Political Quotes

“I have an amendment at the desk. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: At the end of title LX, insert the following: SEC. 60__. PAYMENTS TO INDIVIDUALS WHO SERVED DURING WORLD WAR II IN THE UNITED STATES MERCHANT MARINE. (a) Establishment of Compensation Fund.--Subchapter II of chapter 5 of title 38, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new section: ``Sec. 534. Merchant Mariner Equity Compensation Fund ``(a) Compensation Fund.--(1) There is in the general fund of the Treasury a fund to be known as the `Merchant Mariner Equity Compensation Fund' (in this section referred to as the `compensation fund'). ``(2) Subject to the availability of appropriations provided in advance in a appropriations Act specifically for the purpose of carrying out this section, and no other funding source, amounts in the compensation fund shall be available to the Secretary without fiscal year limitation to make payments to eligible individuals in accordance with this section.…”