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TITLE 
II—MULTI-JURISDIC-
TIONAL 
ANTI-GANG 
TASK 
FORCES 
SEC. 201. ASSISTANCE FOR MULTI-JURISDICTIONAL ANTI- 
GANG TASK FORCES. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Attorney general, in con-
sultation with appropriate State and local officials, shall— 
(1) establish anti-gang task forces, consisting of 
Federal, State, and local law enforcement authori-
ties, for the coordinated investigation, disruption, 
apprehension, and prosecution of criminal gangs and 
offenders; 
(2) direct the reassignment or detailing from 
any Federal department or agency (subject to the 
approval of the head of that department or agency, 
in the case of a department or agency other than the 
Department of Justice) of personnel to each task 
force; 
(3) provide all necessary funding for the oper-
ation of the task force; and 
(4) provide all necessary funding for national 
and regional meetings of task forces, and all other 
related organizations, as needed, to ensure effective 
operation of such teams through the sharing of intel-
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ligence, best practices and for any other related pur-
pose. 
(b) MEMBERSHIP.—The task forces shall consist of 
agents and officers, where feasible, from— 
(1) the Federal Bureau of Investigation; 
(2) the Drug Enforcement Administration; 
(3) the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, 
and Explosives; 
(4) the United States Marshals Service; 
(5) the Directorate of Border and Transpor-
tation Security of the Department of Homeland Se-
curity; 
(6) the Department of Housing and Urban De-
velopment; 
(7) State and local law enforcement; and 
(8) Federal, State, and local prosecutors. 
(c) AUTHORIZATION
OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 
are authorized to be appropriated $20,000,000 for each 
of the fiscal years 2008 through 2011 to carry out this 
section. 
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(1) In recent years it has become clear that 
programs funded by the Edward Byrne Memorial 
Justice Assistance Grant program (referred to in 
this Act as the ‘‘Byrne grants program’’) have per-
petuated racial disparities, corruption in law enforce-
ment, and the commission of civil rights abuses 
across the country. This is especially the case when 
it comes to the program’s funding of hundreds of re-
gional antidrug task forces because the grants for 
these antidrug task forces have been dispensed to 
State governments with very little Federal oversight 
and have been prone to misuse and corruption. 
(2) Numerous Government Accountability Of-
fice reports have found that the Department of Jus-
tice has inadequately monitored grants provided 
under the Byrne grants program. A 2001 General 
Accounting Office report found that one-third of the 
grants did not contain required monitoring plans. 
Seventy percent of files on such grants did not con-
tain required progress reports. Forty-one percent of 
such files did not contain financial reports covering 
the full grant period. A 2002 report by the Heritage 
Foundation reported that ‘‘there is virtually no evi-
dence’’ that the Byrne grants program has been suc-
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such property shall be extended until the due date of
the return for the taxable year in which such property
is disposed of (or, in the case of property disposed of
in a transaction in which gain is not recognized in
whole or in part, until such other date as the Sec-
retary may prescribe).
‘‘(2) DETERMINATION OF TAX WITH RESPECT TO
PROPERTY.—For purposes of paragraph (1), the addi-
tional tax attributable to any property is an amount
which bears the same ratio to the additional tax im-
posed by this chapter for the taxable year solely by
reason of subsection (a) as the gain taken into ac-
count under subsection (a) with respect to such prop-
erty bears to the total gain taken into account under
subsection (a) with respect to all property to which
subsection (a) applies.
‘‘(3) TERMINATION
OF
EXTENSION.—The due
date for payment of tax may not be extended under
this subsection later than the due date for the return
of tax imposed by this chapter for the taxable year
which includes the date of death of the expatriate (or,
if earlier, the time that the security provided with re-
spect to the property fails to meet the requirements of
paragraph (4), unless the taxpayer corrects such fail-
ure within the time specified by the Secretary).
I 
110TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 224 
To provide that no Federal funds may be used for the design, renovation, 
construction, or rental of any headquarters for the United Nations in 
any location in the United States unless the President transmits to 
Congress a certification that the United Nations has adopted internation-
ally-recognized best practices in contracting and procurement. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JANUARY 4, 2007 
Mr. STEARNS introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Foreign Affairs 
A BILL 
To provide that no Federal funds may be used for the 
design, renovation, construction, or rental of any head-
quarters for the United Nations in any location in the 
United States unless the President transmits to Congress 
a certification that the United Nations has adopted inter-
nationally-recognized best practices in contracting and 
procurement. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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SECTION 1. PROHIBITION OF FEDERAL FUNDS FOR THE 
DESIGN, RENOVATION, CONSTRUCTION, OR 
RENTAL OF ANY HEADQUARTERS FOR THE 
UNITED NATIONS IN ANY LOCATION IN THE 
UNITED STATES. 
(a) PROHIBITION.—No Federal funds may be used 
for the design, renovation, construction, or rental of any 
headquarters for the United Nations in any location in 
the United States. 
(b) EXCEPTION.—Subsection (a) shall cease to be ef-
fective if the President transmits to Congress a certifi-
cation that the United Nations has adopted internation-
ally-recognized best practices in contracting and procure-
ment. 
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110TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2467 
AN ACT 
To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service 
located at 69 Montgomery Street in Jersey City, New 
Jersey, as the ‘‘Frank J. Guarini Post Office Building’’. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. FRANK J. GUARINI POST OFFICE BUILDING. 
(a) DESIGNATION.—The facility of the United States 
Postal Service located at 69 Montgomery Street in Jersey 
City, New Jersey, shall be known and designated as the 
‘‘Frank J. Guarini Post Office Building’’. 
(b) REFERENCES.—Any reference in a law, map, reg-
ulation, document, paper, or other record of the United 
States to the facility referred to in subsection (a) shall 
be deemed to be a reference to the ‘‘Frank J. Guarini Post 
Office Building’’. 
Passed the House of Representatives September 10, 
2007. 
Attest: 
Clerk.
110TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 2467 
AN ACT 
To designate the facility of the United States Post-
al Service located at 69 Montgomery Street in 
Jersey City, New Jersey, as the ‘‘Frank J. Guar-
ini Post Office Building’’.
cessful in reducing crime and that the program lacks 
‘‘adequate measures of performance’’. 
(3) A 2002 report by the American Civil Lib-
erties Union of Texas identified 17 recent scandals 
involving antidrug task forces in Texas that receive 
funds under the Byrne grants program. Such scan-
dals include cases of the falsification of government 
records, witness tampering, fabricating evidence, 
false imprisonment, stealing drugs from evidence 
lockers, selling drugs to children, large-scale racial 
profiling, sexual harassment, and other abuses of of-
ficial capacity. Recent scandals in other States in-
clude the misuse of millions of dollars in Byrne 
grants program money in Kentucky and Massachu-
setts, wrongful convictions based on police perjury in 
Missouri, and negotiations with drug offenders to 
drop or lower their charges in exchange for money 
or vehicles in Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Massa-
chusetts, New York, Ohio, and Wisconsin. 
(4) The most well-known Byrne-funded task 
force scandal occurred in Tulia, Texas, where dozens 
of African American residents (totaling over 16 per-
cent of the town’s African American population) 
were arrested, prosecuted, and sentenced to decades 
in prison, based solely on the uncorroborated testi-
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I 
110TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2250 
To prevent inappropriate litigation against the United States. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MAY 9, 2007 
Mr. MCCAUL of Texas (for himself, Mr. BRADY of Texas, Mr. GOHMERT, and 
Mr. POE) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Com-
mittee on the Judiciary 
A BILL 
To prevent inappropriate litigation against the United States. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. LIMITATION ON USE OF APPROPRIATED 
FUNDS. 
None of the sums appropriated in any Act of Con-
gress, whether enacted before or after the enactment of 
this Act, shall be used or made available to pay any claim 
against the United States by Osvaldo Aldrete-Davila aris-
ing out of the conduct of Ignacio Ramos, Jose Alonso 
Compean, or any other person engaging in duties as an 
employee of the Government on February 17, 2005. 
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SEC. 2. NONWAIVER OF SOVEREIGN IMMUNITY. 
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the 
United States does not consent to the commencement or 
maintenance of any civil action against the United States 
by Osvaldo Aldrete-Davila arising out of the conduct of 
Ignacio Ramos or Jose Alonso Compean, or any other per-
son engaging in duties as an employee of the Government 
on February 17, 2005. 
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H. R. 2467 
One Hundred Tenth Congress 
of the 
United States of America 
AT THE FIRST SESSION 
Begun and held at the City of Washington on Thursday, 
the fourth day of January, two thousand and seven 
An Act 
To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 69 Mont-
gomery Street in Jersey City, New Jersey, as the ‘‘Frank J. Guarini Post Office 
Building’’. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of 
the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. FRANK J. GUARINI POST OFFICE BUILDING. 
(a) DESIGNATION.—The facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 69 Montgomery Street in Jersey City, New Jersey, 
shall be known and designated as the ‘‘Frank J. Guarini Post 
Office Building’’. 
(b) REFERENCES.—Any reference in a law, map, regulation, 
document, paper, or other record of the United States to the facility 
referred to in subsection (a) shall be deemed to be a reference 
to the ‘‘Frank J. Guarini Post Office Building’’. 
Speaker of the House of Representatives. 
Vice President of the United States and
President of the Senate.
mony of one undercover officer whose background 
included past allegations of misconduct, sexual har-
assment, unpaid debts, and habitual use of a racial 
epithet. The undercover officer was allowed to work 
alone, and not required to provide audiotapes, video 
surveillance, or eyewitnesses to corroborate his alle-
gations. Despite the lack of physical evidence or cor-
roboration, the charges were vigorously prosecuted. 
After the first few trials resulted in convictions and 
lengthy sentences, many defendants accepted plea 
bargains. Suspicions regarding the legitimacy of the 
charges eventually arose after two of the accused de-
fendants were able to produce convincing alibi evi-
dence to prove that they were out of State or at 
work at the time of the alleged drug purchases. 
Texas Governor Rick Perry eventually pardoned the 
Tulia defendants (after four years of imprisonment), 
but these kinds of scandals continue to plague Byrne 
grant program spending. 
(5) A case arose in a Federal court in Waco, 
Texas concerning the wrongful arrests of 28 African 
Americans out of 4,500 other residents of Hearne, 
Texas. In November 2000 these individuals were ar-
rested on charges of possession or distribution of 
crack cocaine, and they subsequently filed a case 
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against the county government. On May 11, 2005, 
a magistrate judge found sufficient evidence that a 
Byrne-funded anti-drug task force had routinely tar-
geted African Americans to hold the county liable 
for the harm suffered by the plaintiffs. Plaintiffs in 
that lawsuit alleged that for the past 15 years, based 
on the uncorroborated tales of informants, task force 
members annually raided the African American com-
munity in eastern Hearne to arrest the residents 
identified by the confidential informants, resulting in 
the arrest and prosecution of innocent citizens with-
out cause. On the eve of trial the counties involved 
in the Hearne task force scandal settled the case, 
agreeing to pay financial damages to the plaintiffs. 
(6) Scandals related to the Byrne grants pro-
gram have grown so prolific that the Texas legisla-
ture has passed several reforms in response to them, 
including outlawing racial profiling and changing 
Texas law to prohibit drug offense convictions based 
solely on the word of an undercover informant. The 
Criminal Jurisprudence Committee of the Texas 
House of Representatives issued a report in 2004 
recommending that all of the State’s federally fund-
ed antidrug task forces be abolished because they 
are inherently prone to corruption. The Committee 
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I 
110TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2467 
To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 
69 Montgomery Street in Jersey City, New Jersey, as the ‘‘Frank J. 
Guarini Post Office Building’’. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MAY 23, 2007 
Mr. SIRES (for himself, Mr. PALLONE, Mr. PASCRELL, Mr. ANDREWS, Mr. 
HOLT, Mr. PAYNE, Mr. ROTHMAN, Mr. SAXTON, Mr. LOBIONDO, Mr. 
FRELINGHUYSEN, and Mr. FERGUSON) introduced the following bill; 
which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Re-
form 
A BILL 
To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service 
located at 69 Montgomery Street in Jersey City, New 
Jersey, as the ‘‘Frank J. Guarini Post Office Building’’. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. FRANK J. GUARINI POST OFFICE BUILDING. 
(a) DESIGNATION.—The facility of the United States 
Postal Service located at 69 Montgomery Street in Jersey 
City, New Jersey, shall be known and designated as the 
‘‘Frank J. Guarini Post Office Building’’. 
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‘‘(4) SECURITY.—
‘‘(A) IN
GENERAL.—No election may be
made under paragraph (1) with respect to any
property unless adequate security is provided
with respect to such property.
‘‘(B) ADEQUATE SECURITY.—For purposes
of subparagraph (A), security with respect to
any property shall be treated as adequate secu-
rity if—
‘‘(i) it is a bond which is furnished to,
and accepted by, the Secretary, which is
conditioned on the payment of tax (and in-
terest thereon), and which meets the require-
ments of section 6325, or
‘‘(ii) it is another form of security for
such payment (including letters of credit)
that meets such requirements as the Sec-
retary may prescribe.
‘‘(5) WAIVER OF CERTAIN RIGHTS.—No election
may be made under paragraph (1) unless the tax-
payer makes an irrevocable waiver of any right under
any treaty of the United States which would preclude
assessment or collection of any tax imposed by reason
of this section.
(b) REFERENCES.—Any reference in a law, map, reg-
ulation, document, paper, or other record of the United 
States to the facility referred to in subsection (a) shall 
be deemed to be a reference to the ‘‘Frank J. Guarini Post 
Office Building’’. 
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reported, ‘‘Continuing to sanction task force oper-
ations as stand-alone law enforcement entities—with 
widespread authority to operate at will across mul-
tiple jurisdictional lines—should not continue. The 
current approach violates practically every sound 
principle of police oversight and accountability appli-
cable to narcotics interdiction.’’ The Texas legisla-
ture passed a law that ends the ability of a narcotics 
task force to operate as an entity with no clear ac-
countability. The legislation transfers authority for 
multicounty drug task forces to the Department of 
Public Safety and channels one-quarter of asset for-
feiture proceeds received by the task forces to a spe-
cial fund to support drug abuse prevention pro-
grams, drug treatment, and other programs de-
signed to reduce drug use in the county where the 
assets are seized. 
(7) Texas’s ‘‘corroboration’’ law was passed 
thanks to a coalition of Christian conservatives and 
civil rights activists. As one Texas preacher related, 
requiring corroboration ‘‘puts a protective hedge 
around the ninth commandment, ‘You shall not bear 
false witness against your neighbor.’ As long as peo-
ple bear false witness against their neighbors, this 
Biblical law will not be outdated.’’ 
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IIB 
110TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2467 
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 
SEPTEMBER 11, 2007 
Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and 
Governmental Affairs 
AN ACT 
To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service 
located at 69 Montgomery Street in Jersey City, New 
Jersey, as the ‘‘Frank J. Guarini Post Office Building’’. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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than dishonorable. For purposes of this 
clause, the term ‘families whose housing 
needs are difficult to fulfill’ shall not in-
clude any individuals, or any categories of 
individuals, who have been released from a 
prison, jail, or other correctional facility of 
the Federal Government, a State govern-
ment, or a unit of general local govern-
ment, notwithstanding whether such indi-
viduals are not ineligible for occupancy in 
public housing pursuant to subsection 
(m)(2), have not been arrested for or 
charged with any crime during any specific 
period, or are individuals for whom hous-
ing is a critical need. 
‘‘(xiv) FAMILY-FRIENDLY HOUSING.— 
The extent to which replacement housing 
units provided through the revitalization 
plan contain a sufficient number of bed-
rooms to prevent overcrowding. 
‘‘(xv) ADDITIONAL ON-SITE MIXED-IN-
COME HOUSING.—The extent to which the 
one-for-one replacement plan under sub-
paragraph (B)(v) provides public housing 
units in addition to the number necessary
HR 2467 RFS 
SECTION 1. FRANK J. GUARINI POST OFFICE BUILDING. 
(a) DESIGNATION.—The facility of the United States 
Postal Service located at 69 Montgomery Street in Jersey 
City, New Jersey, shall be known and designated as the 
‘‘Frank J. Guarini Post Office Building’’. 
(b) REFERENCES.—Any reference in a law, map, reg-
ulation, document, paper, or other record of the United 
States to the facility referred to in subsection (a) shall 
be deemed to be a reference to the ‘‘Frank J. Guarini Post 
Office Building’’. 
Passed the House of Representatives September 10, 
2007. 
Attest: 
LORRAINE C. MILLER, 
Clerk. 
By JORGE E. SORENSEN 
Deputy Clerk. 
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II 
Calendar No. 389 
110TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2467 
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 
SEPTEMBER 11, 2007 
Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and 
Governmental Affairs 
SEPTEMBER 26, 2007 
Reported by Mr. LIEBERMAN, without amendment 
AN ACT 
To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service 
located at 69 Montgomery Street in Jersey City, New 
Jersey, as the ‘‘Frank J. Guarini Post Office Building’’. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. FRANK J. GUARINI POST OFFICE BUILDING. 
(a) DESIGNATION.—The facility of the United States 
Postal Service located at 69 Montgomery Street in Jersey 
City, New Jersey, shall be known and designated as the 
‘‘Frank J. Guarini Post Office Building’’. 
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(b) REFERENCES.—Any reference in a law, map, reg-
ulation, document, paper, or other record of the United 
States to the facility referred to in subsection (a) shall 
be deemed to be a reference to the ‘‘Frank J. Guarini Post 
Office Building’’. 
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Calendar No. 389 
110TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 2467 
AN ACT 
To designate the facility of the United States Post-
al Service located at 69 Montgomery Street in 
Jersey City, New Jersey, as the ‘‘Frank J. Guar-
ini Post Office Building’’. 
SEPTEMBER 26, 2007 
Reported without amendment 
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