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An amendment to prohibiting the use of funds in the bill by the DOD or CIA to provide any humanitarian assistance to the Nicaraguan resistance forces. Amendment Passed in Committee of the Whole by Voice Vote.
An amendment to require by 12/1/85 and then by 12/1 each year thereafter a report from the President to Congress with an update of the President's findings on the Soviet compliance with its arms control commitments. Classified and unclassified versions are to...
An amendment stating that none of the funds in this bill or any otheract for national security programs may be obligated or expended for production of more than 425 W87 warheads for the MX missile program. Amendment Passed (Amended) in Committee of the Whole b...
A substitute amendment to the Markey amendment (HA 237) prohibiting use of funds for research, development, test or procurement associated with a nuclear variant of the Standard Missile or any associated nuclear warhead until 30 days after the Secretary of the...
An amendment providing a prohibition on use of funds in Title X (General Provisions) for any activity carried out with respect to the small atomic demolition munition (SADM). Amendment Passed (Amended) in Committee of the Whole by Voice Vote.
A substitute amendment to the Markey amendment (HA241) requiring by 3/1/86 a report from the Secretary of Defense detailing military requirements for special nuclear materials through FY 1991. It is to include findings and recommendations about 1) requirements...
A substitute amendment to the Boxer amendment (HA191) requiring the General Accounting Office to provide a report to the congressional Armed Services committees on the feasibility of requiring that bills of labor and bills of material be furnished to the gover...
An amendment to the Boxer amendment in Title VIII limiting the Boxer provisions to contracts of over $100,000. Amendment Passed in Committee of the Whole by Recorded Vote: 276 - 147 (Record Vote No: 194).
An amendment to Title VIII (Procurement Reform) adding a new section: "Cost and Price Management in Defense Procurement". The amendment requires any defense agency responsible for acquisition of property (including major items) or services under contract shall...
An amendment to Title VIII (Procurement Reform) adding a new section: "War Profiteering Prohibition Act". Point of Order Sustained Against Amendment in Committee of the Whole.
An amendment to the Brown (CA) amendment adding $20 million for Air Force research, development, test, and evaluation to carry out the satellite survivability project of the Air Force Space Survivability Program. The amendment also requires the Secretary of th...
An amendment to Title II (Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation) stating: The Secretary of Defense may not carry out a test of the Space Defense System (anti-satellite weapon) against an object in space until the President certifies to Congress that the...
An amendment to the Foglietta amendment adding the words limiting the restrictions on testing and development of nuclear explosion powered space weapons to "advanced" weapons and limiting the restriction to programs that are inconsistent with the Limited Test...
An amendment to Title II (Research, Development, Test, & Evaluation) prohibiting use of funds in that title for development, demonstration, test, or evaluation of the use of weapons powered by nuclear explosions in space. Amendment Passed (Amended) in Committe...
An amendment to Title X (General Provisions) extending for two years the prohibition on contracts for the performance of firefighting and security functions. It requires a written report assessing the special needs of DOD regarding firefighting and base securi...
An amendment in Title X (General Provisions) adding limiting use of funds for contract out services to the 1985 fiscal year level except those for wage rate increases required by the Service Contract Act and those necessary to initiate new contracts for servic...
An amendment to Title X (General Provisions) adding authorization of additional procurement for conventional forces: Army - $620,000,000, Navy + Marine Corps - $329,300,000, and Air Force - $50,000,000. The amendment specifies areas where the funds are to be s...
An amendment to Title X (General Provisions) requiring that a minimum of 10 percent of the funds available under Title I, II, and IX be used in contracts with small business concerns owned and controlled by socially and economically disadvantaged individuals,...
An amendment adding a new section: Destruction of Existing Stockpile of Lethal Chemical Agents and Munitions. Amendment Passed in Committee of the Whole by Voice Vote.
An amendment to the Bennett amendment stating: "The Attorney General of the United States shall promulgate regulations to carry out this subsection, including such provisions for training in civilian law enforcement practices and procedures as may be necessary...
A substitute to the Bennett amendment to require a study of drug interdiction assistance to civilian law enforcement personnel by DOD personnel. The study is to compare the potential effectiveness of assigning members of the armed forces under the Secretary's...
An amendment permitting the Secretary of Defense to assign members of the armed forces to assist drug enforcement officials in drug searches seizures, or arrests outside the land area of the U.S. if requested by drug enforcement officials. Assignment may by ma...
Amendments en bloc: SCHROEDER-benefits for terrorist victim, FOGLIETTA/NUNTER-SDI commission, BROWN (CO)-forgotten Reserve widows, HUNTER-retaining basic point defense missile system report, ADDABBO-CHAMPUS home health service coverage and demonstration projec...
A substitute amendment for the Dickinson amendment in Title X. The amendment limits use of funds to a single polygraph test program where not more than 3,500 people are to be tested in FY'85 and FY'86 combined. The Secretary is required to submit a report by 1...
An amendment adding a new section to Title X creating a limited counterintelligence polygraph program. The amendment requires polygraph tests for appointment to certain positions with periodic random repeat exams. In other positions the test is optional. The t...