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RSC Legislative Bulletin--CJS Approps Second Rule--6/17/09
Washington, Jun 17 -
Contents: Amendments to H.R. 2847— SECOND RULE—The FY2010 Departments of Commerce and Justice, and Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act The consideration of H.R. 2847, the FY2010 Departments of Commerce and Justice, and Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act (sponsored by Rep. Mollohan, D-WV), began on the House floor on Tuesday, June 16, 2009. General debate was completed. Amendment consideration, subject to the rule (H.Res.544) that contained a restrictive pre-printing requirement began. Amendments number 11 (Mollohan) and number 8 (Schock) were agreed to by voice vote. Then Rep. Mollohan’s motion that the Committee of the Whole rise (i.e. temporarily stop considering amendments) passed on a near-party-line vote. The Rules Committee then held a hearing on closing down the already-restrictive amendment process for this bill. RSC Chairman Price asked that all amendments pre-filed by RSC members (except ones he knew were not going to be offered) be made in order under the new rule. Such request was denied. The new rule, H.Res. 552, is a structured rule, making only certain amendments in order (see below). Specifically, there are: Each amendment would be debatable for 5 minutes per side. Members could NOT “move to strike the last word” in order to increase debate time. No points of order would be available against the amendments, except if an amendment were offered at the incorrect point in the reading of the bill. NOTE: The Clerk will still read the bill by paragraph, thus amendments must be offered during the appropriate portions of the reading, NOT in numerical order according to their Congressional Record filing. The Chair and the Appropriations Committee Ranking Member or their designees could each offer one pro forma amendment to the bill for the purpose of debate. Such amendment could be repeated, but only after consideration of one of the amendments in the section of 23 amendments described above (and detailed below). Under the rule, only the Appropriations Committee Chairman can make a motion to rise, and no motion to strike the enacting words of the bill would be in order (thereby removing yet another procedural tool of the minority). One motion to recommit—with or without instructions—would be in order. For your reference, the 81 amendments (14 Democrat and 67 Republican) NOT made in order anywhere in the Rule and not already passed by the House last night are listed below as well. RSC Staff Contacts: Paul Teller paul.telelr@mail.house.gov, (202) 226-9718. (CJS second rule) Brad Watson brad.watson@mail.house.gov, (202) 226-9719. (CJS base bill) Emily Henehan emily.henehan@mail.house.gov (202) 225-4501. (Amendments 1 – 30) Bruce Miller bruce.miller@mail.house.gov, (202) 226-9720. (Amendments 30-39; 81-127) Natalie Farr natalie.farr@mail.house.gov, (202) 226-0710. (Amendments 40-80) AMENDMENTS PASSED BY THE HOUSE LAST NIGHT 8. Schock (R-IL): Increases by $500,000: International Trade Administration (ITA) - Operations and Administration; Reduces by $500,000: Bureau of the Census - Salaries and Expenses. 11. Mollohan (D-WV): Reduces by $100,000: ITA - Operations and Administration; Reduces by $21,132,000: Justice Information Sharing Technology; Reduces by $78,768,000: Office of Justice Programs Salaries and Expenses; Increases by $100,000,000: State Criminal Alien Assistance Program (SCAAP). AMENDMENTS MADE IN ORDER UNDER THE STRUCTURED RULE IF OFFERED BY THE SPONSOR OR A DESIGNEE (9 Democrat and 14 Republican) 3. Moore (D-WI): Reduces by $4,000,000: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) - Departmental Management Salaries and Expenses; Increases by $4,000,000: State and Local Law Enforcement Activities Office Violence Against Women - legal assistance for victims. 6. Hensarling (R-TX): Eliminates funding for the Legal Services Corporation. Previous RSC budgets have proposed the elimination of this program. 19. Bordallo (D-GU): Increases by $500,000: NOAA - Operations, Research and Facilities; Reduces by $500,000: NOAA - Departmental Management Salaries and Expenses. 22. Waters (D-CA): Reduces by $1,000,000: Dept. of Justice General Administration Salaries and Expenses; Increases by $1,000,000: Missing Alzheimer’s Disease Patient Alert Program. 25. Roe (R-TN): Reduces by $97,400,000: Federal Prison System Salaries and Expenses. 31. Nadler (D-NY): Reduces by $5,000,000: Office of Justice Programs - Salaries and Expenses; Increases by $5,000,000: Community Oriented Policing Services - DNA related and forensic programs as well as DNA analysis and capacity enhancement programs. 35. Bernice-Johnson (D-TX): Sets aside $32,000,000 for the Historically Black Colleges and Universities Undergraduate Program under the America Competes Act (P.L.110-69). 41. Boswell (D-IA): Reduces by $2.5 million: Department of Justice General Administration Salaries and Expenses; Increases by $2.5 million the National Criminal History Improvement under State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance. 59. Broun (R-GA): Prohibits funds from being used to establish or implement a National Climate Service. 60. Broun (R-GA): Prohibits funds from being used to carry out the statistical method known as “sampling” in the 2010 decennial census. “Sampling,” while already prohibited by statute, frequently skews statistical data to show certain results. 62. Quigley (D-IL): Prohibits funds from being used for the construction or rental of infrastructure that does not comply with both the General Services Administration Sustainable Design Program for Federal buildings and the Public Buildings Service Project Plan. 63. Nunes (R-CA): Prohibits funds from being used to implement 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. According to the sponsor, the Biological Opinion is an attempt to protect salmon, steelhead, green sturgeon and killer whales. It states that the species face dire environmental conditions unless irrigation from the federal Central Valley Project and the California State Project -- already at historic lows curtailed even further. This new Biological Opinion will reduce Delta pumping by another 330,000 acre feet of water – this is on top of the water reductions included in the Delta-smelt Biological Opinion. A revised University of California-Davis study found that up to 80,000 San Joaquin Valley jobs will be lost by the end of 2009 and 500,000 acres of productive farm land will be fallowed because of water rationing -- a direct result of these Biological Opinions. 69. Tiahrt (R-KS): Prohibits funds from being used to obligate, or pay the salary or expenses of personnel who obligate, funds made available under the Economic Development Administration, Economic Development Assistance Programs; the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, Digital-to-Analog Converter Box Program; and the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Construction of Research Facilities. 71. Burton (R-IN): Prohibits funds from being used to relocate the Office of the Census or employees from the Department of Commerce to the jurisdiction of the Executive Office of the President. The purpose of this amendment is to limit the ability of White House to politicize the census process, which is supposed to be apolitical. 93. Linder (R-GA): Prohibits funds from being used to carry out or enforce section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which mandates that certain states "pre-clear" any changes to their electoral practices. 96. Price (R-GA): Reduces total appropriations in Title II of the bill by $100,000,000 Department of Justice, the same level as President Obama asked his cabinet to save for all departments in April. 97. Price (R-GA): Reduces total appropriations by $644,150,000. 98. Hodes (D-NH): Instructs the Director of the Office of Management and Budget to instruct any department, agency, or instrumentality of the United States Government to track undisbursed balances in expired grant accounts and include performance and accountability reports. 100. Jordan (R-OH): Provides a total funding level for the CJS bill equivalent to FY 2008 levels, saving taxpayers $12,511,000,000 102. Cuellar (D-TX): States that none of the funds made available in this Act may be used to purchase light bulbs unless the light bulbs have the ``Energy Star'' or ``Federal Energy Management Program'' designation. 111. Blackburn (R-TN): Reduces all appropriations in the bill by 5% across-the-board. 114. Reichert (R-WA): Increases by $2.5 million: Supporting Teens through Education and Protection program under the Violence Against Women’s Act; Reduces by $2.5 million: Departmental management--Salaries and expenses'. 118. Lewis (R-CA): States that none of the funds made available in this Act may be used 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. AMENDMENTS MADE IN ORDER UNDER THE STRUCTURED RULE ONLY IF OFFERED BY RANKING MEMBER JERRY LEWIS OR HIS DESIGNEE—AND ONLY A MAXIMUM OF TEN (0 Democrat and 21 Republican) 76. Hensarling (R-TX): Prohibits funds from being used by the Maine Department of Marine Resources, Augusta, ME, for Maine Lobster Research and Inshore Trawl Survey. 77. Hensarling (R-TX): Prohibits funds from being used by the Marine Mammal Center, Sausalito, CA, for Emergency Response and Health Investigations for Endangered and Threatened Pinniped Populations in the Pacific. 78. Hensarling (R-TX): Prohibits funds from being used by the Woodstock Film Festival, Woodstock, NY, for the Woodstock Film Festival Youth Initiative/Youth at Risk. 79. Hensarling (R-TX): Prohibits funds from being used by the Art Center of the Grand Prairie, Stuttgart, AR, for the Grand Prairie Arts Initiative. 80. Flake (R-AZ): Eliminates funding for the Yukon River Drainage Fisheries Association, Anchorage, Alaska. 81. Flake (R-AZ): Eliminates funding for the Oyster Hatchery Economic Pilot Program of the Morgan State University Estuarine Research Center, St. Leonard, Maryland. 82. Flake (R-AZ): Eliminates funding for the Shrimp Industry Fishing Effort Research Continuation project of the National Marine Fisheries Service, Silver Spring, Maryland. 83. Flake (R-AZ): Eliminates funding for the Natural Stream Design and Restoration project of the West Virginia Department of Natural Resources, Charleston, West Virginia. 84. Flake (R-AZ): Eliminates funding for the Institute for Seafood Studies project of the Nicholls State University Department of Biological Sciences, Thibodaux, Louisiana. 85. Flake (R-AZ): Eliminates funding for the Drew University Environmental Science Initiative of Drew University, Madison, New Jersey. 86. Flake (R-AZ): Eliminates funding for the Innovative Science Learning Center of Science South Florence, South Carolina. 87. Flake (R-AZ): Eliminates $44 million in funding for the National Drug Intelligence Center. 88. Flake (R-AZ): Eliminates funding for the Great Lakes Water Project of the Great Lakes Science Center, Cleveland, Ohio. 89. Flake (R-AZ): Eliminates funding for the Eastern Kentucky PRIDE, Inc., project of Eastern Kentucky PRIDE, Inc., Somerset, Kentucky. 90. Flake (R-AZ): Eliminates funding for the Maine Lobster Research and Inshore Trawl Survey of the Maine Department of Marine Resources, Augusta, Maine. 91. Flake (R-AZ): Eliminates funding for the Science Education Through Exploration project of the JASON Project, Ashburn, Virginia. 104. Campbell (R-CA): Eliminates funding for the Jamaica Chamber of Commerce, Jamaica, NY, for the Jamaica Export Center. 105. Campbell (R-CA): Eliminates funding for the Training the Next Generation of Weather Forecasters project of San Jose State University, San Jose, California. 106. Campbell (R-CA): Eliminates funding for the Steller Sea Lion Comanagement, Biosampling and Outreach/Education project of The Alaska Sea Otter and Steller Sea Lion Commission, Old Harbor, Alaska. 107. Campbell (R-CA): Eliminates funding for the Summer Flounder and Black Sea Initiative project of the Partnership for Mid-Atlantic Fisheries, Point Pleasant Beach, New Jersey. 108. Campbell (R-CA): Eliminates funding for the Textile Research Programs project of the Textile/Clothing Textile Corporation, Raleigh, North Carolina. AMENDMENTS PRE-FILED IN THE CONGRESSIONAL RECORD YET NOT MADE IN ORDER UNDER THE STRUCTURED RULE (14 Democrat and 67 Republican) 1. Olson (R-TX): Reduces by $566,500,000: Bureau of Census - Periodic Censuses and Programs; Increases by $566,500,000: National Aeronautics and Space Administration - Exploration. 2. Paulsen (R- MN): Prohibits funds from being used to try an individual who is detained at Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, upon date of enactment of this Act, in any United States court. 4. Moore (D-WI): Reduces by $8,000,000: NOAA - Departmental Management Salaries and Expenses; Increases by $8,000,000: State and Local Law Enforcement Activities Office Violence Against Women - legal assistance for victims. 5. Garrett (R-NJ): Increases by 5,000,000: State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance – victim services programs for victims of trafficking; Reduces by $5,000,000: Legal Services Corporation. 7. Garrett (R-NJ): Prohibits funds from being used to make full or partial completion of the American Community Survey mandatory or to enforce civil penalties, including fines, for failure to complete the Survey in its entirety. The American Community Survey is a more detailed questionnaire that asks individuals to provide demographic, housing, social, and economic information to the Census. Some conservatives feel this form to be burdensome and intrusive. 9. Schock (R-IL): Increases by $500,000: ITA - Operations and Administration to be used to conduct a study and submit to Congress not later than 60 days after the date of the enactment of this Act a report on the economic impact, including the loss of jobs in the United States, since April 7, 2007, resulting from the failure to implement the United States-Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement; Reduces by $500,000: Bureau of the Census - Salaries and Expenses. 10. Manzullo (R-IL): Increases by $5,000,000: ITA - Operations and Administration; Reduces by $5,000,000: Legal Services Corporation. 12. Manzullo (R-IL): Increases by $20,000,000: ITA - Operations and Administration; Reduces by $20,000,000: Legal Services Corporation. 13. Schock (R-IL): Increases by $1,500,000: Minority Business Development; Reduces by $1,500,000: NOAA - Departmental Management Salaries and Expenses. 14. Biggert (R-IL): Reduces by $25,491,000: NOAA – Operations, Research and Facilities; Increases by $25,491,000: FBI Salaries and Expenses. 15. Roe (R-TN): Reduces by $111,256,000: NOAA - Operations, Research and Facilities. 16. Lee (R-NY): Reduces by $129,000,000: NOAA - Operations, Research and Facilities. 17. Stearns (R-FL): Reduces by $100,000,000: NOAA - Operations, Research; Increases by $100,000,000: SCAAP. 18. Capito (R-WV): Reduces by $10,000,000: NOAA - Operations, Research and Facilities; Increases by $10,000,000: Southwest Border Prosecutor Initiative. 20: Hastings (R-WA): Requires that $50,000,000 of funding available under NOAA - Operations, Research and Facilities remains available until September 30, 2010 for the restoration of Pacific salmon populations. The Secretary of Commerce may use these funds to issue grants to the States of Washington, Oregon, Idaho, California, and Alaska and Federally-recognized tribes of the Columbia River and Pacific Coast for the restoration of salmon and steelhead populations that are listed as threatened or endangered, or identified by a State as at-risk to be so-listed, for maintaining populations necessary for exercise of tribal treaty fishing rights or native subsistence fishing, or for conservation of Pacific coastal salmon and steelhead habitat. Requires a state matching requirement or documented in-kind contributions of at least 33 percent of the Federal funds disbursed to States. 21. Murphy (D-CT): Reduces by $2,460,000: NOAA - Departmental Management Salaries and Expenses; Increases by $2,460,000: Office of Justice Programs Salaries and Expenses. 23. King (R-IA): Shifts $1,000,000 in the FBI Salaries and Expenses Account. 24. Marshall (D-GA): Increases by $100,000,000: SCAAP; Reduces by $100,000,000: Various accounts under NASA, including Science, Exploration, Space Operations, and Cross Agency Support. 26. Burton (R-IN): Reduces by $97,400,000: Federal Prison System Salaries and Expenses. 27. Cardoza (D-CA): Increases by $50,000,000: Federal Prison System Salaries and Expenses; Reduces by $50,000,000: National Science Foundation Research and Related Activities - polar icebreaking services. 28. Biggert (R-IL): Increase by $15,000,000: Office on Violence Against Women - Violence Against Women Prevention and Prosecution Programs; Reduces by $15,000,000: State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance – Assistance to Indian tribes. 29. Cardoza (D-CA): Increases by $15,000,000: State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance – Programs to reduce gun crime and gang violence; Reduces by $15,000,000: National Science Foundation - Agency Operations And Award Management. 30. Garrett (R-NJ): Increases by $5,000,000: State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance – victim services programs for victims of trafficking; Reduces by $5,000,000: Legal Services Corporation. 32. Brown-Waite (R-FL): Increases by $15,000,000: Federal Prison System--Salaries and Expenses for hiring additional corrections officers; Reduces by $15,000,000: State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance' for the Tribal Courts Initiative. 33. McCarthy (R-CA): Increases by $50,000,000: NASA Exploration account; Reduces by $50,000,000: Legal Services Corporation. 34. Perlmutter (D-CO): Increases by $212,269,000: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Exploration; Reduces by $212,269,000: NASA Construction and Environmental Compliance and Remediation 36. Broun (R-GA): Reduces $5,000,000 from the Legal Services Corporation. 37. Price (R-GA): Reduces funding for the Legal Service Corporation in the amount of one dollar. 38. Hensarling (R-TX): Eliminates funding for the Legal Services Corporation. Previous RSC budgets have proposed the elimination of this program. 39. Hensarling (R-TX): Eliminates funding for the Legal Services Corporation. Previous RSC budgets have proposed the elimination of this program. 40. McCarthy (D-NY): Prohibits funds from being used to destroy any identifying information submitted to any system to implement section 922(t) of title 18 (regarding a national criminal background check system for firearms dealers and manufacturers), by an individual whose name appears in the Violent Gang Terrorist Organization File, or whose name appears on the terrorist watch lists maintained by the FBI. Under current law, much of this information is destroyed if it involves an individual who clears his or her background check. 42. Roskam (R-IL): Reduces by $2 million (from $118,488,000): Department of Justice General Administration Salaries and Expenses; Increases the same account by the same amount ($2 million). 43. Blackburn (R-TN): Increases by $221 million: State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance; Reduces by $221 million: National Science Foundation Research and Related Activities. 44. Blackburn (R-TN): Increases by $310 million: State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance; Reduces by $310 million: National Science Foundation Research and Related Activities. 45. Bernice Johnson (D-TX): Reduces by $10 million: Federal Prison System Salaries and Expenses; Increases by $10 million: Office of Justice Programs Weed and Seed Program Fund. 46. Nadler (D-NY): Increases by $5 million: “Violence Against Women Prevention and Prosecution Programs” for Jessica Gonzales Victim Assistants; Reduces by $5 million: Department of Justice--General Administration--Salaries and Expenses. 47. Posey (R-FL): Increases by $566 million: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Exploration; Increases by $250 million the NASA Space Operations. 48. Broun (R-GA): Reduces all appropriations in the bill by 0.5% across-the-board. 49. Cassidy (R-LA): Strikes Section 212. The section prohibits funds from being used for public-private competition for work performed by the Bureau of Prisons or of Federal Prison Industries, Incorporated. The underlying bill prohibits funds from being used under OMB Circular A-76 (governing the federal government’s outsourcing policies) to implement any pending or future competitive sourcing for work performed by employees of the Bureau of Prisons or of Federal Prisons Industries, Incorporated. In other words, the amendment will force federal employees to compete with private-sector entities for certain non-inherently governmental functions of the agencies (like food service and lawn-mowing. 50. Broun (R-GA): Reduces by an amount equal to the unobligated balance (on the date of the enactment of this Act) the discretionary appropriations made available for such department or agency in division A of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. According to the sponsor, the unobligated funds for Department of Justice are $1,200,677,000 and for Department of Commerce are $314,591,000. This would be the amount of the reductions. The bill itself calls for DOJ to be appropriated $27,746,672,000 and DOC, $13,847,433,000. If enacted, the new levels for DOJ would be $26,545,995,000 and for DOC would be $13,532,842,000. 51. Heller (R-NV): Prohibits funds for the State Criminal Alien Assistance Program under the heading “state and Local Law Enforcement Assistance” from being used for any State or local government that has any law, policy, or procedure in effect that circumvents the enforcement of any federal immigration law. 52. Bilbray (R-CA): Prohibits funds from being used to provide funds to any state of local government entity in violation of section 642(a) of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996.Section 642 states that a federal, state, or local official may not prohibit any government entity or official from sending to, or receiving from, the Immigration and Naturalization Service information regarding the citizenship or immigration status of any individual. 53. Gohmert (R-TX): Prohibits funds from being used to pay salaries or expenses related to, the Presidential Task Force on the Auto Industry. 54. McCaul (R-TX): Prohibits funds from being used for a project or program named for an individual then serving as a Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, or Senator of the United States Congress. 55. Wittman (R-VA): Reduces all appropriations in the bill by 0.5% across-the-board. 56. Wittman (R-VA): Reduces all appropriations in the bill by 1% across-the-board. 57. Wittman (R-VA): Reduces all appropriations in the bill by 2% across-the-board. 58. Broun (R-GA). Prohibits funds from being used to carry out or enforce section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which mandates that certain states "pre-clear" any changes to their electoral practices. 61. Gingrey (R-GA): Prohibits funds from being used for the Director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to pay the compensation of employees of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to test and examine firearms without written and published testing standards. 64. Posey (R-FL): Increases by $566 million: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Exploration; Increases by $250 million the NASA Space Operations. 65. Burton (R-IN): Prohibits funds from being used to adjudicate or assist in a lawsuit about the definition of marriage as between a man and a woman. 66. Akin (R-MO): Prohibits funds from being used by the Bureau of the Census to provide any grant to or contract with any organization that has been indicted, or employ or contract with any individual who has been indicted, for a violation under Federal law relating to an election for Federal office. 67. Stearns (R-FL): Prohibits funds from being used for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission for litigation expenses incurred in connection with cases commenced after the date of the enactment of this Act against employers on the grounds that such employers require employees to speak English. 68. Stearns (R-FL): Reduces all appropriations in the bill by 1% across-the-board. 70. Conaway (R-TX). Expresses a sense of the House of Representatives that any reduction in the amount appropriated by this Act achieved as a result of amendments adopted by the House should be dedicated to deficit reduction. 72. Burton (R-IN): Prohibits funds from being used to adjudicate or assist in a lawsuit seeking to prevent the enforcement of the Defense of Marriage Act. 73. Rogers (R-MI): Prohibits funds from being used to provide Miranda rights to detainees in the custody of the armed forces of the United States in Afghanistan. 74. Barrett (R-SC): Prohibits funds under the heading, “Violence Against Women Prevention and Prosecution Programs” for grants to combat violence against women, as authorized by part T of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968, from being used to carry out any activity not authorized under part T of such Act. The amendment bars funds in the bill set aside for STOP (Services, Training, Officers, Prosecutors) Grants from being allocated to other programs. According to the sponsor, Congress has allocated funds provided for STOP Grants to Transitional Housing, National Institute of Justice, and other programs every year since FY2004. Congressman Barrett is NOT opposed to these other programs (Transitional Housing, NIJ, and others) being fully funded, but is opposed to their being funded through STOP Grant monies. 75. Hensarling (R-TX): Prohibits funds from being used to enforce section 526 of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007. Section 526 prohibits federal agencies from entering into a contract for procurement of an alternative fuel unless the contract specifies that the greenhouse gas emissions are less than or equal to emissions from the equivalent conventional fuel. The section was added to prevent the Defense Department from buying coal-based jet fuels. 92. Lamborn (R-CO): Prohibits funds used by the Bureau of Prisons to incarcerate individuals currently held in the Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba 94. Pence (R-IN): Prohibits funds to enforce provisions under the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (BCRA) prohibiting “electioneering communication.” The electioneering communications section of BCRA prohibits the use of corporate or labor union funds to pay for broadcast advertisements that include the name of a federal candidate within 30 days of a primary or 60 days of a general election. 95. Price (R-GA): Reduces total appropriations in Title I (Department of Commerce) of the bill by $100,000,000, the same level as President Obama asked his cabinet to save for all departments in April. 99. Garrett (R-NJ): Prohibits funds from being used to make full or partial completion of the American Community Survey mandatory or to enforce civil penalties, including fines, for failure to complete the Survey in its entirety. The American Community Survey is a more detailed questionnaire that asks individuals to provide demographic, housing, social, and economic information to the Census. Some conservatives feel this form to be burdensome and intrusive. 101. Bishop (R-UT): Allow for the enumeration, for purposes of apportionment, of American citizens living overseas during the decennial census (starting in 2010) who are not affiliated with the federal government and who either: take the steps to be enumerated through an international “Be Counted” form available at U.S. embassies or belong to an organization that chooses to submit administrative records to the Census Bureau 103. McDermott (D-WA): Prohibits funds from being used in contravention of section 307 of the Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. 1307), which prohibits importation of "all goods, wares, articles and merchandise mined, produced or manufactured wholly or in part in any foreign country by convict labor." 109. Blackburn (R-TN): Reduces all appropriations in the bill by 1% across-the-board. 110. Cardoza (D-CA): Increases by $50 million: Federal Prison System--Salaries and Expenses for hiring additional corrections officers; Reduces by $50 million: National Science Foundation--Research and Related Activities' for the procurement of polar icebreaking services. (The sponsor has stated the amendment will not be offered) 112. Blackburn (R-TN): Reduces all appropriations in the bill by 2% across-the-board. 113. Reichert (R-WA): Increases by $5 million: Supporting Teens through Education and Protection program under the Violence Against Women’s Act; Reduces by $5 million: Departmental management--Salaries and expenses'. 115. Tiahrt (R-KS): Prohibits funds to pay the salary or expenses of personnel, who obligate, funds made available under the Economic Development Administration--Economic Development Assistance Programs, National Telecommunications and Information Administration--Digital-to-Analog Converter Box Program, and National Institute of Standards and Technology--Construction of Research Facilities. 116. McHenry (R-NC): Prohibits funds from being used to allow the Bureau of the Census to carry out statistical sampling in violation of federal law. “Sampling,” while already prohibited by statute, frequently skews statistical data to show results that might reflect a particular political or social agenda. 117. Schock (R-IL): Prohibits funds made available in this Act may be used to pay the salary of any individual currently participating on the entity known as the ``Presidential Task Force on the Auto Industry''. 119: Lewis (R-CA): States that none of the funds made available in this Act may be used 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. 120. King (R-IA): States that none of the funds made available by this Act shall be made available to the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now and specifically lists numerous state and local affiliates of ACORN. 121. King (R-IA): States that none of the funds made available by this Act under ``Bureau of the Census'' shall be made available to the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now and specifically lists numerous state and local affiliates of ACORN. 122. King (R-IA): Prohibits funds from being used to employ “unauthorized aliens” of the Immigration and Nationality Act. 123. King (R-IA): States that none of the funds made available by this Act under ``Bureau of the Census'' shall be made available to the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN). 124. King (R-IA): States that none of the funds made available under this Act shall be made available to the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN). 125. Jackson-Lee (D-TX): Strikes language in the bill that prohibits the use of funds to release an individual detained at Guantanamo Bay prison as of April 30, 2009, into the United States. 126. Jackson-Lee (D-TX): Increases by $10 million: youth mentoring programs; Increases by $10 million: Delinquency prevention programs; Reduces by $20 million: buildings and facilities for the federal prison system. 127. Jackson-Lee (D-TX): Strikes language in the bill that prohibits the use of funds to release an individual detained at Guantanamo Bay prison as of April 30, 2009, into the United States.Legislative Bulletin………………………………….………June 17, 2009