Defense/Nuclear/Foreign Policy Amendments to Continuing Resolution in the House

Something for spending and policy wonks: first list of national security amendments to Continuing Resolution on the House floor between February 15-17, 2011.

There are amendments on such diverse topics as defense, Iraq and Afghanistan wars, United Nations, Russia, missile defense, Yucca Mountain, weapons programs and military bands.

The list follows:

Offered By: Mr. Cravaack (cuts all funds for U.S. Institute for Peace)
    AMENDMENT NO. 1: Page 321, line 7, after the dollar amount, insert “(reduced by $42,676,000)”.
    Page 359, line 20, after the dollar amount, insert “(increased by $42,676,000)”.
   Offered By: Mr. Rooney  (Cutting second F-35 engine amendment)
    AMENDMENT NO. 2: Page 33, line 16, after the dollar amount, insert “(reduced by $225,000,000)”.
    Page 34, line 6, after the dollar amount, insert “(reduced by $225,000,000)”.
    Page 359, line 6, after the dollar amount

Offered By: Mr. Campbell (cuts Defense, DHS and Veterans by $14 billion)
   AMENDMENT NO. 7: At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following:
    Sec. _. The total amount otherwise made available by this Act for the Departments of Defense, Homeland Security, and Veterans Affairs is hereby reduced by $14,000,000,000.

  Offered By: Mr. Stearns (bars UN construction)
    AMENDMENT NO. 8: At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following:
    Sec. _. None of the funds made available in this Act may be used for the design, renovation, construction, or rental of any headquarters for the United Nations in any location in the United States.

  Offered By: Mr. Polis (cuts Armed forces personnel)
   Amendment No. 46: At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following new section:
   Sec. X. None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to maintain an end strength level of members of the Armed Forces of the United States assigned to permanent duty in Europe in excess of 35,000 members and end strength levels for active duty members of the Army, Navy, and Air Force of 565,275, 328,250, and 329,275, respectively, and the amounts otherwise provided by this Act for “Military Personnel, Army”, “Military Personnel, Navy” and “Military Personnel, Air Force” in title I of division A are hereby reduced by $155,914,688, $18,047,700, and $118,488,825, respectively.
[Following recommendations in the Sustainable Defense Task Force report, limiting the number of troops stationed in Europe to 35,000 and cutting force structure by 7,500 troops in the next 6 months. Rep. Polis will argue on the floor that this should be the beginning of reductions to cut force structure by 30,000 troops in 2 years.]

Offered By: Ms. McCollum (cuts military band money)
   Amendment No. 49: At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following:
   Sec. _. Not more than $200,000,000 of the funds made available by division A of this Act may be used for military bands, musical equipment, or musical performances.

  Offered By: Ms. McCollum (prohibits DOD from sponsoring NASCAR race cars)
   Amendment No. 50: At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following new section:
   Sec. _. None of the funds made available by this Act may be used by the Department of Defense for sponsorship of NASCAR race cars.

 Offered By: Mr. Murphy of Connecticut (homestate pork?)
   Amendment No. 56: At the end of division A of the bill (before the short title), insert the following new section:
    Sec. _. None of the funds in this Act may be available for the purchase by the Department of Defense (and its departments and agencies) of seamless copper-nickel tubing, 4 inches and larger in outside diameter, used for shipboard pipe systems, that satisfies MIL-T-16420k unless the tubing is manufactured in the United States from components which are substantially manufactured in the United States: Provided, That for the purpose of this section substantially all of the components of seamless copper-nickel tubing, 4 inches and larger in outside diameter, used for shipboard pipe systems shall be considered to be produced or manufactured in the United States if the aggregate cost of the components produced or manufactured in the United States exceeds the aggregate cost of the components produced or manufactured outside the United States: Provided further, That when adequate domestic supplies are not available to meet Department of Defense requirements on a timely basis, the Secretary of the service responsible for the procurement may waive this restriction on a case-by-case basis by certifying in writing to the Committees on Appropriations that such an acquisition must be made in order to acquire capability for national security purposes.

Offered By: Mr. Murphy of Connecticut (prohibits spending on European companies that build tubing)
   Amendment No. 57: At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following new section:
   Sec. _. None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to enter into a contract with a firm that engages in unfair trade practices as defined in subpart 9.4 of the Federal Acquisition Regulation, and any such firm shall be debarred from contracting with the Federal Government.

  Offered By: Mr. Gutierrez (cuts V-22 Osprey)
   Amendment No. 63: Page 23, line 12, after the dollar amount, insert “(reduced by $21,985,000)”.
   Page 28, line 20, after the dollar amount, insert “(reduced by $393,098,000)”.
   Page 359, line 6, after the dollar amount, insert “(increased by $415,083,000)”.

  Offered By: Mr. Pompeo  (cuts money for the second F-35 engine)
   AMENDMENT NO. 86: Page 32, line 21, after the dollar amount, insert “(reduced by $3,200,000)”.
 Page 33, line 9, after the dollar amount, insert “(reduced by $36,320,000)”.
   Page 33, line 16, after the dollar amount, insert “(reduced by $40,000,000)”.
   Page 33, line 16, after the dollar amount, insert “(reduced by $4,000,000)”.
   Page 34, line 6, after the dollar amount, insert “(reduced by $32,000,000)”.
   Page 359, line 6, after the dollar amount, insert “(increased by $115,520,000)”.

Offered By: Mr. Pompeo (cuts money from innovation grant earmarks)
   AMENDMENT NO. 87: Page 22, line 18, after the dollar amount, insert “(reduced by $15,000,000)”.
   Page 22, line 20, after the dollar amount, insert “(reduced by $15,000,000)”.
   Page 27, line 9, after the dollar amount, insert “(reduced by $15,000,000)”.
   Page 27, line 11, after the dollar amount, insert “(reduced by $15,000,000)”.
   Page 31, line 11, after the dollar amount, insert “(reduced by $15,000,000)”.
   Page 31, line 13, after the dollar amount, insert “(reduced by $15,000,000)”.
   Page 32, line 9, after the dollar amount, insert “(reduced by $15,000,000)”.
   Page 32, line 11, after the dollar amount, insert “(reduced by $15,000,000)”.
   Page 33, line 9, after the dollar amount, insert “(reduced by $105,000,000)”.
   Page 33, line 16, after the dollar amount, insert “(reduced by $105,000,000)”.
   Page 34, line 6, after the dollar amount, insert “(reduced by $105,000,000)”.
   Page 34, line 17, after the dollar amount, insert “(reduced by $124,200,000)”.
   Page 34, line 17, after the dollar amount, insert “(reduced by $3,200,000)”.
   Page 34, line 19, after the dollar amount, insert “(reduced by $3,200,000)”.
   Page 359, line 6, after the dollar amount, insert “(increased by $502,400,000)”.

  Offered By: Mr. Kind  (cuts Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle & missile program)
   AMENDMENT NO. 88: At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following:
    Sec. _. None of the funds made available by division A of this Act may be used to research, develop, test, evaluate, or procure any of the following:
    (1) Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle.
    (2) Surface-Launched Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile program.

  Offered By: Mr. Wolf  (creation of an Afghanistan-Pakistan Study Group similar to one on Iraq a few years ago)
   AMENDMENT NO. 106: At the end of title XI of division B of the bill (State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs), insert the following new section:
    Sec. _. (a) There is hereby established the Afghanistan-Pakistan Study Group (in this section referred to as the “Group”). To the maximum extent practicable, the Group shall be modeled on the Iraq Study Group.
    (b) The Group shall be composed of 10 members, of whom–
    (1) 1 member shall be appointed by the President, who shall serve as a co-chair of the Group;
    (2) 1 member shall be appointed by the leader of the Senate (majority or minority leader, as the case may be) of the Republican Party, in consultation with the leader of the House of Representatives (majority or minority leader, as the case may be) of the Republican Party, who shall serve as a co-chair of the Group;
    (3) 2 members shall be appointed by the senior member of the Senate leadership of the Democratic Party;
    (4) 2 members shall be appointed by the senior member of the leadership of the House of Representatives of the Republican Party;
    (5) 2 members shall be appointed by the senior member of the Senate leadership of the Republican Party; and
    (6) 2 members shall be appointed by the senior member of the leadership of the House of Representatives of the Democratic Party.
    (c)(1) Not more than 5 members of the Group shall be from the same political party. An individual appointed to the Group may not be a full-time officer or employee of the Federal Government or any State or local government.
    (2) It is the sense of Congress that individuals appointed to the Group should be prominent United States citizens, with national recognition and significant depth of experience in such professions as diplomacy, the armed services, governmental service, law, intelligence gathering, and foreign affairs.
    (d) The Group shall conduct a comprehensive assessment of the situation in Afghanistan and Pakistan, its impact on the surrounding region, and its consequences for United States interests. Not later than 3 months after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Group shall submit to Congress a report on the assessment conducted under this subsection, including relevant policy recommendations relating thereto.

Offered By: Mr. Gohmert (bars assistance to countries that vote against US in UN)
   AMENDMENT NO. 120: At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following:
   SEC. _. PROHIBITION ON ASSISTANCE TO COUNTRIES THAT OPPOSE THE POSITION OF THE UNITED STATES IN THE UNITED NATIONS.
    (a) Prohibition.–Any United States assistance made available by this Act may not be provided to a country that opposed the position of the United States in the United Nations.
[cut out most of the rest of the text for space purposes]  

  Offered By: Mr. Poe of Texas (restricts aid to Russia)
   AMENDMENT NO. 128: At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following:
   Sec. _. None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to provide assistance to the Russian Federation, other than assistance provided to the following program areas: combating weapons of mass destruction, stabilization operations and security sector reform, counter-narcotics, transnational crime, conflict mitigation and reconciliation, rule of law and human rights, good governance, political competition and consenses-building, and civil society.

Offered By: Mr. Stark (cuts Pentagon funding to FY 2008 levels)
   AMENDMENT NO. 141: At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following:
    Sec. _. (a) None of the funds made available by division A of this Act for any account of the Department of Defense (other than accounts listed in subsection (b)) may be used in excess of the amount made available for such account for fiscal year 2008.
    (b) The accounts exempted pursuant to this subsection are the following accounts in division A:
    (1) Military personnel, reserve personnel, and National Guard personnel accounts of the Department of Defense.
    (2) The Defense Health Program account.

  Offered By: Mr. Forbes (bans closing Joint Forces Command)
   AMENDMENT NO. 145: At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following new section:
    Sec. _. None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to take any action to effect or implement the disestablishment, closure, or realignment of the United States Joint Forces Command.

Will not be offered; will join on amendment No. 63 with Gutierrez
   Offered By: Mr. Quigley (cuts $1.3 billion for some Navy & Air Force procurement program)
   AMENDMENT NO. 161: Page 23, line 12, after the dollar amount, insert “(reduced by $1,083,333,333.33)”.
    Page 28, line 20, after the dollar amount, insert “(reduced by $216,666,666.67)”.
    Page 359, line 6, after the dollar amount, insert “(increased by $1,300,000,000)”.

 Offered By: Mr. Quigley (cuts Pentagon R&D money across-the-board by $7.5 billion)
   AMENDMENT NO. 162: Page 33, line 9, after the dollar amount, insert “(reduced by $971,099,800)”.
    Page 33, line 16, after the dollar amount, insert “(reduced by $1,796,130,300)”.
    Page 34, line 6, after the dollar amount, insert “(reduced by $2,674,240,500)”.
    Page 34, line 17, after the dollar amount, insert “(reduced by $2,079,741,200)”.
    Page 359, line 6, after the dollar amount, insert “(increased by $7,521,211,800)”.

  Offered By: Mr. Mulvaney (cuts all non-defense programs (but including Energy) to FY 2006 levels)
   AMENDMENT NO. 163: At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following:
    Sec. _. None of the funds made available by this Act for any account (other than an account of the Department of Defense, Homeland Security, or Veterans Affairs) may be used in excess of the amount available for such account during fiscal year 2006.

  Offered By: Mr. McGovern (all Afghanistan war funds have to be fully offset by cuts in other programs)
   AMENDMENT NO. 170: At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following new section:
    Sec. _. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available by this Act shall be used by the Department of Defense to conduct military operations in Afghanistan during fiscal year 2011 unless the funds were fully offset by reductions in other spending accounts.
[probably not germane]

 Offered By: Mr. Heller (cuts funds for Yucca nuclear waste repository)
   AMENDMENT NO. 174: At the end of the bill, after the short title, insert the following new section:
    Sec. 4002. None of the funds made available by this Act may be used for the Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository.

 Offered By: Mr. Akin (requires building Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle)
   AMENDMENT NO. 178: Page 33, line 22, insert before the period at the end the following:
   : Provided further, That, of the funds appropriated in this paragraph, $222,265,000 is only for the Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle program for the following system development and demonstration activities during fiscal year 2011: such activities that do not increase the price or materially change the scope of existing contracts; such activities that finish fiscal year 2011 test and demonstration events that are currently on-contract; and such activities that provide test data and information to the Department of Defense to support any future amphibious assault vehicle acquisitions for the Marine Corps

Offered By: Mr. Akin (requires building Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle)
   AMENDMENT NO. 179: Page 33, line 22, insert before the period at the end the following:
   : Provided further, That, of the funds appropriated in this paragraph, $222,265,000 is only for system development and demonstration of the Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle

  Offered By: Ms. Woolsey (bans funds for V-22 or Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle)
   AMENDMENT NO. 189: At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following:
    Sec. _. None of the funds made available by division A of this Act may be used to research, develop, test, evaluate, or procure any of the following:
    (1) Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle.
    (2) V-22 Osprey aircraft.

Offered By: Ms. Woolsey (bans funds on V-22)
   AMENDMENT NO. 190: At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following:
    Sec. _. None of the funds made available by division A of this Act may be used to research, develop, test, evaluate, or procure the V-22 Osprey aircraft.

  Offered By: Ms. Woolsey (bans funds for Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle)
   AMENDMENT NO. 191: At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following:
  Sec. _. None of the funds made available by division A of this Act may be used to research, develop, test, evaluate, or procure the Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle.

  Offered By: Ms. Lee of California  (limitsn Defense spending until accounts can be audited)
   AMENDMENT NO. 222: At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following:
    Sec. _. (a) None of the funds made available by division A of this Act may be used for any account of the Department of Defense (other than accounts excluded by subsection (b)) in excess of the amount made available for such account for fiscal year 2010, unless the financial statements of the Department for fiscal year 2010 are validated as ready for audit within 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act.
    (b) The following accounts are excluded from the prohibition in subsection (a):
    (1) Military personnel, reserve personnel, and National Guard personnel accounts of the Department of Defense.
    (2) The Defense Health Program account.
    (c) In this section, the term “validation”, with respect to the auditability of financial statements, means a determination following an examination engagement that the financial statements comply with generally accepted accounting principles and applicable laws and regulations and reflect reliable internal controls.

  Offered By: Mr. Goodlatte (cuts spending on Los Alamos Neutron Science Center)
   AMENDMENT NO. 228: At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following:
    Sec. _. None of the funds provided by this Act for “Department of Energy, Atomic Energy Defense Activities, National Nuclear Security Administration, Weapons Activities” shall be available for the Los Alamos Neutron Science Center refurbishment, and the amount otherwise provided under such heading is hereby reduced by $20,000,000.

 Offered By: Mr. Nadler (cuts all by $10 billion for the war in Afghanistan, with the remaining money to be used to withdraw troops)
   AMENDMENT NO. 232: At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following:
    Sec. _. Not more than $10,000,000,000 of the funds made available by this Act may be used for United States military operations in Afghanistan.

Offered By: Mr. Kucinich (cuts all funds for missile defense)
   AMENDMENT NO. 233: At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following:
    Sec. _. None of the funds made available by division A of this Act may be used for the missile defense program of the Department of Defense.

 Offered By: Mr. Broun of Georgia (bars funding for UN dues)
   AMENDMENT NO. 263: At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following:
   SEC. _. None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to pay any dues to the United Nations.

 Offered By: Mr. Flake (cuts Defense-wide operations and maintenance)
   AMENDMENT NO. 370: Page 9, line 15, after the dollar amount, insert “(reduced by $18,750,000)”.
   Page 359, line 6, after the dollar amount, insert “(increased by $18,750,000)”.