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AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT BUDGET
SUBMISSION
SEC. 581. Beginning with the fiscal year 2001 Budg-
et, the Agency for International Development shall submit
to the Committees on Appropriations a detailed budget for
each fiscal year. The Agency budget shall contain the esti-
mated levels of obligations for the current fiscal year and
actual levels for the 2 previous years, and the President’s
request for new budget authority and estimate of carry-
over obligational authority for the budget year. Budget
data shall be disaggregated by program and activity for
each bureau, field mission, and central office. Staff levels
shall be provided and identified by program. The Agency
shall submit to the Committees on Appropriations a pro-
posed budget format no later than October 31, 1999, or
30 days after the enactment of this act, whichever occurs
later.
SENSE OF THE CONGRESS CONCERNING THE MURDER OF
FOUR AMERICAN CHURCHWOMEN IN EL SALVADOR
SEC. 582. (a) FINDINGS.—Congress makes the fol-
lowing findings.
(1) The December 2, 1980 brutal assault and
murder of four American churchwomen by members
of the Salvadoran National Guard was covered up
and never fully investigated.
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(2) On July 22 and July 23, 1998, Salvadoran
authorities granted three of the National Guardsmen
convicted of the crimes early release from prison.
(3) The United Nations Truth Commission for
El Salvador determined in 1993 that there was suf-
ficient evidence that the Guardsmen were acting on
orders from their superiors.
(4) In March 1998, four of the convicted
Guardsmen confessed that they acted after receiving
orders from their superiors.
(5) Recently declassified documents from the
State Department show that United States Govern-
ment officials were aware of information suggesting
the involvement of superior officers in the murders.
(6) United States officials granted permanent
residence to a former Salvadoran military official in-
volved in the cover-up of the murders, enabling him
to remain in Florida.
(7) Despite the fact that the murders occurred
over 17 years ago, the families of the four victims
continue to seek the disclosure of information rel-
evant to the murders.
(b) SENSE OF THE CONGRESS.—It is the sense of
the Congress that—
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(1) information relevant to the murders should
be made public to the fullest extent possible;
(2) the Secretary of State and the Department
of State are to be commended for fully releasing in-
formation regarding the murders to the victims’
families and to the American public, in prompt re-
sponse to congressional requests;
(3) the President should order all other Federal
agencies and departments that possess relevant in-
formation to make every effort to declassify and re-
lease to the victims’ families relevant information as
expeditiously as possible;
(4) in making determinations concerning the
declassification and release of relevant information,
the Federal agencies and departments should pre-
sume in favor of releasing, rather than of with-
holding, such information; and
(5) the President should direct the Attorney
General to review the circumstances under which in-
dividuals involved in either the murders or the cover-
up of the murders obtained residence in the United
States, and the Attorney General should submit a
report to the Congress on the results of such review
not later than January 1, 2000.
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KYOTO PROTOCOL
SEC. 583. None of the funds appropriated by this Act
shall be used to propose or issue rules, regulations, de-
crees, or orders for the purpose of implementation, or in
preparation for implementation, of the Kyoto Protocol,
which was adopted on December 11, 1997, in Kyoto,
Japan, at the Third Conference of the Parties to the
United States Framework Convention on Climate Change,
which has not been submitted to the Senate for advice and
consent to ratification pursuant to article II, section 2,
clause 2, of the United States Constitution, and which has
not entered into force pursuant to article 25 of the Pro-
tocol.
CONTRIBUTIONS TO UNITED NATIONS POPULATION FUND
SEC. 584. (1) LIMITATIONS ON AMOUNT OF CON-
TRIBUTION.—Of the amounts made available under
‘‘International Organizations and Programs’’, not more
than $25,000,000 for fiscal year 2000 shall be available
for the United Nations Population Fund (hereinafter in
this subsection referred to as the ‘‘UNFPA’’).
(2) PROHIBITION ON USE OF FUNDS IN CHINA.—
None of the funds made available under ‘‘International
Organizations and Programs’’ may be made available for
the UNFPA for a country program in the People’s Repub-
lic of China.
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(3) CONDITIONS
ON AVAILABILITY
OF FUNDS.—
Amounts made available under ‘‘International Organiza-
tions and Programs’’ for fiscal year 2000 for the UNFPA
may not be made available to UNFPA unless—
(A) the UNFPA maintains amounts made
available to the UNFPA under this section in an ac-
count separate from other accounts of the UNFPA;
(B) the UNFPA does not commingle amounts
made available to the UNFPA under this section
with other sums; and
(C) the UNFPA does not fund abortions.
(4) REPORT TO THE CONGRESS AND WITHHOLDING
OF FUNDS.—
(A) Not later than February 15, 2000, the Sec-
retary of State shall submit a report to the appro-
priate congressional committees indicating the
amount of funds that the United Nations Population
Fund is budgeting for the year in which the report
is submitted for a country program in the People’s
Republic of China.
(B) If a report under subparagraph (A) indi-
cates that the United Nations Population Fund
plans to spend funds for a country program in the
People’s Republic of China in the year covered by
the report, then the amount of such funds that the
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UNFPA plans to spend in the People’s Republic of
China shall be deducted from the funds made avail-
able to the UNFPA after March 1 for obligation for
the remainder of the fiscal year in which the report
is submitted.
LIMITATION ON FUNDS FOR FOREIGN ORGANIZATIONS
THAT PERFORM OR PROMOTE ABORTION
SEC. 585. (a) Section 104 of the Foreign Assistance
Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2151b) is amended by adding at
the end the following:
‘‘(h) RESTRICTION ON ASSISTANCE TO FOREIGN OR-
GANIZATIONS THAT PERFORM OR ACTIVELY PROMOTE
ABORTIONS.—
‘‘(1) PERFORMANCE OF ABORTIONS.—(A) Not-
withstanding section 614 of this Act or any other
provision of law, no funds appropriated for popu-
lation planning activities or other population assist-
ance may be made available for any foreign private,
nongovernmental, or multilateral organization until
the organization certifies that it will not, during the
period for which the funds are made available, per-
form abortions in any foreign country, except where
the life of the mother would be endangered if the
pregnancy were carried to term or in cases of forc-
ible rape or incest.