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Jul 13, 2009
7:37PM

Summary of Amendments Submitted to the Rules Committee for
H.R. 3170 - Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Act, 2010
(summaries derived from information provided by sponsors)
Listed in Alphabetical Order
July 13, 2009  7:37PM
 

Blackburn (TN)

#12

Would provide that each amount appropriated or otherwise made available by the Act that is not required to be appropriated or otherwise made available by a provision of law is hereby reduced by 5 percent.

Boehner (OH)/
Frelinghuysen (NJ)/Lewis (CA)
Emerson (MO)/
Issa (CA)/
Chaffetz (UT)/
Kline, John (MN)/
Ehlers (MI)/
Souder (IN)/
Bishop, Rob (UT)/
Franks (AZ)/
Akin (MO)/
Cao (LA)/
Fleming (LA)/
Cassidy (LA)/
Linder (GA)/
Lamborn (CO)/
Manzullo (IL)/
McKeon (CA)/
King, Steve (IA)/
Cantor (VA)/
Pitts (PA)/
Johnson, Sam (TX)/
McMorris Rodgers (WA)/
Price, Tom (GA)/
McHenry (NC)

#87

Would ensure that low-income DC students are able to receive a scholarship through the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program by removing the requirement that students must be OSP recipients during the 2009-2010 school year.

Brady, Kevin (TX)

#10

Would prohibit funds from being used for the salaries and expenses of the Department of the Treasury Office of Financial Stability until the Treasury Secretary implements the recommendations of the Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program or reports to Congress detailing why such recommendations should not be implemented.

Brady, Kevin (TX)

#13

Would prohibit any funds from being used to conduct a carbon audit of the tax code.

Brady, Kevin (TX)

#82

Revised Would condition implementation of the Buy America provision found in Section 606 of this Act upon the U.S. Department of Commerce certifying whether it will cause an actual or potential decline in U.S. employment or sales of U.S. goods and services.

Broun (GA)

#41

Would prohibit funding made available in this bill from paying the salaries of specific positions in the Council on Environmental Quality

Broun (GA)

#42

Would prohibit funding made available in this bill from paying the salaries or expenses of the White House Office of Political Affairs.

Broun (GA)

#43

Would reduce each amount appropriated in this bill that is not required spending by law by 0.5 percent.

Burgess (TX)

#4

Would provide that when a financial institution repays TARP funds in a year in which there is no deficit, the Secretary shall transfer such funds to an account for deficit reduction. It also expresses the sense of Congress that the Federal budget should not result in a deficit in any fiscal year.

Burton (IN)

#28

Would prevent funds in this Act from being used for any court created by an Act of Congress or the Supreme Court, to hear or decide the question of constitutional validity of the amendments made by the Defense of Marriage Act.

Burton (IN)

#29

Would state that no funds can be used in contravention of section 103 of division J of P.L. 111-8, reinforcing the elimination of the Cost of Living Adjustment increase of pay for Members of Congress in 2010.

Campbell (CA)

#17

Would prohibit funding for the White House Office of Health Reform unless the President has complied with the requirements of 31 U.S.C. section 1105(h) (relating to submission of proposed legislation to respond to a Medicare funding warning).

Chaffetz (UT)/
Jordan (OH)

#16

Would provide that any law enacted by the D.C. Council that recognizes any definition of marriage other than a union between one man and one woman shall be invalid unless approved by the electors of the District of Columbia in the first general election that follows the enactment of that law. This provision would apply to any law enacted by the Council at any time before, on, or after the enactment of this Act.

Chaffetz (UT)

#30

Would increase by $1 million the Bureau of Public Debt appropriation and decrease by $1 million the Council of Economic Advisors appropriation.

Cole (OK)

#25

Would provide that no funds may be used to carry out chapter 95 (presidential election campaign fund) or chapter 96 (presidential primary matching payment account) of the Internal Revenue Code.

Cole (OK)

#26

Would provide that no funds may be used to carry out section 9008 of the Internal Revenue Code (relating to payments for presidential nominating conventions).

Conaway (TX)

#11

Would express the Sense of the House that any reduction in the amount appropriated by the Act achieved as a result of amendments adopted by the House should be dedicated to deficit reduction.

Cuellar (TX)

#84

Withdrawn Would prohibit the use of funds for first-class travel for employees of agencies funded by the bill, in contravention of Federal regulations.

Culberson (TX)

#39

Withdrawn Would direct repaid TARP funds returned to the Treasury to be used to reduce the deficit and would reduce the TARP authorization by the amount of repaid funds, preventing the Treasury from using repaid TARP funds to make additional capital purchases or investments under TARP.

Culberson (TX)

#40

Withdrawn Would prohibit repaid TARP funds from being recycled for other TARP activities.

Emerson (MO)

#1

Would reduce funding for the Help America Vote Act by $50 million.

Flake, Jeff (AZ)

#86

Would prohibit $100,000 from being used for the small business incubator project of the University of West Georgia in Carrollton, Georgia, and reduce the amount of Section 511 of the bill by the same amount.

Flake, Jeff (AZ)

#88

Would prohibit $200,000 from being used for the Commercial Driver Training Institute project of Arkansas State University in Newport, Arkansas, and reduce the amount of Section 511 of the bill by the same amount.

Flake, Jeff (AZ)

#89

Would prohibit $285,000 from being used for the Proof of Concept Center of Idaho TechConnect, Inc., in Nampa, Idaho, and reduce the amount of Section 511 of the bill by the same amount.

Flake, Jeff (AZ)

#90

Would prohibit $200,000 from being used for the Greenstone Group project of the Northeast Entrepreneur Fund in Virginia, Minnesota, and reduce the amount of Section 511 of the bill by the same amount

Flake, Jeff (AZ)

#91

Would prohibit $150,000 from being used for the Green Business Incubator Project of Montgomery County, Maryland, and reduce the amount of Section 511 of the bill by the same amount.

Flake, Jeff (AZ)

#92

Would prohibit $100,000 from being used for the Activity Based Total Accountability project of the Florida Institute of Technology, and reduce the amount of section 511 of the bill by the same amount.

Flake, Jeff (AZ)

#93

Would prohibit $90,000 from being used for the Commercial Kitchen Business Incubator project of the El Pajaro Community Development Corporation in Watsonville, California, and reduce the amount of section 511 of the bill by the same amount.

Flake, Jeff (AZ)

#94

Would prohibit $125,000 from being used for the Defense Procurement Assistance Program of the Economic Growth Connection of Westmoreland in Greensburg, Pennsylvania, and reduce the amount of section 511 of the bill by the same amount.

Flake, Jeff (AZ)

#95

Would prohibit $100,000 from being used for the Myrtle Beach International Trade and Conference Center of the City of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, and reduce the amount of section 511 of the bill by the same amount.

Flake, Jeff (AZ)

#96

Would prohibit $100,000 from being used for the Tech Belt Life Sciences Greenhouse project of the Pittsburgh Life Sciences Greenhouse in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and reduce the amount of section 511 of the bill by the same amount.

Flake, Jeff (AZ)

#97

Would prohibit $900,000 from being used for an infrastructure expansion project to promote small business of the City of Loma Linda and the City of Grand Terrace, California, and reduce the amount of section 511 of the bill by the same amount.

Garrett (NJ)

#44

Would prohibit Treasury from depositing funds at the Federal Reserve with the purpose of expanding the Federal Reserve’s balance sheet.

Garrett (NJ)

#45

Would delay the implementation of Sarbanes-Oxley section 404(b) for small market capitalization companies (non-accelerated filers).

Gingrey (GA)

#51

Would establish as part of the Public-Private Investment Program for Legacy Assets, a Public-Private IRA Investment Fund, which would allow individuals to make an additional $10,000 investment in an IRA for this purpose.

Gingrey (GA)

#52

Would prohibit the funds in this act from implementing subsections (a) and (c) of section 7131 of title 5, United States Code (official time for government employees).

Gohmert (TX)/
Schock (IL)

#14

Would provide that no funds may be used to pay salaries or expenses related to the Presidential Task Force on the Auto Industry.

Harper (MS)

#56

Would reduce the amount appropriated for Election Assistance Commission grants to carry out research on voting technology improvements from $4,000,000 to $2,000,000, which was the amount in the agency’s budget request.

Harper (MS)

#60

Would reduce the amount appropriated for salaries and expenses of the Election Assistance Commission by $6,951, the amount used to purchase t-shirts and sweatshirts for agency employees.

Harper (MS)

#61

Would reduce the amount appropriated for Election Assistance Commission grants to carry out research on voting technology from $4,000,000 to $2,000,000, which was the amount in the agency's budget request; reduce the amount appropriated for EAC grants to carry out a pilot program for grants for pre-election logic and accuracy testing and post-election voting systems verifications from $2,000,000 to $1,000,000, which was the amount appropriated for FY2009; and reduce the amount appropriated for salaries and expenses of the EAC by $6,951, the amount used to purchase t-shirts and sweatshirts for agency employees.

Harper (MS)

#62

Would reduce the amount appropriated for Election Assistance Commission requirements payments from $100,000,000 to $50,000,000 in recognition of the fact that $1.3 billion previously appropriated for this purpose remains unused.

Hastings, Alcee (FL)

#20

Withdrawn Would transfer $250,000 from the GSA's Federal Building Fund operations account to the National Credit Union Administration's Community Development Revolving Loan Fund.

Hensarling (TX)

#66

Would increase the Small Business Administration's Salaries and Expenses account by $100,000, then decreases it by $100,000, for the purpose of directing the SBA to publish a study on the potential effects the Obama Administration’s proposed Consumer Financial Protection Agency could have on small businesses' access to credit.

Hensarling (TX)

#67

Would prohibit funds provided in the bill from being used to pay the salaries, expenses, or costs of employees at the Treasury Department to provide assistance under the TARP program unless the institution is an insured depository financial institution.

Hensarling (TX)

#68

Would prohibit funds provided in the bill from being used to administrate preferred stock agreements with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, until Treasury submits in writing to the House and Senate Appropriations Committees, House Financial Services Committee, and Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee a restructuring plan for both Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

Hensarling (TX)/
Conaway (TX)/
Gingrey (GA)/
Blackburn (TN)

#69

Would prohibit any funds in the bill from being used to enforce Section 526 of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 (P.L. 11-140).

Hensarling (TX)

#70

Would increase funding for FinCEN by $100,000, then decreases it by $100,000, for the purpose of directing FinCEN to publish a study on Mortgage Fraud, specifically discussing Mortgage Fraud committed by both lenders and borrowers.

Hensarling (TX)

#71

Would prohibit funds provided in the bill from being used to pay the salaries, expenses, or costs of employees at the Treasury Department to administer the TARP program if, after the enactment of this act, the Federal government acquires the common stock of any financial institution by way of TARP assistance.

Hensarling (TX)

#72

Would prohibit funding provided in the bill from being used to pay the salaries, expenses, or costs of employees at the Treasury Department to administer the TARP program after December 31, 2009, except for managing existing assets held by the Secretary of the Treasury.

Hodes (NH)/
Bean (IL)

#21

Would require all agencies receiving funds under the bill to include in its annual performance plan a report on expired undisbursed grant accounts, including (1) future action to resolve the grant accounts, (2) the method the department or agency is taking to track the expired grant accounts, (3) which grant accounts could be returned to the Treasury, and (4) the number and total finances in the expired grant accounts for the past three fiscal years.

Hodes (NH)

#22

Would reduce operating expenses for the Executive Residence at the White House by $2.5 million.

Inslee (WA)/
Larsen, Rick (WA)/
Terry (NE)

#48

Revised Would increase funding for the youth media campaign under the Office of National Drug Control Policy in Title II, Executive Office of the President, by $20,000,000 by reducing $22,000,000 to the total cost of the bill.

Jordan (OH)

#8

Would reduce funding by $3.6 billion to reflect FY2008 spending levels.

Jordan (OH)/
Chaffetz (UT)

#19

Would prohibit D.C. funds from being used by the District of Columbia to implement or enforce any recognition of a marriage between two individuals other than a marriage between one man and one woman.

King, Steve (IA)

#65

Would prohibit any funds appropriated by the act from being used to violate the Second Amendment rights of the residents of the District of Columbia.

King, Steve (IA)

#73

Would remove certain qualifying language in the bill to absolutely clarify that an employee of a Federal agency who is not authorized to use his or her official time for other purposes and who is not under a leave system should use official time only to perform official duties.

King, Steve (IA)

#74

Would increase and then decrease $1 million in funding for the Department of the Treasury to provide Congress with a report detailing the Department's plans to end the Federal government's involvement in the private entities in which taxpayers currently have some financial or ownership interest.

King, Steve (IA)

#75

Would prohibit any of the funds appropriated in the bill from being used by the Department of Treasury to obtain a financial or ownership interest in any private entity.

King, Steve (IA)

#76

Would prohibit funds in the bill from being used to provide assistance to any private entity under the TARP program under the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008.

King, Steve (IA)

#77

Would prohibit funds in the bill from being used to implement or enforce the Health Care Benefits Expansion Act of 1992, authorizing unmarried persons regardless of gender to register as domestic partners, thereby giving domestic partners of District employees health insurance coverage (if the District employee currently has coverage) and mutual visitation rights in hospitals and nursing homes, and allowing District employees to use accrued annual/sick leave when needed to care for a domestic partner and dependents.

King, Steve (IA)

#78

Would prohibit funds in the bill from being used to try in the U.S. any individual who is detained, as of the date of enactment, at Guantanamo Bay.

King, Steve (IA)

#79

Would prohibit funds from being used to limit Federal, State or local law enforcement officials from communicating the citizenship or immigration status of any individual to Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Kingston (GA)

#49

Would prohibit funds in this bill from being used to pay the salaries of “czars” which are not confirmed by the Senate.

Latta (OH)

#85

Would prohibit funds from being used for any Member of Congress Cost of Living Adjustment (COLA), as stated in Public Law 111-8.

Lee, Christopher (NY)

#50

Would prohibit funding for the Presidential Task Force on the Auto Industry until Congress receives all documents, written communications, or memoranda between the task force, General Motors, and Delphi Corporation relating to the determination of Delphi’s pension obligations.

Lewis, Jerry (CA)

#9

Would prevent funds from being used to implement Executive Order 13492 (74 Fed. Reg. 4897, relating to the disposition of individuals detained at Guantanamo Bay).

Mack (FL)

#58

Would strip all Davis-Bacon prevailing wage provisions from the bill.

McCarthy, Kevin (CA)

#53

Would reduce the amount appropriated for Election Assistance Commission requirements payments from $100,000,000 to $75,000,000.

McCarthy, Kevin (CA)

#54

Would ensure that Election Assistance Commission funds are used in compliance with the requirement of Section 208 of the Help America Vote Act, which requries that actions of the Commission authorized under that Act be carried out only with approval of at least three Commission members.

McCarthy, Kevin (CA)

#63

Would reduce the amount appropriated for Election Assistance Commission grants to carry out a pilot program for grants for pre-election logic and accuracy testing and post-election voting systems verifications from $2,000,000 to $1,000,000 which was the amount appropriated for FY2009.

McCarthy, Kevin (CA)/
Culberson (TX)/
Garrett (NJ)

#80

Would prohibit the funds in this bill from being used to fund any expenditures under TARP if those are funded by repaid TARP funds.

McCaul (TX)

#15

Would prohibit funds from being used for a project named for an individual then serving as a Senator, Member of the House of Representatives, or Delegate or Resident Commissioner to the Congress.

Neugebauer (TX)

#57

Would reduce the amount appropriated in the bill by $5.994 billion - the amount appropriated in P.L. 111-5, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, for programs covered by this bill.

Paulsen (MN)/
Lee, Christopher (NY)

#2

Would prevent funds from being used for the salaries or expenses of the Presidential Task Force on the Auto Industry unless the Task Force reports to Congress on the factors and decision-making process in determining which GM and Chrysler automobile dealership franchise agreements to terminate.

Paulsen (MN)

#81

Would change the way the Director of the Department of Treasury Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) is nominated, from “by the Secretary of the Treasury” to “By the President” with Senate confirmation.

Paulsen (MN)

#83

Would increase the appropriation for the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) of the Treasury Department by $15 million and offsets from the GSA rent Account by the same amount.

Price, Tom (GA)

#5

Would reduce appropriations in Title I (Department of the Treasury) by $100 million.

Price, Tom (GA)/
Wittman (VA)

#6

Would reduce appropriations in the bill by $241.5 million.

Price, Tom (GA)

#7

Would strike funding for the President's Council of Economic Advisers ($4.2 million).

Sarbanes (MD)

#64

Would require the District of Columbia to comply with section 104 of the Department of Youth Rehabilitation Services Establishment Act of 2004 (Sec. 2—1515.04, D.C. Official Code) and section 1102 of the Omnibus Juvenile Justice Act of 2004 (Sec. 24—941, D.C. Official Code) in operation of the New Beginnings Youth Facility located in the State of Maryland.

Schock (IL)

#23

Would prohibit funds from being used to conduct meetings to discuss the implementation of a second stimulus.

Schock (IL)

#24

Would transfer $15 million from the Federal Buildings Fund to election reform programs at the Election Assistance Commission to provide grants to states to assist in holding special elections to fill Senate vacancies.

Schock (IL)

#27

Would ensure none of the bill's funds are made available for the purpose of implementing or enforcing section 42(a)(3) (all-terrain vehicles) of the Consumer Product Safety Act (P.L. 110-314).

Schock (IL)

#31

Would ensure that no funds that are made available can be used to bring an enforce section 101(a) (lead limits) of the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act (P.L. 110-314) against a second-hand seller of children's clothing.

Schock (IL)

#32

Would prohibit the funds made available under this legislation from being used to bring enforcement action against sellers of used books for violating section 101(a) (lead limits) of the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act (P.L. 110-314).

Serrano (NY)

#36

Revised Would (1) increase FY 2010 funding for the Consumer Product Safety Commission by $4,875,000 to the auth level of $118,200,000. FY 2010 funding under GSA Federal Buildings Fund will be reduced by the same amount; (2) transfer $250,000 from the GSA's Federal Building Fund operations account to the National Credit Union Administration's Community Development Revolving Loan Fund; and (3) prohibit the use of funds for first-class travel for employees of agencies funded by the bill, in contravention of Federal regulations.

 

 

Sessions (TX)

#33

Would deny the use of any funds for salaries and expenses of the Executive Office of the President, unless the President keeps and makes publicly available detailed records of any contact with General Motors Corporation after their discharge under Title 11, U.S.C.

Sessions (TX)

#34

Would strike Sec. 734, which prohibits any funds from being used to begin or announce a study or public-private competition regarding the conversion to contractor performance of any function performed by Federal employees pursuant to Office of Management and Budget Circular A-76.

Sessions (TX)

#35

Would expand Sec. 743 reporting requirements to equally consider both the conversion of contractor services to Federal employees and Federal employee services to contractors, rather than just the conversion of private sector jobs to Federal employees.

Souder (IN)

#18

Would prohibit District of Columbia funds from being used to enact or carry out any law, rule, or regulation to legalize or reduce penalties associated with the possession, use, or distribution of any schedule I substance under the Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. section 801 et seq.) or any tetrahydrocannabinols derivative. It also would prohibit funds in the Act from being used to carry out the Legalization of Marijuana for Medical Treatment Act of 1998 (Initiative 59) approved by D.C. electors on November 3, 1988.

Space (OH)

#47

Withdrawn Would bar any funding in the bill from being used to eliminate or relocate jobs from United States Postal Service mail sorting facilities.

Stearns (FL)

#37

Would ensure that none of the local or Federal funds appropriated to the District of Columbia by this Act can be expended for any abortion except in instances where the life of the mother would be endangered or where the pregnancy was the result of incest or rape.

Stearns (FL)

#38

Would ensure that none of the funds appropriated by this Act to the District of Columbia could be used to operate a system for registering privately-owned firearms.

Tiahrt (KS)

#55

Would prohibit the use of funds for the salaries or expenses of personnel who obligate funds made available for measures necessary to convert GSA facilities to High-Performance Green Buildings under Title V of Division A of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (P.L. 111-5).

Tiahrt (KS)/
Davis (TN)/Shuler (NC)/Jordan (OH)/Stupak(MI)/Smith (NJ)/Costello (IL)/Pitts (PA)/Marshall (GA)/Bachmann (MN
)

#59

Would reinstate the prohibition on all public funding of abortions within the District of Colombia.

Walden (OR)/Pence (IN)

#46

Revised Would prohibit funds made available in the Act from being used to implement the Fairness Doctrine and certain broadcast localism regulations.

Wolf (VA)

#3

Would provide that H.R. 1557, as introduced in the 111th Congress, is hereby enacted into law to create the Securing America's Future Economy Commission Act ("SAFE Commission Act"). It would provide $2 million in funding, offset by a reduction in OMB funds.