Rep. Smith, Lamar [R-TX-21]

An amendment to strike provisions prohibiting the use of funds for the medical facility at Brooke Army Medical Center, San Antonio, Texas.

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An amendment to authorize such funds as neccessary through FY 1995 to provide for 20 additional deportation judges in the Justice Department to be used solely to conduct deportation proceedings for aliens convicted of criminal offenses.

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An amendment to limit the annual immigration total to 630,000, including family members of immigrants who are working in the United States, those born to immigrants while abroad, and family members of permanent residents and U.S. citizens. Under the provisions of the amendment, if the annual total exceeds 630,000, each of the categories of immigrants would be reduced accordingly.

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An amendment to extend for an additional three years the appropriations to reimburse state governments for various education and health costs for newly legalized aliens under the State Legalization Impact Assistance Grant program.

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An amendment to delete the provisions of the bill authorizing foreign students to work at part-time jobs off-campus, provided that such students are currently enrolled in an accredited school and provided further that the employer pays prevailing wages and has demonstrated an inability to hire domestically.

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An amendment to strike the provisions of the bill which allow permantt visas applicants to receive temporary visas.

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An amendment to restore existing law relating to family immigration visas, with the exception that it would allow visas for spouses of immigrants and their unmarried children under the age of 26. Visas are currently available for unmarried children regardless of their age.

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An amendment to cut the bill's appropriation for travel for agencies by approximately $5.8 million.

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Amendment sought to reduce by 10% the appropriations in the bill for non-personnel administrative costs of each agency within the Department of Transportation, a reduction of approximately $59 million.

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Amendment reduces the total overhead spending of agriculture-related agencies by 10 percent or a total of $74 million.

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Amendment sought to reduce the appropriation made for certain legislative branch overhead expenses by 10 percent. \ A point of order was sustained against the amendment on the grounds that it violated clause 2 of rule XXI in that it proposed to change existing law and constituted legislation in an appropriations bill.

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Amendment modifies the section which would have provided Legal Services benefits to all aliens who are permanently residing in the U.S. under color of law, and specifies that aliens providing a record of permanent residence, and aliens who are considered as eligible immigrants will qualify as aliens under color of law.

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An amendment to reduce the appropriation in the bill for the Bureau of Prisons by $1 million. The intent of the amendment is to eliminate funding for the reassignment of Public Health Service Commissioned Corps personnel to medical positions within the Bureau of Prisons at higher salaries than regular Bureau of Prison medical personnel.

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An amendment to reduce the salaries and expenses account for the Department of Justice by $925,000 from $119,904,000 to $118,979,000.

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An amendment to reduce the appropriation for the FDA by $467,000 from $914,394,000 to $913,927,000. The amendment is aimed at the appropriation for the Public Health Service Commission Corps.

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An amendment consisting of the text of the following amendments, offered en bloc, printing in House Report 104-483: No. 2: (Traficant) requiring the Attorney General to submit a report to the Congress on the Administration's strategy for deterring illegal aliens; No. 11: (Cardin), modified by previous unanimous consent, ensuring that worksite enforcement is a priority of the INS; No. 25: (Lipinski) adjusting the status of approximately 880 Polish and Hungarian persons from that of parolee to permanent resident; No. 26: (Farr) to establish 10 regional demonstration sites; No. 27: (Traficant) to implement provisions of the Buy America Act; No. 29: (Vento) waiving the English language test for Hmong soldiers and their spouses or widows; No. 30: (Waldholtz) expressing the Sense of Congress that the mission statement of the INS should include the apprehension and removal of illegal aliens, particularly those engaged in criminal activity; No. 31: (Kleczka) to require the State Dept. to refund fees to Poles who were erroneously notified of their eligibility for visas which they did not receive; and No. 32: (Dreier) expressing the Sense of Congress that the Justice Dept. has been too slow.

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An amendment, printed as amendment No. 1 in House Rept. 104-483, to make several technical and conforming changes to the bill, requiring border identification cards with biometric identifiers to be issued to aliens who frequently enter the U.S.; directing the INS to consult with authorities regarding the possibility of using closed military bases for housing illegal immigrants awaiting deportation; authorizing local police to arrest, detain, or deport any illegal immigrant in their locality in order to assist the Attorney General; provide that new attorneys hired by the AG be assigned to prosecute immigration related crimes; changes the date for hiring new federal prosecutors from fy 1995 to fy 1996;allows for the immediate release and deportation for nonviolent illegal immigrants; restricts aliens from being deported to a country where they would face possible persecution; allowing family sponsors of alien parents to obtain a performance bond in lieu of health insurance; deleting provisions in the bill to allot 50,000 visas for the spouses of children of lawful permanent resident aliens; clarifying that all aliens may have access to public health immunizations, including treatment for symptoms of communicable diseases, regardless of their cause; deleting the Earned Income Tax Credit provisions which would prohibit individuals without tax i.entification numbers from participating in the program; allowing family-sponsored aliens to receive certain forms of public assistance without violating terms of sponsorship.

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An amendment to make a technical correction to the bill.

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An amendment stating that the provisions of the bill requiring an automatic stay of execution shall terminate upon the completion of state court review, unless a substantial showing of a violation of a federal right can be established.

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An amendment, printed as amendment No. 3 in the Congressional Record of March 24, 1998, to change the authoriziation for the visa waiver pilot program from 1999 to 2000.

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An amendment to specify that the grant of jurisdiction made in the bill does not extend to matters over which other Federal law has granted exclusive juridiction to one or more United States courts of appeals or district courts.

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An amendment numbered 8 printed in House Report 108-48 to narrow definition of child pornography in response to Ashcroft v. the Free Speech Coalition; to create new obscenity offenses to cover virtual and real child pornography that involves visual depictions of prepubescent children and minors; to create a new offense against pandering visual depictions as child pornography and strengthens penalties for repeat offenders; to include new findings that detail the effect of the Supreme Court decision on child pornography cases, as well as some technical changes; to require the Attorney General to report on the Department of Justice's efforts to enforce the record-keeping requirements for producers of adult material to demonstrate they are not using minors.

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An amendment numbered 6 printed in House Report 109-491 to clarify that the language in section 201 (i.e. the new section 715(b)(3) of the Communications Act) that gives exclusive authority to the FCC to adjudicate complaints concerning network neutrality does not affect the applicability of the antitrust laws to cases involving network neutrality or the jurisdiction of the courts to hear such cases.

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An amendment numbered 1 printed in House Report 109-253 to include provisions imposing sanctions for the destruction of relevant documents in a pending Federal court proceeding; provisions for setting standards for a court's determination that certain court records should be sealed; and provisions providing for a presumption of a Rule 11 violation when the same issue is repeatedly relitigated. It also includes a clarification that makes clear that, in the anti-forum shopping provisions, if there is no State court in the county in which the injury occurred, the case can be brought in the nearest county where a court of general jurisdiction is located. The manager's amendment also makes clear that it does not affect personal injury claims that Federal bankruptcy law requires be heard in a Federal bankruptcy court.

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An amendment numbered 5 printed in part B of House Report 111-184 to allocate $25 million for the Forest Service's Law Enforcement and Investigations drug enforcement efforts, including removal of marijuana sites and clandestine methamphetamine labs from the National Forest System and interdiction of drug traffickers on NFS lands that share a common border with Canada and Mexico.

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An amendment to insert a complete new text and amend the title.

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An amendment numbered 1 printed in Part B of House Report 112-111 to make technical edits and a few necessary changes to more substantive issues, such as prior user rights and an additional oversight requirement for the PTO.

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Amendment freezes the current funding level for the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences directorate by reducing the FY 2015 funding amount by $15,350,000.

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Amendment sought to require EPA to rely on proven technologies when it sets rules for any power plant.

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Amendment prohibits use of funds by the EPA to propose, finalize, implement, or revise any regulation in which the research data relied upon to support such action is not derived from established scientific methods.

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Amendment to reduce funding for the EPA's programs and management account to not more than $1,713,500, and not more that $3,581,500 for the Office of Congressional and Intergovernmental Relations account.

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Amendment provides $5 million more for weather lab research in NOAA to total the the $80 million authorized, and also provides $16 million more for weather research technology transfer in NOAA's Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research to total the $20 million authorized to implement a labs and Cooperative Institutes research-to-operations program.

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Manager's amendment makes technical corrections and requires a GAO report on state and municipal spaceports in the existing indemnification regime.

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Manager's amendment makes technical and conforming changes to the bill.

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An amendment numbered 19 printed in Part B of House Report 115-711 to provide for $126.8 million from within funds appropriated to the Office of Science to meet House-passed authorization levels for the LINAC Coherent Light Source II High Energy Upgrade, the Proton Power Upgrade to the Spallation Neutron Source, the construction of the Spallation Neutron Source Second Target Station, and the construction of the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams; provides for full funding for the U.S. contribution to the construction of the ITER project.

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An amendment numbered 112 printed in House Report 115-297 to increase basic research in the physical and biological sciences by 0.5% of the NSF Research budget.

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To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 11158 Highway 146 North in Hardin, Texas, as the "Lucas Lowe Post Office".

United States · United States Congress · 19 December 2018

Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 11158 Highway 146 North in Hardin, Texas, as the "Lucas Lowe Post Office."

Honoring the life of President George Herbert Walker Bush.

United States · United States Congress · 10 December 2018

Expresses: (1) appreciation for the profound public service of former President George H.W. Bush, and (2) deep sympathy to the entire family of the former President.

To amend title 35, United States Code, to include the exclusive economic zone as part of the United States for patent infringement, and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 29 November 2018

This bill establishes that certain activities on or below the waters within the U.S. exclusive economic zone that infringe a U.S. patent shall be considered an infringing act that occurs within the United States.

Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the Citizens' Stamp Advisory Committee, as an entity of the United States Postal Service, should issue a commemorative stamp in honor of the 150th anniversary of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

United States · United States Congress · 23 October 2018

Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the U.S. Postal Service should issue a postage stamp honoring the 150th anniversary of the founding of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

50 Votes for the Wall Act

United States · United States Congress · 19 October 2018

50 Votes for the Wall Act This bill establishes the Border Wall and Security Trust Fund for funds appropriated to construct a wall (including physical barriers and associated detection technology, roads, and lighting) along the international border between the United States and Mexico by January 19, 2021. The bill provides appropriations to the fund equal to amounts requested by the Department of Homeland Security, which may not exceed a total of $25 billion. The authority provided by this bill terminates on September 30, 2028. When the authority expires, any unobligated balances in the fund must be returned to the Treasury.

Digital Goods and Services Tax Fairness Act of 2018

United States · United States Congress · 12 October 2018

Digital Goods and Services Tax Fairness Act of 2018 This bill prohibits a state or local jurisdiction from imposing: (1) multiple taxes on the sale of a covered electronic good or service, or (2) discriminatory taxes on the sale or use of a digital good or service. A "digital good or service" is delivered or transferred electronically to a customer. A "covered electronic good or service" is a digital good, digital service, audio or video programming service, or Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) service. The bill also: specifies services that are excluded from the definition of "digital service;" restricts taxation of a covered electronic good or service to taxation by a state or local jurisdiction whose territorial limits encompass a customer tax address, as defined by this bill; makes the seller of covered electronic goods or services responsible for obtaining and maintaining such address; and specifies rules regarding the taxation of bundled transactions, digital code, and VoIP services.

Build the Wall, Enforce the Law Act of 2018

United States · United States Congress · 12 October 2018

Build the Wall, Enforce the Law Act of 2018 This bill amends the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 to modify provisions relating to the enforcement of immigration laws. Specifically, the bill prohibits any individual (e.g., an employer) from restricting or interfering with the enforcement of the immigration laws by federal officials. It also denies states or localities (i.e., sanctuary jurisdictions) that fail to cooperate in the enforcement of the immigration laws eligibility for federal funds and law enforcement grants under the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968. The bill amends detainer provisions to authorize the Department of Homeland Security to issue detainers for the arrest of an illegal alien if there is probable cause to believe that the alien is inadmissible or deportable. It also provides qualified immunity to governmental and certain nongovernmental entities that detain an alien, except in cases of mistreatment, and allows a private right of action to relatives of victims of crime committed by an alien released from custody by a state or local governmental entity that failed to honor a detainer. The bill also revises provisions requiring detention of aliens during the pendency of removal proceedings to require indefinite detention of aliens who have committed certain serious crimes; enhances penalties for the criminal offense of reentry after removal; establishes new and specific grounds of inadmissibility and deportability for aliens who are members of designated criminal gangs (consisting of five or more persons); and provides funding for border barriers, technology and other resources at the southern border to prevent illegal entry.

Equal Treatment of Public Servants Act of 2018

United States · United States Congress · 27 September 2018

Equal Treatment of Public Servants Act of 201 8 This bill establishes a new formula for adjusting benefits under the Old Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance (OASDI) program for individuals who receive pensions based on certain non-covered employment. This formula replaces the existing formula (known as the "windfall elimination provision") for making such adjustments to OASDI benefits.  

Expressing the policy of the United States to pursue and enter into a military treaty alliance of extended deterrence with the State of Israel.

United States · United States Congress · 26 September 2018

Expresses the policy of the United States to enter into a military treaty alliance of extended deterrence with Israel which would provide Israel with U.S. nuclear protection.

Judiciary ROOM Act of 2018

United States · United States Congress · 10 September 2018

Judiciary Reforms, Organization and Operational Modernization Act of 2018 or the Judiciary ROOM Act of 2018 This bill makes various changes to the operation and organization of federal courts. Among other things, the bill does the following: adds 52 new permanent district court judgeships, converts 8 temporary district court judgeships into permanent judgeships, restructures certain judicial districts, requires the Judicial Conference of the United States to issue a judicial code of conduct for judges and justices of U.S. courts (including Justices of the Supreme Court), and requires certain proceedings to be live streamed.

Threat Assessment, Prevention, and Safety Act of 2018

United States · United States Congress · 10 August 2018

Threat Assessment, Prevention, and Safety Act of 2018 This bill directs the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to establish within itself a Joint Threat Assessment and Management Task Force, which shall provide recommendations to Congress and DHS on the development and implementation of a national strategy for preventing targeted violence through threat assessment and management. The task force shall make recommendations relating to the most effective use of existing government infrastructure, workforce, and experience, unit support, training, and school violence prevention. The bill defines "threat assessment and management" as the systematic and evidence-based process of: (1) identifying individuals whose behavior indicates a capacity for committing acts of violence; (2) investigating and gathering information to assess whether such individuals pose a real threat; and (3) the subsequent management of such a threat. DHS shall develop and implement the national strategy and provide information and training services related to it. The bill directs DHS to award grants to governmental and educational entities and nongovernmental organizations to establish community based units for implementing the national strategy.

Fund and Complete the Border Wall Act

United States · United States Congress · 7 August 2018

Fund and Complete the Border Wall Act This bill directs the Department of the Treasury to establish the Secure the Southern Border Fund to provide funds to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to: (1) construct a barrier along the U.S.-Mexico international border, and (2) purchase U.S. Border Patrol vehicles and equipment. DHS shall annually provide the Department of State and Congress with the number of apprehensions and nationality of aliens who illegally entered the United States through the U.S- Mexico land border. The bill reduces by $2,000 per alien the foreign assistance provided to the countries of nationality of such aliens and transfers such revenue to the fund. The State Department may opt to not reduce appropriations to Mexico for military, narcotics control, and anti-terrorism activities. The Electronic Fund Transfer Act is amended to establish a 5% foreign remittance fee to be transferred to the fund. A foreign country that aids an individual to avoid such fee shall be ineligible for foreign assistance and the visa waiver program. The bill increases the fee for the alien admission/departure I-94 form and transfers such revenue to the fund, the Land Border Inspection Fee account, and the Border Patrol. The bill directs DHS by December 31, 2019, to: (1) design and install physical barriers, roads, and technology along the the U.S.-Mexico international border to prevent illegal crossings; and (2) achieve operational control of the U.S. international land and maritime borders. The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 is amended to permit Border Patrol agents to receive overtime pay.

National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program Reauthorization Act of 2018

United States · United States Congress · 3 August 2018

National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program Reauthorization Act of 2018 This bill amends the Earthquake Hazards Reduction Act of 1977 to expand activities under the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program to include: (1) gathering information on community resilience (i.e., the ability of a community to prepare for, recover from, and adapt to earthquakes); (2) publishing a systematic set of maps of active faults and folds, liquefaction susceptibility, susceptibility for earthquake-induced landslides, and other seismically induced hazards; and (3) continuing the development of the Advanced National Seismic System, including earthquake early warning capabilities. With respect to earthquake hazard reduction activities, the bill revises or expands the duties of: (1) the Interagency Coordinating Committee on Earthquake Hazards Reduction, (2) the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), (3) the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), (4) the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), and (5) the National Science Foundation. The Government Accountability Office shall complete a review of federal earthquake hazard risk reduction efforts. NIST and FEMA must jointly convene a committee of experts to assess and recommend options for improving seismic safety standards for federal buildings. The USGS must submit to Congress a five-year management plan for the continued operation of the Advanced National Seismic System.

Our Communities, Our Choices Act of 2018

United States · United States Congress · 26 July 2018

Our Communities, Our Choices Act of 2018 This bill amends the William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008 to require consultation with state and local elected officials and a public hearing before awarding grants or contracts for housing unaccompanied alien children in a facility that is not on federal property.