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(2) 2 individuals appointed by the Speaker of 
the House of Representatives. 
(3) 2 individuals appointed by the minority 
leader of the House of Representatives. 
(4) 2 individuals appointed by the majority 
leader of the Senate. 
(5) 2 individuals appointed by the minority 
leader of the Senate. 
(b) QUALIFICATIONS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Members shall be experts in 
the fields of labor, employment, economics, and psy-
chology. 
(2) POLITICAL
AFFILIATION.—Political affili-
ation shall not be a factor in the appointment of 
members. 
(c) DEADLINE FOR APPOINTMENT.—Each member 
shall be appointed to the Commission not later than 90 
days after the date of the enactment of this Act. 
(d) TERMS.—Each member shall be appointed for the 
life of the Commission. 
(e) VACANCIES.—A vacancy in the Commission shall 
be filled in the manner in which the original appointment 
was made. 
(f) BASIC PAY.—Members shall serve without pay. 
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to the Secretary shall be fined not less than $25,000 
($200,000 in the case of a corporation), or imprisoned not 
more than 5 years, or both, together with the costs of 
prosecution.’’. 
(b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by 
this section shall apply to returns and information sub-
mitted after the date of the enactment of this Act. 
SEC. 5. INCREASED PENALTY FOR IMPROPER DISCLOSURE 
OR USE OF INFORMATION BY PREPARERS OF 
RETURNS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 6713(a) of the Internal 
Revenue Code of 1986 is amended— 
(1) by striking ‘‘$250’’ and inserting ‘‘$1,000’’, 
and 
(2) by striking ‘‘$10,000’’ and inserting 
‘‘$50,000’’. 
(b) CRIMINAL PENALTY.—Section 7216(a) of the In-
ternal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by striking 
‘‘$1,000’’ and inserting ‘‘$100,000’’. 
(c) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by 
this section shall apply to disclosures or uses after the date 
of the enactment of this Act. 
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BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS
OPERATION OF INDIAN PROGRAMS
For operation of Indian programs by direct expendi-
ture, contracts, cooperative agreements, and grants in-
cluding expenses necessary to provide education and wel-
fare services for Indians, either directly or in cooperation
with States and other organizations, including payment of
care, tuition, assistance, and other expenses of Indians in
boarding homes, or institutions, or schools; grants and
other assistance to needy Indians; maintenance of law and
order; management, development, improvement, and pro-
tection of resources and appurtenant facilities under the
jurisdiction of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, including pay-
ment of irrigation assessments and charges; acquisition of
water rights; advances for Indian industrial and business
enterprises; operation of Indian arts and crafts shops and
museums; development of Indian arts and crafts, as au-
thorized by law; for the general administration of the Bu-
reau of Indian Affairs, including such expenses in field
offices; maintaining of Indian reservation roads as defined
in section 101 of title 23, United States Code; and con-
struction, repair, and improvement of Indian housing,
Ω35æ$1,492,650,000
$1,489,885,000, 
including
$316,111,000 for school operations costs of Bureau-fund-
ed schools and other education programs which shall be-
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come available for obligation on July 1, 1994, and shall
remain available for obligation until September 30, 1995,
and Ω36æ$52,582,000 $49,226,000 for housing and road
maintenance programs, to remain available until ex-
pended, and of which, payments of funds obligated as
grants to schools pursuant to Public Law 100–297 shall
be made on July 1 and December 1 in lieu of the payments
authorized to be made on October 1 and January 1 of
each calendar year, and of which not to exceed
$74,764,000 for higher education scholarships, adult voca-
tional training, and assistance to public schools under the
Act of April 16, 1934 (48 Stat. 596), as amended (25
U.S.C. 452 et seq.), shall remain available for obligation
until September 30, 1995; and the funds made available
to tribes and tribal organizations through contracts or
grants obligated during fiscal year 1994 as authorized by
the Indian Self-Determination Act of 1975 (88 Stat.
2203; 25 U.S.C. 450 et seq.), or grants authorized by the
Indian Education Amendments of 1988 (25 U.S.C. 2001
and 2008A) shall remain available until expended by the
contractor or grantee; and of which Ω37æ$1,983,000
$2,483,000 for litigation support shall remain available
until expended, $4,934,000 for self-governance tribal com-
pacts shall be made available on completion and submis-
sion of such compacts to the Congress, and shall remain
I 
112TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3447 
To require proprietary institutions of higher education to derive not less 
than 10 percent of such institutions’ revenues from sources other than 
veterans’ education benefits or funds provided under title IV of the 
Higher Education Act of 1965. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
NOVEMBER 16, 2011 
Mr. QUIGLEY introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Education and the Workforce 
A BILL 
To require proprietary institutions of higher education to 
derive not less than 10 percent of such institutions’ 
revenues from sources other than veterans’ education 
benefits or funds provided under title IV of the Higher 
Education Act of 1965. 
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 ‘‘Veterans’ Education 
Protection Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. REVISION OF 90–10 RULE. 
(a) REVISION OF 90–10 RULE.—Section 487(a)(24) 
of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 
1094(a)(24)) is amended by inserting after ‘‘other than’’ 
the following: ‘‘veterans’ education benefits (as defined in 
section 480(c)) or’’. 
(b) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—The heading for 
subsection (d) of section 487 of the Higher Education Act 
of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1094(d)) is amended by inserting after 
‘‘NON-TITLE IV’’ the following: ‘‘AND NON-VETERANS’ 
EDUCATION BENEFITS’’. 
SEC. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE. 
The amendment made by section 2 shall be effective 
July 1, 2012. 
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tion, $61,610,000 $76,204,000, to be derived from the
Land and Water Conservation Fund, to remain available
until expended.
COOPERATIVE ENDANGERED SPECIES CONSERVATION
FUND
For expenses necessary to carry out the provisions
of the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 1531–
1543), as amended by Public Law 100–478, $9,571,000
$8,571,000 for Grants to States, to be derived from the
Cooperative Endangered Species Conservation Fund, and
to remain available until expended.
NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE FUND
For expenses necessary to implement the Act of Octo-
ber 17, 1978 (16 U.S.C. 715s), $11,748,000 $13,748,000.
REWARDS AND OPERATIONS
For expenses necessary to carry out the provisions
of the African Elephant Conservation Act (16 U.S.C.
4201–4203, 4211–4213, 4221–4225, 4241–4245, and
1538), $1,169,000, to remain available until expended.
NORTH AMERICAN WETLANDS CONSERVATION FUND
For expenses necessary to carry out the provisions
of the North American Wetlands Conservation Act, Public
Law 101–233, $11,257,000 $13,257,000, and in fiscal year
1992 and thereafter, amounts received during the imme-
diately preceding fiscal year under section 6 of the Migra-
tory Bird Treaty Act (16 U.S.C. 707) as penalties or fines
ity relationship therein, and risks and opportunities 
therein; and 
(2) be informed by any changes or updates to 
the National Defense Strategy, National Military 
Strategy, national counterterrorism policy, homeland 
security policy, and the operational or contingency 
plans of the combatant commanders. 
(c) REPORT TO CONGRESS.—The Secretary of De-
fense shall submit to Congress a report on the strategy 
and plan required in subsection (a) and the results of the 
biennial reports required in subsection (b). Such reports 
shall include: 
(1) A full description of the strategy required in 
subsection (a). 
(2) A complete description of the current supply 
chain and industrial base structure, an analysis of 
the landscape and activity relationship of the entities 
within the supply chain, and industrial base business 
network. 
(3) A description and analysis of the risks and 
challenges associated with disruption to the defense 
supply chain and industrial base. 
(4) The basis for the Secretary’s determination 
and prioritization of such risks and challenges. 
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adjacent to such grant lands; $83,052,000, to remain
available until expended: Provided, That 25 per centum
of the aggregate of all receipts during the current fiscal
year from the revested Oregon and California Railroad
grant lands is hereby made a charge against the Oregon
and California landgrant fund and shall be transferred to
the General Fund in the Treasury in accordance with the
provisions of the second paragraph of subsection (b) of
title II of the Act of August 28, 1937 (50 Stat. 876).
Ω4æRANGE IMPROVEMENTS
For rehabilitation, protection, and acquisition of lands
and interests therein, and improvement of Federal range-
lands pursuant to section 401 of the Federal Land Policy
and Management Act of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 1701), notwith-
standing any other Act, sums equal to 50 per centum of
all moneys received during the prior fiscal year under sec-
tions 3 and 15 of the Taylor Grazing Act (43 U.S.C. 315
et seq.) and the amount designated for range improvements
from grazing fees and mineral leasing receipts from
Bankhead-Jones lands transferred to the Department of the
Interior pursuant to law, but not less than $10,025,000, to
remain available until expended: Provided, That not to ex-
ceed $600,000 shall be available for administrative ex-
penses.
(1) Subsection (c) of section 965 of such Code 
is amended by striking paragraphs (1) and (2) and 
by redesignating paragraphs (3), (4), and (5) as 
paragraphs (1), (2), and (3), respectively. 
(2) Subparagraph (B) of section 965(c)(5) of 
such Code is amended— 
(A) by striking ‘‘shall be limited to one 
$5,000,000,000 
amount 
in 
subsection 
(b)(1)(A)’’ and inserting ‘‘shall be treated as 
one employer for purposes of determining the 
amount of any limitation under subsection (b)’’. 
(d) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by 
this section shall apply to taxable years beginning after 
December 31, 2011. 
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I 
112TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3449 
To direct the Secretary of Defense to develop a defense supply chain and 
industrial base strategy, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
NOVEMBER 16, 2011 
Mr. RYAN of Ohio (for himself, Mr. CRITZ, Mr. MANZULLO, Ms. KAPTUR, Mr. 
GARAMENDI, Mr. JONES, Mr. MURPHY of Connecticut, Mr. JOHNSON of 
Georgia, and Mr. KISSELL) introduced the following bill; which was re-
ferred to the Committee on Armed Services 
A BILL 
To direct the Secretary of Defense to develop a defense 
supply chain and industrial base strategy, 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 ‘‘Defense Supply Chain 
and Industrial Base Security Act’’. 
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to those contracts where such expenditures are a matter
of public record and available for public inspection, except
where otherwise provided under existing law, or under ex-
isting Executive order issued pursuant to existing law.
SEC. 302. No part of any appropriation under this
Act shall be available to the Secretary of the Interior or
the Secretary of Agriculture for the leasing of oil and nat-
ural gas by noncompetitive bidding on publicly owned
lands within the boundaries of the Shawnee National For-
est, Illinois: Provided, That nothing herein is intended to
inhibit or otherwise affect the sale, lease, or right to access
to minerals owned by private individuals.
SEC. 303. No part of any appropriation contained in
this Act shall be available for any activity or the publica-
tion or distribution of literature that in any way tends to
promote public support or opposition to any legislative
proposal on which congressional action is not complete.
SEC. 304. No part of any appropriation contained in
this Act shall remain available for obligation beyond the
current fiscal year unless expressly so provided herein.
SEC. 305. None of the funds provided in this Act to
any department or agency shall be obligated or expended
to provide a personal cook, chauffeur, or other personal
servants to any officer or employee of such department
or agency except as otherwise provided by law.
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SEC. 306. None of the funds provided in this Act
shall be used to evaluate, consider, process, or award oil,
gas, or geothermal leases on Federal lands in the Mount
Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest, State of Washington,
within the hydrographic boundaries of the Cedar River
municipal watershed upstream of river mile 21.6, the
Green River municipal watershed upstream of river mile
61.0, the North Fork of the Tolt River proposed municipal
watershed upstream of river mile 11.7, and the South
Fork Tolt River municipal watershed upstream of river
mile 8.4.
SEC. 307. No assessments may be levied against any
program, budget activity, subactivity, or project funded by
this Act unless notice of such assessments and the basis
therefor are presented to the Committees on Appropria-
tions and are approved by such Committees.
Ω113æSEC. 308. No part of any appropriation under
this Act shall be available to the Secretaries of the Interior
and Agriculture for use for any sale hereafter made of un-
processed timber from Federal lands in the State of Texas
which will be exported by the purchaser: Provided, That
this limitation shall not apply to specific quantities of
grades and species of timber which said Secretaries deter-
mine are surplus to domestic lumber and plywood manu-
facturing needs.
SEC. 2. DEVELOPMENT BY SECRETARY OF DEFENSE OF A 
DEFENSE SUPPLY CHAIN AND INDUSTRIAL 
BASE STRATEGY. 
(a) STRATEGY REQUIRED.—The Secretary of De-
fense shall develop a defense supply chain and industrial 
base strategy, and subsequent plan, designed to secure the 
supply chain and industrial base sectors that the Secretary 
judges critical to the national security of the United 
States. The strategy and plan shall result in the mapping 
of the defense supply chain and industrial base, and such 
mapping and subsequent plan shall, at minimum— 
(1) attain high visibility into the Department of 
Defense supply chain from raw materials to final 
products with optimized identification of all direct 
and indirect contractors, customers, suppliers, and 
suppliers of suppliers to the Department of Defense; 
(2) identify the interconnections and relation-
ships of all public and private direct and indirect 
contractors, customers, suppliers, and suppliers of 
suppliers to the Department of Defense; 
(3) include detailed business information on 
contractors, customers, suppliers, and suppliers of 
suppliers, along with accurate company sector and 
tier classification of all direct and indirect contrac-
tors, customers, suppliers, and suppliers of suppliers 
to the Department of Defense; 
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Ω114æSEC. 309. Notwithstanding any other provision
of law, payments to States pursuant to 16 U.S.C. 500 for
National Forests affected by decisions relating to the
Northern Spotted Owl from fiscal year 1994 receipts shall
not be less than 70 per centum of the average annual pay-
ments to States, based on receipts collected on those Na-
tional Forests during the five-year baseline period of fiscal
years 1986 through 1990: Provided, That in no event shall
these payments exceed the total amount of receipts col-
lected from the affected National Forests during fiscal
year 1994.
Ω115æSEC. 310. Notwithstanding any other provision
of law, the payment to be made by the United States Gov-
ernment pursuant to the provision of subsection (a) of title
II of the Act of August 28, 1937 (50 Stat. 876) to the
Oregon and California land-grant counties in the State of
Oregon from fiscal year 1994 receipts derived from the
Oregon and California grant lands shall not be less than
70 per centum of the average annual payment made to
those counties of their share of the Oregon and California
land-grant receipts collected during the five-year baseline
period of fiscal years 1986 through 1990: Provided, That
in no event shall this payment exceed the total amount
of receipts collected from the Oregon and California grant
(4) safeguard access to those critical sectors of 
the industrial base and recognize those critical sec-
tors that are indigenous to the United States to be 
a national treasure; 
(5) be based on a prioritized assessment of risk 
and challenges to the defense supply chain and in-
dustrial base; 
(6) include, within the scale of the Secretary’s 
action, all current and emerging sectors of the de-
fense supply chain and industrial base that he deems 
critical to the national security of the Unites States; 
and 
(7) provide reasonable assurance that the Sec-
retary has the ability to timely and rapidly mobilize 
and surge the defense supply chain and industrial 
base sectors deemed critical to the national security 
of the United States. 
(b) BIENNIAL REVIEW.—The Secretary of Defense 
shall review the strategy and plan required in subsection 
(a) on a biennial basis. Such a review shall, at a min-
imum— 
(1) be conducted based on current mapping of 
the supply chain and industrial base structure and 
competitive landscape analysis, analysis of the activ-
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(5) Findings from the reviews required in sub-
section (b). 
(6) Recommendations for policy or regulatory 
changes necessary to safeguard the defense supply 
chain and industrial base and its indigenous nature. 
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(d) An employee who has received a voluntary separa-
tion incentive under this section and accepts employment
with the Government of the United States within 2 years
of the date of the separation on which payment of the incen-
tive is based shall be required to repay the entire amount
of the incentive to the agency that paid the incentive.
(e) Total outlays by the Forest Service pursuant to the
cooperative work trust funds accounts (12–8028–0–7–302)
shall not exceed $279,668,000 in fiscal year 1994.
Ω125æSEC. 322. None of the funds provided in this
Act may be used to study or implement the Bureau of Land
Management/United States Forest Service comprehensive
strategy for Pacific salmon and steelhead habitat
(‘‘PACFISH’’) in the Tongass National Forest.
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Department of the In-
terior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1994’’.
Passed the House of Representatives July 15, 1993.
Attest:
DONNALD K. ANDERSON,
Clerk.
Passed the Senate September 15 (legislative day,
September 7), 1993.
Attest:
WALTER J. STEWART,
Secretary.
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I 
112TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 344 
To amend the Federal Reserve Act to remove the power of Federal reserve 
banks to buy and sell municipal securities, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JANUARY 19, 2011 
Mr. NEUGEBAUER introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Financial Services 
A BILL 
To amend the Federal Reserve Act to remove the power 
of Federal reserve banks to buy and sell municipal secu-
rities, 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 ‘‘Fiscal Responsibility 
Effective Enforcement Act of 2011’’ or the ‘‘FREE Act 
of 2011’’. 
SEC. 2. REMOVAL OF POWER TO BUY AND SELL MUNICIPAL 
SECURITIES. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 14(b)(1) of the Federal 
Reserve Act is amended by striking ‘‘and bills, notes, rev-
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enue bonds, and warrants with a maturity from date of 
purchase of not exceeding six months, issued in anticipa-
tion of the collection of taxes or in anticipation of the re-
ceipt of assured revenues by any State, county, district, 
political subdivision, or municipality in the continental 
United States, including irrigation, drainage and reclama-
tion districts,’’. 
(b) 
TRANSITION
RULE.—Notwithstanding 
the 
amendment made by subsection (a), a Federal reserve 
bank shall have the power to sell any bills, notes, revenue 
bonds, or warrants described in the language struck by 
such amendment, if such bills, notes, revenue bonds, or 
warrants are held by the Federal reserve bank on the date 
of the enactment of this Act. 
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SEC. 2. REFERENCES. 
Any reference in law, map, regulation, document, 
paper, or other record of the United States to the Federal 
Building and United States Courthouse referred to in sec-
tion 1 shall be deemed to be a reference to the ‘‘Frederick 
P. Stamp, Jr. Federal Building and United States Court-
house’’. 
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available for uniforms or allowances therefor, as author-
ized by law (5 U.S.C. 5901–5902 and D.C. Code 4–204).
SEC. 106. Appropriations made in this title shall be
available for obligation in connection with contracts issued
by the General Services Administration for services or
rentals for periods not in excess of twelve months begin-
ning at any time during the fiscal year.
SEC. 107. No funds provided in this title may be ex-
pended by the Department of the Interior for the conduct
of offshore leasing and related activities placed under re-
striction in the President’s moratorium statement of June
26, 1990, in the areas of Northern, Central, and Southern
California; the North Atlantic; Washington and Oregon;
and the Eastern Gulf of Mexico south of 26 degrees north
latitude and east of 86 degrees west longitude.
SEC. 108. No funds provided in this title may be ex-
pended by the Department of the Interior for the conduct
of leasing, or the approval or permitting of any drilling
or other exploration activity, on lands within the North
Aleutian Basin planning area.
SEC. 109. No funds provided in this title may be ex-
pended by the Department of the Interior for the conduct
of preleasing and leasing activities in the Eastern Gulf of
Mexico for Outer Continental Shelf Lease Sale 137 or for
Sale 151 in the April 1992 proposal for the Outer Con-