Amendment102nd Congress
An amendment specifying that the funds authorized in the bill should be used by federal agencies to enhance the maintenance and development of domestically produced high-performance computers and associated technologies. The amendment would prohibit Federal agencies from making grants or entering into contracts for research and development with any company or organization that is not an eligible American company, university, or nonprofit research institution unless such research and development cannot be carried out adequately by institutions located in the United States.
- Amendment Number
- 240
- Description
- An amendment specifying that the funds authorized in the bill should be used by federal agencies to enhance the maintenance and development of domestically produced high-performance computers and associated technologies. The amendment would prohibit Federal agencies from making grants or entering into contracts for research and development with any company or organization that is not an eligible American company, university, or nonprofit research institution unless such research and development cannot be carried out adequately by institutions located in the United States.
- Purpose
- Amendment provides that the funds authorized in the bill should go primarily toward the development of a strong domestic high-performance computing research and development and manufacturing capability. \ As amended by the Traficant amendment (A002): (1) agencies receiving funds are required to award contracts to domestic firms, which under competitive procedures would be awarded to foreign firms, when the final product of the domestic firm would be completely assembled in the United States with more than 50% of the final product produced domestically, and not more than a six percent difference existed between the foreign and domestic firm bids; and (2) prohibited the fraudulent use of "Made in America" labels.
- Congress
- 102
- Type
- HAMDT
- Latest Action Date
- Jul 11, 1991
- Latest Action Text
- On agreeing to the Brown amendment (A001) as amended Agreed to by voice vote.
- Latest Action Time
- 14:39:28
- Submitted Date
- Jul 11, 1991
- Chamber
- House of Representatives
- Update Date
- Jun 7, 2021