Congressional Record: February 26, 2004 (Senate)
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          STATEMENTS ON INTRODUCED BILLS AND JOINT RESOLUTIONS

      By Mr. ROBERTS:
  S. 2136. An original bill to extend the final report date and 
termination date

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of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, 
to provide additional funding for the Commission, and for other 
purposes; from the Select Committee on Intelligence; placed on the 
calendar.
  Mr. ROBERTS. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the text of 
the bill be printed in the Record.
  There being no objection, the bill was ordered to be printed in the 
Record, as follows:

                                S. 2136

       Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of 
     the United States of America in Congress assembled,

     SECTION 1. EXTENSION OF NATIONAL COMMISSION ON TERRORIST 
                   ATTACKS UPON THE UNITED STATES.

       (a) Final Report Date.--Subsection (b) of section 610 of 
     the Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2003 
     (Public Law 107-306; 6 U.S.C. 101 note; 116 Stat. 2413) is 
     amended by striking ``18 months'' and inserting ``20 
     months''.
       (b) Termination Date.--Subsection (c) of that section is 
     amended--
       (1) in paragraph (1), by striking ``60 days'' and inserting 
     ``30 days''; and
       (2) in paragraph (2), by striking ``60-day period'' and 
     inserting ``30-day period''.
       (c) Additional Funding.--Section 611 of that Act (6 U.S.C. 
     101 note; 116 Stat. 2413) is amended--
       (1) by redesignating subsection (b) as subsection (c);
       (2) by inserting after subsection (a) the following new 
     subsection (b):
       ``(b) Additional Funding.--In addition to the amounts made 
     available to the Commission under subsection (a) and under 
     chapter 2 of title II of the Emergency Wartime Supplemental 
     Appropriations Act, 2003 (Public Law 108-11; 117 Stat. 591), 
     of the amounts appropriated for the programs and activities 
     of the Federal Government for fiscal year 2004 that remain 
     available for obligation, not more than $1,000,000 shall be 
     available for transfer to the Commission for purposes of the 
     activities of the Commission under this title.''; and
       (3) in subsection (c), as so redesignated, by striking 
     ``subsection (a)'' and inserting ``this section''.
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