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Amendment prevents federal agencies from requiring contractors to sign an anti-competitive and costly project labor agreement (PLA) as a condition of winning a federal construction contract. On agreeing to the Bartlett amendment (A008) Agreed to by recorded vo...
Amendment sought to delay the development of the new long-range nuclear-capable bomber by ten years and to reduce the funding in the bill for the bomber by $291,742,000. On agreeing to the Markey amendment (A011) Failed by recorded vote: 112 - 308 (Roll no. 26...
Amendment sought to reduce the amount for the ground-based midcourse missile defense system by $403 million. On agreeing to the Polis amendment (A012) Failed by recorded vote: 165 - 252 (Roll no. 269). National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2013
Amendment SA 1481, under the order of 2/2/2012, not having achieved 60 votes in the affirmative, was not agreed to in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 26 - 73. Record Vote Number: 13. STOCK Act
Amendment SA 1500, under the order of 2/2/2012, not having achieved 60 votes in the affirmative, was not agreed to in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 26 - 73. Record Vote Number: 9. STOCK Act
Amendment sought to require criminal background checks of mechanics at contract aircraft repair stations, both domestic and overseas. On agreeing to the DeFazio amendment (A008) Failed by recorded vote: 161 - 263 (Roll no. 209).
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 for the construction of an ethanol blender pump or an ethanol storage facility. On agreeing to the Flake amendment (A135) A...
At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: SEC. __. None of the funds made available by division B of this Act may be used for the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility in Manhattan, Kansas. On agreeing to the Bishop (NY) amendment...
At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: SEC. __. The amount otherwise made available by this Act for the Payment in Lieu of Taxes program is hereby reduced by 75 percent. On agreeing to the Kaptur amendment (A119) Failed by recor...
Amendment strikes the language in the bill that prohibits the Department of Education from funding the Alaskan Native Education Equity Act and the Native Hawaiian Education Program. On agreeing to the Young (AK) amendment (A050) Agreed to by recorded vote: 313...
Amendment strikes the $42,676,000 in funding for the United States Institute of Peace and applies the savings to the spending reduction account. On agreeing to the Weiner amendment (A059) Agreed to by recorded vote: 268 - 163 (Roll no. 76). (consideration: CR...
Amendment maintains provisions enacted in FY 2009 and FY 2010 that allow fire departments to use grants to rehire laid-off firefighters and to prevent others from being laid off. The amendment also continues provisions that waive certain budgetary requirements...
Amendment sought to increase funding for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, established by the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, and decrease funding for the Enforcement division of the Internal Revenue Service. On agreeing to t...
Amendment zeroes out the $34,023,000 in funding for the National Drug Intelligence Center and transfers the amount to the spending reduction account. On agreeing to the Flake amendment (A013) Agreed to by recorded vote: 262 - 169 (Roll no. 51). (consideration:...
Amendment sought to reduce funding for the ARPA-E account by $50 million and apply the amount to the spending reduction account. On agreeing to the Biggert amendment (A021) Failed by recorded vote: 170 - 262 (Roll no. 55). (consideration: CR H963-964)
Amendment increases the authorization level for funding for Federal Loan Guarantees for Innovative Technologies in Manufacturing from $50 million to $100 million. On agreeing to the Boccieri amendment (A011) Agreed to by recorded vote: 248 - 171 (Roll no. 267)...
Amendment requires the Director of the National Science Foundation to give consideration to the goal of promoting the participation of veterans in the postdoctoral research fellowship program established by section 246 (Postdoctoral research fellowships). On a...
Page 127, after line 13, insert the following new section: SEC. 256. SENSE OF CONGRESS. It is the sense of Congress that retaining graduate-level talent trained at American universities in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) fields is crit...
Amendment makes technical and clarifying changes to the bill. Amendment also amends Section 243 ("Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program") and Section 702 ("Persons with Disabilities"), and add new Sections 412 ("Report On the Use of Modeling and Simulation"...
Amendment sought to strike Title V which contains the Innovation provisions of the bill. On agreeing to the Hall (TX) amendment (A003) Failed by recorded vote: 163 - 258 (Roll no. 263). America COMPETES Reauthorization Act of 2010
Amendment establishes a program to support the development and commercial application of clean energy technologies through a Clean Energy Consortium selected competitively by the Secretary of Energy. The Consortium would be regionally based and include researc...
Amendment requires public institutions of higher education, with respect to employees who are represented by labor organizations and who work on activities or programs supported by this Act, to maintain a policy to respond to union information requests, for in...
Amendment requires the STEM coordinating committee under OSTP to describe the approaches that will be taken by each agency to conduct outreach designed to promote widespread public understanding of career opportunities in the STEM fields. The amendment also re...
At the end of the bill, before the short title, insert the following new section: SEC. 535. None of the funds made available by this Act shall be used to establish or implement a National Climate Service. On agreeing to the Broun (GA) amendment (A021) Failed b...
Amendment SA 80 not agreed to in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 39 - 59. Record Vote Number: 26.