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Feb 23, 2010
8:03PM

           

           Summary of Amendments Submitted to the Rules Committee for

            H.R. 2701 - Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2010

                 (summaries derived from information provided by sponsors)

                                        Listed in Alphabetical Order

                                         February 24, 2010 1:00 PM

 

 

 

Andrews (NJ)

#1

Would express the sense of Congress that the Director of National Intelligence should encourage foreign nations to (1) increase the penalties for unlawfully transporting loose nuclear material; and (2) share with the United States information regarding the amount of nuclear material produced, secured, and unsecured by such foreign nations.

 

Arcuri (NY)

#39

Would require the President to submit detailed notifications to Congress on current and newly-created cybersecurity programs.

 

Barrow (GA)

#26

Withdrawn Would direct the DNI to create a program designated for funding Historically Black Colleges and Universities and providing grants to be used to introduce courses of study that meet the emerging needs of the intelligence community.

 

Bishop, Tim (NY)

#46

Withdrawn Would require the Director of National Intelligence, along with the Attorney General, to provide a report on how the will balance intelligence collection needs with the interest of the in prosecuting terrorist suspects.

 

Bishop, Tim (NY)

#48

Would prohibit an employee from using a diploma from a diploma mill as a credential for a job with an intelligence agency. It would prohibit an intelligence agency from relying on a diploma from a diploma mill as a qualification of a person for employment. It would prohibit an intelligence agency from providing funding to enable an employee to attend a diploma mill.

 

Boccieri (OH), McMahon (NY)

#30

Withdrawn Would require the DNI to report to Congress on the dissemination of critical counterterrorism intelligence information from the intelligence community to local law enforcement agencies, including recommendations for improving the means of communication of such information to local law enforcement agencies.

 

Boccieri (OH)

#34

Would express that it is the sense of Congress that the National Counterterroism Center and the Terrorist Screening Center should continuously review the Terrorist Screening Database as such a database has the ability to prevent future terrorist attacks upon the United States.  Additionally that the completeness of the Terrorist Screening Database is an essential element of aviation security and will work to protect the United States from foreign and domestic threats. 

 

Burton (IN)

#14

Would express the sense of Congress honoring members of the Central Intelligence Agency for their dedication to the protection of the and expressing appreciation for their unique role in combating terrorism and crucial support of military operations.

 

Castle (DE), Lynch (MA)

#35

Would require the President, acting through the Treasury Secretary, to submit to Congress the report required under section 6303(a) of the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 (Public Law 108-458).

 

Castle (DE), Lance (NJ)

#36

Would express the sense of Congress that, beginning with the 112th Congress, the House and Senate should implement the 9/11 Commission's specific recommendations for congressional oversight of intelligence by establishing either an appropriations subcommittee on intelligence, establishing a joint committee on intelligence, or establishing House and Senate committees on intelligence with authorizing and appropriating authority.

 

Childers (MS)

#6

Would require the DNI to report to the intelligence committees on threats from biological and chemical weapons. It asks the DNI to prepare and implement a strategic plan to close important intelligence gaps related to chemical and biological weapons.

 

Coffman (CO), Price, Tom (GA)

#25

Would require the DNI to report to Congress on the research, development, testing, and deployment of electromagnetic pulse weapons and their delivery systems by foreign nations.

 

Conaway (TX)

#44

Would express the sense of Congress that it is imperative intelligence community-wide auditability be achieved as soon as possible and the National Reconnaissance Office should be commended for achieving a clean audit.

 

Cuellar (TX)

#13

Would require the DNI and Defense Secretary to work together to develop and implement a combined National and Defense Intelligence Strategy in place of the current separate strategies.

 

Eshoo (CA), Tierney (MA), Boren (OK), Schakowsky (IL), Thompson, Mike (CA), Holt (NJ), Rogers, Mike (MI)

#61

Would require the Director of National Intelligence to establish an intelligence community-wide conflict of interest regulation working in conjunction with the Office of Government Ethics; to establish a community-wide process for checking outside employment for conflicts of interest, and also to submit an annual report to the intelligence committees on all outside employment activities that were approved in the last year. The amendment would also prohibit Intelligence Community government employees from owning companies that sell skills related to their government service.

 

Giffords (AZ)

#15

Would extend the ability of the FBI to retain certain specialists in jobs critical to the protection of national security and permits the FBI to pay retention bonuses for mission critical positions.

 

Giffords (AZ)

#16

Would require the DNI to report on intelligence sharing and fusion between the intelligence community, other Federal agencies, and state and local law enforcement in the regions along borders.

 

Giffords (AZ)

#17

Would require the DNI to report to Congress on the contravention of United Nations sanctions with respect to and the involvement of in terrorist financing and money laundering.

 

Giffords (AZ)

#18

Withdrawn Would require the DNI to report to Congress on intelligence capabilities of state and local law enforcement and those being provided by the Intelligence Community and Federal agencies. The report also would assess (1) the need for a formal intelligence training center to teach state and local law enforcement agencies methods of intelligence collection and analysis, and (2) the efficiency of colocating such a center with an existing intelligence community center or military intelligence training center.

 

Gingrey (GA)

#4

Would prohibit any funds authorized in the bill from being used to transfer or house any Guantanamo Bay detainee at any military installation or Federal detention center located in the State of .

 

Gingrey (GA)

#5

Would prohibit any funds authorized in the bill from being used to transfer any Guantanamo Bay detainee to a nation or region recognized by the State Department or Defense Department as a safe haven or state sponsor of terrorism.

 

Goodlatte (VA)

#11

Would prohibit the President from submitting the Guantanamo Bay detainee disposition plan to Congress until the President has consulted with and received the written approval of the chief executive of the state, District of Columbia, or territory or possession of the to which an individual would be released or transferred under such plan.

 

Halvorson (IL)

#38

Would add veteran preference when selecting individuals for the Pat Roberts Intelligence Scholars Program, Stokes Educational Scholarship Program, and the Pilot Program to expand the Boren Scholars Program.

 

Harman (CA)

#19

Directs the Inspector General of the Intelligence Community to analyze the problem of over-classification of intelligence. It requires a report to Congress on the importance of protecting sources and methods while providing law enforcement and the public with as much access to information as possible.

 

Harman (CA)

#20

Revised Would require the DNI, in consultation with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, to report to Congress summarizing intelligence related to the threat to the from weapons that use radiological materials, including highly-dispersible substances such as cesium-137.

 

Hastings, Alcee (FL)

#10

Would require the DNI, in coordination with the heads of the elements of the intelligence community, to submit to Congress a report on the plans of each element of the community, including the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, to increase diversity within that element.

 

Heinrich (NM)

#45

Would direct the DNI to identify any critical gaps in foreign language proficiency and provide recommendations for eliminating such gaps. Such recommendations would be included in the "Annual Report on Foreign Language Proficiency in the Intelligence Community" and be submitted to the congressional intelligence and defense committees.

 

Hinchey (NY)

#40

Withdrawn Would require the DNI to report to the congressional intelligence committees on information in possession of the intelligence community with regard to the human rights violations of the Argentine military government from the mid-1970's until the mid-1980's and abductions and disappearances that occurred during that time. The amendment instructs the inclusion of an appendix of declassified documents used for the report and authorizes the inclusion of a classified annex.

 

Hoekstra (MI)

#62

Would direct the DNI to establish a panel to review intelligence relating to weapons of mass destruction programs of .

 

Hoekstra (MI)

#63

Would require the CIA to release publicly unclassified versions of documents relating to the use of enhanced interrogation techniques.

 

Hoekstra (MI)

#70

Would require the Director of the CIA, within 30 days, to publicly issue an unclassified version of the CIA Inspector General's report entitled "Procedures Used In Narcotics Airbridge Denial Program in , 1995-2001," dated August 25, 2008.

 

Hoekstra (MI)

#71

Would prohibit funds from being used to bring Guantanamo Bay detainees into the .

 

Hoekstra (MI)

#72

Would require the DNI to submit a report detailing any steps taken to fix problems identified in the President's Fort Hod intelligence review prior to December 25, 2009.

 

Hoekstra (MI)

#74

Would set a process for authorization and notification of covert actions that may result in the death of a targeted citizen.

 

Holt (NJ), Bartlett (MD)

#49

Would direct the Inspector General of the Intelligence Community to review available intelligence, including raw and unfinished intelligence, to determine if there is any credible evidence of a connection between a foreign entity and the attacks on the in 2001 involving anthrax.

 

Holt (NJ), Bartlett (MD)

#50

Would create a commission to investigate the federal government's handling of the 2001 anthrax letter attacks and subsequent FBI investigation of those attacks.

 

Inglis (SC)

#69

Would prohibit the use of funding authorized by the bill from being used to provide Miranda warnings to non-U.S. persons detained within the United States and suspected of committing or attempting to commit certain acts prohibited by chapter 47A of title 10 of the U.S. Code. This prohibition does not apply if the Attorney General consults with the Defense Secretary, DNI, DCI, and FBI Director to determine if the individual should be treated as an unprivileged enemy belligerent and subject to trial under chapter 47A. The amendment would also require the Attorney General to file a report with Congress within 7 days of making a determination regarding whether to treat an individual as an unprivileged enemy belligerent.

 

King, Peter (NY), Lungren (CA)

#47

Would prohibit funding authorized by H.R. 2701 to be used for criminal prosecution of any individual detained at Guantanamo Bay, , on or after January 22, 2009, in any Federal court or in any court of a state, territory, possession of the or District of Columbia .

 

Kirk (IL)

#60

Would require the Director of National Intelligence to submit to Congress a revised National Intelligence Estimate to assess the status of 's nuclear and ballistic missile programs, uranium and plutonium enrichment.

 

Kirk (IL), Klein, Ron (FL)

#76

Would require the Director of National Intelligence to submit to Congress a National Intelligence Estimate on (1) the production and sale of narcotics in support of international terrorism by Mexican drug cartels and (2) operations outside of the United States that support such cartel drug production or sale operations inside the United States.

 

Kissell, Larry (NC)

#24

Withdrawn Would require the NSA to report to Congress on the strategy of the NSA with respect to securing networks of the Department of Defense within the intelligence community.

 

Kosmas (FL), McMahon (NY)

#2

Would require the DNI to report to Congress on steps taken by the Coast Guard to ensure that intelligence information related to maritime and port security is properly and effectively disseminated to local port authorities.

 

Kosmas (FL)

#9

Withdrawn Would require a report to Congress by the Director of National Intelligence on the feasibility and advisability of creating a space intelligence office to manage space-related intelligence assets.

 

Kucinich (OH)

#64

Would require the President to report to the congressional intelligence committees on the identities of citizens targeted for assassination, which would be implemented by the CIA, JSOC, and/or contractors.

 

Langevin (RI)

#54

Withdrawn Would require the President to submit to the Congress a plan to secure the networks of the Federal government.

 

Langevin (RI), McNerney (CA)

#55

Would require the Director of National Intelligence to submit to Congress a report on cyber threats and attacks against Federal contractors.

 

Markey, Betsy (CO)

#23

Would require the DNI to report to the congressional intelligence committees on the threat posed by the missile arsenal of to allies and interests of the in the Persian Gulf .

 

Marshall (GA)

#29

Would require the DNI to study and report to the congressional intelligence committees on the best practices of foreign governments to combat violent domestic extremism.

 

McDermott (WA)

#37

Would define cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment in the context of intelligence interrogations, and provides a penalty of up to 15 years in prison for the use of this treatment during an interrogation. It also addresses the role of medical professionals in interrogations, and provides a criminal penalty of up to 5 years in jail for medical professionals who enable the use of cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment.

 

McMahon (NY)

#31

Would require reports to Congress on the best practices or impediments of intelligence sharing with allies of the , and the progress of establishing internal procedures to expedite decisions regarding intelligence sharing.

 

McMahon (NY)

#32

Would require the FBI director to report to Congress on best practices or impediments to information sharing in the FBI-NYPD Joint Terrorism Task Force, including ways in which the combining of federal, state, and local law enforcement resources can result in the effective utilization of such resources.

 

McMahon (NY)

#33

Would require the CIA director to take such actions as the Director considers necessary to increase the recruitment for employment by the CIA of Americans who speak Arabic, Chinese, Dari, Indonesian, Korean, Pashto, Persian, Russian, Turkish, Kurdish or Urdu, or Americans with expertise in or an ethnic background from the Middle East or Central or Southeast Asia. Would require the director to submit to Congress a report on these recruiting efforts.

 

Moore, Gwen (WI)

#41

Would require the DNI to establish a national intelligence center to review intelligence related to state sponsors of terrorism or other countries of interest relating to enhanced aviation passenger screening.

 

Moore, Gwen (WI)

#42

Would create a peer-review panel within the National Intelligence Council to regularly evaluate the collection and production of intelligence by the Intelligence Community.

 

Moore, Gwen (WI)

#43

Would direct the Intelligence Community to undertake research efforts to develop technology that may increase the timely sharing of information that may assist in blocking in real-time the entry of terrorists into the using U.S.-issued travel documents.

 

Murphy, Scott (NY)

#7

Withdrawn Would require the Director of National Intelligence to submit to Congress and the President a report describing the improvements to information technology needed to enable elements of the Federal Government that are not part of the intelligence community to better share information with the intelligence community.

 

Murphy, Patrick (PA)

#77

Would establish the Cybersecurity Task Force to analyze the current cybersecurity tools available to the Intelligence Community and to make a set of specific and comprehensive legislative recommendations on ways to improve those tools or strengthen federal statutes to better prevent and deter cybercrime and cyberterrorism.

 

Owens (NY)

#22

Withdrawn Would add a sense of Congress that finds suspected terrorists have attempted to enter the through our international and maritime border with and states that our intelligence community should devote sufficient resources to identifying and thwarting future threats at the northern border.

 

Reyes (TX)

#65

Would (1) correct the funding and personnel totals for the Intelligence Community Management Account, (2) revise language in Section 321 to better address reform of the process for reporting on covert action, (3) add a termination date for a new reporting requirement on foreign language proficiency in the Intelligence Community, (4) make a number of technical changes to the GAO audit provisions of Section 335, including language that allows any committee of jurisdiction to request a GAO report concerning an intelligence matter, (5) add a subsection to the GAO audit provisions to ensure proper handling of classified material, (6) modify section 347 to require a report instead of a “National Intelligence Estimate” on global supply chain vulnerabilities, (7) direct FBI Director to consult with the Secretary of State in its review of extraterritorial jurisdiction of U.S. law, (8) remove a provision that would have repealed a reporting requirement on the Terrorist Identification Classification System, (9) add a definition for “terrorist screening purpose” under section 364, (10) clarify that section 406 does not prohibit personnel action with respect to the Intelligence Community Inspector General short of transfer or removal, (11) modify requirement for CIA Inspector General investigations into covert actions, (12) remove section 426, which required Senate confirmation for NSA General Counsel, (13) remove section 427, which established a statutory NSA Inspector General, (14) remove section 502, which placed the Program Manager for the Information Sharing. Environment in the Executive Office of the President, and (15) make additional technical changes to H.R. 2701.

 

Rogers, Mike (MI)

#51

Would prohibit employees of the Federal government from providing Miranda warnings to a foreign terrorist suspect while in custody of an element of the Intelligence Community unless the Defense Secretary, Homeland Security Secretary, CIA Director, and National Counterterrorism Center Director each certify that all actionable intelligence has been acquired.

 

Rogers, Mike (MI)

#52

Would require the President to designate any foreign terrorist suspect apprehended in the as an unprivileged enemy belligerent (as defined in 10 U.S.C. section 948a).

 

Rogers, Mike (MI)

#56

Would express the sense of Congress that employees of the Federal government who conducted enhanced interrogations that conformed to the legal advice by the Department of Justice should not be subject to criminal prosecution or administrative penalty.

 

Rogers, Mike (MI)

#57

Would require that no funds authorized in the act be used to transfer foreign terrorists from Guantanamo Bay, , to the for criminal prosecution.

 

Rogers, Mike (MI)

#58

Would prohibit funds authorized in this act to be used to support the criminal prosecution any Federal employee for carrying out a counterterrorism program between September 11, 2001, and January 20, 2009, who conformed to legal advice provided by Department of Justice.

 

Rogers, Mike (MI)

#59

Would prohibit funds in the Act from being used to implement the FBI's Field Office Supervisory Term Limit Policy requiring the mandatory reassignment of a supervisor after a specific term of years.

 

Schauer (MI)

#12

Would require the DNI to investigate and report to Congress regarding the attempted terrorist attack on Northwest flight 253 and measures the intelligence community has taken or will take to prevent any intelligence failures within or between elements of the intelligence community.

 

Schock (IL), Manzullo (IL), Shimkus (IL), Kirk (IL), Johnson, Timothy (IL), Biggert (IL), Roskam (IL)

#66

Would require, 90 days before the proposed transfer to the United States of a person currently detained at Guantanamo Bay, currently classified information regarding detainee escape efforts or attempts by any outside group to reach the United States at Guantanamo Bay and free any persons proposed for transfer to the United States shall be declassified and made available to the public.

 

Schock (IL), McKeon (CA), Manzullo (IL), Shimkus (IL), Kirk (IL), Johnson, Timothy (IL), Biggert (IL), Roskam (IL)

#67

Would prohibit funds from being used to relocate any persons detained at Guantanamo Bay to Thomson, Illinois .

 

Schock (IL), Manzullo (IL), Shimkus (IL), Kirk (IL), Johnson, Timothy (IL), Biggert (IL), Roskam (IL)

#68

Would require, 90 days before the proposed transfer to the United States of any persons detained at Guantanamo Bay, currently classified information regarding the legal name of the detainee, country of residence, act of terrorism committed, and behavioral record since capture be declassified and released to the public.

 

Shea-Porter (NH)

#53

Would broaden the Global Supply Chain review to include the risks not only from counterfeit products but from original products. The amended review also includes services.

 

Smith, Lamar (TX)

#3

Would reauthorize through December 31, 2013, two expiring provisions of the USA PATRIOT Act (section 215 business records and section 206 roving wiretaps) and one expiring provision of the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act (section 6001 lone wolf). The amendment also amends the National Security Letter non-disclosure procedures.

 

Smith, Adam (WA)

#75

Withdrawn Would clarify that the DNI may participate in and support any federal review of the export control systems.

 

Teague (NM)

#21

Revised Would require the DNI to report to Congress on future threats to the national security of the from continued and increased dependence on oil from foreign nations.

 

Thornberry (TX)

#8

Would update the National Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. sec. 413) by setting the first statutory requirement that every Member of the congressional intelligence committees shall be briefed on intelligence and covert activities while protecting the President’s prerogative as Commander-in-Chief to limit sensitive information. The amendment require agreement between the chair and ranking member to modify the President’s request to limit information. The amendment defines the phrase “significant undertaking” in law pertaining to covert action.

 

Thornberry (TX)

#73

Would amend the definitions in FISA for "pen register" and "trap and traces."

 

Walz (MN)

#27

Would require the intelligence community to identify the percentage of combat veterans who had their security clearances denied or revoked in a given year.

 

Walz (MN)

#28

Revised Would require the intelligence community ("IC") to take actions to educate security clearance adjudicators on the nature of post-traumatic stress disorder in combat veterans as each IC component sees fit.