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Amendment sought to provide findings for the need for and efficacy of the Neighborhood Stabilization Program. On agreeing to the Ellison amendment (A003) Failed by recorded vote: 183 - 244 (Roll no. 183).

Amendment sought to add a new section with Congressional findings that if the rescinded and canceled amounts were instead made available for NSP, the Congress could have helped to rebuild neighborhoods where foreclosures were common. On agreeing to the Sanchez...

Amendment sought to amend the effective date of H.R. 861 as follows: (1) the date of the expiration of the 5-year period beginning on the date of the enactment of the Act; (2) the first date occurring after the date of the enactment of this Act on which both o...

Amendment sought to require the Secretary of HUD to send a notice to NSP grantees that would have received funding under NSP, that the program had been terminated as well as the name and contact information for each recipient's Member of Congress for the purpo...

Amendment sought to direct the Secretary of HUD to conduct a study to determine the approximate number of foreclosed and abandoned properties that will not be purchased or rehabilitated in the district of each Member of Congress as a result of the rescission a...

Amendment sought to insert a list quantifying the number of vacant homes across the country and to add findings consisting of such numbers in each State as well as a statement that because Congress voted to terminate the NSP, those listed housing units may not...

Amendments require a GAO study on the economic impacts of rounds 1, 2, and 3 of NSP funding. On agreeing to the Castor (FL) amendments (A009) Agreed to by voice vote.

At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: SEC.___. None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to designate monuments under the Act of June 8, 1906, (commonly known as the "Antiquities Act of 1906"; 16 U.S.C. 431, et s...

Mr. Frelinghuysen raised a point of order against the Baldwin amendment (A009). Mr. Frelinghuysen stated that the amendment seeks to amend portions of the bill not yet read for consideration. The Chair sustained the point of order.

Amendment sought to expand the ability of an aggrieved party to file suit for either declaratory or injunctive relief from 2 days to 5 days; provide for an expedited appeals process to the United States District Court for matters rising out of the special elec...

Referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.

An amendment that sought to eliminate provisions providing grants for facilities to assist the homeless and establishing the Interagency Commission on Homelessness, and to increase the authorizations for the emergency food and shelter program and the emergency...

An amendment to Title VIII (Procurement Reform) adding a new section: "War Profiteering Prohibition Act". Point of Order Sustained Against Amendment in Committee of the Whole.

An amendment to the Brown (CA) amendment adding $20 million for Air Force research, development, test, and evaluation to carry out the satellite survivability project of the Air Force Space Survivability Program. The amendment also requires the Secretary of th...

An amendment to the Foglietta amendment adding the words limiting the restrictions on testing and development of nuclear explosion powered space weapons to "advanced" weapons and limiting the restriction to programs that are inconsistent with the Limited Test...

An amendment to Title II (Research, Development, Test, & Evaluation) prohibiting use of funds in that title for development, demonstration, test, or evaluation of the use of weapons powered by nuclear explosions in space. Amendment Passed (Amended) in Committe...

An amendment to Title X (General Provisions) extending for two years the prohibition on contracts for the performance of firefighting and security functions. It requires a written report assessing the special needs of DOD regarding firefighting and base securi...

An amendment to Title X (General Provisions) adding authorization of additional procurement for conventional forces: Army - $620,000,000, Navy + Marine Corps - $329,300,000, and Air Force - $50,000,000. The amendment specifies areas where the funds are to be s...

An amendment in the nature of a substitute appropriating $14 million for food, clothing, medicine, and other humanitarian assistance for Nicaragua's democratic opposition, to be provided through the Agency for International Development, and prohibits use of th...

An amendment to increase National Park Service national recreation and preservation funds from $10,924,000 to $11,325,000. Amendment Offered by Representative Yates.

Four amendments en bloc to reduce funds in the bill: 1) Salaries & Expenses, National Endowment for the Arts, from $134,400,000 to $114,275,000. 2) Matching Grants, National Endowment for the Arts, from $30,600,000 to $29,600,000. 3) Salaries & Expenses, Natio...

An amendment permitting the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution to enter into contracts with State and local governments, including local fire districts, for procurement of services in the presuppression, detection, and suppression of fires on any units w...

An amendment to reduce funds by 4% to all amounts in the bill except for the following areas: Tribal Trust Funds, Administration of Territories, Administrative provisions of the National Wildlife Refuge Fund, and transfers to the general fund from mineral leas...

An amendment to increase from 40 per cent to 50 per cent the required local share of funds for rehabilitation on the main line track between Atlantic City, New Jersey and the main line of the Northeast Corridor. Amendment Failed of Passage in Committee of Whol...

An amendment to add that citizens who reside in districts served by a mass transit system must be included in the preferential fare systems for elderly or handicapped persons. The amendment is to prevent regulations that designate residents of part of a distri...