You can also receive live amendment updates by following us on Twitter, @repcloakroom. The House Armed Services Committee Amendment Tracker is available here. Amendments to H.R. 4435 made in order by H.Res. 585: Blumenauer (D-OR) - Amendment No. 1 - Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to procure not less than 10 AESA radar upgrades for the Air National Guard F-15C/D aircraft, which is offset by cuts to nuclear weapons and nuclear infrastructure modernization funding. (10 minutes) Y 192 N 2...
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Kline (R-MN) – Amendment No. 1 – Makes technical corrections and improvements to the underlying bill text. (10 minutes) Adopted Voice Y ✓ N Cassidy (R-LA) – Amendment No. 2 – Requires GAO to audit/track the dollars and examine if the money allocated from administrative costs is appropriate. (10 minutes) Adopted Voice Y ✓ N Castor (D-FL) – Amendment No. 3 – Requires the Secretary of the Department of Education to develop and enforce conflict of interest guidelines for all charter schools receivin...
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Nugent (R-FL) – Amendment No. 1 – Prohibits CAO of the House of Representatives from making any payments from any Members' representational allowance for the leasing of a vehicle, excluding mobile district offices and short-term vehicle rentals. (10 minutes) Y 196 N 221 Speier (D-CA) – Amendment No. 2 – Appropriates $500,000 to provide for sexual harassment training for all House offices which will be carried out by the Congressional Office of Compliance. These funds are offset from the AOC Ge...
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To view the amendments to H.R. 4486 that were preprinted in the Congressional Record, please click here. You can also receive live updates on amendments by following us on Twitter, @repcloakroom Castor (D-FL) - Page 3, Line 23 - The intent of the amendment is to designate $9.8 million for black mold in military facilities. Withdrawn Y N Turner (R-OH) - Amendment No. 4 - Page 4, Line 19 - The intent of the amendment is to designate $20 million for a long range ballistic missile defense site withi...
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Mulvaney (R-SC) - Amendment No. 1 in the Nature of a Substitute - President Obama's Budget Proposal - The substitute Amendment inserts the text of the President’s Budget for Fiscal Year 2015. The President’s budget adds $3.9 trillion more to the public debt than the House Republican Budget over ten years, and never achieves balance. Relative to the House Republican Budget, the President’s budget increases total spending by $6.1 trillion. The President’s budget increases total spending by $791 b...
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Connolly (D-VA) – Amendment No. 1 – Requires CBO to prepare macroeconomic analyses of appropriations bills and all bills with a budgetary effect above $1 billion in any fiscal year. (10 minutes) Y 182 N 214 Israel (D-NY) – Amendment No. 2 – Adds a bill's impact on state and local governments to the parameters that CBO must analyze in a supplemental analysis under this bill (10 minutes) Y 189 N 211 Cicilline (D-RI) – Amendment No. 3 – Requires CBO to include jobs impact statements (estimates of t...
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Bishop (R-UT) – Amendment No. 1 – Manager’s amendment clarifies the process for monument designations of 5,000 acres or less which allows temporary designation if imminent threat to antiquity and permanent designation if the President follows the NEPA review process or Congress enacts law. Also clarifies that the President is to use existing resources for monument designation process. Adopted Voice Y ✓ N Barber (D-AZ) – Amendment No. 2 – Requires the bill's feasibility study to include an assess...
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Lowenthal (D-CA) – Amendment No. 1 – Sets federal rules back to the June 30, 1983 Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement stream buffer zone rule, unless a State has a program with greater stream protection. Y 188 N 231 Cartwright (D-PA), Van Hollen (D-MD), Lowenthal (D-CA) – Amendment No. 2 – Removes states ability to issue their own stream buffer rules if the rules don't exceed the federal rules. Removing the ability under current law of states to "meet or exceed" federal requirem...
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Tipton (R-CO) – Amendment No. 1 – Manager’s amendment clarifies that existing federal authorities and environmental protections, such as voluntary water agreements, endangered species implementation, water rights for national parks, and federal water contracts, are protected under the bill. (10 minutes) Adopted Voice Y ✓ N Mullin (R-OK) – Amendment No. 2 – Prohibits federal seizure of tribal water rights and clarifies that Native American treaty and water rights are protected under the bill. (10...
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Conyers (D-MI) – Amendment No. 1 – Excludes from the bill's scope any executive actions taken to combat discrimination or to protect civil rights. (10 minutes) Y 188 N 227 Nadler (D-NY) – Amendment No. 2 – Excludes from the bill’s coverage any action taken by the Executive Branch under a claim that the action was an exercise of prosecutorial discretion. (10 minutes) Y 190 N 225 Jackson Lee (D-TX) – Amendment No. 3 – Excludes from the bill’s coverage any action taken by the Executive Branch under...
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