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109TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1524 
To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 
12433 Antioch Road in Overland Park, Kansas, as the ‘‘Ed Eilert 
Post Office Building’’. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
APRIL 6, 2005 
Mr. MOORE of Kansas (for himself, Mr. TIAHRT, Mr. RYUN of Kansas, and 
Mr. MORAN of Kansas) introduced the following bill; which was referred 
to the Committee on Government Reform 
A BILL 
To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service 
located at 12433 Antioch Road in Overland Park, Kan-
sas, as the ‘‘Ed Eilert 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. ED EILERT POST OFFICE BUILDING. 
(a) DESIGNATION.—The facility of the United States 
Postal Service located at 12433 Antioch Road in Overland 
Park, Kansas, shall be known and designated as the ‘‘Ed 
Eilert 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 ‘‘Ed Eilert Post Office 
Building’’. 
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(C) the total amount of savings or other
measurable benefits realized by the Federal agen-
cy during such year as a result of such improve-
ments.
(2) COMPTROLLER
GENERAL
REPORTS.—Not
later than two months after the Secretary submits a
report required by paragraph (1), the Comptroller
General of the United States shall submit to Congress
a report on the costs and benefits to the United States
of the implementation of the technology improvements
under the contracts covered by such report, together
with such recommendations as the Comptroller Gen-
eral considers appropriate.
SEC. 809J. SENSE OF SENATE ON APPLICABILITY OF COM-
PETITION EXCEPTIONS TO ELIGIBILITY OF
NATIONAL GUARD FOR FINANCIAL ASSIST-
ANCE FOR PERFORMANCE OF ADDITIONAL
DUTIES.
It is the sense of the Senate that the amendment made
by section 806 of the Ronald W. Reagan National Defense
Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2005 (Public Law 108–
375; 118 Stat. 2010) permits the Secretary of Defense to
provide financial assistance to the Army National Guard
for the performance of additional duties specified in section
113(a) of title 32, United States Code, without the use of
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competitive procedures under the standard exceptions to the
use of such procedures in accordance with section 2304(c)
of title 10, United States Code.
Subtitle B—Defense Industrial Base
Matters
SEC. 811. CLARIFICATION OF EXCEPTION FROM BUY AMER-
ICAN REQUIREMENTS FOR PROCUREMENT OF
PERISHABLE FOOD FOR ESTABLISHMENTS
OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES.
Section 2533a(d)(3) of title 10, United States Code,
is amended by inserting ‘‘, or for,’’ after ‘‘perishable foods
by’’.
SEC. 812. CONDITIONAL WAIVER OF DOMESTIC SOURCE OR
CONTENT 
REQUIREMENTS 
FOR 
CERTAIN
COUNTRIES 
WITH 
RECIPROCAL 
DEFENSE
PROCUREMENT 
AGREEMENTS 
WITH 
THE
UNITED STATES.
(a) AUTHORITY FOR ANNUAL WAIVER.—Subchapter V
of chapter 148 of title 10, United States Code, is amended
by adding at the end the following new section:
H. Res. 1253 
In the House of Representatives, U. S., 
June 10, 2008. 
Resolved, That at any time after the adoption of this res-
olution the Speaker may, pursuant to clause 2(b) of rule 
XVIII, declare the House resolved into the Committee of the 
Whole House on the state of the Union for consideration of 
the bill (H.R. 6003) to reauthorize Amtrak, and for other 
purposes. The first reading of the bill shall be dispensed with. 
All points of order against consideration of the bill are waived 
except those arising under clause 9 or 10 of rule XXI. Gen-
eral debate shall be confined to the bill and shall not exceed 
one hour equally divided and controlled by the chairman and 
ranking minority member of the Committee on Transpor-
tation and Infrastructure. After general debate the bill shall 
be considered for amendment under the five-minute rule. It 
shall be in order to consider as an original bill for the pur-
pose of amendment under the five-minute rule the amend-
ment in the nature of a substitute recommended by the Com-
mittee on Transportation and Infrastructure now printed in 
the bill. The committee amendment in the nature of a sub-
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109TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1524 
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 
APRIL 27, 2005 
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 12433 Antioch Road in Overland Park, Kan-
sas, as the ‘‘Ed Eilert Post Office Building’’. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
HR 1524 RFS 
SECTION 1. DESIGNATION. 
The facility of the United States Postal Service lo-
cated at 12433 Antioch Road in Overland Park, Kansas, 
shall be known and designated as the ‘‘Ed Eilert Post Of-
fice Building’’. 
SEC. 2. REFERENCES. 
Any reference in a law, map, regulation, document, 
paper, or other record of the United States to the facility 
referred to in section 1 shall be deemed to be a reference 
to the ‘‘Ed Eilert Post Office Building’’. 
Passed the House of Representatives April 26, 2005. 
Attest: 
JEFF TRANDAHL, 
Clerk.
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construction in the locality, as determined by the Sec-
retary of Labor in accordance with subchapter IV of chap-
ter 31 of title 40, United States Code. The Secretary of 
Labor shall, with respect to the labor standards in this 
title, have the authority and functions set forth in Reorga-
nization Plan Numbered 14 of 1950 (15 Fed. Reg. 3176; 
5 U.S.C. App.) and section 3145 of title 40, United States 
Code. 
SEC. 7604. ROAN PLATEAU, COLORADO. 
(a) LEASES FOR TOP OF PLATEAU.— 
(1) PROHIBITION.—The Secretary of the Inte-
rior shall include in each lease under the Mineral 
Leasing Act (30 U.S.C. 181 et seq.) for lands to 
which this subsection applies a prohibition of surface 
occupancy for purposes of exploration for or develop-
ment of oil or gas. 
(2) APPLICATION.—This subsection applies to 
all Federal lands in Colorado that were formerly 
designated as Naval Oil Shale Reserves 1 and 3 that 
are located within the rim boundary, as such bound-
ary is depicted on Map 1 accompanying the Bureau 
of Land Management’s final Resource Management 
Plan Amendment and Environmental Impact State-
ment for the Roan Plateau Planning Area dated Au-
gust, 2006.
‘‘(B) the application meets the other require-
ments of this section.’’. 
(c) OVERSIGHT OF REQUESTS FOR PRODUCTION OF 
RECORDS.—Section 502 of that Act (50 U.S.C. 1862) is 
amended— 
(1) in subsection (a), by striking ‘‘the Perma-
nent’’ and all that follows through ‘‘the Senate’’ and 
inserting ‘‘the Permanent Select Committee on Intel-
ligence and the Committee on the Judiciary of the 
House of Representatives and the Select Committee 
on Intelligence and the Committee on the Judiciary 
of the Senate’’; and 
(2) in subsection (b), by striking ‘‘On a semi-
annual basis,’’ and all that follows through ‘‘a report 
setting forth’’ and inserting ‘‘The report of the At-
torney General to the Permanent Select Committee 
on Intelligence and the Committee on the Judiciary 
of the House of Representatives and the Select Com-
mittee on Intelligence and the Committee on the Ju-
diciary of the Senate under subsection (a) shall set 
forth’’.
SEC. 5. PRIVACY PROTECTIONS FOR COMPUTER USERS AT 
LIBRARIES UNDER NATIONAL SECURITY AU-
THORITY. 
Section 2709 of title 18, United States Code, is 
amended— 
(1) in subsection (a)— 
(A) by inserting ‘‘(1)’’ before ‘‘A wire or 
electronic communication service provider’’; and 
(B) by adding at the end the following new 
paragraph: 
‘‘(2) A library shall not be treated as a wire or 
electronic communication service provider for pur-
poses of this section.’’; and 
(2) by adding at the end the following new sub-
section: 
‘‘(f) LIBRARY DEFINED.—In this section, the term 
‘library’ means a library (as that term is defined in section 
213(2) of the Library Services and Technology Act (20 
U.S.C. 9122(2)) whose services include access to the 
Internet, books, journals, magazines, newspapers, or other 
similar forms of communication in print or digitally to pa-
trons for their use, review, examination, or circulation.’’. 
SEC. 6. MODIFICATION OF DEFINITION OF DOMESTIC TER-
RORISM. 
(a) MODIFICATION.—Section 2331(5) of title 18, 
United States Code, is amended—
(1) by striking subparagraphs (A) and (B) and 
inserting the following new subparagraph (A): 
‘‘(A) involve acts dangerous to human life 
that constitute a Federal crime of terrorism (as 
that term is defined in section 2332b(g)(5) of 
this title); and’’; and 
(2) by redesignating subparagraph (C) as sub-
paragraph (B). 
(b) CONSTRUCTION.—Nothing in section 2331 of title 
18, United States Code, shall be construed to prohibit a 
State from enforcing the laws of the State relating to ter-
rorism. 
SEC. 7. EXTENSION OF PATRIOT SUNSET PROVISION. 
Section 224(a) of the USA PATRIOT ACT of 2001 
(Public Law 107–56; 115 Stat. 295) is amended— 
(1) by striking ‘‘213, 216, 219,’’; and 
(2) by inserting ‘‘and section 505’’ after ‘‘by 
those sections)’’. 
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(b) IMPLEMENTATION OF EXECUTIVE ORDER 13329.—
Section 9 of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 638) is
amended—
(1) in subsection (b)—
(A) in paragraph (6), by striking ‘‘and’’ at
the end;
(B) in paragraph (7), by striking the period
at the end and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and
(C) by adding at the end the following:
‘‘(8) to provide for and fully implement the te-
nets of Executive Order 13329 (Encouraging Innova-
tion in Manufacturing).’’;
(2) in subsection (g)—
(A) in paragraph (9), by striking ‘‘and’’ at
the end;
(B) in paragraph (10), by striking the pe-
riod at the end and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and
(C) by adding at the end the following:
‘‘(11) provide for and fully implement the tenets
of Executive Order 13329 (Encouraging Innovation
in Manufacturing).’’; and
(3) in subsection (o)—
(A) in paragraph (14), by striking ‘‘and’’
at the end;
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(B) in paragraph (15), by striking the pe-
riod at the end and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and
(C) by adding at the end the following:
‘‘(16) provide for and fully implement the tenets
of Executive Order 13329 (Encouraging Innovation
in Manufacturing).’’.
(c) TESTING AND EVALUATION AUTHORITY.—Section
9(e) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 638(e)) is
amended—
(1) in paragraph (7), by striking ‘‘and’’ at the
end;
(2) in paragraph (8), by striking the period at
the end and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and
(3) by adding at the end the following:
‘‘(9) the term ‘commercial applications’ shall not
be construed to exclude testing and evaluation of
products, services, or technologies for use in technical
or weapons systems, and further, awards for testing
and evaluation of products, services, or technologies
for use in technical or weapons systems may be made
in either the second or the third phase of the Small
Business Innovation Research Program and of the
Small Business Technology Transfer Program, as de-
fined in this subsection.’’.
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109TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1527 
To remove all embargoes on food, medicine, and medical supplies. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
APRIL 6, 2005 
Mr. PAUL introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee 
on International Relations 
A BILL 
To remove all embargoes on food, medicine, and medical 
supplies. 
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 ‘‘Humanitarian Food 
and Medicine Export Act’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
The Congress finds that— 
(1) laws or regulations prohibiting the export of 
food, medicine, or medical supplies to any foreign 
country have a disproportionately negative effect on 
the most vulnerable citizens of that country;
(2) laws or regulations prohibiting American 
manufacturers or farmers from exporting their prod-
ucts represent an unfair restriction on their ability 
to engage in voluntary economic activity; 
(3) embargoes of food, medicine, or medical 
supplies interrupt the discourse between nations and 
thus promote further enmity and militarism; and 
(4) embargoes of food, medicine, or medical 
supplies allow affected foreign leaders to scapegoat 
the United States for the failures of their domestic 
policy. 
SEC. 3. REMOVAL OF EMBARGOES ON FOOD, MEDICINE, OR 
MEDICAL SUPPLIES. 
Upon the enactment of this Act, any prohibition on 
private donations or other exports from the United States 
to any other country of food, medicine, or medical supplies 
shall cease to be effective, and private donations and other 
exports from the United States to any other country of 
food, medicine, or medical supplies, that are intended to 
meet basic human needs, may not be prohibited. 
SEC. 4. DEFINITIONS. 
In this Act: 
(1) FOOD.—The term ‘‘food’’ means any raw, 
cooked, processed, or prepared edible substance, ice,
or beverage, or ingredient used or intended to be 
used for human consumption. 
(2) MEDICINE.—The term ‘‘medicine’’ has the 
meaning given the term ‘‘drug’’ in section 201 of the 
Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (21 U.S.C. 
321). 
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Subtitle C—Defense Contractor
Matters
SEC. 821. REQUIREMENTS FOR DEFENSE CONTRACTORS RE-
LATING TO CERTAIN FORMER DEPARTMENT
OF DEFENSE OFFICIALS.
(a) REQUIREMENTS.—
(1) IN
GENERAL.—Chapter 141 of title 10,
United States Code, is amended by adding at the end
the following new section:
‘‘§ 2410p. 
Defense 
contractors: 
requirements 
con-
cerning former Department of Defense of-
ficials
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—Each contract for the procurement
of goods or services in excess of $10,000,000, other than a
contract for the procurement of commercial items, that is
entered into by the Department of Defense shall include a
provision under which the contractor agrees to submit to
the Secretary of Defense, not later than April 1 of each year
such contract is in effect, a written report setting forth the
information required by subsection (b).
‘‘(b) REPORT INFORMATION.—A report by a contractor
under subsection (a) shall—
‘‘(1) list the name of each person who—
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‘‘(A) is a former officer or employee of the
Department of Defense or a former or retired
member of the armed forces; and
‘‘(B) during the preceding calendar year
was provided compensation by the contractor, if
such compensation was first provided by the
contractor—
‘‘(i) not more than two years after such
officer, employee, or member left service in
the Department of Defense; and
‘‘(ii) not more than two years before
the date on which the report is required to
be submitted; and
‘‘(2) in the case of each person listed under para-
graph (1)—
‘‘(A) identify the agency in which such per-
son was employed or served on active duty dur-
ing the last two years of such person’s service
with the Department of Defense;
‘‘(B) state such person’s job title and iden-
tify each major defense system, if any, on which
such person performed any work with the De-
partment of Defense during the last two years of
such person’s service with the Department; and
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(b) REPORT ON CLEANUP STATUS.—No later than 
30 days after the date of enactment of this Act— 
(1) the Secretary of the Treasury shall provide 
to the appropriate Committees of Congress a report 
detailing the total amounts received by the United 
States under leases of Federal lands in Colorado for-
merly designated as Naval Oil Shale Reserves 1 and 
3 pursuant to section 7439 of title 10, United States 
Code, and covered into the Treasury pursuant to 
subsection (f) of such section; and 
(2) the Secretary of the Interior shall provide to 
the appropriate committees of Congress a report— 
(A) detailing the amounts expended by the 
United States for environmental restoration, 
waste management, and environmental compli-
ance activities with respect to the lands de-
scribed in paragraph (1), to repay the cost to 
the United States to originally install wells, 
gathering lines, and related equipment on such 
lands, and any other cost incurred by the 
United States with respect to such lands; and 
(B) stating what further actions are re-
quired to complete the needed environmental 
restoration, waste management, and environ-
mental compliance activities with regard to such
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‘‘(C) state such person’s current job title
with the contractor and identify each major de-
fense system on which such person has performed
any work on behalf of the contractor.’’.
(2) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of sec-
tions at the beginning of chapter 141 of such title is
amended by adding at the end the following new item:
‘‘2410p. Defense contractors: requirements concerning former Department of De-
fense officials.’’.
(b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by sub-
section (a) shall take effect on the date of the enactment
of this Act, and shall apply with respect to contracts entered
into on or after that date.
SEC. 822. REVIEW OF CERTAIN CONTRACTOR ETHICS MAT-
TERS.
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of Defense shall, in
consultation with the Director of the Office of Government
Ethics and the Administrator for Federal Procurement Pol-
icy, conduct a review of the ethics considerations raised by
the following:
(1) The performance by contractor employees of
functions closely associated with inherently govern-
mental functions.
(2) The performance by contractor employees of
other functions historically performed by Government
employees in the Federal workplace.
H. Res. 326
In the House of Representatives, U.S.,
November 13, 1997.
Resolved, That upon the adoption of this resolution the
Committee on Government Reform and Oversight may have
not more eight subcommittees for the duration of the One
Hundred Fifth Congress, notwithstanding clause 6(d) of rule
X.
Attest:
Clerk.
H. Res. 328
In the House of Representatives, U.S.,
November 13, 1997.
Resolved, That the following named Member be, and he
is hereby, elected to the following standing committee of the
House of Representatives:
COMMITTEE
ON APPROPRIATIONS: Mr. Robert ‘‘Bud’’
Cramer of Alabama.
Attest:
Clerk.
gle facility. No payment in excess of $1,000,000 may be 
made with respect to improvements at a single facility. 
(c) AUTHORIZATION.—There is authorized to be ap-
propriated to carry out this section not more than 
$50,000,000 in each fiscal year after the fiscal year 2005. 
SEC. 5. SMALL HYDROELECTRIC POWER PROJECTS. 
Section 408(a)(6) of the Public Utility Regulatory 
Policies Act of 1978 is amended by striking ‘‘April 20, 
1977’’ and inserting ‘‘March 4, 2005’’. 
SEC. 6. INCREASED HYDROELECTRIC GENERATION AT EX-
ISTING FEDERAL FACILITIES. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of Energy, in con-
sultation with the Secretary of the Interior and Secretary 
of the Army, shall conduct studies of the cost-effective op-
portunities to increase hydropower generation at existing 
federally-owned or operated water regulation, storage, and 
conveyance facilities. Such studies shall be completed with-
in two years after the date of enactment of this Act and 
transmitted to the Committee on Commerce of the House 
of Representatives and the Committee on Energy and 
Natural Resources of the Senate. An individual study shall 
be prepared for each of the Nation’s principal river basins. 
Each such study shall identify and describe with speci-
ficity the following matters:
(1) Opportunities to improve the efficiency of 
hydropower generation at such facilities through, but 
not limited to, mechanical, structural, or operational 
changes. 
(2) Opportunities to improve the efficiency of 
the use of water supplied or regulated by Federal 
projects where such improvement could, in the ab-
sence of legal or administrative constraints, make 
additional water supplies available for hydropower 
generation or reduce project energy use. 
(3) Opportunities to create additional hydro-
power generating capacity at existing facilities 
through, but not limited to, the construction of addi-
tional generating facilities, the uprating of genera-
tors and turbines, and the construction of pumped 
storage facilities. 
(4) Preliminary assessment of the costs and the 
economic and environmental consequences of such 
measures. 
(b) PREVIOUS STUDIES.—If studies of the type re-
quired by subsection (a) have been prepared by any agency 
of the United States and published within the five years 
prior to the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary 
of Energy may choose not to perform new studies and in-
corporate the information in such studies into the studies 
required by subsection (a). 
(c) AUTHORIZATION.—There is authorized to be ap-
propriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out 
the purposes of this section. 
SEC. 7. RENEWABLE ENERGY PRODUCTION INCENTIVES 
PROGRAM. 
Section 1212 of the Energy Policy Act of 1992 is 
amended in subsection (b) by inserting after ‘‘and which’’ 
the following ‘‘is a small hydroelectric power project (as 
defined in section 408(a)(1) of the Public Utility Regu-
latory Policies Act of 1978) or which’’. 
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(e) DEFINITIONS.—In this section— 
(1) the term ‘‘capabilities’’ means space, air-
borne, and ground systems and capabilities for space 
situational awareness and for space systems protec-
tion; and 
(2) the term ‘‘intelligence community’’ has the 
meaning given such term in section 3(4) of the Na-
tional Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 401a(4)). 
(f) REPORT; BIENNIAL UPDATE.— 
(1) REPORT.—Not later than six months after 
the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary 
of Defense, in conjunction with the Director of Na-
tional Intelligence, shall submit to Congress a report 
on the strategy required by subsection (b), including 
each of the matters required by subsection (c). 
(2) BIENNIAL UPDATE.—Not later than March 
15 of each even-numbered year after 2008, the Sec-
retary of Defense, in conjunction with the Director 
of National Intelligence, shall submit to Congress an 
update to the report required by paragraph (1). 
(3) CLASSIFICATION.—The report required by 
paragraph (1), and each update required by para-
graph (2), shall be in unclassified form, but may in-
clude a classified annex.