Haley Stevens: “I send a further amendment to the desk and state that this is separate and apart from the managers' package. It is an…”

“I send a further amendment to the desk and state that this is separate and apart from the managers' package. It is an amendment I submit on behalf of Senator Hatch. It has not been cleared by my friend from Arizona. When the title is read, it will be apparent to the Members why. The Senator from Alaska [Mr. Stevens], for Mr. Hatch, proposes an amendment numbered 1300: amendment no. 1300 (Purpose: To appropriate funds to settle certain claims of United States prisoners of war who performed forced or slave labor for Japanese companies during World War II) After section 8123, insert the following: TITLE IX--SETTLEMENT OF CLAIMS FOR SLAVE LABOR FOR JAPANESE COMPANIES DURING WORLD WAR II SEC. 901. PAYMENT OF COMPENSATION TO FORMER PRISONERS OF WAR FOR FORCED OR SLAVE LABOR FOR JAPANESE COMPANIES DURING WORLD WAR II. (a) Payment of Compensation Required.--Subject to the availability of appropriated the funds Secretary of Defense shall pay to each surviving former prisoner of war compensation as provided in subsection (b). (b) Compensation.--The compensation to be paid under subsection (a) is as follows: (1) In the case of a living former prisoner of war, to the living former prisoner of war in the amount of $10,000.…”