Congressional Record: April 27, 2006 (Senate)
Page S3726


                   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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