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Jamie Dupree

House Budget Amendments

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Jamie Dupree
@ June 18, 2009 12:00 AM
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To give you a little flavor of the debate in the House on the first budget bill of this year, here is a list of some of the amendments that will be voted on today which were offered by Republicans.

Originally, 127 amendments were made in order, but Democrats changed the rules for debate, and cut that number dramatically.

There were some of the amendments that made the cut and were debated last night.

- to prohibit use of funds for the Summer Flounder and Black Sea Initiative project of the Partnership for the Mid-Atlantic Fisheries, Point Pleasant Beach, New Jersey

- to prohibit use of funds in the bill for the Jamaica Chamber of Commerce, Jamaica, NY, for the Jamaica Export Center

- to prohibit use of funds in the bill for the Training the Next Generation of Weather Forecasters project of San Jose State University, San Jose, California

- to prohibit use of funds in the bill for the Maine Department of Marine Resources, Augusta, ME, for Maine Lobster Research and Inshore Trawl Survey

- to prohibit use of funds in the bill by the Art Center of the Grand Prairie, Stuttgart, AR, for the Grand Prairie Arts Initiative

- to prohibit use of funds in the bill for application of the statistical method known as sampling when carrying out the 2010 decennial census

- to prohibit use of funds for establishment or implementation of a National Climate Service

- to reduce the appropriation in the bill by $12,511,000,000 across-the board

- to reduce the funds appropriated in the Act by $644,150,000

- to prohibit the use of funds to relocate the Office of the Census or employees from the Department of Commerce to the jurisdiction of the Executive Office of the President

- to decrease by 5% funds that are not required to be appropriated or otherwise made available by a provision of law

- to prohibit the use of funds for the biological opinion entitled "Biological Opinion and conference Opinion on the Long-Term Operations of the Central Valley Project and State Water Project", issued by the National Marine fisheries Service and dated June 4, 2009

- to instruct any department, agency, or instrumentality of the United States Government receiving appropriations under this Act to track undisbursed balance in expired grant accounts and include a detailed annual performance plan

- to reduce the appropriations made to the Department of Justice General Administration salaries and expenses by $100,000,000

- to prohibit the use of funds for the salaries or expenses of personnel who obligate, funds made available under the following headings in title II of division A of Public Law 111-5: (1) "Economic Development Administration - Economic Development Assistance Programs". (2) "National Telecommunications and Information Administration - Digital-to-Analog Converter Box Program". (3) "National Institute of Standards and Technology - Construction of Research Facilities"

- to prohibit the use of funds to implement Executive Order 13492, issued January 22, 2009, titled "Review and Disposition of Individuals Detained at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base and Closure of Detention Facilities"



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