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political affiliation or voting history of the candidate or 
the position that the candidate holds with respect to polit-
ical issues not directly related to and necessary for the work 
of the committee involved. 
(b) None of the funds made available in this Act may 
be used to disseminate scientific information that is delib-
erately false or misleading. 
SEC. 519. The Secretaries of Labor, Health and 
Human Services, and Education shall each prepare and 
submit to the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate 
and of the House of Representatives a report on the number 
and amount of contracts, grants, and cooperative agree-
ments exceeding $100,000 in value and awarded by the De-
partment on a non-competitive basis during each quarter 
of fiscal year 2008, but not to include grants awarded on 
a formula basis. Such report shall include the name of the 
contractor or grantee, the amount of funding, and the gov-
ernmental purpose. Such report shall be transmitted to the 
Committees within 30 days after the end of the quarter for 
which the report is submitted. 
SEC. 520. Not later than 30 days after the date of en-
actment of this Act, the Departments, agencies, and com-
missions funded under this Act, shall establish and main-
tain on the homepages of their Internet websites— 
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(1) a direct link to the Internet websites of their 
Offices of Inspectors General; and 
(2) a mechanism on the Offices of Inspectors 
General website by which individuals may anony-
mously report cases of waste, fraud, or abuse with re-
spect to those Departments, agencies, and commis-
sions. 
SEC. 521. None of the funds made available under this 
Act may be used to circumvent any statutory or adminis-
trative formula-driven or competitive awarding process to 
award funds to a project in response to a request from a 
Member of Congress (or any employee of a Member or com-
mittee of Congress), unless the specific project has been dis-
closed in accordance with the rules of the Senate or House 
of Representatives, as applicable. 
SEC. 522. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of 
this Act, none of the funds made available under the head-
ing ‘‘OFFICE OF MUSEUM AND LIBRARY SERVICES: GRANTS 
AND ADMINISTRATION’’ under the heading ‘‘INSTITUTE OF 
MUSEUM AND LIBRARY SERVICES’’ in title IV may be used 
for the Bethel Performing Arts Center. 
(b) The amount made available under the heading 
‘‘OFFICE OF MUSEUM AND LIBRARY SERVICES: GRANTS AND 
ADMINISTRATION’’ under the heading ‘‘INSTITUTE OF MU-
SEUM AND LIBRARY SERVICES’’ in title IV is reduced by 
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$1,000,000, and the amount made available under the head-
ing ‘‘HEALTH RESOURCES AND SERVICES’’ under the head-
ing ‘‘HEALTH RESOURCES AND SERVICES ADMINISTRA-
TION’’ in title II is increased by $336,500, which $336,500 
shall be used to carry out title V of the Social Security Act 
(42 U.S.C. 701 et seq.), in order to provide additional fund-
ing for the maternal and child health services program car-
ried out under that title. 
SEC. 523. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise 
made available by this Act may be used to enter into a 
contract in an amount greater than $5,000,000 or to award 
a grant in excess of such amount unless the prospective con-
tractor or grantee certifies in writing to the agency award-
ing the contract or grant that, to the best of its knowledge 
and belief, the contractor or grantee has filed all Federal 
tax returns required during the three years preceding the 
certification, has not been convicted of a criminal offense 
under the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, and has not, more 
than 90 days prior to certification, been notified of any 
unpaid Federal tax assessment for which the liability re-
mains unsatisfied, unless the assessment is the subject of 
an installment agreement or offer in compromise that has 
been approved by the Internal Revenue Service and is not 
in default, or the assessment is the subject of a non-frivolous 
administrative or judicial proceeding. 
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SEC. 524. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of 
this Act, the amount appropriated under the heading ‘‘LIMI-
TATION ON ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES’’ under the heading 
‘‘SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION’’ shall be increased by 
$150,000,000. 
(b) Section 1848(l)(2)(A) of the Social Security Act 
(42 U.S.C. 1395w–4(l)(2)(A)), as amended by section 6 of 
the TMA, Abstinence Education, and QI Programs Exten-
sion Act of 2007 (Public Law 110–90), is amended by strik-
ing ‘‘$1,350,000,000’’ and inserting ‘‘$1,200,000,000, but in 
no case shall expenditures from the Fund in fiscal year 
2008 exceed $650,000,000’’ in the first sentence. 
SEC. 525. (a) The Comptroller General of the United 
States shall conduct a study to evaluate the Social Security 
Administration’s plan to reduce the hearing backlog for dis-
ability claims at the Social Security Administration and 
the Social Security Administration’s current and planned 
initiatives to improve the disability process, as contained 
in the report submitted to the Senate on September 13, 
2007, pursuant to Senate Report 110–107. 
(b) Not later than 5 months after the date of enactment 
of this Act, the Comptroller General of the United States 
shall submit to Congress a report on the study conducted 
under subsection (a), together with such recommendations 
as the Comptroller General determines appropriate. 
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SEC. 526. Not later than 9 months after the date of 
enactment of this Act, the Government Accountability Office 
shall submit a report to Congress that contains an assess-
ment of the process for hiring and managing administrative 
law judges and makes recommendations on ways to improve 
the hiring and management of administrative law judges. 
SEC. 527. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise 
made available in this Act or any other Act making appro-
priations to the agencies funded by this Act may be used 
to close or otherwise cease to operate the field office of the 
Social Security Administration located in Bristol, Con-
necticut, before the date on which the Commissioner of So-
cial Security submits to the appropriate committees of Con-
gress a comprehensive and detailed report outlining and 
justifying the process for selecting field offices to be closed. 
Such report shall include— 
(1) a thorough analysis of the criteria used for 
selecting field offices for closure and how the Commis-
sioner of Social Security analyzes and considers fac-
tors relating to transportation and communication 
burdens faced by elderly and disabled citizens as a re-
sult of field office closures, including the extent to 
which elderly citizens have access to, and competence 
with, online services; and 
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(2) for each field office proposed to be closed dur-
ing fiscal year 2007 or 2008, including the office lo-
cated in Bristol, Connecticut, a thorough cost-benefit 
analysis for each such closure that takes into ac-
count— 
(A) the savings anticipated as a result of 
the closure; 
(B) the anticipated burdens placed on elder-
ly and disabled citizens; and 
(C) any costs associated with replacement 
services and provisional contact stations. 
SEC. 528. Notwithstanding any other provision of this 
Act, none of the funds appropriated in this Act may be allo-
cated, directed, or otherwise made available to cities that 
provide safe haven to illegal drug users through the use of 
illegal drug injection facilities. 
SEC. 529. Iraqi and Afghan aliens granted special im-
migrant status under section 101(a)(27) of the Immigration 
and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(27)) shall be eligible 
for resettlement assistance, entitlement programs, and other 
benefits available to refugees admitted under section 207 of 
such Act (8 U.S.C. 1157) for a period not to exceed 6 
months. 
SEC. 530. None of the funds appropriated by this Act 
may be used by the Commissioner of Social Security or the 
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Social Security Administration to pay the compensation of 
employees of the Social Security Administration to admin-
ister Social Security benefit payments, under any agree-
ment between the United States and Mexico establishing to-
talization arrangements between the social security system 
established by title II of the Social Security Act and the 
social security system of Mexico, which would not otherwise 
be payable but for such agreement. 
SEC. 531. None of the funds appropriated in this Act 
shall be expended or obligated by the Commissioner of So-
cial Security, for purposes of administering Social Security 
benefit payments under title II of the Social Security Act, 
to process claims for credit for quarters of coverage based 
on work performed under a social security account number 
that was not the claimant’s number which is an offense pro-
hibited under section 208 of the Social Security Act (42 
U.S.C. 408). 
SEC. 532. AMERICAN COMPETITIVENESS SCHOLAR-
SHIP PROGRAM.—(a) SHORT TITLE.—This section may be 
cited as the ‘‘American Competitiveness Scholarship Act of 
2007’’. 
(b) ESTABLISHMENT.—The Director of the National 
Science Foundation (referred to in this section as the ‘‘Di-
rector’’) shall award scholarships to eligible individuals to 
enable such individuals to pursue associate, undergraduate, 
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or graduate level degrees in mathematics, engineering, 
health care, or computer science. 
(c) ELIGIBILITY.— 
(1) IN
GENERAL.—To be eligible to receive a 
scholarship under this section, an individual shall— 
(A) be a citizen of the United States, a na-
tional of the United States (as defined in section 
101(a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act 
(8 U.S.C. 1101(a))), an alien admitted as a ref-
ugee under section 207 of such Act (8 U.S.C. 
1157), or an alien lawfully admitted to the 
United States for permanent residence; 
(B) prepare and submit to the Director an 
application at such time, in such manner, and 
containing such information as the Director may 
require; and 
(C) certify to the Director that the indi-
vidual intends to use amounts received under the 
scholarship to enroll or continue enrollment at 
an institution of higher education (as defined in 
section 101(a) of the Higher Education Act of 
1965 (20 U.S.C. 1001(a)) in order to pursue an 
associate, undergraduate, or graduate level de-
gree in mathematics, engineering, computer 
science, nursing, medicine, or other clinical med-
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ical program, or technology, or science program 
designated by the Director. 
(2) ABILITY.—Awards of scholarships under this 
section shall be made by the Director solely on the 
basis of the ability of the applicant, except that in 
any case in which 2 or more applicants for scholar-
ships are deemed by the Director to be possessed of 
substantially equal ability, and there are not suffi-
cient scholarships available to grant one to each of 
such applicants, the available scholarship or scholar-
ships shall be awarded to the applicants in a manner 
that will tend to result in a geographically wide dis-
tribution throughout the United States of recipients’ 
places of permanent residence. 
(d) AMOUNT OF SCHOLARSHIP; RENEWAL.— 
(1) AMOUNT OF SCHOLARSHIP.—The amount of 
a scholarship awarded under this section shall be 
$15,000 per year, except that no scholarship shall be 
greater than the annual cost of tuition and fees at the 
institution of higher education in which the scholar-
ship recipient is enrolled or will enroll. 
(2) RENEWAL.—The Director may renew a schol-
arship under this section for an eligible individual for 
not more than 4 years. 
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(e) FUNDING.—The Director shall carry out this sec-
tion only with funds made available under section 286(w) 
of the Immigration and Nationality Act, as added by sub-
section (g). 
(f) FEDERAL REGISTER.—Not later than 60 days after 
the date of the enactment of this Act, the Director shall pub-
lish in the Federal Register a list of eligible programs of 
study for a scholarship under this section. 
(g) SUPPLEMENTAL
H–1B
NONIMMIGRANT
PETI-
TIONER ACCOUNT; GIFTED
AND TALENTED STUDENTS 
EDUCATION ACCOUNT.—Section 286 of the Immigration 
and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1356) is amended by adding 
at the end the following: 
‘‘(w) SUPPLEMENTAL H–1B NONIMMIGRANT PETI-
TIONER ACCOUNT.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—There is established in the 
general fund of the Treasury a separate account, 
which shall be known as the ‘Supplemental H–1B 
Nonimmigrant Petitioner Account’. Notwithstanding 
any other section of this Act, there shall be deposited 
as offsetting receipts into the account 85.75 percent of 
the fees collected under section 214(c)(15)(B). 
‘‘(2) USE OF FEES FOR AMERICAN COMPETITIVE-
NESS SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM.—The amounts depos-
ited into the Supplemental H–1B Nonimmigrant Pe-
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