish Resolved, community has had in helping to defend and them, are the reasons why we must further the liberties and freedom of all SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. make the REACH Initiative a reality. I This resolution may be cited as the ‘‘Reso- Americans. invite my colleagues to join me as a lution to Expand Access to Community f Health Centers (REACH) Initiative’’. cosponsor of this resolution. If we work SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLU- SEC. 2. SENSE OF THE SENATE. together, we can make a difference and It is the sense of the Senate that appro- deliver care to those who are in the TION 26—CONDEMNING THE PUN- priations for consolidated health centers greatest need. ISHMENT OF EXECUTION BY under section 330 of the Public Health Serv- f STONING AS A GROSS VIOLA- ice Act (42 U.S.C. 254b) should be increased TION OF HUMAN RIGHTS, AND by 100 percent over 5 fiscal years, ending in SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLU- FOR OTHER PURPOSES 2006, in order to double the number of indi- TION 25—RECOGNIZING AND HON- viduals who receive health care services at ORING AMERICA’S JEWISH COM- Ms. LANDRIEU (for herself, Mr. community, migrant, homeless, and public MUNITY ON THE OCCASION OF HAGEL, Mr. JOHNSON, Mr. DASCHLE, Mr. housing health centers. ITS 350TH ANNIVERSARY, SUP- LEAHY, Mr. SPECTER, Mr. BINGAMAN, Mr. BOND. Mr. President, I rise PORTING THE DESIGNATION OF Mr. INOUYE, and Mr. BREAUX) sub- today to introduce important legisla- AN ‘‘AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY mitted the following concurrent resolu- tion, the Resolution to Expand Access MONTH’’, AND FOR OTHER PUR- tion; which was referred to the Com- to Community Health Centers, or the POSES mittee on Foreign Relations: REACH Initiative. This resolution will Mr. VOINOVICH (for himself and Mr. S. CON. RES. 26 continue to expand access to health DEWINE) submitted the following con- Whereas execution by stoning is an excep- care for the medically underserved by current resolution; which was referred tionally cruel form of punishment that vio- doubling funding for our nation’s com- to the Committee on the Judiciary: lates internationally accepted standards of munity health centers. I am joined in human rights, including those set forth in S. CON. RES. 25 this effort by my good friend from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Whereas in 1654, Jewish refugees from the International Covenant on Civil and Po- South Carolina, Sen. HOLLINGS. Brazil arrived on North American shores and litical Rights, and the Convention Against The goal of the REACH Initiative is formally established North America’s first Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or De- simple—to make sure more people have Jewish community in New Amsterdam, now grading Treatment or Punishment; access to health care. During the last New York City; Whereas women around the world continue session of Congress we set out an ambi- Whereas America welcomed Jews among to be targeted disproportionately for cruel, tious plan to double the federal funding the millions of immigrants that streamed discriminatory, and inhuman punishments for community health centers by 2006. through our Nation’s history; by governments that refuse to protect equal- Congress responded by increasing the Whereas the waves of Jewish immigrants ly the rights of all their citizens; funding for the program and now we arriving in America helped shape our Nation; Whereas the brutal sentence of execution Whereas the American Jewish community by stoning is pronounced in many countries are calling on Congress to continue has been intimately involved in our Nation’s on women who have been accused of adul- this effort and complete the doubling civic, social, economic, and cultural life; tery, a charge that is brought even against plan. Whereas the American Jewish community victims of coerced prostitution or rape; Health centers are already helping has sought to actualize the broad principles Whereas in some places execution by ston- millions of Americans get health care. of liberty and justice that are enshrined in ing has been invoked as punishment for But they can still help millions more— the Constitution of the United States; ‘‘blasphemy,’’ thereby suppressing religious pregnant women, children, and anyone Whereas the American Jewish community freedom and diversity and stifling political else who desperately needs care. The is an equal participant in the religious life of dissent; our Nation; Whereas, in July 2002, Amnesty Inter- REACH Initiative will allow another 10 Whereas American Jews have fought val- national referred to execution by stoning as million women, children, and others in iantly for the United States in every one of ‘‘a method specifically designed to increase need to receive care at health centers our Nation’s military struggles, from the the victim’s suffering’’; by 2006. And since we began this effort, American Revolution to Operation Enduring Whereas, in 2002, the European Union, the we’ve already increased the number of Freedom; Secretary General of the Council of Europe, health center patients by nearly 3 mil- Whereas not less than 16 American Jews the Government of Australia, the Minister of lion, and increased federal funding by have received the Medal of Honor; Foreign Affairs and Trade of New Zealand, nearly 30 percent. We’re on track, we Whereas 2004 marks the 350th anniversary the President of Mexico, the Congress of of the American Jewish community; Deputies of Spain, and other world leaders just need to stay there; and that’s just Whereas the Library of Congress, the Na- all condemned execution by stoning and what this resolution will do—keep us tional Archives and Records Administration, called for clemency for individuals sentenced on track to double this important pro- the American Jewish Historical Society, and to stoning; and gram. the Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the Amer- Whereas, according to the Country Reports Simply put, we must achieve the goal ican Jewish Archives have formed ‘‘The on Human Rights Practices of the Depart- of the REACH initiative—and we can Commission for Commemorating 350 Years of ment of State, the sentence of execution by and should make it happen. American Jewish History’’ (referred to in stoning continues to be imposed in several Let me close with what this initia- this resolution as the ‘‘Commission’’) to countries: Now, therefore, be it tive means in human terms. mark this historic milestone; Resolved by the Senate (the House of Rep- Whereas the Commission will use the com- resentatives concurring), That Congress— The REACH initiative will help make bined resources of its participants to pro- (1) condemns the practice of execution by sure that a young woman who has just mote the celebration of the Jewish experi- stoning as a gross violation of human rights found out she is pregnant but does not ence in the United States throughout 2004; and appeals to the international community have health insurance has a place to and to end the practice;

VerDate Dec 13 2002 01:26 Mar 22, 2003 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00072 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A20MR6.085 S20PT2 March 20, 2003 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S4181 (2) requests the President formally to com- the United States International Trade Com- to the concurrent resolution S. Con. Res. 23, municate this resolution to governments mission, proclaimed temporary tariff in- supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. that permit this cruel punishment and to creases and tariff-rate quotas on certain SA 303. Mrs. CLINTON submitted an urge the termination of execution by ston- steel imports; amendment intended to be proposed by her ing; and Whereas neither the President nor the to the concurrent resolution S. Con. Res. 23, (3) requests the President to direct the United States International Trade Commis- supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. Secretary of State to work with the inter- sion could have fully anticipated the positive SA 304. Mrs. CLINTON submitted an national community to promote adherence or negative effects of the temporary safe- amendment intended to be proposed by her to international standards of human rights guards proclaimed on March 5, 2002; to the concurrent resolution S. Con. Res. 23, and repeal laws that permit execution by Whereas steel-consuming manufacturers supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. stoning. and fabricators across the United States SA 305. Mrs. CLINTON submitted an Ms. LANDRIEU. Mr. President, I rise have reported that the safeguard tariffs and amendment intended to be proposed by her today to submit a Concurrent Resolu- tariff-rate quotas have contributed to sub- to the concurrent resolution S. Con. Res. 23, stantial price increases, disrupted the avail- supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. tion to condemn executions by stoning. SA 306. Mrs. CLINTON submitted an Death by stoning is an exceptionally ability of input steel, and negatively im- pacted the ability of the manufacturers and amendment intended to be proposed by her cruel form of execution. It violates fabricators to compete in the global market- to the concurrent resolution S. Con. Res. 23, internationally accepted standards of place; supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. human rights, including the Universal Whereas ports of entry across the United SA 307. Mr. BINGAMAN submitted an Declaration of Human Rights and the States have experienced losses of revenue as amendment intended to be proposed by him UN Convention Against Torture. Am- a result of the tariff increases and the tariff- to the concurrent resolution S. Con. Res. 23, nesty International has noted that rate quotas; supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. Whereas both a strong domestic steel in- SA 308. Mr. BINGAMAN (for himself, Mr. stoning is ‘‘a method specifically de- LUGAR, Mrs. LINCOLN, Mr. CORZINE, Ms. signed to increase the victim’s suf- dustry and a strong domestic manufacturing base are vital to our national defense and LANDRIEU, and Mrs. MURRAY) submitted an fering.’’ Unfortunately, the laws of economic security; and amendment intended to be proposed by him Iran, Pakistan, Malaysia, Nigeria, and Whereas section 204 of the Trade Act of to the concurrent resolution S. Con. Res. 23, several other countries permit this 1974 requires that the United States Inter- supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. cruel and unusual punishment. It must national Trade Commission ‘‘shall monitor SA 309. Mr. BINGAMAN submitted an be eliminated from every corner of the developments with respect to the domestic amendment intended to be proposed by him to the concurrent resolution S. Con. Res. 23, globe. industry, including the progress and specific efforts made by workers and firms in the do- supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. As those who work on women’s issues SA 310. Mr. REED (for himself, Ms. COL- have learned all too well, women mestic industry to make a positive adjust- ment to import competition’’; and LINS, Mr. KERRY, Mr. KENNEDY, Mr. CORZINE, around the world are subjected dis- Whereas the United States International Mr. SARBANES, Mr. LEAHY, Ms. CANTWELL, proportionately to cruel, discrimina- Trade Commission is required to submit a re- Ms. MIKULSKI, Mrs. CLINTON, Mr. ROCKE- tory, and inhuman punishments. Fre- port on this monitoring to the President and FELLER, Mr. EDWARDS, Mr. JEFFORDS, Mr. quently their governments cannot or Congress not later than September 20, 2003: DASCHLE, Mr. SCHUMER, Mr. LAUTENBERG, will not provide equal protection of the Now, therefore, be it Ms. LANDRIEU, Mr. BINGAMAN, Mr. REID, Mr. DODD, Mr. LEVIN, Mr. PRYOR, Mr. DAYTON, law to all their citizens—especially Resolved by the Senate (the House of Rep- Mr. HARKIN, and Mr. DORGAN) submitted an women and girls. In several countries, resentatives concurring), That Congress— (1) recognizes that a strong domestic steel amendment intended to be proposed by him women can be sentenced to execution industry and a strong domestic manufac- to the concurrent resolution S. Con. Res. 23, by stoning for ‘‘adultery,’’ even in turing base are vital to national defense and supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. cases of coerced prostitution or rape. economic security; and SA 311. Mr. KENNEDY (for himself, Mr. In some places, stoning has been in- (2) urges the President to request the DODD, Mr. DASCHLE, Mr. FEINGOLD, Mr. voked as punishment for ‘‘blasphemy,’’ United States International Trade Commis- BINGAMAN, Mrs. MURRAY, Mr. REED, and Ms. suppressing religious freedom and sti- sion, in addition to fulfilling the monitoring CANTWELL) submitted an amendment in- tended to be proposed by him to the concur- fling political dissent. and reporting requirements under section 204 of the Trade Act of 1974, to monitor and re- rent resolution S. Con. Res. 23, supra; which The Concurrent Resolution which I was ordered to lie on the table. have introduced would condemn execu- port on the impact that temporary tariff in- creases and tariff-rate quotas on certain SA 312. Mr. LAUTENBERG submitted an tion by stoning, appeal for an end to steel imports have had on steel-consuming amendment intended to be proposed by him the practice, and request the President industries and ports of entry in the United to the concurrent resolution S. Con. Res. 23, to urge other nations’ governments to States. supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 313. Mr. BYRD submitted an amend- terminate that cruel form of execution. f If adopted by the Senate, this measure, ment intended to be proposed by him to the concurrent resolution S. Con. Res. 23, supra; together with Concurrent Resolution 26 AMENDMENTS SUBMITTED & PROPOSED which was ordered to lie on the table. just passed unanimously by the House, SA 314. Mr. INHOFE submitted an amend- would put both houses of Congress on SA 298. Ms. CANTWELL submitted an ment intended to be proposed by him to the the record as firmly opposing stonings. amendment intended to be proposed by her concurrent resolution S. Con. Res. 23, supra; I urge my colleagues to join the eight to the concurrent resolution S. Con. Res. 23, which was ordered to lie on the table. original co-sponsors and me in sup- setting forth the congressional budget for SA 315. Mr. KENNEDY (for himself, Mr. the United States Governments for fiscal porting this humanitarian measure. SARBANES, Mr. REED, Mr. DURBIN, Mrs. CLIN- year 2004 and including the appropriate budg- TON, and Ms. CANTWELL) submitted an f etary levels for fiscal year 2003 and for fiscal amendment intended to be proposed by him SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLU- years 2005 through 2013; which was ordered to to the concurrent resolution S. Con. Res. 23, lie on the table. TION 27—URGING THE PRESI- supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 299. Mr. SCHUMER (for himself, Mrs. SA 316. Mrs. MURRAY (for herself, Mr. DENT TO REQUEST THE UNITED CLINTON, Mr. DASCHLE, Mr. FEINGOLD, Mr. KENNEDY, and Mr. HARKIN) submitted an LEAHY, Mr. BINGAMAN, Mrs. MURRAY, Mr. STATES INTERNATIONAL TRADE amendment intended to be proposed by her LIEBERMAN, Mr. KENNEDY, Mr. LAUTENBERG, COMMISSION TO TAKE CERTAIN to the concurrent resolution S. Con. Res. 23, Mr. SARBANES, Mr. HARKIN, Ms. MIKULSKI, ACTIONS WITH RESPECT TO THE supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. Mr. LEVIN, Mr. KERRY, Mr. CORZINE, Mr. TEMPORARY SAFEGUARDS ON SA 317. Mr. CRAPO submitted an amend- DURBIN, Mr. BIDEN, Mrs. BOXER, and Ms. ment intended to be proposed by him to the IMPORTS OF CERTAIN STEEL STABENOW) proposed an amendment to the PRODUCTS, AND FOR OTHER concurrent resolution S. Con. Res. 23, supra. concurrent resolution S. Con. Res. 23, supra; PURPOSES SA 300. Mr. LAUTENBERG (for himself and which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 318. Mr. LEAHY (for himself, Mr. Mr. BOND (for himself, Ms. Mr. SCHUMER) submitted an amendment in- tended to be proposed by him to the concur- DASCHLE, Mr. REID, Mr. BIDEN, Mr. SCHUMER, LANDRIEU, Mr. HAGEL, and Mr. FITZ- rent resolution S. Con. Res. 23, supra; which Mrs. CLINTON, and Mr. DAYTON) submitted an GERALD) submitted the following con- was ordered to lie on the table. amendment intended to be proposed by him current resolution; which was referred SA 301. Ms. LANDRIEU submitted an to the concurrent resolution S. Con. Res. 23, to the Committee on Finance: amendment intended to be proposed by her supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. to the concurrent resolution S. Con. Res. 23, SA 319. Mr. LEVIN submitted an amend- S. CON. RES. 27 supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. ment intended to be proposed by him to the Whereas, on March 5, 2002, the President, SA 302. Mrs. CLINTON submitted an concurrent resolution S. Con. Res. 23, supra; upon investigation and recommendation by amendment intended to be proposed by her which was ordered to lie on the table.

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SA 320. Mr. LAUTENBERG submitted an concurrent resolution S. Con. Res. 23, supra; SA 358. Mr. BOND (for himself, Mr. REID, amendment intended to be proposed by him which was ordered to lie on the table. Mr. INHOFE , Mr. JEFFORDS, Mr. SHELBY, Mr. to the concurrent resolution S. Con. Res. 23, SA 339. Mr. BREAUX (for himself, Ms. SARBANES, Mr. BYRD, Mrs. MURRAY, Mr. supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SNOWE, Mr. BAUCUS, and Mr. VOINOVICH) sub- CHAFEE, Mr. WARNER, Mr. SPECTER, Ms. MUR- SA 321. Mr. SCHUMER (for himself and mitted an amendment intended to be pro- KOWSKI, Mr. LOTT, Ms. COLLINS, Mr. REED, Mrs. CLINTON) submitted an amendment in- posed by him to the concurrent resolution S. Mrs. FEINSTEIN, Mr. LEVIN, Mr. BROWNBACK, tended to be proposed by him to the concur- Con. Res. 23, supra. and Mr. NELSON, of Nebraska) submitted an rent resolution S. Con. Res. 23, supra; which SA 340. Mr. KOHL submitted an amend- amendment intended to be proposed by him was ordered to lie on the table. ment intended to be proposed by him to the to the concurrent resolution S. Con. Res. 23, SA 322. Mr. FEINGOLD (for himself and concurrent resolution S. Con. Res. 23, supra; supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. Mr. HARKIN) submitted an amendment in- which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 359. Mr. LEVIN submitted an amend- tended to be proposed by him to the concur- SA 341. Mr. REID submitted an amendment ment intended to be proposed by him to the rent resolution S. Con. Res. 23, supra; which intended to be proposed by him to the con- concurrent resolution S. Con. Res. 23, supra; was ordered to lie on the table. current resolution S. Con. Res. 23, supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 323. Mr. DORGAN submitted an amend- which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 360. Ms. LANDRIEU (for herself and Mr. ment intended to be proposed by him to the SA 342. Mr. REID submitted an amendment KENNEDY) submitted an amendment intended concurrent resolution S. Con. Res. 23, supra; intended to be proposed by him to the con- to be proposed by her to the concurrent reso- which was ordered to lie on the table. current resolution S. Con. Res. 23, supra; lution S. Con. Res. 23, supra; which was or- SA 324. Mrs. LINCOLN (for herself, Ms. which was ordered to lie on the table. dered to lie on the table. LANDRIEU, and Mr. PRYOR) submitted an SA 343. Mr. HOLLINGS (for himself, Mrs. SA 361. Mr. DASCHLE submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by her BOXER, Mr. SARBANES, and Mrs. FEINSTEIN) amendment intended to be proposed by him to the concurrent resolution S. Con. Res. 23, submitted an amendment intended to be pro- to the concurrent resolution S. Con. Res. 23, supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. posed by him to the concurrent resolution S. supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 325. Mrs. CLINTON (for herself, Mr. Con. Res. 23, supra; which was ordered to lie SA 362. Ms. COLLINS (for herself, Mr. SCHUMER, and Mr. DODD) submitted an on the table. REED, Mr. BOND, and Ms. MIKULSKI) sub- SA 344. Mr. LAUTENBERG submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by her mitted an amendment intended to be pro- amendment intended to be proposed by him to the concurrent resolution S. Con. Res. 23, posed by her to the concurrent resolution S. to the concurrent resolution S. Con. Res. 23, supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. Con. Res. 23, supra; which was ordered to lie SA 326. Mr. LEVIN (for himself and Mr. supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. on the table. HATCH) submitted an amendment intended to SA 345. Mr. LAUTENBERG submitted an SA 363. Mr. DASCHLE (for himself, Mr. be proposed by him to the concurrent resolu- amendment intended to be proposed by him INOUYE, Mr. BINGAMAN, Mr. DORGAN, Mrs. tion S. Con. Res. 23, supra; which was or- to the concurrent resolution S. Con. Res. 23, MURRAY, Mr. WYDEN, Mr. JOHNSON, Mr. dered to lie on the table. supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 327. Mr. LEVIN submitted an amend- SA 346. Mr. LAUTENBERG submitted an LEAHY, Ms. CANTWELL , Mr. REID, Mr. KEN- ment intended to be proposed by him to the amendment intended to be proposed by him NEDY, and Mr. LIEBERMAN) submitted an concurrent resolution S. Con. Res. 23, supra; to the concurrent resolution S. Con. Res. 23, amendment intended to be proposed by him which was ordered to lie on the table. supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. to the concurrent resolution S. Con. Res. 23, SA 328. Mr. WYDEN (for himself, Mr. KYL, SA 347. Mr. LUGAR (for himself, Mrs. FEIN- supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. Mr. BINGAMAN, Mrs. MURRAY, Mr. JOHNSON, STEIN, Mr. DEWINE, Mr. HAGEL, Mr. CHAFEE, SA 364. Mr. LAUTENBERG (for himself and Mr. KERRY, and Mrs. FEINSTEIN) submitted Mr. SMITH, Mr. JEFFORDS, and Mr. KENNEDY) Mr. BYRD) submitted an amendment in- an amendment intended to be proposed by submitted an amendment intended to be pro- tended to be proposed by him to the concur- him to the concurrent resolution S. Con. posed by him to the concurrent resolution S. rent resolution S. Con. Res. 23, supra; which Res. 23, supra; which was ordered to lie on Con. Res. 23, supra; which was ordered to lie was ordered to lie on the table. the table. on the table. SA 365. Mr. MCCONNELL submitted an SA 329. Mr. DORGAN submitted an amend- SA 348. Mr. BAUCUS submitted an amend- amendment intended to be proposed by him ment intended to be proposed by him to the ment intended to be proposed by him to the to the concurrent resolution S. Con. Res. 23, concurrent resolution S. Con. Res. 23, supra; concurrent resolution S. Con. Res. 23, supra; supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. which was ordered to lie on the table. which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 366. Mrs. MURRAY (for herself and Mr. SA 330. Mr. CARPER (for himself, Mr. SA 349. Ms. MIKULSKI (for herself, Ms. LEAHY) submitted an amendment intended to CHAFEE, and Mrs. FEINSTEIN) submitted an LANDRIEU, Mrs. CLINTON, Mrs. MURRAY, Mr. be proposed by her to the concurrent resolu- amendment intended to be proposed by him KENNEDY, Mr. SARBANES, and Mr. JOHNSON) tion S. Con. Res. 23, supra; which was or- to the concurrent resolution S. Con. Res. 23, submitted an amendment intended to be pro- dered to lie on the table. supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. posed by her to the concurrent resolution S. SA 367. Mr. CORZINE (for himself, Mr. SA 331. Mr. CORZINE (for himself, Mr. Con. Res. 23, supra; which was ordered to lie KERRY, Mr. LAUTENBERG, Mrs. MURRAY, Mrs. KERRY, Mr. LAUTENBERG, Mrs. MURRAY, Mrs. on the table. CLINTON, and Mr. JEFFORDS) submitted an CLINTON, and Mr. JEFFORDS) submitted an SA 350. Mrs. CLINTON (for herself and Ms. amendment intended to be proposed by him amendment intended to be proposed by him COLLINS) submitted an amendment intended to the concurrent resolution S. Con. Res. 23, to the concurrent resolution S. Con. Res. 23, to be proposed by her to the concurrent reso- supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. lution S. Con. Res. 23, supra; which was or- f SA 332. Mr. CORZINE submitted an amend- dered to lie on the table. ment intended to be proposed by him to the SA 351. Mr. SCHUMER submitted an TEXT OF AMENDMENTS concurrent resolution S. Con. Res. 23, supra; amendment intended to be proposed by him SA 298. Ms. CANTWELL submitted which was ordered to lie on the table. to the concurrent resolution S. Con. Res. 23, an amendment intended to be proposed SA 333. Mr. HOLLINGS submitted an supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. by her to the concurrent resolution S. amendment intended to be proposed by him SA 352. Mr. SCHUMER submitted an to the concurrent resolution S. Con. Res. 23, amendment intended to be proposed by him Con. Res. 23, setting forth the congres- supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. to the concurrent resolution S. Con. Res. 23, sional budget for the United States SA 334. Mr. DODD (for himself and Mr. supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. Governments for fiscal year 2004 and KENNEDY) submitted an amendment intended SA 353. Mr. SMITH (for himself and Mrs. including the appropriate budgetary to be proposed by him to the concurrent res- CLINTON) submitted an amendment intended levels for fiscal year 2003 and for fiscal olution S. Con. Res. 23, supra; which was or- to be proposed by him to the concurrent res- years 2005 through 2013; which was or- dered to lie on the table. olution S. Con. Res. 23, supra; which was or- dered to lie on the table; as follows: SA 335. Mr. BINGAMAN (for himself, Mr. dered to lie on the table. KERRY, Mr. DODD, Mr. DASCHLE, Mr. KEN- SA 354. Mr. DEWINE submitted an amend- On page 3, line 10, increase the amount by NEDY, Mr. ROCKEFELLER, and Mr. CORZINE) ment intended to be proposed by him to the $174,000,000. submitted an amendment intended to be pro- concurrent resolution S. Con. Res. 23, supra; On page 3, line 11, increase the amount by posed by him to the concurrent resolution S. which was ordered to lie on the table. $782,000,000. Con. Res. 23, supra; which was ordered to lie SA 355. Mr. DEWINE submitted an amend- On page 3, line 12, increase the amount by on the table. ment intended to be proposed by him to the $258,000,000. SA 336. Mr. BINGAMAN submitted an concurrent resolution S. Con. Res. 23, supra; On page 3, line 13, increase the amount by amendment intended to be proposed by him which was ordered to lie on the table. $68,000,000. to the concurrent resolution S. Con. Res. 23, SA 356. Mr. GRASSLEY submitted an On page 3, line 14, increase the amount by supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. amendment intended to be proposed by him $34,000,000. SA 337. Mr. ALLARD submitted an amend- to the concurrent resolution S. Con. Res. 23, On page 3, line 15, increase the amount by ment intended to be proposed by him to the supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. $40,000,000. concurrent resolution S. Con. Res. 23, supra; SA 357. Mr. KENNEDY submitted an On page 4, line 1, increase the amount by which was ordered to lie on the table. amendment intended to be proposed by him $174,000,000. SA 338. Mr. ALLARD submitted an amend- to the concurrent resolution S. Con. Res. 23, On page 4, line 2, increase the amount by ment intended to be proposed by him to the supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. $782,000,000.

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Res. 23, setting On page 4, line 5, increase the amount by On page 6, line 21, decrease the amount by $34,000,000. $652,000,000. forth the congressional budget for the On page 4, line 6, increase the amount by On page 6, line 22, decrease the amount by United States Governments for fiscal $40,000,000. $721,000,000. year 2004 and including the appropriate On page 4, line 15, increase the amount by On page 6, line 23, decrease the amount by budgetary levels for fiscal year 2003 and $676,000,000. $777,000,000. for fiscal years 2005 through 2013; as On page 4, line 16, decrease the amount by On page 6, line 24, decrease the amount by follows: $14,000,000. $840,000,000. On page 3, line 9, increase the amount by On page 4, line 17, decrease the amount by On page 6, line 25, decrease the amount by $3,643,000,000. $29,000,000. $885,000,000. On page 3, line 10, increase the amount by On page 4, line 18, decrease the amount by On page 7, line 1, decrease the amount by $8,681,000,000. $36,000,000. $932,000,000. On page 3, line 11, increase the amount by On page 4, line 19, decrease the amount by On page 7, line 2, decrease the amount by $13,500,000,000. $39,000,000. $983,000,000. On page 3, line 12, increase the amount by On page 4, line 20, decrease the amount by On page 7, line 3, decrease the amount by $14,996,000,000. $42,000,000. $1,036,000,000. On page 3, line 13, increase the amount by On page 4, line 21, decrease the amount by On page 25, line 16, increase the amount by $15,892,000,000. $45,000,000. $678,000,000. On page 3, line 14, increase the amount by On page 4, line 22, decrease the amount by On page 25, line 17, increase the amount by $16,602,000,000. $48,000,000. $87,000,000. On page 3, line 15, increase the amount by On page 4, line 23, decrease the amount by On page 25, line 21, increase the amount by $16,769,000,000. $50,000,000. $391,000,000. On page 3, line 16, increase the amount by On page 4, line 24, decrease the amount by On page 25, line 25, increase the amount by $16,853,000,000. $53,000,000. $129,000,000. On page 3, line 17, increase the amount by On page 5, line 5, increase the amount by On page 26, line 4, increase the amount by $16,993,000,000. $85,000,000. $34,000,000. On page 3, line 18, increase the amount by On page 5, line 6, increase the amount by On page 26, line 8, increase the amount by $17,268,000,000. $377,000,000. $17,000,000. On page 3, line 19, increase the amount by On page 5, line 7, increase the amount by On page 26, line 12, increase the amount by $17,314,000,000. $100,000,000. $20,000,000. On page 3, line 23, increase the amount by On page 5, line 8, decrease the amount by On page 40, line 6, decrease the amount by $3,643,000,000. $2,000,000. $2,000,000. On page 4, line 1, increase the amount by On page 5, line 9, decrease the amount by On page 40, line 7, decrease the amount by $8,681,000,000. $22,000,000. $2,000,000. On page 4, line 2, increase the amount by On page 5, line 10, decrease the amount by On page 40, line 10, decrease the amount by $13,500,000,000. $22,000,000. $14,000,000. On page 4, line 3, increase the amount by On page 5, line 11, decrease the amount by On page 40, line 11, decrease the amount by $14,996,000,000. $45,000,000. $14,000,000. On page 4, line 4, increase the amount by On page 5, line 12, decrease the amount by On page 40, line 14, decrease the amount by $15,892,000,000. $48,000,000. $29,000,000. On page 4, line 5, increase the amount by On page 5, line 13, decrease the amount by On page 40, line 15, decrease the amount by $16,602,000,000. $50,000,000. $29,000,000. On page 4, line 6, increase the amount by On page 5, line 14, decrease the amount by On page 40, line 18, decrease the amount by $16,769,000,000. $53,000,000. $36,000,000. On page 4, line 7, increase the amount by On page 5, line 18, increase the amount by On page 40, line 19, decrease the amount by $16,853,000,000. $89,000,000. $36,000,000. On page 4, line 8, increase the amount by On page 5, line 19, increase the amount by On page 40, line 22, decrease the amount by $16,993,000,000. $455,000,000. $39,000,000. On page 5, line 20, increase the amount by On page 40, line 23, decrease the amount by On page 4, line 9, increase the amount by $158,000,000. $39,000,000. $17,268,000,000. On page 5, line 21, increase the amount by On page 41, line 2, decrease the amount by On page 4, line 10, increase the amount by $70,000,000. $42,000,000. $17,314,000,000. On page 5, line 22, increase the amount by On page 41, line 3, decrease the amount by On page 4, line 14, increase the amount by $56,000,000. $42,000,000. $4,987,000,000. On page 5, line 23, increase the amount by On page 41, line 6, decrease the amount by On page 4, line 15, increase the amount by $62,000,000. $45,000,000. $6,395,000,000. On page 5, line 24, increase the amount by On page 41, line 7, decrease the amount by On page 4, line 16, increase the amount by $45,000,000. $45,000,000. $8,189,000,000. On page 5, line 25, increase the amount by On page 41, line 10, decrease the amount by On page 4, line 17, increase the amount by $48,000,000. $48,000,000. $7,316,000,000. On page 6, line 1, increase the amount by On page 41, line 11, decrease the amount by On page 4, line 18, increase the amount by $50,000,000. $48,000,000. $7,092,000,000. On page 6, line 2, increase the amount by On page 41, line 14, decrease the amount by On page 4, line 19, increase the amount by $53,000,000. $50,000,000. $6,425,000,000. On page 6, line 6, decrease the amount by On page 41, line 15, decrease the amount by On page 4, line 20, increase the amount by $89,000,000. $50,000,000. $5,927,000,000. On page 6, line 7, decrease the amount by On page 41, line 18, decrease the amount by On page 4, line 21, increase the amount by $494,000,000. $53,000,000. $5,498,000,000. On page 6, line 8, decrease the amount by On page 41, line 19, decrease the amount by On page 4, line 22, increase the amount by $652,000,000. $53,000,000. $5,090,000,000. On page 6, line 9, decrease the amount by On page 47, line 5, increase the amount by On page 4, line 23, increase the amount by $721,000,000. $675,000,000. $4,344,000,000. On page 6, line 10, decrease the amount by On page 47, line 6, increase the amount by On page 4, line 24, increase the amount by $777,000,000. $87,000,000. $3,480,000,000. On page 6, line 11, decrease the amount by On page 47, line 15, increase the amount by On page 4, line 4, increase the amount by $840,000,000. $391,000,000. $1,809,000,000. On page 6, line 12, decrease the amount by On page 5, line 5, increase the amount by $885,000,000. SA 299. Mr. SCHUMER (for himself, $4,210,000,000. On page 6, line 13, decrease the amount by On page 5, line 6, increase the amount by Mrs. CLINTON, Mr. DASCHLE, Mr. FEIN- $932,000,000. $6,298,000,000. On page 6, line 14, decrease the amount by GOLD, Mr. LEAHY, Mr. BINGAMAN, Mrs. On page 5, line 7, increase the amount by $983,000,000. MURRAY, Mr. LIEBERMAN, Mr. KENNEDY, $6,610,000,000. On page 6, line 15, decrease the amount by Mr. LAUTENBERG, Mr. SARBANES, Mr. On page 5, line 8, increase the amount by $1,036,000,000. HARKIN, Ms. MIKULSKI, Mr. LEVIN, Mr. $6,577,000,000.

VerDate Dec 13 2002 01:26 Mar 22, 2003 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00075 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A20MR6.112 S20PT2 S4184 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE March 20, 2003 On page 5, line 9, increase the amount by On page 22, line 3, increase the amount by On page 27, line 16, increase the amount by $6,410,000,000. $1,182,000,000. $589,000,000. On page 5, line 10, increase the amount by On page 22, line 6, increase the amount by On page 27, line 19, increase the amount by $5,932,000,000. $1,550,000,000. $500,000,000. On page 5, line 11, increase the amount by On page 22, line 7, increase the amount by On page 27, line 20, increase the amount by $5,382,000,000. $1,426,000,000. $605,000,000. On page 5, line 12, increase the amount by On page 22, line 10, increase the amount by On page 27, line 23, increase the amount by $4,827,000,000. $1,550,000,000. $500,000,000. On page 5, line 13, increase the amount by On page 22, line 11, increase the amount by On page 27, line 24, increase the amount by $4,302,000,000. $1,529,000,000. $515,000,000. On page 5, line 14, increase the amount by On page 22, line 14, increase the amount by On page 28, line 2, increase the amount by $3,618,000,000. $1,550,000,000. $500,000,000. On page 5, line 17, increase the amount by On page 22, line 15, increase the amount by On page 28, line 3, increase the amount by $1,834,000,000. $1,550,000,000. $500,000,000. On page 5, line 18, increase the amount by On page 22, line 18, increase the amount by On page 28, line 6, increase the amount by $4,471,000,000. $1,550,000,000. $500,000,000. On page 5, line 19, increase the amount by On page 22, line 9, increase the amount by On page 28, line 7, increase the amount by $7,202,000,000. $1,550,000,000. $500,000,000. On page 5, line 20, increase the amount by On page 22, line 22, increase the amount by On page 28, line 10, increase the amount by $8,386,000,000. $1,550,000,000. $500,000,000. On page 5, line 21, increase the amount by On page 22, line 23, increase the amount by On page 28, line 11, increase the amount by $9,315,000,000. $1,550,000,000. $500,000,000. On page 5, line 22, increase the amount by On page 23, line 2, increase the amount by On page 28, line 14, increase the amount by $10,192,000,000. $1,600,000,000. $500,000,000. On page 5, line 23, increase the amount by On page 23, line 3, increase the amount by On page 28, line 15, increase the amount by $10,837,000,000. $1,579,000,000. $500,000,000. On page 5, line 24, increase the amount by On page 23, line 6, increase the amount by On page 28, line 18, increase the amount by $11,471,000,000. $1,650,000,000. $500,000,000. On page 5, line 25, increase the amount by On page 23, line 7, increase the amount by On page 28, line 19, increase the amount by $12,166,000,000. $1,662,000,000. $500,000,000. On page 6, line 1, increase the amount by On page 23, line 10, increase the amount by On page 28, line 22, increase the amount by $12,966,000,000. $1,575,000,000. $400,000,000. On page 6, line 2, increase the amount by On page 23, line 11, increase the amount by On page 28, line 23, increase the amount by $13,696,000,000. $1,624,000,000. $478,000,000. On page 6, line 5, decrease the amount by On page 23, line 15, increase the amount by On page 36, line 11, increase the amount by $1,834,,000,000. $3,500,000,000. $450,000,000. On page 6, line 6, decrease the amount by On page 23, line 16, increase the amount by On page 36, line 12, increase the amount by $6,306,000,000. $1,225,000,000. $348,000,000. On page 6, line 7, decrease the amount by On page 23, line 19, increase the amount by On page 36, line 15, increase the amount by $13,508,000,000. $3,262,000,000. $1,339,000,000. On page 6, line 8, decrease the amount by On page 23, line 20, increase the amount by On page 36, line 16, increase the amount by $21,894,000,000. $2,841,000,000. $503,000,000. On page 6, line 8, decrease the amount by On page 23, line 23, increase the amount by On page 36, line 19, increase the amount by $31,209,000,000. $4,712,000,000. $1,880,000,000. On page 6, line 10, decrease the amount by On page 23, line 24, increase the amount by On page 36, line 20, increase the amount by $41,401,000,000. $3,790,000,000. $1,190,000,000. On page 6, line 11, decrease the amount by On page 24, line 2, increase the amount by On page 36, line 23, increase the amount by $52.238,000,000. $4,251,000,000. $1,902,000,000. On page 6, line 12, decrease the amount by On page 24, line 3, increase the amount by On page 36, line 24, increase the amount by $63,708,000,000. $3,922,000,000. $1,544,000,000. On page 6, line 13, decrease the amount by On page 24, line 6, increase the amount by On page 37, line 2, increase the amount by $75,874,000,000. $4,490,000,000. $1,921,000,000. On page 6, line 14, decrease the amount by On page 24, line 7, increase the amount by On page 37, line 3, increase the amount by $88,840,000,000. $4,017,000,000. $1,885,000,000. On page 6, line 15, decrease the amount by On page 24, line 10, increase the amount by On page 37, line 6, increase the amount by $102,536,000,000. $4,330,000,000. $1,936,000,000. On page 6, line 18, decrease the amount by On page 24, line 11, increase the amount by On page 37, line 7, increase the amount by $1,834,000,000. $4,347,000,000. $1,904,000,000. On page 6, line 19, decrease the amount by On page 24, line 14, increase the amount by On page 37, line 10, increase the amount by $6,306,000,000. $4,372,000,000. $1,957,000,000. On page 6, line 20, decrease the amount by On page 24, line 15, increase the amount by On page 37, line 11, increase the amount by $13,508,000,000. $4,411,000,000. $1,923,000,000. On page 6, line 21, decrease the amount by On page 24, line 18, increase the amount by On page 37, line 14, increase the amount by $21,894,000,000. $4,515,000,000. $1,978,000,000. On page 6, line 22, decrease the amount by On page 24, line 19, increase the amount by On page 37, line 15, increase the amount by $31,209,000,000. $4,435,000,000. $1,942,000,000. On page 6, line 23, decrease the amount by On page 24, line 22, increase the amount by On page 37, line 18, increase the amount by $41,401,000,000. $4,659,000,000. $2,001,000,000. On page 6, line 24, decrease the amount by On page 24, line 23, increase the amount by On page 37, line 19, increase the amount by $52,238,000,000. $4,457,000,000. $1,961,000,000. On page 6, line 25, decrease the amount by On page 25, line 2, increase the amount by On page 37, line 22, increase the amount by $63,708,000,000. $4,503,000,000. $2,024,000,000. On page 7, line 1, decrease the amount by On page 25, line 3, increase the amount by On page 37, line 23, increase the amount by $75,874,000,000. $4,530,000,000. $1,983,000,000. On page 7, line 2, decrease the amount by On page 25, line 6, increase the amount by On page 38, line 2, increase the amount by $88,840,000,000. $4,548,000,000. $1,996,000,000. On page 7, line 3, decrease the amount by On page 25, line 7, increase the amount by On page 38, line 3, increase the amount by $102,536,000,000. $4,578,000,000. $1,977,000,000. On page 21, line 19, increase the amount by On page 27, line 7, increase the amount by On page 40, line 2, decrease the amount by $550,000,000. $500,000,000. $13,000,000. On page 21, line 20, increase the amount by On page 27, line 8, increase the amount by On page 40, line 3, decrease the amount by $139,000,000. $110,000,000. $13,000,000. On page 21, line 23, increase the amount by On page 27, line 11, increase the amount by On page 40, line 6, decrease the amount by $1,125,000,000. $800,000,000. $131,000,000. On page 21, line 24, increase the amount by On page 27, line 12, increase the amount by On page 40, line 7, decrease the amount by $631,000,000. $366,000,000. $131,000,000. On page 22, line 2, increase the amount by On page 27, line 15, increase the amount by On page 40, line 10, decrease the amount by $1,550,000,000. $500,000,000. $453,000,000.

VerDate Dec 13 2002 01:26 Mar 22, 2003 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00076 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A20MR6.132 S20PT2 March 20, 2003 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S4185 On page 40, line 11, decrease the amount by On page 4, line 8, increase the amount by On page 5, line 6, increase the amount by $453,000,000. $17,704,000,000. $375,000,000. On page 40, line 14, decrease the amount by On page 4, line 9, increase the amount by On page 5, line 7, increase the amount by $887,000,000. $24,209,000,000. $175,000,000. On page 40, line 15, decrease the amount by On page 4, line 10, increase the amount by On page 5, line 8, increase the amount by $887,000,000. $30,726,000,000. $50,000,000. On page 40, line 18, decrease the amount by On page 4, line 20, increase the amount by On page 5, line 9, increase the amount by $1,369,000,000. $6,500,000,000. $25,000,000. On page 40, line 19, decrease the amount by On page 4, line 21, increase the amount by On page 5, line 10, increase the amount by $1,369,000,000. $14,500,000,000. $15,000,000. On page 40, line 22, decrease the amount by On page 4, line 22, increase the amount by On page 9, line 2, increase the amount by $1,891,000,000. $21,000,000,000. $1,047,426,416. On page 40, line 23, decrease the amount by On page 4, line 23, increase the amount by On page 9, line 3, increase the amount by $1,891,000,000. $27,500,000,000. $400,000,000. On page 41, line 2, decrease the amount by On page 4, line 24, increase the amount by On page 9, line 7, increase the amount by $2,452,000,000. $34,000,000,000. $375,000,000. On page 41, line 3, decrease the amount by On page 5, line 10, increase the amount by On page 9, line 11, increase the amount by $2,452,000,000. $4,303,000,000. $175,000,000. On page 41, line 6, decrease the amount by On page 5, line 11, increase the amount by On page 9, line 15, increase the amount by $3,045,000,000. $11,094,000,000. $50,000,000. On page 41, line 7, decrease the amount by On page 5, line 12, increase the amount by On page 9, line 19, increase the amount by $3,045,000,000. $17,704,000,000. $25,000,000. On page 41, line 10, decrease the amount by On page 5, line 13, increase the amount by On page 9, line 23, increase the amount by $3,670,000,000. $24,209,000,000. $15,000,000. On page 41, line 11, decrease the amount by On page 5, line 14, increase the amount by On page 47, line 5, increase the amount by $3,670,000,000. $30,726,000,000. $1,047,426,416. On page 41, line 14, decrease the amount by On page 42, line 22, increase the amount by On page 47, line 6, increase the amount by $4,333,000,000. $6,500,000,000. $400,000,000. On page 41, line 15, decrease the amount by On page 42, line 23, increase the amount by On page 47, line 15, increase the amount by $4,333,000,000. $4,303,000,000. $375,000,000. On page 41, line 18, decrease the amount by On page 43, line 2, increase the amount by $5,039,000,000. $14,500,000,000. SA 302. Mrs. CLINTON submitted an On page 41, line 19, decrease the amount by On page 43, line 3, increase the amount by amendment intended to be proposed by $5,039,000,000. $11,094,000,000. her to the concurrent resolution S. On page 46, line 20, increase the amount by On page 43, line 6, increase the amount by Con. Res. 23, setting forth the congres- $21,000,000,000. $5,000,000,000. sional budget for the United States On page 46, line 21, increase the amount by On page 43, line 7, increase the amount by $17,704,000,000. Governments for fiscal year 2004 and $1,822,000,000. including the appropriate budgetary On page 47, line 5, increase the amount by On page 43, line 10, increase the amount by $6,526,000,000. $27,500,000,000. levels for fiscal year 2003 and for fiscal On page 43, line 11, increase the amount by On page 47, line 6, increase the amount by years 2005 through 2013; which was or- $24,209,000,000. $4,341,000,000. dered to lie on the table; as follows: On page 43, line 14, increase the amount by On page 47, line 14, increase the amount by On page 3, line 10, increase the amount by $34,000,000,000. $8,642,000,000. $96,000,000. On page 43, line 15, increase the amount by On page 47, line 15, increase the amount by On page 3, line 11, increase the amount by $30,726,000,000. $6,750,000,000. $224,000,000. On page 3, line 12, increase the amount by SA 301. Ms. LANDRIEU submitted an SA 300. Mr. LAUTENBERG (for him- $200,000,000. amendment intended to be proposed by self and Mr. SCHUMER) submitted an On page 3, line 13, increase the amount by amendment intended to be proposed by her to the concurrent resolution S. $280,000,000. him to the concurrent resolution S. Con. Res. 23, setting forth the congres- On page 4, line 1, increase the amount by $96,000,000. Con. Res. 23, setting forth the congres- sional budget for the United States Governments for fiscal year 2004 and On page 4, line 2, increase the amount by sional budget for the United States $224,000,000. Governments for fiscal year 2004 and including the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal year 2003 and for fiscal On page 4, line 3, increase the amount by including the appropriate budgetary $200,000,000. levels for fiscal year 2003 and for fiscal years 2005 through 2013; which was or- On page 4, line 4, increase the amount by years 2005 through 2013; which was or- dered to lie on the table; as follows: $280,000,000. dered to lie on the table; as follows: On page 45, line 24, decrease the amount by On page 4, line 15, increase the amount by $1,040,000,000. $399,000,000. At the end of Subtitle B of Title II, insert On page 3, line 10, increase the amount by On page 4, line 16, decrease the amount by the following: ‘‘Sec. . Reserve Fund for $400,000,000. $5,000,000. National Security.—In the Senate, the On page 3, line 11, increase the amount by On page 4, line 17, decrease the amount by Chairman of the Committee on the Budget $375,000,000. $11,000,000. may increase aggregates, functional totals, On page 3, line 12, increase the amount by On page 4, line 18, decrease the amount by allocations, and other appropriate levels in $175, 000,000. $19,000,000. this resolution by up to $103.500 billion in On page 3, line 13, increase the amount by On page 4, line 19, decrease the amount by Budget Authority and $88.036 billion in Out- $50,000,000. $23,000,000. lays for fiscal years 2004 through 2013 for a On page 3, line 14, increase the amount by On page 4, line 20, decrease the amount by bill, joint resolution, amendment, or con- $25,000,000. $25,000,000. ference report providing additional resources On page 3, line 15, increase the amount by On page 4, line 21, decrease the amount by for defense or homeland security.’’ $,15,000,000. $26,000,000. On page 45, line 24, decrease the amount by On page 4, line 1, increase the amount by On page 4, line 22, decrease the amount by $88,036,000,000. $400,000,000. $28,000,000. On page 3, line 15, increase the amount by On page 4, line 2, increase the amount by On page 4, line 23, decrease the amount by $4,303,000,000. $375,000,000. $29,000,000. On page 3, line 16, increase the amount by On page 4, line 3, increase the amount by On page 4, line 24, decrease the amount by $11,094,000,000. $175,000,000. $31,000,000. On page 3, line 17, increase the amount by On page 4, line 4, increase the amount by On page 5, line 5, increase the amount by $17,704,000,000. $50,000,000. $47,000,000. On page 3, line 18, increase the amount by On page 4, line 5, increase the amount by On page 5, line 6, increase the amount by $24,209,000,000. $25,000,000. $107,000,000. On page 3, line 19, increase the amount by On page 4, line 6, increase the amount by On page 5, line 7, increase the amount by $30,726,000,000. $15,000,000. $89,000,000. On page 4, line 6, increase the amount by On page 4, line 15, increase the amount by On page 5, line 8, increase the amount by $4,303,000,000. $1,047,426,416. $121,000,000. On page 4, line 7, increase the amount by On page 5, line 5, increase the amount by On page 5, line 9, decrease the amount by $11,094,000,000. $400,000,000. $23,000,000.

VerDate Dec 13 2002 01:26 Mar 22, 2003 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00077 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A20MR6.134 S20PT2 S4186 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE March 20, 2003 On page 5, line 10, decrease the amount by On page 40, line 14, decrease the amount by On page 5, line 6, increase the amount by $25,000,000 $11,000,000. $134,000,000. On page 5, line 11, decrease the amount by On page 40, line 15, decrease the amount by On page 5, line 7, increase the amount by $26,000,000. $11,000,000. $111,000,000. On page 5, line 12, decrease the amount by On page 40, line 18, decrease the amount by On page 5, line 8, increase the amount by $28,000,000. $19,000,000. $152,000,000. On page 5, line 13, decrease the amount by On page 40, line 19, decrease the amount by On page 5, line 9, decrease the amount by $29,000,000. $19,000,000. $29,000,000. On page 5, line 14, decrease the amount by On page 40, line 22, decrease the amount by On page 5, line 10, decrease the amount by $31,000,000. $23,000,000. $31,000,000. On page 5, line 18, increase the amount by On page 40, line 23, decrease the amount by On page 5, line 11, decrease the amount by $49,000,000. $23,000,000. $33,000,000. On page 5, line 19, increase the amount by On page 41, line 2, decrease the amount by On page 5, line 12, decrease the amount by $117,000,000. $25,000,000. $34,000,000. On page 5, line 20, increase the amount by On page 41, line 3, decrease the amount by On page 5, line 13, decrease the amount by $111,000,000. $25,000,000. $36,000,000. On page 5, line 21, increase the amount by On page 41, line 6, decrease the amount by On page 5, line 14, decrease the amount by $159,000,000. $26,000,000. $38,000,000. On page 5, line 22, increase the amount by On page 41, line 7, decrease the amount by On page 5, line 18, increase the amount by $23,000,000. $26,000,000. $61,000,000. On page 5, line 23, increase the amount by On page 41, line 10, decrease the amount by On page 5, line 19, increase the amount by $25,000,000. $28,000,000. $146,000,000. On page 5, line 24, increase the amount by On page 41, line 11, decrease the amount by On page 5, line 20, increase the amount by $26,000,000. $28,000,000. $139,000,000. On page 5, line 25, increase the amount by On page 41, line 14, decrease the amount by On page 5, line 21, increase the amount by $28,000,000. $29,000,000. $198,000,000. On page 6, line 1, increase the amount by On page 41, line 15, decrease the amount by On page 5, line 22, increase the amount by $29,000,000. $29,000,000. $29,000,000. On page 6, line 2, increase the amount by On page 41, line 18, decrease the amount by On page 5, line 23, increase the amount by $31,000,000. $31,000,000. $31,000,000. On page 6, line 6, decrease the amount by On page 41, line 19, decrease the amount by On page 5, line 24, increase the amount by $49,000,000. $31,000,000. $33,000,000. On page 6, line 7, decrease the amount by On page 47, line 5, increase the amount by On page 5, line 25, increase the amount by $166,000,000. $400,000,000. $34,000,000. On page 6, line 8, decrease the amount by On page 47, line 6, increase the amount by On page 6, line 1, increase the amount by $277,000,000. $48,000,000. $36,000,000. On page 6, line 9, decrease the amount by On page 47, line 15, increase the amount by On page 6, line 2, increase the amount by $436,000,000. $112,000,000. $38,000,000. On page 6, line 10, decrease the amount by On page 6, line 6, decrease the amount by $459,000,000. SA 303. Mrs. CLINTON submitted an $61,000,000. On page 6, line 11, decrease the amount by amendment intended to be proposed by On page 6, line 7, decrease the amount by $484,000,000. her to the concurrent resolution S. $207,000,000. On page 6, line 12, decrease the amount by Con. Res. 23, setting forth the congres- On page 6, line 8, decrease the amount by $510,000,000. sional budget for the United States $346,000,000. On page 6, line 13, decrease the amount by Governments for fiscal year 2004 and On page 6, line 9, decrease the amount by $537,000,000. $545,000,000. On page 6, line 14, decrease the amount by including the appropriate budgetary On page 6, line 10, decrease the amount by $566,000,000. levels for fiscal year 2003 and for fiscal $574,000,000. On page 6, line 15, decrease the amount by years 2005 through 2013; which was or- On page 6, line 11, decrease the amount by $597,000,000. dered to lie on the table; as follows: $605,000,000. On page 6, line 19, decrease the amount by On page 3, line 10, increase the amount by On page 6, line 12, decrease the amount by $49,000,000. $120,000,000. $637,000,000. On page 6, line 20, decrease the amount by On page 3, line 11, increase the amount by On page 6, line 13, decrease the amount by $166,000,000. $280,000,000. $672,000,000. On page 6, line 21, decrease the amount by On page 3, line 12, increase the amount by On page 6, line 14, decrease the amount by $277,000,000. $250,000,000. $708,000,000. On page 6, line 22, decrease the amount by On page 3, line 13, increase the amount by On page 6, line 15, decrease the amount by $436,000,000. $350,000,000. $746,000,000. On page 6, line 23, decrease the amount by On page 4, line 1, increase the amount by On page 6, line 19, decrease the amount by $459,000,000. $120,000,000. $61,000,000. On page 6, line 24, decrease the amount by On page 4, line 2, increase the amount by On page 6, line 20, decrease the amount by $484,000,000. $280,000,000. $207,000,000. On page 6, line 25, decrease the amount by On page 4, line 3, increase the amount by On page 6, line 21, decrease the amount by $510,000,000. $250,000,000. $346,000,000. On page 7, line 1, decrease the amount by On page 4, line 4, increase the amount by On page 6, line 22, decrease the amount by $537,000,000. $350,000,000. $545,000,000. On page 7, line 2, decrease the amount by On page 4, line 15, increase the amount by On page 6, line 23, decrease the amount by $566,000,000. $499,000,000. $574,000,000. On page 7, line 3, decrease the amount by On page 4, line 16, decrease the amount by On page 6, line 24, decrease the amount by $597,000,000. $6,000,000. $605,000,000. On page 23, line 19, increase the amount by On page 4, line 17, decrease the amount by On page 6, line 25, decrease the amount by $400,000,000. $14,000,000. $637,000,000. On page 23, line 20, increase the amount by On page 4, line 18, decrease the amount by On page 7, line 1, decrease the amount by $48,000,000. $23,000,000. $672,000,000. On page 23, line 24, increase the amount by On page 4, line 19, decrease the amount by On page 7, line 2, decrease the amount by $112,000,000. $29,000,000. $708,000,000. On page 24, line 3, increase the amount by On page 4, line 20, decrease the amount by On page 7, line 3, decrease the amount by $100,000,000. $31,000,000. $746,000,000. On page 24, line 7, increase the amount by On page 4, line 21, decrease the amount by On page 23, line 19, increase the amount by $140,000,000. $33,000,000. $500,000,000. On page 40, line 6, decrease the amount by On page 4, line 22, decrease the amount by On page 23, line 20, increase the amount by $1,000,000. $34,000,000. $60,000,000. On page 40, line 7, decrease the amount by On page 4, line 23, decrease the amount by On page 23, line 24, increase the amount by $1,000,000. $36,000,000. $140,000,000. On page 40, line 10, decrease the amount by On page 4, line 24, decrease the amount by On page 24, line 3, increase the amount by $5,000,000. $38,000,000. $125,000,000. On page 40, line 11, decrease the amount by On page 5, line 5, increase the amount by On page 24, line 7, increase the amount by $5,000,000. $59,000,000. $175,000,000.

VerDate Dec 13 2002 02:00 Mar 22, 2003 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00078 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A20MR6.121 S20PT2 March 20, 2003 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S4187 On page 40, line 6, decrease the amount by On page 4, line 22, decrease the amount by On page 23, line 20, increase the amount by $1,000,000. $62,000,000. $120,000,000. On page 40, line 7, decrease the amount by On page 4, line 23, decrease the amount by On page 23, line 24, increase the amount by $1,000,000. $73,000,000. $280,000,000. On page 40, line 10, decrease the amount by On page 4, line 24, decrease the amount by On page 24, line 3, increase the amount by $6,000,000. $76,000,000. $250,000,000. On page 40, line 11, decrease the amount by On page 5, line 5, increase the amount by On page 24, line 7, increase the amount by $6,000,000. $118,000,000. $350,000,000. On page 40, line 14, decrease the amount by On page 5, line 6, increase the amount by On page 40, line 6, decrease the amount by $14,000,000. $267,000,000. $2,000,000. On page 40, line 15, decrease the amount by On page 5, line 7, increase the amount by On page 40, line 7, decrease the amount by $14,000,000. $222,000,000. $2,000,000. On page 40, line 18, decrease the amount by On page 5, line 8, increase the amount by On page 40, line 10, decrease the amount by $23,000,000. $304,000,000. $13,000,000. On page 40, line 19, decrease the amount by On page 5, line 9, decrease the amount by On page 40, line 11, decrease the amount by $23,000,000. $58,000,000. $13,000,000. On page 40, line 22, decrease the amount by On page 5, line 10, decrease the amount by On page 40, line 14, decrease the amount by $29,000,000. $62,000,000. $28,000,000. On page 40, line 23, decrease the amount by On page 5, line 11, decrease the amount by On page 40, line 15, decrease the amount by $29,000,000. $65,000,000. $28,000,000. On page 41, line 2, decrease the amount by On page 5, line 12, decrease the amount by On page 40, line 18, decrease the amount by $31,000,000. $69,000,000. $46,000,000. On page 41, line 3, decrease the amount by On page 5, line 13, decrease the amount by On page 40, line 19, decrease the amount by $31,000,000. $73,000,000. $46,000,000. On page 41, line 6, decrease the amount by On page 5, line 14, decrease the amount by On page 40, line 22, decrease the amount by $33,000,000. $76,000,000. $58,000,000. On page 41, line 7, decrease the amount by On page 5, line 18, increase the amount by On page 40, line 23, decrease the amount by $33,000,000. $122,000,000. $58,000,000. On page 41, line 10, decrease the amount by On page 5, line 19, increase the amount by On page 41, line 2, decrease the amount by $34,000,000. $293,000,000. $62,000,000. On page 41, line 11, decrease the amount by On page 5, line 20, increase the amount by On page 41, line 3, decrease the amount by $34,000,000. $278,000,000. $62,000,000. On page 41, line 14, decrease the amount by On page 5, line 21, increase the amount by On page 41, line 6, decrease the amount by $36,000,000. $396,000,000. $65,000,000. On page 41, line 15, decrease the amount by On page 5, line 22, increase the amount by On page 41, line 7, decrease the amount by $36,000,000. $58,000,000. $65,000,000. On page 41, line 18, decrease the amount by On page 5, line 23, increase the amount by On page 41, line 10, decrease the amount by $38,000,000. $62,000,000. $69,000,000. On page 41, line 19, decrease the amount by On page 5, line 24, increase the amount by On page 41, line 11, decrease the amount by $38,000,000. $65,000,000. $69,000,000. On page 47, line 5, increase the amount by On page 5, line 25, increase the amount by On page 41, line 14, decrease the amount by $500,000,000. $69,000,000. $73,000,000. On page 47, line 6, increase the amount by On page 6, line 1, increase the amount by On page 41, line 15, decrease the amount by $60,000,000. $73,000,000. $73,000,000. On page 47, line 15, increase the amount by On page 6, line 2, increase the amount by On page 41, line 18, decrease the amount by $140,000,000. $76,000,000. $76,000,000. On page 6, line 6, decrease the amount by On page 41, line 19, decrease the amount by SA 304. Mrs. CLINTON submitted an $122,000,000. $76,000,000. amendment intended to be proposed by On page 6, line 7, decrease the amount by On page 47, line 5, increase the amount by her to the concurrent resolution S. $415,000,000. $1,000,000,000. Con. Res. 23, setting forth the congres- On page 6, line 8, decrease the amount by On page 47, line 6, increase the amount by $693,000,000. $120,000,000. sional budget for the United States On page 47, line 15, increase the amount by Governments for fiscal year 2004 and On page 6, line 9, decrease the amount by $1,089,000,000. $280,000,000. including the appropriate budgetary On page 6, line 10, decrease the amount by levels for fiscal year 2003 and for fiscal $1,148,000,000. SA 305. Mrs. CLINTON submitted an years 2005 through 2013; which was or- On page 6, line 11, decrease the amount by amendment intended to be proposed by dered to lie on the table; as follows: $1,210,000,000. her to the concurrent resolution S. On page 3, line 10, increase the amount by On page 6, line 12, decrease the amount by Con. Res. 23, setting forth the congres- $240,000,000. $1,275,000,000. sional budget for the United States On page 3, line 11, increase the amount by On page 6, line 13, decrease the amount by Governments for fiscal year 2004 and $560,000,000. $1,344,000,000. including the appropriate budgetary On page 6, line 14, decrease the amount by On page 3, line 12, increase the amount by levels for fiscal year 2003 and for fiscal $500,000,000. $1,416,000,000. On page 3, line 13, increase the amount by On page 6, line 15, decrease the amount by years 2005 through 2013; which was or- $700,000,000. $1,493,000,000. dered to lie on the table; as follows: On page 4, line 1, increase the amount by On page 6, line 19, decrease the amount by On page 3, line 9, increase the amount by $240,000,000. $122,000,000. $4,900,000,000. On page 4, line 2, increase the amount by On page 6, line 20, decrease the amount by On page 3, line 10, increase the amount by $500,000,000. $415,000,000. $4,900,000,000. On page 4, line 3, increase the amount by On page 6, line 21, decrease the amount by On page 3, line 11, increase the amount by $500,000,000. $693,000,000. $2,800,000,000. On page 4, line 4, increase the amount by On page 6, line 22, decrease the amount by On page 3, line 12, increase the amount by $700,000,000. $1,089,000,000. $1,400,000,000. On page 4, line 15, increase the amount by On page 6, line 23, decrease the amount by On page 3, line 23, increase the amount by $998,000,000. $1,148,000,000. $4,900,000,000. On page 4, line 16, decrease the amount by On page 6, line 24, decrease the amount by On page 4, line 1, increase the amount by $13,000,000. $1,210,000,000. $4,900,000,000. On page 4, line 17, decrease the amount by On page 6, line 25, decrease the amount by On page 4, line 2, increase the amount by $28,000,000. $1,275,000,000. $2,800,000,000. On page 4, line 18, decrease the amount by On page 7, line 1, decrease the amount by On page 4, line 3, increase the amount by $46,000,000. $1,344,000,000. $1,400,000,000. On page 4, line 19, decrease the amount by On page 7, line 2, decrease the amount by On page 4, line 14, increase the amount by $58,000,000. $1,416,000,000. $6,982,000,000. On page 4, line 20, decrease the amount by On page 7, line 3, decrease the amount by On page 4, line 15, decrease the amount by $62,000,000. $1,493,000,000. $115,000,000. On page 4, line 21, decrease the amount by On page 23, line 19, increase the amount by On page 4, line 16, decrease the amount by $65,000,000. $1,000,000,000. $256,000,000.

VerDate Dec 13 2002 01:26 Mar 22, 2003 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00079 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A20MR6.119 S20PT2 S4188 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE March 20, 2003 On page 4, line 17, decrease the amount by On page 6, line 21, decrease the amount by years 2005 through 2013; which was or- $349,000,000. $7,739,000,000. dered to lie on the table; as follows: On page 4, line 18, decrease the amount by On page 6, line 22, decrease the amount by On page 3, line 10, increase the amount by $395,000,000. $8,134,000,000. $120,000,000. On page 4, line 19, decrease the amount by On page 6, line 23, decrease the amount by On page 3, line 11, increase the amount by $422,000,000. $8,556,000,000. $280,000,000. On page 4, line 20, decrease the amount by On page 6, line 24, decrease the amount by On page 3, line 12, increase the amount by $450,000,000. $9,006,000,000. $250,000,000. On page 4, line 21, decrease the amount by On page 6, line 25, decrease the amount by On page 3, line 13, increase the amount by $477,000,000. $9,483,000,000. $350,000,000. On page 4, line 22, increase the amount by On page 7, line 1, decrease the amount by On page 4, line 1, increase the amount by $503,000,000. $9,986,000,000. $120,000,000. On page 4, line 23, decrease the amount by On page 7, line 2, decrease the amount by On page 4, line 2, increase the amount by $530,000,000. $10,516,000,000. $280,000,000. On page 4, line 24, decrease the amount by On page 7, line 3, decrease the amount by On page 4, line 3, increase the amount by $562,000,000. $11,078,000,000. $250,000,000. On page 5, line 4, increase the amount by On page 23, line 15, increase the amount by On page 4, line 4, increase the amount by $2,432,000,000. $7,000,000,000. $350,000,000. On page 5, line 5, increase the amount by On page 23, line 16, increase the amount by On page 4, line 15, increase the amount by $2,335,000,000. $2,450,000,000. $499,000,000. On page 5, line 6, increase the amount by On page 23, line 20, increase the amount by On page 4, line 16, decrease the amount by $1,144,000,000. $2,450,000,000. $6,000,000. On page 5, line 7, increase the amount by On page 23, line 24, increase the amount by On page 4, line 17, decrease the amount by $351,000,000. $1,400,000,000. $14,000,000. On page 5, line 8, decrease the amount by On page 24, line 3, increase the amount by On page 4, line 18, decrease the amount by $395,000,000. $700,000,000. $23,000,000. On page 5, line 9, decrease the amount by On page 40, line 2, decrease the amount by On page 4, line 19, decrease the amount by $422,000,000. $18,000,000. $29,000,000. On page 5, line 10, decrease the amount by On page 40, line 3, decrease the amount by On page 4, line 20, decrease the amount by $450,000,000. $18,000,000. $31,000,000. On page 5, line 11, decrease the amount by On page 40, line 6, decrease the amount by On page 4, line 21, decrease the amount by $477,000,000. $115,000,000. $33,000,000. On page 5, line 12, decrease the amount by On page 40, line 7, decrease the amount by On page 4, line 22, decrease the amount by $503,000,000. $115,000,000. $34,000,000. On page 5, line 13, decrease the amount by On page 40, line 10, decrease the amount by On page 4, line 23, decrease the amount by $530,000,000. $256,000,000. $36,000,000. On page 5, line 14, decrease the amount by On page 40, line 11, decrease the amount by On page 4, line 24, decrease the amount by $562,000,000. $256,000,000. $38,000,000. On page 5, line 17, increase the amount by On page 40, line 14, decrease the amount by On page 5, line 5, increase the amount by $2,468,000,000. $349,000,000. $59,000,000. On page 5, line 18, increase the amount by On page 40, line 15, decrease the amount by On page 5, line 6, increase the amount by $2,565,000,000. $349,000,000. $134,000,000. On page 5, line 19, increase the amount by On page 40, line 18, decrease the amount by On page 5, line 7, increase the amount by $1,656,000,000. $395,000,000. $111,000,000. On page 5, line 20, increase the amount by On page 40, line 19, decrease the amount by On page 5, line 8, increase the amount by $1,049,000,000. $395,000,000. $152,000,000. On page 5, line 21, increase the amount by On page 40, line 22, decrease the amount by On page 5, line 9, decrease the amount by $395,000,000. $422,000,000. $29,000,000. On page 5, line 22, increase the amount by On page 40, line 23, decrease the amount by On page 5, line 10, decrease the amount by $422,000,000. $422,000,000. $31,000,000. On page 5, line 23, increase the amount by On page 41, line 2, decrease the amount by On page 5, line 11, decrease the amount by $450,000,000. $450,000,000. $33,000,000. On page 5, line 24, increase the amount by On page 41, line 3, decrease the amount by On page 5, line 12, decrease the amount by $477,000,000. $450,000,000. $34,000,000. On page 5, line 25, increase the amount by On page 41, line 6, decrease the amount by On page 5, line 13, decrease the amount by $503,000,000. $477,000,000. $36,000,000. On page 6, line 1, increase the amount by On page 41, line 7, decrease the amount by On page 5, line 14, decrease the amount by $530,000,000. $477,000,000. $38,000,000. On page 6, line 2, increase the amount by On page 41, line 10, decrease the amount by On page 5, line 18, increase the amount by $562,000,000. $503,000,000. $61,000,000. On page 6, line 5, decrease the amount by On page 41, line 11, decrease the amount by On page 5, line 19, increase the amount by $2,468,000,000. $503,000,000. $146,000,000. On page 6, line 6, decrease the amount by On page 41, line 14, decrease the amount by On page 5, line 20, increase the amount by $5,033,000,000. $530,000,000. $139,000,000. On page 6, line 7, decrease the amount by On page 41, line 15, decrease the amount by On page 5, line 21, increase the amount by $6,690,000,000. $530,000,000. $198,000,000. On page 6, line 8, decrease the amount by On page 41, line 18, decrease the amount by On page 5, line 22, increase the amount by $7,739,000,000. $562,000,000. $29,000,000. On page 6, line 9, decrease the amount by On page 41, line 19, decrease the amount by On page 5, line 23, increase the amount by $8,134,000,000. $562,000,000. $31,000,000. On page 6, line 10, decrease the amount by On page 46, line 20, increase the amount by On page 5, line 24, increase the amount by $8,556,000,000. $7,000,000,000. $33,000,000. On page 6, line 11, decrease the amount by On page 46, line 21, increase the amount by On page 5, line 25, increase the amount by $9,006,000,000. $2,450,000,000. $34,000,000. On page 6, line 12, decrease the amount by On page 47, line 6, increase the amount by On page 6, line 1, increase the amount by $9,483,000,000. $2,450,000,000. $36,000,000. On page 6, line 13, decrease the amount by On page 47, line 15, increase the amount by On page 6, line 2, increase the amount by $9,986,000,000. $1,400,000,000. $38,000,000. On page 6, line 14, decrease the amount by On page 6, line 6, decrease the amount by $10,516,000,000. SA 306. Mrs. CLINTON submitted an $61,000,000. On page 6, line 15, decrease the amount by amendment intended to be proposed by On page 6, line 7, decrease the amount by $11,078,000,000. her to the concurrent resolution S. $207,000,000. On page 6, line 18, decrease the amount by Con. Res. 23, setting forth the congres- On page 6, line 8, decrease the amount by $2,468,000,000. $346,000,000. On page 6, line 19, decrease the amount by sional budget for the United States On page 6, line 9, decrease the amount by $5,033,000,000. Governments for fiscal year 2004 and $545,000,000. On page 6, line 20, decrease the amount by including the appropriate budgetary On page 6, line 10, decrease the amount by $6,690,000,000. levels for fiscal year 2003 and for fiscal $574,000,000.

VerDate Dec 13 2002 01:26 Mar 22, 2003 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00080 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A20MR6.125 S20PT2 March 20, 2003 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S4189 On page 6, line 11, decrease the amount by him to the concurrent resolution S. On page 5, line 7, increase the amount by $605,000,000. Con. Res. 23, setting forth the congres- $26,000,000. On page 6, line 12, decrease the amount by sional budget for the United States On page 31, line 2, increase the amount by $637,000,000. Government for fiscal year 2004 and in- $1,300,000,000. On page 6, line 13, decrease the amount by On page 31, line 3, increase the amount by $672,000,000. cluding the appropriate budgetary lev- $975,000,000. On page 6, line 14, decrease the amount by els for fiscal year 2003 and for fiscal On page 31, line 7, increase the amount by $708,000,000. years 2005 through 2013; which was or- $299,000,000. On page 6, line 15, decrease the amount by dered to lie on the table; as follows: On page 31, line 11, increase the amount by $746,000,000. Beginning on page 63, strike line 7 and all $26,000,000. On page 6, line 19, decrease the amount by that follows through page 64, line 2. On page 45, line 24, decrease the amount by $61,000,000. $1,300,000,000. On page 6, line 20, decrease the amount by SA 308. Mr. BINGAMAN (for himself, On page 47, line 5, increase the amount by $207,000,000. Mr. LUGAR, Mrs. LINCOLN, Mr. CORZINE, $1,300,000,000. On page 6, line 21, decrease the amount by Ms. LANDRIEU, and Mrs. MURRAY) sub- On page 47, line 6, increase the amount by $346,000,000. mitted an amendment intended to be $975,000,000. On page 6, line 22, decrease the amount by On page 47, line 15, increase the amount by $545,000,000. proposed by him to the concurrent res- $299,000,000. On page 6, line 23, decrease the amount by olution S. Con. Res. 23, setting forth $574,000,000. the congressional budget for the United SA 311. Mr. KENNEDY (for himself, On page 6, line 24, decrease the amount by States Governments for fiscal year 2004 Mr. DODD, Mr. DASCHLE, Mr. FEINGOLD, $605,000,000. and including the appropriate budg- On page 6, line 25, decrease the amount by Mr. BINGAMAN, Mrs. MURRAY, Mr. $637,000,000. etary levels for fiscal year 2003 and for REED, and Ms. CANTWELL) submitted an On page 7, line 1, decrease the amount by fiscal years 2005 through 2013; which amendment intended to be proposed by $672,000,000. was ordered to lie on the table; as fol- him to the concurrent resolution S. On page 7, line 2, decrease the amount by lows: Con. Res. 23, setting forth the congres- $708,000,000. On page 62, line 5, insert before the close sional budget for the United States On page 7, line 3, decrease the amount by parentheses the following: ‘‘and including a Government for fiscal year 2004 and in- $746,000,000. measure providing for coverage of pregnant On page 23, line 19, increase the amount by cluding the appropriate budgetary lev- women under the State Children’s Health In- els for fiscal year 2003 and for fiscal $500,000,000. surance Program’’. On page 23, line 20, increase the amount by years 2005 through 2013; which was or- $60,000,000. SA 309. Mr. BINGAMAN submitted an dered to lie on the table, as follows: On page 23, line 24, increase the amount by amendment intended to be proposed by On page 3, line 10, increase the amount by $140,000,000. $590,000,000. On page 24, line 3, increase the amount by him to the concurrent resolution S. On page 3, line 11, increase the amount by $125,000,000. Con. Res. 23, setting forth the congres- $2,302,000,000. On page 24, line 7, increase the amount by sional budget for the United States On page 3, line 12, increase the amount by $175,000,000. Governments for fiscal year 2004 and $59,000,000. On page 40, line 6, decrease the amount by including the appropriate budgetary On page 4, line 1, increase the amount by $1,000,000. levels for fiscal year 2003 and for fiscal $590,000,000. On page 40, line 7, decrease the amount by years 2005 through 2013; which was or- $1,000,000. On page 4, line 2, increase the amount by On page 40, line 10, decrease the amount by dered to lie on the table; as follows: $2,302,000,000. $6,000,000. On page 63, beginning on line 12, strike On page 4, line 3, increase the amount by On page 40, line 11, decrease the amount by ‘‘through’’ and all that follows through $59,000,000. $6,000,000. ‘‘rates’’ on line 14. On page 4, line 15, increase the amount by On page 40, line 14, decrease the amount by $1,796,000,000. $14,000,000. SA 310. Mr. REED (for himself, Ms. On page 4, line 16, decrease the amount by On page 40, line 15, decrease the amount by COLLINS, Mr. KERRY, Mr. KENNEDY, Mr. $34,000,000. $14,000,000. CORZINE, Mr. SARBANES, Mr. LEAHY, On page 4, line 17, decrease the amount by $61,000,000. On page 40, line 18, decrease the amount by Ms. CANTWELL, Ms. MIKULSKI, Mrs. On page 4, line 18, decrease the amount by $23,000,000. CLINTON, Mr. ROCKEFELLER, Mr. ED- On page 40, line 19, decrease the amount by $66,000,000. WARDS, Mr. JEFFORDS, Mr. DASCHLE, $23,000,000. On page 4, line 19, decrease the amount by On page 40, line 22, decrease the amount by Mr. SCHUMER, Mr. LAUTENBERG, Ms. $70,000,000. $29,000,000. LANDRIEU, Mr. BINGAMAN, Mr. REID, On page 4, line 20, decrease the amount by On page 40, line 23, decrease the amount by Mr. DODD, Mr. LEVIN, Mr. PRYOR, Mr. $74,000,000. $29,000,000. DAYTON, Mr. HARKIN, and Mr. DORGAN) On page 4, line 21, decrease the amount by On page 41, line 2, decrease the amount by submitted an amendment intended to $78,000,000. $31,000,000. be proposed by him to the concurrent On page 4, line 22, decrease the amount by $83,000,000. On page 41, line 3, decrease the amount by resolution S. Con. Res. 23, setting forth $31,000,000. On page 4, line 23, decrease the amount by On page 41, line 6, decrease the amount by the congressional budget for the United $87,000,000. $33,000,000. States Governments for fiscal year 2004 On page 4, line 24, decrease the amount by On page 41, line 7, decrease the amount by and including the appropriate budg- $92,000,000. $33,000,000. etary levels for fiscal year 2003 and for On page 5, line 5, increase the amount by On page 41, line 10, decrease the amount by fiscal years 2005 through 2013; which $356,000,000. $34,000,000. was ordered to lie on the table; as fol- On page 5, line 6, increase the amount by On page 41, line 11, decrease the amount by lows: $1,370,000,000. $34,000,000. On page 5, line 7, decrease the amount by On page 41, line 14, decrease the amount by On page 3, line 10, increase the amount by $25,000,000. $36,000,000. $975,000,000. On page 5, line 8, decrease the amount by On page 41, line 15, decrease the amount by On page 3, line 11, increase the amount by $66,000,000. $36,000,000. $299,000,000. On page 5, line 9, decrease the amount by On page 3, line 12, increase the amount by On page 41, line 18, decrease the amount by $70,000,000. $26,000,000. $38,000,000. On page 4, line 1, increase the amount by On page 5, line 10, decrease the amount by On page 41, line 19, decrease the amount by $975,000,000. $74,000,000. $38,000,000. On page 4, line 2, increase the amount by On page 5, line 11, decrease the amount by On page 47, line 5, increase the amount by $299,000,000. $78,000,000. $500,000,000. On page 4, line 3, increase the amount by On page 5, line 12, decrease the amount by On page 47, line 6, increase the amount by $26,000,000. $83,000,000. $60,000,000. On page 4, line 15, increase the amount by On page 5, line 13, decrease the amount by On page 47, line 15, increase the amount by $1,300,000,000. $87,000,000. $140,000,000. On page 5, line 5, increase the amount by On page 5, line 14, decrease the amount by $975,000,000. $92,000,000. SA 307. Mr. BINGAMAN submitted an On page 5, line 6, increase the amount by On page 5, line 18, increase the amount by amendment intended to be proposed by $299,000,000. $234,000,000.

VerDate Dec 13 2002 01:26 Mar 22, 2003 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00081 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A20MR6.129 S20PT2 S4190 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE March 20, 2003 On page 5, line 19, increase the amount by On page 41, line 3, decrease the amount by On page 4, line 20, decrease the amount by $932,000,000. $74,000,000. $94,000,000. On page 5, line 20, increase the amount by On page 41, line 6, decrease the amount by On page 4, line 21, decrease the amount by $84,000,000. $78,000,000. $191,000,000. On page 5, line 21, increase the amount by On page 41, line 7, decrease the amount by On page 4, line 22, decrease the amount by $66,000,000. $78,000,000. $294,000,000. On page 5, line 22, increase the amount by On page 41, line 10, decrease the amount by On page 4, line 23, decrease the amount by $90,000,000. $83,000,000. $405,000,000. On page 5, line 23, increase the amount by On page 41, line 11, decrease the amount by On page 4, line 24, decrease the amount by $74,000,000. $83,000,000. $526,000,000. On page 5, line 24, increase the amount by On page 41, line 14, decrease the amount by On page 5, line 5, increase the amount by $78,000,000. $89,000,000. $57,000,000. On page 5, line 25, increase the amount by On page 41, line 15, decrease the amount by On page 5, line 6, increase the amount by $83,000,000. $87,000,000. $104,000,000. On page 6, line 1, increase the amount by On page 41, line 18, decrease the amount by On page 5, line 7, increase the amount by $87,000,000. $92,000,000. $92,000,000. On page 6, line 2, increase the amount by On page 41, line 19, decrease the amount by On page 5, line 8, increase the amount by $92,000,000. $92,000,000. $45,000,000. On page 6, line 6, decrease the amount by On page 47, line 5, increase the amount by On page 5, line 9, increase the amount by $234,000,000. $1,800,000,000. $21,000,000. On page 6, line 7, decrease the amount by On page 47, line 6, increase the amount by On page 5, line 10, decrease the amount by $1,166,000,000. $360,000,000. $109,000,000. On page 6, line 8, decrease the amount by On page 47, line 15, increase the amount by On page 5, line 11, decrease the amount by $1,250,000,000. $1,404,000,000. $206,000,000. On page 6, line 9, decrease the amount by On page 5, line 12, decrease the amount by $1,316,000,000. SA 312. Mr. LAUTENBERG sub- $309,000,000. On page 6, line 10, decrease the amount by mitted an amendment intended to be On page 5, line 13, decrease the amount by $1,386,000,000. proposed by him to the concurrent res- $420,000,000. On page 6, line 11, decrease the amount by On page 5, line 14, decrease the amount by $1,460,000,000. olution S. Con. Res. 23, setting forth $541,000,000. On page 6, line 12, decrease the amount by the congressional budget for the United On page 5, line 18, increase the amount by $1,538,000,000. States Governments for fiscal year 2004 $1,024,000,000. On page 6, line 13, decrease the amount by and including the appropriate budg- On page 5, line 19, increase the amount by $1,621,000,000. etary levels for fiscal year 2003 and for $1,245,000,000. On page 6, line 14, decrease the amount by fiscal years 2005 through 2013; which On page 5, line 20, increase the amount by $1,708,000,000. was ordered to lie on the table; as fol- $1,351,000,000. On page 6, line 15, decrease the amount by On page 5, line 21, increase the amount by $1,800,000,000. lows: $1,460,000,000. On page 6, line 19, decrease the amount by On page 3, line 10, increase the amount by On page 5, line 22, increase the amount by $234,000,000. $1,081,000,000. $1,589,000,000. On page 6, line 20, decrease the amount by On page 3, line 11, increase the amount by On page 5, line 23, increase the amount by $1,166,000,000. $1,349,000,000. $1,729,000,000. On page 6, line 21, decrease the amount by On page 3, line 12, increase the amount by On page 5, line 24, increase the amount by $1,250,000,000. $1,443,000,000. $1,873,000,000. On page 6, line 22, decrease the amount by On page 3, line 13, increase the amount by On page 5, line 25, increase the amount by $1,316,000,000. $1,505,000,000. $2,030,000,000. On page 6, line 23, decrease the amount by On page 3, line 14, increase the amount by On page 6, line 1, increase the amount by $1,386,000,000. $1,568,000,000. $2,197,000,000. On page 6, line 24, decrease the amount by On page 3, line 15, increase the amount by On page 6, line 2, increase the amount by $1,460,000,000. $1,620,000,000. $2,374,000,000. On page 6, line 25, decrease the amount by On page 3, line 16, increase the amount by On page 6, line 6, decrease the amount by $1,538,000,000. $1,667,000,000. $1,024,000,000. On page 7, line 1, decrease the amount by On page 3, line 17, increase the amount by On page 6, line 7, decrease the amount by $1,621,000,000. $1,721,000,000. $2,269,000,000. On page 7, line 2, decrease the amount by On page 3, line 18, increase the amount by On page 6, line 8, decrease the amount by $1,708,000,000. $1,777,000,000. $3,620,000,000. On page 7, line 3, increase the amount by On page 3, line 19, increase the amount by On page 6, line 8, decrease the amount by $1,800,000,000. $1,833,000,000. $5,080,000,000. On page 25, line 16, decrease the amount by On page 4, line 1, increase the amount by On page 6, line 10, decrease the amount by $1,800,000,000. $1,081,000,000. $6,669,000,000. On page 25, line 17, increase the amount by On page 4, line 2, increase the amount by On page 6, line 11, decrease the amount by $360,000,000. $1,349,000,000. $8,399,000,000. On page 25, line 21, increase the amount by On page 4, line 3, increase the amount by On page 6, line 12, decrease the amount by $1,404,000,000. $1,443,000,000. $10,271,000,000. On page 25, line 25, increase the amount by On page 4, line 4, increase the amount by On page 6, line 13, decrease the amount by $36,000,000. $1,505,000,000. $12,301,000,000. On page 40, line 6, decrease the amount by On page 4, line 5, increase the amount by On page 6, line 14, decrease the amount by $4,000,000. $1,568,000,000. $14,498,000,000. On page 40, line 7, decrease the amount by On page 4, line 6, increase the amount by On page 6, line 15, decrease the amount by $4,000,000. $1,620,000,000. $16,872,000,000. On page 40, line 13, decrease the amount by On page 4, line 7, increase the amount by On page 6, line 19, decrease the amount by $34,000,000. $1,667,000,000. $1,024,000,000. On page 40, line 11, decrease the amount by On page 4, line 8, increase the amount by On page 6, line 20, decrease the amount by $34,000,000. $1,721,000,000. $2,269,000,000. On page 40, line 14, decrease the amount by On page 4, line 9, increase the amount by On page 6, line 21, decrease the amount by $61,000,000. $1,777,000,000. $3,620,000,000. On page 40, line 15, decrease the amount by On page 4, line 10, increase the amount by On page 6, line 22, decrease the amount by $61,000,000. $1,833,000,000. $5,080,000,000. On page 40, line 18, decrease the amount by On page 4, line 15, increase the amount by On page 6, line 23, decrease the amount by $66,000,000. $282,000,000. $6,669,000,000. On page 40, line 19, decrease the amount by On page 4, line 16, increase the amount by On page 6, line 24, decrease the amount by $66,000,000. $224,000,000. $8,399,000,000. On page 40, line 22, decrease the amount by On page 4, line 17, increase the amount by On page 6, line 25, decrease the amount by $70,000,000. $152,000,000. $10,271,000,000. On page 40, line 23, decrease the amount by On page 4, line 18, increase the amount by On page 7, line 1, decrease the amount by $70,000,000. $75,000,000. $12,301,000,000. On page 41, line 2, decrease the amount by On page 4, line 19, decrease the amount by On page 7, line 2, decrease the amount by $74,000,000. $6,000,000. $14,498,000,000.

VerDate Dec 13 2002 02:00 Mar 22, 2003 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00082 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A20MR6.181 S20PT2 March 20, 2003 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S4191 On page 7, line 3, decrease the amount by On page 47, line 15, increase the amount by On page 4, line 2, increase the amount by $16,872,000,000. $180,000,000. $90,000,000. On page 16, line 11, increase the amount by On page 4, line 3, increase the amount by $300,000,000. SA 313. Mr. BYRD submitted an $45,000,000. On page 16, line 12, increase the amount by amendment intended to be proposed by On page 4, line 4, increase the amount by $75,000,000. him to the concurrent resolution S. $10,000,000. On page 16, line 15, increase the amount by Con. Res. 23, setting forth the congres- On page 4, line 5, increase the amount by $300,000,000. $10,000,000. On page 16, line 16, increase the amount by sional budget for the United States On page 4, line 6, increase the amount by $180,000,000. Governments for fiscal year 2004 and $15,000,000. On page 16, line 19, increase the amount by including the appropriate budgetary On page 4, line 7, increase the amount by $300,000,000. levels for fiscal year 2003 and for fiscal $45,000,000. On page 16, line 20, increase the amount by years 2005 through 2013; which was or- On page 4, line 14, increase the amount by $240,000,000. dered to lie on the table; as follows: $6,525,000,000. On page 16, line 23, increase the amount by On page 4, line 15, increase the amount by On page 45, strike beginning with line 20 $300,000,000. $9,773,000,000. through page 46, line 2. On page 16, line 24, increase the amount by On page 4, line 16, decrease the amount by $270,000,000. SA 314. Mr. INHOFE submitted an $8,000,000. On page 17, line 2, increase the amount by On page 4, line 17, decrease the amount by $300,000,000. amendment intended to be proposed by $12,000,000. On page 17, line 3, increase the amount by him to the concurrent resolution S. On page 4, line 18, decrease the amount by $285,000,000. Con. Res. 23, setting forth the congres- $15,000,000. On page 17, line 6, increase the amount by sional budget for the United States On page 4, line 19, decrease the amount by $300,000,000. Governments for fiscal year 2004 and $16,000,000. On page 17, line 7, increase the amount by including the appropriate budgetary On page 4, line 20, decrease the amount by $285,000,000. levels for fiscal year 2003 and for fiscal $18,000,000. On page 17, line 10, increase the amount by On page 4, line 21, decrease the amount by $300,000,000. years 2005 through 2013; which was or- $21,000,000. On page 17, line 11, increase the amount by dered to lie on the table; as follows: On page 4, line 22, decrease the amount by $285,000,000. On page 25, line 16, increase the amount by $23,000,000. On page 17, line 14, increase the amount by $1,694,400,000. On page 4, line 23, decrease the amount by $300,000,000. On page 25, line 17, increase the amount by $24,000,000. On page 17, line 15, increase the amount by $1,524,960,000. On page 4, line 24, decrease the amount by $285,000,000. On page 25, line 21, increase the amount by $25,000,000. On page 17, line 18, increase the amount by $67,776,000. On page 5, line 4, increase the amount by $300,000,000. On page 25, line 25, increase the amount by $6,525,000,000. On page 17, line 19, increase the amount by $50,832,000. On page 5, line 5, increase the amount by $285,000,000. On page 26, line 4, increase the amount by $9,773,000,000. On page 17, line 22, increase the amount by $33,888,000. On page 5, line 6, decrease the amount by $300,000,000. On page 26, line 8, increase the amount by $8,000,000. On page 17, line 23, increase the amount by $16,944,000. On page 5, line 7, decrease the amount by $285,000,000. On page 42, line 2, decrease the amount by $12,000,000. On page 40, line 6, decrease the amount by $1,694,400,000. On page 5, line 8, decrease the amount by $18,000,000. On page 42, line 3, decrease the amount by $15,000,000. On page 40, line 7, decrease the amount by $1,524,960,000. On page 5, line 9, decrease the amount by $18,000,000. On page 42, line 7, decrease the amount by $16,000,000. On page 40, line 10, decrease the amount by $67,776,000. On page 5, line 10, decrease the amount by $76,000,000. On page 42, line 11, decrease the amount by $18,000,000. On page 40, line 11, decrease the amount by $50,832,000. On page 5, line 11, increase the amount by On page 42, line 15, decrease the amount by $76,000,000. $21,000,000. On page 40, line 14, decrease the amount by $33,888,000. On page 5, line 12, decrease the amount by On page 42, line 19, decrease the amount by $148,000,000. $23,000,000. $16,944,000. On page 40, line 15, decrease the amount by On page 5, line 13, decrease the amount by $148,000,000. Mr. KENNEDY (for himself, $24,000,000. On page 40, line 18, decrease the amount by SA 315. On page 5, line 14, decrease the amount by $225,000,000. Mr. SARBANES, Mr. REED, Mr. DURBIN, $25,000,000. On page 40, line 19, decrease the amount by Mrs. CLINTON, and Ms. CANTWELL) sub- On page 5, line 18, increase the amount by $225,000,000. mitted an amendment intended to be $122,000,000. On page 40, line 22, decrease the amount by proposed by him to the concurrent res- On page 5, line 19, increase the amount by $306,000,000. olution S. Con. Res. 23, setting forth $98,000,000. On page 40, line 23, decrease the amount by the congressional budget for the United On page 5, line 20, increase the amount by $306,000,000. States Governments for fiscal year 2004 $57,000,000. On page 41, line 2, decrease the amount by On page 5, line 21, increase the amount by $394,000,000. and including the appropriate budg- $25,000,000. On page 41, line 3, decrease the amount by etary levels for fiscal year 2003 and for On page 5, line 22, increase the amount by $394,000,000. fiscal years 2005 through 2013; which $26,000,000. On page 41, line 6, decrease the amount by was ordered to lie on the table; as fol- On page 5, line 23, increase the amount by $491,000,000. lows: $33,000,000. On page 41, line 7, decrease the amount by On page 3, line 9, increase the amount by On page 5, line 24, increase the amount by $491,000,000. $6,525,000,000. $66,000,000. On page 41, line 10, decrease the amount by On page 3, line 10, increase the amount by On page 5, line 25, increase the amount by $594,000,000. $9,895,000,000. $23,000,000. On page 41, line 11, decrease the amount by On page 3, line 11, increase the amount by On page 6, line 1, increase the amount by $594,000,000. $90,000,000. $24,000,000. On page 41, line 14, decrease the amount by On page 3, line 12, increase the amount by On page 6, line 2, increase the amount by $705,000,000. $45,000,000. $25,000,000. On page 41, line 15, decrease the amount by On page 3, line 13, increase the amount by On page 6, line 6, decrease the amount by $705,000,000. $10,000,000. $122,000,000. On page 41, line 18, decrease the amount by On page 3, line 14, increase the amount by On page 6, line 7, decrease the amount by $826,000,000. $10,000,000. $220,000,000. On page 41, line 19, decrease the amount by On page 3, line 15, increase the amount by On page 6, line 8, decrease the amount by $826,000,000. $15,000,000. $277,000,000. On page 47, line 5, increase the amount by On page 3, line 16, increase the amount by On page 6, line 9, decrease the amount by $300,000,000. $45,000,000. $302,000,000. On page 47, line 6, increase the amount by On page 3, line 23, increase the amount by On page 6, line 10, decrease the amount by $75,000,000. $6,525,000,000. $328,000,000. On page 47, line 14, increase the amount by On page 4, line 1, increase the amount by On page 6, line 11, decrease the amount by $300,000,000. $9,895,000,000. $361,000,000.

VerDate Dec 13 2002 01:26 Mar 22, 2003 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00083 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A20MR6.186 S20PT2 S4192 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE March 20, 2003 On page 6, line 12, decrease the amount by was ordered to lie on the table; as fol- On page 6, line 11, decrease the amount by $427,000,000. lows: $7,215,000,000. On page 6, line 13, decrease the amount by On page 6, line 12, decrease the amount by On page 3, line 10, increase the amount by $450,000,000. $7,603,000,000. $1,018,000,000. On page 6, line 14, decrease the amount by On page 6, line 13, decrease the amount by On page 3, line 11, increase the amount by $474,000,000. $8,013,000,000. $10,794,000,000. On page 6, line 15, decrease the amount by On page 6, line 14, decrease the amount by On page 3, line 12, increase the amount by $499,000,000. $8,446,000,000. $2,410,000,000. On page 6, line 19, decrease the amount by On page 6, line 15, decrease the amount by On page 3, line 13, increase the amount by $122,000,000. $8,901,000,000. $442,000,000. On page 6, line 20, decrease the amount by On page 6, line 19, decrease the amount by On page 4, line 1, increase the amount by $407,000,000. $220,000,000. $1,018,000,000. On page 6, line 20, decrease the amount by On page 6, line 21, decrease the amount by On page 4, line 2, increase the amount by $4,779,000,000. $277,000,000. $10,794,000,000. On page 6, line 21, decrease the amount by On page 6, line 22, decrease the amount by On page 4, line 3, increase the amount by $6,002,000,000. $302,000,000. $2,410,000,000. On page 6, line 22, decrease the amount by On page 6, line 23, decrease the amount by On page 4, line 4, increase the amount by $6,499,000,000. $328,000,000. $442,000,000. On page 6, line 23, decrease the amount by On page 6, line 24, decrease the amount by On page 4, line 15, increase the amount by $6,847,000,000. $361,000,000. $8,893,000,000. On page 6, line 24, decrease the amount by On page 6, line 25, decrease the amount by On page 4, line 16, decrease the amount by $7,215,000,000. $427,000,000. $128,000,000. On page 6, line 25, decrease the amount by On page 7, line 1, decrease the amount by On page 4, line 17, decrease the amount by $7,603,000,000. $450,000,000. $276,000,000. On page 7, line 1, decrease the amount by On page 7, line 2, decrease the amount by On page 4, line 18, decrease the amount by $8,013,000,000. On page 7, line 2, decrease the amount by $474,000,000. $324,000,000. On page 7, line 3, decrease the amount by $8,446,000,000. On page 4, line 19, decrease the amount by On page 7, line 3, decrease the amount by $499,000,000. $348,000,000. On page 30, line 23, increase the amount by $8,901,000,000. On page 4, line 20, decrease the amount by On page 25, line 16, increase the amount by $6,525,000,000. $367,000,000. On page 30, line 24, increase the amount by $8,900,000,000. On page 4, line 21, decrease the amount by On page 25, line 17, increase the amount $6,525,000,000. $388,000,000. On page 31, line 2, increase the amount by by $618,000,000. On page 4, line 22, decrease the amount by On page 25, line 21, increase the amount $9,775,000,000. $410,000,000. by $6,551,000,000. On page 31, line 3, increase the amount by On page 4, line 23, decrease the amount by On page 25, line 25, increase the amount $9,775,000,000. $432,000,000. by $1,403,000,000. On page 40, line 6, decrease the amount by On page 4, line 24, decrease the amount by On page 26, line 4, increase the amount $2,000,000. $456,000,000. by $268,000,000. On page 40, line 7, decrease the amount by On page 5, line 5, increase the amount by On page 40, line 6, decrease the amount $2,000,000. $611,000,000. by $7,000,000. On page 40, line 10, decrease the amount by On page 5, line 6, increase the amount by On page 40, line 7, decrease the amount $8,000,000. $6,423,000,000. by $7,000,000. On page 40, line 11, decrease the amount by On page 5, line 7, increase the amount by On page 40, line 10, decrease the amount $8,000,000. $1,187,000,000. by $128,000,000. On page 40, line 14, decrease the amount by On page 5, line 8, decrease the amount by On page 40, line 11, decrease the amount $12,000,000. $56,000,000. by $128,000,000. On page 40, line 15, decrease the amount by On page 5, line 9, decrease the amount by On page 40, line 14, decrease the amount $12,000,000. $348,000,000. by $276,000,000. On page 40, line 15, decrease the amount On page 40, line 18, decrease the amount by On page 5, line 10, decrease the amount by $15,000,000. by $276,000,000. $367,000,000. On page 40, line 18, decrease the amount On page 40, line 19, decrease the amount by On page 5, line 11, decrease the amount by $15,000,000. by $324,000,000. $388,000,000. On page 40, line 19, decrease the amount On page 40, line 22, decrease the amount by On page 5, line 12, decrease the amount by $16,000,000. by $324,000,000. $410,000,000. On page 40, line 22, decrease the amount On page 40, line 23, decrease the amount by On page 5, line 13, decrease the amount by $16,000,000. by $348,000,000. $432,000,000. On page 40, line 23, decrease the amount On page 41, line 2, decrease the amount by On page 5, line 14, decrease the amount by by $348,000,000. $18,000,000. $456,000,000. On page 41, line 2, decrease the amount On page 41, line 3, decrease the amount by On page 5, line 18, increase the amount by by $367,000,000. $18,000,000. $407,000,000. On page 41, line 3, decrease the amount On page 41, line 6, decrease the amount by On page 5, line 19, increase the amount by by $367,000,000. $21,000,000. $4,371,000,000. On page 41, line 6, decrease the amount On page 41, line 7, decrease the amount by On page 5, line 20, increase the amount by by $388,000,000. $21,000,000. $1,223,000,000. On page 41, line 7, decrease the amount On page 41, line 10, decrease the amount by On page 5, line 21, increase the amount by by $388,000,000. $23,000,000. $497,000,000. On page 41, line 10, decrease the amount On page 41, line 11, decrease the amount by On page 5, line 22, increase the amount by by $410,000,000. $23,000,000. $348,000,000. On page 41, line 11, decrease the amount On page 41, line 14, decrease the amount by On page 5, line 23, increase the amount by by $410,000,000. $24,000,000. $367,000,000. On page 41, line 14, decrease the amount On page 41, line 15, decrease the amount by On page 5, line 24, increase the amount by by $432,000,000. $24,000,000. $388,000,000. On page 41, line 15, decrease the amount On page 41, line 18, decrease the amount by On page 5, line 25, increase the amount by by $432,000,000. On page 41, line 18, decrease the amount $25,000,000. $410,000,000. by $456,000,000. On page 41, line 19, decrease the amount by On page 6, line 1, increase the amount by On page 41, line 19, decrease the amount $25,000,000. $432,000,000. by $456,000,000. On page 6, line 2, increase the amount by SA 316. Mrs. MURRAY (for herself, On page 47, line 5, increase the amount by $456,000,000. $8,900,000,000. Mr. KENNEDY, and Mr. HARKIN) sub- On page 6, line 6, decrease the amount by On page 47, line 6, increase the amount by mitted an amendment intended to be $407,000,000. $618,000,000. proposed by her to the concurrent reso- On page 6, line 7, decrease the amount by On page 47, line 15, increase the amount by lution S. Con. Res. 23, setting forth the $4,779,000,000. $6,551,000,000. congressional budget for the United On page 6, line 8, decrease the amount by At the end of title III, insert the following: $6,002,000,000. States Governments for fiscal year 2004 SEC. . SENSE OF THE SENATE ON FULL FUND- On page 6, line 9, decrease the amount by ING FOR THE NO CHILD LEFT BE- and including the appropriate budg- $6,499,000,000. HIND ACT. etary levels for fiscal year 2003 and for On page 6, line 10, decrease the amount by It the sense of the Senate that the budg- fiscal years 2005 through 2013; which $6,847,000,000. etary totals in this resolution assume full

VerDate Dec 13 2002 01:26 Mar 22, 2003 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00084 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A20MR6.201 S20PT2 March 20, 2003 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S4193 funding for the No Child Left Behind Act in On page 4, line 23, decrease the amount by On page 36, line 20, increase the amount by 2004, including providing the $18,500,000,000 $224,000,000. $1,050,000,000. for title I that is authorized in the No Child On page 4, line 24, decrease the amount by On page 36, line 24, increase the amount by Left Behind Act. $236,000,000. $600,000,000. On page 5, line 5, increase the amount by On page 37, line 3, increase the amount by SA 317. Mr. CRAPO submitted an $1,031,000,000. $300,000,000. amendment intended to be proposed by On page 5, line 6, increase the amount by On page 40, line 6, decrease the amount by him to the concurrent resolution S. $975,000,000. $19,000,000. Con. Res. 23, setting forth the congres- On page 5, line 7, increase the amount by On page 40, line 7, decrease the amount by $473,000,000. $19,000,000. sional budget for the United States On page 5, line 8, increase the amount by On page 40, line 10, decrease the amount by Governments for fiscal year 2004 and $138,000,000. $75,000,000. including the appropriate budgetary On page 5, line 9, decrease the amount by On page 40, line 11, decrease the amount by levels for fiscal year 2003 and for fiscal $179,000,000. $75,000,000. years 2005 through 2013; which was or- On page 5, line 10, decrease the amount by On page 40, line 14, decrease the amount by dered to lie on the table; as follows: $190,000,000. $127,000,000. On page 5, line 11, decrease the amount by On page 40, line 15, decrease the amount by On page 16, line 11, increase the amount by $201,000,000. $127,000,000. $3,009,000,000. On page 5, line 12, decrease the amount by On page 40, line 18, decrease the amount by On page 16, line 12, increase the amount by $212,000,000. $162,000,000. $150,000,000. On page 5, line 13, decrease the amount by On page 16, line 16, increase the amount by On page 40, line 19, decrease the amount by $224,000,000. $451,000,000. $162,000,000. On page 5, line 14, decrease the amount by On page 16, line 20, increase the amount by On page 40, line 22, decrease the amount by $236,000,000. $903,000,000. $179,000,000. On page 5, line 18, increase the amount by On page 16, line 24, increase the amount by On page 40, line 23, decrease the amount by $1,069,000,000. $903,000,000. $179,000,000. On page 5, line 19, increase the amount by On page 17, line 3, increase the amount by On page 41, line 2, decrease the amount by $1,125,000,000. $451,000,000. $190,000,000. On page 42, line 2, decrease the amount by On page 5, line 20, increase the amount by On page 41, line 3, decrease the amount by $3,009,000,000. $727,000,000. $190,000,000. On page 42, line 3, decrease the amount by On page 5, line 21, increase the amount by On page 41, line 6, decrease the amount by $150,000,000. $462,000,000. $201,000,000. On page 42, line 7, decrease the amount by On page 5, line 22, increase the amount by On page 41, line 7, decrease the amount by $451,000,000. $179,000,000. $201,000,000. On page 42, line 11, decrease the amount by On page 5, line 23, increase the amount by On page 41, line 10, decrease the amount by $903,000,000. $190,000,000. $212,000,000. On page 42, line 15, decrease the amount by On page 5, line 24, increase the amount by On page 41, line 11, decrease the amount by $903,000,000. $201,000,000. $212,000,000. On page 42, line 19, decrease the amount by On page 5, line 25, increase the amount by On page 41, line 14, decrease the amount by $451,000,000. $212,000,000. $224,000,000. On page 6, line 1, increase the amount by On page 41, line 15, decrease the amount by SA 318. Mr. LEAHY (for himself, Mr. $224,000,000. $224,000,000. On page 6, line 2, increase the amount by DASCHLE, Mr. REID, Mr. BIDEN, Mr. On page 41, line 18, decrease the amount by $238,000,000. $236,000,000. SCHUMER, Mrs. CLINTON, and Mr. DAY- On page 6, line 6, decrease the amount by On page 41, line 19, decrease the amount by TON) submitted an amendment in- $1,069,000,000. $236,000,000. tended to be proposed by him to the On page 6, line 7, decrease the amount by On page 45, line 24, decrease the amount by concurrent resolution S. Con. Res. 23, $2,194,000,000. $6,000,000,000. setting forth the congressional budget On page 6, line 8, decrease the amount by On page 47, line 5, increase the amount by for the United States Governments for $2,921,000,000. $3,000,000,000. fiscal year 2004 and including the ap- On page 6, line 8, decrease the amount by On page 47, line 6, increase the amount by $3,383,000,000. propriate budgetary levels for fiscal $1,050,000,000. On page 6, line 10, decrease the amount by On page 47, line 15, increase the amount by year 2003 and for fiscal years 2005 $3,562,000,000. $1,050,000,000. through 2013; which was ordered to lie On page 6, line 11, decrease the amount by On page 79, after line 22, add the following: on the table; as follows: $3,752,000,000. SEC. 308. PROVIDING GRANTS TO SUPPORT FIRST On page 3, line 10, increase the amount by On page 6, line 12, decrease the amount by RESPONDERS IN THEIR EFFORTS TO $2,100,000,000. $3,953,000,000. PROTECT HOMELAND SECURITY On page 3, line 11, increase the amount by On page 6, line 13, decrease the amount by AND PREVENT AND RESPOND TO $2,100,000,000. $4,165,000,000. ACTS OF TERRORISM. On page 3, line 12, increase the amount by On page 6, line 14, decrease the amount by (a) FINDINGS.—The Senate finds that— $1,200,000,000. $4,389,000,000. (1) since the terrorist attacks of September On page 3, line 13, increase the amount by On page 6, line 15, decrease the amount by 11, 2001, our Nation has asked State and local $600,000,000. $4,625,000,000. first responders (firefighters, law enforce- On page 4, line 1, increase the amount by On page 6, line 19, decrease the amount by ment officers, and emergency personnel) to $2,100,000,000. $1,069,000,000. defend Americans as never before on the On page 4, line 2, increase the amount by On page 6, line 20, decrease the amount by front lines in the war against terrorism: $2,100,000,000. $2,194,000,000. (2) on March 17, 2003, the Department of On page 4, line 3, increase the amount by On page 6, line 21, decrease the amount by Homeland Security, in consultation with the $1,200,000,000. $2,921,000,000. Homeland Security Council, raised the na- On page 4, line 4, increase the amount by On page 6, line 22, decrease the amount by tional threat level from an ‘‘Elevated’’ to $600,000,000. $3,383,000,000. ‘‘High’’ risk of terrorist attack (Level Or- On page 4, line 15, increase the amount by On page 6, line 23, decrease the amount by ange) because the intelligence community $2,981,000,000. $3,562,000,000. believes that terrorists will attempt mul- On page 4, line 16, decrease the amount by On page 6, line 24, decrease the amount by tiple attacks against United States and Coa- $75,000,000. $3,752,000,000. lition targets worldwide in the event of a On page 4, line 17, decrease the amount by On page 6, line 25, decrease the amount by military campaign against Saddam Hussein $127,000,000. $3,953,000,000. led by the United States; On page 4, line 18, decrease the amount by On page 7, line 1, decrease the amount by (3) Level Orange indicates a high prob- $162,000,000. $4,165,000,000. ability of a terrorist attack and requires ad- On page 4, line 19, decrease the amount by On page 7, line 2, decrease the amount by ditional precautions by first responders at $179,000,000. $4,389,000,000. public events; On page 4, line 20, decrease the amount by On page 7, line 3, decrease the amount by (4) this is the third time since the Federal $190,000,000. $4,625,000,000. Homeland Security Advisory System was On page 4, line 21, decrease the amount by On page 36, line 15, increase the amount by created on March 12, 2002, that State and $201,000,000. $3,000,000,000. local first responders have been kept on Or- On page 4, line 22, decrease the amount by On page 36, line 16, increase the amount by ange Alert, including— $212,000,000. $1,050,000,000. (A) September 10 to September 24, 2002;

VerDate Dec 13 2002 01:26 Mar 22, 2003 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00085 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A20MR6.214 S20PT2 S4194 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE March 20, 2003 (B) February 7 to February 27, 2003; On page 4, line 17, increase the amount by On page 6, line 22, decrease the amount by (5) notwithstanding the periods listed $269,000,000. $191,000,000. under paragraph (4), the Nation has continu- On page 4, line 18, increase the amount by On page 6, line 23, decrease the amount by ously been at Yellow Alert (an ‘‘elevated’’ $267,000,000. $314,000,000. threat level declared when there is a signifi- On page 4, line 19, increase the amount by On page 6, line 24, decrease the amount by cant risk of terrorist attacks), which has re- $262,000,000. $520,000,000. quired increased surveillance of critical loca- On page 4, line 20, increase the amount by On page 6, line 25, decrease the amount by tions for State and local first responders; $253,000,000. $832,000,000. (6) the National Governors’ Association es- On page 4, line 21, increase the amount by On page 7, line 1, decrease the amount by timates that States incurred about $240,000,000. $1,270,000,000. $7,000,000,000 in homeland security costs in On page 4, line 22, decrease the amount by On page 7, line 2, decrease the amount by the past year for State and local first re- $220,000,000. $1,862,000,000. sponders; and On page 4, line 23, decrease the amount by On page 7, line 3, decrease the amount by (7) as a result of the elevated and high na- $193,000,000. $2,642,000,000. tional threat alerts and other Federal home- On page 4, line 24, decrease the amount by On page 25, line 16, increase the amount by land security requirements, State and local $156,000,000. $275,000,000. governments have been subject to unfunded On page 5, line 5, increase the amount by On page 25, line 17, increase the amount by Federal mandates. $11,000,000. $14,000,000. (b) SENSE OF THE SENATE.—It is the sense On page 5, line 6, increase the amount by On page 25, line 20, increase the amount by of the Senate that— $187,000,000. $275,000,000. (1) the funding levels in this resolution as- On page 5, line 7, increase the amount by On page 25, line 21, increase the amount by sume a total of at least $6,500,000,000 for fis- $255,000,000. $193,000,000. cal year 2004 for the Office of Domestic Pre- On page 5, line 8, increase the amount by On page 25, line 24, increase the amount by paredness through the Department of Home- $267,000,000. $275,000,000. land Security to provide direct funds to sup- On page 5, line 9, increase the amount by On page 25, line 25, increase the amount by port first responders nationwide in their ef- $262,000,000. $261,000,000. forts to protect homeland security and to On page 5, line 10, increase the amount by On page 26, line 3, increase the amount by prevent and respond to acts of terrorism. $253,000,000. $275,000,000. On page 5, line 11, increase the amount by On page 26, line 4, increase the amount by SA 319. Mr. LEVIN submitted an $240,000,000. $275,000,000. amendment intended to be proposed by On page 5, line 12, decrease the amount by On page 26, line 7, increase the amount by him to the concurrent resolution S. $220,000,000. $275,000,000. On page 5, line 13, decrease the amount by On page 26, line 8, increase the amount by Con. Res. 23, setting forth the congres- $193,000,000. $275,000,000. sional budget for the United States On page 5, line 14, decrease the amount by On page 26, line 11, increase the amount by Governments for fiscal year 2004 and $156,000,000. $275,000,000. including the appropriate budgetary On page 5, line 17, decrease the amount by On page 26, line 12, increase the amount by levels for fiscal year 2003 and for fiscal $38,000,000. $275,000,000. years 2005 through 2013; which was or- On page 5, line 18, decrease the amount by On page 26, line 15, increase the amount by dered to lie on the table; as follows: $119,000,000. $275,000,000. On page 5, line 19, increase the amount by On page 26, line 16, increase the amount by On page 3, line 9, increase the amount by $34,000,000. $275,000,000. $38,000,000. On page 5, line 20, decrease the amount by On page 26, line 19, increase the amount by On page 3, line 10, increase the amount by $13,000,000. $275,000,000. $130,000,000. On page 5, line 21, decrease the amount by On page 26, line 20, increase the amount by On page 3, line 11, increase the amount by $54,000,000. $275,000,000. $153,000,000. On page 5, line 22, decrease the amount by On page 26, line 23, increase the amount by On page 3, line 12, increase the amount by $123,000,000. $275,000,000. $268,000,000. On page 5, line 23, decrease the amount by On page 26, line 24, increase the amount by On page 3, line 13, increase the amount by $207,000,000. $275,000,000. $321,000,000. On page 5, line 24, decrease the amount by On page 27, line 2, increase the amount by On page 3, line 14, increase the amount by $311,000,000. $275,000,000. $385,000,000. On page 3, line 15, increase the amount by On page 5, line 25, decrease the amount by On page 27, line 3, increase the amount by $460,000,000. $438,000,000. $275,000,000. On page 3, line 16, increase the amount by On page 6, line 1, decrease the amount by On page 40, line 6, decrease the amount by $551,000,000. $592,000,000. $3,000,000. On page 3, line 17, increase the amount by On page 6, line 2, decrease the amount by On page 40, line 7, decrease the amount by $658,000,000. $780,000,000. $3,000,000. On page 3, line 18, increase the amount by On page 6, line 5, decrease the amount by On page 40, line 10, decrease the amount by $785,000,000. $38,000,000. $6,000,000. On page 3, line 19, increase the amount by On page 6, line 6, decrease the amount by On page 40, line 11, decrease the amount by $936,000,000. $157,000,000. $6,000,000. On page 3, line 23, increase the amount by On page 6, line 7, decrease the amount by On page 40, line 14, decrease the amount by $38,000,000. $124,000,000. $6,000,000. On page 4, line 1, increase the amount by On page 6, line 8, decrease the amount by On page 40, line 15, decrease the amount by $130,000,000. $137,000,000. $6,000,000. On page 4, line 2, increase the amount by On page 6, line 8, decrease the amount by On page 40, line 18, decrease the amount by $153,000,000. $191,000,000. $8,000,000. On page 4, line 3, increase the amount by On page 6, line 10, decrease the amount by On page 40, line 19, decrease the amount by $268,000,000. $314,000,000. $8,000,000. On page 4, line 4, increase the amount by On page 6, line 11, decrease the amount by On page 40, line 22, decrease the amount by $321,000,000. $520,000,000. $13,000,000. On page 4, line 5, increase the amount by On page 6, line 12, decrease the amount by On page 40, line 23, decrease the amount by $385,000,000. $832,000,000. $13,000,000. On page 4, line 6, increase the amount by On page 6, line 13, decrease the amount by On page 41, line 2, decrease the amount by $460,000,000. $1,270,000,000. $22,000,000. On page 4, line 7, increase the amount by On page 6, line 14, decrease the amount by On page 41, line 3, decrease the amount by $551,000,000. $1,862,000,000. $22,000,000. On page 4, line 8, increase the amount by On page 6, line 15, decrease the amount by On page 41, line 6, decrease the amount by $658,000,000. $2,642,000,000. $35,000,000. On page 4, line 9, increase the amount by On page 6, line 18, decrease the amount by On page 41, line 7, decrease the amount by $785,000,000. $38,000,000. $35,000,000. On page 4, line 10, increase the amount by On page 6, line 19, decrease the amount by On page 41, line 10, decrease the amount by $936,000,000. $157,000,000. $55,000,000. On page 4, line 15, increase the amount by On page 6, line 20, decrease the amount by On page 41, line 11, decrease the amount by $272,000,000. $124,000,000. $55,000,000. On page 4, line 16, increase the amount by On page 6, line 21, decrease the amount by On page 41, line 14, decrease the amount by $269,000,000. $137,000,000. $82,000,000.

VerDate Dec 13 2002 01:26 Mar 22, 2003 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00086 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A20MR6.234 S20PT2 March 20, 2003 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S4195 On page 41, line 15, decrease the amount by On page 5, line 6, increase the amount by On page 16, line 20, increase the amount by $82,000,000. $104,000,000. $240,000,000. On page 41, line 18, decrease the amount by On page 5, line 7, increase the amount by On page 16, line 23, increase the amount by $119,000,000. $92,000,000. $300,000,000. On page 41, line 19, decrease the amount by On page 5, line 8, increase the amount by On page 16, line 24, increase the amount by $119,000,000. $45,000,000. $270,000,000. On page 47, line 5, increase the amount by On page 5, line 9, decrease the amount by On page 17, line 2, increase the amount by $275,000,000. 21,000,000. $300,000,000. On page 47, line 6, increase the amount by On page 5, line 10, decrease the amount by On page 17, line 3, increase the amount by $14,000,000. $109,000,000. $285,000,000. On page 47, line 14, increase the amount by On page 5, line 11, decrease the amount by On page 17, line 6, increase the amount by $275,000,000. $206,000,000. $300,000,000. On page 47, line 15, increase the amount by On page 5, line 12, decrease the amount by On page 17, line 7, increase the amount by $193,000,000. $309,000,000. $285,000,000. On page 5, line 13, decrease the amount by On page 17, line 10, increase the amount by SA 320. Mr. LAUTENBERG sub- $420,000,000. $300,000,000. mitted an amendment intended to be On page 5, line 14, decrease the amount by On page 17, line 11, increase the amount by proposed by him to the concurrent res- $541,000,000. $285,000,000. olution S. Con. Res. 23, setting forth On page 5, line 18, increase the amount by On page 17, line 14, increase the amount by the congressional budget for the United $1,024,000,000. $300,000,000. On page 5, line 19, increase the amount by On page 17, line 15, increase the amount by States Government for fiscal year 2004 $1,245,000,000. and including the appropriate budg- $285,000,000. On page 5, line 20, increase the amount by On page 17, line 18, increase the amount by etary levels for fiscal year 2003 end for $1,351,000,000. $300,000,000. fiscal year 2005 through 2013; which was On page 5, line 21, increase the amount by On page 17, line 19, increase the amount by ordered to lie on the table, as follows: $1,460,000,000. $285,000,000. On page 3, line 10, increase the amount by On page 5, line 22, increase the amount by On page 17, line 22, increase the amount by $1,081,000,000. $1,589,000,000. $300,000,000. On page 3, line 11, increase the amount by On page 5, line 23, increase the amount by On page 17, line 23, increase the amount by $1,349,000,000. $1,729,000,000. $285,000,000. On page 3, line 12, increase the amount by On page 5, line 24, increase the amount by On page 40, line 6, decrease the amount by $1,443,000,000. $1,873,000,000. $18,000,000. On page 3, line 13, increase the amount by On page 5, line 25, increase the amount by On page 40, line 7, decrease the amount by $1,505,000,000. $2,030,000,000. $18,000,000. On page 3, line 14, increase the amount by On page 6, line 1, increase the amount by On page 40, line 10, decrease the amount by $1,568,000,000. $2,197,000,000. $76,000,000. On page 6, line 2, increase the amount by On page 3, line 15, increase the amount by On page 40, line 11, decrease the amount by $2,374,000,000. $1,620,000,000. $76,000,000. On page 6, line 6, decrease the amount by On page 3, line 16, increase the amount by On page 40, line 14, decrease the amount by $1,024,000,000. $1,667,000,000. $148,000,000. On page 6, line 7, decrease the amount by On page 3, line 17, increase the amount by On page 40, line 15, decrease the amount by $2,269,000,000. $1,721,000,000. $148,000,000. On page 6, line 8, decrease the amount by On page 3, line 18, increase the amount by On page 40, line 18, decrease the amount by $3,620,000,000. $1,777,000,000. $225,000,000. On page 6, line 8, decrease the amount by On page 3, line 19, increase the amount by On page 40, line 19, decrease the amount by $5,080,000,000. $1,833,000,000. $225,000,000. On page 6, line 10, decrease the amount by On page 4, line 1, increase the amount by On page 40, line 22, decrease the amount by $6,669,000,000. $1,081,000,000. $306,000,000. On page 6, line 11, decrease the amount by On page 4, line 2, increase the amount by On page 40, line 23, decrease the amount by $8,399,000,000. $1,349,000,000. $306,000,000. On page 6, line 12, decrease the amount by On page 4, line 3, increase the amount by On page 41, line 2, decrease the amount by $10,271,000,000. $1,443,000,000. $394,000,000. On page 6, line 13, decrease the amount by On page 4, line 4, increase the amount by On page 41, line 3, decrease the amount by $12,301,000,000. $1,505,000,000. $394,000,000. On page 6, line 14, decrease the amount by On page 4, line 5, increase the amount by On page 41, line 6, decrease the amount by $14,498,000,000. $1,568,000,000. $491,000,000. On page 4, line 6, increase the amount by On page 6, line 15, decrease the amount by $16,872,000,000. On page 41, line 7, decrease the amount by $1,620,000,000. $491,000,000. On page 4, line 7, increase the amount by On page 6, line 19, decrease the amount by $1,024,000,000. On page 41, line 10, decrease the amount by $1,667,000,000. $594,000,000. On page 4, line 8, increase the amount by On page 6, line 20, decrease the amount by $2,269,000,000. On page 41, line 11, decrease the amount by $1,721,000,000. $594,000,000. On page 4, line 9, increase the amount by On page 6, line 21, decrease the amount by On page 41, line 14, decrease the amount by $1,777,000,000. $3,620,000,000. $705,000,000. On page 4, line 10, increase the amount by On page 6, line 22, decrease the amount by On page 41, line 15, decrease the amount by $1,833,000,000. $5,080,000,000. $705,000,000. On page 4, line 15, increase the amount by On page 6, line 23, decrease the amount by On page 41, line 18, decrease the amount by $282,000,000. $6,669,000,000. $826,000,000. On page 4, line 16, increase the amount by On page 6, line 24, decrease the amount by On page 41, line 19, decrease the amount by $224,000,000. $8,399,000,000. $826,000,000. On page 4, line 17, increase the amount by On page 6, line 25, decrease the amount by On page 47, line 5, increase the amount by $152,000,000. $10,271,000,000. On page 4, line 18, increase the amount by On page 7, line 1, decrease the amount by $300,000,000. $75,000,000. $12,301,000,000. On page 47, line 6, increase the amount by On page 4, line 19, decrease the amount by On page 7, line 2, decrease the amount by $75,000,000. $6,000,000. $14,498,000,000. On page 47, line 14, increase the amount by On page 4, line 20, decrease the amount by On page 7, line 3, decrease the amount by $300,000,000. $94,000,000. $16,872,000,000. On page 47, line 15, increase the amount by On page 4, line 21, decrease the amount by On page 16, line 11, increase the amount by $180,000,000. $191,000,000. $300,000,000. On page 79, after line 22, add the following: On page 4, line 22, decrease the amount by On page 16, line 12, increase the amount by SEC. 308. SENSE OF THE SENATE ON SUPERFUND. $294,000,000. $75,000,000. (a) FINDINGS.—The Senate finds that— On page 4, line 23, decrease the amount by On page 16, line 15, increase the amount by (1) the most contaminated, toxic sites in $405,000,000. $300,000,000. the country are cleaned up through the On page 4, line 24, decrease the amount by On page 16, line 16, increase the amount by Superfund Program; $526,000,000. $180,000,000. (2) the President’s budget assumes sharp On page 5, line 5, increase the amount by On page 16, line 19, increase the amount by reductions in the number of Superfund sites $57,000,000. $300,000,000. to be cleaned up during fiscal year 2004; and

VerDate Dec 13 2002 01:26 Mar 22, 2003 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00087 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A20MR6.237 S20PT2 S4196 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE March 20, 2003 (3) this resolution provides a significant in- On page 4, line 19, decrease the amount by On page 6, line 25, decrease the amount by crease in funding for the Superfund Program $1,000,000. $30,000,000. for each of the fiscal years 2004 through 2013. On page 4, line 20, decrease the amount by On page 7, line 1, decrease the amount by (b) SENSE OF THE SENATE.—It is the sense $1,000,000. $31,000,000. of the Senate that funding under this resolu- On page 4, line 21, decrease the amount by On page 7, line 2, decrease the amount by tion assumes that the Federal Government $2,000,000. $33,000,000. will keep its commitment to the American On page 4, line 22, decrease the amount by On page 7, line 3, decrease the amount by people to clean up contaminated sites by suf- $2,000,000. $35,000,000. ficiently funding the Superfund program to On page 4, line 23, decrease the amount by On page 20, line 2, increase the amount by enable a significant increase in the number $2,000,000. $22,000,000. of toxic waste sites cleaned up during each of On page 4, line 24, decrease the amount by On page 20, line 3, increase the amount by the fiscal years 2004 through 2013. $2,000,000. $17,000,000. On page 5, line 5, increase the amount by On page 20, line 7, increase the amount by SA 321. Mr. SCHUMER (for himself $17,000,000. $15,000,000. and Mrs. CLINTON) submitted an On page 5, line 6, increase the amount by On page 40, line 10, decrease the amount by amendment intended to be proposed by $4,000,000. $1,000,000. him to the concurrent resolution S. On page 5, line 7, decrease the amount by On page 40, line 11, decrease the amount by $1,000,000. Con. Res. 23, setting forth the congres- $1,000,000. On page 5, line 8, decrease the amount by On page 40, line 14, decrease the amount by sional budget for the United States $1,000,000. $1,000,000. Governments for fiscal 2004 and includ- On page 5, line 9, decrease the amount by On page 40, line 15, decrease the amount by ing the appropriate budgetary levels $1,000,000. $1,000,000. for fiscal year 2003 and for fiscal years On page 5, line 10, decrease the amount by On page 40, line 18, decrease the amount by 2005 through 2013; which was ordered to $1,000,000. $1,000,000. lie on the table; as follows: On page 5, line 11, decrease the amount by On page 40, line 19, decrease the amount by $2,000,000. $1,000,000. On page 21, line 23, increase the amount by On page 40, line 22, decrease the amount by $50,000,000. On page 5, line 12, decrease the amount by $2,000,000. $1,000,000. On page 21, line 24, increase the amount by On page 40, line 23, decrease the amount by $50,000,000. On page 5, line 13, decrease the amount by $2,000,000. $1,000,000. On page 79, line 22, insert the following: On page 41, line 2, decrease the amount by SEC. . INCREASED FUNDING FOR ESSENTIAL On page 5, line 14, decrease the amount by $2,000,000. $1,000,000. AIR SERVICE. On page 41, line 3, decrease the amount by The budgetary levels in this resolution as- On page 5, line 18, increase the amount by $17,000,000. $1,000,000. sume that an additional $50,000,000 will be On page 41, line 6, decrease the amount by provided for the Essential Air Service of the On page 5, line 19, increase the amount by $6,000,000. $2,000,000. Department of Transportation to be derived On page 41, line 7, decrease the amount by On page 5, line 20, increase the amount by by reducing any revenue reductions assumed $2,000,000. $1,000,000. in this resolution. On page 41, line 10, decrease the amount by On page 5, line 21, increase the amount by $2,000,000. $1,000,000. SA 322. Mr. FEINGOLD (for himself On page 41, line 11, decrease the amount by and Mr. HARKIN) submitted an amend- On page 5, line 22, increase the amount by $2,000,000. ment intended to be proposed by him $1,000,000. On page 41, line 14, decrease the amount by to the concurrent resolution S. Con. On page 5, line 23, increase the amount by $2,000,000. Res. 23, setting forth the congressional $1,000,000. On page 41, line 15, decrease the amount by budget for the United States Govern- On page 5, line 24, increase the amount by $2,000,000. $1,000,000. On page 41, line 18, decrease the amount by ments for fiscal year 2004 and including $2,000,000. the appropriate budgetary levels for On page 5, line 25, increase the amount by On page 41, line 19, decrease the amount by fiscal year 2003 and for fiscal years 2005 $2,000,000. $2,000,000. through 2013; which was ordered to lie On page 6, line 1, increase the amount by on the table; as follows: $2,000,000. SA 324. Mrs. LINCOLN (for herself, On page 57, lines 3 through 5, strike ‘‘as ad- On page 6, line 2, increase the amount by Ms. LANDRIEU, and Mr. PRYOR) sub- justed for any changes in revenues or direct $2,000,000. mitted an amendment intended to be spending assumed by such resolution’’ and On page 6, line 6, decrease the amount by proposed by her to the concurrent reso- insert ‘‘based on laws enacted on the date of $17,000,000. lution S. Con. Res. 23, setting forth the adoption of that resolution as adjusted for On page 6, line 7, decrease the amount by congressional budget for the United up to $350 billion in revenues or direct spend- $23,000,000. States Governments for fiscal year 2004 ing assumed by section 104 of this resolu- On page 6, line 8, decrease the amount by and including the appropriate budg- tion’’. $24,000,000. etary levels for fiscal year 2003 and for SA 323. Mr. DORGAN submitted an On page 6, line 9, decrease the amount by fiscal years 2005 through 2013; which amendment intended to be proposed by $26,000,000. was ordered to lie on the table; as fol- him to the concurrent resolution S. On page 6, line 10, decrease the amount by lows: Con. Res. 23, setting forth the congres- $27,000,000. On page 45, line 24, decrease the amount sional budget for the United States On page 6, line 11, decrease the amount by by $20,279,000,000. Governments for fiscal year 2004 and $28,000,000. On page 3, line 10, increase the amount by including the appropriate budgetary On page 6, line 12, decrease the amount by $343,000,000. $30,000,000. On page 3, line 11, increase the amount by levels for fiscal years 2005 through 2013; $919,000,000. On page 6, line 13, decrease the amount by which was ordered to lie on the table; On page 3, line 12, increase the amount by $31,000,000. as follows: $1,604,000,000. On page 3, line 10, increase the amount by On page 6, line 14, decrease the amount by On page 3, line 13, increase the amount by $34,000,000. $33,000,000. $1,968,000,000. On page 3, line 11, increase the amount by On page 6, line 15, decrease the amount by On page 3, line 14, increase the amount by $10,000,000. $35,000,000. $2,151,000,000. On page 4, line 1, increase the amount by On page 6, line 19, decrease the amount by On page 3, line 15, increase the amount by $34,000,000. $17,000,000. $2,311,000,000. On page 4, line 2, increase the amount by On page 6, line 20, decrease the amount by On page 3, line 16, increase the amount by $10,000,000. $23,000,000. $2,475,000,000. On page 4, line 15, increase the amount by On page 6, line 21, decrease the amount by On page 3, line 17, increase the amount by $22,000,000. $24,000,000. $2,648,000,000. On page 4, line 16, decrease the amount by On page 6, line 22, decrease the amount by On page 3, line 18, increase the amount by $1,000,000. $26,000,000. $2,832,000,000. On page 4, line 17, decrease the amount by On page 6, line 23, decrease the amount by On page 3, line 19, increase the amount by $1,000,000. $27,000,000. $3,028,000,000. On page 4, line 18, decrease the amount by On page 6, line 24, decrease the amount by On page 4, line 1, increase the amount by $1,000,000. $28,000,000. $343,000,000.

VerDate Dec 13 2002 01:26 Mar 22, 2003 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00088 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A20MR6.215 S20PT2 March 20, 2003 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S4197 On page 4, line 2, increase the amount by On page 10, line 7, increase the amount by Governments for fiscal year 2004 and $919,000,000. $.2,648,000,000 including the appropriate budgetary On page 4, line 3, increase the amount by On page 10, line 10, increase the amount by levels for fiscal year 2003 and for fiscal $1,604,000,000. $2,888,000,000. On page 4, line 4, increase the amount by On page 10, line 11, increase the amount by years 2005 through 2013; which was or- $1,968,000,000. $2,832,000,000. dered to lie on the table; as follows: On page 4, line 5, increase the amount by On page 10, line 14, increase the amount by On page 3, line 10, increase the amount by $2,151,000,000. $3,088,000,000. $380,000,000. On page 4, line 6, increase the amount by On page 10, line 15, increase the amount by On page 3, line 11, increase the amount by $2,311,000,000. $3,028,000,000. $1,140,000,000. On page 4, line 7, increase the amount by On page 47, line 5, increase the amount by On page 3, line 12, increase the amount by $2,475,000,000. $426,000,000. $2,280,000,000. On page 4, line 8, increase the amount by On page 47, line 6, increase the amount by On page 3, line 13, increase the amount by $2,648,000,000. $343,000,000. $2,280,000,000. On page 4, line 9, increase the amount by On page 47, line 14, increase the amount by On page 3, line 14, increase the amount by $2,832,000,000. $1,055,000,000. $1,140,000,000. On page 4, line 10, increase the amount by On page 47, line 15, increase the amount by On page 4, line 1, increase the amount by $3,028,000,000. $919,000,000. $801,000,000. On page 4, line 15, increase the amount by On page 4, line 2, increase the amount by $426,000,000. SA 325. Mrs. CLINTON (for herself, $1,140,000,000. On page 4, line 16, increase the amount by Mr. SCHUMER, and Mr. DODD) submitted On page 4, line 3, increase the amount by $1,055,000,000. an amendment intended to be proposed $2,280,000,000. On page 4, line 4, increase the amount by On page 4, line 17, increase the amount by by her to the concurrent resolution S. $1,768,000,000. $2,280,000,000. On page 4, line 18, increase the amount by Con. Res. 23, setting forth the congres- On page 4, line 5, increase the amount by $2,059,000,000. sional budget for the United States $1,140,000,000. On page 4, line 19, increase the amount by Governments for fiscal year 2004 and On page 4, line 15, increase the amount by $2,205,000,000. including the appropriate budgetary $3,797,000,000. On page 4, line 20, increase the amount by levels for fiscal year 2003 and for fiscal On page 4, line 16, decrease the amount by $2,360,000,000. years 2005 through 2013; which was or- $23,000,000. On page 4, line 21, increase the amount by dered to lie on the table; as follows: On page 4, line 17, decrease the amount by $2,525,000,000. $72,000,000. On page 4, line 22, increase the amount by On page 12, line 19, decrease the amount by On page 4, line 18, decrease the amount by $2,701,000,000. $5,668,000. $138,000,000. On page 4, line 23, increase the amount by On page 12, line 20, decrease the amount by On page 4, line 19, decrease the amount by $2,888,000,000. $2,551,000. $195,000,000. On page 4, line 24, increase the amount by On page 12, line 24, decrease the amount by On page 4, line 20, decrease the amount by $3,088,000,000. $2,267,000. $224,000,000. On page 5, line 5, increase the amount by On page 13, line 3, decrease the amount by On page 4, line 21, decrease the amount by $343,000,000. $680,000. $237,000,000. On page 5, line 6, increase the amount by On page 13, line 7, decrease the amount by On page 4, line 22, decrease the amount by $919,000,000. $113,000. $250,000,000. On page 5, line 7, increase the amount by On page 13, line 11, decrease the amount by On page 4, line 23, decrease the amount by $1,604,000,000. $57,000. $283,000,000. On page 5, line 8, increase the amount by On page 18, line 5, increase the amount by On page 4, line 24, decrease the amount by $1,968,000,000. $5,668,000. $278,000,000. On page 5, line 9, increase the amount by On page 18, line 7, increase the amount by On page 5, line 5, increase the amount by $2,151,000,000. $2,551,000. $187,000,000. On page 5, line 10, increase the amount by On page 18, line 11, increase the amount by On page 5, line 6, increase the amount by $2,311,000,000. $2,267,000. $547,000,000. On page 5, line 11, increase the amount by On page 18, line 15, increase the amount by On page 5, line 7, increase the amount by $2,475,000,000. $680,000. $1,068,000,000. On page 5, line 12, increase the amount by On page 18, line 19, increase the amount by On page 5, line 8, increase the amount by $2,648,000,000. $113,000. $1,002,000,000. On page 5, line 13, increase the amount by On page 18, line 23, increase the amount by On page 5, line 9, increase the amount by $2,832,000,000. $57,000. $261,000,000. On page 5, line 14, increase the amount by On page 5, line 10, decrease the amount by $3,028,000,000. SA 326. Mr. LEVIN (for himself and $224,000,000. On page 9, line 2, increase the amount by Mr. HATCH) submitted an amendment On page 5, line 11, decrease the amount by $426,000,000. intended to be proposed by him to the $237,000,000. On page 9, line 3, increase the amount by concurrent resolution S. Con. Res. 23, On page 5, line 12, decrease the amount by $343,000,000. setting forth the congressional budget $250,000,000. On page 9, line 6, increase the amount by for the United States Governments for On page 54, line 13, decrease the amount by $1,055,000,000. $263,000,000. On page 9, line 7, increase the amount by fiscal year 2004 and including the ap- On page 5, line 14, decrease the amount by $919,000,000. propriate budgetary levels for fiscal $278,000,000. On page 9, line 10, increase the amount by year 2003 and for fiscal years 2005 On page 5, line 18, increase the amount by $1,768,000,000. through 2013; which was ordered to lie $193,000,000. On page 9, line 11, increase the amount by on the table; as follows: On page 5, line 19, increase the amount by $1,604,000,000. At the end of title III, add the following: $593,000,000. On page 9, line 14, increase the amount by On page 5, line 20, increase the amount by $2,059,000,000. SEC. ll. SENSE OF THE SENATE CONCERNING $1,212,000,000. FUNDING FOR DRUG TREATMENT On page 9, line 15, increase the amount by PROGRAMS. On page 5, line 21, increase the amount by $1,968,000,000. It is the sense of the Senate that the func- $1,278,000,000. On page 9, line 18, increase the amount by tional totals in this resolution assume that On page 5, line 22, increase the amount by $2,205,000,000. $20,000,000 from funds designated for drug $879,000,000. On page 9, line 19, increase the amount by interdiction should be used for service-ori- On page 5, line 23, increase the amount by $2,151,000,000. ented targeted grants for the utilization of $224,000,000. On page 9, line 22, increase the amount by substances that block the craving for heroin On page 5, line 24, increase the amount by $2,360,000,000. and that are newly approved for such use by $237,000,000. On page 9, line 23, increase the amount by the Food and Drug Administration. On page 5, line 25, increase the amount by $2,311,000,000. $250,000,000. On page 10, line 2, increase the amount by SA 327. Mr. LEVIN submitted an On page 6, line 1, increase the amount by $2,525,000,000. $263,000,000. On page 10, line 3, increase the amount by amendment intended to be proposed by On page 6, line 2, increase the amount by $2,475,000,000. him to the concurrent resolution S. $278,000,000. On page 10, line 6, increase the amount by Con. Res. 23, setting forth the congres- On page 6, line 6, decrease the amount by $2,701,000,000. sional budget for the United States $193,000,000.

VerDate Dec 13 2002 01:26 Mar 22, 2003 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00089 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A20MR6.218 S20PT2 S4198 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE March 20, 2003 On page 6, line 7, decrease the amount by On page 41, line 19, decrease the amount by On page 4, line 18, decrease the amount by $787,000,000. $278,000,000. $58,000,000. On page 6, line 8, decrease the amount by On page 45, line 24, decrease the amount by On page 4, line 19, decrease the amount by $1,998,000,000. $7,220,000,000. $61,000,000. On page 6, line 9, decrease the amount by On page 47, line 5, increase the amount by On page 4, line 20, decrease the amount by $3,276,000,000. $3,800,000,000. $65,000,000. On page 6, line 10, decrease the amount by On page 47, line 6, increase the amount by On page 4, line 21, decrease the amount by $4,156,000,000. $190,000,000. $69,000,000. On page 6, line 11, decrease the amount by On page 47, line 15, increase the amount by On page 4, line 22, decrease the amount by $4,380,000,000. $570,000,000. $73,000,000. On page 6, line 12, decrease the amount by On page 4, line 23, decrease the amount by $4,617,000,000. SA 328. Mr. WYDEN (for himself, Mr. $77,000,000. On page 6, line 13, decrease the amount by KYL, Mr. BINGAMAN, Mrs. MURRAY, Mr. On page 4, line 24, decrease the amount by $4,867,000,000. JOHNSON, Mr. KERRY, and Mrs. FEIN- $81,000,000. On page 6, line 14, decrease the amount by STEIN) submitted an amendment in- On page 5, line 5, increase the amount by $5,130,000,000. tended to be proposed by him to the $883,000,000. On page 6, line 15, decrease the amount by On page 5, line 6, increase the amount by $5,407,000,000. concurrent resolution S. Con. Res. 23, $53,000,000. On page 6, line 19, decrease the amount by setting forth the congressional budget On page 5, line 7, decrease the amount by $193,000,000. for the United States Governments for $37,000,000. On page 6, line 20, decrease the amount by fiscal year 2004 and including the ap- On page 5, line 8, decrease the amount by $787,000,000. propriate budgetary levels for fiscal $54,000,000. On page 6, line 21, decrease the amount by year 2003 and for fiscal years 2005 On page 5, line 9, decrease the amount by $1,998,000,000. through 2013; which was ordered to lie $61,000,000. On page 6, line 22, decrease the amount by On page 5, line 10, decrease the amount by $3,276,000,000. on the table; as follows: $65,000,000. On page 6, line 23, decrease the amount by On page 16, line 11, increase the amount by On page 5, line 11, decrease the amount by $4,156,000,000. $500,000,000. $69,000,000. On page 6, line 24, decrease the amount by On page 16, line 12, increase the amount by On page 5, line 12, decrease the amount by $4,380,000,000. $325,000,000. $73,000,000. On page 6, line 25, decrease the amount by On page 16, line 16, increase the amount by On page 5, line 13, decrease the amount by $4,617,000,000. $85,000,000. $77,000,000. On page 7, line 1, decrease the amount by On page 16, line 20, increase the amount by On page 5, line 14, decrease the amount by $4,867,000,000. $50,000,000. $81,000,000. On page 7, line 2, decrease the amount by On page 16, line 24, increase the amount by On page 5, line 18, increase the amount by $5,130,000,000. $25,000,000. $915,000,000. On page 7, line 3, decrease the amount by On page 17, line 3, increase the amount by On page 5, line 19, increase the amount by $5,407,000,000. $15,000,000. $139,000,000. On page 16, line 11, increase the amount by On page 42, line 2, decrease the amount by On page 5, line 20, increase the amount by $3,800,000,000. $500,000,000. $66,000,000. On page 16, line 12, increase the amount by On page 42, line 3, decrease the amount by On page 5, line 21, increase the amount by $190,000,000. $325,000,000. $63,000,000. On page 16, line 16, increase the amount by On page 42, line 7, decrease the amount by On page 5, line 22, increase the amount by $570,000,000. $85,000,000. $62,000,000. On page 16, line 20, increase the amount by On page 42, line 11, decrease the amount by On page 5, line 23, increase the amount by $1,140,000,000. $50,000,000. $65,000,000. On page 16, line 24, increase the amount by On page 42, line 15, decrease the amount by On page 5, line 24, increase the amount by $1,140,000,000. $25,000,000. $69,000,000. On page 17, line 3, increase the amount by On page 42, line 19, decrease the amount by On page 5, line 25, increase the amount by $570,000,000. $15,000,000. $73,000,000. On page 40, line 6, decrease the amount by On page 6, line 1, increase the amount by $3,000,000. SA 329. Mr. DORGAN submitted an $77,000,000. On page 40, line 7, decrease the amount by amendment intended to be proposed by On page 6, line 2, increase the amount by $3,000,000. him to the concurrent resolution S. $81,000,000. On page 40, line 10, decrease the amount by Con. Res. 23, setting forth the congres- On page 6, line 6, decrease the amount by $23,000,000. sional budget for the United States $915,000,000. On page 40, line 11, decrease the amount by Governments for fiscal year 2004 and On page 6, line 7, decrease the amount by $23,000,000. including the appropriate budgetary $1,054,000,000. On page 40, line 14, decrease the amount by On page 6, line 8, decrease the amount by $72,000,000. levels for fiscal year 2003 and for fiscal $1,121,000,000. On page 40, line 15, decrease the amount by years 2005 through 2013; which was or- On page 6, line 9, decrease the amount by $72,000,000. dered to lie on the table; as follows: $1,183,000,000. On page 40, line 18, decrease the amount by On page 3, line 10, increase the amount by On page 6, line 10, decrease the amount by $138,000,000. $1,798,000,000. $1,245,000,000. On page 40, line 19, decrease the amount by On page 3, line 11, increase the amount by On page 6, line 11, decrease the amount by $138,000,000. $1,798,000,000. $1,311,000,000. On page 40, line 22, decrease the amount by On page 3, line 12, increase the amount by On page 6, line 12, decrease the amount by $195,000,000. $29,000,000. $1,380,000,000. On page 40, line 23, decrease the amount by On page 3, line 13, increase the amount by On page 6, line 13, decrease the amount by $195,000,000. $9,000,000. $1,453,000,000. On page 41, line 2, decrease the amount by On page 3, line 14, increase the amount by On page 6, line 14, decrease the amount by $224,000,000. $1,000,000. $1,531,000,000. On page 41, line 3, decrease the amount by On page 4, line 1, increase the amount by On page 6, line 15, decrease the amount by $224,000,000. $1,798,000,000. $1,612,000,000. On page 41, line 6, decrease the amount by On page 4, line 2, increase the amount by On page 6, line 19, decrease the amount by $237,000,000. $192,000,000. $915,000,000. On page 41, line 7, decrease the amount by On page 4, line 3, increase the amount by On page 6, line 20, decrease the amount by $237,000,000. $29,000,000. $1,054,000,000. On page 41, line 10, decrease the amount by On page 4, line 4, increase the amount by On page 6, line 21, decrease the amount by $250,000,000. $9,000,000. $1,121,000,000. On page 41, line 11, decrease the amount by On page 4, line 5, increase the amount by On page 6, line 22, decrease the amount by $250,000,000. $1,000,000. $1,183,000,000. On page 41, line 14, decrease the amount by On page 4, line 15, increase the amount by On page 6, line 23, decrease the amount by $263,000,000. $1,003,000,000. $1,245,000,000. On page 41, line 15, decrease the amount by On page 4, line 16, decrease the amount by On page 6, line 24, decrease the amount by $263,000,000. $43,000,000. $1,311,000,000. On page 41, line 18, decrease the amount by On page 4, line 17, decrease the amount by On page 6, line 25, decrease the amount by $278,000,000. $52,000,000. $1,380,000,000.

VerDate Dec 13 2002 01:26 Mar 22, 2003 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00090 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A20MR6.222 S20PT2 March 20, 2003 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S4199 On page 7, line 1, decrease the amount by by section 301 of the Congressional Budget Fiscal year 2008: $8,861,982,000,000. $1,453,000,000. Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 632). Fiscal year 2009: $9,258,280,000,000. On page 7, line 2, decrease the amount by TITLE I—LEVELS AND AMOUNTS Fiscal year 2010: $9,637,286,000,000. $1,531,000,000. Fiscal year 2011: $9,911,600,000,000. SEC. 101. RECOMMENDED LEVELS AND On page 7, line 3, decrease the amount by AMOUNTS. Fiscal year 2012: $10,082,375,000,000. $1,612,000,000. The following budgetary levels are appro- Fiscal year 2013: $10,239,283,000,000. On page 34, line 19, increase the amount by priate for the fiscal years 2003 through 2013: (6) DEBT HELD BY THE PUBLIC.—The appro- $1,019,000,000. priate levels of the debt held by the public (1) FEDERAL REVENUES.—For purposes of On page 34, line 20, increase the amount by the enforcement of this resolution— are as follows: $899,000,000. (A) The recommended levels of Federal Fiscal year 2003: $3,839,069,000,000. On page 34, line 24, increase the amount by revenues are as follows: Fiscal year 2004: $4,072,838,000,000. $96,000,000. Fiscal year 2003: $1,343,134,000,000. Fiscal year 2005: $4,221,902,000,000. On page 35, line 3, increase the amount by Fiscal year 2004: $1,441,770,000,000. Fiscal year 2006: $4,321,310,000,000. $15,000,000. Fiscal year 2005: $1,604,926,000,000. Fiscal year 2007: $4,378,629,000,000. On page 35, line 7, increase the amount by Fiscal year 2006: $1,746,972,000,000. Fiscal year 2008: $4,406,982,000,000. $4,000,000. Fiscal year 2007: $1,863,966,000,000. Fiscal year 2009: $4,404,280,000,000. On page 40, line 6, decrease the amount by Fiscal year 2008: $1,981,577,000,000. Fiscal year 2010: $4,361,286,000,000. $16,000,000. Fiscal year 2009: $2,099,550,000,000. Fiscal year 2011: $4,191,600,000,000. On page 40, line 7, decrease the amount by Fiscal year 2010: $2,226,842,000,000. Fiscal year 2012: $3,895,375,000,000. $16,000,000. Fiscal year 2011: $2,460,796,000,000. Fiscal year 2013: $3,568,283,000,000. On page 40, line 10, decrease the amount by SEC. 102. SOCIAL SECURITY. $43,000,000. Fiscal year 2012: $2,637,779,000,000. Fiscal year 2013: $2,778,210,000,000. (a) SOCIAL SECURITY REVENUES.—For pur- On page 40, line 11, decrease the amount by poses of Senate enforcement under sections $43,000,000. (B) The amounts by which the aggregate levels of Federal revenues should be changed 302 and 311 of the Congressional Budget Act On page 40, line 14, decrease the amount by of 1974, the amounts of revenues of the Fed- $52,000,000. are as follows: Fiscal year 2003: $16,700,000,000. eral Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust On page 40, line 15, decrease the amount by Fund and the Federal Disability Insurance $52,000,000. Fiscal year 2004: $30,600,000,000. Fiscal year 2005: $12,100,000,000. Trust Fund are as follows: On page 40, line 18, decrease the amount by Fiscal year 2003: $531,607,000,000. $58,000,000. Fiscal year 2006: $6,300,000,000. ¥ Fiscal year 2004: $557,826,000,000. On page 40, line 19, decrease the amount by Fiscal year 2007: $10,800,000,000. ¥ Fiscal year 2005: $587,785,000,000. $58,000,000. Fiscal year 2008: $18,600,000,000. ¥ Fiscal year 2006: $619,062,000,000. On page 40, line 22, decrease the amount by Fiscal year 2009: $21,200,000,000. ¥ Fiscal year 2007: $651,128,000,000. $61,000,000. Fiscal year 2010: $33,800,000,000. ¥ Fiscal year 2008: $684,409,000,000. On page 40, line 23, decrease the amount by Fiscal year 2011: $33,300,000,000. Fiscal year 2009: $719,112,000,000. $61,000,000. Fiscal year 2012: $0. Fiscal year 2010: $755,724,000,000. On page 41, line 2, decrease the amount by Fiscal year 2013: $0. Fiscal year 2011: $792,122,000,000. $65,000,000. (2) NEW BUDGET AUTHORITY.—For purposes Fiscal year 2012: $829,538,000,000. On page 41, line 3, decrease the amount by of the enforcement of this resolution, the ap- Fiscal year 2013: $869,650,000,000. $65,000,000. propriate levels of total new budget author- (b) SOCIAL SECURITY OUTLAYS.—For pur- On page 41, line 6, decrease the amount by ity are as follows: poses of Senate enforcement under sections $69,000,000. Fiscal year 2003: $1,784,216,000,000. 302 and 311 of the Congressional Budget Act On page 41, line 7, decrease the amount by Fiscal year 2004: $1,843,018,000,000. of 1974, the amounts of outlays of the Fed- $69,000,000. Fiscal year 2005: $1,951,195,000,000. eral Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust On page 41, line 10, decrease the amount by Fiscal year 2006: $2,071,194,000,000. Fund and the Federal Disability Insurance $73,000,000. Fiscal year 2007: $2,171,250,000,000. Trust Fund are as follows: On page 41, line 11, decrease the amount by Fiscal year 2008: $2,276,515,000,000. Fiscal year 2003: $366,296,000,000. $73,000,000. Fiscal year 2009: $2,373,830,000,000. Fiscal year 2004: $380,467,000,000. On page 41, line 14, decrease the amount by Fiscal year 2010: $2,472,581,000,000. Fiscal year 2005: $390,247,000,000. $77,000,000. Fiscal year 2011: $2,585,874,000,000. Fiscal year 2006: $402,579,000,000. On page 41, line 15, decrease the amount by Fiscal year 2012: $2,662,041,000,000. Fiscal year 2007: $415,605,000,000. $77,000,000. Fiscal year 2013: $2,768,930,000,000. Fiscal year 2008: $429,595,000,000. On page 41, line 18, decrease the amount by (3) BUDGET OUTLAYS.—For purposes of the Fiscal year 2009: $446,203,000,000. $81,000,000. enforcement of this resolution, the appro- Fiscal year 2010: $464,626,000,000. On page 41, line 19, decrease the amount by priate levels of total budget outlays are as Fiscal year 2011: $483,334,000,000. $81,000,000. follows: Fiscal year 2012: $506,507,000,000. On page 45, line 24, decrease the amount by Fiscal year 2003: $1,774,850,000,000. Fiscal year 2013: $533,097,000,000. $2,029,000,000. Fiscal year 2004: $1,851,551,000,000. On page 47, line 5, increase the amount by Fiscal year 2005: $1,942,306,000,000. SEC. 103. MAJOR FUNCTIONAL CATEGORIES. $1,019,000,000. Fiscal year 2006: $2,045,298,000,000. Congress determines and declares that the On page 47, line 6, increase the amount by Fiscal year 2007: $2,140,438,000,000. appropriate levels of new budget authority, $899,000,000. Fiscal year 2008: $2,249,176,000,000. budget outlays, new direct loan obligations, On page 47, line 15, increase the amount by Fiscal year 2009: $2,355,806,000,000. and new primary loan guarantee commit- $96,000,000. Fiscal year 2010: $2,461,760,000,000. ments for fiscal years 2003 through 2013 for Fiscal year 2011: $2,586,165,000,000. each major functional category are: SA 330. Mr. CARPER (for himself, Fiscal year 2012: $2,653,413,000,000. (1) National Defense (050): Fiscal year 2003: Mr. CHAFEE, and Mrs. FEINSTEIN) sub- Fiscal year 2013: $2,776,371,000,000. mitted an amendment intended to be (4) DEFICITS.—For purposes of the enforce- (A) New budget authority, $392,494,000,000 ment of this resolution, the amounts of the (B) Outlays, $386,229,000,000 proposed by him to the concurrent res- deficits are as follows: Fiscal year 2004: olution S. Con. Res. 23, setting forth Fiscal year 2003: ¥$431,716,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $400,476,000,000 the congressional budget for the United Fiscal year 2004: ¥$409,781,000,000. (B) Outlays, $400,882,000,000 States Governments for fiscal year 2004 Fiscal year 2005: ¥$337,380,000,000. Fiscal year 2005: and including the appropriate budg- Fiscal year 2006: ¥$298,326,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $420,071,000,000. etary levels for fiscal year 2003 and for Fiscal year 2007: ¥$276,472,000,000. (B) Outlays, $414,205,000,000. fiscal years 2005 through 2013; which Fiscal year 2008: ¥$267,599,000,000. Fiscal year 2006: ¥ was ordered to lie on the table; as fol- Fiscal year 2009: $256,276,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $440,185,000,000. Fiscal year 2010: ¥$234,918,000,000. (B) Outlays, $426,007,000,000. lows: Fiscal year 2011: ¥$125,369,000,000. Fiscal year 2007: Strike all after the resolving clause and in- Fiscal year 2012: ¥$15,634,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $460,435,000,000. sert the following: Fiscal year 2013: ¥$1,839,000,000. (B) Outlays, $438,656,000,000. SECTION 1. CONCURRENT RESOLUTION ON THE (5) PUBLIC DEBT.—The appropriate levels of Fiscal year 2008: BUDGET FOR FISCAL YEAR 2004. the public debt are as follows: (A) New budget authority, $480,886,000,000. Congress declares that this resolution is Fiscal year 2003: $6,668,069,000,000. (B) Outlays, $462,861,000,000. the concurrent resolution on the budget for Fiscal year 2004: $7,179,838,000,000. Fiscal year 2009: fiscal year 2004 including the appropriate Fiscal year 2005: $7,621,902,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $487,567,000,000. budgetary levels for fiscal year 2003 and for Fiscal year 2006: $8,048,310,000,000. (B) Outlays, $476,347,000,000. fiscal years 2005 through 2013 as authorized Fiscal year 2007: $8,457,629,000,000. Fiscal year 2010:

VerDate Dec 13 2002 01:26 Mar 22, 2003 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00091 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A20MR6.226 S20PT2 S4200 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE March 20, 2003 (A) New budget authority, $493,340,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $2,828,000,000. (B) Outlays, $24,157,000,000. (B) Outlays, $486,254,000,000. (B) Outlays, $1,020,000,000. Fiscal year 2012: Fiscal year 2011: Fiscal year 2006: (A) New budget authority, $24,550,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $501,103,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $2,741,000,000. (B) Outlays, $23,752,000,000. (B) Outlays, $498,634,000,000. (B) Outlays, $1,322,000,000. Fiscal year 2013: Fiscal year 2012: Fiscal year 2007: (A) New budget authority, $24,276,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $509,031,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $2,559,000,000. (B) Outlays, $23,472,000,000. (B) Outlays, $499,675,000,000. (B) Outlays, $1,097,000,000. (7) Commerce and Housing Credit (370): Fiscal year 2013: Fiscal year 2008: Fiscal year 2003: (A) New budget authority, $517,323,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $3,100,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $8,812,000,000. (B) Outlays, $512,815,000,000. (B) Outlays, $1,446,000,000. (B) Outlays, $5,881,000,000. (2) International Affairs (150): Fiscal year 2009: Fiscal year 2004: Fiscal year 2003: (A) New budget authority, $3,111,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $7,513,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $22,506,000,000 (B) Outlays, $1,712,000,000. (B) Outlays, $3,630,000,000. (B) Outlays, $19,283,000,000. Fiscal year 2010: Fiscal year 2005: Fiscal year 2004: (A) New budget authority, $3,218,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $8,778,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $25,681,000,000. (B) Outlays, $1,823,000,000. (B) Outlays, $4,132,000,000. (B) Outlays, $24,207,000,000. Fiscal year 2011: Fiscal year 2006: Fiscal year 2005: (A) New budget authority, $3,319,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $8,337,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $29,734,000,000. (B) Outlays, $2,006,000,000. (B) Outlays, $3,193,000,000. (B) Outlays, $24,917,000,000. Fiscal year 2012: Fiscal year 2007: Fiscal year 2006: (A) New budget authority, $3,430,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $8,670,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $32,308,000,000. (B) Outlays, $2,386,000,000. (B) Outlays, $2,708,000,000. (B) Outlays, $26,539,000,000. Fiscal year 2013: Fiscal year 2008: Fiscal year 2007: (A) New budget authority, $3,547,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $8,798,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $33,603,000,000. (B) Outlays, $2,539,000,000. (B) Outlays, $2,300,000,000. (B) Outlays, $28,464,000,000. (5) Natural Resources and Environment Fiscal year 2009: Fiscal year 2008: (300): (A) New budget authority, $9,013,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $34,611,000,000. Fiscal year 2003: (B) Outlays, $2,448,000,000. (B) Outlays, $29,604,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $30,816,000,000. Fiscal year 2010: Fiscal year 2009: (B) Outlays, $28,940,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $9,065,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $35,413,000,000. Fiscal year 2004: (B) Outlays, $2,168,000,000. (B) Outlays, $30,733,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $30,237,000,000. Fiscal year 2011: Fiscal year 2010: (B) Outlays, $30,357,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $9,262,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $36,258,000,000. Fiscal year 2005: (B) Outlays, $1,786,000,000. (B) Outlays, $31,689,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $31,084,000,000. Fiscal year 2012: Fiscal year 2011: (B) Outlays, $30,996,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $9,347,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $37,136,000,000. Fiscal year 2006: (B) Outlays, $1,508,000,000. (B) Outlays, $32,565,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $31,824,000,000. Fiscal year 2013: Fiscal year 2012: (B) Outlays, $31,998,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $9,556,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $38,005,000,000. Fiscal year 2007: (B) Outlays, $1,731,000,000. (B) Outlays, $33,408,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $32,384,000,000. (8) Transportation (400): Fiscal year 2013: (B) Outlays, $32,168,000,000. Fiscal year 2003: (A) New budget authority, $38,885,000,000. Fiscal year 2008: (A) New budget authority, $64,091,000,000. (B) Outlays, $34,298,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $33,240,000,000. (B) Outlays, $67,847,000,000. (3) General Science, Space, and Technology (B) Outlays, $32,612,000,000. Fiscal year 2004: (250): Fiscal year 2009: (A) New budget authority, $59,741,000,000. Fiscal year 2003: (A) New budget authority, $34,577,000,000. (B) Outlays, $68,763,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $23,153,000,000. (B) Outlays, $33,835,000,000. Fiscal year 2005: (B) Outlays, $21,556,000,000. Fiscal year 2010: (A) New budget authority, $64,072,000,000. Fiscal year 2004: (A) New budget authority, $35,647,000,000. (B) Outlays, $66,422,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $23,503,000,000. (B) Outlays, $34,857,000,000. Fiscal year 2006: (B) Outlays, $22,678,000,000. Fiscal year 2011: (A) New budget authority, $64,454,000,000. Fiscal year 2005: (A) New budget authority, $36,684,000,000. (B) Outlays, $66,283,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $24,330,000,000. (B) Outlays, $35,870,000,000. Fiscal year 2007: (B) Outlays, $23,618,000,000. Fiscal year 2012: (A) New budget authority, $64,948,000,000. Fiscal year 2006: (A) New budget authority, $37,629,000,000. (B) Outlays, $67,388,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $25,112,000,000. (B) Outlays, $36,772,000,000. Fiscal year 2008: (B) Outlays, $24,316,000,000. Fiscal year 2013: (A) New budget authority, $65,521,00,000. Fiscal year 2007: (A) New budget authority, $38,549,000,000. (B) Outlays, $68,758,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $25,949,000,000. (B) Outlays, $37,769,000,000. Fiscal year 2009: (B) Outlays, $25,097,000,000. (6) Agriculture (350): (A) New budget authority, $66,303,000,000. Fiscal year 2008: Fiscal year 2003: (B) Outlays, $70,299,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $26,722,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $24,418,000,000. Fiscal year 2010: (B) Outlays, $25,833,000,000. (B) Outlays, $23,365,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $67,104,000,000. Fiscal year 2009: Fiscal year 2004: (B) Outlays, $71,902,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $27,350,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $24,629,000,000. Fiscal year 2011: (B) Outlays, $26,528,000,000. (B) Outlays, $23,693,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $67,947,000,000. Fiscal year 2010: Fiscal year 2005: (B) Outlays, $73,629,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $28,006,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $27,028,000,000. Fiscal year 2012: (B) Outlays, $27,183,000,000. (B) Outlays, $25,695,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $68,819,000,000. Fiscal year 2011: Fiscal year 2006: (B) Outlays, $75,449,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $28,687,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $26,841,000,000. Fiscal year 2013: (B) Outlays, $27,847,000,000. (B) Outlays, $25,587,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $69,726,000,000. Fiscal year 2012: Fiscal year 2007: (B) Outlays, $77,306,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $29,372,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $26,296,000. (9) Community and Regional Development (B) Outlays, $28,520,000,000. (B) Outlays, $25,103,000,000. (450): Fiscal year 2013: Fiscal year 2008: Fiscal year 2003: (A) New budget authority, $30,032,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $25,494,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $12,251,000,000. (B) Outlays, $29,198,000,000. (B) Outlays, $24,368,000,000. (B) Outlays, $15,994,000,000. (4) Energy (270): Fiscal year 2009: Fiscal year 2004: Fiscal year 2003: (A) New budget authority, $26,079,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $14,435,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $2,074,000,000. (B) Outlays, $25,111,000,000. (B) Outlays, $16,085,000,000. (B) Outlays, $439,000,000. Fiscal year 2010: Fiscal year 2005: Fiscal year 2004: (A) New budget authority, $25,531,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $14,628,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $2,690,000,000. (B) Outlays, $24,701,000,000. (B) Outlays, $16,231,000,000. (B) Outlays, $959,000,000. Fiscal year 2011: Fiscal year 2006: Fiscal year 2005: (A) New budget authority, $24,971,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $14,929,000,000.

VerDate Dec 13 2002 01:26 Mar 22, 2003 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00092 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A20MR6.252 S20PT2 March 20, 2003 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S4201 (B) Outlays, $15,385,000,000. Fiscal year 2013: (A) New budget authority, $19,999,000,000. Fiscal year 2007: (A) New budget authority, $452,918,000,000. (B) Outlays, $20,005,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $15,259,000,0003 (B) Outlays, $451,354,000,000. Fiscal year 2009: (B) Outlays, $15,174,000,000. (12) Medicare (570): (A) New budget authority, $22,156,000,000. Fiscal year 2008: Fiscal year 2003: (B) Outlays, $22,157,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $15,652,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $248,586,000,000. Fiscal year 2010: (B) Outlays, $14,756,000,000. (B) Outlays, $248,434,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $24,536,000,000. Fiscal year 2009: Fiscal year 2004: (B) Outlays, $24,535,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $16,019,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $265,111,000,000. Fiscal year 2011: (B) Outlays, $15,065,000,000. (B) Outlays, $265,376,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $28,416,000,000. Fiscal year 2010: Fiscal year 2005: (B) Outlays, $28,416,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $16,406,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $282,929,000,000. Fiscal year 2012: (B) Outlays, $15,414,000,000. (B) Outlays, $285,877,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $31,635,000,000. Fiscal year 2011: Fiscal year 2006: (B) Outlays, $31,634,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $16,806,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $322,160,000,000. Fiscal year 2013: (B) Outlays, $15,800,000,000. (B) Outlays, $318,921,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $34,670,000,000. Fiscal year 2012: Fiscal year 2007: (B) Outlays, $34,670,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $17,205,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $344,455,000,000. (15) Veterans Benefits and Services (700): (B) Outlays, $16,176,000,000. (B) Outlays, $344,725,000,000. Fiscal year 2003: Fiscal year 2013: Fiscal year 2008: (A) New budget authority, $57,597,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $17,610,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $370,178,000,000. (B) Outlays, $57,486,000,000. (B) Outlays, $16,579,000,000. (B) Outlays, $370,053,000,000. Fiscal year 2004: (10) Education, Training, Employment, and Fiscal year 2009: (A) New budget authority, $61,978,000,000. Social Services (500): (A) New budget authority, $396,532,000,000. (B) Outlays, $61,522,000,000. Fiscal year 2003: (B) Outlays, $396,271,000,000. Fiscal year 2005: (A) New budget authority, $84,259,000,000. Fiscal year 2010: (A) New budget authority, $67,365,000,000. (B) Outlays, $83,015,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $423,768,000,000. (B) Outlays, $66,612,000,000. Fiscal year 2004: (B) Outlays, $424,026,000,000. Fiscal year 2006: (A) New budget authority, $88,575,000,000. Fiscal year 2011: (A) New budget authority, $65,644,000,000. (B) Outlays, $85,634,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $455,875,000,000. (B) Outlays, $65,215,000,000. Fiscal year 2005: (B) Outlays, $459,232,000,000. Fiscal year 2007: (A) New budget authority, $87,080,000,000. Fiscal year 2012: (A) New budget authority, $64,128,000,000. (B) Outlays, $84,690,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $490,601,000,000. (B) Outlays, $63,680,000,000. Fiscal year 2006: (B) Outlays, $486,775,000,000. Fiscal year 2008: (A) New budget authority, $89,410,000,000. Fiscal year 2013: (A) New budget authority, $67,928,000,000. (B) Outlays, $86,920,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $526,303,000,000. (B) Outlays, $67,654,000,000. Fiscal year 2007: (B) Outlays, $526,559,000,000. Fiscal year 2009: (A) New budget authority, $91,519,000,000. (13) Income Security (600): (A) New budget authority, $69,550,000,000. (B) Outlays, $88,896,000,000. Fiscal year 2003: (B) Outlays, $69,192,000,000. Fiscal year 2008: (A) New budget authority, $322,010,000,000. Fiscal year 2010: (A) New budget authority, $93,852,000,000. (B) Outlays, $329,823,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $71,275,000,000. (B) Outlays, $91,029,000,000. Fiscal year 2004: (B) Outlays, $70,868,000,000. Fiscal year 2009: (A) New budget authority, $318,262,000,000. Fiscal year 2011: (A) New budget authority, $95,607,000,000. (B) Outlays, $323,329,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $75,962,000,000. (B) Outlays, $93,322,000,000. Fiscal year 2005: (B) Outlays, $75,539,000,000. Fiscal year 2010: (A) New budget authority, $326,674,000,000. Fiscal year 2012: (A) New budget authority, $97,323,000,000. (B) Outlays, $329,937,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $72,923,000,000. (B) Outlays, $95,187,000,000. Fiscal year 2006: (B) Outlays, $72,399,000,000. Fiscal year 2011: (A) New budget authority, $334,563,000,000. Fiscal year 2013: (A) New budget authority, $99,277,000,000. (B) Outlays, $337,028,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $77,755,000,000. (B) Outlays, $97,003,000,000. Fiscal year 2007: (B) Outlays, $77,329,000,000. Fiscal year 2012: (A) New budget authority, $340,873,000,000. (16) Administration of Justice (750): (A) New budget authority, $101,142,000,000. (B) Outlays, $342,609,000,000. Fiscal year 2003: (B) Outlays, $98,838,000,000. Fiscal year 2008: (A) New budget authority, $38,543,000,000. Fiscal year 2013: (A) New budget authority, $352,461,000,000. (B) Outlays, $37,712,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $103,094,000,000. (B) Outlays, $353,378,000,000. Fiscal year 2004: (B) Outlays, $100,776,000,000. Fiscal year 2009: (A) New budget authority, $37,742,000,000. (11) Health (550): (A) New budget authority, $363,361,000,000. (B) Outlays, $40,902,000,000. Fiscal year 2003: (B) Outlays, $364,102,000,000. Fiscal year 2005: (A) New budget authority, $226,343,000,000. Fiscal year 2010: (A) New budget authority, $37,977,000,000. (B) Outlays, $222,486,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $375,471,000,000. (B) Outlays, $39,271,000,000. Fiscal year 2004: (B) Outlays, $376,077,000,000. Fiscal year 2006: (A) New budget authority, $240,084,000,000. Fiscal year 2011: (A) New budget authority, $37,938,000,000. (B) Outlays, $239,946,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $392,310,000,000. (B) Outlays, $38,318,000,000. Fiscal year 2005: (B) Outlays, $392,878,000,000. Fiscal year 2007: (A) New budget authority, $252,037,000,000. Fiscal year 2012: (A) New budget authority, $38,334,000,000. (B) Outlays, $251,380,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $383,486,000,000. (B) Outlays, $38,164,000,000. Fiscal year 2006: (B) Outlays, $384,054,000,000. Fiscal year 2008: (A) New budget authority, $269,598,000,000. Fiscal year 2013: (A) New budget authority, $39,299,000,000. (B) Outlays, $268,807,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $398,184,000,000. (B) Outlays, $38,984,000,000. Fiscal year 2007: (B) Outlays, $398,881,000,000. Fiscal year 2009: (A) New budget authority, $290,285,000,000. (14) Social Security (650): (A) New budget authority, $40,306,000,000. (B) Outlays, $288,983,000,000. Fiscal year 2003: (B) Outlays, $40,059,000,000. Fiscal year 2008: (A) New budget authority, $13,255,000,000. Fiscal year 2010: (A) New budget authority, $312,078,000,000. (B) Outlays, $13,255,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $41,406,000,000. (B) Outlays, $310,553,000,000. Fiscal year 2004: (B) Outlays, $41,148,000,000. Fiscal year 2009: (A) New budget authority, $14,544,000,000. Fiscal year 2011: (A) New budget authority, $335,314,000,000. (B) Outlays, $14,502,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $42,682,000,000. (B) Outlays, $333,819,000,000. Fiscal year 2005: (B) Outlays, $42,304,000,000. Fiscal year 2010: (A) New budget authority, $15,612,000,000. Fiscal year 2012: (A) New budget authority, $361,218,000,000. (B) Outlays, $15,597,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $44,015,000,000. (B) Outlays, $359,731,000,000. Fiscal year 2006: (B) Outlays, $43,590,000,000. Fiscal year 2011: (A) New budget authority, $16,689,000,000. Fiscal year 2013: (A) New budget authority, $389,078,000,000. (B) Outlays, $16,698,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $45,355,000,000. (B) Outlays, $387,597,000,000. Fiscal year 2007: (B) Outlays, $44,938,000,000. Fiscal year 2012: (A) New budget authority, $18,174,000,000. (17) General Government (800): (A) New budget authority, $419,498,000,000. (B) Outlays, $18,182,000,000. Fiscal year 2003: (B) Outlays, $418,027,000,000. Fiscal year 2008: (A) New budget authority, $18,178,000,000.

VerDate Dec 13 2002 01:26 Mar 22, 2003 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00093 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A20MR6.254 S20PT2 S4202 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE March 20, 2003 (B) Outlays, $18,103,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $12,245,000,000. ference report that includes any provision Fiscal year 2004: (B) Outlays, $10,659,000,000. that increases the limit on the public debt (A) New budget authority, $20,208,000,000. Fiscal year 2011: by more than $100,000,000,000. (B) Outlays, $19,776,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $17,288,000,000. (2) Paragraph (1) shall not apply in the Fiscal year 2005: (B) Outlays, $15,344,000,000. Senate if— (A) New budget authority, $20,643,000,000. Fiscal year 2012: (A) the chairman of the Committee on the (B) Outlays, $20,677,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $22,418,000,000. Budget of the Senate has made the certifi- Fiscal year 2006: (B) Outlays, $20,522,000,000. cation described in section 203 that the uni- (A) New budget authority, $20,410,000,000. Fiscal year 2013: fied budget will be in balance by fiscal year (B) Outlays, $20,381,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $27,563,000,000. 2009; or Fiscal year 2007: (B) Outlays, $25,686,000,000. (B) the President has submitted to Con- (A) New budget authority, $20,842,000,000. (20) Undistributed Offsetting Receipts (950): gress a declaration that such increase is nec- (B) Outlays, $20,533,000,000. Fiscal year 2003: essary to finance costs of a military conflict Fiscal year 2008: (A) New budget authority, ¥$44,583,000,000. or address an imminent threat to national (A) New budget authority, $20,920,000,000. (B) Outlays, ¥$44,583,000,000. security, but which shall not exceed the (B) Outlays, $20,646,000,000. Fiscal year 2004: amount of the adjustment under section 302 Fiscal year 2009: (A) New budget authority, ¥$45,580,000,000. for the costs of military operations in Iraq. (A) New budget authority, $21,619,000,000. (B) Outlays, ¥$45,580,000,000. SEC. 203. REVIEW OF BUDGET OUTLOOK. (B) Outlays, $21,138,000,000. Fiscal year 2005: Fiscal year 2010: (A) New budget authority, ¥$55,509,000,000. (a) IN GENERAL.—If, in the report released (A) New budget authority, $22,361,000,000. (B) Outlays, ¥$55,509,000,000. pursuant to section 202 of the Congressional (B) Outlays, $21,835,000,000. Fiscal year 2006: Budget Act of 1974, entitled the Budget and Fiscal year 2011: (A) New budget authority, ¥$57,437,000,000. Economic Outlook Update (for fiscal years (A) New budget authority, $23,110,000,000. (B) Outlays, ¥$57,437,000,000. 2004 through 2013), the Director of the Con- (B) Outlays, $22,560,000,000. Fiscal year 2007: gressional Budget Office projects that the Fiscal year 2012: (A) New budget authority, ¥$52,206,000,000. unified budget of the United States for fiscal (A) New budget authority, $23,905,000,000. (B) Outlays, ¥$52,206,000,000. year 2009 will be in balance, then the chair- (B) Outlays, $23,489,000,000. Fiscal year 2008: man of the Committee on the Budget of the Fiscal year 2013: (A) New budget authority, ¥$54,753,000,000. Senate is authorized to certify that the (A) New budget authority, $24,714,000,000. (B) Outlays, ¥$54,753,000,000. budget is projected to meet the goals of a (B) Outlays, $24,121,000,000. Fiscal year 2009: balanced budget. (18) Net Interest (900): (A) New budget authority, ¥$56,560,000,000. (b) CALCULATING DISCRETIONARY SPENDING Fiscal year 2003: (B) Outlays, ¥$56,560,000,000. BASELINE.—Notwithstanding any other pro- (A) New budget authority, $239,413,000,000. Fiscal year 2010: vision of law, the Director of the Congres- (B) Outlays, $239,585,000,000. (A) New budget authority, ¥$58,985,000,000. sional Budget Office shall use the discre- Fiscal year 2004: (B) Outlays, ¥$58,985,000,000. tionary spending levels set forth in this reso- (A) New budget authority, $253,189,000,000. Fiscal year 2011: lution, including any adjustments to such (B) Outlays, $254,890,000,000. (A) New budget authority, ¥$61,522,000,000. levels as a result of the implementation of Fiscal year 2005: (B) Outlays, ¥$61,522,000,000. any reserve funds set forth in this resolution (A) New budget authority, $293,834,000,000. Fiscal year 2012: to calculate the discretionary spending base- (B) Outlays, $296,538,000,000. (A) New budget authority, ¥$66,358,000,000. line. Fiscal year 2006: ¥ (A) New budget authority, $325,488,000,000. (B) Outlays, $66,358,000,000. TITLE III—RESERVE FUNDS AND (B) Outlays, $329,817,000,000. Fiscal year 2013 : ENFORCEMENT ¥ Fiscal year 2007: (A) New budget authority, $68,977,000,000. ¥ Subtitle A—Reserve Funds (A) New budget authority, $344,743,000,000. (B) Outlays, $68,977,000,000. TITLE II—RECONCILIATION SEC. 301. RESERVE FUND FOR HOMELAND SECU- (B) Outlays, $351,017,000,000. RITY. Fiscal year 2008: SEC. 201. RECONCILIATION IN THE SENATE. (a) IN GENERAL.—In the Senate, if the Com- (A) New budget authority, $360,529,000,000. (a) SUBMISSION PROVIDING ECONOMIC mittee on Appropriations reports a bill or (B) Outlays, $369,089,000,000. GROWTH.—The Committee on Finance shall joint resolution, or if an amendment thereto Fiscal year 2009: report to the Senate a reconciliation bill not is offered or a conference report thereon is (A) New budget authority, $375,129,000,000. later than April 11, 2003, that consists of submitted, that provides new budget author- (B) Outlays, $386,360,000,000. changes in laws within its jurisdiction suffi- ity (and outlays flowing therefrom) for the Fiscal year 2010: cient to reduce the total level of revenues by Department of Homeland Security and if the (A) New budget authority, $387,388,000,000. not more than: $46,700,000,000 for the period Secretary of Homeland Security so requests, (B) Outlays, $401,485,000,000. of fiscal years 2003 and 2004 and increase the then the chairman of the Committee on the Fiscal year 2011: total level of revenues by not more than Budget shall make the appropriate revisions (A) New budget authority, $397,483,000,000. $49,900,000,000 for the period of fiscal years to the allocations and other levels in this (B) Outlays, $414,520,000,000. 2004 through 2013. resolution by the amount provided by that Fiscal year 2012: (b) SENSE OF THE CONGRESS.—It is the sense measure for that purpose. (A) New budget authority, $401,388,000,000. of the Congress that in complying with the (b) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of (B) Outlays, $422,797,000,000. instructions set forth in paragraph (1) the Congress that the Secretary of Homeland Se- Fiscal year 2013: Committee on Finance should provide imme- curity should— (A) New budget authority, $397,817,000,000. diate tax relief and economic stimulus by ac- (1) conduct a homeland security needs as- (B) Outlays, $425,508,000,000. celerating tax relief for middle-class families sessment in consultation with all Federal (19) Allowances (920): through increases in the child tax credit, agencies with responsibilities for homeland Fiscal year 2003: marriage penalty relief, and reductions in in- security and State and local governments; (A) New budget authority, $0. dividual income tax rates, provide incentives and (B) Outlays, $0. for business investment, provide immediate (2) submit a report to Congress with addi- Fiscal year 2004: and permanent estate tax relief and defer tax tional funding requests, if any, identified in (A) New budget authority, $0. relief for individual taxpayers with incomes the needs assessment, and that such report (B) Outlays, $0. above $140,000 until the budget is in balance should also include a compilation of the Fiscal year 2005: and national security threats have been ad- needs assessments submitted by State and (A) New budget authority, $0. dressed. local governments. (B) Outlays, $0. SEC. 202. INCREASE IN DEBT LIMIT CONTINGENT Fiscal year 2006: UPON PLAN TO RESTORE BALANCED SEC. 302. RESERVE FUND FOR THE COSTS OF (A) New budget authority, $0. BUDGET. MILITARY OPERATIONS IN IRAQ. (B) Outlays, $0. (a) TEMPORARY INCREASE IN STATUTORY In the Senate, if the Committee on Appro- Fiscal year 2007: DEBT LIMIT.—The Committee on Finance priations reports a bill or joint resolution, or (A) New budget authority, $0. shall report a bill as soon as practicable, but if an amendment thereto is offered or a con- (B) Outlays, $0. not later than April 11, 2003, that consists ference report thereon is submitted, that Fiscal year 2008: solely of changes in laws within its jurisdic- provides new budget authority (and outlays (A) New budget authority, $0. tion to increase the statutory debt limit by flowing therefrom) for the costs of military (B) Outlays, $0. $150,000,000,000. operations in Iraq, then the chairman of the Fiscal year 2009: (b) POINT OF ORDER.—(1) Except as provided Committee on the Budget shall make the ap- (A) New budget authority, $5,384,000,000. by subsection (a) or paragraph (2), it shall propriate revisions to the allocations and (B) Outlays, $3,868,000,000. not be in order in the Senate to consider any other levels in this resolution by the amount Fiscal year 2010: bill, joint resolution, amendment, or con- provided by that measure for that purpose.

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SEC. 303. RESERVE FUND FOR ADDITIONAL MAN- (2) such measure authorizes discretionary (c) BUDGET COMMITTEE DETERMINATIONS.— DATORY FUNDING FOR EXISTING new budget authority to carry out such pro- For purposes of this resolution— HEALTH AND EMPLOYMENT PRO- gram and the Committee on Appropriations (1) the levels of new budget authority, out- GRAMS WHICH PROVIDE ASSIST- reports a bill or joint resolution that pro- lays, direct spending, new entitlement au- ANCE TO STATES AND INDIVIDUALS. In the Senate, if the appropriate com- vides new budget authority to carry out such thority, revenues, deficits, and surpluses for mittee of jurisdiction reports a bill or joint program, a fiscal year or period of fiscal years shall be resolution, or if an amendment thereto is of- the chairman of the Committee on the Budg- determined on the basis of estimates made fered or a conference report thereon is sub- et may revise the allocations for the com- by the Committee on the Budget; and mitted, that provides new budget authority mittee providing such new budget authority, (2) such chairman may make any other (and outlays flowing therefrom) for addi- and other appropriate levels in this resolu- necessary adjustments to such levels to tional mandatory funding for existing health tion, by the amount provided for that pur- carry out this resolution. and employment programs which provide as- pose, but, in the case of a measure described SEC. 313. DISCRETIONARY SPENDING LIMITS IN sistance to States and individuals, then the in paragraph (1), not to exceed $890,000,000 in THE SENATE. new budget authority for fiscal year 2004 and chairman of the Committee on the Budget (a) POINT OF ORDER.—It shall not be in outlays flowing therefrom and $3,418,000,000 shall make the appropriate revisions to the order in the Senate to consider any bill or in new budget authority for the period of fis- allocations and other levels in this resolu- joint resolution, or amendment thereto, that cal years 2004 through 2008 and outlays flow- tion by the amount provided by that meas- provides new budget authority that would ure for that purpose, but such revision shall ing therefrom or, in the case of a measure described in paragraph (2), not to exceed cause the discretionary spending limits to be not exceed $12,500,000,000 in new budget au- exceeded for any fiscal year. thority for the period of fiscal years 2003 $890,000,000 in new budget authority for fiscal (b) DISCRETIONARY SPENDING LIMITS.—In through 2008 and outlays flowing therefrom. year 2004 and outlays flowing therefrom. the Senate and as used in this section, the SEC. 304. RESERVE FUND FOR SURFACE TRANS- Notwithstanding the preceding sentence, the PORTATION. total such revision for fiscal year 2004 may term ‘‘discretionary spending limit’’ (a) IN GENERAL.—In the Senate, if the Com- not exceed $890,000,000 in new budget author- means— mittee on Environment and Public Works re- ity and outlays flowing therefrom. (8) with respect to fiscal year 2004— ports a bill or joint resolution, or if an SEC. 306. RESERVE FUND FOR PERMANENT EX- (A) for the defense category: $399,683,000,000 amendment thereto is offered or a con- TENSION OF TAX CUTS; MEDICARE. in new budget authority and $389,746,000,000 ference report thereon is submitted, that In the Senate, notwithstanding section 311 in outlays; provides new budget authority for the budget of this resolution, if the Committee on Fi- (B) for the nondefense category: accounts or portions thereof in the highway nance reports a bill or joint resolution, or if $392,517,000,000 in new budget authority and and transit categories as defined in sections an amendment thereto is offered or a con- $429,054,000,000 in outlays; 250(c)(4)(B) and (C) of the Balanced Budget ference report thereon is submitted, that (9) with respect to fiscal year 2005— and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 in makes the provisions of the Economic (A) for the defense category: $420,019,000,000 excess of the following amounts: Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of in new budget authority and $409,737,000,000 (1) for fiscal year 2004: $30,340,000,000, 2001 permanent or provides additional re- in outlays; (2) for fiscal year 2005: $30,998,000,000, sources for a medicare prescription drug ben- (B) for the nondefense category: (3) for fiscal year 2006: $31,707,000,000, efit in excess of $400,000,000,000 over the pe- $393,481,000,000 in new budget authority and (4) for fiscal year 2007: $32,436,000,000, or riod of fiscal years 2004 through 2013, and if $440,264,000,000 in outlays; the chairman on the Committee on the (5) for fiscal year 2008: $33,190,000,000, (10) with respect to fiscal year 2006— Budget certifies that the enactment of such (A) for the defense category: $440,044,000,000 and the amount of such excess in each such legislation would not cause or increase an in new budget authority and $422,808,000,000 year is offset by reductions in the deficit on-budget deficit in 2013, then the chairman in outlays; caused by such legislation or any previously on the Committee on the Budget shall revise (B) for the nondefense category: enacted legislation that changes direct allocations to accommodate such legislation $402,256,000,000 in new budget authority and spending from, or receipts subsequently ap- and make other necessary adjustments. $446,992,000,000; propriated to, the Highway Trust Fund, the (11) with respect to fiscal year 2007— chairman of the Committee on the Budget Subtitle B—Enforcement (A) for the defense category: $460,309,000,000 may increase the allocation of new budget SEC. 311. POINT OF ORDER AGAINST CERTAIN in new budget authority and $436,164,000,000 authority for such committee by the amount LEGISLATION REDUCING THE SUR- PLUS OR INCREASING THE DEFICIT in outlays; of such excess for fiscal year 2004 and by the AFTER FISCAL YEAR 2008. (B) for the nondefense category: total amount of such excesses for the period (a) POINT OF ORDER.—It shall not be in $412,091,000,000 in new budget authority and of fiscal years 2004 through 2008 and make order in the Senate to consider any bill, $455,236,000,000; the necessary offsetting adjustments in the joint resolution, amendment, or conference (12) with respect to fiscal year 2008— appropriate budget aggregates and alloca- report that includes any provision that first (A) for the defense category: $480,747,000,000 tions. provides new budget authority or a decrease in new budget authority and $460,190,000,000 (b) COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS.—In the in revenues for any fiscal year after fiscal Senate, if the Committee on Appropriations in outlays; year 2008 through fiscal year 2013 that would reports a bill or joint resolution, or if an (B) for the nondefense category: decrease the surplus or increase the deficit amendment thereto is offered or a con- $494,853,000,000 in new budget authority and for any fiscal year. $465,710,000,000; ference report thereon is submitted, that es- (b) EXCEPTION.—Subsection (a) shall not as adjusted in conformance with subsection tablishes obligation limitations that, in apply if the chairman of the Committee on (c). total, are in excess of $38,496,000,000 for fiscal the Budget of the Senate certifies, based on year 2004, but not to exceed the amount of estimates prepared by the Director of the (c) ADJUSTMENTS.— such excess that was offset pursuant to sub- Congressional Budget Office, that Congress (1) IN GENERAL.— section (a), for programs, projects, and ac- has enacted legislation restoring 75-year sol- (A) CHAIRMAN.—After the reporting of a tivities within the highway and transit cat- vency of the Federal Old Age and Survivors bill or joint resolution, the offering of an egories as defined in sections 250(c)(4)(B) and Disability Insurance Trust Fund and legisla- amendment thereto, or the submission of a (C) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency tion extending the solvency of the Hospital conference report thereon, the chairman of Deficit Control Act of 1985 and if legislation Insurance Trust Fund for 20 years. the Committee on the Budget may make the has been enacted that satisfies the condi- SEC. 312. APPLICATION AND EFFECT OF adjustments set forth in subparagraph (B) tions set forth in subsection (a) for such fis- CHANGES IN ALLOCATIONS AND AG- for the amount of new budget authority in cal year, the chairman of the Committee on GREGATES. that measure (if that measure meets the re- the Budget may increase the allocation of (a) APPLICATION.—Any adjustments of allo- quirements set forth in paragraph (2)) and outlays for such fiscal year for the Com- cations and aggregates made pursuant to the outlays flowing from that budget author- mittee on Appropriations by the amount of this resolution shall— ity. The chairman of the Committee on the outlays that corresponds to such excess obli- (1) apply while that measure is under con- Budget may also make appropriate adjust- gation limitations. sideration; ments for the reserve funds set forth in sec- SEC. 305. RESERVE FUND FOR BIOSHIELD. (2) take effect upon the enactment of that tions 301, 302, and 303. In the Senate, if the appropriate com- measure; and (B) MATTERS TO BE ADJUSTED.—The adjust- mittee of jurisdiction reports a bill or joint (3) be published in the Congressional ments referred to in subparagraph (A) are to resolution, or if an amendment thereto is of- Record as soon as practicable. be made to— fered or a conference report thereon is sub- (b) EFFECT OF CHANGED ALLOCATIONS AND (i) the discretionary spending limits, if mitted, that establishes a program to accel- AGGREGATES.—Revised allocations and ag- any, set forth in the appropriate concurrent erate the research, development, and pur- gregates resulting from these adjustments resolution on the budget; chase of biomedical threat countermeasures shall be considered for the purposes of the (ii) the allocations made pursuant to the and— Congressional Budget Act of 1974 as alloca- appropriate concurrent resolution on the (1) such measure provides new budget au- tions and aggregates contained in this reso- budget pursuant to section 302(a) of the Con- thority to carry out such program; or lution. gressional Budget Act of 1974; and

VerDate Dec 13 2002 01:26 Mar 22, 2003 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00095 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A20MR6.259 S20PT2 S4204 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE March 20, 2003 (iii) the budgetary aggregates as set forth any provision of a bill, joint resolution, (B) any reconciliation bill reported pursu- in the appropriate concurrent resolution on amendment, motion or conference report ant to section 201 of this resolution; the budget. that provides direct spending, receipts, or (C) any provision of legislation that affects (2) AMOUNTS OF ADJUSTMENTS.—The adjust- appropriations as those terms have been de- the full funding of, and continuation of, the ment referred to in paragraph (1) shall be— fined and interpreted for purposes of the Bal- deposit insurance guarantee commitment in (A) an amount provided and designated as anced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control effect on the date of enactment of the Budg- an emergency requirement pursuant to sec- Act of 1985. et Enforcement Act of 1990; or tion 314; (d) SEPARATE SENATE VOTE ON EMERGENCY (D) any legislation for which an adjust- (B) an amount appropriated for homeland DESIGNATION.—In the Senate, in the consid- ment is made under section 302. security as provided in section 301; eration of any measure or amendment it (5) BASELINE.—Estimates prepared pursu- (C) an amount appropriated for military shall always be in order to move to strike ant to this section shall— operations in Iraq as provided in section 302; such emergency spending designation from (A) use the baseline surplus or deficit used and the portion of the bill then open to amend- for the most recently adopted concurrent (D) an amount provided for transportation ment. resolution on the budget as adjusted for any (e) COMMITTEE NOTIFICATION OF EMERGENCY under section 304. changes in revenues or direct spending as- LEGISLATION.—Whenever the Committee on (3) APPLICATION OF ADJUSTMENTS.—The ad- sumed by such resolution; and Appropriations or any other committee of ei- justments made for legislation pursuant to ther House (including a committee of con- (B) be calculated under the requirements paragraph (1) shall— ference) reports any bill or joint resolution of subsections (b) through (d) of section 257 (A) apply while that legislation is under that provides budget authority for any emer- of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Def- consideration; gency, the report accompanying that bill or icit Control Act of 1985 for fiscal years be- (B) take effect upon the enactment of that joint resolution (or the joint explanatory yond those covered by that concurrent reso- legislation; and statement of managers in the case of a con- lution on the budget. (C) be published in the Congressional ference report on any such bill or joint reso- (6) PRIOR SURPLUS.—If direct spending or Record as soon as practicable. lution) shall identify all provisions that pro- revenue legislation increases the on-budget (4) APPLICATION OF THIS SECTION.—The pro- vide budget authority and the outlays flow- deficit or causes an on-budget deficit when visions of this section shall apply to legisla- ing therefrom for such emergency and in- taken individually, it must also increase the tion providing new budget authority for fis- clude a statement of the reasons why such on-budget deficit or cause an on-budget def- cal years 2003 through 2008. budget authority meets the definition of an icit when taken together with all direct (5) WAIVER AND APPEAL.—This section may emergency pursuant to the guidelines de- spending and revenue legislation enacted be waived or suspended only by an affirma- scribed in subsection (b). since the beginning of the calendar year not tive vote of three-fifths of the Members, duly (f) CONFERENCE REPORTS.—If a point of accounted for in the baseline under para- chosen and sworn. An affirmative vote of order is sustained under this section against graph (5)(A), except that direct spending or three-fifths of the Members of the Senate, a conference report, the report shall be dis- revenue effects resulting in net deficit reduc- duly chosen and sworn, shall be required to posed of as provided in section 313(d) of the tion enacted pursuant to reconciliation in- sustain an appeal of the ruling of the Chair Congressional Budget Act of 1974. structions since the beginning of that same on a point of order raised under this section. (g) EXCEPTION FOR DEFENSE AND HOMELAND calendar year shall not be available. ECURITY PENDING SEC. 314. EMERGENCY LEGISLATION. S S .—Subsection (d) shall not apply against an emergency designation (b) DETERMINATION OF BUDGET LEVELS.— (a) AUTHORITY TO DESIGNATE.—If a provi- for a provision making discretionary appro- For purposes of this section, the levels of sion of direct spending or receipts legislation priations in the defense category and for new budget authority, outlays, and revenues is enacted or if appropriations for discre- homeland security programs. for a fiscal year shall be determined on the tionary accounts are enacted that the Presi- (h) WAIVER AND APPEAL.—This section may basis of estimates made by the Committee dent designates as an emergency require- be waived or suspended only by an affirma- on the Budget of the Senate. ment and that the Congress so designates in tive vote of three-fifths of the Members, duly (c) WAIVER AND APPEAL.—This section may statute, the amounts of new budget author- chosen and sworn. An affirmative vote of be waived or suspended only by an affirma- ity, outlays, and receipts in all fiscal years three-fifths of the Members of the Senate, tive vote of three-fifths of the Members, duly resulting from that provision shall be des- duly chosen and sworn, shall be required to ignated as an emergency requirement for the sustain an appeal of the ruling of the Chair chosen and sworn. An affirmative vote of purpose of this resolution. on a point of order raised under this section. three-fifths of the Members of the Senate, duly chosen and sworn, shall be required to (b) DESIGNATIONS.— SEC. 315. PAY-AS-YOU-GO POINT OF ORDER IN (1) GUIDANCE.—If a provision of legislation THE SENATE. sustain an appeal of the ruling of the Chair is designated as an emergency requirement (a) POINT OF ORDER.— on a point of order raised under this section. under subsection (a), the committee report (1) IN GENERAL.—It shall not be in order in (d) LIMITS ON APPEALS.—Appeals in the and any statement of managers accom- the Senate to consider any direct spending Senate from the decisions of the Chair relat- panying that legislation shall analyze or revenue legislation that would increase ing to any provision of this section shall be whether a proposed emergency requirement the on-budget deficit or cause an on-budget limited to 1 hour, to be equally divided be- meets all the criteria in paragraph (2). deficit for any one of the three applicable tween, and controlled by, the minority and (2) CRITERIA.— time periods as measured in paragraphs (5) the manager of the bill or joint resolution. (A) IN GENERAL.—The criteria to be consid- and (6). ered in determining whether a proposed ex- (2) APPLICABLE TIME PERIODS.—For pur- (e) SUNSET.—This section shall expire on penditure or tax change is an emergency re- poses of this subsection, the term ‘‘applica- September 30, 2008. quirement are that the expenditure or tax ble time period’’ means any 1 of the 3 fol- SEC. 316. DISCLOSURE OF EFFECT OF LEGISLA- change is— lowing periods: TION ON THE PUBLIC DEBT. (i) necessary, essential, or vital (not mere- (A) The first year covered by the most re- ly useful or beneficial); cently adopted concurrent resolution on the Each report of a committee of the Senate (ii) sudden, quickly coming into being, and budget. on a public bill or public joint resolution not building up over time; (B) The period of the first 5 fiscal years shall contain an estimate by the committee (iii) an urgent, pressing, and compelling covered by the most recently adopted con- of the amount the public debt would be in- need requiring immediate action; current resolution on the budget. creased (including related debt service costs) (iv) subject to subparagraph (B), unfore- (C) The period of the 5 fiscal years fol- in carrying out the bill or joint resolution in seen, unpredictable, and unanticipated; and lowing the first 5 fiscal years covered in the the fiscal year in which it is reported and in (v) not permanent, temporary in nature. most recently adopted concurrent resolution the 5-fiscal year period beginning with such (B) UNFORESEEN.—An emergency that is on the budget. fiscal year (or for the authorized duration of part of an aggregate level of anticipated (3) DIRECT-SPENDING LEGISLATION.—For any program authorized by the bill or joint emergencies, particularly when normally es- purposes of this subsection and except as resolution if less than five years). timated in advance, is not unforeseen. provided in paragraph (4), the term ‘‘direct- SEC. 317. DISCLOSURE OF INTEREST COSTS. (3) JUSTIFICATION FOR USE OF DESIGNA- spending legislation’’ means any bill, joint TION.—When an emergency designation is resolution, amendment, or conference report Whenever a committee of either House of proposed in any bill, joint resolution, or con- that affects direct spending as that term is Congress reports to its House legislation pro- ference report thereon, the committee report defined by, and interpreted for purposes of, viding new budget authority or providing an and the statement of managers accom- the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit increase or decrease in revenues or tax ex- panying a conference report, as the case may Control Act of 1985. penditures, the report accompanying that be, shall provide a written justification of (4) EXCLUSION.—For purposes of this sub- bill or joint resolution shall contain a pro- why the provision meets the criteria set section, the terms ‘‘direct-spending legisla- jection by the Congressional Budget Office of forth in paragraph (2). tion’’ and ‘‘revenue legislation’’ do not in- the cost of the debt servicing that would be (c) DEFINITIONS.—In this section, the terms clude— caused by such measure for such fiscal year ‘‘direct spending’’, ‘‘receipts’’, and ‘‘appro- (A) any concurrent resolution on the budg- (or fiscal years) and each of the 4 ensuing fis- priations for discretionary accounts’’ means et; cal years.

VerDate Dec 13 2002 01:26 Mar 22, 2003 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00096 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A20MR6.259 S20PT2 March 20, 2003 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S4205 TITLE IV—SENSE OF CONGRESS On page 47, line 15, increase the amount by On page 4, line 2, increase the amount by PROVISIONS $271,000,000. $860,000,000. SEC. 401. SENSE OF CONGRESS REGARDING On page 4, line 3, increase the amount by BUDGET ENFORCEMENT. SA 332. Mr. CORZINE submitted an $80,000,000. It is the sense of Congress that legislation amendment intended to be proposed by On page 4, line 4, increase the amount by should be enacted enforcing this resolution him to the concurrent resolution S. $20,000,000. by— Con. Res. 23, setting forth the congres- On page 4, line 15, increase the amount by $991,000,000. (1) setting discretionary spending limits sional budget for the United States for budget authority and outlays at the lev- On page 4, line 16, decrease the amount by Government for fiscal year 2004 and in- $35,000,000. els set forth in this resolution for each of the cluding the appropriate budgetary lev- next 5 fiscal years; On page 4, line 17, decrease the amount by (2) reinstating the pay-as-you-go rules set els for fiscal year 2003 and for fiscal $51,000,000. forth in section 252 of the Balanced Budget years 2005 through 2013; which was or- On page 4, line 18, decrease the amount by and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 dered to lie on the table; as follows: $57,000,000. On page 4, line 19, decrease the amount by for the next 10 fiscal years; At the end of subtitle A of title II, insert $60,000,000. (3) establishing a definition for emergency the following: On page 4, line 20, decrease the amount by spending and requiring a justification for ‘‘SEC. ll . PROTECTING RESOURCES REQUIRED emergency spending requests and legislation; $64,000,000. FOR NATIONAL SECURITY On page 4, line 21, decrease the amount by and (a) POINT ORDER.—It shall not be in order (4) establishing expedited rescission au- $68,000,000. in the Senate to consider any bill, joint reso- On page 4, line 22, decrease the amount by thority regarding congressional votes on re- lution, motion, amendment, or conference $72,000,000. scission submitted by the President and re- report that would increase the deficit in any On page 4, line 23, decrease the amount by ducing discretionary spending limits to re- fiscal year, other than spending measures re- $76,000,000. flect savings from any rescissions enacted lated to national or homeland security, until On page 4, line 24, decrease the amount by into law. the President submits to the Congress a de- $80,000,000. SEC. 402. SENSE OF CONGRESS ON TAX REFORM. tailed report on: On page 5, line 5, increase the amount by It is the sense of Congress that the Com- (1) the costs of the initial phase of the con- $511,000,000. mittee on Finance should— flict, maintaining troops in the region, and On page 5, line 6, increase the amount by (1) work with the Secretary of the Treas- reconstruction and rebuilding of Iraq; and $395,000,000. ury to draft legislation reforming the Inter- (2) how all of these costs fit within the On page 5, line 7, decrease the amount by nal Revenue Code of 1986 in a revenue-neu- budget plan as a whole. $11,000,000. tral manner to improve savings and invest- (b) WAIVER AND APPEAL.—This section may On page 5, line 8, decrease the amount by ment; and be waived or suspended in the Senate only by $47,000,000. (2) consider changes that address the treat- an affirmative vote of three-fifths of the On page 5, line 9, decrease the amount by ment of dividends and retirement savings, members, duly chosen and sworn. An affirm- $60,000,000. corporate tax avoidance, and simplification ative vote of three-fifths of the Members of On page 5, line 10, decrease the amount by of the tax laws. the Senate, duly chosen and sworn, shall be $64,000,000. required in the Senate to sustain an appeal On page 5, line 11, decrease the amount by SA 331. Mr. CORZINE (for himself, of the ruling of the Chair on a point of order $68,000,000. Mr. KERRY, Mr. LAUTENBERG, Mrs. raised under this section.’’ On page 5, line 12, decrease the amount by MURRAY, Mrs. CLINTON, and Mr. JEF- $72,000,000. SA 333. Mr. HOLLINGS submitted an FORDS) submitted an amendment in- On page 5, line 13, decrease the amount by tended to be proposed by him to the amendment intended to be proposed by $76,000,000. On page 5, line 14, decrease the amount by concurrent resolution S. Con. Res. 23, him to the concurrent resolution S. Con. Res. 23, setting forth the congres- $80,000,000. setting forth the congressional budget On page 5, line 18, increase the amount by for the United States Government for sional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2004 and in- $529,000,000. fiscal year 2004 and including the ap- On page 5, line 19, increase the amount by propriate budgetary levels for fiscal cluding the appropriate budgetary lev- $465,000,000. year 2003 and for fiscal years 2005 els for fiscal year 2003 and for fiscal On page 5, line 20, increase the amount by through 2013; which was ordered to lie years 2005 through 2013; which was or- $91,000,000. on the table; as follows: dered to lie on the table; as follows: On page 5, line 21, increase the amount by At the appropriate place, insert the fol- $67,000,000. On page 3, line 10, increase the amount by lowing: On page 5, line 22, increase the amount by $378,000,000. SEC. ll . RESERVE FUND FOR MILITARY ACTION $60,000,000. On page 3, line 11, increase the amount by AND RECONSTRUCTION IN IRAQ. On page 5, line 23, increase the amount by $271,000,000. In addition to any action taken by the $64,000,000. On page 3, line 12, increase the amount by Senate Committee on Finance pursuant to On page 5, line 24, increase the amount by $216,000,000. section 104(b) of this resolution, the Senate $68,000,000. On page 3, line 13, increase the amount by committee on Finance shall include in the On page 5, line 25, increase the amount by $216,000,000. reconciliation bill required by that section $72,000,000. On page 4, line 1, increase the amount by $100,000,000,000 in additional revenues for fis- On page 6, line 1, increase the amount by $1,081,000,000. cal year 2004. $76,000,000. On page 4, line 15, increase the amount by On page 6, line 2, increase the amount by $378,000,000. SA 334. Mr. DODD (for himself and $80,000,000. On page 4, line 16, increase the amount by On page 6, line 6, decrease the amount by $271,000,000. Mr. KENNEDY) submitted an amend- $529,000,000. On page 4, line 17, increase the amount by ment intended to be proposed by him On page 6, line 7, decrease the amount by $216,000,000. to the concurrent resolution S. Con. $994,000,000. On page 4, line 18, increase the amount by Res. 23, setting forth the congressional On page 6, line 8, decrease the amount by $216,000,000. budget for the United States Govern- $1,085,000,000. On page 16, line 11, increase the amount by ment for fiscal year 2004 and includig On page 6, line 8, decrease the amount by $1,081,000,000. the appropriate budgetary levels for $1,152,000,000. On page 16, line 12, increase the amount by fiscal year 2003 and for fiscal year 2005 On page 6, line 10, decrease the amount by $378,000,000. $1,213,000,000. On page 16, line 16, increase the amount by through 2013; which was ordered to lie On page 6, line 11, decrease the amount by $271,000,000. on the table; as follows: $1,277,000,000. On page 16, line 20, increase the amount by On page 3, line 10, increase the amount by On page 6, line 12, decrease the amount by $216,000,000. $1,040,000,000. $1,345,000,000. On page 16, line 24, increase the amount by On page 3, line 11, increase the amount by On page 6, line 13, decrease the amount by $216,000,000. $860,000,000. $1,417,000,000. On page 45, line 24, increase the amount by On page 3, line 12, increase the amount by On page 6, line 14, decrease the amount by $1,081,000,000. $80,000,000. $1,493,000,000. On page 47, line 5, increase the amount by On page 3, line 13, increase the amount by On page 6, line 15, decrease the amount by $1,081,000,000. $20,000,000. $1,573,000,000. On page 47, line 6, increase the amount by On page 4, line 1, increase the amount by On page 6, line 19, decrease the amount by $378,000,000. $1,040,000,000. $529,000,000.

VerDate Dec 13 2002 02:54 Mar 22, 2003 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00097 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A20MR6.259 S20PT2 S4206 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE March 20, 2003 On page 6, line 20, decrease the amount by through 2013; which was ordered to lie On page 5, line 21, increase the amount by $994,000,000. on the table; as follows: $2,385,000,000. On page 6, line 21, decrease the amount by On page 5, line 22, increase the amount by On page 3, line 10, increase the amount by $1,085,000,000. $2,536,000,000. $3,210,000,000. On page 6, line 22, decrease the amount by On page 5, line 23, increase the amount by On page 3, line 11, increase the amount by $1,152,000,000. $2,674,000,000. $3,745,000,000. On page 5, line 24, increase the amount by On page 6, line 23, decrease the amount by On page 3, line 12, increase the amount by $2,821,000,000. $1,213,000,000. $3,970,000,000. On page 5, line 25, increase the amount by On page 6, line 24, decrease the amount by On page 3, line 13, increase the amount by $2,974,000,000. $1,277,000,000. $4,043,000,000. On page 6, line 25, decrease the amount by On page 3, line 14, increase the amount by On page 6, line 1, increase the amount by $1,345,000,000. $4,082,000,000. $3,135,000,000. On page 7, line 1, decrease the amount by On page 3, line 15, increase the amount by On page 6, line 2, increase the amount by $1,417,000,000. $4,080,000,000. $3,305,000,000. On page 7, line 2, decrease the amount by On page 3, line 16, increase the amount by On page 6, line 6, decrease the amount by $1,493,000,000. $4,080,000,000. $1,634,000,000. On page 7, line 3, decrease the amount by On page 3, line 17, increase the amount by On page 6, line 7, decrease the amount by $1,573,000,000. $4,080,000,000. $3,628,000,000. On page 25, line 16, increase the amount by On page 3, line 18, increase the amount by On page 6, line 8, decrease the amount by $1,000,000,000. $4,080,000,000. $5,852,000,000. On page 25, line 17, increase the amount by On page 3, line 19, increase the amount by On page 6, line 9, decrease the amount by $520,000,000. $4,080,000,000. $8,237,000,000. On page 25, line 21, increase the amount by On page 4, line 1, increase the amount by On page 6, line 10, decrease the amount by $430,000,000. $3,210,000,000. $10,773,000,000. On page 25, line 25, increase the amount by On page 4, line 2, increase the amount by On page 6, line 11, decrease the amount by $40,000,000. $3,745,000,000. $13,447,000,000. On page 26, line 4, increase the amount by On page 4, line 3, increase the amount by On page 6, line 12, decrease the amount by $10,000,000. $3,970,000,000. $16,268,000,000. On page 40, line 6, decrease the amount by On page 4, line 4, increase the amount by On page 6, line 13, decrease the amount by $9,000,000. $4,043,000,000. $19,242,000,000. On page 40, line 7, decrease the amount by On page 4, line 5, increase the amount by On page 6, line 14, decrease the amount by $9,000,000. $4,082,000,000. $22,377,000,000. On page 40, line 10, decrease the amount by On page 4, line 6, increase the amount by On page 6, line 15, decrease the amount by $35,000,000. $4,080,000,000. $25,682,000,000. On page 40, line 11, decrease the amount by On page 4, line 7, increase the amount by On page 6, line 19, decrease the amount by $35,000,000. $4,080,000,000. $1,634,000,000. On page 40, line 14, decrease the amount by On page 4, line 8, increase the amount by On page 6, line 20, decrease the amount by $51,000,000. $4,080,000,000. $3,628,000,000. On page 40, line 15, decrease the amount by On page 4, line 9, increase the amount by On page 6, line 21, decrease the amount by $51,000,000. $4,080,000,000. $5,852,000,000. On page 40, line 18, decrease the amount by On page 4, line 10, increase the amount by On page 6, line 22, decrease the amount by $57,000,000. $4,080,000,000. $8,237,000,000. On page 40, line 19, decrease the amount by On page 4, line 15, increase the amount by On page 6, line 23, decrease the amount by $57,000,000. $2,111,000,000. $10,773,000,000. On page 40, line 22, decrease the amount by On page 4, line 16, increase the amount by On page 6, line 24, decrease the amount by $60,000,000. $1,919,000,000. $13,447,000,000. On page 6, line 25, decrease the amount by On page 40, line 23, decrease the amount by On page 4, line 17, increase the amount by $16,268,000,000. $60,000,000. $1,802,000,000. On page 7, line 1, decrease the amount by On page 41, line 2, decrease the amount by On page 4, line 18, increase the amount by $19,242,000,000. $64,000,000. $1,676,000,000. On page 7, line 2, decrease the amount by On page 41, line 3, decrease the amount by On page 4, line 19, increase the amount by $22,377,000,000. $64,000,000. $1,545,000,000. On page 7, line 3, decrease the amount by On page 41, line 6, decrease the amount by On page 4, line 20, increase the amount by $25,682,000,000. $68,000,000. $1,406,000,000. On page 31, line 2, increase the amount by On page 41, line 7, decrease the amount by On page 4, line 21, increase the amount by $2,140,000,000. $68,000,000. $1,259,000,000. On page 31, line 3, increase the amount by On page 41, line 10, decrease the amount by On page 4, line 22, increase the amount by $1,605,000,000. $72,000,000. $1,106,000,000. On page 31, line 6, increase the amount by On page 41, line 11, decrease the amount by On page 4, line 23, increase the amount by $2,040,000,000. $72,000,000. $945,000,000. On page 31, line 7, increase the amount by On page 41, line 14, decrease the amount by On page 4, line 24, increase the amount by $1,872,000,000. $76,000,000. $775,000,000. On page 31, line 10, increase the amount by On page 41, line 15, decrease the amount by On page 5, line 5, increase the amount by $2,040,000,000. $76,000,000. $1,576,000,000. On page 31, line 11, increase the amount by On page 41, line 18, decrease the amount by On page 5, line 6, increase the amount by $1,985,000,000. $80,000,000. $1,751,000,000. On page 5, line 7, increase the amount by On page 31, line 14, increase the amount by On page 41, line 19, decrease the amount by $1,747,000,000. $2,040,000,000. $80,000,000. On page 5, line 8, increase the amount by On page 31, line 15, increase the amount by On page 47, line 5, increase the amount by $1,658,000,000. $2,022,000,000. $1,000,000,000. On page 5, line 9, increase the amount by On page 31, line 18, increase the amount by On page 47, line 6, increase the amount by $1,546,000,000. $2,040,000,000. $520,000,000. On page 5, line 10, increase the amount by On page 31, line 19, increase the amount by On page 47, line 15, increase the amount by $1,406,000,000. $2,041,000,000. $430,000,000. On page 5, line 11, increase the amount by On page 31, line 22, increase the amount by $1,259,000,000. $2,040,000,000. SA 335. Mr. BINGAMAN (for himself, On page 5, line 12, increase the amount by On page 31, line 23, increase the amount by Mr. KERRY, Mr. DODD, Mr. DASCHLE, $1,106,000,000. $2,040,000,000. Mr. KENNEDY, Mr. ROCKEFELLER, and On page 5, line 13, increase the amount by On page 32, line 2, increase the amount by Mr. CORZINE) submitted an amendment $945,000,000. $2,040,000,000. intended to be proposed by him to the On page 5, line 14, increase the amount by On page 32, line 3, increase the amount by concurrent resolution S. Con. Res. 23, $775,000,000. $2,040,000,000. setting forth the congressional budget On page 5, line 18, increase the amount by On page 32, line 6, increase the amount by $1,634,000,000. $2,040,000,000. for the United States Government for On page 5, line 19, increase the amount by On page 32, line 7, increase the amount by fiscal year 2004 and including the ap- $1,994,000,000. $2,040,000,000. propriate budgetary levels for fiscal On page 5, line 20, increase the amount by On page 32, line 10, increase the amount by year 2003 and for fiscal years 2005 $2,223,000,000. $2,040,000,000.

VerDate Dec 13 2002 02:54 Mar 22, 2003 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00098 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A20MR6.261 S20PT2 March 20, 2003 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S4207 On page 32, line 11, increase the amount by On page 4, line 2, increase the amount by On page 6, line 11, decrease the amount by $2,040,000,000. $1,670,000,000. $6,004,000,000. On page 32, line 14, increase the amount by On page 4, line 3, increase the amount by On page 6, line 12, decrease the amount by $2,040,000,000. $1,758,000,000. $7,252,000,000. On page 32, line 15, increase the amount by On page 4, line 4, increase the amount by On page 6, line 13, decrease the amount by $2,040,000,000. $1,786,000,000. $8,568,000,000. On page 40, line 6, decrease the amount by On page 4, line 5, increase the amount by On page 6, line 14, decrease the amount by $29,000,000. $1,802,000,000. $9,956,000,000. On page 40, line 7, decrease the amount by On page 4, line 6, increase the amount by On page 6, line 15, decrease the amount by $29,000,000. $1,800,000,000. $11,418,000,000. On page 40, line 10, decrease the amount by On page 4, line 7 increase the amount by On page 6, line 19, decrease the amount by $121,000,000. $1,800,000,000. $764,000,000. On page 40, line 11, decrease the amount by On page 4, line 8, increase the amount by On page 6, line 20, decrease the amount by $121,000,000. $1,800,000,000. $1,654,000,000. On page 40, line 14, decrease the amount by On page 4, line 9, increase the amount by On page 6, line 21, decrease the amount by $238,000,000. $1,800,000,000. $2,641,000,000. On page 40, line 15, decrease the amount by On page 4, line 10, increase the amount by On page 6, line 22, decrease the amount by $238,000,000. $1,800,000,000. $3,698,000,000. On page 40, line 18, decrease the amount by On page 4, line 15, increase the amount by On page 6, line 23, decrease the amount by $364,000,000. $986,000,000. $4,821,000,000. On page 40, line 19, decrease the amount by On page 4, line 16, increase the amount by On page 6, line 24, decrease the amount by $364,000,000. $844,000,000. $6,004,000,000. On page 40, line 22, decrease the amount by On page 4, line 17, increase the amount by On page 6, line 25, decrease the amount by $495,000,000. $792,000,000. $7,252,000,000. On page 40, line 23, decrease the amount by On page 4, line 18, increase the amount by On page 7, line 1, decrease the amount by $495,000,000. $736,000,000. $8,568,000,000. On page 41, line 2, decrease the amount by On page 4, line 19, increase the amount by On page 7, line 2, decrease the amount by $634,000,000. $678,000,000. $9,956,000,000. On page 41, line 3, decrease the amount by On page 4, line 20, increase the amount by On page 7, line 3, decrease the amount by $634,000,000. $617,000,000. $11,418,000,000. On page 41, line 6, decrease the amount by On page 4, line 21, increase the amount by On page 31, line 2, increase the amount by $781,000,000. $552,000,000. $1,000,000,000. On page 41, line 7, decrease the amount by On page 4, line 22, increase the amount by On page 31, line 3, increase the amount by $781,000,000. $484,000,000. $750,000,000. On page 41, line 10, decrease the amount by On page 4, line 23, increase the amount by On page 31, line 6, increase the amount by $934,000,000. $413,000,000. $900,000,000. On page 41, line 11, decrease the amount by On page 4, line 24, increase the amount by On page 31, line 7, increase the amount by $934,000,000. $337,000,000. $835,000,000. On page 41, line 14, decrease the amount by On page 5, line 5, increase the amount by On page 31, line 10, increase the amount by $1,095,000,000. $736,000,000. $900,000,000. On page 41, line 15, decrease the amount by On page 5, line 6, increase the amount by On page 31, line 11, increase the amount by $1,095,000,000. $779,000,000. $879,000,000. On page 41, line 18, decrease the amount by On page 5, line 7, increase the amount by On page 31, line 14, increase the amount by $1,265,000,000. $771,000,000. $900,000,000. On page 41, line 19, decrease the amount by On page 5, line 8, increase the amount by On page 31, line 15, increase the amount by $1,265,000,000. $729,000,000. $893,000,000. On page 47, line 5, increase the amount by On page 5, line 9, increase the amount by On page 31, line 18, increase the amount by $2,140,000,000. $679,000,000. $900,000,000. On page 47, line 6, increase the amount by On page 5, line 10, increase the amount by On page 31, line 19, increase the amount by $1,605,000,000. $617,000,000. $901,000,000. On page 47, line 14, increase the amount by On page 5, line 11, increase the amount by On page 31, line 22, increase the amount by $2,040,000,000. $552,000,000. $900,000,000. On page 47, line 15, increase the amount by On page 5, line 12, increase the amount by On page 31, line 23, increase the amount by $1,872,000,000. $484,000,000. $900,000,000. On page 5, line 13, increase the amount by On page 32, line 2, increase the amount by SA 336. Mr. BINGAMAN submitted an $413,000,000. $900,000,000. amendment intended to be proposed by On page 5, line 14, increase the amount by On page 32, line 3, increase the amount by him to the concurrent resolution S. $337,000,000. $900,000,000. Con. Res. 23, setting for the congres- On page 5, line 18, increase the amount by On page 32, line 6, increase the amount by sional budget for the United States $764,000,000. $900,000,000. Governments for fiscal year 2004 and On page 5, line 19, increase the amount by On page 32, line 7, increase the amount by including the appropriate budgetary $891,000,000. $900,000,000. On page 5, line 20, increase the amount by On page 32, line 10, increase the amount by levels for fiscal year 2003 and for fiscal $987,000,000. $900,000,000. years 2005 through 2013; which was or- On page 5, line 21, increase the amount by On page 32, line 11, increase the amount by dered to lie on the table; as follows: $1,057,000,000. $900,000,000. On page 3, line 10, increase the amount by On page 5, line 22, increase the amount by On page 32, line 14, increase the amount by $1,500,000,000. $1,123,000,000. $900,000,000. On page 3, line 11, increase the amount by On page 5, line 23, increase the amount by On page 32, line 15, increase the amount by $1,670,000,000. $1,183,000,000. $900,000,000. On page 3, line 12, increase the amount by On page 5, line 24, increase the amount by On page 40, line 6, decrease the amount by $1,758,000,000. $1,248,000,000. $14,000,000. On page 3, line 13, increase the amount by On page 5, line 25, increase the amount by On page 40, line 7, decrease the amount by $1,786,000,000. $1,316,000,000. $14,000,000. On page 3, line 14, increase the amount by On page 6, line 1, increase the amount by On page 40, line 10, decrease the amount by $1,802,000,000. $1,387,000,000. $56,000,000. On page 3, line 15, increase the amount by On page 6, line 2, increase the amount by On page 40, line 11, decrease the amount by $1,800,000,000. $1,463,000,000. $56,000,000. On page 3, line 16, increase the amount by On page 6, line 6, decrease the amount by On page 40, line 14, decrease the amount by $1,800,000,000. $764,000,000. $108,000,000. On page 3, line 17, increase the amount by On page 6, line 7, decrease the amount by On page 40, line 15, decrease the amount by $1,800,000,000. $1,654,000,000. $108,000,000. On page 3, line 18, increase the amount by On page 6, line 8, decrease the amount by On page 40, line 18, decrease the amount by $1,800,000,000. $2,641,000,000. $164,000,000. On page 3, line 19, increase the amount by On page 6, line 9, decrease the amount by On page 40, line 19, decrease the amount by $1,800,000,000. $33,698,000,000. $164,000,000. On page 4, line 1, increase the amount by On page 6, line 10, decrease the amount by On page 40, line 22, decrease the amount by $1,500,000,000. $4,821,000,000. $222,000,000.

VerDate Dec 13 2002 02:54 Mar 22, 2003 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00099 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A20MR6.265 S20PT2 S4208 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE March 20, 2003 On page 40, line 23, decrease the amount by On page 3, line 13, increase the amount by On page 5, line 21, increase the amount by $222,000,000. $16,893,000,000. $22,654,000,000. On page 41, line 2, decrease the amount by On page 3, line 14, increase the amount by On page 5, line 22, increase the amount by $283,000,000. $16,183,000,000. $23,186,000,000. On page 41, line 3, decrease the amount by On page 3, line 15, increase the amount by On page 5, line 23, increase the amount by $283,000,000. $15,879,000,000. $24,173,000,000. On page 41, line 6, decrease the amount by On page 3, line 16, increase the amount by On page 5, line 24, increase the amount by $348,000,000. $15,992,000,000. $25,632,000,000. On page 41, line 7, decrease the amount by On page 3, line 17, increase the amount by On page 5, line 25, increase the amount by $348,000,000. $52,874,000,000. $64,909,000,000. On page 41, line 10, decrease the amount by On page 3, line 18, increase the amount by On page 6, line 1, increase the amount by $416,000,000. $79,512,000,000. $95,788,000,000. On page 41, line 11, decrease the amount by On page 3, line 19, increase the amount by On page 6, line 2, increase the amount by $416,000,000. $84,090,000,000. $105,696,000,000. On page 41, line 14, decrease the amount by On page 3, line 23, increase the amount by On page 6, line 5, decrease the amount by $487,000,000. $10,433,000,000. $10,511,000,000. On page 41, line 15, decrease the amount by On page 4, line 1, increase the amount by On page 6, line 6, decrease the amount by $487,000,000. $33,015,000,000. $44,425,000,000. On page 41, line 18, decrease the amount by On page 4, line 2, increase the amount by On page 6, line 7, decrease the amount by $563,000,000. $27,962,000,000. $75,073,000,000. On page 41, line 19, decrease the amount by On page 4, line 3, increase the amount by On page 6, line 8, decrease the amount by $563,000,000. $22,167,000,000. $101,605,000,000. On page 4, line 4, increase the amount by On page 6, line 9, decrease the amount by SA 377. Mr. ALLARD submitted an $16,893,000,000. $124,259,000,000. amendment intended to be proposed by On page 4, line 5, increase the amount by On page 6, line 10, decrease the amount by him to the concurrent resolution S. $16,183,000,000. $147,445,000,000. Con. Res. 23, setting forth the congres- On page 4, line 6, increase the amount by On page 6, line 11, decrease the amount by sional budget for the United States $15,879,000,000. $171,619,000,000. Government for fiscal year 2004 and in- On page 4, line 7, increase the amount by On page 6, line 12, decrease the amount by cluding the appropriate budgetary lev- $15,992,000,000. $197,250,000,000. On page 4, line 8, increase the amount by On page 6, line 13, decrease the amount by els for fiscal year 2003 and for fiscal $52,874,000,000. $262,159,000,000. years 2005 through 2013; which was or- On page 4, line 9, increase the amount by On page 6, line 14, decrease the amount by dered to lie on the table; as follows: $79,512,000,000. $357,947,000,000. On page 46, after line 2, insert the fol- On page 4, line 10, increase the amount by On page 6, line 15, decrease the amount by lowing: $84,090,000,000. $463,643,000,000. SEC. ll . REDUCTION IN FUNCTIONS FOR FIS- On page 4, line 14, decrease the amount by On page 6, line 18, decrease the amount by CAL YEAR 2004. $77,000,000. $10,511,000,000. Notwithstanding any other provision of On page 4, line 15, decrease the amount by On page 6, line 19, decrease the amount by this resolution, all non-defense discretionary $899,000,000. $44,425,000,000. spending functional totals in this resolution On page 4, line 16, decrease the amount by On page 6, line 20, decrease the amount by are reduced pro rata by $10,000,000,000 for fis- $2,687,000,000. $75,073,000,000. cal year 2004 and the overall budgetary to- On page 4, line 17, decrease the amount by On page 6, line 21, decrease the amount by tals shall be adjusted accordingly. $4,364,000,000. $101,605,000,000. On page 4, line 18, decrease the amount by On page 6, line 22, decrease the amount by SA 338. Mr. ALLARD submitted an $5,762,000,000. $124,259,000,000. amendment intended to be proposed by On page 4, line 19, decrease the amount by On page 6, line 23, decrease the amount by him to the concurrent resolution S. $7,003,000,000. $147,445,000,000. Con. Res. 23, setting forth the congres- On page 4, line 20, decrease the amount by On page 6, line 24, decrease the amount by $8,294,000,000. $171,619,000,000. sional budget for the United States On page 4, line 21, decrease the amount by On page 6, line 25, decrease the amount by Government for fiscal year 2004 and in- $9,640,000,000. $197,250,000,000. cluding the appropriate budgetary lev- On page 4, line 22, decrease the amount by On page 7, line 1, decrease the amount by els for fiscal year 2003 and for fiscal $12,035,000,000. $262,159,000,000. years 2005 through 2013; which was or- On page 4, line 23, decrease the amount by On page 7, line 2, decrease the amount by dered to lie on the table; as follows: $16,276,000,000. $357,947,000,000. On page 4, line 24, decrease the amount by On page 7, line 3, decrease the amount by On page 46, after line 2, insert the fol- $21,605,000,000. $463,643,000,000. lowing: On page 5, line 4, decrease the amount by On page 40, line 2, decrease the amount by SEC. ll. REDUCTION IN FUNCTIONS FOR FISCAL $77,000,000. $77,000,000. YEAR 2004. On page 5, line 5, decrease the amount by On page 40, line 3, decrease the amount by Notwithstanding any other provision of $899,000,000. $77,000,000. this resolution, all non-defense discretionary On page 5, line 6, decrease the amount by On page 40, line 6, decrease the amount by spending functional totals in this resolution $2,687,000,000. $899,000,000. are reduced pro rata by $10,000,000,000 for fis- On page 5, line 7, decrease the amount by On page 40, line 7, decrease the amount by cal year 2004 and the overall budgetary to- $4,364,000,000. $899,000,000. tals shall be adjusted accordingly. On page 5, line 8, decrease the amount by On page 40, line 10, decrease the amount by $5,762,000,000. $2,687,000,000. SA 339. Mr. BREAUX (for himself, On page 5, line 9, decrease the amount by On page 40, line 11, decrease the amount by Ms. SNOWE, Mr. BAUCUS, Mr. $7,003,000,000. $2,687,000,000. VOINOVICH) submitted an amendment On page 5, line 10, decrease the amount by On page 40, line 14, decrease the amount by intended to be proposed by him to the $8,294,000,000. $4,364,000,000. concurrent resolution S. Con. Res. 23, On page 5, line 11, decrease the amount by On page 40, line 15, decrease the amount by setting forth the congressional budget $9,640,000,000. $4,364,000,000. for the United States Government for On page 5, line 12, decrease the amount by On page 40, line 18, decrease the amount by fiscal year 2004 and including the ap- $12,035,000,000. $5,762,000,000. On page 5, line 13, decrease the amount by On page 40, line 19, decrease the amount by propriate budgetary levels for fiscal $16,276,000,000. $5,762,000,000. year 2003 and for fiscal years 2005 On page 5, line 14, decrease the amount by On page 40, line 22, decrease the amount by through 2013; as follows: $21,605,000,000. $7,003,000,000. On page 3, line 9, increase the amount by On page 5, line 17, increase the amount by On page 40, line 23, decrease the amount by $10,433,000,000. $10,511,000,000. $7,003,000,000. On page 3, line 10, increase the amount by On page 5, line 18, increase the amount by On page 41, line 2, decrease the amount by $33,015,000,000. $33,914,000,000. $8,294,000,000. On page 3, line 11, increase the amount by On page 5, line 19, increase the amount by On page 41, line 3, decrease the amount by $27,962,000,000. $30,648,000,000. $8,294,000,000. On page 3, line 12, increase the amount by On page 5, line 20, increase the amount by On page 41, line 6, decrease the amount by $22,167,000,000. $26,532,000,000. $9,640,000,000.

VerDate Dec 13 2002 03:00 Mar 22, 2003 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00100 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A20MR6.229 S20PT2 March 20, 2003 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S4209 On page 41, line 7, decrease the amount by On page 5, line 20, increase the amount by On page 41, line 3, decrease the amount by $9,640,000,000. $142,000,000. $23,000,000. On page 41, line 10, decrease the amount by On page 5, line 21, increase the amount by On page 41, line 6, decrease the amount by $12,035,000,000. $38,000,000. $24,000,000. On page 41, line 11, decrease the amount by On page 5, line 22, increase the amount by On page 41, line 7, decrease the amount by $12,035,000,000. $22,000,000. $24,000,000. On page 41, line 14, decrease the amount by On page 5, line 23, increase the amount by On page 41, line 10, decrease the amount by $16,276,000,000. $23,000,000. $26,000,000. On page 41, line 15, decrease the amount by On page 5, line 24, increase the amount by On page 41, line 11, decrease the amount by $16,276,000,000. $24,000,000. $26,000,000. On page 41, line 18, decrease the amount by On page 5, line 25, increase the amount by On page 41, line 14, decrease the amount by $21,605,000,000. $26,000,000. $27,000,000. On page 41, line 19, decrease the amount by On page 6, line 1, increase the amount by On page 41, line 15, decrease the amount by $21,605,000,000. $27,000,000. $27,000,000. On page 45, line 24, decrease the amount by On page 6, line 2, increase the amount by On page 41, line 18, decrease the amount by $375,000,000,000. $28,000,000. $28,000,000. On page 6, line 6, decrease the amount by On page 41, line 19, decrease the amount by SA 340. Mr. KOHL submitted an $81,000,000. $28,000,000. amendment intended to be proposed by On page 6, line 7, decrease the amount by On page 45, line 24, decrease the amount by him to the concurrent resolution S. $227,000,000. $726,000,000. Con. Res. 23, setting forth the congres- On page 6, line 8, decrease the amount by On page 47, line 5, increase the amount by sional budget for the United States $369,000,000. $363,000,000. On page 6, line 9, decrease the amount by On page 47, line 6, increase the amount by Government for fiscal year 2004 and in- $407,000,000. $80,000,000. cluding the appropriate budgetary lev- On page 6, line 10, decrease the amount by On page 47, line 15, increase the amount by els for fiscal year 2003 and for fiscal $428,000,000. $138,000,000. years 2005 through 2013; which was or- On page 6, line 11, decrease the amount by dered to lie on the table; as follows: $451,000,000. SA 341. Mr. REID submitted an On page 3, line 10, increase the amount by On page 6, line 12, decrease the amount by amendment intended to be proposed by $160,000,000. $476,000,000. him to the concurrent resolution S. On page 3, line 11, increase the amount by On page 6, line 13, decrease the amount by Con. Res. 23, setting forth the congres- $501,000,000. $276,000,000. sional budget for the United States On page 3, line 12, increase the amount by On page 6, line 14, decrease the amount by $528,000,000. Government for fiscal year 2004 and in- $254,000,000. cluding the appropriate budgetary lev- On page 3, line 13, increase the amount by On page 6, line 15, decrease the amount by $36,000,000. $557,000,000. els for fiscal year 2003 and for fiscal On page 4, line 1, increase the amount by On page 6, line 19, decrease the amount by years 2005 through 2013; which was or- $160,000,000. $81,000,000. dered to lie on the table; as follows: On page 6, line 20, decrease the amount by On page 4, line 2, increase the amount by On page 9, line 2, increase the amount by $227,000,000. $276,000,000. $182,000,000. On page 6, line 21, decrease the amount by On page 4, line 3, increase the amount by On page 9, line 3, increase the amount by $369,000,000. $254,000,000. $182,000,000. On page 6, line 22, decrease the amount by On page 4, line 4, increase the amount by On page 9, line 6, increase the amount by $407,000,000. $36,000,000. $331,000,000. On page 6, line 23, decrease the amount by On page 4, line 15, increase the amount by On page 9, line 7, increase the amount by $428,000,000. $362,000,000. $331,000,000. On page 6, line 24, decrease the amount by On page 4, line 16, decrease the amount by On page 9, line 10, increase the amount by $451,000,000. $7,000,000. $584,000,000. On page 4, line 17, decrease the amount by On page 6, line 25, decrease the amount by On page 9, line 11, increase the amount by $15,000,000. $476,000,000. $584,000,000. On page 4, line 18, decrease the amount by On page 7, line 1, decrease the amount by On page 9, line 14, increase the amount by $20,000,000. $501,000,000. $965,000,000. On page 4, line 19, decrease the amount by On page 7, line 2, decrease the amount by On page 9, line 15, increase the amount by $22,000,000. $528,000,000. $965,000,000. On page 4, line 20, decrease the amount by On page 7, line 3, decrease the amount by On page 9, line 18, increase the amount by $23,000,000. $557,000,000. $1,454,000,000. On page 4, line 21, decrease the amount by On page 36, line 15, increase the amount by On page 9, line 19, increase the amount by $24,000,000. $363,000,000. $1,454,000,000. On page 4, line 22, decrease the amount by On page 36, line 16, increase the amount by On page 9, line 22, increase the amount by $26,000,000. $80,000,000. $1,642,000,000. On page 4, line 23, decrease the amount by On page 36, line 20, increase the amount by On page 9, line 23, increase the amount by $27,000,000. $138,000,000. $1,642,000,000. On page 4, line 24, decrease the amount by On page 36, line 24, increase the amount by On page 10, line 2, increase the amount by $28,000,000. $127,000,000. $1,739,000,000. On page 5, line 5, increase the amount by On page 37, line 3, increase the amount by On page 10, line 3, increase the amount by $79,000,000. $18,000,000. $1,739,000,000. On page 5, line 6, increase the amount by On page 40, line 6, decrease the amount by On page 10, line 6, increase the amount by $131,000,000. $1,000,000. $1,844,000,000. On page 5, line 7, increase the amount by On page 40, line 7, decrease the amount by On page 10, line 7, increase the amount by $112,000,000. $1,000,000. $1,844,000,000. On page 5, line 8, decrease the amount by On page 40, line 10, decrease the amount by On page 10, line 10, increase the amount by $2,000,000. $7,000,000. $1,953,000,000. On page 5, line 9, decrease the amount by On page 40, line 11, decrease the amount by On page 10, line 11, increase the amount by $22,000,000. $7,000,000. $1,953,000,000. On page 5, line 10, decrease the amount by On page 40, line 14, decrease the amount by On page 10, line 14, increase the amount by $23,000,000. $15,000,000. $2,070,000,000. On page 5, line 11, decrease the amount by On page 40, line 15, decrease the amount by On page 10, line 15, increase the amount by $24,000,000. $15,000,000. $2,070,000,000. On page 5, line 12, decrease the amount by On page 40, line 18, decrease the amount by On page 79, after line 22, insert the fol- $26,000,000. $20,000,000. lowing: On page 5, line 13, decrease the amount by On page 40, line 19, decrease the amount by SEC. ll . SENSE OF SENATE ON PHASED-IN CON- $27,000,000. $20,000,000. CURRENT RECEIPT OF RETIRED PAY On page 5, line 14, decrease the amount by On page 40, line 22, decrease the amount by AND VETERANS’ DISABILITY COM- $28,000,000. $22,000,000. PENSATION FOR VETERANS WITH On page 5, line 18, increase the amount by On page 40, line 23, decrease the amount by SERVICE-CONNECTED DISABILITIES $81,000,000. $22,000,000. RATED AT 60 PERCENT OR HIGHER. On page 5, line 19, increase the amount by On page 41, line 2, decrease the amount by It is the sense of the Senate that the new $145,000,000. $23,000,000. budget authority and outlays for fiscal years

VerDate Dec 13 2002 03:00 Mar 22, 2003 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00101 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A20MR6.243 S20PT2 S4210 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE March 20, 2003 2004 through 2013 for National Defense (050) (A) by inserting ‘‘, for months in 2002 and On page 3, line 17, increase the amount by specified in section 103(1) are adequate to 2003,’’ after ‘‘Secretary concerned shall’’; and $1,844,000,000. provide, and should provide, for the phased- (B) by striking the last sentence; and On page 3, line 18, increase the amount by in of concurrent receipt of retired pay and (2) in subsection (b)— $1,953,000,000. veterans’ disability compensation by vet- (A) in paragraph (2), by striking ‘‘Sep- On page 3, line 19, increase the amount by erans with service-connected disabilities tember 2004’’ and inserting ‘‘December 2003’’; $2,070,000,000. rated 60 percent or higher as if Section 1414 and On page 4, line 1, increase the amount by of title 10, United States Code, were amended (B) by striking paragraph (3). $182,000,000. to read as follows: (3) ADDITIONAL CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.— On page 4, line 2, increase the amount by ‘‘§ 1414. Members eligible for retired pay who (A) Effective on December 31, 2003, section $331,000,000. have service-connected disabilities: pay- 1413a of such title is repealed. On page 4, line 3, increase the amount by ment of retired pay and veterans’ disability (B) Effective on the date of the enactment $584,000,000. compensation for disabilities rated at 60 of this Act, subsection (d) of section 641 of On page 4, line 4, increase the amount by percent or higher the National Defense Authorization Act for $965,000,000. Fiscal Year 2002 (Public Law 107–107; 115 On page 4, line 5, increase the amount by ‘‘(a) PAYMENT OF BOTH RETIRED PAY AND Stat, 1150; 10 U.S.C. 1414 note) is repealed. $1,454,000,000. COMPENSATION.—A member or former mem- (4) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—Effective on the On page 4, line 6, increase the amount by ber of the uniformed services described in date of the enactment of this Act, the table $1,642,000,000. subsection (b) is entitled to be paid retired of sections at the beginning of chapter 71 of On page 4, line 7, increase the amount by pay, up to the amount determined for such title 10, United States Code, is amended by $1,739,000,000. member or former member under subsection striking the item relating to section: 1414and On page 4, line 8, increase the amount by (d), in addition to any entitlement to vet- inserting the following new item: $1,844,000,000. erans’ disability compensation, without re- ‘‘1414. Members eligible for retired pay who On page 4, line 9, increase the amount by gard to sections 5304 and 5305 of title 38. have service-connected disabil- $1,953,000,000. ‘‘(b) COVERED MEMBERS.—A member or ities: payment of retired pay former member described in this subsection On page 4, line 10, increase the amount by and veterans’ disability com- is any member or former member who is en- $2,070,000,000. pensation for disabilities rated titled to retired pay (other than as specified at 60 percent or higher.’’. in subsection (c)) and who is also entitled to SA 342. Mr. REID submitted an (B) Effective December 31, 2003, the table of veterans’ disability compensation for a serv- amendment intended to be proposed by sections at the beginning of such chapter is ice-connected disability rated at 60 percent him to the concurrent resolution S. amended by striking the item relating to or higher, as determined under laws adminis- Con. Res. 23, setting forth the congres- section 1413a. tered by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs. On page 4, line 15, increase the amount by sional budget for the United States ‘‘(c) EXCEPTION.—Subsection (a) does not $182,000,000. Government for fiscal year 2004 and in- apply to a member retired under chapter 61 On page 4, line 16, increase the amount by cluding the appropriate budgetary lev- of this title with less than 20 years of service $331,000,000. otherwise creditable under section 1405 of els for fiscal year 2003 and for fiscal On page 4, line 17, increase the amount by this title at the time of the member’s retire- years 2005 through 2013; which was or- $584,000,000. ment. dered to lie on the table; as follows: On page 4, line 18, increase the amount by ‘‘(d) MAXIMUM AMOUNT OF RETIRED PAY.— $965,000,000. On page 9, line 2, increase the amount by The maximum amount of retired pay to On page 4, line 19, increase the amount by $3,330,000,000. which a member or former member is enti- $1,454,000,000. On page 9, line 3, increase the amount by tled under subsection (a) is as follows: On page 4, line 20, increase the amount by $3,330,000,000. ‘‘(1) For months beginning with January $1,642,000,000. On page 9, line 6, increase the amount by 2004 and ending with December 2004, the On page 4, line 21, increase the amount by $3,428,000,000. amount equal to 40 percent of the amount of $1,739,000,000. On page 9, line 7, increase the amount by retired pay to which the member or former On page 4, line 22, increase the amount by $3,428,000,000. member would be entitled if the member or $1,844,000,000. On page 9, line 10, increase the amount by former member were paid retired pay with- On page 4, line 23, increase the amount by $3,630,000,000. out regard to sections 5304 and 5305 of title 38 $1,953,000,000. On page 9, line 11, increase the amount by for such months. On page 4, line 24, increase the amount by $3,630,000,000. ‘‘(2) For months beginning with January $2,070,000,000. On page 9, line 14, increase the amount by 2005 and ending with December 2005, the On page 5, line 5, increase the amount by $3,889,000,000. amount equal to 60 percent of the amount of $182,000,000. On page 9, line 15, increase the amount by retired pay to which the member or former On page 5, line 6, increase the amount by $3,889,000,000. member would be entitled if the member or $331,000,000. On page 9, line 18, increase the amount by former member were paid retired pay with- On page 5, line 7, increase the amount by $4,096,000,000. out regard to sections 5304 and 5305 of title 38 $584,000,000. On page 9, line 19, increase the amount by for such months. On page 5, line 8, increase the amount by $4,096,000,000. ‘‘(3) For months beginning with January $965,000,000. On page 9, line 22, increase the amount by 2006 and ending with December 2006, the On page 5, line 9, increase the amount by $4,316,000,000. amount equal to 80 percent of the amount of $1,454,000,000. On page 9, line 23, increase the amount by retired pay to which the member or former On page 5, line 10, increase the amount by $4,316,000,000. member would be entitled if the member or $1,642,000,000. On page 10, line 2, increase the amount by former member were paid retired pay with- On page 5, line 11, increase the amount by $4,516,000,000. out regard to sections 5304 and 5305 of title 38 $1,739,000,000. On page 10, line 3, increase the amount by for such months. On page 5, line 12, increase the amount by $4,516,000,000. ‘‘(4) For months beginning with December $1,844,000,000. On page 10, line 6, increase the amount by 2006, the amount equal to the full amount of On page 5, line 13, increase the amount by $4,728,000,000. retired pay to which the member or former $1,953,000,000. On page 10, line 7, increase the amount by member would be entitled if the member or On page 5, line 14, increase the amount by $4,728,000,000. former member were paid retired pay with- $2,070,000,000. On page 10, line 10, increase the amount by out regard to sections 5304 and 5305 of title 38 On page 45, line 24, decrease the amount by $4,952,000,000. for such months. $12,764,000,000. On page 10, line 11, increase the amount by ‘‘(e) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: On page 3, line 10, increase the amount by $4,952,000,000. ‘‘(1) The term ‘retired pay’ includes re- $182,000,000. On page 10, line 14, increase the amount by tainer pay, emergency officers’ retirement On page 3, line 11, increase the amount by $5,227,000,000. pay, and naval pension. $331,000,000. On page 10, line 15, increase the amount by ‘‘(2) The term ‘service-connected’ has the On page 3, line 12, increase the amount by $5,227,000,000. meaning given that term in section 101(16) of $584,000,000. On page 79, after line 22, insert the following: title 38. On page 3, line 13, increase the amount by SEC. . SENSE OF SENATE ON FULL CONCUR- ‘‘(3) The term ‘veterans’ disability com- $965,000,000. RENT RECEIPT OF RETIRED PAY pensation’ has the meaning given the term On page 3, line 14, increase the amount by AND VETERANS’ DISABILITY COM- ‘compensation’ in section 101(12) of title 38.’’. $1,454,000,000. PENSATION. (2) COORDINATION WITH SPECIAL COMPENSA- On page 3, line 15, increase the amount by It is the sense of the Senate that the new TION AUTHORITY.—Section 1413 of such title is $1,642,000,000. budget authority and outlays for fiscal years amended— On page 3, line 16, increase the amount by 2004 through 2013 for National Defense (050) (1) in subsection (a)— $1,739,000,000. specified in section 103(1) are adequate to

VerDate Dec 13 2002 02:54 Mar 22, 2003 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00102 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A20MR6.266 S20PT2 March 20, 2003 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S4211 provide, and should provide, for full concur- SA 343. Mr. HOLLINGS (for himself, SA 344. Mr. LAUTENBERG sub- rent receipt of retired pay and veterans’ dis- Mrs. BOXER, Mr. SARBANES, and Mrs. mitted an amendment intended to be ability compensation by members and FEINSTEIN) submitted an amendment proposed by him to the concurrent res- former members of the uniformed services intended to be proposed by him to the olution S. Con. Res. 23, setting forth who are entitled to such pay and compensa- tion, without regard to sections 5304 and 5305 concurrent resolution S. Con. Res. 23, the congressional budget for the United of title 38, United States Code. setting forth the congressional budget States Government for fiscal year 2004 On page 4, line 15, increase the amount by for the United States Government for and including the appropriate budg- $3,330,000,000. fiscal year 2004 and including the ap- etary levels for fiscal year 2003 and for On page 4, line 16, increase the amount by propriate budgetary levels for fiscal fiscal years 2005 through 2013; which $3,428,000,000. year 2003 and for fiscal years 2005 was ordered to lie on the table; as fol- On page 4, line 17, increase the amount by through 2013; which was ordered to lie lows: $3,630,000,000. On page 4, line 18, increase the amount by on the table; as follows: At the appropriate place insert the fol- $3,889,000,000. On page 3, line 10, increase the amount by lowing: On page 4, line 19, increase the amount by $314,000,000. SEC. ll. SENSE OF THE SENATE THAT CON- $4,096,000,000. On page 3, line 11, increase the amount by GRESS SHOULD FULLY FUND AM- On page 4, line 20, increase the amount by $634,000,000. TRAK TO PRESERVE A NATIONAL $4,316,000,000. On page 3, line 12, increase the amount by PASSENGER RAIL SYSTEM. On page 4, line 21, increase the amount by $535,000,000. (a) FINDINGS.—The Senate finds that— $4,516,000,000. On page 3, line 13, increase the amount by (1) Amtrak, the National Railroad Pas- On page 4, line 22, increase the amount by $336,000,000. senger Corporation, served 23,400,000 pas- $4,728,000,000. On page 3, line 14, increase the amount by sengers in fiscal year 2002; On page 4, line 23, increase the amount by $153,000,000. (2) rail passenger service is a vital compo- $4,952,000,000. On page 3, line 15, increase the amount by nent to our national transportation system On page 4, line 24, increase the amount by $31,000,000. and provides travelers an alternative mode $5,227,000,000. On page 4, line 1, increase the amount by of transportation for intercity travel; On page 5, line 5, increase the amount by $314,000,000. (3) the lack of investment and attention to $3,330,000,000. On page 4, line 2, increase the amount by the needs of passenger rail infrastructure has On page 5, line 6, increase the amount by $634,000,000. resulted in a weak passenger rail network, $3,428,000,000. On page 4, line 3, increase the amount by and has caused a strain on the capacity of On page 5, line 7, increase the amount by $535,000,000. other modes of transportation in many areas $3,630,000,000. On page 4, line 4, increase the amount by of the country; On page 5, line 8, increase the amount by $336,000,000. (4) passenger rail is an integral part of the $3,889,000,000. On page 4, line 5, increase the amount by Unites States transportation system, re- On page 5, line 9, increase the amount by $153,000,000. lieves the pressures of congestion on high- $4,096,000,000. On page 4, line 6, increase the amount by ways and at airports, and creates a more bal- On page 5, line 10, increase the amount by $31,000,000. anced system of transportation alternatives; $4,316,000,000. On page 4, line 15, increase the amount by and On page 5, line 11, increase the amount by $1,000,000,000. (5) the need for a balanced interstate and $4,516,000,000. On page 4, line 16, increase the amount by international transportation system that On page 5, line 12, increase the amount by $1,000,000,000. provides a viable alternative to travel by pri- $4,728,000,000. On page 5, line 5, increase the amount by vate automobile or commercial aircraft is On page 5, line 13, increase the amount by $314,000,000. particularly evident after the events of Sep- $4,952,000,000. On page 5, line 6, increase the amount by tember 11, 2001. On page 5, line 14, increase the amount by $634,000,000. (b) SENSE OF THE SENATE.—It is the sense $5,227,000,000. On page 5, line 7, increase the amount by of the Senate that Congress should fully fund On page 45, line 24, decrease the amount by $535,000,000. Amtrak to preserve a national passenger rail $42,110,000,000. On page 5, line 8, increase the amount by system. On page 3, line 10, increase the amount by $336,000,000. $3,330,000,000. On page 5, line 9, increase the amount by On page 3, line 11, increase the amount by SA 345. Mr. LAUTENBERG sub- $153,000,000. $3,428,000,000. mitted an amendment intended to be On page 3, line 12, increase the amount by On page 5, line 10, increase the amount by proposed by him to the concurrent res- $3,630,000,000. $31,000,000. olution S. Con. Res. 23, setting forth On page 3, line 13, increase the amount by On page 21, line 23, increase the amount by the congressional budget for the United $3,889,000,000. $850,000,000. On page 21, line 24, increase the amount by States Government for fiscal year 2004 On page 3, line 14, increase the amount by and including the appropriate budg- $4,096,000,000. $201,000,000. On page 3, line 15, increase the amount by On page 22, line 2, increase the amount by etary levels for fiscal year 2003 and for $4,316,000,000. $850,000,000. fiscal years 2005 through 2013; which On page 3, line 16, increase the amount by On page 22, line 3, increase the amount by was ordered to lie on the table; as fol- $4,516,000,000. $484,000,000. lows: On page 22, line 7, increase the amount by On page 3, line 17, increase the amount by At the appropriate place insert the fol- $497,000,000. $4,728,000,000. lowing: On page 3, line 18, increase the amount by On page 22, line 11, increase the amount by $336,000,000. SEC. ll. SENSE OF THE SENATE REGARDING $4,952,000,000. 0.08 BLOOD ALCOHOL CONTENT. On page 3, line 19, increase the amount by On page 22, line 15, increase the amount by (a) FINDINGS.—The Senate finds that, ac- $5,227,000,000. $153,000,000. cording to the National Highway Traffic On page 4, line 1, increase the amount by On page 22, line 19, increase the amount by Safety Administration— $3,330,000,000. $31,000,000. (1) each year, 42,000 people die in motor ve- On page 4, line 2, increase the amount by On page 36, line 15, increase the amount by hicle crashes, and more than 16,000 of these $3,428,000,000. $150,000,000. fatalities are related to impaired driving; On page 4, line 3, increase the amount by On page 36, line 16, increase the amount by (2) 68 percent of children killed in alcohol- $3,630,000,000. $113,000,000. On page 4, line 4, increase the amount by On page 36, line 19, increase the amount by related crashes were riding in a car with a $3,889,000,000. $150,000,000. drinking driver; and On page 4, line 5, increase the amount by On page 36, line 20, increase the amount by (3) the 0.08 blood alcohol content legal $4,096,000,000. $150,000,000. limit is 1 of the laws that has had the great- On page 4, line 6, increase the amount by On page 36, line 24, increase the amount by est impact in preventing and deterring im- $4,316,000,000. $38,000,000. paired driving. On page 4, line 7, increase the amount by On page 47, line 5, increase the amount by (b) SENSE OF THE SENATE.—It is the sense $4,516,000,000. $1,000,000,000. of the Senate that the Federal standard of On page 4, line 8, increase the amount by On page 47, line 6, increase the amount by 0.08 blood alcohol content for driving under $4,728,000,000. $314,000,000. the influence of alcohol saves lives and must On page 4, line 9, increase the amount by On page 47, line 14, increase the amount by remain the national policy. $4,952,000,000. $1,000,000,000. On page 4, line 10, increase the amount by On page 47, line 15, increase the amount by SA 346. Mr. LAUTENBERG sub- $5,227,000,000. $634,000,000. mitted an amendment intended to be

VerDate Dec 13 2002 02:54 Mar 22, 2003 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00103 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A20MR6.267 S20PT2 S4212 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE March 20, 2003 proposed by him to the concurrent res- On page 12, line 6, decrease the amount by On page 3, line 13, increase the amount by olution S. Con. Res. 23, setting forth $1,034,000,000. $552,000,000. the congressional budget for the United On page 12, line 7, decrease the amount by On page 3, line 14, increase the amount by $924,000,000. $578,000,000. States Government for fiscal year 2004 On page 12, line 10, decrease the amount by On page 3, line 15, increase the amount by and including the appropriate budg- $1,298,000,000. $908,000,000. etary levels for fiscal year 2003 and for On page 12, line 11, decrease the amount by On page 3, line 16, increase the amount by fiscal years 2005 through 2013; which $1,188,000,000. $941,000,000. was ordered to lie on the table; as fol- On page 42, line 2, decrease the amount by On page 3, line 17, increase the amount by lows: $1,115,000,000. $1,313,000,000. On page 42, line 3, decrease the amount by On page 3, line 18, increase the amount by At the appropriate place insert the fol- $675,000,000. $1,375,000,000. lowing: On page 42, line 6, decrease the amount by On page 3, line 19, increase the amount by SEC. ll. SENSE OF THE SENATE REGARDING $834,000,000. $1,799,000,000. GAS TAX DONOR STATES. On page 42, line 7, decrease the amount by On page 4, line 1, increase the amount by (a) FINDINGS.—The Senate finds that— $830,000,000. $246,000,000. (1) the Federal Highway Trust Fund, estab- On page 42, line 10, decrease the amount by On page 4, line 2, increase the amount by lished under section 9503 of the Internal Rev- $560,000,000. $256,000,000. enue Code of 1986, consists of funds contrib- On page 42, line 11, decrease the amount by On page 4, line 3, increase the amount by uted by States through the collection of Fed- $641,000,000. $267,000,000. eral gasoline taxes; On page 42, line 14, decrease the amount by On page 4, line 4, increase the amount by (2) each State contributes a certain $294,000,000. $552,000,000. On page 42, line 15, decrease the amount by amount of funds collected and receives a cer- On page 4, line 5, increase the amount by $392,000,000. tain amount of funds apportioned from the $578,000,000. On page 42, line 18, decrease the amount by Federal Highway Trust Fund; and On page 4, line 6, increase the amount by $28,000,000. (3) each of the States of Arizona, Cali- $908,000,000. On page 42, line 19, decrease the amount by fornia, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, On page 4, line 7, increase the amount by Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, $130,000,000. On page 42, line 22, increase the amount by $941,000,000. Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Massachusetts, On page 4, line 8, increase the amount by Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, New Jersey, $242,000,000. On page 42, line 23, increase the amount by $1,313,000,000. North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, South On page 4, line 9, increase the amount by Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and $130,000,000. On page 43, line 2, increase the amount by $1,375,000,000. Washington contributes more to the High- $505,000,000. On page 4, line 10, increase the amount by way Account of the Federal Highway Trust On page 43, line 3, increase the amount by $1,799,000,000. Fund Highway Account than it receives. $397,000,000. On page 4, line 15, increase the amount by (b) SENSE OF THE SENATE.—It is the sense On page 43, line 6, increase the amount by $246,000,000. of the Senate that apportionments out of the $767,000,000. On page 4, line 16, increase the amount by Highway Account of the Federal Highway On page 43, line 7, increase the amount by $256,000,000. Trust Fund should reflect the amount that $656,000,000. On page 4, line 17, increase the amount by each State contributes into the fund. On page 43, line 10, increase the amount by $267,000,000. $1,034,000,000. On page 4, line 18, increase the amount by SA 347. Mr. LUGAR (for himself, Mrs. On page 43, line 11, increase the amount by $552,000,000. FEINSTEIN, Mr. DEWINE, Mr. HAGEL, Mr. $924,000,000. On page 4, line 19, increase the amount by CHAFEE, Mr. SMITH, Mr. JEFFORDS, and On page 43, line 14, increase the amount by $578,000,000. Mr. KENNEDY) submitted an amend- $1,298,000,000. On page 4, line 20, increase the amount by ment intended to be proposed by him On page 43, line 15, increase the amount by $908,000,000. $1,188,000,000. On page 4, line 21, increase the amount by to the concurrent resolution S. Con. $941,000,000. Res. 23, setting forth the congressional SA. 348. Mr. BAUCUS submitted an On page 4, line 22, increase the amount by budget for the United States Govern- amendment intended to be proposed by $1,313,000,000. ment for fiscal year 2004 and including him to the concurrent resolution S. On page 4, line 23, increase the amount by the appropriate budgetary levels for Con. Res. 23, setting forth the congres- $1,375,000,000. fiscal year 2003 and for fiscal years 2005 sional budget for the United States On page 4, line 24, increase the amount by through 2013; which was ordered to lie $1,799,000,000. Government for fiscal year 2004 and in- On page 5, line 5, increase the amount by on the table; as follows: cluding the appropriate budgetary lev- $246,000,000. On page 10, line 23, increase the amount by els for fiscal year 2003 and for fiscal On page 5, line 6, increase the amount by $1,115,000,000. years 2005 through 2013; which was or- $256,000,000. On page 10, line 24, increase the amount by dered to lie on the table; as follows: On page 5, line 7, increase the amount by $675,000,000. On page 61, line 12, insert ‘‘on an equal $267,000,000. On page 11, line 2, increase the amount by basis with respect to benefit level regardless On page 5, line 8, increase the amount by $834,000,000. of whether such beneficiaries remain in the $552,000,000. On page 11, line 3, increase the amount by traditional medicare fee-for-service program On page 5, line 9, increase the amount by $830,000,000. under parts A and B of such title or enroll in $578,000,000. On page 11, line 6, increase the amount by a private plan under the medicare program’’ On page 5, line 10, increase the amount by $560,000,000. after ‘‘prescription drugs’’. $908,000,000. On page 11, line 7, increase the amount by On page 5, line 11, increase the amount by $641,000,000. SA 349. Ms. MIKULSKI (for herself, $941,000,000. On page 11, line 10, increase the amount by On page 5, line 12, increase the amount by Ms. LANDRIEU, Mrs. CLINTON, Mrs. MUR- $294,000,000. $1,313,000,000. On page 11, line 11, increase the amount by RAY, Mr. KENNEDY, Mr. SARBANES, and On page 5, line 13, increase the amount by $392,000,000. Mr. JOHNSON) submitted an amendment $1,375,000,000. On page 11, line 14, increase the amount by intended to be proposed by her to the On page 5, line 14, increase the amount by $28,000,000. concurrent resolution S. Con. Res. 23, $1,799,000,000. On page 11, line 15, increase the amount by setting forth the congressional budget On page 27, line 11, increase the amount by $130,000,000. for the United States Government for $246,000,000. On page 11, line 18, decrease the amount by fiscal year 2004 and including the ap- On page 27, line 12, increase the amount by $242,000,000. propriate budgetary levels for fiscal $246,000,000. On page 11, line 19, decrease the amount by On page 27, line 15, increase the amount by $130,000,000. year 2003 and for fiscal years 2005 $256,000,000. On page 11, line 22, decrease the amount by through 2013; which was ordered to lie On page 27, line 16, increase the amount by $505,000,000. on the table; as follows: $256,000,000. On page 11, line 23, decrease the amount by On page 3, line 10, increase the amount by On page 27, line 19, increase the amount by $397,000,000. $246,000,000. $267,000,000. On page 12, line 2, decrease the amount by On page 3, line 11, increase the amount by On page 27, line 20, increase the amount by $767,000,000. $256,000,000. $267,000,000. On page 12, line 3, decrease the amount by On page 3, line 12, increase the amount by On page 27, line 23, increase the amount by $656,000,000. $267,000,000. $552,000,000.

VerDate Dec 13 2002 02:54 Mar 22, 2003 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00104 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A20MR6.246 S20PT2 March 20, 2003 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S4213 On page 27, line 24, increase the amount by Government for fiscal year 2004 and in- On page 20, line 3, increase the amount by $552,000,000. cluding the appropriate budgetary lev- $250,000,000. On page 28, line 2, increase the amount by els for fiscal year 2003 and for fiscal On page 79, after line 22, insert the fol- $578,000,000. lowing: On page 28, line 3, increase the amount by years 2005 through 2013; which was or- dered to lie on the table; as follows: SEC. ll. INCREASED FUNDING TO RESTORE THE $578,000,000. OPERATING SUBSIDY FUND. On page 28, line 6, increase the amount by On page 79, after line 22, insert the fol- The budgetary levels in this resolution as- $908,000,000. lowing: sume that an additional $250,000,000 will be On page 28, line 7, increase the amount by SEC. lll. SENSE OF THE SENATE ON INCREAS- provided for the Operating Subsidy Fund of $908,000,000. ING THE CAP ON THE CRIME VIC- the Department of Housing and Urban Devel- On page 28, line 10, increase the amount by TIMS FUND. opment for the purpose of restoring funding $941,000,000. (a) FINDINGS.—The Senate finds the fol- cuts in fiscal year 2003 to be derived by re- On page 28, line 11, increase the amount by lowing: ducing any revenue reductions assumed in $941,000,000. (1) The Victims of Crime Act established this resolution. On page 28, line 14, increase the amount by the Crime Victims Fund which is one of the $1,313,000,000. main Federal sources of money and support SA 353. Mr. SMITH (for himself and On page 28, line 15, increase the amount by for crime victims. Mrs. CLINTON) submitted an amend- $1,313,000,000. (2) The Crime Victims Fund provides fund- ment intended to be proposed by him On page 28, line 18, increase the amount by ing for— to the concurrent resolution S. Con. $1,375,000,000. (A) formula grants to States for victims Res. 23, setting forth the congressional On page 28, line 19, increase the amount by compensation and victims assistance; and budget for the United States Govern- $1,375,000,000. (B) discretionary grants. ment for fiscal year 2004 and including On page 28, line 22, increase the amount by (3) State compensation programs pay di- $1,799,000,000. rectly for medical care and counseling, lost the appropriate budgetary levels for On page 28, line 23, increase the amount by wages, and funerals for victims of domestic fiscal year 2003 and for fiscal years 2005 $1,799,000,000. violence, child abuse, rape, and homicide. through 2013; which was ordered to lie (4) State assistance programs provide serv- on the table; as follows: SA 331. Mrs. CLINTON (for herself, ices including crisis intervention, coun- At the appropriate place, insert the fol- Ms. COLLINS) submitted an amendment seling, emergency shelter and child care, and lowing: intended to be proposed by her to the emergency transportation. SEC. ll. SENSE OF THE SENATE CONCERNING concurrent resolution S. Con. Res. 23, (5) Discretionary grants awarded to organi- AN EXPANSION IN HEALTH CARE setting forth the congressional budget zations fund demonstration projects, train- COVERAGE. (a) FINDINGS.—The Senate finds that— for the United States Government for ing, and other assistance to expand and im- prove the delivery of services to victims of (1) there were 74,700,000 Americans who fiscal year 2004 and including the ap- Federal crimes. were uninsured for all or part of the two- propriate budgetary levels for fiscal (6) The Crime Victims Fund consists of year period of 2001 and 2002; year 2003 and for fiscal years 2005 monies collected from criminal fines, for- (2) this large group of uninsured Americans through 2013; which was ordered to lie feited bail bonds, penalty fees, and special constitutes almost one out of every three on the table; as follows: assessments collected by the Offices of the Americans under the age of 65; (3) most of these uninsured individuals On page 3, line 10, increase the amount by United States Attorneys, the United States were without health coverage for lengthy pe- $16,000,000. courts, and the Bureau of Prisons, and does riods of time, with two-thirds of them unin- On page 3, line 11, increase the amount by not rely on any tax-generated revenues. sured for over six months; $228,000,000. (7) The formula to receive funding to com- (4) four out of five uninsured individuals On page 3, line 12, increase the amount by pensate victims under the Victims of Crime are in working families; $65,000,000. Act changed in 2002. In that year, the Vic- (5) high health care costs, the large num- On page 3, line 13, increase the amount by tims of Crime Act matched 40 percent of the ber of unemployed workers, and State cut- $16,000,000. amount that a State spent for victim com- backs of public health programs occasioned On page 4, line 1, increase the amount by pensation. In 2003, the percentage increased by State fiscal crises are causing more and $16,000,000. to 60 percent. However, because of the exist- On page 4, line 2, increase the amount by ence of the cap on the Crime Victims Fund more individuals to become uninsured; and $228,000,000. (currently $600,000,000), the increase in vic- (6) uninsured individuals are less likely to On page 4, line 3, increase the amount by tim compensation money has reduced the have a usual source of care outside of an $65,000,000. amount that can be spent on victim assist- emergency room, often go without On page 4, line 4, increase the amount by ance. The existence of the cap has resulted in screenings and preventive care, often delay $16,000,000. 8 percent less money for victim assistance. or forgo needed medical care, are often sub- On page 4, line 15, increase the amount by (8) The cap on the Crime Victims Fund ject to avoidable hospital days, and are sick- $326,000,000. must be raised to ensure that the same er and die earlier than those individuals who On page 5, line 5, increase the amount by amount is available for victim assistance have health insurance. $16,000,000. that was available in fiscal year 2002, an (b) SENSE OF SENATE.—It is the sense of the On page 5, line 6, increase the amount by amount equal to $383,000,000. To ensure this, Senate that the functional totals in this res- olution assume that— $228,000,000. the national victim advocacy groups esti- On page 5, line 7, increase the amount by mate that the cap should be raised from the (1) expanded access to health care coverage $65,000,000. current $600,000,000 to $675,000,000 (not includ- throughout the United States is a top pri- On page 5, line 8, increase the amount by ing any amounts for the antiterrorism emer- ority for national policymaking; and $16,000,000. gency reserve). (2) to the extent that additional funds are On page 25, line 16, increase the amount by (9) Raising the cap on the Crime Victims made available, a significant portion of such $326,000,000. Fund will not cost any additional expendi- funds should be dedicated to expanding ac- On page 25, line 17, increase the amount by tures since Congress has capped the Fund for cess to health care coverage so that fewer in- $16,000,000. 4 successive years, thereby holding back dividuals are uninsured and fewer individuals On page 25, line 21, increase the amount by more than $638,500,000 allocated to the Fund. are likely to become uninsured. $228,000,000. (b) SENSE OF THE SENATE.—It is the sense Mr. DEWINE submitted an On page 25, line 25, increase the amount by of the Senate that the cap on the Crime Vic- SA 354. $65,000,000. tims Fund be raised to $675,000,000. amendment intended to be proposed by On page 26, line 4, increase the amount by him to the concurrent resolution S. $16,000,000. SA 352. Mr. SCHUMER submitted an Con. Res. 23, setting forth the congres- On page 47, line 5, increase the amount by amendment intended to be proposed by sional budget for the United States $326,000,000. him to the concurrent resolution S. Government for fiscal year 2004 and in- On page 47, line 6, increase the amount by Con. Res. 23, setting forth the congres- cluding the appropriate budgetary lev- $16,000,000. sional budget for the United States els for fiscal year 2003 and for fiscal On page 47, line 15, increase the amount by years 2005 through 2013; which was or- $228,000,000. Government for fiscal year 2004 and in- cluding the appropriate budgetary lev- dered to lie on the table; as follows: SA 351. Mr. SCHUMER submitted an els for fiscal year 2003 and for fiscal At the appropriate place, insert the fol- amendment intended to be proposed by years 2005 through 2013; which was or- lowing: SEC. ll. SENSE OF THE SENATE CONCERNING him to the concurrent resolution S. dered to lie on the table; as follows: CHILDREN’S GRADUATE MEDICAL Con. Res. 23, setting forth the congres- On page 20, line 2, increase the amount by EDUCATION. sional budget for the United States $250,000,000. (a) FINDINGS.—The Senate finds that—

VerDate Dec 13 2002 03:45 Mar 22, 2003 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00105 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A20MR6.270 S20PT2 S4214 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE March 20, 2003 (1) children’s hospitals provide excellent sional budget for the United States On page 28, line 3, increase the amount by care for children; Government for fiscal year 2004 and in- $4,750,000,000. (2) the importance of children’s hospitals cluding the appropriate budgetary lev- On page 28, line 6, increase the amount by extends to the health care of all children els for fiscal year 2003 and for fiscal $4,750,000,000. throughout the United States; On page 28, line 7, increase the amount by (3) making up only 1 percent of all hos- years 2005 through 2013; which was or- $4,750,000,000. pitals, independent children’s hospitals train dered to lie on the table; as follows: On page 28, line 10, increase the amount by almost 30 percent of all pediatricians and 50 On page 3, line 10, increase the amount by $4,750,000,000. percent of all pediatric specialists; $4,750,000,000. On page 28, line 11, increase the amount by (4) children’s hospitals provide over 50 per- On page 3, line 11, increase the amount by $4,750,000,000. cent of the hospital care in the United States $4,750,000,000. On page 28, line 14, increase the amount by for children with serious illness, including On page 3, line 12, increase the amount by $4,750,000,000. needing cardiatric surgery, children with $4,750,000,000. On page 28, line 15, increase the amount by cancer, and children with cerebral palsy; and On page 3, line 13, increase the amount by $4,750,000,000. (5) children’s hospitals are important cen- $4,750,000,000. On page 62, line 12, increase the amount by ters for pediatric research and the major On page 3, line 14, increase the amount by $38,000,000,000. pipeline for future pediatric researchers. $4,750,000,000. (b) SENSE OF THE SENATE.—It is the sense On page 3, line 15, increase the amount by SA 358. Mr. BOND (for himself, Mr. of the Senate that, for fiscal year 2004, chil- $4,750,000,000. REID, Mr. INHOFE, Mr. JEFFORDS, Mr. dren’s graduate medical education should be On page 3, line 16, increase the amount by SHELBY, Mr. SARBANES, Mr. BYRD, Mrs. $4,750,000,000. funded at $305,000,000. MURRAY, Mr. CHAFEE, Mr. WARNER, Mr. On page 3, line 17, increase the amount by $4,750,000,000. SPECTER, Ms. MURKOWSKI, Mr. LOTT, SA 355. Mr. DEWINE submitted an On page 4, line 1, increase the amount by Ms. COLLINS, Mr. REED, Mrs. FEINSTEIN, amendment intended to be proposed by $4,750,000,000. Mr. LEVIN, Mr. BROWNBACK, and Mr. him to the concurrent resolution S. On page 4, line 2, increase the amount by NELSON of Nebraska) submitted an Con. Res. 23, setting forth the congres- $4,750,000,000. amendment intended to be proposed by sional budget for the United States On page 4, line 3, increase the amount by him to the concurrent resolution S. Government for fiscal year 2004 and in- $4,750,000,000. On page 4, line 4, increase the amount by Con. Res. 23, setting forth the congres- cluding the appropriate budgetary lev- sional budget for the United States els for fiscal year 2003 and for fiscal $4,750,000,000. On page 4, line 5, increase the amount by Government for fiscal year 2004 and in- years 2005 through 2013; which was or- $4,750,000,000. cluding the appropriate budgetary lev- dered to lie on the table; as follows: On page 4, line 6, increase the amount by els for fiscal year 2003 and for fiscal On page 79, after line 22, add the following: $4,750,000,000. years 2005 through 2013; which was or- SEC. 308. SENSE OF THE SENATE ON FUNDING On page 4, line 7, increase the amount by dered to lie on the table; as follows: FOR CRIMINAL JUSTICE. $4,750,000,000. On page 4, line 15, increase the amount by (a) FINDINGS.—The Senate finds that— On page 4, line 8, increase the amount by $4,750,000,000. $9,547,000,000. (1) bipartisan efforts have led to success in On page 4, line 16, increase the amount by the fight against crime and improvements in On page 4, line 15, increase the amount by $4,750,000,000. $6,619,000,000. the administration of justice; On page 4, line 17, increase the amount by (2) Congress steadily increased funding for On page 4, line 16, increase the amount by $4,750,000,000. $8,251,000,000. crime identification technologies between On page 4, line 18, increase the amount by 1994 and 2003; and On page 4, line 17, increase the amount by $4,750,000,000. $10,473,000,000. (3) a strong commitment to improve crime On page 4, line 19, increase the amount by identification technologies is still needed. On page 4, line 18, increase the amount by $4,750,000,000. $13,127,000,000. (b) SENSE OF THE SENATE.—It is the sense On page 4, line 19, increase the amount by On page 4, line 20, increase the amount by of the Senate that the funding levels in this $4,750,000,000. $15,478,000,000. resolution assume that the programs author- On page 4, line 20, increase the amount by On page 4, line 21, increase the amount by ized under the Crime Identification Tech- $4,750,000,000. $2,211,000,000. nology Act of 1998 to improve the justice sys- On page 4, line 21, increase the amount by On page 4, line 22, increase the amount by tem will be fully funded at the levels author- $4,750,000,000. $2,662,000,000. ized for each of the fiscal years 2004 through On page 4, line 22, increase the amount by On page 4, line 23, increase the amount by 2007. $4,750,000,000. $2,970,000,000. On page 5, line 5, increase the amount by On page 4, line 24, increase the amount by SA 356. Mr. GRASSLEY submitted an $4,750,000,000. $3,222,000,000. amendment intended to be proposed by On page 5, line 6, increase the amount by On page 5, line 5, increase the amount by him to the concurrent resolution S. $4,750,000,000. $1,052,000,000. Con. Res. 23, setting forth the congres- On page 5, line 7, increase the amount by On page 5, line 6, increase the amount by sional budget for the United States $4,750,000,000. $3,139,000,000. Government for fiscal year 2004 and in- On page 5, line 8, increase the amount by On page 5, line 7, increase the amount by $4,968,000,000. cluding the appropriate budgetary lev- $4,750,000,000. On page 5, line 9, increase the amount by On page 5, line 8, increase the amount by els for fiscal year 2003 and for fiscal $4,750,000,000. $6,865,000,000. years 2005 through 2013; which was or- On page 5, line 10, increase the amount by On page 5, line 9, increase the amount by dered to lie on the table; as follows: $4,750,000,000. $9,141,000,000. On page 31, line 2, increase the amount by On page 5, line 11, increase the amount by On page 5, line 10, increase the amount by $283,000,000. $4,750,000,000. $11,564,000,000. On page 31, line 3, increase the amount by On page 5, line 12, increase the amount by On page 5, line 11, increase the amount by $212,000,000. $4,750,000,000. $10,452,000,000. On page 31, line 7, increase the amount by On page 27, line 11, increase the amount by On page 5, line 12, increase the amount by $65,000,000. $4,750,000,000. $6,604,000,000. On page 31, line 11, increase the amount by On page 27, line 12, increase the amount by On page 5, line 13, increase the amount by $6,000,000. $4,750,000,000. $5,056,000,000. On page 42, line 2, decrease the amount by On page 27, line 15, increase the amount by On page 5, line 14, increase the amount by $283,000,000. $4,750,000,000. $4,500,000,000. On page 5, line 18, decrease the amount by On page 42, line 7, decrease the amount by On page 27, line 16, increase the amount by $1,052,000,000. $65,000,000. $4,750,000,000. On page 5, line 19, decrease the amount by On page 42, line 11, decrease the amount by On page 27, line 19, increase the amount by $3,139,000,000. $6,000,000. $4,750,000,000. On page 27, line 20, increase the amount by On page 5, line 20, decrease the amount by On page 42, line 3, decrease the amount by $4,750,000,000. $4,968,000,000. $212,000,000. On page 27, line 23, increase the amount by On page 5, line 21, decrease the amount by $4,750,000,000. $6,865,000,000. SA 357. Mr. KENNEDY submitted an On page 27, line 24, increase the amount by On page 5, line 22, decrease the amount by amendment intended to be proposed by $4,750,000,000. $9,141,000,000. him to the concurrent resolution S. On page 28, line 2, increase the amount by On page 5, line 23, decrease the amount by Con. Res. 23, setting forth the congres- $4,750,000,000. $11,564,000,000.

VerDate Dec 13 2002 02:54 Mar 22, 2003 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00106 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A20MR6.273 S20PT2 March 20, 2003 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S4215 On page 5, line 24, decrease the amount by On page 40, line 14, increase the amount by On page 4, line 5, increase the amount by $10,452,000,000. $342,000,000. $385,000,000. On page 5, line 25, decrease the amount by On page 40, line 15, increase the amount by On page 4, line 6, increase the amount by $6,604,000,000. $342,000,000. $460,000,000. On page 6, line 1, decrease the amount by On page 40, line 18, increase the amount by On page 4, line 7, increase the amount by $5,056,000,000. $658,000,000. $551,000,000. On page 6, line 2, decrease the amount by On page 40, line 19, increase the amount by On page 4, line 8, increase the amount by $4,500,000,000. $658,000,000. $658,000,000. On page 6, line 6, increase the amount by On page 40, line 22, increase the amount by On page 4, line 9, increase the amount by $1,052,000,000. $1,082,000,000. $785,000,000. On page 6, line 7, increase the amount by On page 40, line 23, increase the amount by On page 4, line 10, increase the amount by $4,191,000,000. $1,082,000,000. $936,000,000. On page 6, line 8, increase the amount by On page 41, line 2, increase the amount by On page 4, line 15, increase the amount by $9,158,000,000. $1,629,000,000. $272,000,000. On page 6, line 9, increase the amount by On page 41, line 3, increase the amount by On page 4, line 16, increase the amount by $16,023,000,000. $1,629,000,000. $269,000,000. On page 6, line 10, increase the amount by On page 41, line 6, increase the amount by On page 4, line 17, increase the amount by $25,164,000,000. $2,211,000,000. $269,000,000. On page 6, line 11, increase the amount by On page 41, line 7, increase the amount by On page 4, line 18, increase the amount by $36,728,000,000. $2,211,000,000. $267,000,000. On page 6, line 12, increase the amount by On page 41, line 10, increase the amount by On page 4, line 19, increase the amount by $47,181,000,000. $2,662,000,000. $262,000,000. On page 6, line 13, increase the amount by On page 41, line 11, increase the amount by On page 4, line 20, increase the amount by $53,785,000,000. $2,662,000,000. $253,000,000. On page 6, line 14, increase the amount by On page 41, line 14, increase the amount by On page 4, line 21, increase the amount by $58,840,000,000. $2,970,000,000. $240,000,000. On page 6, line 15, increase the amount by On page 41, line 15, increase the amount by On page 4, line 22, decrease the amount by $63,340,000,000. $2,970,000,000. $220,000,000. On page 6, line 19, increase the amount by On page 41, line 18, increase the amount by On page 4, line 23, decrease the amount by $1,052,000,000. $3,222,000,000. $193,000,000. On page 6, line 20, increase the amount by On page 41, line 19, increase the amount by On page 4, line 24, decrease the amount by $4,191,000,000. $3,222,000,000. $156,000,000. On page 6, line 21, increase the amount by On page 47, line 9, increase the amount by On page 5, line 5, increase the amount by $9,158,000,000. $921,000,000. $11,000,000. On page 6, line 22, increase the amount by On page 47, line 18, increase the amount by On page 5, line 6, increase the amount by $16,023,000,000. $2,631,000,000. $187,000,000. On page 6, line 23, increase the amount by On page 47, line 11, increase the amount by On page 5, line 7, increase the amount by $25,164,000,000. $748,000,000. $255,000,000. On page 6, line 24, increase the amount by On page 47, line 12, increase the amount by On page 5, line 8, increase the amount by $36,728,000,000. $112,000,000. $267,000,000. On page 6, line 25, increase the amount by On page 47, line 20, increase the amount by On page 5, line 9, increase the amount by $47,181,000,000. $1,056,000,000. $262,000,000. On page 7, line 1, increase the amount by On page 47, line 21, increase the amount by On page 5, line 10, increase the amount by $53,785,000,000. $383,000,000. $253,000,000. On page 7, line 2, increase the amount by On page 5, line 11, increase the amount by $58,840,000,000. SA 359. Mr. LEVIN submitted an $240,000,000. On page 7, line 3, increase the amount by amendment intended to be proposed by On page 5, line 12, decrease the amount by $63,340,000,000. him to the concurrent resolution S. $220,000,000. On page 21, line 23, increase the amount by Con. Res. 23, setting forth the congres- On page 5, line 13, decrease the amount by $9,528,000,000. sional budget for the United States $193,000,000. On page 21, line 24, increase the amount by Government for fiscal year 2004 and in- On page 5, line 14, decrease the amount by $1,033,000,000. $156,000,000. On page 22, line 2, increase the amount by cluding the appropriate budgetary lev- On page 5, line 17, decrease the amount by $6,494,000,000. els for fiscal year 2003 and for fiscal $38,000,000. On page 22, line 3, increase the amount by years 2005 through 2013; which was or- On page 5, line 18, decrease the amount by $3,014,000,000. dered to lie on the table; as follows: $119,000,000. On page 22, line 6, increase the amount by On page 3, line 9, increase the amount by On page 5, line 19, increase the amount by $7,909,000,000. $38,000,000. $34,000,000. On page 22, line 7, increase the amount by On page 3, line 10, increase the amount by On page 5, line 20, decrease the amount by $4,626,000,000. $130,000,000. $13,000,000. On page 22, line 10, increase the amount by On page 3, line 11, increase the amount by On page 5, line 21, decrease the amount by $9,815,000,000. $153,000,000. $54,000,000. On page 22, line 11, increase the amount by On page 3, line 12, increase the amount by On page 5, line 22, decrease the amount by $6,207,000,000. $268,000,000. $123,000,000. On page 22, line 14, increase the amount by On page 3, line 13, increase the amount by On page 5, line 23, decrease the amount by $12,045,000,000. $321,000,000. $207,000,000. On page 22, line 15, increase the amount by On page 3, line 14, increase the amount by On page 5, line 24, decrease the amount by $8,059,000,000. $385,000,000. $311,000,000. On page 22, line 18, increase the amount by On page 3, line 15, increase the amount by On page 5, line 25, decrease the amount by $13,849,000,000. $460,000,000. $438,000,000. On page 22, line 19, increase the amount by On page 3, line 16, increase the amount by On page 6, line 1, decrease the amount by $9,935,000,000. $551,000,000. $592,000,000. On page 22, line 23, increase the amount by On page 3, line 17, increase the amount by On page 6, line 2, decrease the amount by $8,241,000,000. $658,000,000. $780,000,000. On page 23, line 3, increase the amount by On page 3, line 18, increase the amount by On page 6, line 5, decrease the amount by $3,942,000,000. $785,000,000. $38,000,000. On page 23, line 7, increase the amount by On page 3, line 19, increase the amount by On page 6, line 6, decrease the amount by $2,086,000,000. $936,000,000. $157,000,000. On page 23, line 11, increase the amount by On page 3, line 23, increase the amount by On page 6, line 7, decrease the amount by $1,278,000,000. $38,000,000. $124,000,000. On page 40, line 6, increase the amount by On page 4, line 1, increase the amount by On page 6, line 8, decrease the amount by $19,000,000. $130,000,000. $137,000,000. On page 40, line 7, increase the amount by On page 4, line 2, increase the amount by On page 6, line 8, decrease the amount by $19,000,000. $153,000,000. $191,000,000. On page 40, line 10, increase the amount by On page 4, line 3, increase the amount by On page 6, line 10, decrease the amount by $125,000,000. $268,000,000. $314,000,000. On page 40, line 11, increase the amount by On page 4, line 4, increase the amount by On page 6, line 11, decrease the amount by $125,000,000. $321,000,000. $520,000,000.

VerDate Dec 13 2002 04:15 Mar 22, 2003 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00107 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A20MR6.277 S20PT2 S4216 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE March 20, 2003 On page 6, line 12, decrease the amount by On page 40, line 23, decrease the amount by abilities and local communities as identified $832,000,000. $13,000,000. in the Individuals with Disabilities Edu- On page 6, line 13, decrease the amount by On page 41, line 2, decrease the amount by cation Act (20 U.S.C. 1400 et seq.); $1,270,000,000. $22,000,000. (3) ensure that every student with the tal- On page 6, line 14, decrease the amount by On page 41, line 3, decrease the amount by ent, desire, and drive to pursue postsec- $1,862,000,000. $22,000,000. ondary training at a school of their choice is On page 6, line 15, decrease the amount by On page 41, line 6, decrease the amount by not inhibited by family financial need; and $2,642,000,000. $35,000,000. (4) grow to 10 percent over time, the share On page 6, line 18, decrease the amount by On page 41, line 7, decrease the amount by of the Federal discretionary budget dedi- $38,000,000. $35,000,000. cated toward education. On page 6, line 19, decrease the amount by On page 41, line 10, decrease the amount by (b) ADJUSTMENT.—If the report provided $157,000,000. $55,000,000. pursuant to section 202(e) of the Congres- On page 6, line 20, decrease the amount by On page 41, line 11, decrease the amount by sional Budget Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 602(e)) $124,000,000. $55,000,000. (the budget and economic outlook: update), On page 6, line 21, decrease the amount by On page 41, line 14, decrease the amount by estimates on-budget Federal revenues for fis- $137,000,000. $82,000,000. cal year 2003 or 2004, respectively, that ex- On page 6, line 22, decrease the amount by On page 41, line 15, decrease the amount by ceed estimated on-budget Federal revenues $191,000,000. $82,000,000. set forth in the Congressional Budget Of- On page 6, line 23, decrease the amount by On page 41, line 18, decrease the amount by fice’s Spring 2003 or 2004, respectively, budg- $314,000,000. $119,000,000. et and economic outlook for fiscal year 2003 On page 6, line 24, decrease the amount by On page 41, line 19, decrease the amount by or 2004, respectively, (adjusted for the enact- $520,000,000. $119,000,000. ment of any fiscal year 2003 or 2004, respec- On page 6, line 25, decrease the amount by On page 47, line 5, increase the amount by tively, supplemental appropriations act), $832,000,000. $275,000,000. then the Chairman of the Committee on the On page 7, line 1, decrease the amount by On page 41, line 6, increase the amount by Budget of the Senate shall— $1,270,000,000. $14,000,000. (1) in an amount equal to 20 percent of the On page 47, line 14, increase the amount by On page 7, line 2, decrease the amount by increase in estimated on-budget Federal rev- $275,000,000. $1,862,000,000. enues for fiscal year 2004 or 2005, respec- On page 47, line 15, increase the amount by On page 7, line 3, decrease the amount by tively, increase the amount of discretionary $193,000,000. $2,642,000,000. budget authority and outlays flowing there- On page 25, line 16, increase the amount by At the appropriate place insert the fol- from allocated under section 302(a) of the $275,000,000. lowing: Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. On page 25, line 17, increase the amount by SEC. . SENSE OF THE SENATE ON CORPORATE 633(a)) to carry out Function 500 education $14,000,000. TAX HAVEN LOOPHOLES programs and for other purposes; and On page 25, line 20, increase the amount by (a) FINDINGS.—Congress finds that compa- (2) in an amount equal to 80 percent of the $275,000,000. nies are taking advantage of loopholes in the increase in estimated on-budget Federal rev- On page 25, line 21, increase the amount by United States tax code to direct taxable in- enue for fiscal year 2004 or 2005, respectively, $193,000,000. come to tax haven jurisdictions, some of reduce the deficit and level of publicly held On page 25, line 24, increase the amount by which have excessive bank secrecy laws and debt in order to better secure the integrity $275,000,000. a poor record of cooperation with United of the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insur- On page 25, line 25, increase the amount by States civil and criminal tax enforcement. ance Trust Fund under section 201 of the So- $261,000,000. (b) SENSE OF THE SENATE.—It is the sense cial Security Act (42 U.S.C. 401), unless there On page 26, line 3, increase the amount by of the Senate that the Senate should act to is a national emergency related to the war $275,000,000. stop companies from avoiding paying their on terrorism. On page 26, line 4, increase the amount by fair share of the United States taxes by— (c) LIMITATION.—Amounts made available $275,000,000. (1) addressing the problem of corporations under subsection (a) shall— On page 26, line 7, increase the amount by that have renounced their United States citi- (1) not exceed 1⁄2 of 1 percent of on-budget $275,000,000. zenship (‘‘inverted’’) by relocating their Federal revenues for fiscal year 2003; and On page 26, line 8, increase the amount by headquarters to tax haven jurisdictions (2) supplement, and not supplant, amounts $275,000,000. while maintaining their primary offices and allocated under section 302(b) of the Congres- On page 26, line 11, increase the amount by production or service facilities in the United sional Budget Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 633(b)) and $275,000,000. States; and any other amounts used to carry out the Ele- On page 26, line 12, increase the amount by (2) addressing the problem of Bermuda- mentary and Secondary Education Act of $275,000,000. based insurance companies that are using re- 1965 (20 U.S.C. 6301 et seq.), the Individuals On page 26, line 15, increase the amount by insurance agreements with their subsidiaries with Disabilities Education Act (20 U.S.C. $275,000,000. to direct property and casualty insurance 1400 et seq.), and the Higher Education Act of On page 26, line 16, increase the amount by premiums out of the United States into Ber- 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1001 et seq.) for the previous $275,000,000. muda to reduce their United States taxes in fiscal year for which amounts are provided On page 26, line 19, increase the amount by a way that places United States property under this section. $275,000,000. and casualty insurance companies at a com- (d) CONFORMING CHANGES.—The Chairman On page 26, line 20, increase the amount by petitive disadvantage. of the Committee on the Budget of the Sen- $275,000,000. ate shall make all necessary conforming On page 26, line 23, increase the amount by SA 360. Ms. LANDRIEU (for herself changes to the functions and aggregates in- $275,000,000. and Mr. KENNEDY) submitted an cluded in any applicable resolution as a re- On page 26, line 24, increase the amount by amendment intended to be proposed by sult of adjustments under this section. $275,000,000. On page 27, line 2, increase the amount by her to the concurrent resolution S. $275,000,000. Con. Res. 23, setting forth the congres- SA 361. Mr. DASCHLE submitted an On page 27, line 3, increase the amount by sional budget for the United States amendment intended to be proposed by $275,000,000. Government for fiscal year 2004 and in- him to the concurrent resolution S. On page 40, line 6, decrease the amount by cluding the appropriate budgetary lev- Con. Res. 23, setting forth the congres- $3,000,000. els for fiscal year 2003 and for fiscal sional budget for the United States On page 40, line 7, decrease the amount by years 2005 through 2013; which was or- Government for fiscal year 2004 and in- $3,000,000. dered to lie on the table; as follows: cluding the appropriate budgetary lev- On page 40, line 10, decrease the amount by els for fiscal year 2003 and for fiscal $6,000,000. At the appropriate place, insert the fol- On page 40, line 11, decrease the amount by lowing: years 2005 through 2013; which was or- $6,000,000. SEC. ll. EDUCATION FIRST. dered to lie on the table; as follows: On page 40, line 14, decrease the amount by (a) STATEMENT OF PURPOSE.—It is the pur- On page 3, line 10, increase the amount by $6,000,000. pose of this section to ensure that a portion $5,104,000,000. On page 40, line 15, decrease the amount by of unexpected, additional Federal resources On page 3, line 11, increase the amount by $6,000,000. are available to— $348,000,000. On page 40, line 18, decrease the amount by (1) assist disadvantaged children, teachers, On page 3, line 12, increase the amount by $8,000,000. and schools in meeting the additional aca- $174,000,000. On page 40, line 19, decrease the amount by demic challenges posed in the No Child Left On page 3, line 13, increase the amount by $8,000,000. Behind Act of 2001 (Public Law 107–110); $116,000,000. On page 40, line 22, decrease the amount by (2) provide for full funding of Federal fi- On page 4, line 1, increase the amount by $13,000,000. nancial commitment to children with dis- $5,104,000,000.

VerDate Dec 13 2002 04:15 Mar 22, 2003 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00108 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A20MR6.285 S20PT2 March 20, 2003 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S4217 On page 4, line 2, increase the amount by On page 6, line 20, decrease the amount by On page 79, after line 22, insert the fol- $348,000,000. $2,892,000,000. lowing: On page 4, line 3, increase the amount by On page 6, line 21, decrease the amount by SEC. ll. SENSE OF THE SENATE REGARDING $174,000,000. $3,123,000,000. MEDICARE HOME HEALTH PAY- On page 4, line 4, increase the amount by On page 6, line 22, decrease the amount by MENTS. $116,000,000. $3,343,000,000. (a) FINDINGS.—The Senate makes the fol- On page 4, line 15, increase the amount by On page 6, line 23, decrease the amount by lowing findings: $2,854,000,000. $3,516,000,000. (1) Home health has become an increas- On page 4, line 16, decrease the amount by On page 6, line 24, decrease the amount by ingly important part of our health care sys- $120,000,000. $3,700,000,000. tem. The kinds of highly skilled, and often On page 4, line 17, decrease the amount by On page 6, line 25, decrease the amount by technically complex, services that our Na- $144,000,000. $3,896,000,000. tion’s home health agencies provide have en- On page 4, line 18, decrease the amount by On page 7, line 1, decrease the amount by abled millions of our most frail and vulner- $162,000,000. $4,103,000,000. able older and disabled persons to avoid hos- On page 4, line 19, decrease the amount by On page 7, line 2, decrease the amount by pitals and nursing homes and remain in the $173,000,000. $4,321,000,000. comfort and security of their homes. On page 4, line 20, decrease the amount by On page 7, line 3, decrease the amount by (2) The changes initiated as part of the $184,000,000. $4,551,000,000. Balanced Budget Act of 1997 produced cuts in On page 4, line 21, decrease the amount by On page 27, line 11, increase the amount by home health spending under the medicare $196,000,000. $2,900,000,000. program far beyond what Congress intended. On page 4, line 22, decrease the amount by On page 27, line 12, increase the amount by According to estimates from the Office of $207,000,000. $2,552,000,000. the Actuary of the Centers for Medicare & On page 4, line 23, decrease the amount by On page 27, line 16, increase the amount by Medicaid Services, expenditures for home $218,000,000. $174,000,000. health services under the medicare program On page 4, line 24, decrease the amount by On page 27, line 20, increase the amount by decreased by 39 percent between fiscal year $230,000,000. $87,000,000. 1997 and fiscal year 2003. On page 5, line 5, increase the amount by On page 27, line 24, increase the amount by (3) Projected medicare home health sav- $2,506,000,000. $58,000,000. ings under the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 On page 5, line 6, increase the amount by On page 40, line 6, decrease the amount by have totaled more than $72,000,000,000 be- $54,000,000. $46,000,000. tween fiscal year 1998 and fiscal year 2002, On page 5, line 7, decrease the amount by On page 40, line 7, decrease the amount by over 4 times the $16,000,000,000 that the Con- $57,000,000. $46,000,000. gressional Budget Office originally esti- On page 5, line 8, decrease the amount by On page 40, line 10, decrease the amount by mated for that time period. $104,000,000. $120,000,000. (4) Over 3,400 home health agencies have ei- On page 5, line 9, decrease the amount by On page 40, line 11, decrease the amount by ther closed or stopped serving medicare $173,000,000. $120,000,000. beneficiaries since the enactment of the Bal- On page 40, line 14, decrease the amount by On page 5, line 10, decrease the amount by anced Budget Act of 1997. $144,000,000. $184,000,000. (5) Since January 1997, the number of medi- On page 40, line 15, decrease the amount by On page 5, line 11, decrease the amount by care beneficiaries receiving home health $144,000,000. $196,000,000. services nationwide has dropped by 1,300,000, On page 40, line 18, decrease the amount by On page 5, line 12, decrease the amount by more than 1⁄3, and the average number of vis- $162,000,000. $207,000,000. its provided over a 60-day period has dropped On page 40, line 19, decrease the amount by On page 5, line 13, decrease the amount by from 36 to 20. $162,000,000. $218,000,000. (6) On October 1, 2002, home health agen- On page 40, line 22, decrease the amount by On page 5, line 14, decrease the amount by cies received an additional across-the-board $230,000,000. $173,000,000. On page 40, line 23, decrease the amount by cut in medicare home health payments and On page 5, line 18, increase the amount by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Serv- $2,598,000,000. $173,000,000. On page 41, line 2, decrease the amount by ices has dramatically reduced projections for On page 5, line 19, increase the amount by home health spending under the medicare $294,000,000. $184,000,000. On page 41, line 3, decrease the amount by program over the next 10 years. On page 5, line 20, increase the amount by (7) Further cuts in payments for home $231,000,000. $184,000,000. On page 41, line 6, decrease the amount by health services under the medicare program On page 5, line 21, increase the amount by simply cannot be sustained without affecting $220,000,000. $196,000,000. On page 41, line 7, decrease the amount by patient care, particularly for those medicare On page 5, line 22, increase the amount by beneficiaries with complex care require- $173,000,000. $196,000,000. On page 41, line 10, decrease the amount by ments. On page 5, line 23, increase the amount by (b) SENSE OF THE SENATE.—It is the sense $184,000,000. $207,000,000. On page 41, line 11, decrease the amount by of the Senate that the medicare home health On page 5, line 24, increase the amount by benefit should be stabilized by— $196,000,000. $207,000,000. On page 41, line 14, decrease the amount by (1) avoiding further cuts in payments for On page 5, line 25, increase the amount by home health services under the medicare $207,000,000. $218,000,000. On page 41, line 15, decrease the amount by program; On page 6, line 1, increase the amount by (2) preserving the full market basket up- $218,000,000. $218,000,000. On page 41, line 18, decrease the amount by date for payments under the medicare pro- On page 6, line 2, increase the amount by spective payment system for home health $230,000,000. $230,000,000. On page 41, line 19, decrease the amount by services for 2004; and On page 6, line 6, decrease the amount by (3) providing for an add-on payment under $2,598,000,000. $230,000,000. On page 47, line 5, increase the amount by the medicare program for home health serv- On page 6, line 7, decrease the amount by ices furnished in rural areas after March 31, $2,892,000,000. $2,900,000,000. On page 47, line 6, increase the amount by 2003. On page 6, line 8, decrease the amount by $2,552,000,000. $3,123,000,000. On page 47, line 15, increase the amount by SA 363. Mr. DASCHLE (for himself, On page 6, line 9, decrease the amount by $174,000,000. Mr. INOUYE, Mr. BINGAMAN, Mr. DOR- $3,343,000,000. GAN, Mrs. MURRAY, Mr. WYDEN, Mr. On page 6, line 10, decrease the amount by $3,516,000,000. SA 362. Ms. COLLINS (for herself, Mr. JOHNSON, Mr. LEAHY, Ms. CANTWELL, On page 6, line 11, decrease the amount by REED, Mr. BOND, and Ms. MIKULSKI) Mr. REID, Mr. KENNEDY, and Mr. $3,700,000,000. submitted an amendment intended to LIEBERMAN) submitted an amendment On page 6, line 12, decrease the amount by be proposed by her to the concurrent intended to be proposed by him to the $3,896,000,000. resolution S. Con. Res. 23, setting forth concurrent resolution S. Con. Res. 23, On page 6, line 13, decrease the amount by the congressional budget for the United setting forth the congressional budget $4,103,000,000. States Government for fiscal year 2004 for the United States Government for On page 6, line 14, decrease the amount by and including the appropriate budg- fiscal year 2004 and including the ap- $4,321,000,000. On page 6, line 15, decrease the amount by etary levels for fiscal year 2003 and for propriate budgetary levels for fiscal $4,551,000,000. fiscal years 2005 through 2013; which year 2003 and for fiscal years 2005 On page 6, line 19, decrease the amount by was ordered to lie on the table; as fol- through 2013; which was ordered to lie $2,598,000,000. lows: on the table; as follows:

VerDate Dec 13 2002 04:15 Mar 22, 2003 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00109 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A20MR6.287 S20PT2 S4218 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE March 20, 2003 On page 3, line 10, increase the amount by On page 5, line 22, increase the amount by On page 28, line 22, increase the amount by $5,104,000,000. $4,533,000,000. $5,332,000,000. On page 3, line 11, increase the amount by On page 5, line 23, increase the amount by On page 28, line 23, increase the amount by $5,809,000,000. $5,049,000,000. $5,217,000,000. On page 3, line 12, increase the amount by On page 5, line 24, increase the amount by On page 40, line 6, decrease the amount by $6,390,000,000. $5,611,000,000. $46,000,000. On page 3, line 13, increase the amount by On page 5, line 25, increase the amount by On page 40, line 7, decrease the amount by $6,953,000,000. $6,221,000,000. $46,000,000. On page 3, line 14, increase the amount by On page 6, line 1, increase the amount by On page 40, line 10, decrease the amount by $7,440,000,000. $6,886,000,000. $191,000,000. On page 3, line 15, increase the amount by On page 6, line 2, increase the amount by On page 40, line 11, decrease the amount by $7,961,000,000. $7,611,000,000. $191,000,000. On page 3, line 16, increase the amount by On page 6, line 6, decrease the amount by On page 40, line 14, decrease the amount by $8,518,000,000. $2,598,000,000. $376,000,000. On page 3, line 17, increase the amount by On page 6, line 7, decrease the amount by On page 40, line 15, decrease the amount by $9,114,000,000. $5,693,000,000. $376,000,000. On page 3, line 18, increase the amount by On page 6, line 8, decrease the amount by On page 40, line 18, decrease the amount by $9,752,000,000. $9,264,000,000. $585,000,000. On page 3, line 19, increase the amount by On page 6, line 9, deerease the amount by On page 40, line 19, decrease the amount by $10,435,000,000. $13,324,000,000. $585,000,000. On page 4, line 1, increase the amount by On page 6, line 10, decrease the amount by On page 40, line 22, decrease the amount by $5,104,000,000. $17,857,000,000. $813,000,000. On page 4, line 2, increase the amount by On page 6, line 11, decrease the amount by On page 40, line 23, decrease the amount by $5,809,000,000. $22,906,000,000. $813,000,000. On page 4, line 3, increase the amount by On page 6, line 12, decrease the amount by On page 41, line 2, decrease the amount by $6,390,000,000. $28,516,000,000. $1,068,000,000. On page 4, line 4, increase the amount by On page 6, line 13, decrease the amount by On page 41, line 3, decrease the amount by $6,953,000,000. $34,738,000,000. $1,068,000,000. On page 4, line 5, increase the amount by On page 6, line 14, decrease the amount by On page 41, line 6, decrease the amount by $7,440,000,000. $41,624,000,000. $1,352,000,000. On page 4, line 6, increase the amount by On page 6, line 15, decrease the amount by On page 41, line 7, decrease the amount by $7,961,000,000. $49,235,000,000. $1,352,000,000. On page 4, line 7, increase the amount by On page 6, line 19, decrease the amount by On page 41, line 10, decrease the amount by $8,518,000,000. $2,598,000,000. $1,664,000,000. On page 4, line 8, increase the amount by On page 6, line 20, decrease the amount by On page 41, line 11, decrease the amount by $9,114,000,000. $5,693,000,000. $1,664,000,000. On page 4, line 9, increase the amount by On page 6, line 21, decrease the amount by On page 41, line 14, decrease the amount by $9,752,000,000. $9,264,000,000. $2,010,000,000. On page 4, line 10, increase the amount by On page 6, line 22, decrease the amount by On page 41, line 15, decrease the amount by $10,435,000,000. $13,324,000,000. $2,010,000,000. On page 4, line 15, increase the amount by On page 6, line 23, decrease the amount by On page 41, line 18, decrease the amount by $2,854,000,000. $17,857,000,000. $2,393,000,000. On page 4, line 16, increase the amount by On page 6, line 24, decrease the amount by On page 41, line 19, decrease the amount by $2,912,000,000. $22,906,000,000. $2,393,000,000. On page 4, line 17, increase the amount by On page 6, line 25, decrease the amount by On page 45, line 24, decrease the amount by $2,944,000,000. $28,516,000,000. $77,476,000,000. On page 4, line 18, increase the amount by On page 7, line 1, decrease the amount by On page 47, line 5, increase the amount by $2,968,000,000. $34,738,000,000. $2,900,000,000. On page 4, line 19, increase the amount by On page 7, line 2, decrease the amount by On page 47, line 6, increase the amount by $2,988,000,000. $41,624,000,000. $2,552,000,000. On page 4, line 20, increase the amount by On page 7, line 3, decrease the amount by On page 47, line 14, increase the amount by $2,999,000,000. $49,235,000,000. $3,103,000,000. On page 4, line 21, increase the amount by On page 27, line 11, increase the amount by On page 47, line 15, increase the amount by $3,000,000,000. $2,900,000,000. $2,905,000,000. On page 4, line 22, increase the amount by On page 27, line 12, increase the amount by $2,993,000,000. $2,552,000,000. SA 364. Mr. LAUTENBERG (for him- On page 4, line 23, increase the amount by On page 27, line 15, increase the amount by self and Mr. BYRD) submitted an $2,973,000,000. $3,103,000,000. On page 4, line 24, increase the amount by On page 27, line 16, increase the amount by amendment intended to be proposed by $2,939,000,000. $2,905,000,000. him to the concurrent resolution S. On page 5, line 5, increase the amount by On page 27, line 19, increase the amount by Con. Res. 23, setting forth the congres- $2,506,000,000. $3,320,000,000. sional budget for the United States On page 5, line 6, increase the amount by On page 27, line 20, increase the amount by Government for fiscal year 2004 and in- $2,714,000,000. $3,195,000,000. cluding the appropriate budgetary lev- On page 5, line 7, increase the amount by On page 27, line 23, increase the amount by els for fiscal eyar 2003 and for fiscal $2,819,000,000. $3,553,000,000. years 2005 through 2013; which was or- On page 5, line 8, increase the amount by On page 27, line 24, increase the amount by $2,892,000,000. $3,477,000,000. dered to lie on the table; as follows: On page 5, line 9, increase the amount by On page 28, line 2, increase the amount by On page 4, line 15, increase the amount by $2,907,000,000. $3,801,000,000. $929,000,000. On page 5, line 10, increase the amount by On page 28, line 3, increase the amount by On page 4, line 16, increase the amount by $2,912,000,000. $3,720,000,000. $41,000,000. On page 5, line 11, increase the amount by On page 28, line 6, increase the amount by On page 4, line 17, increase the amount by $2,907,000,000. $4,067,000,000. $47,000,000. On page 5, line 12, increase the amount by On page 28, line 7, increase the amount by On page 4, line 18, increase the amount by $2,893,000,000. $3,980,000,000. $52,000,000. On page 5, line 13, increase the amount by On page 28, line 10, increase the amount by On page 4, line 19, increase the amount by $2,866,000,000. $4,352,000,000. $55,000,000. On page 5, line 14, increase the amount by On page 28, line 11, increase the amount by On page 4 line 20, increase the amount by $2,824,000,000. $4,259,000,000. $59,000,000. On page 5, line 18, increase the amount by On page 28, line 14, increase the amount by On page 4 line 21, increase the amount by $2,598,000,000. $4,657,000,000. $63,000,000. On page 5, line 19, increase the amount by On page 28, line 15, increase the amount by On page 4, line 22, increase the amount by $3,095,000,000. $4,557,000,000. $66,000,000. On page 5, line 20, increase the amount by On page 28, line 18, increase the amount by On page 4, line 23, increase the amount by $3,571,0000,000 $4,983,000,000. $70,000,000. On page 5, line 21, increase the amount by On page 28, line 19, increase the amount by On page 4, line 24, increase the amount by $4,061,000,000. $4,876,000,000. $73,000,000.

VerDate Dec 13 2002 04:15 Mar 22, 2003 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00110 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A20MR6.292 S20PT2 March 20, 2003 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S4219 On page 5, line 5, increase the amount by On page 40, line 10, increase the amount by On page 4, line 19, increase the amount by $929,000,000. $41,000,000. $52,000,000. On page 5, line 6, increase the amount by On page 40, line 11, increase the amount by On page 4, line 20, increase the amount by $41,000,000. $41,000,000. $80,000,000. On page 5, line 7, increase the amount by On page 40, line 14, increase the amount by On page 4, line 21, increase the amount by $47,000,000. $47,000,000. $111,000,000. On page 5, line 8, increase the amount by On page 40, line 15, increase the amount by On page 4, line 22, increase the amount by $52,000,000. $47,000,000. $145,000,000. On page 5, line 9, increase the amount by On page 40, line 18, increase the amount by On page 4, line 23, increase the amount by $55,000,000. $52,000,000. $183,000,000. On page 5, line 10, increase the amount by On page 40, line 19, increase the amount by On page 4, line 24, increase the amount by $59,000,000. $52,000,000. $225,000. On page 5, line 11, increase the amount by On page 40, line 22, increase the amount by On page 5, line 7, increase the amount by $63,000,000. $55,000,000. $7,000,000. On page 5, line 12, increase the amount by On page 40, line 23, increase the amount by On page 5, line 8, increase the amount by $66,000,000. $55,000,000. $26,000,000. On page 5, line 13, increase the amount by On page 41, line 2, increase the amount by On page 5, line 9, increase the amount by $70,000,000. $59,000,000. $52,000,000. On page 5, line 14, increase the amount by On page 41, line 3, increase the amount by On page 5, line 10, increase the amount by $73,000,000. $59,000,000. $80,000,000. On page 5, line 18, decrease the amount by On page 41, line 6, increase the amount by On page 5, line 11, increase the amount by $929,000,000. $63,000,000. $111,000,000. On page 5, line 19, decrease the amount by On page 41, line 7, increase the amount by On page 5, line 12, increase the amount by $41,000,000. $63,000,000. $145,000,000. On page 5, line 20, decrease the amount by On page 41, line 10, increase the amount by On page 5, line 13, increase the amount by $47,000,000. $66,000,000. $183,000,000. On page 5, line 21, decrease the amount by On page 41, line 11, increase the amount by On page 5, line 14, increase the amount by $52,000,000. $66,000,000. $225,000,000. On page 5, line 22, decrease the amount by On page 41, line 14, increase the amount by On page 5, line 20, increase the amount by $55,000,000. $70,000,000. $271,000,000. On page 5, line 23, decrease the amount by On page 41, line 15, increase the amount by On page 5, line 21, increase the amount by $59,000,000. $70,000,000. $454,000,000. On page 5, line 24, decrease the amount by On page 41, line 18, increase the amount by On page 5, line 22, increase the amount by $63,000,000. $73,000,000. $504,000,000. On page 5, line 25, decrease the amount by On page 41, line 19, increase the amount by On page 5, line 23, increase the amount by $66,000,000. $73,000,000. $558,000,000. On page 6, line 1, decrease the amount by On page 47, line 5, increase the amount by On page 5, line 24, increase the amount by $70,000,000. $912,000,000. $618,000,000. On page 6, line 2, decrease the amount by On page 47, line 6, increase the amount by On page 5, line 25, increase the amount by $73,000,000. $912,000,000. $684,000,000. On page 6, line 6, increase the amount by On page 6, line 1, increase the amount by $929,000,000. SA 365. Mr. MCCONNELL submitted $755,000,000. On page 6, line 7, increase the amount by an amendment intended to be proposed On page 6, line 2, increase the amount by $970,000,000. by him to the concurrent resolution S. $832,000,000. On page 6, line 8, increase the amount by Con. Res. 23, setting forth the congres- On page 6, line 8, increase the amount by $1,017,000,000. sional budget for the United States $271,000,000. On page 6, line 9, increase the amount by Government for fiscal year 2004 and in- On page 6, line 9, increase the amount by $1,069,000,000. $725,000,000. On page 6, line 10, increase the amount by cluding the appropriate budgetary lev- On page 6, line 10, increase the amount by $1,124,000,000. els for fiscal year 2003 and for fiscal $1,229,000,000. On page 6, line 11, increase the amount by years 2005 through 2013; which was or- On page 6, line 11, increase the amount by $1,183,000,000. dered to lie on the table; as follows: $1,787,000,000. On page 6, line 12, increase the amount by On page 3, line 12, decrease the amount by On page 6, line 12, increase the amount by $1,245,000,000. $264,000,000. $2,404,000,000. On page 6, line 13, increase the amount by On page 3, line 13, decrease the amount by On page 6, line 13, increase the amount by $1,311,000,000. $428,000,000. $3,088,000,000. On page 6, line 14, increase the amount by On page 3, line 14, decrease the amount by On page 6, line 14, increase the amount by $1,381,000,000. $452,000,000. $3,843,000,000. On page 6, line 15, increase the amount by On page 3, line 15, decrease the amount by On page 6, line 15, increase the amount by $1,454,000,000. $478,000,000. $4,675,000,000. On page 6, line 19, increase the amount by On page 3, line 16, decrease the amount by On page 6, line 21, increase the amount by $929,000,000. $507,000,000. $271,000,000. On page 6, line 20, increase the amount by On page 3, line 17, decrease the amount by On page 6, line 22, increase the amount by $970,000,000. $539,000,000. $725,000,000. On page 6, line 21, increase the amount by On page 3, line 18, decrease the amount by On page 6, line 23, increase the amount by $1,017,000,000. $572,000,000. $1,229,000,000. On page 6, line 22, increase the amount by On page 3, line 19, decrease the amount by On page 6, line 24, increase the amount by $1,069,000,000. $607,000,000. $1,787,000,000. On page 6, line 23, increase the amount by On page 4, line 3, decrease the amount by On page 6, line 25, increase the amount by $1,124,000,000. $264,000,000. $2,404,000,000. On page 6, line 24, increase the amount by On page 4, line 4, decrease the amount by On page 7, line 1, increase the amount by $1,183,000,000. $428,000,000. $3,088,000,000. On page 6, line 25, increase the amount by On page 4, line 5, decrease the amount by On page 7, line 2, increase the amount by $1,245,000,000. $452,000,000. $3,843,000,000. On page 7, line 1, increase the amount by On page 4, line 6, decrease the amount by On page 7, line 3, increase the amount by $1,311,000,000. $478,000,000. $4,675,000,000. On page 7, line 2, increase the amount by On page 4, line 7, decrease the amount by On page 40, line 14, increase the amount by $1,381,000,000. $507,000,000. $7,000,000. On page 7, line 3, increase the amount by On page 4, line 8, decrease the amount by On page 40, line 15, increase the amount by $1,454,000,000. $539,000,000. $7,000,000. On page 21, line 23, increase the amount by On page 4, line 9, decrease the amount by On page 40, line 18, increase the amount by $912,000,000. $572,000,000. $26,000,000. On page 21, line 24, increase the amount by On page 4, line 10, decrease the amount by On page 40, line 19, increase the amount by $912,000,000. $607,000,000. $26,000,000. On page 40, line 6, increase the amount by On page 4, line 17, increase the amount by On page 40, line 22, increase the amount by $17,000,000. $7,000,000. $52,000,000. On page 40, line 7, increase the amount by On page 4, line 18, increase the amount by On page 40, line 23, increase the amount by $17,000,000. $26,000,000. $52,000,000.

VerDate Dec 13 2002 04:15 Mar 22, 2003 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00111 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A20MR6.296 S20PT2 S4220 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE March 20, 2003 On page 41, line 2, increase the amount by On page 5 line 7, increase the amount by On page 23, line 20, increase the amount by $80,000,000. $457,000,000. $1,540,000,000. On page 41, line 3, increase the amount by On page 5 line 8, decrease the amount by On page 23, line 24, increase the amount by $80,000,000. $23,000,000. $1,210,000,000. On page 41, line 6, increase the amount by On page 5 line 9, decrease the amount by On page 24, line 3, increase the amount by $111,000,000. $264,000,000. $660,000,000. On page 41, line 7, increase the amount by On page 5 line 10, decrease the amount by On page 24, line 7, increase the amount by $111,000,000. $281,000,000. $220,000,000. On page 41, line 10, increase the amount by On page 5 line 11, decrease the amount by On page 40, line 2, decrease the amount by $145,000,000. $297,000,000. $6,000,000. On page 41, line 11, increase the amount by On page 5 line 12, decrease the amount by On page 40, line 3, decrease the amount by $145,000,000. $314,000,000. $6,000,000. On page 41, line 14, increase the amount by On page 5 line 13, decrease the amount by On page 40, line 6, decrease the amount by $183,000,000. $331,000,000. $50,000,000. On page 41, line 15, increase the amount by On page 5 line 14, decrease the amount by On page 40, line 7, decrease the amount by $183,000,000. $350,000,000. $50,000,000. On page 41, line 18, increase the amount by On page 5 line 17, increase the amount by On page 40, line 10, decrease the amount by $225,000,000. $776,000,000. $135,000,000. On page 41, line 19, increase the amount by On page 5 line 18, increase the amount by On page 40, line 11, decrease the amount by $225,000,000. $1,590,000,000. $135,000,000. Sense of the Senate.—It is the Sense of the On page 5 line 19, increase the amount by On page 40, line 14, decrease the amount by Senate that legislation should be enacted no $1,345,000,000. $203,000,000. later than December 31, 2004 providing Presi- On page 5 line 20, increase the amount by On page 40, line 15, decrease the amount by dential authority for the United States to $863,000,000. $203,000,000. negotiate the entry of the United Kingdom On page 5 line 21, increase the amount by On page 40, line 18, decrease the amount by into the North American Free Trade Agree- $463,000,000. $203,000,000. ment. On page 5 line 22, increase the amount by On page 40, line 19, decrease the amount by $264,000,000. $243,000,000. SA 366. Mrs. MURRAY (for herself On page 5 line 23, increase the amount by On page 40, line 22, decrease the amount by and Mr. LEAHY) submitted an amend- $281,000,000. $264,000,000. ment intended to be proposed by her to On page 5 line 24, increase the amount by On page 40, line 23, decrease the amount by the concurrent resolution S. Con. Res. $297,000,000. $264,000,000. 23, setting forth the congressional On page 5 line 25, increase the amount by On page 41, line 2, decrease the amount by $314,000,000. budget for the United States Govern- $281,000,000. On page 6 line 1, increase the amount by On page 41, line 3, decrease the amount by ment for fiscal year 2004 and including $331,000,000. $281,000,000. the appropriate budgetary levels for On page 6 line 2, increase the amount by On page 41, line 6, decrease the amount by fiscal year 2003 and for fiscal years 2005 $350,000,000. $297,000,000. through 2013; which was ordered to lie On page 6 line 5, decrease the amount by On page 41, line 7, decrease the amount by on the table; as follows: $776,000,000. $297,000,000. On page 6 line 6, decrease the amount by On page 3, line 9, increase the amount by On page 41, line 10, decrease the amount by $2,366,000,000. $1,540,000,000. $314,000,000. On page 6 line 7, decrease the amount by On page 3, line 10, increase the amount by On page 41, line 11, decrease the amount by $3,711,000,000. $3,080,000,000. $314,000,000. On page 6 line 8, decrease the amount by On page 3 line 11, increase the amount by On page 41, line 14, decrease the amount by $4,574,000,000. $2,420,000,000. $331,000,000. On page 6 line 9, decrease the amount by On page 3, line 12, increase the amount by On page 41, line 15, decrease the amount by $5,037,000,000. $1,320,000,000. $331,000,000. On page 3, line 13, increase the amount by On page 6, line 10, decrease the amount by On page 41, line 18, decrease the amount by $440,000,000. $5,301,000,000. $350,000,000. On page 3, line 23, increase the amount by On page 6, line 11, decrease the amount by On page 41, line 19, decrease the amount by $1,540,000,000. $5,582,000,000. $350,000,000. On page 4, line 1, increase the amount by On page 6, line 12, decrease the amount by On page 45, line 24, decrease the amount by $3,080,000,000. $5,879,000,000. $8,800,000,000. On page 4, line 2, increase the amount by On page 6, line 13, decrease the amount by On page 46, line 20, increase the amount by $2,420,000,000. $6,193,000,000. $2,200,000,000. On page 4 line 3, increase the amount by On page 6, line 14, decrease the amount by On page 46, line 21, increase the amount by $1,320,000,000. $6,524,000,000. $770,000,000. On page 4 line 4, increase the amount by On page 6, line 15, decrease the amount by On page 47, line 5, increase the amount by $440,000,000. $6,873,000,000. $2,200,000,000. On page 4 line 14, increase the amount by On page 6, line 18, decrease the amount by On page 47, line 6, increase the amount by $2,194,000,000. $776,000,000. $1,540,000,000. On page 4 line 15, increase the amount by On page 6, line 19, decrease the amount by On page 47, line 15, increase the amount by $2,150,000,000. $2,366,000,000. $1,210,000,000. On page 4 line 16, decrease the amount by On page 6, line 20, decrease the amount by $135,000,000. $3,711,000,000. SA 367. Mr. CORZINE (for himself, On page 4 line 17, decrease the amount by On page 6, line 21, decrease the amount by Mr. KERRY, Mr. LAUTENBERG, Mrs. $4,574,000,000. $203,000,000. MURRAY, Mrs. CLINTON, and Mr. JEF- On page 6, line 22, decrease the amount by On page 4 line 18, decrease the amount by FORDS) submitted an amendment in- $243,000,000. $5,037,000,000. On page 4 line 19, decrease the amount by On page 6, line 23, decrease the amount by tended to be proposed by him to the $264,000,000. $5,301,000,000. concurrent resolution S. Con. Res. 23, On page 4 line 20, decrease the amount by On page 6, line 24, decrease the amount by setting forth the congressional budget $281,000,000. $5,582,000,000. for the United States Government for On page 4 line 21, decrease the amount by On page 6, line 25, decrease the amount by fiscal year 2004 and including the ap- $297,000,000. $5,879,000,000. propriate budgetary levels for fiscal On page 4 line 22, decrease the amount by On page 7, line 1, decrease the amount by year 2003 and for fiscal years 2005 $314,000,000. $6,193,000,000. On page 4 line 23, decrease the amount by On page 7, line 2, decrease the amount by through 2013; which was ordered to lie $331,000,000. $6,524,000,000. on the table; as follows: On page 4 line 24, decrease the amount by On page 7, line 3, decrease the amount by On page 3, line 10, increase the amount by $350,000,000. $6,873,000,000. $378,000,000. On page 5 line 4, increase the amount by On page 23, line 15, increase the amount by On page 3, line 11, increase the amount by $764,000,000. $2,200,000,000. $271,000,000. On page 5 line 5, increase the amount by On page 23, line 16, increase the amount by On page 3, line 12, increase the amount by $1,490,000,000. $770,000,000. $216,000,000. On page 5 line 6, increase the amount by On page 23, line 19, increase the amount by On page 3, line 13, increase the amount by $1,075,000,000. $2,200,000,000. $216,000,000.

VerDate Dec 13 2002 04:15 Mar 22, 2003 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00112 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A20MR6.301 S20PT2 March 20, 2003 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S4221 On page 4, line 1, increase the amount by Major General Charles E. Williams dent should designate the week begin- $1,081,000,000. (Ret.), Director, Overseas Buildings Op- ning June 1, 2003, as ‘‘National Citizen On page 4, line 15, increase the amount by erations, Department of State, Wash- Soldier Week’’ [Allen]. $378,000,000. On page 4, line 16, decrease the amount by ington, DC. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without $271,000,000. The Honorable Francis X. Taylor, As- objection, it is so ordered. On page 4, line 17, decrease the amount by sistant Secretary for Diplomatic Secu- COMMITTEE ON VETERANS’ AFFAIRS $216,000,000. rity, Department of State, Washington, Mr. ENZI. Mr. President, I ask unani- On page 4, line 18, decrease the amount by DC. mous consent that the Committee on $216,000,000. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without Veterans’ Affairs be authorized to meet On page 16, line 11, increase the amount by objection, it is so ordered. $1,081,000,000. during the session of the Senate on On page 16, line 12, increase the amount by COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS Thursday, March 20, 2003, for a joint $378,000,000. Mr. ENZI. Mr. President, I ask unani- hearing with the House of Representa- On page 16, line 16, increase the amount by mous consent that the Committee on tives’ Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, $271,000,000. Governmental Affairs be authorized to to hear the legislative presentations of On page 16, line 20, increase the amount by meet on Thursday, March 20, 2003 at AMVETS, American Ex-Prisoners of $216,000,000. On page 16, line 24, increase the amount by 9:30 a.m. for a hearing entitled ‘‘Cargo War, the Vietnam Veterans of America, $216,000,000. Containers: The Next Terrorist Tar- the Military Officers Association of On page 47, line 5, increase the amount by get?’’ America, and the National Association $1,081,000,000. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without of State Directors of Veterans Affairs. On page 47, line 6, increase the amount by objection, it is so ordered. The hearing will take place in room $378,000,000. 345 of the Cannon House Office Building On page 47, line 15, increase the amount by COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY $271,000,000. Mr. ENZI. Mr. President, I ask unani- at 10:00 a.m. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without f mous consent that the Committee on the Judiciary be authorized to meet to objection, it is so ordered. AUTHORITY FOR COMMITTEES TO conduct a markup on Thursday, March SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON AGING MEET 20, 2003, at 4:00 p.m. in Dirksen Room Mr. ENZI. Mr. President, I ask unani- COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE, NUTRITION, AND 226. mous consent that the Special Com- FORESTRY I. Nominations mittee on Aging be authorized to meet Mr. ENZI. Mr. President, I ask unani- Thursday, March 20, 2003 from 10:30 mous consent that the Committee on Priscilla Richmond Owen to be U.S. a.m. to 1;00 p.m. in Dirksen 562 for the Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry be Circuit Judge for the Fifth Circuit; purpose of conducting a hearing. allowed to conduct a hearing during Cormac J. Carney to be U.S. District The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without the session of the Senate on Thursday, Judge for the Central District of Cali- objection, it is so ordered. fornia; James V. Selna to be U.S. Dis- March 20, 2003. The purpose of this SUBCOMMITTEE ON CLEAN AIR, CLIMATE hearing will be to consider the nomina- trict Judge for the Central District of CHANGE, AND NUCLEAR SAFETY tion of Vernon Bernard Parker to be California; Philip P. Simon to be U.S. Mr. ENZI. Mr. President, I ask unani- Assistant Secretary of Agriculture. District Judge for the Northern Dis- mous consent that the Subcommittee The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without trict of Indiana; Theresa Lazar on Clean Air, Climate Change, and Nu- objection, it is so ordered. Springmann to be U.S. District Judge clear Safety be authorized to meet on COMMITTEE ON ARMED SERVICES for the Northern District of Indiana; Thursday, March 20 at 9:30 a.m. to con- Mr. ENZI. Mr. President, I ask unani- Mary Ellen Coster Williams to be duct a hearing on legislative proposals mous consent that the Committee on Judge for the Court of Federal Claims; amending the Clean Air Act regarding Armed Services be authorized to meet Victor J. Wolski to be Judge for the fuel additives and renewable fuels. during the session of the Senate on Court of Federal Claims; Ricardo H. The meeting will be held in SD 406. Thursday, March 20, 2003, at 9:30 a.m., Hinojosa to be U.S. Sentencing Com- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without in open session to receive testimony on missioner; Michael E. Horowitz to be objection, it is so ordered. the Atomic Energy Defense Activities U.S. Sentencing Commissioner; Greg- of the Department of Energy, in review ory A. White to be U.S. Attorney for f of the defense authorization request for the Northern District of Ohio; Thomas fiscal year 2004. Dyson Hurlburt, Jr. to be U.S. Marshal PRIVILEGES OF THE FLOOR The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without for the Middle District of Florida; Mr. ALLARD. Mr. President, I ask objection, it is so ordered. Christina Pharo to be U.S. Marshal for unanimous consent that the privilege the Southern District of Florida; COMMITTEE ON BANKING, HOUSING, AND URBAN of the floor be granted to Ed Rimback AFFAIRS Dennise Arthur Williamson to be U.S. during consideration of this resolution. Mr. ENZI. Mr. President, I ask unani- Marshal for the Northern District of The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without mous consent that the Committee on Florida; Richard Zenos Winget to be objection, it is so ordered. Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs U.S. Marshal for the District of Ne- Mr. CHAMBLISS. I ask unanimous be authorized to meet during the ses- vada. consent the privilege of the floor be sion of the Senate on March 20, 2003, at II. Committee Business granted to Clyde Taylor of my staff for 9:30 a.m., to conduct a hearing on today. COMMITTEE RULES SUBCOMMITTEE ‘‘Issues Relating to HUD’s Proposed ORGANIZATION The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without Rule on the Real Estate Settlement objection, it is so ordered. Procedures Act.’’ III. Bills Mr. BOND. Mr. President, I ask unan- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without S. 330: A bill to further the protec- imous consent that a congressional fel- objection, it is so ordered. tion and recognition of veterans’ me- low in my office, David Napoliello, be COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN RELATIONS morials and for other purposes [Camp- granted the privilege of the floor for Mr. ENZI. Mr. President, I ask unani- bell]. the remainder of the consideration of mous consent that the Committee on S. Res. 48: A resolution designating S. Con. 23. Foreign Relations be authorized to April 2003 as ‘‘Financial Literacy for The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without meet during the session of the Senate Youth Month’’ [Akaka]. objection, it is so ordered. on Thursday, March 20, 2003 at 2:30 p.m. S. Res. 52: A resolution recognizing Mr. LAUTENBERG. Mr. President, I to hold a hearing on Safer Embassies in the social problem of child abuse and ask unanimous consent that David Unsafe Places. neglect, and supporting efforts to en- Matsuda, a member of my staff, be Witnesses hance public awareness of the problem granted the privilege of the floor dur- Mr. Jess Ford, Director, Inter- [Campbell]. ing consideration of S. Con. Res. 23. national Affairs & Trade, U.S. General S. Res. 58: A resolution expressing The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without Accounting Office, Washington, DC. the sense of the Senate that the Presi- objection, it is so ordered.

VerDate Dec 13 2002 03:52 Mar 22, 2003 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00113 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A20MR6.306 S20PT2 S4222 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE March 20, 2003 IRAQI SCIENTISTS IMMIGRATION Senate-passed omnibus appropriations 106–386), (o) (as added by section 1513(c) of ACT OF 2003 bill includes language to strike section Public Law 106–386), (o) (as added by section 1102(b) of the Legal Immigration Family Eq- Mr. NICKLES. Mr. President, I ask 457 and restore the status quo, but the prospects for that change will remain uity Act), and (p) (as added by section 1503(b) unanimous consent the Senate proceed of the Legal Immigration Family Equity to the immediate consideration of Cal- unclear until the conference com- Act) as subsections (n), (o), (p), (q), and (r), endar No. 9, S. 205. mittee has completed its work. This respectively; and The PRESIDING OFFICER. The gives us an added incentive to pass the (2) by adding at the end the following new clerk will report the bill by title. Iraqi Scientists Immigration Act as subsection: The legislative clerk read as follows: quickly as possible. I urge the House to ‘‘(s) NUMERICAL LIMITATIONS AND CONDI- A bill (S. 205) to authorize the issuance of take the bill up and pass it without TIONS OF ADMISSION AND STAY FOR NON- immigrant visas to, and the admission to the further delay. IMMIGRANTS ADMITTED UNDER SECTION United States for permanent residence of, Mr. NICKLES. Mr. President, I ask 101(a)(15)(W).— certain scientists, engineers, and technicians unanimous consent the bill be read a ‘‘(1) LIMITATION.—The number of aliens who may be admitted to the United States or who have worked in Iraqi weapons of mass third time, passed, the motion to re- destruction programs. otherwise granted status under section consider be laid upon the table, and 101(a)(15)(W)(i) may not exceed a total of 500. There being no objection, the Senate any statements related thereto be ‘‘(2) CONDITIONS.—As a condition for the ad- proceeded to consider the bill. printed in the RECORD, without further mission, and continued stay in lawful status, Mr. LEAHY. I applaud the Senate for intervening action or debate. of any alien admitted to the United States or passing S. 205, the Iraqi Scientists Im- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without otherwise granted status as a nonimmigrant migration Act. I am a cosponsor of this objection, it is so ordered. under section 101(a)(15)(W), the non- legislation, along with Senators BIDEN, The bill (S. 205) was read the third immigrant— HATCH, LUGAR, and SPECTER. When time and passed, as follows: ‘‘(A) shall report to the Attorney General such information concerning the alien’s Senator BIDEN introduced this last S. 205 whereabouts and activities as the Attorney year, I worked closely with him, dis- Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep- General may require; charging the bill from the Judiciary resentatives of the United States of America in ‘‘(B) may not be convicted of any criminal Committee and encouraging the Senate Congress assembled, offense punishable by a term of imprison- to pass it. I was pleased when the Sen- SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. ment of 1 year or more after the date of such ate did so, and disappointed that the This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Iraqi Sci- admission or grant of status; House failed to act. entists Immigration Act of 2003’’. ‘‘(C) must have executed a form that This bill could not be more timely. SEC. 2. ADMISSION OF CRITICAL ALIENS. waives the nonimmigrant’s right to contest, As the United States and United Na- (a) NONIMMIGRANT CATEGORY.—Section other than on the basis of an application for tions seek to obtain information about 101(a)(15) of the Immigration and Nationality withholding of removal or for protection under the Convention Against Torture, any Iraq’s development of weapons of mass Act (8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(15)) is amended— (1) by striking ‘‘or’’ at the end of subpara- action for removal of the alien instituted be- destruction, the scientists who have graph (U); fore the alien obtains lawful permanent resi- worked on biological, chemical, and (2) by striking the period at the end of sub- dent status; nuclear weapons for Iraq hold critical paragraph (V) and inserting ‘‘; or’’; and ‘‘(D) shall cooperate fully with all requests information. Thus far, however, those (3) by adding at the end the following new for information from the United States Gov- scientists have refused to speak pri- subparagraph: ernment including, but not limited to, fully vately with U.N. inspectors, instead in- ‘‘(W) Subject to section 214(s), an alien— and truthfully disclosing to the United sisting that Iraqi government rep- ‘‘(i) who the Attorney General determines, States Government all information in the alien’s possession concerning any Iraqi pro- resentatives be included in interviews. in coordination with the Secretary of State, the Director of Central Intelligence, and gram to produce weapons of mass destruc- Many have suggested that these sci- such other officials as he may deem appro- tion or the means to deliver them; and entists fear they will be executed if priate, and in the Attorney General’s ‘‘(E) shall abide by any other condition, they provide material assistance to the unreviewable discretion, is an individual— limitation, or restriction imposed by the At- inspectors. ‘‘(I) who has worked at any time in an torney General.’’. The Iraqi Scientists Immigration Act Iraqi program to produce weapons of mass (c) ADJUSTMENT OF STATUS.—Section 245 of offers a potential way around this destruction or the means to deliver them; the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 quandary by offering a benefit to those ‘‘(II) who is in possession of critical and re- U.S.C. 1255) is amended— scientists who would like to share what liable information concerning any such Iraqi (1) in subsection (c)— (A) by striking ‘‘or’’ before ‘‘(8)’’; and they know about Iraq’s weapons devel- program; ‘‘(III) who is willing to provide, or has pro- (B) by inserting before the period ‘‘or (9) an opment. It provides for the admission vided, such information to the United States alien who was admitted as a nonimmigrant to the United States of scientists who Government; described in section 101(a)(15)(W)’’; want to provide useful information ‘‘(IV) who may be willing to provide, or has (2) by redesignating subsection (l), relating about Iraq’s efforts to develop weapons provided, such information to inspectors of to ‘‘U’’ visa nonimmigrants, as subsection of mass destruction, along with those the United Nations or of the International (m); and scientists’ families. Eventually, these Atomic Energy Agency; (3) by adding at the end the following new scientists could become legal perma- ‘‘(V) who will be or has been placed in dan- subsection: ‘‘(n) ADJUSTMENT TO PERMANENT RESIDENT nent residents of the United States. ger as a result of providing such information; and STATUS OF ‘W’ NONIMMIGRANTS.— This bill has taken on increased im- ‘‘(VI) whose admission would be in the pub- ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—If, in the opinion of the portance since the Homeland Security lic interest or in the interest of national se- Attorney General, a nonimmigrant admitted Act—which has caused severe disrup- curity; or into the United States (or otherwise pro- tion in the processing of asylum and ‘‘(ii) who is the spouse, married or unmar- vided nonimmigrant status) under section refugee applications—has taken effect. ried son or daughter, parent, or other rel- 101(a)(15)(W)(i) has complied with section Many Iraqi scientists would surely be ative, as determined by the Attorney Gen- 214(s) since such admission or grant of sta- eligible for asylum and/or refugee sta- eral in his unreviewable discretion, of an tus, the Attorney General may, in coordina- tus. Section 457 of the Homeland Secu- alien described in clause (i), if accompanying tion with the Secretary of State and the Di- or following to join such alien, and whose ad- rector of Central Intelligence, and in his rity Act, however, eliminated the sur- mission the Attorney General, in coordina- unreviewable discretion, adjust the status of charges on applicants for immigration tion with the Secretary of State and the Di- the alien (and any alien who has accom- benefits, which had been used to fund rector of Central Intelligence, determines in panied or followed to join such alien pursu- the processing of asylum and refugee his unreviewable discretion is in the public ant to section 101(a)(15)(W)(ii) and who has applications, which are generally made interest or in the interest of national secu- complied with section 214(s) since admission by destitute people. This was appar- rity.’’. or grant of nonimmigrant status) to that of ently an oversight in the hasty and se- (b) LIMITATIONS AND CONDITIONS APPLICA- an alien lawfully admitted for permanent cret process by which the Homeland BLE TO ‘‘W’’ NONIMMIGRANTS.—Section 214 of residence if the alien is not described in sec- the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 tion 212(a)(3)(E). Security Act was written by Congres- U.S.C. 1184) is amended— ‘‘(2) RECORD OF ADMISSION; REDUCTION IN sional Republicans and the administra- (1) by redesignating subsections (m) (as VISA NUMBERS.—Upon the approval of adjust- tion. This provision has left the asylum added by section 105 of Public Law 106–313), ment of status of any alien under paragraph and refugee programs in limbo. The (n) (as added by section 107(e) of Public Law (1), the Attorney General shall record the

VerDate Dec 13 2002 01:53 Mar 22, 2003 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00114 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G20MR6.241 S20PT2 March 20, 2003 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S4223 alien’s lawful admission for permanent resi- Defense Against Weapons of Mass Destruc- The legislative clerk read as follows: dence as of the date of such approval and the tion Act of 1996 (title XIV of Public Law 104– Secretary of State shall reduce by one the 201; 110 Stat. 2717; 50 U.S.C. 2302(1)), as A bill (H.R. 5) to improve patient access to number of visas authorized to be issued amended by subsection (b). health care services and provide improved under sections 201(d) and 203(b)(4) for the fis- (b) TECHNICAL CORRECTION.—Section medical care by reducing the excessive bur- cal year then current.’’. 1403(1)(B) of the Defense Against Weapons of den the liability system places on the health (d) WAIVER AUTHORITY.—Section 212(d) of Mass Destruction Act of 1996 (title XIV of care delivery system. the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 Public Law 104–201; 110 Stat. 2717; 50 U.S.C. A bill (H.R. 975) to amend title 11 of the U.S.C. 1182(d)) is amended by inserting after 2302(1)(B)) is amended by striking ‘‘a disease United States Code, and for other purposes. paragraph (1) the following new paragraph: organism’’ and inserting ‘‘a biological agent, A bill (H.R. 1047) to amend the Harmonized ‘‘(2) The Attorney General shall determine toxin, or vector (as those terms are defined whether a ground of inadmissibility exists Tariff Schedule of the United States to mod- in section 178 of title 18, United States ify temporarily certain rates of duty, to with respect to a nonimmigrant described in Code)’’. section 101(a)(15)(W). The Attorney General, make other technical amendments to the in the Attorney General’s discretion, may f trade laws, and for other purposes. waive the application of subsection (a) in the MEASURES READ THE FIRST A bill (H.R. 1308) to amend the Internal case of such a nonimmigrant if the Attorney TIME—H.R. 5, H.R. 975, H.R. 1047, Revenue Code of 1986 to end certain abusive General considers it to be in the public inter- AND H.R. 1308 tax practices, to provide tax relief and sim- est or in the interest of national security.’’. plification, and for other purposes. (e) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—Section Mr. NICKLES. Mr. President, I un- 248(1) of the Immigration and Nationality derstand the following bills are at the Mr. NICKLES. I now ask for their Act (8 U.S.C. 1258(1)) is amended by striking desk, and I ask they be read for the second reading and object to further ‘‘or (S)’’ and inserting ‘‘(S), or (W)’’. first time en bloc: H.R. 5, H.R. 975, H.R. proceeding on these matters en bloc. SEC. 3. WEAPON OF MASS DESTRUCTION DE- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Objec- FINED. 1047, and H.R. 1308. (a) IN GENERAL.—In this Act, the term The PRESIDING OFFICER. The tion is heard. The bills will be read for ‘‘weapon of mass destruction’’ has the mean- clerk will read the titles of the bills for the second time on the next legislative ing given the term in section 1403(1) of the the first time. day.

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