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Calendar No. 239 

110TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION S. 966 

[Report No. 110–109] 

To enable the Department of State to respond to a critical shortage of 

passport processing personnel, and for other purposes. 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

JUNE 27, 2007 

Mr. SCHUMER (for himself, Mr. COLEMAN, Mr. HAGEL, and Mr. BIDEN) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations 

JUNE 27, 2007 

Reported by Mr. BIDEN, with an amendment 

[Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed in italic] 

A BILL 

To enable the Department of State to respond to a critical 

shortage of passport processing personnel, and for other 

purposes. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Department of State 

5 Crisis Response Act of 2007’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. REEMPLOYMENT OF CIVIL SERVICE ANNUITANTS. 

2 Section 61(a) of the State Department Basic Au3 thorities Act of 1956 (22 U.S.C. 2733(a)) is amended— 

4 (1) in paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘To facilitate’’ 

5 and all that follows through ‘‘, the Secretary’’ and 

6 inserting ‘‘The Secretary’’; and 

7 (2) in paragraph (2), by striking ‘‘2008’’ and 

8 inserting ‘‘2010’’. 

9 SEC. 3. REEMPLOYMENT OF FOREIGN SERVICE ANNU10 ITANTS. 

11 Section 824(g) of the Foreign Service Act of 1980 

12 (22 U.S.C. 4064(g)) is amended— 

13 (1) in paragraph (1)(B), by striking ‘‘to facili14 tate’’ and all that follows through ‘‘Afghanistan,’’; 

15 and 

16 (2) in paragraph (2), by striking ‘‘2008’’ and 

17 inserting ‘‘2010’’. 

18 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

19 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Passport Backlog Reduc20 tion Act of 2007’’. 

21 SEC. 2. REEMPLOYMENT OF FOREIGN SERVICE ANNU22 ITANTS. 

23 Section 824(g) of the Foreign Service Act of 1980 (22 

24 U.S.C. 4064(g)) is amended— 

25 (1) in paragraph (1)— 


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1 (A) in subparagraph (A), by striking ‘‘; or’’ 

2 and inserting a semicolon; 

3 (B) in subparagraph (B), by striking the 

4 period at the end and inserting ‘‘; or’’; and 

5 (C) by adding at the end the following new 

6 subparagraph— 

7 ‘‘(C)(i) to provide assistance to consular posts 

8 with a substantial backlog of visa applications; or 

9 ‘‘(ii) to provide assistance to meet the demand 

10 resulting from the passport and travel document re11 quirements set forth in section 7209(b) of the Intel12 ligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 

13 (Public Law 108–458; 8 U.S.C. 1185 note).’’; 

14 (2) by redesignating paragraph (3) as para15 graph (4); and 

16 (3) by inserting after paragraph (2) the fol17 lowing new paragraph: 

18 ‘‘(3) The authority of the Secretary to waive the appli19 cation of subsections (a) through (d) for an annuitant pur20 suant to paragraph (1)(C) shall terminate on September 

21 30, 2010.’’. 


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Calendar No. 239 

110TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION S. 966 

[Report No. 110

–109] 

A BILL 

To enable the Department of State to respond to 

sonnel, and for other purposes. a critical shortage of passport processing perJUNE 27, 2007 

Reported with an amendment 


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