H. Res. 169
In the House of Representatives, U.S.,
June 19, 1997.
Resolved, That at any time after the adoption of this res-
olution the Speaker may, pursuant to clause 1(b) of rule
XXIII, declare the House resolved into the Committee of the
Whole House on the state of the Union for consideration of
the bill (H.R. 1119) to authorize appropriations for fiscal
years 1998 and 1999 for military activities of the Depart-
ment of Defense, to prescribe military personnel strengths for
fiscal years 1998 and 1999, and for other purposes. The first
reading of the bill shall be dispensed with. All points of order
against consideration of the bill are waived. General debate
shall be confined to the bill and the amendments made in
order by this resolution and shall not exceed two hours equal-
ly divided and controlled by the chairman and ranking minor-
ity member of the Committee on National Security. After
general debate the bill shall be considered for amendment
under the five-minute rule.
SEC. 2. (a) It shall be in order to consider as an original
bill for the purpose of amendment under the five-minute rule
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the amendment in the nature of a substitute recommended by
the Committee on National Security now printed in the bill.
The committee amendment in the nature of a substitute shall
be considered as read. All points of order against the commit-
tee amendment in the nature of a substitute are waived.
(b) No amendment to the committee amendment in the
nature of a substitute shall be in order except the amend-
ments printed in the report of the Committee on Rules ac-
companying this resolution and amendments en bloc de-
scribed in section 3 of this resolution.
(c) Except as specified in section 5 of this resolution,
each amendment printed in the report of the Committee on
Rules shall be considered only in the order printed in the re-
port, may be offered only by a Member designated in the re-
port, shall be considered as read, and shall not be subject to
a demand for division of the question in the House or in the
Committee of the Whole. Unless otherwise specified in the re-
port, each amendment printed in the report shall be debat-
able for ten minutes equally divided and controlled by the
proponent and an opponent and shall not be subject to
amendment (except that the chairman and ranking minority
member of the Committee on National Security each may
offer one pro forma amendment for the purpose of further
debate on any pending amendment).
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(d) All points of order against amendments printed in
the report of the Committee on Rules and amendments en
bloc described in section 3 of this resolution are waived.
(e) Consideration of the first two amendments in part 1
of the report of the Committee on Rules shall begin with an
additional period of general debate, which shall be confined
to the subject of United States forces in Bosnia and shall not
exceed one hour equally divided and controlled by the chair-
man and ranking minority member of the Committee on Na-
tional Security.
SEC. 3. It shall be in order at any time for the chairman
of the Committee on National Security or his designee to
offer amendments en bloc consisting of amendments printed
in part 2 of the report of the Committee on Rules not earlier
disposed of or germane modifications of any such amend-
ment. Amendments en bloc offered pursuant to this section
shall be considered as read (except that modifications shall be
reported), shall be debatable for twenty minutes equally di-
vided and controlled by the chairman and ranking minority
member of the Committee on National Security or their des-
ignees, shall not be subject to amendment, and shall not be
subject to a demand for division of the question in the House
or in the Committee of the Whole. For the purpose of inclu-
sion in such amendments en bloc, an amendment printed in
the form of a motion to strike may be modified to the form
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of a germane perfecting amendment to the text originally
proposed to be stricken. The original proponent of an amend-
ment included in such amendments en bloc may insert a
statement in the Congressional Record immediately before
the disposition of the amendment en bloc.
SEC. 4. The Chairman of the Committee of the Whole
may: (1) postpone until a time during further consideration
in the Committee of the Whole a request for a recorded vote
on any amendment; and (2) reduce to five minutes the mini-
mum time for electronic voting on any postponed question
that follows another electronic vote without intervening busi-
ness, provided that the minimum time for electronic voting on
the first in any series of questions shall be fifteen minutes.
SEC. 5. The Chairman of the Committee of the Whole
may recognize for consideration of any amendment printed in
the report of the Committee on Rules out of the order print-
ed, but not sooner than one hour after the chairman of the
Committee on National Security or a designee announces
from the floor a request to that effect.
SEC. 6. At the conclusion of consideration of the bill for
amendment the Committee shall rise and report the bill to
the House with such amendments as may have been adopted.
Any Member may demand a separate vote in the House on
any amendment adopted in the Committee of the Whole to
the bill or to the committee amendment in the nature of a
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substitute. The previous question shall be considered as or-
dered on the bill and amendments thereto to final passage
without intervening motion except one motion to recommit
with or without instructions.
SEC. 7. House Resolutions 161, 162, and 165 are laid
on the table.
SEC. 8. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this
resolution, the amendment numbered 7 in part 1 of House
Report 105–137 may be offered in the following modified
form, shall be debatable for 90 minutes equally divided and
controlled by Representative Dellums of California or his des-
ignee and an opponent, and shall otherwise be considered as
though printed in House Report 105–137:
At the end of title I (page 23, before line 7), insert the
following new sections:
SEC. 123. B–2 AIRCRAFT PROGRAM.
(a) PROHIBITION OF ADDITIONAL AIRCRAFT.—None of
the amount appropriated pursuant to the authorization of ap-
propriations in section 103(1) may be obligated for advanced
procurement of B–2 aircraft beyond the 21 deployable air-
craft authorized by law before the date of the enactment of
this Act.
(b) PRODUCTION LINE CURTAILMENT.—None of the
amount appropriated pursuant to the authorization of appro-
priations in section 103(1) may be obligated for reestablish-
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ment of the production line for B–2 aircraft. The Secretary
of the Air Force may use up to $21,800,000 of funds avail-
able for the B–2 aircraft program for curtailment of the B–
2 production line.
(c) FUNDING REDUCTION.—The amount provided in
section 103(1) for procurement of aircraft for the Air Force
is hereby reduced by $331,200,000.
SEC. 124. INCREASE IN AMOUNT FOR GUARD AND RESERVE
EQUIPMENT.
The amount provided in section 105 for procurement of
equipment for the reserve components is hereby increased by
$331,200,000.
(b) Notwithstanding any other provision of this resolu-
tion, the amendment numbered 15 in part 2 of House Report
105–137 may be offered in the following modified form, shall
be debatable for 20 minutes equally divided and controlled by
Representative Frank of Massachusetts or his designee and
an opponent, and shall otherwise be considered as though
printed in House Report 105–137:
At the end of title XII (page 379, after line 19), insert
the following new section:
SEC. 1205. LIMITATION ON PAYMENTS FOR COST OF NATO EX-
PANSION.
(a) The amount spent by the United States as its share
of the total cost to North Atlantic Treaty Organization mem-
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ber nations of the admission of new member nations to the
North American Treaty Organization may not exceed 10 per-
cent of the cost of expansion or a total of $2,000,000,000,
whichever is less, for fiscal years 1998 through 2010.
‘‘(b) If at any time during the period specified in sub-
section (a), the United States’ share of the total cost of ex-
panding the North Atlantic Treaty Organization exceeds 10
percent, no further United States funds may be expended for
the costs of such expansion until that percentage is reduced
to below 10 percent.’’.
(c) The following amendment may be offered by Rep-
resentative Everett of Alabama or his designee, shall be de-
batable for one hour equally divided and controlled by Rep-
resentative Everett or his designee and an opponent, and
shall be in order as though printed as the last amendment
in part 1 of House Report 105–137:
Strike out sections 332 through 335 (page 68, line 10
through page 77, line 21).
(d) The following amendment may be offered by Rep-
resentative Weldon of Pennsylvania or his designee and shall
be in order as though printed as the penultimate amendment
in part 2 of House Report 105–137:
At the end of title XII (page 379, after line 19), insert
the following new section:
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SEC. llll. SENSE OF CONGRESS ON NEED FOR RUSSIAN
OPENNESS 
ON 
THE 
YAMANTAU 
MOUNTAIN
PROJECT.
(a) FINDINGS.—Congress finds as follows:
(1) The United States and Russia have been work-
ing in the post-Cold War era to establish a new strategic
relationship based on cooperation and openness between
the two nations.
(2) This effort to establish a new strategic relation-
ship has resulted in the conclusion or agreement in prin-
ciple on a number of far-reaching agreements, including
START I, II, and III, a revision in the Conventional
Forces in Europe Treaty, and a series of other agree-
ments (such as the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty and
the Chemical Weapons Convention), designed to further
reduce bilateral threats and limit the proliferation of
weapons of mass destruction.
(3) These far-reaching agreements were based on
the understanding between the United States and Russia
that there would be a good faith effort on both sides to
comply with the letter and spirit of the agreements, that
both sides would end their Cold War competition, and
that neither side would seek to gain or maintain unilat-
eral strategic advantage over the other.
(4) Reports indicate that Russia has been pursuing
construction of a massive underground facility of un-
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known purpose at Yamantau Mountain and the city of
Mezhgorye (formerly the settlements of Beloretsk-15 and
Beloretsk-16) that is designed to survive a nuclear war
and appears to exceed reasonable defense requirements.
(5) The Yamantau Mountain project does not ap-
pear to be consistent with the lowering of strategic
threats, openness, and cooperation that is the basis of
the post-Cold War strategic partnership between the
United States and Russia.
(6) Russia appears to have engaged in a campaign
to deliberately conceal and mislead the United States
about the purpose of the Yamantau Mountain project, as
shown by the following:
(A) General and Bashkortostan, People’s Dep-
uty Leonid Akimovich Tsirkunov, commandant of
Beloretsk-15 and Beloretsk-16, stated in 1991 and
1992 that the purpose of the construction there was
to build a mining and ore-processing complex, but
later claimed that it was an underground warehouse
for food and clothing.
(B) M. Z. Shakiorov, a former communist offi-
cial in the region, alleged in 1992 that the
Yamantau Mountain facility was to become a shel-
ter for the Russian national leadership in case of
nuclear war.
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(C) Sources of the Segodnya newspaper in
1996 claimed that the Yamantau Mountain project
was associated with the so-called ‘‘Dead Hand’’ nu-
clear retaliatory command and control system for
strategic missiles.
(D) Then Commander-in-Chief of the Strategic
Rocket Forces General Igor Sergeyev denied that
the facility was associated with nuclear forces.
(E) R. Zhukov, a Deputy in the State Assem-
bly, in 1996 claimed that the Yamantau Mountain
facility belonged to ‘‘atomic scientists’’ and posed a
serious environmental hazard.
(F) Russia’s 1997 federal budget lists the
project as a closed territory containing installations
of the Ministry of Defense, while First Deputy De-
fense Minister Andrey Kokoshin recently stated that
the Ministry of Defense has nothing to do with the
project.
(7) Continued cooperation and progress on forging
a new strategic relationship between the United States
and Russia requires that both nations make transparent
to one another major projects underway or plans under
consideration that could alter the strategic balance
sought in arms control agreements or otherwise be con-
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strued by the other side as an important new potential
threat.
(8) The United States has allowed senior Russian
military and government officials to have access to key
strategic facilities of the United States by providing
tours of the North American Air Defense (NORAD)
command at Cheyenne Mountain and the United States
Strategic Command 
(STRACOM) 
headquarters 
in
Omaha, Nebraska, among other sites, and by providing
extensive briefings on the operations of those facilities.
(b) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—In light of the findings in
subsection (a), it is the sense of Congress that—
(1) the Russian government should provide to the
United States a written explanation on the principal and
secondary purposes of the Yamantau Mountain project,
specifically identifying the intended end user and ex-
plaining the heavy investment in that project;
(2) the Russian government should allow a United
States delegation, including officials of the executive
branch, Members of Congress, and United States experts
on underground facilities, to have access to the
Yamantau Mountain project to inspect the facility and
all rail-served buildings in the southern and northern
settlements located near Yamantau; and
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(3) the Russian government should direct senior of-
ficials responsible for the Yamantau Mountain project to
explain to such a United States delegation the purpose
and operational concept of all completed and planned
underground facilities at Yamantau Mountain in suffi-
cient detail (including through the use of drawings and
diagrams) to support a high-confidence judgment by the
United States delegation that the design is consistent
with the official explanations.
(e) The following amendment may be offered by Rep-
resentative Traficant of Ohio or his designee and shall be in
order as though printed as the last amendment in part 2 of
House Report 105–137:
At the end of subtitle C of title X (page 326, after line
6), insert the following new section:
SEC. 1032. ASSIGNMENT OF DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE PER-
SONNEL TO ASSIST IMMIGRATION AND NATU-
RALIZATION SERVICE AND CUSTOMS SERVICE.
(a) ASSIGNMENT AUTHORITY OF SECRETARY OF DE-
FENSE.—Chapter 18 of title 10, United States Code, is
amended by inserting after section 374 the following new sec-
tion:
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‘‘§ 374a. Assignment of personnel to assist border patrol
and control
‘‘(a) ASSIGNMENT AUTHORIZED.—The Secretary of De-
fense may assign up to 10,000 Department of Defense per-
sonnel at any one time to assist—
‘‘(1) the Immigration and Naturalization Service in
preventing the entry of terrorists, drug traffickers, and
illegal aliens into the United States; and
‘‘(2) the United States Customs Service in the in-
spection of cargo, vehicles, and aircraft at points of
entry into the United States.
‘‘(b) REQUEST FOR ASSIGNMENT.—The assignment of
Department of Defense personnel under subsection (a) may
only occur—
‘‘(1) at the request of the Attorney General, in the
case of an assignment to the Immigration and Natu-
ralization Service; and
‘‘(2) at the request of the Secretary of the Treas-
ury, in the case of an assignment to the United States
Customs Service.
‘‘(c) REIMBURSEMENT REQUIREMENT.—Section 377 of
this title shall apply in the case of Department of Defense
personnel assigned under subsection (a).’’.
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(b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of sections at
the beginning of such chapter is amended by inserting after
the item relating to section 374 the following new item:
‘‘374a. Assignment of personnel to assist border patrol and control.’’.
SEC. 9. Notwithstanding section 2(e) of this resolution,
the additional period of general debate on the subject of
United States forces in Bosnia shall precede the offering of
amendments numbered 8 and 9 in part 1 of the report of the
Committee on Rules rather than the amendments numbered
1 and 2 in part 1 of the report.
Attest:
Clerk.