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priate, provide for special payments to the lessor if either
the Secretary terminates or cancels the lease prior to the
expiration of its term or the aircraft is damaged or de-
stroyed prior to the expiration of the term of the lease. In
the event of termination or cancellation of the lease, the
total value of such payments shall not exceed the value of
one year’s lease payment.
(e) OBLIGATION AND EXPENDITURE OF FUNDS.—Not-
withstanding any other provision of law—
(1) an obligation need not be recorded upon en-
tering into a lease under this section, in order to pro-
vide for the payments described in subsection (d); and
(2) any payments required under a lease under
this section, and any payments made pursuant to
subsection (d), may be made from—
(A) appropriations available for the per-
formance of the lease at the time the lease takes
effect;
(B) appropriations for the operation and
maintenance available at the time which the
payment is due; and
(C) funds appropriated for those payments.
(f) OTHER AUTHORITY PRESERVED.—The authority
granted to the Secretary of the Air Force by this section
is separate from and in addition to, and shall not be con-
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106TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 113
To remove certain restrictions on participation in the demonstration project
conducted by the Secretary of Defense to provide health care for Medi-
care-eligible Department of Defense beneficiaries under the Federal Em-
ployees Health Benefits program.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
JANUARY 6, 1999
Mr. CUNNINGHAM (for himself, Mr. HANSEN, Mr. MORAN of Virginia, Mr.
BILBRAY, and Ms. GRANGER) introduced the following bill; which was re-
ferred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Com-
mittee on Government Reform, for a period to be subsequently deter-
mined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions
as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned
A BILL
To remove certain restrictions on participation in the dem-
onstration project conducted by the Secretary of Defense
to provide health care for Medicare-eligible Department
of Defense beneficiaries under the Federal Employees
Health Benefits program.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. REMOVAL OF CERTAIN RESTRICTIONS ON PAR-
TICIPATION BY ELIGIBLE BENEFICIARIES IN
FEHBP DEMONSTRATION PROJECT.
(a) REMOVAL OF NUMERICAL RESTRICTIONS.—Sec-
tion 1108 of title 10, United States Code, is amended by
striking the second sentence of subsection (a).
(b) REMOVAL
OF GEOGRAPHIC RESTRICTIONS.—
Such section is further amended—
(1) in subsection (a), by striking ‘‘and residing
within one of the areas covered by the demonstration
project’’; and
(2) by striking subsection (c).
(c) ENROLLMENT PERIODS; TERMS
OF ENROLL-
MENT.—(1) Subsection (d)(2) of such section is amended
by striking ‘‘an open enrollment period for the year 2000
(conducted in the fall of 1999)’’ and inserting ‘‘open en-
rollment periods for the years 2000, 2001, and 2002 (con-
ducted in the fall of 1999, 2000, and 2001, respectively)’’.
(2) Subsection (f)(1) of such section is amended by
striking ‘‘who enrolls’’ and all that follows through ‘‘the
termination of the project’’ and inserting ‘‘shall be as fol-
lows unless the beneficiary disenrolls before the termi-
nation of the project:
‘‘(A) For an eligible beneficiary who enrolls in
the demonstration project during the open enroll-
ment period for the year 2000, 3 years.
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FARM SERVICE AGENCY
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
For an additional amount for ‘‘Salaries and Ex-
penses’’, $42,753,000, to remain available until expended:
Provided, That the entire amount is designated by the Con-
gress as an emergency requirement pursuant to section
251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Def-
icit Control Act of 1985, as amended.
AGRICULTURAL CREDIT INSURANCE FUND PROGRAM
ACCOUNT
For additional gross obligations for the principal
amount of direct and guaranteed loans as authorized by
7 U.S.C. 1928–1929, to be available from funds in the Agri-
cultural Credit Insurance Fund, as follows: farm ownership
loans, $550,000,000, of which $350,000,000 shall be for
guaranteed loans; operating loans, $370,000,000, of which
$185,000,000 shall be for subsidized guaranteed loans; and
for emergency insured loans, $175,000,000 to meet the needs
resulting from natural disasters.
For the additional cost of direct and guaranteed loans,
including the cost of modifying loans as defined in section
502 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, to remain
available until expended, as follows: farm ownership loans,
$35,505,000, of which $5,565,000 shall be for guaranteed
loans; operating loans, $28,804,000, of which $16,169,000
shall be for subsidized guaranteed loans; and for emergency
‘‘(B) For an eligible beneficiary who enrolls in the
demonstration project during the open enrollment period
for the year 2001, 2 years.
‘‘(C) For an eligible beneficiary who enrolls in the
demonstration project during the open enrollment period
for the year 2002, 1 year.’’.
(d) CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.—(1) Such section
is further amended—
(1) by redesignating subsections (d) through (l)
as subsections (c) through (k), respectively; and
(2) in subsection (j) (as redesignated by para-
graph (1)), by striking ‘‘subsection (j)(2)’’ and in-
serting ‘‘subsection (i)(2)’’.
(2) Section 8906 of title 5, United States Code, is
amended—
(A) in subsection (b)(4), by striking ‘‘subsection
(i)’’ and inserting ‘‘subsection (h)’’; and
(B) in subsection (g)(3), by striking ‘‘subsection
(i)’’ and inserting ‘‘subsection (h)’’.
(3) Section 724 of the Strom Thurmond National De-
fense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999 (Public Law
105–261; 112 Stat. 2069) is amended by striking ‘‘subjec-
tion (j)’’ and inserting ‘‘subsection (i)’’.
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106TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 1140
To authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make payments
to hospitals under the Medicare Program for costs associated with train-
ing psychologists.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
MARCH 16, 1999
Mrs. THURMAN introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Com-
mittee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Com-
merce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in
each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdic-
tion of the committee concerned
A BILL
To authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services
to make payments to hospitals under the Medicare Pro-
gram for costs associated with training psychologists.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. AUTHORITY TO INCLUDE COSTS OF TRAINING
OF PSYCHOLOGISTS IN PAYMENTS TO HOS-
PITALS UNDER MEDICARE.
Effective for cost reporting periods beginning on or
after October 1, 1999, for purposes of payments to hos-
pitals under the Medicare Program under title XVIII of
the Social Security Act for costs of approved educational
activities (as defined in section 413.85 of title 42 of the
Code of Federal Regulations), such approved educational
activities shall include professional educational training
programs, recognized by the Secretary, for psychologists.
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262r–2), as added by section 614 of the Foreign Operations,
Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations
Act, 1999, is amended by striking ‘‘June 30’’ and inserting
in lieu thereof ‘‘September 30’’.
SEC. 4004. The Department of the Interior and Re-
lated Agencies Appropriations Act, 1999 (as contained in
division A, section 101(e) of the Omnibus Consolidated and
Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act, 1999 (Public
Law 105–277)) is amended:
(1) in the last proviso under the heading
‘‘United States Fish and Wildlife Service, Adminis-
trative Provisions’’ by striking ‘‘section 104(c)(50)(B)
of the Marine Mammal Protection Act (16 U.S.C.
1361–1407)’’ and inserting in lieu thereof ‘‘section
104(c)(5)(B) of the Marine Mammal Protection Act of
1972 (16 U.S.C. 1361–1407)’’.
(2) under the heading ‘‘Bureau of Indian Af-
fairs, Operation of Indian Programs’’, by striking
‘‘$94,010,000’’ 
and 
inserting 
in 
lieu 
thereof
‘‘$94,046,000’’, by striking ‘‘$114,871,000’’ and in-
serting in lieu thereof ‘‘$114,891,000’’, by striking
‘‘$387,365,000’’ 
and 
inserting 
in 
lieu 
thereof
‘‘$389,307,000’’, and by striking ‘‘$52,889,000’’ and
inserting in lieu thereof ‘‘$53,039,000’’.
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(j) in title III under the heading ‘‘Education
Research, Statistics, and Improvement’’ by inserting
after the third proviso the following: ‘‘Provided fur-
ther, That of the funds appropriated under section
10601 of title X of the Elementary and Secondary
Education Act of 1965, as amended, $1,000,000
shall be used to conduct a violence prevention dem-
onstration program: Provided further, That of the
funds appropriated under section 10601 of title X of
the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of
1965, as amended, $50,000 shall be awarded to the
Center for Educational Technologies to conduct a
feasibility study and initial planning and design of
an effective CD ROM product that would com-
plement the book, We the People: The Citizen and
the Constitution:’’;
(k) in title III under the heading ‘‘Reading Ex-
cellence’’ by inserting before the period at the end
of the paragraph the following: ‘‘: Provided, That up
to one percent of the amount appropriated shall be
available October 1, 1998 for peer review of applica-
tions’’;
(l) in title V in section 510(3) by inserting after
‘‘Act’’ the following: ‘‘or subsequent Departments of
inserting after paragraph (38) the following new para-
graphs:
‘‘(38A) ‘master netting agreement’ means an
agreement providing for the exercise of rights, in-
cluding rights of netting, setoff, liquidation, termi-
nation, acceleration, or closeout, under or in connec-
tion with 1 or more contracts that are described in
any 1 or more of paragraphs (1) through (5) of sec-
tion 561(a), or any security agreement or arrange-
ment or other credit enhancement related to 1 or
more of the foregoing. If a master netting agreement
contains provisions relating to agreements or trans-
actions that are not contracts described in para-
graphs (1) through (5) of section 561(a), the master
netting agreement shall be deemed to be a master
netting agreement only with respect to those agree-
ments or transactions that are described in any 1 or
more of the paragraphs (1) through (5) of section
561(a);
‘‘(38B) ‘master netting agreement participant’
means an entity that, at any time before the filing
of the petition, is a party to an outstanding master
netting agreement with the debtor;’’.
(d) SWAP AGREEMENTS, SECURITIES CONTRACTS,
COMMODITY CONTRACTS, FORWARD CONTRACTS, REPUR-
IV 
108TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. RES. 653 
Honoring former President George Herbert Walker Bush on the occasion 
of his 80th birthday. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MAY 20, 2004 
Mr. HALL (for himself, Mr. BURGESS, Mr. NEUGEBAUER, Mr. SESSIONS, Mr. 
CARTER, Mr. BRADY of Texas, Mr. HENSARLING, Ms. GRANGER, Mr. 
STENHOLM, Mr. BONILLA, Mr. SAM JOHNSON of Texas, and Mr. BAR-
TON of Texas) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to 
the Committee on Government Reform 
RESOLUTION 
Honoring former President George Herbert Walker Bush 
on the occasion of his 80th birthday. 
Whereas President George Herbert Walker Bush served as 
the Forty-First President of the United States and 
brought to the White House a dedication to traditional 
American values and a commitment to use American 
strength as a force for good; 
Whereas, during his Presidency, the Communist empire dis-
solved, the Soviet Union ceased to exist, and the Berlin 
Wall fell; 
Whereas, during his Presidency, American troops overthrew 
the corrupt regime of General Manuel Noriega;
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Operations, Export Financing, and Related Pro-
grams’’ and inserting ‘‘520 of this Act’’.
SEC. 3004. Subsection 1706(b) of title XVII of the
International Financial Institutions Act (22 U.S.C. 262r–
262r–2), as added by section 614 of the Foreign Oper-
ations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appro-
priations Act, 1999, is amended by striking ‘‘June 30’’
and inserting ‘‘September 30’’.
SEC. 3005. The Department of the Interior and Re-
lated Agencies Appropriations Act, 1999 (as contained in
division A, section 101(e) of the Omnibus Consolidated
and Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act, 1999
(Public Law 105–277)) is amended—
(a) in the last proviso under the heading
‘‘United States Fish and Wildlife Service, Adminis-
trative 
Provisions’’ 
by 
striking 
‘‘section
104(c)(50)(B) of the Marine Mammal Protection
Act (16 U.S.C. 1361–1407)’’ and inserting ‘‘section
104(c)(5)(B) of the Marine Mammal Protection Act
of 1972 (16 U.S.C. 1361–1407)’’.
(b) in section 354(a) by striking ‘‘16 U.S.C.
544(a)(2))’’ and inserting ‘‘16 U.S.C. 544b(a)(2))’’.
(c) The amendments made by subsections (a)
and (b) of this section shall take effect as if included
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(i) an amount equal to 3 percent of
such portion shall be credited to the Depart-
ment of Justice Working Capital Fund in
accordance with subparagraph (A)(i); and
(ii) an amount equal to the balance of
such portion shall be available to the Sec-
retary of the Air Force for purposes of real
property and facility maintenance projects
at Ellsworth Air Force Base.
(2) LIMITATION ON AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS FOR
ACCESS ROAD.—
(A) LIMITATION.—The amounts referred to
in subparagraphs (A)(ii)(I) and (B)(ii) of para-
graph (1) shall be available as specified in such
subparagraphs only if, not later than September
30, 2000, the South Dakota Department of
Transportation enters into an agreement with
the Federal Highway Administration providing
for the construction of an interchange on Inter-
state Route 90 at Box Elder, South Dakota.
(B) 
ALTERNATIVE
AVAILABILITY
OF
FUNDS.—If the agreement described in subpara-
graph (A) is not entered into by the date referred
to in that subparagraph, the amounts described
in that subparagraph shall be available to the
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Secretary of the Air Force as of that date for
purposes of real property and facility mainte-
nance projects at Ellsworth Air Force Base.
(3) AVAILABILITY OF AMOUNTS.—
(A) ACCESS
ROAD.—Amounts available
under this section for construction of the access
road described in paragraph (1)(A)(ii)(I) are in
addition to amounts available for the construc-
tion of that access road under any other provi-
sion of law.
(B) PROPERTY AND FACILITY MAINTENANCE
PROJECTS.—Notwithstanding any other provi-
sion of law, amounts available under this section
for property and facility maintenance projects at
Ellsworth Air Force Base shall remain available
for expenditure without fiscal year limitation.
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Emergency Supple-
mental Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 1999’’.
Passed the House of Representatives March 24,
1999.
Attest:
JEFF TRANDAHL,
Clerk.
Passed the Senate March 25, 1999.
Attest:
GARY SISCO,
Secretary.
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CHAPTER 5
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
FOREST SERVICE
RECONSTRUCTION AND CONSTRUCTION
For an additional amount for ‘‘Reconstruction and
Construction’’, $5,611,000, to remain available until ex-
pended, to address damages from Hurricane Georges and
other natural disasters in Puerto Rico: Provided,That the
entire amount is designated by the Congress as an emer-
gency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the
Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of
1985, as amended: Provided further, That the amount pro-
vided shall be available only to the extent that an official
budget request that includes designation of the entire
amount as an emergency requirement pursuant to section
251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency
Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended, is transmitted
by the President to the Congress: Provided further, That
funds in this account may be transferred to and merged
with the ‘‘Forest and Rangeland Research’’ account and
the ‘‘National Forest System’’ account as needed to ad-
dress emergency requirements in Puerto Rico.
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priations that the Indonesian Government and Armed 
Forces are cooperating with the Federal Bureau of Inves-
tigation’s investigation into the August 31, 2002 murders 
of two American citizens and one Indonesian citizen in 
Timika, Indonesia. 
UNIVERSITY PROGRAMS 
SEC. 5076. Of the funds appropriated by this Act 
under the headings ‘‘Child Survival and Health Programs 
Fund’’, ‘‘Development Assistance’’, ‘‘Economic Support 
Fund’’, ‘‘Assistance for Eastern Europe and the Baltic 
States’’, and ‘‘Assistance for the Independent States of the 
Former Soviet Union’’, $40,000,000 shall be made available 
to the Office of the Higher Education Community Liaison 
in the Bureau for Economic Growth, Agriculture and Trade 
of the United States Agency for International Development 
and used for projects and activities of United States-based 
colleges and universities: Provided, That these funds shall 
be in addition to funds otherwise available under this Act 
for such programs. 
NIGERIA 
SEC. 5077. The President shall submit a report to the 
Committees on Appropriations describing the involvement 
of the Nigerian Armed Forces in the incident in Benue 
State, the measures that are being taken to bring such indi-
viduals to justice, and whether any Nigerian Armed Forces
(1) in section 362(b)(6), by striking ‘‘financial
institutions,’’ each place such term appears and in-
serting ‘‘financial institution, financial participant’’;
(2) in section 546(e), by inserting ‘‘financial
participant,’’ after ‘‘financial institution,’’;
(3) in section 548(d)(2)(B), by inserting ‘‘fi-
nancial participant,’’ after ‘‘financial institution,’’;
(4) in section 555—
(A) by inserting ‘‘financial participant,’’
after ‘‘financial institution,’’; and
(B) by inserting before the period at the
end ‘‘, a right set forth in a bylaw of a clearing
organization or contract market or in a resolu-
tion of the governing board thereof, and a right,
whether or not in writing, arising under com-
mon law, under law merchant, or by reason of
normal business practice’’; and
(5) in section 556, by inserting ‘‘, financial par-
ticipant’’ after ‘‘commodity broker’’.
(r) CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.—Title 11, United
States Code, is amended—
(1) in the table of sections of chapter 5—
(A) by amending the items relating to sec-
tions 555 and 556 to read as follows:
‘‘555. Contractual right to liquidate, terminate, or accelerate a securities con-
tract.
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106TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 1143
To establish a program to provide assistance for programs of credit and
other financial services for microenterprises in developing countries, and
for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
MARCH 17, 1999
Mr. GILMAN (for himself, Mr. GEJDENSON, Mr. HOUGHTON, Mr. HALL of
Ohio, Mr. BEREUTER, Mr. GOODLING, Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN, Mr. PAYNE,
Mr. ROHRABACHER, Mr. LANTOS, Mr. OBERSTAR, Mr. BILBRAY, Mr.
MEEHAN, Mr. DELAHUNT, Mr. ANDREWS, Mrs. MEEK of Florida, Mrs.
MORELLA, Mr. POMEROY, Mr. MCHUGH, Mr. FILNER, Mr. TANCREDO,
Mr. BROWN of Ohio, Mr. FALEOMAVAEGA, Mr. LAFALCE, and Mr.
GREENWOOD) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the
Committee on International Relations
A BILL
To establish a program to provide assistance for programs
of credit and other financial services for microenterprises
in developing countries, 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. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Microenterprise for
Self-Reliance Act of 1999’’.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS AND DECLARATIONS OF POLICY.
The Congress makes the following findings and dec-
larations:
(1) According to the World Bank, more than
1,200,000,000 people in the developing world, or
one-fifth of the world’s population, subsist on less
than $1 a day.
(2) Over 32,000 of their children die each day
from largely preventable malnutrition and disease.
(3)(A) Women in poverty generally have larger
work loads and less access to educational and eco-
nomic opportunities than their male counterparts.
(B) Directly aiding the poorest of the poor, es-
pecially women, in the developing world has a posi-
tive effect not only on family incomes, but also on
child nutrition, health and education, as women in
particular reinvest income in their families.
(4)(A) The poor in the developing world, par-
ticularly women, generally lack stable employment
and social safety nets.
(B) Many turn to self-employment to generate
a substantial portion of their livelihood. In Africa,
over 80 percent of employment is generated in the
informal sector of the self-employed poor.
(C) These poor entrepreneurs are often trapped
in poverty because they cannot obtain credit at rea-
sonable rates to build their asset base or expand
their otherwise viable self-employment activities.
(D) Many of the poor are forced to pay interest
rates as high as 10 percent per day to money lend-
ers.
(5)(A) The poor are able to expand their in-
comes and their businesses dramatically when they
can access loans at reasonable interest rates.
(B) Through the development of self-sustaining
microfinance programs, poor people themselves can
lead the fight against hunger and poverty.
(6)(A) On February 2–4, 1997, a global Micro-
credit Summit was held in Washington, District of
Columbia, to launch a plan to expand access to cred-
it for self-employment and other financial and busi-
ness services to 100,000,000 of the world’s poorest
families, especially the women of those families, by
2005. While this scale of outreach may not be
achievable in this short-time frame, the realization of
this goal could dramatically alter the face of global
poverty.
(B) With an average family size of five, achiev-
ing this goal will mean that the benefits of micro-
finance will thereby reach nearly half of the world’s
more than 1,000,000,000 absolute poor people.
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106TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 1144
To amend the Federal Meat Inspection Act to require that all meat and
meat food products, whether domestic or imported, bear a label notifying
the ultimate purchaser of meat and meat food products of the country
of origin of the livestock that is the source of the meat and meat
food products.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
MARCH 17, 1999
Mrs. CHENOWETH (for herself, Mr. POMEROY, Mr. TRAFICANT, Mrs. BONO,
Mr. SHOWS, Mr. PHELPS, Mr. MICA, Mr. HERGER, Mr. CHAMBLISS, Mr.
HILL of Montana, Mrs. EMERSON, Mr. LATOURETTE, Mr. SESSIONS, Mr.
BARTLETT of Maryland, Mr. MCHUGH, Mr. NORWOOD, Mr. DOOLITTLE,
Mr. WATTS of Oklahoma, Mr. HALL of Texas, Mr. HUNTER, Mrs. THUR-
MAN, Mr. ROHRABACHER, Mr. SMITH of New Jersey, Mr. WELLER, Mr.
WATKINS, Mr. EDWARDS, Mr. SANDERS, Mr. REGULA, Mr. EVANS, Mrs.
CUBIN, Mr. WELDON of Florida, Mr. COBURN, Mr. KUCINICH, Ms. KAP-
TUR, and Mr. THUNE) introduced the following bill; which was referred
to the Committee on Agriculture
A BILL
To amend the Federal Meat Inspection Act to require that
all meat and meat food products, whether domestic or
imported, bear a label notifying the ultimate purchaser
of meat and meat food products of the country of origin
of the livestock that is the source of the meat and
meat food products.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,