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(2) The State Criminal Alien Assistance Pro-
gram (referred to in this section as ‘‘SCAAP’’) pro-
vides critical funding to States and localities for re-
imbursement of costs incurred as a result of housing
undocumented criminal aliens.
(3) Congress appropriated $250,000,000 for
SCAAP to reimburse State and local governments for
these costs in fiscal year 2003.
(4) Congress appropriated $300,000,000 for
SCAAP to reimburse State and local governments for
these costs in fiscal year 2004.
(5) Congress appropriated $305,000,000 for
SCAAP to reimburse State and local governments for
these costs in fiscal year 2005.
(b) SENSE OF THE SENATE.—It is the sense of the Sen-
ate that the levels in this concurrent resolution assume
that—
(1) Congress will appropriate $750,000,000 for
SCAAP for fiscal year 2006; and
(2) Congress will enact long-term reauthorization
of SCAAP to reimburse State and local governments
for the financial burdens undocumented criminal
aliens place on their local criminal justice systems.
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SEC. 513. SENSE OF THE SENATE REGARDING FUNDING
FOR 
SUBSONIC 
AND 
HYPERSONIC 
AERO-
NAUTICS RESEARCH BY THE NATIONAL AERO-
NAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION.
(a) FINDINGS.—The Senate makes the following find-
ings:
(1) The economic and military security of the
United States depends on the continued development
of improved aeronautics technologies.
(2) Research and development on many emerging
aeronautics technologies is often too expensive or re-
moved in terms of time from commercial application
to garner the necessary level of support from the pri-
vate sector.
(3) The advances made possible by Government-
funded research in emerging aeronautics technologies
have enabled a longstanding positive balance of trade
and air superiority on the battlefield for the United
States in recent decades.
(4) The aeronautics industry has grown increas-
ingly mature in recent years, with growth dependent
on the availability of the research workforce and fa-
cilities provided by the National Aeronautics and
Space Administration (NASA).
(5) Recent NASA studies have demonstrated the
competitiveness, and scientific merit, and necessity of
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nearly all existing aeronautics wind tunnel and pro-
pulsion testing facilities.
(6) A minimum level of investment by NASA is
necessary to maintain these facilities in operational
condition and to prevent their financial collapse.
(b) SENSE OF THE SENATE.—It is the sense of the Sen-
ate that—
(1) the level of funding provided for the Aero-
nautics Mission Directorate within the National Aero-
nautics and Space Administration should be in-
creased by $1,582,700,000 between fiscal year 2006
and fiscal year 2010; and
(2) the increases provided should be applied to
the Vehicle Systems portion of the Aeronautics Mis-
sion Directorate budget for use in subsonic and
hypersonic aeronautical research.
SEC. 514. SENSE OF THE SENATE CONCERNING CHILDREN
WITH HIV/AIDS.
(a) FINDINGS.—The Senate makes the following find-
ings:
(1) Approximately 2,200,000 children under the
age of 15 are infected with the HIV virus, and 1,900
children worldwide are infected with HIV each day.
(2) In 2004, it was estimated that of the
4,900,000 people newly infected with HIV, 640,000
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were children. The vast majority of them were in-
fected through mother-to-child transmission, which in-
cludes transmission at any point during pregnancy,
labor, delivery, or breastfeeding.
(3) Effective implementation of prevention of
mother-to-child transmission of HIV and care and
treatment services in the United States has resulted
in the near elimination (less than 2 percent trans-
mission) of mother-to-child transmission of HIV/
AIDS. By contrast, in resource-poor settings less than
10 percent of pregnant women living with HIV have
access to services to prevent mother-to-child trans-
mission of HIV.
(4) Currently, more than 4,000,000 children
worldwide are estimated to have died from AIDS.
(5) In 2004, approximately 510,000 children
died of AIDS, resulting in almost 1,400 AIDS deaths
in children per day.
(6) According to the Joint United Nations Pro-
gramme on HIV/AIDS, if current trends continue by
2010, 3,500,000 of the 45,000,000 people infected
worldwide will be children under the age of 15.
(7) At least a quarter of newborns infected with
HIV die before the age of one, up to 60 percent die