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which may be transferred to and merged with the appro-
priations for Salaries and Expenses. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISION—SMALL BUSINESS 
ADMINISTRATION 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
Not to exceed 5 percent of any appropriation made 
available for the current fiscal year for the Small Business 
Administration in this Act may be transferred between 
such appropriations, but no such appropriation shall be 
increased by more than 10 percent by any such transfers: 
Provided, That any transfer pursuant to this paragraph 
shall be treated as a reprogramming of funds under sec-
tion 610 of this Act and shall not be available for obliga-
tion or expenditure except in compliance with the proce-
dures set forth in that section. 
UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE 
PAYMENT TO THE POSTAL SERVICE FUND 
For payment to the Postal Service Fund for revenue 
forgone on free and reduced rate mail, pursuant to sub-
sections (c) and (d) of section 2401 of title 39, United 
States Code, $88,864,000, which shall not be available for 
obligation until October 1, 2008: Provided, That mail for 
overseas voting and mail for the blind shall continue to 
be free: Provided further, That 6-day delivery and rural 
delivery of mail shall continue at not less than the 1983 
level: Provided further, That none of the funds made avail-
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able to the Postal Service by this Act shall be used to im-
plement any rule, regulation, or policy of charging any of-
ficer or employee of any State or local child support en-
forcement agency, or any individual participating in a 
State or local program of child support enforcement, a fee 
for information requested or provided concerning an ad-
dress of a postal customer: Provided further, That none 
of the funds provided in this Act shall be used to consoli-
date or close small rural and other small post offices in 
fiscal year 2008. 
UNITED STATES TAX COURT 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses, including contract reporting 
and other services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, 
$45,069,000: Provided, That travel expenses of the judges 
shall be paid upon the written certificate of the judge. 
TITLE VI 
GENERAL PROVISIONS—THIS ACT 
SEC. 601. Such sums as may be necessary for fiscal 
year 2008 pay raises for programs funded in this Act shall 
be absorbed within the levels appropriated in this Act or 
previous appropriations Acts. 
SEC. 602. None of the funds in this Act shall be used 
for the planning or execution of any program to pay the 
expenses of, or otherwise compensate, non-Federal parties
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intervening in regulatory or adjudicatory proceedings 
funded in this Act. 
SEC. 603. None of the funds appropriated in this Act 
shall remain available for obligation beyond the current 
fiscal year, nor may any be transferred to other appropria-
tions, unless expressly so provided herein. 
SEC. 604. The expenditure of any appropriation 
under this Act for any consulting service through procure-
ment contract pursuant to section 3109 of title 5, United 
States Code, shall be limited to those contracts where such 
expenditures are a matter of public record and available 
for public inspection, except where otherwise provided 
under existing law, or under existing Executive order 
issued pursuant to existing law. 
SEC. 605. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be transferred to any department, agency, or in-
strumentality of the United States Government, except 
pursuant to a transfer made by, or transfer authority pro-
vided in, this Act or any other appropriations Act. 
SEC. 606. None of the funds made available by this 
Act shall be available for any activity or for paying the 
salary of any Government employee where funding an ac-
tivity or paying a salary to a Government employee would 
result in a decision, determination, rule, regulation, or pol-
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icy that would prohibit the enforcement of section 307 of 
the Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. 1307). 
SEC. 607. No part of any appropriation contained in 
this Act shall be available to pay the salary for any person 
filling a position, other than a temporary position, for-
merly held by an employee who has left to enter the Armed 
Forces of the United States and has satisfactorily com-
pleted his period of active military or naval service, and 
has within 90 days after his release from such service or 
from hospitalization continuing after discharge for a pe-
riod of not more than 1 year, made application for restora-
tion to his former position and has been certified by the 
Office of Personnel Management as still qualified to per-
form the duties of his former position and has not been 
restored thereto. 
SEC. 608. No funds appropriated pursuant to this 
Act may be expended by an entity unless the entity agrees 
that in expending the assistance the entity will comply 
with sections 2 through 4 of the Act of March 3, 1933 
(41 U.S.C. 10a–10c, popularly known as the ‘‘Buy Amer-
ican Act’’). 
SEC. 609. No funds appropriated or otherwise made 
available under this Act shall be made available to any 
person or entity that has been convicted of violating the 
Buy American Act (41 U.S.C. 10a–10c).
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SEC. 610. Except as otherwise provided in this Act, 
none of the funds provided in this Act, provided by pre-
vious appropriations Acts to the agencies or entities fund-
ed in this Act that remain available for obligation or ex-
penditure in fiscal year 2008, or provided from any ac-
counts in the Treasury derived by the collection of fees 
and available to the agencies funded by this Act, shall be 
available for obligation or expenditure through a re-
programming of funds that: (1) creates a new program; 
(2) eliminates a program, project, or activity; (3) increases 
funds or personnel for any program, project, or activity 
for which funds have been denied or restricted by the Con-
gress; (4) proposes to use funds directed for a specific ac-
tivity by either the House or Senate Committees on Ap-
propriations for a different purpose; (5) augments existing 
programs, projects, or activities in excess of $1,000,000 
or 10 percent, whichever is less; (6) reduces existing pro-
grams, projects, or activities by $1,000,000 or 10 percent, 
whichever is less; or (7) reorganizes offices, programs, or 
activities unless prior approval is received from the House 
and Senate Committees on Appropriations: Provided, That 
not later than 60 days after the date of enactment of this 
Act, each agency funded by this Act shall submit an oper-
ating plan to the Committees on Appropriations of the 
Senate and of the House of Representatives to establish
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the baseline for application of reprogramming and trans-
fer authorities for the current fiscal year: Provided further, 
That the report shall include: (1) a table for each appro-
priation with a separate column to display the President’s 
budget request, adjustments made by Congress, adjust-
ments due to enacted rescissions, if appropriate, and the 
fiscal year enacted level; (2) a delineation in the table for 
each appropriation both by object class and program, 
project, and activity as detailed in the budget appendix 
for the respective appropriation; and (3) an identification 
of items of special congressional interest: Provided further, 
That the amount appropriated or limited for salaries and 
expenses for an agency shall be reduced by $100,000 per 
day for each day after the required date that the report 
has not been submitted to the Congress. 
SEC. 611. Except as otherwise specifically provided 
by law, not to exceed 50 percent of unobligated balances 
remaining available at the end of fiscal year 2008 from 
appropriations made available for salaries and expenses 
for fiscal year 2008 in this Act, shall remain available 
through September 30, 2009, for each such account for 
the purposes authorized: Provided, That a request shall 
be submitted to the Committees on Appropriations for ap-
proval prior to the expenditure of such funds: Provided
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further, That these requests shall be made in compliance 
with reprogramming guidelines. 
SEC. 612. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used by the Executive Office of the President 
to request from the Federal Bureau of Investigation any 
official background investigation report on any individual, 
except when— 
(1) such individual has given his or her express 
written consent for such request not more than 6 
months prior to the date of such request and during 
the same presidential administration; or 
(2) such request is required due to extraor-
dinary circumstances involving national security. 
SEC. 613. The cost accounting standards promul-
gated under section 26 of the Office of Federal Procure-
ment Policy Act (Public Law 93–400; 41 U.S.C. 422) 
shall not apply with respect to a contract under the Fed-
eral Employees Health Benefits Program established 
under chapter 89 of title 5, United States Code. 
SEC. 614. For the purpose of resolving litigation and 
implementing any settlement agreements regarding the 
nonforeign area cost-of-living allowance program, the Of-
fice of Personnel Management may accept and utilize 
(without regard to any restriction on unanticipated travel 
expenses imposed in an Appropriations Act) funds made
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available to the Office of Personnel Management pursuant 
to court approval. 
SEC. 615. No funds appropriated by this Act shall 
be available to pay for an abortion, or the administrative 
expenses in connection with any health plan under the 
Federal employees health benefits program which provides 
any benefits or coverage for abortions. 
SEC. 616. The provision of section 615 shall not 
apply where the life of the mother would be endangered 
if the fetus were carried to term, or the pregnancy is the 
result of an act of rape or incest. 
SEC. 617. In order to promote Government access to 
commercial information technology, the restriction on pur-
chasing nondomestic articles, materials, and supplies set 
forth in the Buy American Act (41 U.S.C. 10a et seq.), 
shall not apply to the acquisition by the Federal Govern-
ment of information technology (as defined in section 
11101 of title 40, United States Code), that is a commer-
cial item (as defined in section 4(12) of the Office of Fed-
eral Procurement Policy Act (41 U.S.C. 403(12)). 
SEC. 618. None of the funds made available in the 
Act may be used to finalize, implement, administer, or en-
force— 
(1) the proposed rule relating to the determina-
tion that real estate brokerage is an activity that is
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financial in nature or incidental to a financial activ-
ity published in the Federal Register on January 3, 
2001 (66 Fed. Reg. 307 et seq.); or 
(2) the revision proposed in such rule to section 
1501.2 of title 12 of the Code of Federal Regula-
tions. 
SEC. 619. Notwithstanding section 10(b) of the 
Harry S Truman Memorial Scholarship Act (20 U.S.C. 
2009(b)), hereafter, at the request of the Board of Trust-
ees of the Harry S Truman Scholarship Foundation, it 
shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury to invest 
in full the amounts appropriated and contributed to the 
Harry S Truman Memorial Scholarship Trust Fund, as 
provided in such section. All requests of the Board of 
Trustees to the Secretary provided for in this section shall 
be binding on the Secretary. 
SEC. 620. (a) IN GENERAL.—None of the funds ap-
propriated or otherwise made available by this Act may 
be used for any Federal Government contract with any 
foreign incorporated entity which is treated as an inverted 
domestic corporation under section 835(b) of the Home-
land Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 395(b)) or any sub-
sidiary of such an entity. 
(b) WAIVERS.—
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(1) IN GENERAL.—Any Secretary shall waive 
subsection (a) with respect to any Federal Govern-
ment contract under the authority of such Secretary 
if the Secretary determines that the waiver is re-
quired in the interest of national security. 
(2)
REPORT
TO
CONGRESS.—Any
Secretary 
issuing a waiver under paragraph (1) shall report 
such issuance to Congress. 
(c) EXCEPTION.— This section shall not apply to any 
Federal Government contract entered into before the date 
of the enactment of this Act, or to any task order issued 
pursuant to such contract. 
SEC. 621. For an additional amount under the head-
ing ‘‘Small Business Administration, Salaries and Ex-
penses’’, $61,318,000, to remain available until September 
30, 2009, shall be for initiatives related to small business 
development
and
entrepreneurship,
including
pro-
grammatic and construction activities: Provided, That 
amounts made available under this section shall be pro-
vided in accordance with the terms and conditions speci-
fied in the statement of managers accompanying this Act.
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TITLE VII—GENERAL PROVISIONS 
GOVERNMENT-WIDE 
DEPARTMENTS, AGENCIES, AND CORPORATIONS 
SEC. 701. Hereafter, funds appropriated in this or 
any other Act may be used to pay travel to the United 
States for the immediate family of employees serving 
abroad in cases of death or life threatening illness of said 
employee. 
SEC. 702. No department, agency, or instrumentality 
of the United States receiving appropriated funds under 
this or any other Act for fiscal year 2008 shall obligate 
or expend any such funds, unless such department, agen-
cy, or instrumentality has in place, and will continue to 
administer in good faith, a written policy designed to en-
sure that all of its workplaces are free from the illegal 
use, possession, or distribution of controlled substances 
(as defined in the Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 
802)) by the officers and employees of such department, 
agency, or instrumentality. 
SEC. 703. Unless otherwise specifically provided, the 
maximum amount allowable during the current fiscal year 
in accordance with section 16 of the Act of August 2, 1946 
(60 Stat. 810), for the purchase of any passenger motor 
vehicle (exclusive of buses, ambulances, law enforcement, 
and undercover surveillance vehicles), is hereby fixed at
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$12,888 except station wagons for which the maximum 
shall be $13,312: Provided, That these limits may be ex-
ceeded by not to exceed $3,700 for police-type vehicles, 
and by not to exceed $4,000 for special heavy-duty vehi-
cles: Provided further, That the limits set forth in this sec-
tion may not be exceeded by more than 5 percent for elec-
tric or hybrid vehicles purchased for demonstration under 
the provisions of the Electric and Hybrid Vehicle Re-
search, Development, and Demonstration Act of 1976: 
Provided further, That the limits set forth in this section 
may be exceeded by the incremental cost of clean alter-
native fuels vehicles acquired pursuant to Public Law 
101–549 over the cost of comparable conventionally fueled 
vehicles. 
SEC. 704. Appropriations of the executive depart-
ments and independent establishments for the current fis-
cal year available for expenses of travel, or for the ex-
penses of the activity concerned, are hereby made available 
for quarters allowances and cost-of-living allowances, in 
accordance with 5 U.S.C. 5922–5924. 
SEC. 705. Unless otherwise specified during the cur-
rent fiscal year, no part of any appropriation contained 
in this or any other Act shall be used to pay the compensa-
tion of any officer or employee of the Government of the 
United States (including any agency the majority of the
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stock of which is owned by the Government of the United 
States) whose post of duty is in the continental United 
States unless such person: (1) is a citizen of the United 
States; (2) is a person in the service of the United States 
on the date of the enactment of this Act who, being eligible 
for citizenship, has filed a declaration of intention to be-
come a citizen of the United States prior to such date and 
is actually residing in the United States; (3) is a person 
who owes allegiance to the United States; (4) is an alien 
from Cuba, Poland, South Vietnam, the countries of the 
former Soviet Union, or the Baltic countries lawfully ad-
mitted to the United States for permanent residence; (5) 
is a South Vietnamese, Cambodian, or Laotian refugee pa-
roled in the United States after January 1, 1975; or (6) 
is a national of the People’s Republic of China who quali-
fies for adjustment of status pursuant to the Chinese Stu-
dent Protection Act of 1992 (Public Law 102–404): Pro-
vided, That for the purpose of this section, an affidavit 
signed by any such person shall be considered prima facie 
evidence that the requirements of this section with respect 
to his or her status have been complied with: Provided fur-
ther, That any person making a false affidavit shall be 
guilty of a felony, and, upon conviction, shall be fined no 
more than $4,000 or imprisoned for not more than 1 year, 
or both: Provided further, That the above penal clause
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shall be in addition to, and not in substitution for, any 
other provisions of existing law: Provided further, That 
any payment made to any officer or employee contrary to 
the provisions of this section shall be recoverable in action 
by the Federal Government. This section shall not apply 
to citizens of Ireland, Israel, or the Republic of the Phil-
ippines, or to nationals of those countries allied with the 
United States in a current defense effort, or to inter-
national
broadcasters
employed
by
the
Broadcasting 
Board of Governors, or to temporary employment of trans-
lators, or to temporary employment in the field service 
(not to exceed 60 days) as a result of emergencies. 
SEC. 706. Appropriations available to any depart-
ment or agency during the current fiscal year for nec-
essary expenses, including maintenance or operating ex-
penses, shall also be available for payment to the General 
Services Administration for charges for space and services 
and those expenses of renovation and alteration of build-
ings and facilities which constitute public improvements 
performed in accordance with the Public Buildings Act of 
1959 (73 Stat. 479), the Public Buildings Amendments 
of 1972 (86 Stat. 216), or other applicable law. 
SEC. 707. In addition to funds provided in this or 
any other Act, all Federal agencies are authorized to re-
ceive and use funds resulting from the sale of materials,
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including Federal records disposed of pursuant to a 
records schedule recovered through recycling or waste pre-
vention programs. Such funds shall be available until ex-
pended for the following purposes: 
(1) Acquisition, waste reduction and prevention, 
and recycling programs as described in Executive 
Order No. 13101 (September 14, 1998), including 
any such programs adopted prior to the effective 
date of the Executive order. 
(2) Other Federal agency environmental man-
agement programs, including, but not limited to, the 
development and implementation of hazardous waste 
management and pollution prevention programs. 
(3) Other employee programs as authorized by 
law or as deemed appropriate by the head of the 
Federal agency. 
SEC. 708. Funds made available by this or any other 
Act for administrative expenses in the current fiscal year 
of the corporations and agencies subject to chapter 91 of 
title 31, United States Code, shall be available, in addition 
to objects for which such funds are otherwise available, 
for rent in the District of Columbia; services in accordance 
with 5 U.S.C. 3109; and the objects specified under this 
head, all the provisions of which shall be applicable to the 
expenditure of such funds unless otherwise specified in the
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Act by which they are made available: Provided, That in 
the event any functions budgeted as administrative ex-
penses are subsequently transferred to or paid from other 
funds, the limitations on administrative expenses shall be 
correspondingly reduced. 
SEC. 709. Hereafter, no part of any appropriation 
contained in this or any other Act shall be paid to any 
person for the filling of any position for which he or she 
has been nominated after the Senate has voted not to ap-
prove the nomination of said person. 
SEC. 710. No part of any appropriation contained in 
this or any other Act shall be available for interagency 
financing of boards (except Federal Executive Boards), 
commissions, councils, committees, or similar groups 
(whether or not they are interagency entities) which do 
not have a prior and specific statutory approval to receive 
financial support from more than one agency or instru-
mentality. 
SEC. 711. None of the funds made available pursuant 
to the provisions of this Act shall be used to implement, 
administer, or enforce any regulation which has been dis-
approved pursuant to a joint resolution duly adopted in 
accordance with the applicable law of the United States. 
SEC. 712. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision 
of law, and except as otherwise provided in this section,
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no part of any of the funds appropriated for fiscal year 
2008, by this or any other Act, may be used to pay any 
prevailing
rate
employee
described
in
section 
5342(a)(2)(A) of title 5, United States Code— 
(1) during the period from the date of expira-
tion of the limitation imposed by the comparable sec-
tion for previous fiscal years until the normal effec-
tive date of the applicable wage survey adjustment 
that is to take effect in fiscal year 2008, in an 
amount that exceeds the rate payable for the appli-
cable grade and step of the applicable wage schedule 
in accordance with such section; and 
(2) during the period consisting of the remain-
der of fiscal year 2008, in an amount that exceeds, 
as a result of a wage survey adjustment, the rate 
payable under paragraph (1) by more than the sum 
of— 
(A) the percentage adjustment taking ef-
fect in fiscal year 2008 under section 5303 of 
title 5, United States Code, in the rates of pay 
under the General Schedule; and 
(B) the difference between the overall aver-
age
percentage
of
the
locality-based
com-
parability payments taking effect in fiscal year 
2008 under section 5304 of such title (whether
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by adjustment or otherwise), and the overall av-
erage percentage of such payments which was 
effective in the previous fiscal year under such 
section. 
(b) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no 
prevailing rate employee described in subparagraph (B) or 
(C) of section 5342(a)(2) of title 5, United States Code, 
and no employee covered by section 5348 of such title, 
may be paid during the periods for which subsection (a) 
is in effect at a rate that exceeds the rates that would 
be payable under subsection (a) were subsection (a) appli-
cable to such employee. 
(c) For the purposes of this section, the rates payable 
to an employee who is covered by this section and who 
is paid from a schedule not in existence on September 30, 
2007, shall be determined under regulations prescribed by 
the Office of Personnel Management. 
(d) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, rates 
of premium pay for employees subject to this section may 
not be changed from the rates in effect on September 30, 
2007, except to the extent determined by the Office of 
Personnel Management to be consistent with the purpose 
of this section. 
(e) This section shall apply with respect to pay for 
service performed after September 30, 2007.
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(f) For the purpose of administering any provision 
of law (including any rule or regulation that provides pre-
mium pay, retirement, life insurance, or any other em-
ployee benefit) that requires any deduction or contribu-
tion, or that imposes any requirement or limitation on the 
basis of a rate of salary or basic pay, the rate of salary 
or basic pay payable after the application of this section 
shall be treated as the rate of salary or basic pay. 
(g) Nothing in this section shall be considered to per-
mit or require the payment to any employee covered by 
this section at a rate in excess of the rate that would be 
payable were this section not in effect. 
(h) The Office of Personnel Management may provide 
for exceptions to the limitations imposed by this section 
if the Office determines that such exceptions are necessary 
to ensure the recruitment or retention of qualified employ-
ees. 
SEC. 713. During the period in which the head of 
any department or agency, or any other officer or civilian 
employee of the Federal Government appointed by the 
President of the United States, holds office, no funds may 
be obligated or expended in excess of $5,000 to furnish 
or redecorate the office of such department head, agency 
head, officer, or employee, or to purchase furniture or 
make improvements for any such office, unless advance
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notice of such furnishing or redecoration is expressly ap-
proved by the Committees on Appropriations. For the pur-
poses of this section, the term ‘‘office’’ shall include the 
entire suite of offices assigned to the individual, as well 
as any other space used primarily by the individual or the 
use of which is directly controlled by the individual. 
SEC. 714. Notwithstanding section 1346 of title 31, 
United States Code, or section 710 of this Act, funds 
made available for the current fiscal year by this or any 
other Act shall be available for the interagency funding 
of national security and emergency preparedness tele-
communications initiatives which benefit multiple Federal 
departments, agencies, or entities, as provided by Execu-
tive Order No. 12472 (April 3, 1984). 
SEC. 715. (a) None of the funds appropriated by this 
or any other Act may be obligated or expended by any 
Federal department, agency, or other instrumentality for 
the salaries or expenses of any employee appointed to a 
position of a confidential or policy-determining character 
excepted from the competitive service pursuant to section 
3302 of title 5, United States Code, without a certification 
to the Office of Personnel Management from the head of 
the Federal department, agency, or other instrumentality 
employing the Schedule C appointee that the Schedule C
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position was not created solely or primarily in order to 
detail the employee to the White House. 
(b) The provisions of this section shall not apply to 
Federal employees or members of the armed services de-
tailed to or from— 
(1) the Central Intelligence Agency; 
(2) the National Security Agency; 
(3) the Defense Intelligence Agency; 
(4) the offices within the Department of De-
fense for the collection of specialized national foreign 
intelligence through reconnaissance programs; 
(5) the Bureau of Intelligence and Research of 
the Department of State; 
(6) any agency, office, or unit of the Army, 
Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps, the Department 
of Homeland Security, the Federal Bureau of Inves-
tigation and the Drug Enforcement Administration 
of the Department of Justice, the Department of 
Transportation, the Department of the Treasury, 
and the Department of Energy performing intel-
ligence functions; and 
(7) the Director of National Intelligence or the 
Office of the Director of National Intelligence. 
SEC. 716. Hereafter, no department, agency, or in-
strumentality of the United States receiving appropriated
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funds under this or any other Act shall obligate or expend 
any such funds, unless such department, agency, or in-
strumentality has in place, and will continue to administer 
in good faith, a written policy designed to ensure that all 
of its workplaces are free from discrimination and sexual 
harassment and that all of its workplaces are not in viola-
tion of title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Public 
Law 88–352, 78 Stat. 241), the Age Discrimination in 
Employment Act of 1967 (Public Law 90–202, 81 Stat. 
602), and the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (Public Law 93– 
112, 87 Stat. 355). 
SEC. 717. No part of any appropriation contained in 
this or any other Act shall be available for the payment 
of the salary of any officer or employee of the Federal 
Government, who— 
(1) prohibits or prevents, or attempts or threat-
ens to prohibit or prevent, any other officer or em-
ployee of the Federal Government from having any 
direct oral or written communication or contact with 
any Member, committee, or subcommittee of the 
Congress in connection with any matter pertaining 
to the employment of such other officer or employee 
or pertaining to the department or agency of such 
other officer or employee in any way, irrespective of 
whether such communication or contact is at the ini-
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tiative of such other officer or employee or in re-
sponse to the request or inquiry of such Member, 
committee, or subcommittee; or 
(2) removes, suspends from duty without pay, 
demotes, reduces in rank, seniority, status, pay, or 
performance or efficiency rating, denies promotion 
to, relocates, reassigns, transfers, disciplines, or dis-
criminates in regard to any employment right, enti-
tlement, or benefit, or any term or condition of em-
ployment of, any other officer or employee of the 
Federal Government, or attempts or threatens to 
commit any of the foregoing actions with respect to 
such other officer or employee, by reason of any 
communication or contact of such other officer or 
employee with any Member, committee, or sub-
committee of the Congress as described in paragraph 
(1). 
SEC. 718. (a) None of the funds made available in 
this or any other Act may be obligated or expended for 
any employee training that— 
(1) does not meet identified needs for knowl-
edge, skills, and abilities bearing directly upon the 
performance of official duties;
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(2) contains elements likely to induce high lev-
els of emotional response or psychological stress in 
some participants; 
(3) does not require prior employee notification 
of the content and methods to be used in the train-
ing and written end of course evaluation; 
(4) contains any methods or content associated 
with religious or quasi-religious belief systems or 
‘‘new age’’ belief systems as defined in Equal Em-
ployment
Opportunity
Commission
Notice
N– 
915.022, dated September 2, 1988; or 
(5) is offensive to, or designed to change, par-
ticipants’ personal values or lifestyle outside the 
workplace. 
(b) Nothing in this section shall prohibit, restrict, or 
otherwise preclude an agency from conducting training 
bearing directly upon the performance of official duties. 
SEC. 719. No funds appropriated in this or any other 
Act may be used to implement or enforce the agreements 
in Standard Forms 312 and 4414 of the Government or 
any other nondisclosure policy, form, or agreement if such 
policy, form, or agreement does not contain the following 
provisions: ‘‘These restrictions are consistent with and do 
not supersede, conflict with, or otherwise alter the em-
ployee obligations, rights, or liabilities created by Execu-