Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 95.djvu/1127

 PUBLIC LAW 97-86—DEC. 1, 1981

95 STAT. 1101

TITLE n—RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, TEST, AND EVALUATION AUTHORIZATION OP APPROPRIATIONS

SEC. 201. (a) Funds are hereby authorized to be appropriated for fiscal year 1982 for the use of the Armed Forces of the United States for research, development, test, and evaluation in amounts as follows: For the Army, $3,746,299,000. For the Navy (including the Marine Corps), $6,072,167,000. For the Air Force, $8,686,800,000. For the Defense Agencies, $1,899,847,000, of which $53,000,000 is authorized for the activities of the Director off Test and Evaluation, Defense. 0)) In addition to the funds authorized to be appropriated in subsection (a), there are authorized to be appropriated for fiscal year 1982 such additional sums as may be necessary for increases in salary, pay, retirement, and other employee benefits authorized by law for civilian employees of the Department of Defense whose compensation is provided for by funds authorized to be appropriated in such subsection. LONG-RANGE COMBAT AIRCRAFT

SEC. 202. (a) None of the funds appropriated pursuant to an authorization of appropriations in this Act may be obligated or expended for the full-scale engineering development or procurement of a long-range combat aircraft before November 18, 1981, and none of such funds may be obligated or expended for such purposes on or after such date if, before such date, the Senate and the House of Representatives have agreed to resolutions of their respective Houses expressing disapproval of the President's decision announced on October 2, 1981, regarding the development of long-range combat aircraft. (b) For the purposes of this section, the term "resolution" means "Resolution." only a resolution of either House of Congress, the matter after the resolving clause of which is as follows: "That the does not favor the decision of the President announced on October 2, 1981, regarding the development of long-range combat aircraft", the blank space therein being filled with the name of the resolving House. (c) Subsections (d) through (i) are enacted by the Congress— (1) as an exercise of the rulemaking power of the Senate and as such they are deemed a part of the rules of the Senate, but applicable only with respect to the procedure to be followed in the Senate in the case of resolutions described in subsection (b), and they supersede other rules of the Senate only to the extent that they are inconsistent therewith; and (2) with full recognition of the constitutional right of the Senate to change such rules at any time, in the same manner and to the same extent as in the case of any other rules of the Senate. (d) A resolution In the Senate shall be referred to the Committee on Armed Services of the Senate. (e) If the Committee on Armed Services of the Senate has not reported a resolution referred to it at the end of seven calendar days after its introduction, it is in order to move either to discharge the committee from further consideration of the resolution or to dis-

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