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Amendments

Mon, 20 May 2013 04:00:00 GMT

None Pending

Amendments - H.R. 1062 - SEC Regulatory Accountability Act

Fri, 17 May 2013 04:00:00 GMT

Sessions (R-TX) Amendment No.1 –Mandates that assessment plans required under this Act include analysis of any jobs added or lost as a result of the regulation, differentiating between public and private sector jobs.

Adopted Voice

Y ✓

Hurt (R-VA) Amendment No.2 – Expresses the sense of Congress that rules adopted by the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) comply with the same standards required of the SEC. Requires the SEC to ensure that any rules adopted by the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board (MSRB), and other national securities associations comply with the standards set forth in the bill.

Y 233
N 163

Maloney (D-NY) Amendment No. 3 – Strikes all after the enacting clause and inserts findings and a sense of Congress that the SEC is already required to conduct economic analysis as part of its rulemaking.

Y 165

N 233

Amendments to H.R. 807 - Full Faith and Credit Act

Thu, 09 May 2013 04:00:00 GMT

Camp (R-MI): Clarifies the prohibition on compensation for Members of Congress and clarifies language to require that the Secretary report to Congress any time the new authority is used.

Y 340

N 84

Amendments - H.R. 1406 - Working Families Flexibility Act of 2013

Wed, 08 May 2013 04:00:00 GMT

Gibson (R-NY) Amendment No.1 – Requires the GAO to submit a report to Congress on the usage of compensatory time allowed under the Act and detail any complaints filed or enforcement actions taken for alleged violations of the Act. The report will ensure Congress can monitor any potential abuse of the Act.

Y 384

N 42

Amendments - H.R. 527 - Responsible Helium Administration and Stewardship Act

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 04:00:00 GMT

Collins (R-GA) Amendment # 1 – Ensures that excess funds are used to reduce the annual Federal budget deficit.

Adopted Voice

Y ✓

Dent (R-PA) Amendment # 2 –Seeks to ensure the continued supply of helium for end users while requiring the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to honor existing contracts for the supply and delivery of helium. Affirms that the federal government will honor existing contracts that are set to expire October 1, 2015.

Y 87
N 312

Holt (D-NJ) Amendment #3 – Considers the long-term future of the Federal Helium Reserve by requiring an assessment of how closing the Federal Helium Reserve could influence helium availability, including options for insuring a reliable helium supply in coming decades.

Adopted Voice

Y ✓

Thornberry (R-TX) Amendment #4 – Affirms the authority of the Secretary of the Interior to allow private entities to connect to and store helium in the Federal Helium Reserve for an appropriate fee.

Adopted Voice

Y ✓

Amendments to H.R. 1549 - Helping Sick Americans Now Act

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 04:00:00 GMT

Pitts (R-PA), Upton (R-MI) – Amendment No. 1 – Terminates the Prevention and Public Health Fund after 2016 and authorizes $5 billion for an optional state-based high risk pool program for calendar year 2014. The optional state-based high risk pool program would be subject to appropriations and includes Hyde protections. Together with the base bill, the amendment will reduce the deficit by $8 billion.

Y N

Brownley (D-CA) – Amendment No. 2 – Requires that within 90 days of enactment of H.R. 1549, the Secretary of Health and Human Services shall prepare a report to Congress detailing the exact amount of money to be transferred out of the Prevention and Public Health Fund and how the transfer will impact the access of uninsured and underinsured children, adolescents, and adults to immunization programs, Alzheimer’s disease education and prevention programs, and the Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative and maternal care programs.

Amendments - H.R. 624 - Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 04:00:00 GMT

Rogers (R-MI) - Amendment No. 1 - Corrects a clerical error and ensures that the Federal Government may not use certain records containing personally identifiable information under the authorities provided by CISPA.

Y 418
N 0

Connolly (D-VA) - Amendment No. 2 - Clarifies that classified intelligence shared by the government with a certified cybersecurity entity may only be used, retained, or further disclosed for cybersecurity purposes.

Y 418
N 0

Schneider (D-IL) - Amendment No. 3 - Clarifies that independent contractors are eligible for security clearances for purposes of employment to handle cyber threat intelligence and cyber threat information.

Adopted Voice Y ✓ N

Langevin (D-RI) - Amendment No. 4 - Replaces the term “local” with “political subdivision” to address concerns that some utilities might not be fully covered by the bill’s protections.

Y 411
N 3

Conyers (D-MI), Schakowsky (D-IL), Jackson Lee (D-TX), Johnson (D-GA), Holt (D-NJ) - Amendment No. 5 - Amends liability exemption to exclude "decisions made" from coverage

Not Offered Y N

Amash (R-MI), Massie (R-KY), Polis (D-CO), Broun (R-GA) - Amendment No. 6 - Identical to the Rogers Manager's amendment, corrects a clerical error and ensures that the Federal Government may not use certain records containing personally identifiable information under the authorities provided by CISPA.

Not Offered Y N

Sinema (D-AZ) - Amendment No. 7 - Adds the Inspector General (IG) of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to the omnibus IG reporting requirement. Also adds House/Senate Homeland Security Committees as recipients of the report.

Y 411
N 0

Sanchez (D-CA) Amendment No. 8 - Adds role for DHS Privacy Officer and DHS Officer for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties to the bill’s annual Privacy and Civil Liberties Officers report requirement.

Adopted Voice

Y ✓

LaMalfa (R-CA), Rogers (R-MI) - Amendment No. 9 - Clarifies that nothing in the bill authorizes DoD, NSA or other Intelligence Community element to target a U.S. person for surveillance.

Y 413
N 0

Paulsen (R-MN) - Amendment No. 10 - Sense of Congress encouraging international cooperation on cybersecurity where feasible.

Adopted Voice Y ✓ N

Barton (R-TX) - Amendment No. 11 - Makes clear that nothing in this bill authorizes companies receiving cyber threat information under the bill to sell the personal information of a consumer for marketing purposes.

Adopted Voice Y ✓ N

Jackson Lee (D-TX) - Amendment No. 12 - Clarifies that nothing in this bill gives the government authority to require a cybersecurity provider with a government contract to provide information about cyber incidents that do not pose a threat to government information.

Adopted Voice

Y ✓

McCaul (R-TX) Amendment No. 13
• The amendment directs the federal government to conduct cybersecurity activities in a real time, coordinated and integrated way so that there is shared situational awareness across agencies to protect the Nation from cyber threats.
• This amendment would designate an entity within the Department of Homeland Security as the civilian Federal entity to receive cyber threat information from the private sector. This is an important improvement and provides an additional layer of review of information-sharing procedures by a robust civilian privacy office in order to ensure American's civil liberties are protected.
• Additionally, another important improvement to the underlying bill by way of this amendment is designating an entity within the Department of Justice as the civilian Federal entity to receive cyber threat information related to cyber crimes.

Y 409

N 5

Amendments - H.R. 678 - Bureau of Reclamation Small Conduit Hydropower Development and Rural Jobs Act

Wed, 10 Apr 2013 04:00:00 GMT

Text of amendments to H.R. 678 as submitted for printing in the Congressional Record

Napolitano (D-CA) – Amendment #1 – Strikes the bill’s NEPA waiver provision and increases the megawatt limitation in the bill from 5 to 15. This amendment eliminates regulatory relief provisions aimed at jumpstarting hydropower at existing man-made facilities that have already gone through environmental review. The megawatt increase is functionally meaningless since all Bureau of Reclamation conduit hydropower projects would be under 5 megawatts.

Y 189
N 232

Tipton (R-CO) – Amendment #2 – Makes a number of technical changes and clarifications to the bill.

Adopted Voice

Y ✓

Tipton (R-CO) – Amendment #3 – Replaces the NEPA waiver provision with language directing the Bureau of Reclamation to apply its NEPA categorical exclusion (CE) process on small conduit hydropower projects, excluding siting of associated transmission facilities on Federal lands. This essentially codifies the Bureau’s existing CE policy but specifies that it applies to projects in the bill, which will reduce potential litigation and give regulatory certainty since the existing CE is inadequate in these areas.

Adopted Voice

Y ✓

Amendments - H.Con.Res. 25 - Budget Resolution

Wed, 20 Mar 2013 04:00:00 GMT

Mulvaney (R-SC): Amendment No. 1 in the Nature of a Substitute - Inserts the text of S.Con.Res. 8, the Senate Democratic Concurrent Resolution on the Budget for fiscal year 2014

Y 154

N 261

Scott (D-VA): Amendment No. 2 in the Nature of a Substitute - Congressional Black Caucus Substitute - increases spending relative to the Republican budget by $5.7 trillion over ten years. It raises taxes by $2.8 trillion and increases deficits and the debt by more than $2.9 trillion. Defense spending is reduced by $224 billion compared to the Republican budget. Revenues are increased by: raising rates on individuals and families that make between $250,000 and $450,000; imposing a surcharge of 5.4 percent on income that exceeds one million dollars; taxing capital gains and dividends at ordinary income rates; and increasing taxes on corporations by more than one trillion dollars. The CBC substitute amendment increases spending for the “green economy,” creates a public health insurance option; and calls for $240 billion in increased spending for education and job training programs. Finally, the CBC substitute amendment calls for increasing transportation funding by $255 billion; increasing pay for federal employees by $41 billion over the next ten years; and increasing funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) by reinstating the stimulus increases to SNAP benefits that were scaled back to pay for increased spending on child nutrition programs.

Y 105

N 305

P 1

Grijalva (D- AZ): Amendment No. 3 in the Nature of a Substitute - Congressional Progressive Caucus Substitute - increases spending by more than $8.7 trillion relative to the Republican budget; raises taxes by more than $5.7 trillion, increases the deficits by $3 trillion relative to the Republican budget; and increases the debt by $3.6 trillion. Defense spending is reduced by more than $658 billion as compared to the Republican budget. Revenues are raised by reverting marginal tax rates back to 36 and 39 percent for those making more than $200,000; extending the stimulus-related expansion of the earned income tax credit (EITC) and the child tax credit; creating five new tax brackets for upper income individuals and small businesses; taxing capital gains and dividends at ordinary income rates; implementing a progressive estate tax with rates between 55-65 percent; imposing a $25 per ton tax on CO2 on polluters and providing a 25 percent rebate of all revenues in the form of refundable credits for lower income Americans; enacting a tax on derivatives, credit default swaps, and other financial products; and capping itemized deductions at 28 percent. The Progressive substitute amendment establishes a public health insurance option in the health care law; calls for trillions in new domestic spending; increases transportation and infrastructure spending; expands the current job training system, increases spending on elementary education; and increases spending on SNAP.

Y 84

N 327

P 1

Woodall (R-GA)/Scalise (R-LA): Amendment No. 4 in the Nature of a Substitute - Republican Study Committee Substitute - achieves balance within four years. It reduces baseline revenue to 18.5 percent of GDP and sets discretionary spending for FY 2014 at $950 billion. It repeals both Obamacare and the American Taxpayer Relief Act in their entirety. The RSC substitute amendment grows defense funding from $552 billion in FY 2014 to $678 billion in FY 2023 and reduces non-defense discretionary spending from $398 billion in 2014 to $392 billion in 2023. The RSC substitute amendment preserves Medicare for those ages 60 and older and gradually raises the Medicare eligibility age for those born in 1959 and after. The RSC substitute amendment “block grants” Medicaid and CHIP at current funding levels over the next ten years. With respect to Social Security, the RSC substitute amendment gradually raises the age of full retirement to 70 for individuals born in 1962 and after and changes the formula for Social Security cost of living adjustments (COLA) by adopting a more accurate measure of inflation (chained-CPI). Finally, the RSC substitute amendment proposes tax reform consistent with the Jobs Through Growth Act of 2012, which includes, but is not limited to, repealing the alternative minimum taxing; lowering corporate tax rate (25 percent); and allowing individual taxpayers to elect an alternative income tax system in lieu of existing rates.

Y 104

N 132

P 171

Van Hollen (D-MD): Amendment No. 5 in the Nature of a Substitute - Democratic Caucus Substitute - increases spending by $5.1 trillion more than the Republican budget; raises taxes by more than $1.2 trillion more than the Republican budget; has $3.9 trillion higher deficits than the Republican budget; and adds $4 trillion more to the national debt than the Republican budget. It also cuts an additional $224 billion from defense programs. The Democrat amendment raises revenue by closing loopholes on wealthy Americans as well as loopholes for oil and gas companies. The Democrat amendment leaves in place the health care law; cuts Medicare provider payments by $141 billion and other mandatory programs by $70 billion; and continues stimulus spending – increasing overall spending by $476 billion.

Y 165

N 253

Amendments

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 04:00:00 GMT

None Pending