Yesterday afternoon, the Kennedy-Collins Amendment was filed to the FY06 Appropriations Bill.
The new appropriations amendment is Senate Amendment 1991 (S.AMDT.1991) and was filed by Senator Kennedy with 9 co-sponsors:
Sen Collins, Susan M. [ME] - 10/3/2005
Sen Clinton, Hillary Rodham [NY] - 10/3/2005
Sen Dole, Elizabeth [NC] - 10/3/2005
Sen Mikulski, Barbara A. [MD] - 10/3/2005
Sen Snowe, Olympia J. [ME] - 10/3/2005
Sen Bingaman, Jeff [NM] - 10/3/2005
Sen Lieberman, Joseph I. [CT] - 10/3/2005
Sen Reed, Jack [RI] - 10/3/2005
Sen Sarbanes, Paul S. [MD] - 10/3/2005
Additional Senators are expected to sign on today -- some that are co-sponsors of the authorization amendment.
Senators Kennedy and Collins are actively seeking cosponsors for this new amendment to the appropriations bill. Please notify your Senators that this appropriations amendment (S.AMDT 1991) has been filed and urge them to co-sponsor.
Text of the amendment follows if you click bleow
TEXT OF AMENDMENT AS FILED:
SA 1991. Mr. KENNEDY (for himself, Ms. COLLINS, Mrs. CLINTON, Mrs. DOLE, Ms. MIKULSKI, Ms. SNOWE, Mr. BINGAMAN, Mr. LIEBERMAN, Mr. REED, and Mr. SARBANES,) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill H.R. 2863, making appropriations for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2006, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:
At the appropriate place, insert the following:
SEC. __. (a) ARMY PROGRAMS.--Of the amount appropriated by title IV under the heading ``RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, TEST, AND EVALUATION, ARMY'', up to $10,000,000 may be used for Program Element 0601103A for University Research Initiatives.
(b) NAVY PROGRAMS.--Of the amount appropriated by title IV under the heading ``RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, TEST, AND EVALUATION, NAVY'', up to $10,000,000 may be used for Program Element 0601103N for University Research Initiatives.
(c) AIR FORCE PROGRAMS.--Of the amount appropriated by title IV under the heading ``RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, TEST, AND EVALUATION, AIR FORCE'', up to $10,000,000 may be used for Program Element 0601103F for University Research Initiatives.
(d) DEFENSE-WIDE ACTIVITIES.--Of the amount appropriated by title IV under the heading ``RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, TEST, AND EVALUATION, DEFENSE-WIDE''--
(A) up to $10,000,000 may be used for Program Element 0601120D8Z for the SMART National Defense Education Program; and
(B) up to $10,000,000 may be used for Program Element 0601101E for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency University Research Program in Computer Science and Cybersecurity.
(e) SENSE OF SENATE.--It is the sense of the Senate that it should be a goal of the Department of Defense to allocate to basic research programs each fiscal year an amount equal to 15 percent of the funds available to the Department of Defense for science and technology in such fiscal year.