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Rep. Brown, George E., Jr. [D-CA-42]

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Amendment· HAMDTHAMDT 364 (97th)passed

An amendment to substitute new language in the bill for Subtitle H - Agricultural Land Resources. The new language states in part, "The purpose of this subtitle is to minimize the extent to which Federal programs contribute to the unnecessary and irreversible conversion of farmland to nonagricultural uses, and to assure that Federal programs are administered in a manner that, to the extent practicable, will be compatible with State, unit of local government, and private programs and policies to protect farmland." The subtitle is to be called the Agricultural Land Resources Policy Act.

United States · United States Congress

Amendment· HAMDTHAMDT 194 (99th)passed

An amendment to Title II (Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation) stating: The Secretary of Defense may not carry out a test of the Space Defense System (anti-satellite weapon) against an object in space until the President certifies to Congress that the Soviet Union has conducted, after the date of the enactment of this Act, a test against an object in space of a dedicated anti-satellite weapon. The prohibition in this section expires on October 1, 1986.

United States · United States Congress

Amendment· HAMDTHAMDT 201 (101st)passed

An amendment to express the sense of the Congress that the President should press for the dismantling of the Soviet Union's ground based anti-satellite weapons and to seek a treaty with the Soviet Union to place the strictest possible limitations on ASAT weapons. The amendment specifies that any agreement should include provisions for mutual verification and also calls on the President to submit a report by May 1990 on U.S. ASAT weapon activities and on the survivability of U.S. satellites against Soviet ASAT weapons.

United States · United States Congress

Amendment· HAMDTHAMDT 240 (102nd)passed

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.

United States · United States Congress

Amendment· HAMDTHAMDT 796 (103rd)failed

An amendment offered as a substitute to the Walker amendment directing the Office of Science and Technology to identify and define a set of environmental problems for which risks should be considered and to develop and use a common set of analytical methods for ranking environmental problems based upon the relative risks they pose and the potential for addressing them through the development of environmental technologies.

United States · United States Congress

Amendment· HAMDTHAMDT 218 (104th)failed

An amendment in the nature of a substitute to require major federal regulatory agencies to set regulatory priorities based on the seriousness of the risks involved, and the availability of resources. These priorities would have to be consistent with existing law. Agencies subject to the substitute's provisions are the same as those in the bill except that the substitute does not apply to NOAA, the Army Corps of Engineers, or the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. The substitute also requires affected agencies to conduct risk assessments and cost/benefit analyses for major rules, but unlike the bill, defines a major rule as one with costs of $100 million rather than $25 million. In addition, the substitute contains provisions regarding the preservation of existing laws; judicial review; review of agency compliance; unfunded mandates; and peer review and conflicts of interest.

United States · United States Congress

Amendment· HAMDTHAMDT 422 (105th)failed

An amendment, printed as amendment No. 2 in the Congressional Record of September 25, 1997, to require the participation of each person holding title to lands nominated for designation under the United States Biosphere reserve, or each governmental agency administering lands in the designation process. The amendment would stipulate that land designated as a U.S. Biosphere Reserve shall not carry additional protections or use restrictions.

United States · United States Congress

Amendment· HAMDTHAMDT 125 (105th)failed

An amendment in the nature of a substitute to reduce spending by a total of $220 billion over five years. The amendment would freeze total authority for defense spending at the level of 1997 fiscal year spending for five years and would not provide tax cuts until the budget is in balance. The amendment would increase funding for Research and Development, transportation, education, and training by $40 billion over five years.

United States · United States Congress

Bill· HRH.R. 2534 (106th)referred

Science and Educational Networking Act

United States · United States Congress · 15 July 1999

Science and Educational Networking Act - Amends the High- Performance Computing Act of 1991 to require the Director of the National Science Foundation to submit to Congress a report that: (1) identifies the most appropriate, effective, and economical means of providing all public elementary and secondary schools and libraries in the United States with high-speed, large bandwidth capacity access to the Internet, the ability to transmit and receive data, voice, and other types of communication media, and distance learning; (2) identifies how such Internet access can be available at individual workstations within each school and library; (3) considers the effect that specific or regional circumstances may have on the appropriateness of using different methods and technologies to achieve such goals for different schools or libraries; and (4) includes options and recommendations for achieving such goals and a plan for implementing such recommendations.