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An amendment to the Nichols amendment, as amended to add make explicit the purposes of Title VIII (Procurement Reform). The purpose is to ensure that the Secretary monitors indirect costs included by a contractor or subcontractor to prevent abuse and waste of...
An amendment to the Nichols amendment, as amended, deleting the word "final" in referring to a proposal for settlement. The effect of the amendment is to subject all claims for overhead settlement costs to the requirements and not just the final ones. Amendmen...
An amendment to Title VIII (Procurement Policy Reform and other Procurement Matters), adding three new sections: 801) Allowable Costs, 802) Subpoenas of Defense Contractor Records, and 803) Limitation on Assignment of Principle Contracting Officers. Under sec....
An amendment to the Courter amendment. The amendment strikes language prohibiting obligation of funds until the quota for competitive bids is met and subsubstitutes that the Secretary of Defense must submit a report to the congressional defense committees if t...
An amendment to Title VIII (Procurement Reform) adding a new section, Requirement of Minimum Percentage of Competitive Procurements. The amendment requires that a certain percentage of the DOD contracts be made by competitive bidding. The percentage is to incr...
Amendments en bloc to Title VIII (Procurement Reform): 1) Requiring the Secretary of Defense to report to Congress on policies and actions taken to implement the report of the DOD Inspector General, "Review of Suspension and Debarment Activities Within the Dep...
An amendment adding a new section requiring the President to submit a report to Congress on the legality and feasibility of transferring to the United Kingdom the ownership of any Poseidon class submarine proposed to be dismantled. If this transfer is not feas...
An amendment adding a new section requiring the President to submit a report to Congress on the legality and feasibility of transferring to the United Kingdom the ownership of any Poseidon class submarine proposed to be dismantled. If this transfer is not feas...
An amendment making technical changes in citations in the bill. Amendment Passed in Committee of the Whole by Voice Vote.
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 direct the Secretary to purchase wheat from producers or in the market to replen- ish the food security wheat reserve if all of it is released to meet the provisions of the bill. Amendment Passed in Committee of the Whole by Voice Vote.
An amendment to add that the types of commodities made available to State agencies are not to be limited by the Secretary on the basis of the types of eligible organizations in the states requesting the commodities. It also permits the reimbursement to States...
An amendment to permit Commodity Supplemental Food programs (CSFP) to receive funding for the distribution of donated commodities in the same manner that the CSFP new gets funds for purchased commodities. Amendment Passed in Committee of the Whole by Voice Vot...
An amendment to add that commodities provided under this act shall be distributed by means of a system developed by the Secretary of Agriculture and State agencies. Eligible organizations are required to acknowledge receipt of the commodities and eligible indi...
An amendment to increase from $301,000,000 to $381,000,000 funds for MCM-1 mine counter measures ship program. The funds are for Navy and Marine Corps Procurement. Amendment Failed of Passage in Committee of Whole by Division Vote: 6 - 19.
An amendment to reduce from $21,051,300,000 to $14,871,700,000 funds for Air Force aircraft procurement. The amendment also adds that such procurement funds may not be used for the B-1 bomber program. Amendment Failed of Passage in Committee of Whole by Record...
An amendment to reduce from $2,272,500,000 to $2,157,900,000 Army procurement funds for ammunition. The intent of the amendment is to eliminate funds for binary chemical weapons. Amendment Passed (Amended) in Committee of the Whole by Voice Vote.
An amendment to the Zablocki amendment to increase to $2,272,400,000 funds for Army procurement of ammunition. This is $100,000 less than in the bill. Also the amendment stipulates that funds may be used for establishment of a production base for binary chemic...
A substitute amendment to the Zablocki amendment. The amendment adds to the funds reduction for procurement funds for army ammunition a prohibition on procurement of binary chemical munitions and related production facilities, equipment, and precursor chemical...
A substitute amendment to the Zablocki amendment. The amendment reduces the bill's funding for Army ammunition procurement from 2,272,500,000 dollars to 2,157,900,000 dollars. It also prohibits use of the binary chemical munitions and production facilities, eq...
CLERK read a committee amendment to prohibit funds for the continuation or termination of the Clinch River Breeder Reactor project except when provided by legislation enacted after the date of enactment of this act. Amendment Passed in Committee of the Whole b...
An amendment to provide a new title on Priority in Foreign Language Instruction to provide for accent on comprehension of scientific and technical journals. Amendment Passed in Committee of the Whole by Voice Vote.
An amendment to decrease funds for the Bureau of the Public Debt, Administering the Public Debt from 206,625,000 dollars to 193,050,000 dollars. Amendment Failed of Passage in House by Yea-Nay Vote: 182 - 233 (Record Vote No: 184).
An amendment to increase funds for the U.S. Customs Service salaries and expenses from 498,468,000 dollars to 499,743,000 dollars and stipulating that 1,275,000 dollars of this shall be used for employment of 50 additional Customs Inspectors. Amendment Passed...
An amendment to waive the 100 dollar limitation on agricultural Research Service land acquisitions in order to permit the purchase of 160 acres within the Central Plains Experimental Range from the Colorado State University Research Foundation for no more than...