Daniel Inouye

Mr. INOUYE

Mr. INOUYE. Madam President, I will be sending to the desk shortly a set of amendments. None of these amendments would add any money to the bill. They are either earmarks or technical amendments. All of these amendments have been cleared by both managers. I will explain these amendments before I send the amendments to the desk. First, the Bingaman amendment is earmarking $2.5 million for the Maglev upgrade program. An amendment for Senator Dorgan is earmarking $10 million for the Chameleon miniaturized wireless systems; An amendment for Senator Murray is earmarking $7 million for short pulse laser development; An amendment for Senator Reid is earmarking $4 million for clean-bio consequence management; An amendment for Senator Warner is earmarking $5 million for study of a roadway at Fort Belvoir; An amendment for Senator Dodd is earmarking $5 million for microfuel cell research; An amendment for Senator Nickles is earmarking $3 million for supercritical water systems explosive demilitarization technology; An amendment for Senator Roberts is earmarking $1 million for agroterrorism research; An amendment for myself is for making a technical correction to the emergency supplemental to correct an editorial mistake; An amendment for Senator Collins makes a technical correction to the emergency supplemental; An amendment for Senator Carper is earmarking $8 million for biological warfare training; An amendment for Senator Biden is earmarking $5 million for multifuel auxiliary power units. I send to the desk these amendments and ask unanimous consent they be agreed to, en bloc.

Mr. INOUYE. Madam President, I suggest the absence of a quorum.

Mr. INOUYE. Madam President, in order to expedite the consideration of this amendment, a call has been placed for Senators interested in this matter to report to the floor to carry out the debate. May I ask a question of the sponsor of this measure? By ``tax haven country,'' does the Senator mean countries such as Barbados, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Commonwealth of the Bahamas, Cyprus, Gibralter, Isle of Man, the Principality of Liechtenstein, the Principality of Monaco, the Republic of Seychelles, and any other country that the Secretary of the Treasury determines is used as a site of incorporation, primarily for the purpose of avoiding U.S. taxation?

Mr. INOUYE. The Senator's amendment also provides if the President of the United States should consider that the interests of national security would require it, notwithstanding this designation, they may do business?

Mr. INOUYE. May I ask another question.

Mr. INOUYE. Am I correct, in the last fiscal year, approximately $2 billion worth of contracts were awarded to companies incorporated in these countries?

Mr. INOUYE. I thank the Senator.

Mr. INOUYE. I suggest the absence of a quorum.

Mr. INOUYE. I move to reconsider the vote.

Mr. INOUYE. Mr. President, the managers of this bill, Senator Stevens and I, wish to submit several amendments for consideration. We ask unanimous consent that these amendments be considered en bloc and adopted en bloc. Before we do that, may I explain the amendments. They are; an amendment for Senator Akaka earmarking $6 million for critical infrastructure protection; an amendment for Senator Clinton earmarking $500,000 for renovation of a hangar at Griffiss Air Force Base; an amendment for Senator Inhofe earmarking $5 million for remote logistic network; an amendment for Senator Feinstein earmarking $5 million for integrated chemical biological warfare detector chips; an amendment for Senator Hutchison earmarking $1 million for nanoenergetic material research; an amendment for Senator Frist and Senator Thompson earmarking $2 million for the Communicator force notification system; an amendment for Senator Landrieu earmarking $5 million for the D-Day museum; an amendment for Senator Nelson earmarking $6 million for the Center for Advanced Power Systems; an amendment for Senator Bunning earmarking $1 million for security locks; an amendment for Senator Kennedy earmarking $10 million for the Non-Self Deployable water craft study; an amendment for Senator Carnahan earmarking $850,000 for National Guard medical equipment; an amendment for Senators Smith, Wyden, and Murray to earmark $8 million for the Navy's Sealion program; an amendment for Senator Craig earmarking $3 million for foreign document digitization. May I advise the Chair that there is not a single dollar added to the appropriation. These are just earmarks. It has been cleared by both sides. I send the amendments to the desk. I ask that they be considered en bloc and approved en bloc.

Mr. INOUYE. No.

Mr. INOUYE. We are prepared to accept this amendment and take it to conference.

Mr. INOUYE

Mr. INOUYE. With that amendment, the managers are prepared to accept it.

Mr. INOUYE. Mr. President, if I may respond.

Mr. INOUYE. There are no amendments left in the managers' package. However, there may be amendments brought up at this moment by others, but we do not have any.

Mr. INOUYE. I concur with the statement of my distinguished friend, and I associate myself with his remarks.

Mr. INOUYE. The managers wish to commend the Senator from Minnesota for this amendment. And we are prepared to accept it.

Mr. INOUYE. I move to reconsider the vote.

Mr. INOUYE. Mr. President, I suggest the absence of a quorum.

Mr. INOUYE. Mr. President, I wish to commend the chairman of the committee on this most appropriate and timely amendment. As a manager of this measure, I am prepared to accept it.

Mr. INOUYE. I move to lay that motion on the table. The motion to lay on the table was agreed to.

Mr. INOUYE. Madam President, I have no objection.

Mr. INOUYE. Madam President, I have a series of amendments. None of these amendments calls for new appropriations, and all of these amendments are either earmarking or technical in nature. I will submit them en bloc to be considered and passed en bloc. I will explain the amendments. One is an amendment of Senator Miller earmarking $1 million for an information data warehouse; an amendment for Senator Snowe earmarking $1.5 million for the Navy pilot human resources center; an amendment for Senator Graham earmarking $2.17 million for nanophotonic systems fabrication; an amendment for Senators Snowe and Sessions earmarking $5 million for kill vehicles; an amendment for Senators Warner and Inouye earmarking $5 million for the common affordable radar processing program; an amendment for Senator Boxer encouraging the Department of Defense to allocate the budgeted amount for the family advocacy program; an amendment for Senators Torricelli and Corzine to earmark $2.5 million for the disposal of material from Reach A at Earle Naval Weapons Station. I send the amendments to the desk.

Mr. INOUYE. Madam President, I move to reconsider the vote.

Mr. INOUYE. Madam President, I suggest the absence of a quorum.