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An amendment directing DOD to submit to Congress with its funding request for the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) for FY'87 a report setting out probable responses of potential enemies to SDI deployment. The amendment specifies areas the report is to cover:...
An amendment to designate $1,000,000 for use by the Defense Logistics Agency to conduct a demonstration of advance clothing manufacturing technology and to produce and field test military clothing produced using advanced manufacturing techniques. Amendment Pas...
An amendment to cancel the Midgetman Small ICBM program. It then increases funding for the Strategic Defense Initiatives research, development, test, and evaluation from $2,474,962,000 to $2,997,462,000 stating that $524,500,000 of this may be used for the SDI...
An amendment to increase funding for Air Force research, development, test and evaluation from $13,151,210,000 to $13,301,210,000 designating $774,500,000 of this for work on the small mobile intercontinental ballistic missile system. It also requires the Secr...
An amendment earmarking $500,000 for use by the Defense Logistics Agency only for the Military Sewn Products Automation Program (MILSPA). Amendment Passed in Committee of the Whole by Voice Vote.
An amendment to encourage the President to seek the cooperation and participation of U.S. allies in the Strategic Defense Initiative research and development. It also requires the Secretary of Defense to take appropriate safeguards to protect critical technolo...
An amendment to the Price amendment. The amendment lowers the Defense Agencies research, development, test, and evaluation authorizations from $6,305.732 to $4,787.67 and sets Strategic Defense Initiatives (SDI) program funds at $954.9 It adds that SDI program...
An amendment to the Price amendment to set Defense Agencies research, development, evaluation and test authorizations at $5,230,069,000 from $6,305,732,000. It limits SDI funds to the FY'85 level ( $1,397,299,000) and allocates them: 1) directed energy weapons...
An amendment to the Holt substitute amendment to the Price amendment. The amendment sets authorization for Defense Agencies research, development, test and evaluation at $7,545,732,000 and designates $3,712,962,000 of this for the Strategic Defense Initiatives...
An amendment to the Holt substitute amendment to the Price amendment to add that funds obligated for the SDI must be for projects consistent with the 1972 ABM Treaty. Amendment Passed in Committee of the Whole by Voice Vote.
An amendment to the Price amendment limit Strategic Defense Initiative funding at $2,100,000,000 and lowers the Defense Agencies research, development, evaluation, and test authorization accordingly to $5,932,770,000 from $6,305,732,000. It distributes the fun...
A substitute amendment to the Price amendment. It increases Defense Agencies research, test, development, and evaluation authorizations from $6,305,732,000 to $6,795,732,000 thus increasing the Strategic Defense Initiatives from $2,472,962,000 to $2,962,962,00...
An amendment to increase Defense Agencies research, development, test, and evaluation authorizations from $6,305,732,000 to $6,332,770,000 thus increasing the Strategic Defense Intiatives funds from $2,472,962,000 to $2,500,000,000. Amendment Passed in Committ...
An amendment stating: From funds appropriated in years prior to 1986 for defense purposes but not now required for the specific purposes originally designated, there is hereby authorized to be transferred to and merged with funds appropriated for FY'86, $4 bil...
An amendment providing for safety modifications for Pershing II missiles. It permits the Secretary of the Army to purchase safety modifications, including 36 inert missile motors. The Secretary may not obligate funds for this until he submits to the Congressio...
Amendments en bloc to a) increase funds for the Defense Agencies in FY'86 from $1,366,000,000 to $1,382,000,000; b) prohibiting obligation of funds for procuring the AH-64 Apache attack helicopters for FY'85 until the Director of the Defense Contract Audit Age...
An amendment to increase Army procurement funds for 'other procurement' from $5,573,500,000 to $5,623,500,000 and for tactical and support vehicles from $838,500,000 to $989,500,000. Amendment Withdrawn in Committee of the Whole.
A technical amendment to change the configuration designated in the bill for the 5 ton truck from M939a2 to M939. This refers to testing on the truck specified in the bill. Amendment Passed in Committee of the Whole by Voice Vote.
An amendment setting requirements with respect to the Bradley fighting vehicle. It requires the Secretary of Defense to submit to the Congressional Armed Services Committees a report describing the results of the two phase live fire survivability testing progr...
An amendment setting conditions on procurement of certain combat vehicles. It prohibits letting of contracts to procure newly developed combat wheeled or tracked armored vehicles or any combat wheeled or tracked armored vehicles with significant newly develope...
An amendment setting aside $11,000,000 of the Navy aircraft procurement funds for procurement of gun pods for Marine Corps Reserve aircraft with a demonstrated anti-armor lethality equivalent to the GUA-8 30 millimeter gun pod. The Secretary must submit a plan...
An amendment prohibiting the use of Navy and Marine procurement funds in the bill for the Trident II missile program. Amendment Failed of Passage in Committee of Whole by Recorded Vote: 79 - 342 (Record Vote No: 171).
An amendment requiring the Secretary of Defense to submit to Congress by 2/1/86 a report on the total program cost for the advanced technology bomber program (Stealth) with an evaluation of the reliability of the cost estimates of the program. The amendment ba...
An amendment to the Porter amendment providing $2,348,600,000 for binary chemical weapons after 9/30/87 only if the following conditions have been met: 1) there must be no international binary chemical weapons treaty, 2) the President must request them, 3) it...
An amendment to the Fascell substitute for the Porter amendment, as amended by the Skelton amendment. The amendment adds back the $2,348,600,000 authorization for binary chemical munitions. Amendment Passed in Committee of the Whole by Recorded Vote: 223 - 196...