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Official portrait of Rep. Aspin, Les [D-WI-1]

Rep. Aspin, Les [D-WI-1]

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  • · House of Representatives · present
  • D · D · present

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Amendment· HAMDTHAMDT 582 (102nd)passed

Amendment provides an additional $250 million for nuclear weapons dismantlement assistance to the former Soviet Union; requires a joint DOD and DOE report on nonproliferation policy; provides a nonproliferation technology initiative to enhance detection and monitoring of nuclear proliferation; and authorizes $40 million for greater DOD and DOE cooperation with, and participation in, international nuclear nonproliferation activities.

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Amendment· HAMDTHAMDT 591 (102nd)passed

Amendments en bloc: encourage the Defense Department to participate in joint research and development programs with the independent states of the former Soviet Union; establish a volunteer program to assist East European countries, the Baltic States, and states of the former Soviet Union; authorize benefits to DOD temporary employees; limit redeployment of Minuteman III ICBMs; place restrictions on the use of funds for nonvalidated biowarfare threats; require the Navy to report to Congress on compliance with the domestic ship repair law; increase funds for the U.S.-Israel Endowment for Defense Industrial Cooperation; require DOD to take into consideration a community's ability to compete when relocating finance and accounting activities; authorize Air National Guard construction at Truax Field, WI; authorize construction at Langley Air Force Base, VA; authorize a program to commemorate the 50th anniversary of World War II; place limits on DOD support for U.S. contractors selling arms overseas; add protections for Air Reserve technicians; authorize National Guard construction in Richlands, VA; establish procedures and rights concerning mental health evaluations of members of the armed forces; extend CHAMPUS coverage to end-stage renal disease; revise repayment procedures under the Voluntary Separation Incentive program; clarify the elig.bility for disability retired or severance pay for certain reservists; permit DOD to provide services to educational programs at the U.S. Space and Rocket Center, AL; increase funds for the Joint Remotely Piloted Vehicles program; encourage initiatives to assist Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union in replacing dangerous nuclear reactors; require the GSA to maintain a list of those prohibited from doing defense contract work; require DOD to report to Congress on the proliferation of military-based satellites; authorize the transfer of the obsolete vessel Wahkiakum County to a nonprofit group; strike the CBO cost estimate for the bill; require DOD to use competitive bidding when contracting out depot-level maintenance work; increase funds for the Charged Particle Beam program; place limits on overseas ship repairs; require DOD to strengthen independent cost accounting; restrict the use of reobligated funds in "M" accounts; add language regarding the time limitations for consideration of military decorations and awards; clarify cargo preference laws relating to humanitarian assistance being shipped overseas; authorize conveyance to Santa Barbara, CA, of certain Naval Reserve lands; authorize comprehensive home health care as a benefit under CHAMPUS; call for an international effort to limit the supply of illegal narcotics; authorize 190 the use of armed forces insignia on State license plates; and clarify language concerning compensation claims by contractors. See Pages H4229--H4244 in the Congressional Record for complete amendment list.

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Amendment· HAMDTHAMDT 85 (102nd)passed

Amendments en bloc: 1) authorize $4.061 billion for construction of two SSN-21 nuclear attack submarines; 2) add language permitting the Army to work with States and local entities in taking care of permits to build chemical weapons disposal facilities; 3) delay until fiscal 1993 the groundwave emergency network program; 4) require the Defense Department to implement a plan to correct the failure of flight data transmitters for the air-launch cruise missile; 5) provide for the distribution of funds derived from the sale of certain property at the Norfolk Naval and Air Bases in VA; 6) establish deadlines for the completion of remedial investigations and feasibility studies for environmental cleanup at military bases scheduled to be closed; 7) increase the authorization for the Jacksonville Naval Aviation Depot, FL, by $15 million; 8) add language concerning the grade of retired officers recalled to active duty and the mandatory retirement of regular army warrant officers; 9) require a DOD report regarding eligibility for military health care of certain minors who are not children of members of the Armed Forces; 10) clarify that the transportation of components of DOD contractor supplied items must be on U.S. flag merchant vessels when being shipped by water; 11) require DOD to purchase ethanol in lieu of gasoline in certain instances; 12).provide authority to the Secretary to rescind certain Buy American Act waivers when U.S. products are discriminated against; 13) consolidate and clarify existing statutes relating to post-employment restrictions for Government workers; 14) call upon DOD to issue special commemorative cards for Operation Desert Storm servicemembers; 15) make technical corrections to the Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Program; 16) require DOD periodic reports on U.S. military personnel serving in Colombia, Peru, and Bolivia for counter-narcotics purposes; 17) call upon DOD and the Air Force to make every effort to repair the damage to McConnell Air Force Base, KS, caused by tornadoes; 18) require DOD to fund environmental restoration of closed or realigned facilities out of the 1990 base closure account; 19) require that an environmental impact statement be completed for the Strategic Target System Program to be conducted on Kauai, Hawaii; and 20) place the Pantex nuclear weapons assembly plant in Amarillo, TX, under the oversight of the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board.

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Amendment· HAMDTHAMDT 744 (101st)passed

An amendment to provide $978 million in additional funds for Persian Gulf-related operations, including: $185 million for pay and other personnel benefits for military personnel stationed in the Persian Gulf; $187 million for anti-chemical and biological weapons equipment and training; $576 million for strategic mobility and minehunters broken down as follows: $250 million for strategic sealift vessels, $290 million for three minehunter ships, and $36 million for modifications to C-141 aircraft; finally, the amendment authorizes $30 million in classified programs.

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Amendment· HAMDTHAMDT 209 (101st)passed

An amendment adding a new paragraph "c" to the original Aspin amendment which states that any transfer of outlays from one fiscal year to an adjacent fiscal year which occurs pursuant to the section of the proposed amendment entitled "Outlay Limitation for Fiscal Year 1990" shall be considered a necessary (but secondary) result of a significant policy change as provided for in the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Reaffirmation Act of 1987. The amendment also expresses the sense of the Congress that due to the programmatic impact of the differences in estimated outlays for programs for National Defense for FY 1990, the CBO and the Secretary of Defense in consultation with the Committees on Armed Services, Appropriations, and the Budget should undertake a comprehensive review of outlay estimation techniques and methodologies as they relate to the Department of Defense with the objective of achieving consistent estimates not later than the FY 1991 budget.

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Amendment· HAMDTHAMDT 69 (100th)passed

An amendment to cut budget authority in the committee bill by $17.2 billion, and reduce outlays by $12.6 billion which is intended to bring the bill within the limits set by the House passed budget resolution. Specifically, the amendment provides $3.6 billion for STAR WARS; eliminates funding for the BIGEYE bomb; cuts the number of MX missiles for testing purposes from 21 to 12, and cuts the bill's authorization for the missiles by 31 percent; authorizes $2 billion for Midgetman; cuts the committee authorization for research on an Anti-Tactical Ballistic Missile system by 29 percent; and deletes all funding for Harrier attack aircraft; advanced cruise missiles; ground launched cruise missiles; Aquila remotely piloted vehicles; advanced Light-Weight Torpedoes; and vertical-launched anti-submarine rockets.

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Amendment· HAMDTHAMDT 83 (100th)passed

An amendment to express the sense of the Congress that the Secretary of Defense could disclose in a nonclassified form, information concerning program cost, annual budget requests, and a general description of program schedule regarding the Advanced Cruise Missile and the Advanced Tactical Aircraft programs. The amendment also directs the Secretary of Defense to act through the Under Secretary of Defense for acquisition in establishing a means to provide ongoing competition for production of the Advanced Technology Bomber, and to submit a report to Congress not later than April 1, 1988 on such a competition initiative with the stipulation that no funds may be obligated for the Advanced Technology Bomber after October 1, 1988 if the competition initiative has not been initiated by that time.

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Amendment· HAMDTHAMDT 743 (101st)passed

An amendment comprised of several amendments offered en bloc which cover a wide variety of issues related to the Defense Authorization and which are considered to be non-controversial in nature. The amendment would encourage energy conservation at military installations; eliminate the $33 million authorized in the bill for 16-inch gun ammunition and increase procurement of five-inch ammunition by the same amount; impose sanctions on companies that are found to be exporting ballistic missile technology; reduce U.S. payments for the salaries and benefits of certain civilian foreign nationals employed at overseas U.S. bases; allow the governor of a state to make National Guard facilities available as shelters for homeless persons; require the Energy Department to submit a comprehensive report to Congress by the end of January, 1991, on its long-term resource management plan for environmental restoration and waste management at weapons facilities; authorize $18 million as a contribution toward construction of a facility for training Defense Department military medical personnel in trauma care, head, neck, and spinal injury, paralysis and neuroscience and neurodegenerative diseases; to establish a task force to examine ways to improve interagency coordination of environmental cleanup or restoration activities at military installations being close. under the 1988 Base Realignment Commission; require the Defense Department to select two of the bases being closed under the 1988 Base Realignment Commission for a model program to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the base closure environmental restoration program; establish the terms and conditions of operation for vessels built under the Defense Department's fast sealift program; require Northern Ireland firms to report on the value of each of their subcontracts that they have let for work in Northern Ireland on U.S. aircraft; direct that the bill's ban on testing and evaluation of SDI or any other strategic defense system does not preclude the Defense Department from planning for the testing of SDI systems or elements, including studies, design activities, and computer simulations; require that supplies of bauxite stored as part of the National Defense stockpile be upgraded to a higher grade aluminum ingot; authorize the Defense Department to establish a command, control, communications and computer network to support U.S. National Guard and interagency law enforcement cooperation in U.S. drug interdiction efforts in North America; reduce funds authorized for development of the P-7 antisubmarine aircraft by $100 million and redirect the funds to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA); extend eligibility for 190 the homeowner's assistance program to certain federal employees currently ineligible; require the Air Force to report to Congress on the impact of terminating the MX missile test program ...

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