Congressional Record: April 27, 2006 (Senate)
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                   AMENDMENTS SUBMITTED AND PROPOSED


                                 
  SA 3679. Mr. SPECTER submitted an amendment intended to be proposed 
by him to the bill H.R. 4939, making emergency supplemental 
appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2006, and for 
other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       On page 253, between lines 19 and 20, insert the following:


 PROHIBITION ON USE OF FUNDS FOR DOMESTIC ELECTRONIC SURVEILLANCE FOR 
    FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE PURPOSES UNLESS CONGRESS IS KEPT FULLY AND 
                           CURRENTLY INFORMED

       Sec. 7032. (a) Prohibition.--No funds appropriated by this 
     or any other Act may be obligated or expended to carry out 
     the NSA program, or any other program of electronic 
     surveillance within the United States for foreign 
     intelligence purposes, unless each of the following is met:
       (1) The Select Committee on Intelligence of the Senate and 
     the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence of the House 
     of Representatives, and each member of such committee, are 
     kept fully and currently informed of such program in 
     accordance with section 502 of the National Security Act of 
     1947 (50 U.S.C. 413a).
       (2) The Committees on the Judiciary of the Senate and the 
     House of Representatives are kept fully and currently 
     informed of such program in accordance with section 503 of 
     the National Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 413b).
       (b) Sense of Congress.--It is the sense of Congress that 
     the Executive Branch should inform the members of the 
     Committees on the Judiciary of the Senate and the House of 
     Representatives on the NSA program and any other program 
     described in subsection (a) in sufficient detail so as to 
     facilitate and ensure the discharge by such Committees of 
     their oversight responsibilities to determine the 
     constitutionality of Executive Branch actions.
       (c) NSA Program Defined.--In this section, the term ``NSA 
     program'' means the program of the National Security Agency 
     on electronic surveillance within the United States for 
     foreign intelligence purposes the existence of which has been 
     acknowledged by President George W. Bush and other Executive 
     Branch officials on and after December 17, 2005, any 
     unacknowledged part of the program, and any associated 
     National Security Agency programs or activities.
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