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If any political subdivision of a State is located to-
tally or partially within the county, and the popu-
lation of the subdivision is more than 40 percent of
the total population of the county, the Chief Execu-
tive Officer of the subdivision and the Chief Execu-
tive Officer shall jointly appoint such members.
(3) AGE OF MEMBERS.—At least 2 of the mem-
bers of the Local Board shall be under the age of
20 at the time of such appointment.
(4) BACKGROUND OF MEMBERS.—The member-
ship of the Board shall reflect the racial, ethnic, and
gender composition of the county population.
(5) TERMS; OFFICERS; VACANCIES.—The Local
Board shall adopt, and shall include in the applica-
tion described in section 5(b)(5), bylaws that include
provisions regarding the terms of office of members,
the election of officers, and the selection of members
to fill vacancies, of the Local Board.
(e) FISCAL AGENT.—
(1) APPOINTMENT
OF
FISCAL
AGENT.—The
Local Board shall appoint a fiscal agent for the
Board.
(2) DUTIES.—The fiscal agent shall carry out
such duties as the Local Board may determine to be
appropriate.
‘‘(5) the term ‘agent’ includes a Postal Inspec-
tor or any person retained by the Postal Service in
connection with the enforcement of the laws of the
United States relative to the United States mails
and acting under the authority of section 3061 of
title 18.
‘‘(b)(1) Whenever the Postmaster General or his dele-
gate has reason to believe that any person may be in pos-
session, custody, or control of any documentary material,
or may have any information, relevant to an investigation
of a matter arising under this chapter, he may, prior to
the commencement of a civil or criminal proceeding there-
on, issue in writing, and cause to be served upon such
person, a civil investigative demand requiring such person
to produce such documentary material for inspection and
copying or reproduction, to answer in writing written in-
terrogatories, to give oral testimony concerning documen-
tary material or information, or to furnish any combina-
tion of such material, answers, or testimony. Whenever a
civil investigative demand is an express demand for any
product of discovery, the Postmaster General or his dele-
gate shall cause to be served, in any manner authorized
by this section, a copy of such demand upon the person
from whom the discovery was obtained and notify the per-
through the introduction thereof into the record of such
case or proceeding.
‘‘(6) In the event of the death, disability or separation
from service in the Postal Service of the custodian of any
documentary material, answers to interrogatories, or tran-
scripts of oral testimony produced under any demand is-
sued pursuant to this section, or the official relief of such
custodian from responsibility for the custody and control
of such material, answers, or transcripts, the Postmaster
General or his delegate shall promptly—
‘‘(A) designate another agent to serve as custo-
dian of such material, answers to interrogatories, or
transcripts of oral testimony produced under any de-
mand issued pursuant to this section, or the official
relief of such custodian from the responsibility for
the custody and control of such material, answers,
or transcripts; and
‘‘(B) transmit in writing to the person who pro-
duced such material, answers, or testimony notice as
to the identity and address of the successor so
designated.
Any successor designated under this paragraph shall have
with regard to such material, answers, or transcripts all
duties and responsibilities imposed by this section upon
his predecessor in office with regard thereto, except that
‘‘(1) the term ‘person’ means any natural per-
son, partnership, corporation, association, or other
legal entity, including any person acting under color
or authority of State law;
‘‘(2) the term ‘documentary material’ includes
the original or any copy of any book, record, report,
memorandum, paper, communication, tabulation,
chart, or other document, and any product of discov-
ery;
‘‘(3) the term ‘custodian’ means the custodian
or any deputy custodian designated under subsection
(c);
‘‘(4) the term ‘product of discovery’ includes—
‘‘(A) the original or duplicate of any depo-
sition, interrogatory, response, document, thing,
result of the inspection of land or other prop-
erty, examination, or admission obtained by any
method of discovery in any judicial litigation or
in any administrative litigation of an adversar-
ial nature;
‘‘(B) any digest, analysis, selection, com-
pilation, or any derivation thereof; and
‘‘(C) any index or manner of access there-
in; and
further action is not necessary to protect the interests of 
the Government. 
SEC. 516. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to enter into a contract, memorandum 
of understanding, or cooperative agreement with, make a 
grant to, or provide a loan or loan guarantee to, any cor-
poration that any unpaid Federal tax liability that has 
been assessed, for which all judicial and administrative 
remedies have been exhausted or have lapsed, and that 
is not being paid in a timely manner pursuant to an agree-
ment with the authority responsible for collecting the tax 
liability, where the awarding agency is aware of the unpaid 
tax liability, unless the agency has considered suspension 
or debarment of the corporation and made a determination 
that this further action is not necessary to protect the in-
terests of the Government. 
SEC. 517. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used by any Government authority or agent 
thereof awarding a construction contract on behalf of the 
Government, in any solicitations, bid specifications, 
project agreements, or other controlling documents, to re-
quire or prohibit bidders, offerors, contractors, or sub-
contractors to enter into or adhere to agreements with one 
or more labor organizations; nor shall such funds be used 
to discriminate against or give preference to such bidders, 
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offerors, contractors, or subcontractors based on their en-
tering or refusing to enter into such agreements. The pre-
vious sentence does not apply to construction contracts 
awarded before the date of the enactment of this Act. 
SPENDING REDUCTION ACCOUNT 
SEC. 518. The amount by which the applicable alloca-
tion of new budget authority made by the Committee on 
Appropriations of the House of Representatives under sec-
tion 302(b) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 ex-
ceeds the amount of proposed new budget authority is $0. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Military Construction 
and Veterans Affairs and Related Agencies Appropriations 
Act, 2013’’. 
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Union Calendar No. 344 
112TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 5854 
[Report No. 112–491] 
A BILL 
Making appropriations for military construction, 
the Department of Veterans Affairs, and related 
agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 
2013, and for other purposes. 
MAY 23, 2012 
Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the 
State of the Union and ordered to be printed 
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I
103D CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. R. 4070
To amend title 18, United States Code, to provide for criminal and civil
penalties for mail and wire fraud, and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
MARCH 17, 1994
Miss COLLINS of Michigan (by request) introduced the following bill; which
was referred jointly to the Committees on the Judiciary and Post Office
and Civil Service
A BILL
To amend title 18, United States Code, to provide for crimi-
nal and civil penalties for mail and wire fraud, and
for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. CRIMINAL AND CIVIL FORFEITURE FOR MAIL
AND WIRE FRAUD.
(a) IN GENERAL.—Chapter 63 of title 18, United
States Code, is amended by adding at the end the follow-
ing new sections:
‘‘§ 1347. Criminal forfeiture for violation of section
1341 or 1343
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—A person convicted of a violation
of sections 1341 or 1343 of this title shall, notwithstand-
ing any provision of State law, forfeit to the United States
any property constituting or derived from any proceeds
which the person obtained directly or indirectly from a
scheme in violation of either section.
‘‘(b) PROCEDURES
OF CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES
ACT APPLICABLE.—With respect to a forfeiture under
this section for a violation of this chapter, the provisions
of subsections (b), (c), (e), (f), (g), (i), (k), (l), (m), (n),
and (o) of section 413 of the Controlled Substances Act
apply as they would to a forfeiture under that section for
a violation of the Controlled Substances Act.
‘‘(c) DISPOSITION OF PROPERTY.—After a seizure of
property ordered forfeited under this section, the Attorney
General shall dispose of the property under section 1349
of this title. The Postal Service shall turn any such seized
property over to the Attorney General for disposal under
such section.
‘‘(d) SUBSTITUTE ASSETS.—If any of the property
subject to forfeiture under this section, as a result of con-
duct of the defendant—
‘‘(1) cannot be located upon the exercise of due
diligence;
SEC. 510. (a) Sections 520, 522, and 530, of the De-
partment of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2008 
(division E of Public Law 110–161; 121 Stat. 2073 and 
2074) shall apply with respect to funds made available in 
this Act in the same manner as such sections applied to 
funds made available in that Act. 
(b) The third proviso of section 537 of the Depart-
ment of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2006 (6 
U.S.C. 114), shall not apply with respect to funds made 
available in this Act. 
SEC. 511. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used in contravention of the applicable provi-
sions of the Buy American Act. For purposes of the pre-
ceding sentence, the term ‘‘Buy American Act’’ means 
chapter 83 of title 41, United States Code. 
SEC. 512. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used by any person other than the Privacy 
Officer appointed under subsection (a) of section 222 of 
the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 142(a)) to 
alter, direct that changes be made to, delay, or prohibit 
the transmission to Congress of any report prepared under 
paragraph (6) of such subsection. 
SEC. 513. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used to amend the oath of allegiance required
subsistence, at rates authorized for employees of
agencies under subchapter I of chapter 57 of title 5,
United States Code, for persons employed intermit-
tently in the Government service.
(10) SPECIAL GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES.—For
purposes of the provisions of chapter 11 of part I of
title 18, United States Code, and any other provision
of Federal law, a member of the Commission (to
whom such provisions would not otherwise apply ex-
cept for this subsection) shall be a special Govern-
ment employee.
(11) STATUS OF MEMBERS.—
(A) TORT CLAIMS.—For the purposes of
the tort claims provisions of chapter 171 of title
28, United States Code, a member of the Com-
mission shall be considered to be a Federal em-
ployee.
(B) OTHER
CLAIMS.—A member of the
Commission has no personal liability under
Federal law with respect to any claim arising
out of or resulting from any act or omission by
such person, within the scope of the service of
the member on the Commission, in connection
with any transaction involving the provision of
financial assistance by the Commission or the
SEC. 202. AMENDMENT TO SECTION 831 OF TITLE 18 OF THE 
U.S. CODE. 
Section 831 of title 18, United States Code, is 
amended— 
(a) in subsection (a)— 
(1) by redesignating paragraphs (3) through 
(8) as (4) through (9); 
(2) by inserting after paragraph (2) the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(3) without lawful authority, intentionally car-
ries, sends or moves nuclear material into or out of 
a country;’’; 
(3) in redesignated paragraph (8), by striking 
‘‘an offense under paragraph (1), (2), (3), or (4)’’ 
and inserting ‘‘any act prohibited under paragraphs 
(1) through (5)’’; and 
(4) in redesignated paragraph (9), by striking 
‘‘an offense under paragraph (1), (2), (3), or (4)’’ 
and inserting ‘‘any act prohibited under paragraphs 
(1) through (7)’’; 
(b) in subsection (b)— 
(1) in paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘(7)’’ and in-
serting ‘‘(8)’’; and 
(2) in paragraph (2), by striking ‘‘(8)’’ and in-
serting ‘‘(9)’’; 
(c) in subsection (c)— 
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HR 5856 RFS 
8038 of title 10, United States Code, or while serving on 
active duty under section 12301(d) of title 10, United 
States Code, in connection with performing duty specified 
in section 12310(a) of title 10, United States Code, or 
while undergoing reserve training, or while performing 
drills or equivalent duty or other duty, and expenses au-
thorized by section 16131 of title 10, United States Code; 
and for payments to the Department of Defense Military 
Retirement Fund, $1,743,875,000. 
NATIONAL GUARD PERSONNEL, ARMY 
For pay, allowances, clothing, subsistence, gratuities, 
travel, and related expenses for personnel of the Army Na-
tional Guard while on duty under section 10211, 10302, 
or 12402 of title 10 or section 708 of title 32, United 
States Code, or while serving on duty under section 
12301(d) of title 10 or section 502(f) of title 32, United 
States Code, in connection with performing duty specified 
in section 12310(a) of title 10, United States Code, or 
while undergoing training, or while performing drills or 
equivalent duty or other duty, and expenses authorized by 
section 16131 of title 10, United States Code; and for pay-
ments to the Department of Defense Military Retirement 
Fund, $8,089,477,000. 
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in section 3(40) of such Act) providing
health benefits; and
(ii) any other health insurance ar-
rangement, including any arrangement
consisting of a hospital or medical expense
incurred policy or certificate, hospital or
medical service plan contract, or health
maintenance organization subscriber con-
tract;
(B) but not including—
(i) an individual making payment on
the individual’s own behalf (or on behalf of
a relative or other individual) for health
care 
or 
for 
deductibles, 
coinsurance,
copayments, items, or services not covered
under a health insurance arrangement;
(ii) a plan sponsor (as defined in sec-
tion 3(16) of the Employee Retirement In-
come Security Act of 1974);
(iii) an employer of an employee cov-
ered under a multiple employer welfare
arrangement;
(iv) an employee organization that
sponsors a multiple employer welfare
arrangement; or
103 
(b) For purposes of this section, the term ‘‘Morton 
Memos’’ refers to the following documents: 
(1) Policy Number 10072.1, published on 
March 2, 2011. 
(2) Policy Number 10075.1, published on June 
17, 2011. 
(3) Policy Number 10076.1, published on June 
17, 2011. 
SEC. 582. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to terminate an agreement governing a 
delegation of authority under section 287(g) of the Immi-
gration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1357(g)) that is 
in existence on the date of the enactment of this Act. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Department of Home-
land Security Appropriations Act, 2013’’. 
Passed the House of Representatives June 7, 2012. 
Attest: 
Clerk.
112TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 5855 
AN ACT 
Making appropriations for the Department of 
Homeland Security for the fiscal year ending 
September 30, 2013, and for other purposes.
I
103D CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. R. 4076
To amend the Federal Home Loan Bank Act to provide for the representation
of Guam and the Virgin Islands on the boards of directors of the
appropriate Federal home loan banks.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
MARCH 17, 1994
Mr. UNDERWOOD (for himself and Mr. DE LUGO) introduced the following bill;
which was referred to the Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs
A BILL
To amend the Federal Home Loan Bank Act to provide
for the representation of Guam and the Virgin Islands
on the boards of directors of the appropriate Federal
home loan banks.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. REPRESENTATION OF GUAM AND THE VIRGIN
ISLANDS ON BOARDS OF DIRECTORS OF AP-
PROPRIATE FEDERAL HOME LOAN BANKS.
Section 7(e) of the Federal Home Loan Bank Act
(12 U.S.C. 1427(e)) is amended by striking the 3d
sentence.
SEC. 2. IMMEDIATE APPOINTMENT OF ADDITIONAL DIREC-
TORS TO SERVE UNTIL DIRECTORS FROM
GUAM AND THE VIRGIN ISLANDS ARE ELECT-
ED.
(a) IN GENERAL.—Notwithstanding any limitation
contained in section 7 of the Federal Home Loan Bank
Act on the number of elective directors on the board of
directors of any Federal home loan bank, the Federal
Housing Finance Board shall appoint—
(1) an additional elective director to the board
of directors for the Federal home loan bank whose
district includes Guam to represent members (of
such bank) which are located in Guam; and
(2) an additional elective director to the board
of directors for the Federal home loan bank whose
district includes the Virgin Islands to represent
members (of such bank) which are located in the
Virgin Islands.
(b) TERM.—An elective member appointed under a
paragraph of subsection (a) shall serve until an elective
director who represents the members described in such
paragraph is first elected, in accordance with section 7 of
the Federal Home Loan Bank Act, to the board of direc-
tors of the bank referred to in such paragraph.
(c) VACANCY.—Any vacancy in a position established
under subsection (a) before the end of the term described
in subsection (b) shall be filled in the manner in which
the original appointment was made.
Æ
(B) consumers of such financial instru-
ments who are engaged in the use of such hold-
ings, positions, or other interests in derivative
financial instruments for purposes other than
hedging against risks.
(c) ISSUES INVOLVING TRANSACTION TAXES AND
FEES.—In conducting the study under subsection (a)(1),
the Comptroller General shall—
(1) determine the extent to which any holding,
position, or other interest in a derivative financial
instrument is subject to Federal or State transaction
tax or fee, the entity imposing the tax or fee, the
purpose of the tax or fee, and the amount of annual
revenue derived from the tax or fee;
(2) evaluate the feasibility of imposing a tax or
fee on the acquisition or taking of a holding, posi-
tion, or other interest in a derivative financial in-
strument for speculative purposes and estimate the
revenue which would result from such a tax or fee;
and
(3) evaluate the competitive impact of the impo-
sition of a tax or fee described in paragraph (2).
(d) ISSUES INVOLVING MARGIN REQUIREMENTS.—In
conducting the study under subsection (a)(1), the Comp-
troller General shall—
construction prosecuted thereon prior to approval of title; 
reserve plant and Government and contractor-owned 
equipment layaway; and other expenses necessary for the 
foregoing purposes including rents and transportation of 
things, $5,449,146,000, to remain available for obligation 
until September 30, 2015. 
PROCUREMENT OF AMMUNITION, AIR FORCE 
For construction, procurement, production, and 
modification of ammunition, and accessories therefor; spe-
cialized equipment and training devices; expansion of pub-
lic and private plants, including ammunition facilities, au-
thorized by section 2854 of title 10, United States Code, 
and the land necessary therefor, for the foregoing pur-
poses, and such lands and interests therein, may be ac-
quired, and construction prosecuted thereon prior to ap-
proval of title; and procurement and installation of equip-
ment, appliances, and machine tools in public and private 
plants; reserve plant and Government and contractor- 
owned equipment layaway; and other expenses necessary 
for the foregoing purposes, $599,194,000, to remain avail-
able for obligation until September 30, 2015. 
OTHER PROCUREMENT, AIR FORCE 
For procurement and modification of equipment (in-
cluding ground guidance and electronic control equipment, 
and ground electronic and communication equipment),
and supplies, materials, and spare parts therefor, not oth-
erwise provided for; the purchase of passenger motor vehi-
cles for replacement only; lease of passenger motor vehi-
cles; and expansion of public and private plants, Govern-
ment-owned equipment and installation thereof in such 
plants, erection of structures, and acquisition of land, for 
the foregoing purposes, and such lands and interests 
therein, may be acquired, and construction prosecuted 
thereon, prior to approval of title; reserve plant and Gov-
ernment 
and 
contractor-owned 
equipment 
layaway, 
$16,632,575,000, to remain available for obligation until 
September 30, 2015. 
PROCUREMENT, DEFENSE-WIDE 
For expenses of activities and agencies of the Depart-
ment of Defense (other than the military departments) 
necessary for procurement, production, and modification 
of equipment, supplies, materials, and spare parts there-
for, not otherwise provided for; the purchase of passenger 
motor vehicles for replacement only; expansion of public 
and private plants, equipment, and installation thereof in 
such plants, erection of structures, and acquisition of land 
for the foregoing purposes, and such lands and interests 
therein, may be acquired, and construction prosecuted 
thereon prior to approval of title; reserve plant and Gov-
ernment 
and 
contractor-owned 
equipment 
layaway,
cordance with section 102A(d) of the National Security 
Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 403–1(d)) that— 
(1) creates a new start effort; 
(2) terminates a program with appropriated 
funding of $10,000,000 or more; 
(3) transfers funding into or out of the Na-
tional Intelligence Program; or 
(4) transfers funding between appropriations, 
unless the congressional intelligence committees are noti-
fied 30 days in advance of such reprogramming of funds; 
this notification period may be reduced for urgent national 
security requirements. 
(b) None of the funds provided for the National Intel-
ligence Program in this or any prior appropriations Act 
shall be available for obligation or expenditure through a 
reprogramming or transfer of funds in accordance with 
section 102A(d) of the National Security Act of 1947 (50 
U.S.C. 403–1(d)) that results in a cumulative increase or 
decrease of the levels specified in the classified annex ac-
companying the Act unless the congressional intelligence 
committees are notified 30 days in advance of such re-
programming of funds; this notification period may be re-
duced for urgent national security requirements. 
SEC. 8090. The Director of National Intelligence 
shall submit to Congress each year, at or about the time