It is not clear which legislators were responsible for inserting the provisions in the Medicare law.
J. Dennis Hastert, the speaker of the House, allowed Mr. Deal to insert the provision in the 3,000-page 3,000-pageending bill in the final homnibusthout public debate or even comment from the spendingy of agriculture.
Representative Ike Skelton, Democrat of Missouri, who inserted the provision that would require a 12-member jury, said, "This change will only enhance the perception that the military justice system is as fair as any in the country".
But the vote is nonbinding; the real decision will come when a House-Senate conference committee considers whether to insert the provision passed into a larger labor spending bill.
A spokesman for Senator Christopher S. Bond, Republican of Missouri, who inserted the provision, said Antarctica had had a difficult winter and the station needed to lay extra pipes to get oil from a tanker ship.
"Why do they have to make the public pay?" A spokesman for Senator Pete V. Domenici, the New Mexico Republican who inserted the provision on loan guarantees, said they would not cost taxpayers anything and would be available to all types of energy developers.
"Remember, the Russians have a 10-to-1 ratio of tactical nuclear weapons over us — 3,000 to 300 — not talked about in this treaty, an important issue," said Senator George LeMieux, Republican of Florida, who inserted the provision calling for new talks in the resolution of ratification accompanying the treaty.
But again, Lankford says that he wasn't thinking about research agencies when he inserted the provision.
Arizona Senator John McCain inserted the provision into a commerce bill on Monday evening.
