Rep. Stupak, Bart [D-MI-1]

An amendment in the nature of a substitute identical to the original text of the bill, with the exception that Social Security would be exempted from the entitlement-capping provisions of the bill. The amendment creates an entitlement control mechanism to monitor the total costs of direct spending programs and, in the event that actual or anticipated costs were projected to exceed target levels, the President and Congress would be required to act by either enacting cuts, increasing revenue, or raising the target levels.

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An amendment to require the Bureau of Mines to identify inactive mines.

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An amendment to rescind $1.6 million in monies appropriated but unused from the 1991 and 1992 fiscal year appropriations.

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An amendment, printed as amendment No. 32 in the Congressional Record of June 18, 1996, to prohibit the use of any funds appropriated in the bill for design, planning, implementation, engineering, construction, or any other activity in connection with a scenic shoreline drive in Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore.

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An amendment to add increased penalties for wearing body armour during the commission of a federal crime, as defined in the bill.

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An amendment to transfer six obsolete tugboats of the Navy to the Northeast Wisconsin Railroad Transportation Commission pending completion of any necessary environmental compliance agreements.

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An amendment printed in House Report 104-223 as amendment No. 2-1, to clarify local communities authority to manage public rights-of-way and require fair and reasonable competition for the use of those rights-of-way.

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An amendment printed in the Congressional Record of July 24, as amendment No. 41, to earmark $600 million of the funds for local law enforcement block grants for rural areas with population of 50,000 or less.

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An amendment that permits the installation of a sand and stone cap over sediments affected by polychlorinated biphenyls in accordance with an administrative order of the Environmental Protection Agency.

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An amendment, printed as amendment No. 5 in the Congressional Record of April 28, 1998, to authorize $5 million for each of the next five fiscal years for the Olympic Scholarship program, which provides college scholarships for Olympic athletes while they train.

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An amendment to transfer ownership of the Eagle Harbor Light Station to the Keeweenaw County Michigan Historical Society.

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An amendment, printed as amendment No. 15 in the Congressional Record of July 10, 1997, to prohibit any funds from being used to evict any person from the property of Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore if that person was authorized, on July 10, 1997, to occupy the property under a lease or permit issued by the Department of Interior.

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An amendment in the nature of a substitute to provide that at least 60% of the funds authorized in the bill be allocated to juvenile crime and drug prevention programs. The amendment would authorize funding to localities for construction and operation of juvenile detention facilities and implementation of programs that establish alternatives to incarceration. The amendment would require judges to decide within 90 days whether to trasfer a juvenile to adult court, and increases the penalties for the transfer of handguns to a juvenile or for possession of a handgun. The amendment would direct the Attorney General to evalutate the effectiveness of federally funded programs for preventing juvenile violence and substance abuse.

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An amendment to specify that the Secretary shall not select a route for the transportation of Mixed Oxide Fuel from Los Alamos, New Mexico to Chalk River, Canada without issuing a rule based on the record after an opportunity for agency hearing.

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An amendment to prohibit the sale of fresh water from the Great Lakes.

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An amendment numbered 21 printed in the Congressional Record to increase the bill's funding for USDA's Nutrition Program for the Elderly by $20 million. The offset for this amount comes from Foreign Assistance funds (P.L. 480, Title II.).

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An amendment to increase funding for elderly nutrition programs.

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An amendment to increase funding for activities regarding medication management, screening, and education to prevent incorrect medication and adverse drug reactions and to carry out the Nutrition Services Incentive Program.

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An amendment to increase funding for the Office for State and Local Government Coordination and Preparedness.

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An amendment to increase the basic rate of pay to all military services by $265 million - the amount needed to provide a $1,500 bonus to each person serving in operations in Iraq or Afghanistan for FY 2004.

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An amendment to increase funding (by offset) for the Immigration and Customs Enforcement by $5,000,000.

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An amendment to prohibit any of the funds made available in the Act from being used to implement a policy, proposed on pages V-5 and V-6 of the US Army Corps of Engineers Civil Works Direct Program: Program Development Guidance for Fiscal Year 2007 (Circular No. 11-2-187), to use or consider the amount of tonnage of goods that pass through a harbor to determine if a harbor is high-use.

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An amendment in the nature of a substitute printed in House Report 109-245 to give explicit authority to the FTC to define price gouging; to preserve the FTC's existing civil penalty authority and authorize new civil penalties of up to three times the amount of unjust profits gained by companies who engage in price gouging; and to increase our nation's refinery capacity by establishing a federal Strategic Refinery Reserve which would build upon the success of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) by creating a natural extension of the SPR--a refinery reserve.

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An amendment numbered 3 printed in House Report 109-160 to direct the Secretary of the Army Corps to budget and request appropriations for operation and maintenance of harbor dredging projects based only upon criteria used for such projects in FY04.

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An amendment numbered 4 printed in the Congressional Record to prohibit use of funds in the bill to accept deliveries of petroleum products to the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.

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An amendment to prohibit use of funds in the bill to conduct any investigation of, or take any employment action against, an officer or employee of the FDA who provides to Congress any public information or opinions not prohibited from disclosure.

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An amendment to prohibit the use of funds from being made available to keep in effect an exemption for a clinical trial that concerns a life-threatening disease or condition and is not included in the registry of such trials. Amendment also seeks to prohibit the use of funds to approve certain applications.

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An amendment numbered 5 printed in the Congressional Record to prohibit use of funds in the bill to implement a policy, proposed in the Annex V Navigation Programs by the Corps of Engineers, to use or consider the amount of tonnage of goods that pass through a harbor to determine if a harbor is high-use.

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An amendment numbered 5 printed in the Congressional Record to provide that no funds in the bill may be used to finalize, issue, implement, or enforce the proposed policy of the EPA entitled "National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System Permit Requirements for Municipal Wastewater Treatment During Wet Weather Conditions" dated Nov. 3, 2003.

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An amendment numbered 16 printed in the Congressional Record to prohibit the use of funds to carry out section 111(c)(5) of title 38, United States Code, during fiscal year 2009.

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An amendment numbered 15 printed in Part B of House Report 110-604 to permit the Commandant of the Coast Guard to convey, without consideration, the Coast Guard Station Marquette and Lighthouse Point in Marquette County, Michigan, to the City of Marquette, Michigan. The conveyance could not occur until the Coast Guard has relocated to a newly constructed station, any environmental remediation required under federal law has been completed, and the Commandant of the Coast Guard determines that retention of the lighthouse is not needed for Coast Guard missions.

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An amendment numbered 17 printed in House Report 110-523 to provide federal student loan relief to borrowers who go into school administration in low-income school districts. Applies to any borrower who has been employed as a full-time school superintendent, principal, or other administrator for five consecutive complete school years in a school district in a low-income area.

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An amendment to prohibit the use of funds for the EPA Administrator's security detail.

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An amendment numbered 9 printed in House Report 110-136 to require the Secretary of Homeland Security to issue a report to Congress outlining the resources currently devoted to Integrated Border Enforcement Teams (IBETs) and making recommendations on how to improve the effectiveness of the IBET program.

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An amendment numbered 20 printed in House Report 110-151 to require the Department of Defense to transport remains of service members by air to the airport nearest to the intended place of burial.

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An amendment numbered 1 printed in House Report 110-48 to clarifies that instances of political interference with science are to be considered `abuses of authority' and their disclosure therefore protected. The Stupak amendment adds an example of such interference, namely preventing a federal scientist or grantee from publishing or presenting their research.

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An amendment numbered 4 printed in House Report 110-100 to ensure that all harbor maintenance is funded based on FY2004 standards, regardless of the amount of tonnage a harbor handles. Current U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' policy excludes from the Corps' budget harbors that do not meet a minimum requirement for the amount of tonnage handled.

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An amendment numbered 1 printed in part B of House Report 110-36 to require the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), in consultation with the State Department and Canadian government, to study wastewater treatment facilities that discharge into the Great Lakes and provide recommendations to improve monitoring, information sharing, and cooperation between the U.S. and Canada. The amendment would also require the EPA to consult with the International Joint Commission, the bi-national organization created to protect the boundary waters between the U.S. and Canada.

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An amendment numbered 8 printed in House Report 111-370 to require transparency in swaps contracts by requiring all non-cleared swaps be executed on a registered swap execution facility.

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An amendment numbered 9 printed in House Report 111-370 to allow the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the Securities and Exchange Commission the authority to ban abusive swaps, amends any proposed commercial risk definition to disregard balance sheet risk, and maintains any illegal swap entered into after enactment of this Act will not be valid.

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An amendment printed in Part C of House Report 111-330 to codify the Hyde Amendment in H.R. 3962. The amendment prohibits federal funds for abortion services in the public option. It also prohibits individuals who receive affordability credits from purchasing a plan that provides elective abortions. However, it allows individuals, both who receive affordability credits and who do not, to separately purchase with their own funds plans that cover elective abortions. It also clarifies that private plans may still offer elective abortions.

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Drug Safety Enhancement Act of 2011

United States · United States Congress · 17 December 2010

Drug Safety Enhancement Act of 2011 - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to expand safety and inspection requirements for the manufacture and importation of drugs by: (1) expanding registration requirements for foreign and domestic drug producers; (2) requiring drug manufacturers to have in effect and implement an effective quality system; (3) expanding and equalizing inspection requirements for foreign and domestic drug producers; (4) imposing additional requirements relating to the notification, nondistribution, and recall of adulterated or misbranded drugs; (5) permitting the detention of drugs found to be in violation of drug safety requirements; (6) allowing for the destruction of drugs that pose a significant adverse health effect; (7) providing enhanced civil and criminal penalties and forfeiture for violations of drug safety requirements and enhanced subpoena authority for investigating violations; (8) prohibiting the importation of drugs into the United States lacking documentation of safety; (9) requiring unique identification numbers for drug establishments and importers; and (10) expanding protections for whistleblowers who refuse to violate, or who disclose violations of, this Act.

National Baseball Hall of Fame Commemorative Coin Act

United States · United States Congress · 16 December 2010

National Baseball Hall of Fame Commemorative Coin Act - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to mint and issue not more than 50,000 $5 gold coins, 400,000 $1 silver coins, and 750,000 half dollar coins in recognition of the National Baseball Hall of Fame during the one-year period beginning on January 1, 2015. Directs the Secretary to hold a competition to design the obverse of the coins. Requires the design on the reverse side to depict a baseball similar to those used by Major League Baseball. Requires all sales of such coins to include specified surcharges, which shall be paid by the Secretary to the National Baseball Hall of Fame to help finance its operations. Requires the budgetary effects of this Act to be determined by reference to the latest statement titled "Budgetary Effects of PAYGO Legislation" for this Act, provided that such statement has been submitted prior to the vote on passage.

To amend the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2010 to improve the Littoral Combat Ship program of the Navy.

United States · United States Congress · 2 December 2010

Amends provisions of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2010 relating to the Navy's littoral combat ship program to: (1) increase from 10 to 20 the number of such ships authorized to be procured, including any ship control and weapons systems that the Secretary of the Navy determines necessary for such ships; (2) allow one or more contracts to be entered into for such procurement; and (3) require the government to be permitted to conduct a competition for an additional shipyard for ship construction, to be built to a design specification for that ship.

To authorize the transfer of a naval vessel to the Mackinac Island State Park Commission of the State of Michigan.

United States · United States Congress · 18 November 2010

Directs the Secretary of the Navy to transfer to the Mackinac Island State Park Commission of the state of Michigan all interest of the United States in an LCM-8 motorized vessel for nonprofit public use by the Commission. Requires the Navy to deliver the vessel to the Commission in an "as is" condition. Requires the Maritime Administration to cover all expenses for the transfer of such vessel.

Railroad Retirement Fairness Act

United States · United States Congress · 17 November 2010

Railroad Retirement Fairness Act - Amends the Railroad Retirement Act of 1974 to provide that an individual who, at the time the individual makes an inquiry to the Railroad Retirement Board, has a current connection with the railroad industry shall not be deemed to have lost that current connection if: (1) the Board misleads or fails to properly inform that individual about that requirement; and (2) that conduct by the Board, according to the principles of equity, should stop the Board from deeming the individual to have lost that current connection. Deems an individual who is employed with the Department of State in a position the Secretary of State certifies as railroad related to have "a current connection with the railroad industry" for retirement purposes. Applies this Act to annuities applied for on or after February 3, 1989.

Commending the City of Jacksonville, Arkansas, for its outstanding support in creating a unique and lasting partnership with Little Rock Air Force Base, members of the Armed Forces stationed there, and their families.

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Commends the city of Jacksonville, Arkansas, for its outstanding support in creating a unique and lasting partnership with Little Rock Air Force Base, members of the Armed Forces stationed there and their families, and the Air Force.

Supporting the observance of American Diabetes Month.

United States · United States Congress · 29 September 2010

Expresses support for: (1) the goals and ideals of American Diabetes Month; and (2) decreasing the prevalence of type 1, type 2, and gestational diabetes through increased research, treatment, and prevention. Recognizes the importance of early detection, awareness of the symptoms of diabetes, and the risk factors for diabetes.

Supporting the goals and ideals of Spina Bifida Awareness Month, recognizing the importance of increasing access to health care for individuals with disabilities, including those with Spina Bifida, and raising awareness of the need for health care facilities and examination rooms to be accessible for individuals with disabilities.

United States · United States Congress · 28 September 2010

Expresses support for the goals and ideals of National Spina Bifida Awareness Month. Urges: (1) federal efforts to improve health provider awareness of the need for accessible health care facilities for individuals with disabilities; and (2) the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to establish a National Advisory Committee on Access to Health Care for Individuals with Disabilities.

Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives with respect to efforts to extend the Health Coverage Tax Credit to provide access to affordable healthcare for Delphi retirees and other eligible individuals.

United States · United States Congress · 16 September 2010

Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the Health Coverage Tax Credit should be extended by the end of the year to help Delphi retirees and other eligible individuals receive affordable healthcare.