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The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009

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H.R.1
Title: Making supplemental appropriations for job preservation and creation, infrastructure investment, energy efficiency and science, assistance to the unemployed, and State and local fiscal stabilization, for fiscal year ending September 30, 2009, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Obey, David R. [WI-7] (introduced 1/26/2009)      Cosponsors (9)
Related Bills: H.RES.88, H.RES.92, H.RES.168, H.R.290, H.R.291, H.R.598, H.R.629, H.R.679, S.336, S.350
Latest Major Action: 2/17/2009 Signed by President.
Latest Conference Report: 111-16 (in Congressional Record H1307-1516)
Note: The House Rules Committee has posted the conference report. See also the GPO word-searchable version (more info).

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SUMMARY AS OF:
1/28/2009--Passed House amended.    (There is 1 other summary)
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 - (Sec. 5) Designates each amount in this Act as: (1) an emergency requirement, necessary to meet certain emergency needs in accordance with the FY2008-FY2009 congressional budget resolutions; and (2) an emergency for Pay-As-You-Go (PAYGO) principles.
Division A: Appropriation Provisions - (Sec. 1001) Makes supplemental appropriations for FY2009: (1) for job preservation and creation; (2) to promote economic recovery; (3) to assist those most impacted by the recession; (4) to provide investments needed to increase economic efficiency by spurring technological advances in science and health; (5) to invest in transportation, environmental protection, and other infrastructure that will provide long-term economic benefits; and (6) to stabilize state and local government budgets, in order to minimize and avoid reductions in essential services and counterproductive state and local tax increases.
Title I: General Provisions - Subtitle A: Use of Funds - (Sec. 1101) Declares each amount appropriated or made available in this Act to be in addition to amounts otherwise appropriated for the fiscal year involved. Prohibits enactment of this Act from having an effect on the availability of amounts under the Continuing Appropriations Resolution, 2009 (division A of Public Law 110-329).
(Sec. 1102) Requires recipients of funds for infrastructure investment activities to: (1) give preference to quick-start activities; and (2) use such funds in a manner that maximizes job creation and economic benefit.
(Sec. 1103) Prescribes requirements for timely award of formula and competitive grants, including grants for which funding was not provided in FY2008.
(Sec. 1104) Establishes use-it-or-lose-it requirements for grantees using funds in specified accounts who have not entered into contracts or other binding commitments and used 50% of the funds awarded not later than one year after enactment. Provides for redistribution of such uncommitted funds by the appropriate federal agency.
(Sec. 1105) Makes all funds appropriated in this Act available for obligation through FY2010, unless expressly provided otherwise.
Allows reobligation of amounts not needed or which cannot be used under title X (Military Construction and Veterans Affairs) of this Act for such original activity for other activities that have received funding from the same account or appropriation in such title.
(Sec. 1106) Permits: (1) up to 0.5% of each amount appropriated in this Act to be used for management and oversight expenses of programs, grants, and activities funded by such appropriation; and (2) such funds to be transferred by the agency to any of its other appropriate accounts for such purpose.
Makes such set-side funds available for obligation through FY2012.
(Sec. 1107) Makes additional appropriations to Offices of Inspector General (OIG) of specified federal departments and agencies, to remain available through FY2013 for oversight and audit of programs, grants, and projects funded under this Act.
(Sec. 1108) Appropriates additional funds to the Government Accountability Office (GAO) for salaries and expenses for oversight activities.
(Sec. 1109) Prohibits the use of funds appropriated or otherwise made available in this Act for casino or other gambling establishments, aquariums, zoos, golf courses, or swimming pools.
(Sec. 1110) Prohibits the use of funds appropriated or otherwise made available in this Act for a project for the construction, alteration, maintenance, or repair of a public building or public work unless all of the iron and steel used in the project is domestic. Allows waiver of this prohibition if the department or agency involved finds that: (1) applying it would be inconsistent with the public interest; (2) domestic iron and steel are not produced in sufficient and reasonably available quantities and of a satisfactory quality; or (3) inclusions of such products will increase the cost of the overall project by more than 25%.
Requires publication of a detailed written justification for any such waiver in the Federal Register.
(Sec. 1111) Requires that the locally prevailing wage rate be paid to all laborers and mechanics employed by contractors and subcontractors of federally-funded or federally-assisted projects in accordance with the Davis-Bacon Act (which requires that the locally prevailing wage rate be paid to various classes of laborers and mechanics employed for such projects).
(Sec. 1112) Prohibits funds provided by this Act from being made available to Illinois, or any state agency, unless: (1) the use of such funds is approved in legislation enacted by the state after the enactment of this Act; or (2) Rod R. Blagojevich no longer holds the Office of Governor of Illinois.
Exempts from such prohibition any funds provided directly to a local government by a federal department or agency, or by an established formula from the state.
(Sec. 1113) Requires at least 10% of amounts appropriated in this Act to the Department of Agriculture for the "Rural Development Programs–Rural Community Advancement Program" to be allocated for assistance in any county that has had 20% or more of its population living in poverty over the past 30 years (persistent poverty county).
(Sec. 1114) Prohibits the use of funds to enter into a contract with any entity that does not participate in the E-Verify program under the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996.
(Sec. 1115) Sets forth requirements governing additional funding distribution and assurance of appropriate use of funds provided by this Act to a state or its agencies.
Subtitle B: Accountability in Recovery Act Spending - Part I: Transparency and Oversight Requirements - (Sec. 1201) Requires each federal agency to publish on the website Recovery.gov: (1) a plan for using funds made available in this Act to the agency; and (2) all announcements for grant competitions, allocations of formula grants, and awards of competitive grants using those funds.
Requires each federal, state, or local government agency receiving funds under this Act to post on such website notice of all funds obligated to particular infrastructure investments, including any contracts or grants.
(Sec. 1202) Requires inspectors general of federal departments or executive agencies to: (1) review any concerns raised by the public about specific investments using funds made available in this Act; (2) relay any review findings to the appropriate department or agency; and (3) post them on the Internet and link to the website Recovery.gov, along with any audits of such funds.
(Sec. 1203) Requires bimonthly GAO reviews and reports, including Internet publication, on the use by selected states and localities of funds made available in this Act.
(Sec. 1204) Instructs the Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers to report quarterly to Congress detailing the estimated impact of programs under this Act on employment, economic growth, and other key economic indicators.
(Sec. 1205) Applies the Federal Acquisition Regulation to contracts awarded with funds under in this Act. Requires award of such contracts as fixed-price contracts through the use of competitive procedures. Requires any contract that is not fixed-price and not awarded using competitive procedures to be posted in a special section of the website Recovery.gov.
Part 2: Accountability and Transparency Board - (Sec. 1221) Establishes the Recovery Act Accountability and Transparency Board to coordinate and conduct oversight of federal spending under this Act to prevent waste, fraud, and abuse.
(Sec. 1226) Requires the Board to establish and maintain the Recovery.gov website on the Internet to: (1) foster greater accountability and transparency in the use of funds made available in this Act; and (2) be a portal or gateway to key information related to this Act and provide a window to other government websites with related information.
(Sec. 1227) Declares that inspectors general (IGs) shall retain independent authority to determine whether to conduct an audit or investigation of spending under this Act.
(Sec. 1228) Instructs the Board to coordinate its oversight activities with the Comptroller General and state auditor generals.
(Sec. 1229) Establishes the Independent Advisory Panel to advise the Board and make recommendations on actions it could take to prevent waste, fraud, and abuse.
(Sec. 1230) Authorizes appropriations for the Board.
(Sec. 1231) Terminates the Board 12 months after 90% of the funds made available under this Act have been expended, as determined by the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB).
Part 3: Additional Accountability and Transparency Provisions - (Sec. 1241) Prohibits certain less-than-competitive contracts entered into as an unusual and compelling urgency for an amount greater than the simplified acquisition threshold from exceeding in duration: (1) the time necessary to meet the unusual and compelling requirements of the work involved, and for the executive agency to enter into another contract for the required goods or services through the use of competitive procedures; and (2) one year, unless the contracting agency determines that exceptional circumstances apply.
(Sec. 1242) Requires contracts awarded using funds under this Act to grant the Comptroller General and the OIGs access to certain contractors' or subcontractors' records or employees.
(Sec. 1243) Prohibits reprisals against state and local government and contractor whistleblowers.
Prescribes requirements for: (1) the IG's investigation and report of such complaints; and (2) the appropriate agency's remedy and enforcement authority upon receipt of such report.
Part 4: Further Accountability and Transparency Provisions - Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act of 2009 - (Sec. 1262) Expands the types of whistleblower disclosures protected from personnel reprisals to include disclosures without restriction as to time, place, form, motive, context, forum, or prior disclosures made to any person by an employee or applicant for employment, including a disclosure made in the ordinary course of an employee's duties, that the employee or applicant reasonably believes is a violation of any law.
(Sec. 1263) Defines "disclosure" as a formal or informal communication, not including a communication concerning policy decisions that lawfully exercise discretionary authority unless the employee providing the disclosure reasonably believes that it evidences: (1) any violation of law; or (2) gross mismanagement, a gross waste of funds, an abuse of authority, or a substantial and specific danger to public health or safety.
Defines "clear and convincing evidence" as evidence indicating that the matter to be proved is highly probable or reasonably certain, for purposes of Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) reviews of prohibited personnel practices.
(Sec. 1264) Provides that any presumption relating to the performance of a duty by an employee with personnel authority may be rebutted by substantial evidence.
Codifies the legal standard (i.e., disinterested observer with knowledge of the essential facts) for determining whether an employee or applicant for employment has a reasonable belief of the validity of their whistleblower disclosures.
(Sec. 1265) Includes as a prohibited personnel practice the implementation or enforcement of any nondisclosure policy, form, or agreement.
Prohibits any agency from: (1) implementing or enforcing any nondisclosure policy, form, or agreement if it does not contain a specified statement of employee rights and obligations; or (2) conducting an investigation (other than that necessary to the agency's mission) of an employee or applicant for employment because of any protected whistleblower activity.
(Sec. 1266) Includes as an agency exempt from whistleblower restrictions the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. Requires the removal of any agency or unit by the President from whistleblower protection coverage to be made before any personnel action is taken against a whistleblower at that agency.
(Sec. 1267) Expands the authority of the MSPB to discipline an employee who takes adverse personnel action against a whistleblower if it finds that the protected activity was the primary motivating factor in such employee's action.
(Sec. 1268) Directs the Comptroller General to conduct a study on certain security clearance revocations and to report to Congress on such study.
(Sec. 1269) Allows an employee, former employee, or applicant for employment who seeks corrective action from the MSPB for an alleged prohibited personnel practice to bring legal action in federal district court for de novo review and seek a jury trial, if the MSPB fails to issue a timely final order or decision.
Allows the MSPB to award interest and reasonable expert witness fees as compensatory damages.
(Sec. 1270) Prohibits adverse personnel actions against an employee of a covered national security agency (i.e., Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI], the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the Central Intelligence Agency [CIA], the Defense Intelligence Agency, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, the National Security Agency, the National Reconnaissance Office, and any other executive branch agency determined by the President to have as its principal function the conduct of foreign intelligence or counterintelligence activities) for making whistleblower disclosures to an authorized Member of Congress or executive branch official or to the IG of the covered agency that employs the whistleblower.
Requires: (1) the IG to investigate any claim of adverse personnel actions against an employee of a covered agency; and (2) the head of such agency to make a determination of whether a prohibited personnel practice has taken place and take corrective action.
Authorizes a whistleblower to seek judicial review of an adverse determination by an agency head.
(Sec. 1271) Requires the head of a civilian executive agency, within 180 days of an employee complaint, to determine whether a private contractor has subjected an employee whistleblower to a reprisal and either to issue an order denying relief or take corrective action. Allows such employee whistleblower to request a jury trial in a federal district court and seek compensatory damages if the agency head does not issue an order or take corrective action.
(Sec. 1272) Extends federal whistleblower protections to individuals holding or applying for a position in the Transportation Security Administration (TSA).
(Sec. 1273) Modifies the definition of "abuse of authority" with respect to prohibited personnel practices against a whistleblower relating to scientific and other research to include: (1) any action that compromises the validity or accuracy of federally funded research or analysis; (2) the dissemination of false or misleading scientific, medical, or technical information; (3) any action that restricts or prevents publication of scientific material; and (4) any action that discriminates for or against any employee or applicant on the basis of religion (as defined in this Act).
(Sec. 1274) Makes the provisions of this Act effective 30 days after enactment (except for TSA employee whistleblower provisions which are effective immediately upon enactment).
Title II: Agriculture, Nutrition, and Rural Development - Makes supplemental appropriations for FY2009 to the Department of Agriculture for: (1) agricultural buildings and facilities and rental payments; (2) the Agricultural Research Service; (3) the Farm Service Agency; (4) the Natural Resources Conservation Service; (5) rural development programs; (6) the Rural Housing Service; (7) the Rural Utilities Service; (8) the Food and Nutrition Service; and (9) the emergency food assistance program.
(Sec. 2001) Increases benefits under the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and the consolidated block grants for Puerto Rico and American Samoa through FY2009.
Prohibits the Secretary from reducing the value of the maximum allotment below the level in effect for FY2009 resulting from such increase.
Requires the Secretary to make grants to state agencies for administrative expenses in carrying out SNAP in FY2009-FY2010, to remain available through FY2012. Earmarks funds for Food and Nutrition Service management and program oversight expenses and for monitoring the integrity and evaluating the effects of such SNAP payments.
Qualifies jobless adults for SNAP through FY2010 if they comply with specified work registration and unemployment training requirements.
Makes appropriations to the Secretary for SNAP, to remain available until expended.
(Sec. 2002) Amends the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to repeal the limitation of the afterschool feeding program for at-risk children to eight states.
Title III: Commerce, Justice, and Science - Subtitle A: Commerce - Makes supplemental appropriations for FY2009 to the Department of Commerce for: (1) economic development assistance programs; (2) the Bureau of Census; (3) the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA); (4) the Wireless and Broadband Deployment Grant Programs; (5) the digital-to-analog converter box program; (6) the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST); and (7) the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
Subtitle B: Justice - Makes supplemental appropriations for FY2009 to the Department of Justice (DOJ) for: (1) state and local law enforcement activities; (2) the Office of Justice Programs; (3) state and local law enforcement assistance; and (4) community oriented policing services (COPS).
(Sec. 3201) Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Street Act of 1968 to waive application of certain matching requirements and salary limitations to funds appropriated for FY2009-FY2010 for the COPS program.
Subtitle C: Science - Makes supplemental appropriations for FY2009 to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for: (1) science; (2) aeronautics; (3) cross agency support programs; and (4) the National Science Foundation (NSF) for research and related activities, education and human resources, and major research equipment and facilities.
Title IV: Defense - Makes supplemental appropriations for FY2009 to the Department of Defense (DOD) for : (1) facility infrastructure investments; and (2) energy research and development.
Title V: Energy and Water - Makes supplemental appropriations for FY2009 to the Department of the Army, Corps of Engineers - Civil for: (1) construction; (2) Mississippi River and tributaries; (3) operation and maintenance; and (4) the regulatory program.
Makes supplemental appropriations for FY2009 to the Department of the Interior for the Bureau of Reclamation for water and related resources.
Makes supplemental appropriations for FY2009 to the Department of Energy for: (1) programs for energy efficiency and renewable energy; (2) electricity delivery and energy reliability; (3) the Advanced Battery Loan Guarantee Program; (4) the Institutional Loan Guarantee Program; (5) the Innovative Technology Loan Guarantee Program; (6) fossil energy; (7) science; and (8) defense environmental cleanup.
(Sec. 5001) Amends the Hoover Power Plant Act of 1984 to authorize the Administrator of the Western Area Power Administration (WAPA) to borrow funds from the Treasury for: (1) new or upgraded electric power transmission lines and related facilities; and (2) the delivery of power generated by renewable energy resources after enactment of this Act.
Requires the Secretary of the Treasury, without further appropriation and without fiscal year limitation, to loan WAPA up to $3.25 million in outstanding repayable balances at any one time.
Authorizes WAPA to: (1) refinance such loans; and (2) permit other entities to participate in projects financed by them.
Grants the Administrator authority to have utilized $1.75 million at any one time. Requires disbursement of any loan funds above such amount, if the Administrator seeks to borrow them, unless a joint resolution is enacted that rescinds the remainder of the balance of such borrowing authority.
Requires forgiveness of balances of such loans: (1) remaining at the end of such project's useful life; and (2) expended to study projects considered but not constructed.
(Sec. 5002) Makes additional borrowing authority available to the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) under the Federal Columbia River Transmission System Act to assist in: (1) financing the construction, acquisition, and replacement of the BPA transmission system; and (2) implementing the Administrator's authority under the Pacific Northwest Electric Power Planning and Conservation Act.
(Sec. 5003) Permits the transfer between and within such accounts of up to 20% of funds made available to DOE for accounts for energy efficiency and renewable energy, electricity delivery and energy reliability, and the advanced battery loan guarantee program.
Title VI: Financial Services and General Government - Subtitle A: General Services - Appropriates funds for the General Services Administration (GSA) for the: (1) Federal Buildings Fund of which a specified amount shall be used for construction, repair, and alteration of federal buildings for projects that will create the greatest impact on energy efficiency and conservation; and (2) Motor Vehicle Acquisition and Motor Vehicle Leasing programs for the acquisition of motor vehicles, including plug-in and alternative fuel vehicles.
Subtitle B: Small Business - Appropriates funds for the Small Business Administration (SBA) for direct loans and loan guarantees authorized under this title.
(Sec. 6201) Authorizes the SBA to guarantee up to 95% of a loan made by a private lender to a small business that is eligible for a loan guarantee under the Small Business Act or the Small Business Investment Act of 1958. Authorizes the SBA to charge a fee for such guarantee. Limits the interest rate authorized to be charged to small businesses by lenders under the loan guarantee. Prohibits such guarantees with respect to small businesses: (1) in which an unlawful alien has an ownership interest; or (2) in violation of immigration laws. Terminates the loan guarantee program 90 days after establishment of the economic recovery program under section 6204, below.
(Sec. 6202) Authorizes the SBA to establish a Secondary Market Lending Authority (Lending Authority) to make loans to the systematically important secondary market broker-dealers (broker-dealers) who operate the SBA secondary market (a market for the purchase and sale of loans originated, underwritten, and closed under the Small Business Act). Defines as broker-dealers those entities designated as vital to the continued operation of the SBA secondary market by reason of their purchase and sale of the government guaranteed portion of loans or loan pools originated, underwritten, and closed under the Small Business Act.
Directs the SBA Administrator to establish: (1) a process for the designation of broker-dealers; (2) an office (Lending Authority) to provide loans to broker-dealers to finance the inventory of the government guaranteed portion of loans, originated, underwritten, and closed under the Small Business Act or pools of such loans; and (3) a process under which the broker-dealers may apply for such loans. Provides loan interest rate limits. Requires monthly reports from the Administrator to Congress on such loans.
Terminates the loan program two years after the enactment of this section. Authorizes appropriations.
(Sec. 6203) Directs the Administrator to establish: (1) the Secondary Market Guarantee Authority; and (2) a process under which private lenders may apply for a federal guarantee on pools of first lien position 504 loans (the first mortgage position, non-federally guaranteed loans made by private sector lenders made under title V [Loans to State and Local Development Companies] of the Small Business Investment Act) sold to third-party investors. Authorizes the Administrator to guarantee up to $3 billion of such pools. Requires monthly reports from the Administrator to Congress on such guarantee authority.
Terminates the guarantee authority two years after the enactment of this section. Authorizes appropriations.
(Sec. 6204) Authorizes the Administrator to refinance existing SBA and non-SBA loans made to small businesses. Limits to $10 million the amount of any refinanced loan and the conveyance of a first lien to the SBA. Requires the loan lender to offer to accept from the SBA as full repayment less than 100% but more than 85% of the remaining loan balance.
Directs the Administrator to: (1) offer to sell loans made or refinanced under this section; and (2) maintain and service unsold loans.
Terminates the refinance authority two years after it becomes operational. Prohibits refinancing with respect to small businesses: (1) in which an unlawful alien has an ownership interest; or (2) in violation of immigration laws.
Requires semiannual reports from the Administrator to Congress on the refinancing authority. Authorizes appropriations.
(Sec. 6205) Amends the Small Business Investment Act of 1958 to authorize the SBA to provide a limited amount of debt refinancing under the SBA's local development business loan program if a development project involves the expansion of a small business which has existing indebtedness collateralized by fixed assets. States that a project meets SBA objectives if it creates or retains one job for every $65,000 (currently, $50,000) guaranteed by the SBA.
(Sec. 6206) Revises and increases the maximum amount of outstanding leverage made available to a licensed investment company under the SBA's small business investment company program. Provides revised aggregate investment limits under such program.
(Sec. 6207) Requires a report from the Comptroller General to Congress on the implementation of sections 6201-6206, above.
Title VII: Homeland Security - Makes supplemental appropriations for FY2009 to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for: (1) U.S. Customs and Border Protection; (2) the Transportation Security Administration (TSA); (3) the Coast Guard; and (4) the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).
(Sec. 7001) Amends the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 to extend the employment eligibility confirmation pilot programs (including the E-Verify basic pilot program) for an additional five-year period.
(Sec. 7002) Directs the Commissioner of Social Security and the Secretary of Homeland Security to enter into and maintain a fiscal year agreement which shall: (1) provide funds to the Commissioner for the full costs of such programs in quarterly advances; and (2) require an annual accounting and reconciliation of costs incurred and funds provided. Provides for funding continuation of the E-Verify program in the absence of an agreement.
(Sec. 7003) Requires GAO to study and report to specified congressional committees regarding: (1) erroneous tentative nonconfirmations under the E-Verify program; and (2) the program's effects on small entities.
(Sec. 7005) Waives matching requirements with respect to FY2009-FY2010 funds appropriated for firefighter hiring grants under the expansion of the pre-September 11, 2001, fire (SAFER) grant program of the Federal Fire Prevention and Control Act of 1974.
(Sec. 7006) Prohibits the use of DHS funds made available by this Act for procurement of certain items directly related to U.S. national security interests if such items are not domestically grown, reprocessed, reused, or produced.
Waives such prohibition to the extent that the DHS Secretary determines that satisfactory quality and sufficient quantity of any such article or item cannot be procured as and when needed.
Makes such prohibition inapplicable to: (1) procurements by vessels in foreign waters; (2) emergency procurements; (3) purchases for amounts up to the simplified threshold in contract provisions of Title 10 (Armed Forces); and (4) contracts and subcontracts for the procurement of commercial items.
Requires a notification on the GSA FedBizOps.gov (or any successor site) if the DHS Secretary applies an availability exception to a contract for the procurement of foreign-produced items directly related to U.S. national security interests.
Instructs the DHS Secretary to ensure that: (1) each member of the DHS acquisition workforce who participates personally and substantially in the acquisition of textiles on a regular basis receives training during FY2009 in these requirements and implementing regulations; and (2) any training program for the acquisition work force developed or implemented after the enactment of this Act includes comprehensive information on such requirements.
Requires this section to be consistent with U.S. obligations under international agreements.
Title VIII: Interior and Environment - Makes supplemental appropriations for FY2009 to the Department of the Interior for: (1) the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) for construction; (2) the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for construction; (3) the National Park Service (NPS) for construction; (4) NPS Centennial Challenge signature projects and programs; (5) the U.S. Geological Survey for surveys, investigations, and research; (6) the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) for construction; (7) the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for the Hazardous Substance Superfund, the Leaking Undergound Storage Tank Trust Fund Program, and State and Tribal Assistance Grants; (8) the Department of Agriculture for the Forest Service for capital improvement and maintenance, and wildland fire management; (9) the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for the Indian Health Service for Indian health facilities; (10) the Smithsonian Institution; and (11) the National Endowment for the Arts for grants and administration.
Title IX: Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education - Subtitle A: Labor - Makes supplemental appropriations for FY2009 to the Department of Labor (DOL) for: (1) the Employment and Training Administration for training and employment services, community service employment for older Americans, and state unemployment insurance and employment service operations; (2) departmental management for salaries and expenses; and (3) the Office of Job Corps.
(Sec. 9101) Amends the Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act to revise the definition of "employee." Excludes from such definition: (1) individuals employed to build any recreational vessel under 65 feet in length (under current law, individuals employed to build, repair, or dismantle any recreational vessel under 65 feet in length); or (2) individuals employed to repair any recreational vessel or to dismantle any part of a recreational vessel in connection with its repair.
Subtitle B: Health and Human Services - Makes supplemental appropriations for FY2009 to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for: (1) Health Resources and Services; (2) the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; (3) the National Institutes of Health (NIH); (4) the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; (5) the Administration for Children and Families, for low-income home energy assistance (LIHEAP), payments to states for the child care and development block grant, and children and families services programs; (6) the Administration on Aging; (7) the Office of the Secretary for the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology; (8) the Public Health and Social Services Emergency Fund; and (9) the Prevention and Wellness Fund.
(Sec. 9201) Establishes a Federal Coordinating Council for Comparative Effectiveness Research to: (1) assist federal offices and agencies in coordinating the conduct or support of comparative effectiveness and related health services research; and (2) advise the President and Congress on strategies regarding the infrastructure needs of comparative effectiveness research within the federal government, and related matters.
(Sec. 9202) Requires the HHS Secretary to invest in the infrastructure necessary to allow for and promote the electronic exchange and use of health information for each individual in the United States consistent with the goals outlined in the Strategic Plan developed by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology.
Subtitle C: Education - Makes supplemental appropriations for FY2009 available to the Department of Education for: (1) education of the disadvantaged; (2) impact aid; (3) school improvement programs; (4) innovation and improvement activities; (5) special education; (6) rehabilitation services and disability research; (7) certain student financial assistance programs, as well as federal administrative expenses for such programs; (8) teacher quality partnership grants; (9) the Institute of Education Sciences; and (10) school modernization, renovation, and repair.
Sets the maximum individual Pell Grant amount at $4,860 for award year 2009-2010.
(Sec. 9301) Requires the Secretary of Education to make grants to states and, through them, subgrants to local educational agencies (LEAs) for the renovation or repair of public schools, including public charter schools, to make them safe, healthy, high-performing, and technologically up-to-date.
Requires allocation of such grant funds among states on the basis of the relative portion of school improvement funds provided to LEAs in each state under part A of title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965. Reserves 1% of the grant funds for assistance to outlying areas and Indian schools.
Requires the iron and steel used in projects funded by the LEA subgrants to have been produced in this country, subject to specified exceptions.
Requires LEAs to use at least 25% of their subgrant for renovations or repairs that meet specified green standards.
(Sec. 9302) Directs the Secretary of Education to make formula grants to states and, through them, need-based subgrants to institutions of higher education for the renovation or repair of facilities primarily used for instruction, research, or student housing.
Requires an institution of higher education to use at least 25% of its subgrant for renovations or repairs that meet specified green standards.
(Sec. 9303) Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to increase the amount authorized and appropriated for Pell Grants for FY2009-FY2010.
(Sec. 9304) Increases, by $2,000 and $8,000, respectively, the maximum annual and aggregate unsubsidized Stafford loan amounts that may be provided to undergraduate students under the Federal Family Education Loan (FFEL) program.
(Sec. 9305) Alters, for October 1, 2008, through December 31, 2008, the formula for calculating special allowance payments made to FFEL lenders to compensate them for the difference between FFEL interest rates and market rates.
Subtitle D: Related Agencies - Makes supplemental appropriations for FY2009 to: (1) the Corporation for National and Community Service for operating expenses; (2) the National Service Trust; and (3) the Social Security Administration (SSA) for administrative expenses, including construction of a new National Computer Center.
Title X: Military Construction and Veterans Affairs - Makes supplemental appropriations for FY2009 to DOD for: (1) military construction for the Army, Navy and Marine Corps, Air Force, Defense-Wide, Army and Air National Guards, Army, Navy and Air Force Reserves; (2) the DOD Base Closure Account 1990; and (3) the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), Veterans Health Administration for medical facilities and the National Cemetery Administration.
Title XI: Department of State - Makes supplemental appropriations for FY2009 to the Department of State for: (1) the Administration of Foreign Affairs, Capital Investment Fund; and (2) the International Boundary and Water Commission, United States and Mexico for construction.
Title XII: Transportation, and Housing and Urban Development - Makes supplemental appropriations for FY2009 to the Department of Transportation (DOT) for: (1) the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for grants-in-aid for airports; (2) the Federal Highway Administration (FHA) for highway infrastructure investment; (3) the Federal Railroad Administration for capital assistance for intercity passenger rail service, and capital and debt service grants to the National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak); and (4) the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) for transit capital assistance, fixed guideway infrastructure investment, and capital investment grants.
Makes supplemental appropriations for FY2009 to the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) for: (1) the Public Housing Capital Fund; (2) elderly, disabled, and section 8 assisted housing energy retrofit; (3) Native American Housing Block Grants; (4) the Community Development Fund; (5) the HOME Investment Partnerships Program; (6) the Self-Help and Assisted Homeownership Opportunity Program; (7) Homeless Assistance Grants; and (8) the Office of Healthy Homes and Lead Hazard Control for lead hazard reduction.
(Sec. 12001) Sets forth maintenance of effort and reporting requirements for a state or state agency awarded funds appropriated in this Act for a covered program.
(Sec. 12002) Establishes loan limits for calendar 2009 for: (1) the Federal Housing Administration (FHA); (2) the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae); (3) the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac); and (4) FHA reverse mortgages.
Title XIII: State Fiscal Stabilization Fund - Appropriates $79 billion for a State Fiscal Stabilization Fund, which is to be administered by the Secretary of Education. Makes one-half of such Fund available from July 1, 2009, through FY2010, and the other half available from July 1, 2010, through FY2011.
(Sec. 13001) Allocates the bulk of such Fund for grants to states pursuant to a formula that considers each state's share of individuals age 5 through 24 and each state's share of the nation's total population.
(Sec. 13002) Requires states to use at least 61% of their allocation to: (1) restore their funding of elementary, secondary, and postsecondary education to FY2008 levels; and (2) supplement school improvement funds provided to local educational agencies (LEAs) under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965.
Authorizes states to use up to 39% of their allocation for public safety and other government services.
(Sec. 13004) Requires public institutions of higher education to use any funds they receive from states under this title for education and general expenditures that mitigate their need to raise tuition and fees for instate students. Prohibits the use of such funds for their endowments or construction, renovation, or repair costs.
(Sec. 13005) Requires state grantees to: (1) maintain their level of support for elementary, secondary, and postsecondary education at least at FY2006 levels; (2) address inequities in the distribution of teachers between high- and low-poverty schools; (3) establish longitudinal data systems that include the elements required by the America COMPETES Act; and (4) improve the quality and inclusiveness of their assessments of student progress toward academic performance standards.
(Sec. 13006) Directs the Secretary of Education to reserve $7.5 billion from such Fund each year for: (1) incentive grants to states that make significant progress in addressing inequities in teacher distribution, establishing longitudinal education data systems, and improving educational assessments; and (2) the creation of an Innovation Fund to award states, LEAs, and schools that make significant progress in closing student achievement gaps.
(Sec. 13008) Requires reports on, and evaluations of, Stabilization Fund programs.
Division B: Other Provisions - Title I: Tax Provisions - American Recovery and Reinvestment Tax Act of 2009 - Subtitle A: Making Work Pay - (Sec. 1001) Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow individual taxpayers a refundable tax credit for the lesser of 6.2% of earned income or $500 ($1,000 for married couples filing jointly). Reduces the amount of such credit for taxpayers with adjusted gross income exceeding $75,000 ($150,000 for married couples filing jointly). Disqualifies nonresident aliens, dependents, and estates and trusts. Terminates the credit after 2010.
Sets forth rules for the payment of credit amounts to residents of U.S. possessions in 2009 and 2010 (i.e., the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands).
Disregards tax refunds attributable to this credit for purposes of determining eligibility for federal assistance programs.
Subtitle B: Additional Tax Relief for Families with Children - (Sec. 1101) Increases to 45% the rate of the earned income tax credit in 2009 or 2010 for taxpayers with three or more qualifying children. Increases the threshold amount for the phase-out of such credit for married couples filing jointly.
(Sec. 1102) Increases in 2009 and 2010 the refundable portion of the child tax credit.
Subtitle C: American Opportunity Tax Credit - (Sec. 1201) - Increases in 2009 and 2010 the Hope Scholarship tax credit for tuition and related expenses and makes a portion of such credit refundable. Allows such credit to offset alternative minimum tax liability.
Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to study and report to Congress on: (1) how to coordinate the Hope Scholarship tax credit with the Pell Grant program; and (2) the feasibility of requiring students to perform community service as a condition of taking a tax credit for tuition and related expenses.
Subtitle D: Housing Incentives - (Sec. 1301) Waives the repayment requirement of the first-time homebuyer tax credit for purchases of a principal residence after December 31, 2008, and before July 1, 2009.
(Sec. 1302) Adjusts the state low-income housing credit volume limit in 2009 by grants amounts received under this Act.
Subtitle E: Tax Incentives for Business - Part I: Temporary Investment Incentives - (Sec. 1401) - Extends through 2009 the 50% bonus depreciation allowance for specified types of depreciable property.
(Sec. 1402) Extends through 2009 the increased expensing allowance ($125,000) for depreciable business assets.
Part 2: 5-Year Carryback of Operating Losses - (Sec. 1411) Extends from two to five years the carryback period for net operating losses incurred in 2009 or 2010. Disqualifies for such extension: (1) taxpayers receiving assistance from the Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP); (2) the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac); and (3) taxpayers that are members of the same affiliated group of entities in 2008 or 2009.
Part 3: Incentives for New Jobs - (Sec. 1421) Allows a work opportunity tax credit for unemployed veterans and disconnected youth (certain youth who are not regularly employed or attending school) hired in 2009 or 2010.
Part 4: Clarification of Regulations Related to Limitations on Certain Built-In Losses Following an Ownership Change - Limits the applicability of Treasury Notice 2008-83 (suspending restrictions on the offset of net operating losses and unrealized built-in losses against the taxable income of certain corporate entities that acquire or merge with other entities) to periods prior to January 16, 2009.
Subtitle F: Fiscal Relief for State and Local Governments - Part I: Improved Marketability for Tax-Exempt Bonds - (Sec. 1501) - Disregards in 2009 and 2010 limits applicable to the tax deduction for the tax-exempt bond interest expense of financial institutions for bonds comprising less than 2% of the adjusted basis of the total assets of such institutions.
(Sec. 1502) Increases the allocation limits for small issuers of tax-exempt private activity bonds in 2009 and 2010.
(Sec. 1503) Exempts in 2009 and 2010 interest on tax-exempt private activity bonds as a tax preference item for purposes of the alternative minimum tax.
Part 2: Tax Credit Bonds for Schools - (Sec. 1511) Allows a new tax credit for investment in bonds for the construction, rehabilitation, or repair of a public school facility or for the acquisition of land for such facility (qualified school construction bonds). Sets forth limitations on the amount of such bonds in 2009 and 2010.
(Sec. 1512) Extends through 2010 and increases the issuance authority for qualified zone academy bonds.
Part 3: Taxable Bond Option for Governmental Bonds - (Sec. 1521) Allows state or local governments an election in 2009 or 2010 to receive a direct federal subsidy equal to the subsidy from the tax credit for investment in state and local bonds.
Part 4: Recovery Zone Bonds - (Sec. 1531) Allows a new tax credit for investment in economic recovery zone bonds issued in 2009 or 2010.
(Sec. 1532) Allows Indian tribal governments to issue tribal economic development bonds. Imposes a national limitation of $2 billion on such bonds. Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to study and report to Congress on the effects of tribal economic development bonds.
Part 5: Repeal of Withholding Tax on Government Contractors - (Sec. 1541) Repeals the requirement that federal, state, and local governmental entities withhold 3% of payments to contractors who provide goods and services to such entities.
Subtitle G: Energy Incentives - Part I: Renewable Energy Incentives - (Sec. 1601) Extends the tax credit for producing electricity from renewable sources through 2012 for wind facilities and through 2013 for other facilities (e.g., biomass, solar and geothermal, trash, and hydropower generating facilities).
(Sec. 1602) Allows an energy tax credit for renewable energy facilities placed in service in 2009 or 2010 in lieu of the tax credit for producing electricity from renewable resources.
(Sec. 1603) Repeals limitations on: (1) the energy tax credit for qualified small wind energy property; and (2) property financed by subsidized energy financing.
Part 2: Increased Allocations of New Clean Renewable Energy Bonds and Qualified Energy Conservation Bonds - (Sec. 1611) Increases the national limitation for new clean renewable energy bonds.
(Sec. 1612) Increases the limitation for qualified energy conservation bonds. Expands such bond program to include loans and grants to implement green community programs.
Part 3: Energy Conservation Incentives - (Sec. 1621) Extends through 2010 the tax credit for nonbusiness energy efficiency improvements. Increases to $1,500 the limit for such credit in 2009 and 2010.
(Sec. 1622) Removes limitations on the tax credit for residential energy efficient property for solar water, wind, and geothermal heat pump property expenditures.
(Sec. 1623) Increases in 2009 and 2010 the tax credit for residential and commercial alternative fuel vehicle refueling property expenditures.
Part 4: Energy Research Incentives - (Sec. 1631) Increases in 2009 and 2010 the tax credit for increasing research activities for qualified energy research expenses.
Subtitle H: Other Provisions - Part I: Application of Certain Labor Standards to Projects Financed with Certain Tax-Favored Bonds - (Sec. 1701) Applies federal wage rate requirements for public buildings and works to projects financed with the proceeds of clean renewable energy bonds, energy conservation bonds, qualified zone academy bonds, qualified school construction bonds, and recovery zone economic development bonds.
Part 2: Grants to Provide Financing for Low-Income Housing - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to make grants in 2009 to state housing credit agencies equal to a specified allocation of the low-income housing tax credit.
Part 3: Grants for Specified Energy Property in Lieu of Tax Credits - Directs the Secretary of Energy to make grants to persons who place in service in 2009 and 2010 certain energy property that is eligible for the tax credit for producing electricity from renewable resources (e.g., wind, biomass, or solar energy facilities) or for the energy tax credit (e.g., fuel cell, geothermal, or microturbine property).
Part 4: Study of Economic, Employment, and Related Effects of This Act - Requires the Comptroller General to submit a report to the House Committee on Ways and Means on the most recent national information on the economic, employment, and other effects of this Act.
Title II: Assistance for Unemployed Workers and Struggling Families - Assistance for Unemployed Workers and Struggling Families Act - Subtitle A: Unemployment Insurance - (Sec. 2001) Amends the Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2008, as amended by the Unemployment Compensation Extension Act of 2008, to extend the Emergency Unemployment Compensation (EUC) program through December 31, 2009.
Prohibits a Tier-2 augmentation to an individual's emergency unemployment compensation account (EUCA) after December 31, 2009, if the EUCA is exhausted after such date.
Extends the period of emergency unemployment compensation through May 31, 2010.

Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to transfer unappropriated funds from the general fund of the Treasury to the extended unemployment compensation account and the employment security administration account in such sums as the Secretary of Labor estimates for payments to states for the extended EUC program and the costs of program administration.
Appropriates such funds, without fiscal year limitation and repayment requirements.
(Sec. 2002) Authorizes a state to enter into an agreement with the Secretary of Labor providing for additional unemployment compensation, including an additional $25 per week.
Prescribes optional state payment methods.
Requires federal payments to states that have entered into such agreements to cover 100% of such payments to individuals and any associated additional state administrative expenses.
Appropriates from the general fund of the Treasury, without fiscal year limitation, funds necessary for such additional unemployment compensation payments.
Limits the coverage of such federal-state agreements to weeks of unemployment ending before January 1, 2010. Prohibits additional compensation payments to individuals still entitled to it as of January 1, 2010, for any week beginning after June 30, 2010.
Applies to such additional unemployment compensation payments the requirements of the Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2008 for handling fraud and EUC overpayments.
Requires disregard of monthly payments of such additional compensation in considering an individual's income for title XIX (Medicaid) and title XXI (State Children's Health Insurance Program) (SCHIP) of the Social Security Act.
(Sec. 2003) Amends the Social Security Act to require the Secretary of Labor to provide for unemployment compensation modernization incentive payments in FY2009-FY2011 to state accounts in the Unemployment Trust Fund, by transfer from amounts reserved in the federal unemployment account.
Sets forth a formula for determining, and state unemployment compensation law requirements governing eligibility for, such incentive payments.
Requires the Secretary of the Treasury, in addition to any other amounts, to transfer in FY2009 from the employment security administration account to each state account in the Fund an amount determined according to a specified formula for: (1) administration of the state law carrying out the purposes for which the state receives a modernization incentive payment; (2) improved outreach to individuals who might be eligible for regular unemployment compensation by virtue of state law; (3) the improvement of unemployment benefit and unemployment tax operations; and (4) staff-assisted reemployment services for unemployment compensation claimants.
Subtitle B: Assistance for Vulnerable Individuals - (Sec. 2101) Amends part A of title IV (Temporary Assistance to Needy Families) (TANF) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to establish in the Treasury an Emergency Contingency Fund for State Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Programs (Emergency Fund). Makes appropriations to such Fund.
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to make a grant from the Emergency Fund to each requesting state for any quarter of FY2009-FY2010 if the state's average monthly assistance caseload for the quarter exceeds its average monthly assistance caseload for the corresponding quarter in the state's emergency fund base year. Requires the amount of any such grant to be 80% of the excess of total state expenditures for basic assistance over total state expenditures for such assistance for the corresponding quarter in the state's emergency fund base year.
Requires a grant from the Emergency Fund to each requesting state for any quarter of FY2009-FY2010 if the state's total expenditures for non-recurrent short term benefits in the quarter exceeds its total such expenditures in the corresponding quarter in the state's emergency fund base year. Requires the amount of any such grant to be 80% of such excess.
Requires a grant from the Emergency Fund to each requesting state for any quarter of FY2009-FY2010 if the state's total expenditures for subsidized employment in the quarter exceeds its total such expenditures in the corresponding quarter in the state's emergency fund base year. Requires the amount of any such grant to be 80% of such excess.
Limits total amount payable to a single state for a fiscal year from the Contingency Fund for State Welfare Programs and from the Emergency Fund to 25% percent of the state family assistance grant.
Revises the pro rata reduction of the state participation rate for mandatory work activities due to caseload reductions not required by federal law and not resulting from changes in state eligibility criteria. Changes the factor in the formula for such a reduction relating to the average monthly number of families receiving assistance during the immediately preceding fiscal year. Replaces the immediately preceding fiscal year as the year in the formula, if such year happens to be either FY2009 or FY2010, with the state's emergency fund base year.
(Sec. 2102) Directs the Commissioner of Social Security to make a one-time emergency payment during calendar 2009 to each individual entitled to a cash benefit under SSA title XVI (Supplemental Security Income) (SSI) whose entitlement ceased during a specified two-month period solely because the individual's income (and the income of the spouse, if any) exceeded the applicable income limit. Prescribes a formula for determining the amount of such payment.
(Sec. 2103) Suspends for FY2008-FY2010 the prohibition against payments to states with respect to their plans for child and spousal support collection under SSA title IV part D (Child Support and Establishment of Paternity) on account of amounts expended by a state from support collection performance incentive payments received from the Secretary of HHS (thus allowing such additional payments during such period).
Title III: Health Insurance Assistance for the Unemployed - Health Insurance Assistance for the Unemployed Act of 2009 - (Sec. 3002) Treats an individual as having paid the amount of the premium for any COBRA continuation coverage if such individual pays 35% of the amount of such premium.
Sets forth: (1) eligibility periods for such premium assistance; (2) eligibility requirements; and (3) procedures for expedited review of any denial of assistance.
Requires notices of eligibility for COBRA coverage to include notice of availability of premium reduction. Sets forth notification requirements.
Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to provide such rules, procedures, regulations, and other guidance as may be necessary and appropriate to prevent fraud and abuse under this title.
Directs the Secretary of Labor to provide public education and enrollment assistance relating to premium reduction.
Sets forth reporting requirements.
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide for a reimbursement to an entity of premiums not paid by plan beneficiaries by treating such amounts as a credit against the requirement of such entity to make deposits of payroll taxes. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to pay to such entity the amount of premiums not paid by plan beneficiaries if it exceeds the amount of such taxes. Sets forth reporting requirements for such entities.
Establishes a penalty for a person's failure, if so required, to notify a group health plan that he or she is no longer eligible for a premium reduction. Prohibits a penalty from being imposed for any such failure that is due to reasonable cause and not to willful neglect.
Provides that gross income does not include any premium reduction provided for under this title.
Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), the Internal Revenue Code, and the Public Health Service Act to allow COBRA coverage to continue past required termination dates for an employee who has attained age 55 or has completed 10 or more years of service.
(Sec. 3003) Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to allow states to provide Medicaid coverage to certain unemployed individuals and their families, including: (1) individuals who are receiving unemployment compensations benefits; (2) individuals who have exhausted such unemployment compensation benefits; (3) individuals who are involuntarily employed and were involuntarily separated from employment between specified dates, whose family gross income does not exceed a specified percentage of the income official poverty line; (4) individuals who are involuntarily employed and were involuntarily separated from employment between specified dates, who are members of households participating in the supplemental nutrition assistance program established under the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008. Makes the federal medical assistance percentage (FMAP) 100% for items and services furnished to individuals eligible based on this section.
Title IV: Health Information Technology - Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act or the HITECH Act - Subtitle A: Promotion of Health Information Technology - Part I: Improving Health Care Quality, Safety, and Efficiency - (Sec. 4101) Amends the Public Health Service Act to establish within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) an Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology to: (1) review and determine whether to endorse each standard, implementation specification, and certification criterion for the electronic exchange and use of health information that is recommended by the HIT Standards Committee; (2) coordinate health information technology policy and programs of HHS with other relevant executive branch agencies; (3) maintain and update the Federal Health IT Strategic Plan; (4) maintain and update an Internet website with information to ensure transparency in the promotion of a nationwide health information technology infrastructure; and (5) develop a program for the voluntary certification of health information technology as being in compliance with applicable certification criteria.
Requires the National Coordinator to: (1) report to Congress on any additional funding or authority required to evaluate and develop standards, implementation specifications, and certification criteria or to achieve full participation of stakeholders in the adoption of a nationwide health information technology infrastructure that allows for the electronic use and exchange of health information; (2) prepare a report that identifies lessons learned from major public and private health care systems in their implementation of health information technology; (3) assess and publish the impact of health information technology in communities with health disparities and in areas with a high proportion of individuals who are uninsured, underinsured, and medically underserved and identify practices to increase the adoption of such technology by health care providers in such communities; (4) evaluate and publish evidence on the benefits and costs of the electronic use and exchange of health information and assess to whom these benefits and costs accrue; and (5) estimate and publish resources required annually to reach the goal of utilization of an electronic health record for each person in the United States by 2014.
Authorizes the National Coordinator to provide financial assistance to defray the costs to consumer advocacy groups and not-for-profit entities that work in the public interest of participating under the National Technology Transfer Act of 1995.
Requires the National Coordinator to establish a governance mechanism for the nationwide health information network.
Provides for the detail of federal employees to the Office.
Directs the Secretary of HHS (Secretary in this title) to appoint a Chief Privacy Officer of the Office of the National Coordinator to advise the National Coordinator on privacy, security, and data stewardship of electronic health information and to coordinate with other federal agencies, state and regional efforts, and foreign countries with regard to the privacy, security, and data stewardship of electronic individually identifiable health information.
Establishes a HIT Policy Committee to make policy recommendations to the National Coordinator relating to the implementation of a nationwide health information technology infrastructure. Requires the HIT Policy Committee to: (1) recommend a policy framework for the development and adoption of a nationwide health information technology infrastructure; (2) recommend the areas in which standards, implementation specifications, and certification criteria are needed for the electronic exchange and use of health information; and (3) recommend an order or priority for the development, harmonization, and recognition of such standards, specifications, and criteria.
Establishes the HIT Standards Committee to: (1) recommend to the National Coordinator for adoption standards, implementation specifications, and certification criteria for the electronic exchange and use of health information; and (2) provide for testing of such standards and specifications by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).
Requires the Secretary to review and determine whether to adopt such standards, specifications, and criteria. Provides that any standard or implementation specification adopted shall be voluntary with respect to private entities.
Directs the National Coordinator to support the development, routine updating, and provision of qualified electronic health record (EHR) technology unless the Secretary determines that the needs and demands of providers are being substantially and adequately met through the marketplace. Authorizes the National Coordinator to impose a nominal fee for the adoption by a health care provider of the health information technology system developed and certified.
Transfers functions, personnel, assets, and liabilities of: (1) the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology appointed under a Executive Order No. 13335 to the National Coordinator appointed under this Act; and (2) the National eHealth Collaborative to the HIT Policy Committee or the HIT Standards Committee.
Provides that this title has no effect on the authorities of the Secretary under Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) privacy and security laws.
Authorizes appropriations to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology.
(Sec. 4102) Amends title XI of the Social Security Act to make a technical change to the definition of "health plan."
Part II: Application and Use of Adopted Health Information Technology Standards; Reports - (Sec. 4111) Requires each federal agency, as it implements, acquires, or upgrades health information technology systems, to utilize systems and products that meet adopted standards and implementation specifications.
Directs the President to take measures to ensure that federal activities involving the broad collection and submission of health information are consistent with standards or implementation specifications within three years of adoption.
(Sec. 4112) Directs each agency to require in contracts or agreements that health care providers, health plans, or health insurance issuers, as they implement, acquire, or upgrade health information technology systems, utilize systems and products that meet standards and implementation specifications.
(Sec. 4113) Requires the Secretary to report to the appropriate congressional committees on: (1) actions taken by the federal government and private entities to facilitate the adoption of a nationwide system for the electronic use and exchange of health information; (2) barriers to the adoption of such a nationwide system; and (3) recommendations to achieve full implementation of a such a nationwide system.
Provides for studies and reports to Congress on: (1) methods to create efficient reimbursement incentives for improving health care quality in federally qualified health centers, rural health clinics, and free clinics; and (2) the potential use of new aging services technology to assist seniors, individuals with disabilities, and their caregivers throughout the aging process.
Subtitle B: Testing of Health Information Technology - (Sec. 4201) Requires the Director of NIST to: (1) test standards and implementation specifications developed under this Act to ensure their efficient implementation and use; and (2) support the establishment of a conformance testing infrastructure that may include a program to accredit independent, nonfederal laboratories to perform testing.
(Sec. 4202) Requires the Director of NIST to establish a program of assistance to institutions of higher education to establish multidisciplinary Centers for Health Care Information Enterprise Integration.
Directs the National High-Performance Computing Program to coordinate federal research and development programs related to the development and deployment of health information technology, including activities related to: (1) computer infrastructure; (2) data security; and (3) development of large-scale, distributed, reliable computing systems.
Subtitle C: Incentives for the Use of Health Information Technology - Part I: Grants and Loans Funding - (Sec. 4301) Requires the Secretary to: (1) invest in the infrastructure necessary to allow for and promote the electronic exchange and use of health information for each individual in the United States consistent with the goals outlined in the strategic plan developed by the National Coordinator; and (2) ensure that funds are used for the acquisition of health information technology that meets adopted standards and certification criteria. Directs the Secretary to invest funds through different agencies with expertise in such goals to support: (1) health information technology architecture that will support the nationwide electronic exchange and use of health information; (2) development and adoption of appropriate certified electronic health records; (3) training on best practices to integrate health information technology; and (4) infrastructure and tools for the promotion of telemedicine.
Directs the Secretary, acting through the Office of the National Coordinator, to establish a health information technology extension program to provide health information technology assistance services.
Requires the Secretary to: (1) create a Health information Technology Research Center to provide technical assistance and develop or recognize best practices to support health information technology; and (2) provide assistance for the creation of regional centers to provide technical assistance and information to support health information technology. Authorizes the Secretary to provide financial support to any such regional center.
Requires the Secretary, acting through the National Coordinator, to establish a program to facilitate and expand the electronic movement and use of health information among organizations according to nationally recognized standards. Allows the Secretary to award planning and implementation matching grants to a state or qualified state-designated entity.
Authorizes the National Coordinator to award grants to states or Indian tribes for the establishment of programs for loans to health care providers to support certified EHR technology.
Authorizes the Secretary to award matching grants to carry out demonstration projects to develop academic curricula integrating qualified health information technology in the clinical education of health professionals.
Directs the Secretary to provide assistance to institutions of higher education to establish or expand medical heath informatics education programs for both health care and information technology students to ensure the rapid and effective utilization and development of heath information technologies.
Requires the National Coordinator to annually evaluate activities under this subtitle and implement the lessons learned.
Authorizes appropriations for FY2009-FY2013.
Part II: Medicare Program - (Sec. 4311) Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to establish specified incentive payments for certain eligible physicians who adopt and use certified electronic health record (EHR) technology meaningfully beginning in FY2011.
Reduces Medicare payments for any eligible professional who is not a meaningful EHR user beginning in 2016, except in certain circumstances where compliance with meaningful EHR requirements would result in a significant hardship.
Applies such payment incentives for certain Medicare+Choice (MedicareAdvantage, or MA) organizations for adoption and meaningful use of such technology.
(Sec. 4312) Establishes incentive payments for certain eligible hospitals that adopt and meaningfully use certified EHR technology beginning in FY2011.

Reduces the market basket update for any eligible hospital that has not adopted a certified system beginning in 2016, except in certain

circumstances where compliance with meaningful EHR requirements would result in a significant hardship.
(Sec. 4313) Prohibits taking payment incentives made by this Act into account for computation of monthly Medicare premiums for individuals.
Makes the Medicare Improvement Fund available for increases in the conversion factor in the formula for determining the payment for physicians' services.
Makes appropriations for FY2009-FY2019 to the Secretary of HHS for the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services Program Management Account for implementation of this part.
(Sec. 4314) Instructs the Secretary of HHS to study and report to Congress on the extent to which and manner in which payment incentives and other funding for implementing and using certified EHR technology should be made to health care providers receiving minimal or no payment incentives or other funding under this Act, under SSA title XVIII (Medicare) or XIX (Medicaid), or otherwise, for such purposes.
Part III: Medicaid Funding - (Sec. 4321) Amends SSA title XIX to establish incentive payments to encourage the adoption and use by Medicaid providers of certified EHR technology that are certified as meeting certain standards. Places limitations on such payments and on the allowable purchase and maintenance costs of such records on which such payments are based.
Makes fully reimbursable by the federal government any state spending for payments to providers for adoption and operation of certified EHR technology.
Makes 90% of the state costs in administering the program also reimbursable by the federal government.
Makes appropriations for FY2009-FY2019 to the Secretary of HHS for the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services Program Management Account for implementation of this part.
(Sec. 4322) Directs the Secretary to establish a grant program to enhance the meaningful use of certified electronic health records in nursing facilities, including payment incentives for meaningful use of certified EHR technology. Makes appropriations for such program.
Subtitle D: Privacy - Part I: Improved Privacy Provisions and Security Provisions - (Sec. 4401) Applies regulations establishing safeguards for the protection of electronic protected health information to business associates of a covered entity.
Applies to business associates penalties for failure to comply with requirements regarding protection of health information.
Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services, annually, to issue guidance on the most effective and appropriate technical safeguards and security standards for use in protecting health information.
(Sec. 4402) Requires an entity that handles unsecured protected health information to notify each individual of any security breach of such information. Applies such requirements to business associates of such entities. Sets forth requirements for notifications, including requirements concerning timeliness, method, and content. Requires notice to the Secretary of breaches, including immediate notice of breaches involving 500 or more individuals.
Requires the Secretary to annually report to Congress on breaches of protected health information.
(Sec. 4403) Requires the Secretary to designate an individual in each HHS regional office to offer guidance and education to covered entities, business associates, and individuals on their rights and responsibilities related to federal privacy and security requirements for protected health information.
Directs the Office for Civil Rights within HHS to develop and maintain a national education initiative to enhance public transparency regarding the uses of protected health information.
(Sec. 4404) Treats business associates in the same manner as covered entities for purposes of the protection of health information.
(Sec. 4405) Requires a covered entity to comply with an individual's request to restrict the disclosure of protected health information if: (1) the disclosure is to a health plan for purposes of carrying out payment or health care operations; and (2) the protected health information pertains solely to a health care item or service for which the health care provider involved has been paid out of pocket in full.
Requires covered entities to limit the use, disclosure, or request of protected health information to the limited data set or the minimum necessary to accomplish the intended purpose.
Gives individuals a right to an accounting of the disclosures of their electronic health record, including disclosures to carry out treatment, payment, and health care operations.
Directs the Secretary to promulgate regulations to eliminate from the definition of health care operations those activities that can reasonably and efficiently be conducted through the use of information that is de-identified or that should require a valid authorization for use or disclosure.
Prohibits the sale of any protected health information of an individual unless the covered entity obtained from the individual a valid authorization that includes a specification of whether the protected health information can be further exchanged for remuneration by the entity receiving the individual's information. Sets forth exceptions, including for information used for: (1) research or public health activities; (2) treatment of the individual; or (3) health care operations.
Gives individuals the right to obtain their electronic medical records in an electronic format.
(Sec. 4406) Prohibits a covered entity or business associate from receiving direct or indirect payment in exchange for certain types of communication without a valid authorization from the recipient of such information.
(Sec. 4407) Sets forth requirements for notification of individuals and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) following the discovery of a breach of security of identifiable health information in a personal health record. Deems a violation of such requirements an unfair and deceptive act or practice in violation of the Federal Trade Commission Act.
(Sec. 4408) Requires organizations that provide data transmission of protected health information and that require routine access to such information to enter into written contracts and to be treated as a business associate. Applies such requirement to vendors that allow a covered entity to offer a personal health record to patients as part of its electronic health record.
(Sec. 4409) Amends title XI (General Provisions, Peer Review, and Administrative Simplification) of the Social Security Act to consider a person (including an employee or other individual) to have obtained or disclosed individually identifiable health information in violation of HIPAA if the information is maintained by a covered entity and the individual obtained or disclosed such information without authorization.
(Sec. 4410) Requires the Secretary to: (1) impose a penalty for violations of HIPAA privacy provisions due to willful neglect; and (2) formally investigate any complaint of a violation if a preliminary investigation indicates a possible violation due to willful neglect.
Directs the Comptroller General to submit to the Secretary a report including recommendations for a methodology under which an individual who is harmed by a HIPAA violation may receive a percentage of any civil monetary penalty or monetary settlement collected with respect to such offense. Directs the Secretary to establish such a methodology.
Sets forth varying financial penalties for HIPAA violations based on culpability.
Provides for enforcement of HIPAA provisions by state attorneys general through civil action. Sets forth damages for such a suit. Requires prior written notice of any such action to the Secretary.
(Sec. 4411) Requires the Secretary to provide for periodic audits to ensure that covered entities and business associates are complying with privacy requirements.
(Sec. 4412) Provides that nothing in this Act shall prevent a pharmacist from communicating with patients in order to reduce medication errors and improve patient safety, provided there is no remuneration other than for treatment of the individuals and payment for such treatment. Allows the Secretary to authorize a pharmacy to receive reasonable remuneration for such communications if allowing such remuneration improves patient care and protects protected health information.
Part II: Relationship to Other Laws; Regulatory References; Effective Date; Reports - (Sec. 4421) Applies HIPAA preemption of state law provisions to this Act. Provides that the standards governing the privacy and security of individually identifiable health information promulgated by the Secretary under HIPAA remain in effect to the extent they are consistent with this Act.
(Sec. 4424) Requires the Secretary to annually prepare a report concerning complaints of alleged violations of health information provisions that are received by the Secretary.
Directs the Secretary to submit to Congress recommendations to: (1) identify requirements relating to security, privacy, and notification in the case of a breach of security or privacy that should be applied to various entities, including vendors of personal health records; and (2) determine which federal agency is best equipped to enforce such requirements.
Requires the Secretary to issue guidance on how best to implement the requirements for the de-identification of protected health information.
Directs the Comptroller General to report to Congress on the best practices related to the disclosure among health care providers of protected health information of an individual for purposes of treatment.
Subtitle E: Miscellaneous Medicare Provisions - (Sec. 4501) Prohibits the Secretary of HHS from phasing out or eliminating the budget neutrality adjustment factor in the Medicare hospice wage index before October 1, 2009. Requires the Secretary to recompute and apply the final index for FY2009 as if there had been no reduction in the budget neutrality adjustment factor.
Provides for non-application of the phased-out indirect medical education (IME) adjustment factor for FY2009.
Directs the Secretary of HHS to transfer certain funds to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Program Management Account for FY 2009 to implement these requirements.
(Sec. 4502) Makes technical corrections to the Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP Extension Act of 2007 with respect to long-term care (LTC) hospitals.
Title V: Medicaid Provisions - (Sec. 5001) Establishes a temporary increase in the federal medical assistance percentage (FMAP) with respect to Medicaid payments for FY2009-FY2011 for eligible states. Makes a general 4.9 percentage point increase in the FMAP for each state for calendar quarters during the recession adjustment period, plus an additional adjustment for high unemployment states.
Gives Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, and American Samoa the option of a 20% increase in their medical assistance cap amount or a 4.9 percentage point increase in their FMAP plus a 10% increase in their cap.
Applies the temporary increase in FMAP (except the additional adjustment for high unemployment states) to payments under title IV part E (Foster Care and Adoption Assistance) of the Social Security Act (SSA). Prohibits application of such increase to Medicaid payments to disproportionate share (DSH) hospitals or to payments under the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) under SSA title XXI.
(Sec. 5002) Extends from March 31, 2009, through June 30, 2009, the current moratoria on implementation of specified Medicaid and SCHIP regulations relating to cost limits for government-operated providers, the integrity of the federal-state Medicaid financial partnership, graduate medical education (GME) payments, Medicaid provider taxes, rehabilitative services, optional state plan case management services, and school-based administration and school-based transportation services.
Imposes a moratorium through June 30, 2009, on implementation of a final regulation published on November 7, 2008, relating to Medicaid outpatient hospital services.
(Sec. 5003) Extends transitional medical assistance (TMA) from June 30, 2009, through December 31, 2010.
Gives states the option of: (1) extending the six-month TMA eligibility period for another six months; and (2) waiving the requirement that a family have received medical assistance for at least three months to qualify for a TMA extension.
Directs each state to collect and submit to the Secretary of HHS information, and the Secretary to report annually to Congress, on: (1) average monthly enrollment and average monthly participation rates for adults and children; and (2) the number and percentage of children who become ineligible for medical assistance whose medical assistance is continued under another eligibility category or who are enrolled under SCHIP.
(Sec. 5004) Prohibits state Medicaid programs from imposing cost-sharing requirements on Indians or Alaska Natives when the beneficiary is receiving an item or service directly from an Indian health care provider or through referral from a Contract Health Services provider.
Requires the state to disregard certain property from resources for purposes of determining the eligibility of an Indian under Medicaid and SCHIP.
Requires estate recovery procedures used by state Medicaid programs to exempt certain income, resources, and property already exempt as of April 1, 2003, under specified manual instructions.
(Sec. 5005) Amends SSA title XI to repeal establishment of the National Commission on Children. Directs the Secretary to maintain within the Centers for Medicaid & Medicare Services a Tribal Technical Advisory Group (TTAG), including representatives of the Urban Indian Organization and the Indian health service.
Requires state Medicaid and SCHIP programs to provide a process for seeking advice on a regular, ongoing basis from Indian Health Programs and Urban Indian Organizations on all matters likely to have a direct effect on such Programs and Organizations, including plan amendments, waiver requests, and proposals for demonstration projects.
(Sec. 5006) Prescribes a temporary increase in state allotments for payments to Medicaid disproportionate share (DSH) hospitals.
Title VI: Broadband Communications - (Sec. 6001) Requires the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) to develop and maintain a map showing where broadband service is deployed and available in each state and to make such map publicly available.
(Sec. 6002) Provides for grants for wireless deployment and broadband deployment. Requires NTIA to develop and maintain a website to make publicly available information about such grants. Sets forth provisions concerning grant requirements, applications, and selection. Requires reports form the NTIA.
(Sec. 6003) Requires the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to report on a national broadband plan.
Title VII: Energy - (Sec. 7001) Makes technical corrections to the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 (EISA) to: (1) revise fund allocations to states and local governmental units; and (2) repeal specified funding requirements.
(Sec. 7002) Directs the Secretary of Energy (Secretary in this title), when implementing smart grid regional demonstration initiatives, to provide financial support to projects in urban, suburban, and rural areas, including areas where electric system assets are controlled by tax-exempt entities (as under current law) and areas where electric system assets are controlled by investor-owned utilities.
Instructs the Secretary to: (1) establish a smart grid information clearinghouse to make data from projects and other sources available to the public; and (2) precondition funding upon utilization by such demonstration projects of available open Internet-based protocols and standards.
Extends the authorization of appropriations for the smart grid regional demonstration initiative indefinitely.
Increases from 20% to 50% the federal reimbursement match for qualifying smart grid investments under the Smart Grid Investment Matching Grant Program.
Repeals the requirement that, in making such grants, the Secretary seek to reward innovation and early adaptation, even if success is not complete, rather than deployment of proven and commercially viable technologies.
Revises the exclusion from qualifying smart grid investments of expenditures for technologies, devices, or equipment that are eligible for specific tax credits or deductions. Applies the exclusion only to technologies, devices, or equipment that utilize such tax credits or deductions.
Revamps the rules and procedures governing the federal matching fund for smart grid investment costs. Requires as a condition of receiving a grant that recipients utilize Internet-based or other open protocols and standards, if available and appropriate.
(Sec. 7003) Amends the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to set forth a temporary program for rapid deployment of renewable energy and electric power transmission projects. Restricts federal guarantees to specified commercial technology projects that commence construction by September 30, 2011.
Makes eligible for federal support any projects for: (1) renewable energy systems; (2) electric power transmission systems; and (3) leading edge biofuel projects that will use technologies performing at the pilot or demonstration scale that are likely to become commercial and will produce transportation fuels that substantially reduce life-cycle greenhouse gas emissions compared to other transportation fuels.
Prescribes prevailing wage rate requirements for such projects in accordance with the Davis-Bacon Act.
(Sec. 7004) Amends the Energy Conservation and Production Act to: (1) increase from 150% to 200% of the poverty level the income eligibility level for the Weatherization Assistance Program; (2) increase the maximum assistance per dwelling unit from $2,500 to $5,000; and (3) authorize the Secretary to encourage states to give priority to using Program funds for cost-effective efficiency activities, including attic insulation.
(Sec. 7005) Instructs the Secretary to include in the 2009 National Electric Transmission Congestion Study analyses of: (1) significant potential sources of renewable energy that are constrained in accessing appropriate market areas by lack of adequate transmission capacity; (2) the reasons for failure to develop the adequate transmission capacity; (3) the extent to which legal challenges filed at the state and federal level are delaying the construction of transmission necessary to access renewable energy; and (4) assumptions and projections made in the Study.
(Sec. 7006) Makes certain funds available for additional appropriations for the State Energy Program. Requires the Secretary to make grants with such funds in excess of the state's base allocation only if the state governor ensures that specified regulatory policies, building codes, and other requirements for energy efficiency and renewable energy programs will be implemented.
(Sec. 7007) Declares specified limitations inapplicable to grants funded with appropriations provided by this Act. Limits the use of funds, however, to 80% of the costs of a project.

MAJOR ACTIONS:

1/26/2009	Introduced in House
1/28/2009	Passed/agreed to in House: On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 244 - 188 (Roll no. 46).
2/10/2009	Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate with an amendment by Yea-Nay Vote. 61 - 37. Record Vote Number: 61.
2/12/2009	Conference report H. Rept. 111-16 filed.
2/13/2009	Conference report agreed to in House: On agreeing to the conference report Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: 246 - 183, 1 Present (Roll no. 70).
2/13/2009	Conference report agreed to in Senate: Senate agreed to conference report by Yea-Nay Vote. 60 - 38. Record Vote Number: 64.
2/13/2009	Cleared for White House.
2/16/2009	Presented to President.
2/17/2009	Signed by President.

ALL ACTIONS:
1/26/2009:
Referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and in addition to the Committee on the Budget, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
1/26/2009:
Referred to House Appropriations
1/26/2009:
Referred to House Budget
1/26/20098:57pm:
Rules Committee Resolution H. Res. 88 Reported to House. Rule provides for consideration of H.R. 1 with 3 hours and 30 minutes of general debate. All points of order against consideration of the bill except those arising under clause 9 or 10 of rule XXI, are waived. After general debate, the Committee shall rise without motion and no further consideration of the bill shall occur except pursuant to a subsequent order of the House.
1/27/20092:58pm:
Rule H. Res. 88 passed House.
1/27/20094:26pm:
QUESTION OF CONSIDERATION - Pending any declaration of the House into the Committee of the Whole pursuant to H. Res. 88 for consideration of H.R. 1--which contains an emergency designation for purposes of pay-as-you-go principles--the Chair announced that it must put the question of consideration of H.R. 1 under clause 10(c)(3)of rule 21.
1/27/20094:42pm:
On question of consideration of bill Agreed to by recorded vote: 224 - 199 (Roll no. 38). (consideration: CR H556-557)
1/27/20094:42pm:
Considered under the provisions of rule H. Res. 88. (consideration: CR H557-583)
1/27/20094:42pm:
Rule provides for consideration of H.R. 1 with 3 hours and 30 minutes of general debate. All points of order against consideration of the bill except those arising under clause 9 or 10 of rule XXI, are waived. After general debate, the Committee shall rise without motion and no further consideration of the bill shall occur except pursuant to a subsequent order of the House.
1/27/20094:43pm:
House resolved itself into the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union pursuant to H. Res. 88 and Rule XVIII.
1/27/20094:43pm:
The Speaker designated the Honorable John F. Tierney to act as Chairman of the Committee.
1/27/20094:43pm:
GENERAL DEBATE - The Committee of the Whole proceeded with 3 hours and 30 minutes of general debate on H.R. 1.
1/27/20098:19pm:
Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union rises leaving H.R. 1 as unfinished business.
1/27/20099:30pm:
Rules Committee Resolution H. Res. 92 Reported to House. Rule provides for consideration of H.R. 1 with 1 hour of general debate. Previous question shall be considered as ordered without intervening motions except motion to recommit with or without instructions. Measure will be considered read. Specified amendments are in order. Resolution provides for further consideration of H.R. 1. Further general debate shall continue for not to exceed one hour, equally divided and controlled and shall be limited to the bill and amendments made in order by this resolution. Upon the adoption of this resolution, the amendment printed in Part A of the report of the Committee on Rules accompanying this resolution shall be considered as adopted.
1/28/200912:43pm:
Rule H. Res. 92 passed House.
1/28/200912:59pm:
Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H620-749)
1/28/200912:59pm:
The House resolved into Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union for further consideration.
1/28/200912:59pm:
GENERAL DEBATE - The Committee of the Whole proceeded with one hour of general debate on H.R. 1.
1/28/20091:59pm:

Pursuant to the provisions of H. Res. 92, an amendment printed in part A of House Report 111-9, is considered as adopted. The bill, as

amended, shall be considered as the original bill for purpose of further amendment.
1/28/2009 2:01pm:
H.AMDT.12 Amendment (A001) offered by Mr. Oberstar. (consideration: CR H711-712; text: CR H711)
An amendment to amend the aviation, highway, rail, and transit priority consideration and `use-it-or-lose-it' provisions to require that 50 percent of the funds be obligated within 90 days.
1/28/2009 2:02pm:
DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H.Res. 92, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Oberstar amendment.
1/28/2009 2:11pm:
H.AMDT.12 On agreeing to the Oberstar amendment (A001) Agreed to by voice vote.
1/28/2009 2:11pm:
H.AMDT.13 Amendment (A002) offered by Mr. Markey (MA). (consideration: CR H712-713; text: CR H713)
An amendment to require that the Secretary require, as a condition of receiving funding under Title XIII of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007, that the demonstration projects utilize Internet-based or other open protocols and standards if available and appropriate, and would require that grants recipients utilize Internet-based or other open protocols and standards.
1/28/2009 2:11pm:
DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H.Res. 92, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Markey (MA) amendment.
1/28/20092:13pm:
H.AMDT.13 On agreeing to the Markey (MA) amendment (A002) Agreed to by voice vote.
1/28/20092:14pm:
H.AMDT.14 Amendment (A003) offered by Mr. Shuster. (consideration: CR H713-717; text: CR H713)
An amendment to clarify that federal funds received by States under the bill for highway maintenance shall not be used to replace existing funds in place for transportation projects.
1/28/20092:14pm:
DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H.Res. 92, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Shuster amendment.
1/28/20092:22pm:
H.AMDT.14 On agreeing to the Shuster amendment (A003) Agreed to by voice vote.
1/28/20092:23pm:
H.AMDT.15 Amendment (A004) offered by Mr. Nadler (NY). (consideration: CR H717-719; text: CR H717)
An amendment to increase transit capital funding by $3 billion.
1/28/20092:23pm:
DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H.Res. 92, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Nadler amendment.
1/28/20092:34pm:
H.AMDT.15 On agreeing to the Nadler (NY) amendment (A004) Agreed to by voice vote.
1/28/20092:35pm:
H.AMDT.16 Amendment (A005) offered by Mr. Neugebauer. (consideration: CR H720-721, H743-744; text: CR H720)
Amendment sought to strike the appropriations provisions from the bill.
1/28/20092:35pm:
DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H.Res. 92, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Neugebauer amendment.
1/28/20092:45pm:
POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on the Neugebauer amendment, the Chair put the question on adoption of the amendment and by voice vote announced the noes had prevailed. Mr. Neugebauer demanded a recorded vote and the Chair postponed further proceedings on the question of adoption of the amendment until a time to be announced.
1/28/20092:46pm:
H.AMDT.17 Amendment (A006) offered by Ms. Waters. (consideration: CR H721; text: CR H721)
An amendment to provide that job training funds may be used for broadband deployment and related activities provided in the bill.
1/28/20092:46pm:
DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H.Res. 92, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Waters amendment.
1/28/20092:50pm:
H.AMDT.17 On agreeing to the Waters amendment (A006) Agreed to by voice vote.
1/28/20092:51pm:
H.AMDT.18 Amendment (A007) offered by Mr. Flake. (consideration: CR H721-723, H743, H744-745; text: CR H721)
Amendment sought to strike funding for Amtrak.
1/28/20092:51pm:
DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H.Res. 92, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Flake amendment.
1/28/2009 3:01pm:
POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on the Flake amendment, the Chair put the question on adoption of the amendment and by voice vote announced the noes had prevailed. Mr. Flake demanded a recorded vote and the Chair postponed further proceedings on the question of adoption of the amendment until a time to be announced.
1/28/2009 3:02pm:
H.AMDT.19 Amendment (A008) offered by Mr. Kissell. (consideration: CR H723-724; text: CR H723)
An amendment to expand the Berry Amendment Extension Act to include DHS to require the government to purchase uniforms for more than one hundred thousand uniformed employees from U.S. textile and apparel manufacturers.
1/28/2009 3:02pm:
DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H.Res. 92, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Kissel amendment.
1/28/2009 3:11pm:
H.AMDT.19 On agreeing to the Kissell amendment (A008) Agreed to by voice vote.
1/28/2009 3:11pm:
H.AMDT.20 Amendment (A009) offered by Mr. Platts. (consideration: CR H724-731; text: CR H724-728)
An amendment to insert the text of the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act (H.R. 985 in the 110th Congress) regarding protections for federal employees who report waste, fraud, and abuse.
1/28/2009 3:12pm:
DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H.Res. 92, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Platts amendment.
1/28/20093:23pm:
H.AMDT.20 On agreeing to the Platts amendment Agreed to by voice vote.
1/28/20093:24pm:
H.AMDT.21 Amendment (A010) offered by Mr. Teague. (consideration: CR H731-732; text: CR H731)
An amendment to require that the Recovery.gov website contain links and other information on how to access job information created at or by entities receiving funding under the bill; including links to local employment agencies, state, local, and other public agencies receiving recovery funds, and private firms contracted to perform work funded by the bill.
1/28/20093:24pm:
DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H.Res. 92, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Teague amendment.
1/28/20093:31pm:
H.AMDT.21 On agreeing to the Teague amendment (A010) Agreed to by voice vote.
1/28/20093:32pm:
H.AMDT.22 Amendment (A011) in the nature of a substitute offered by Mr. Camp. (consideration: CR H732-743, H743, H745; text: CR H732-736)
Amendment in the Nature of a Substitute sought to strike everything after enacting clause and adds income tax rate deductions for bottom two income tax brackets, alternative minimum tax relief, small business deduction, bonus depreciation, small business expensing, expanded carryback of net operating losses, improved home buyer credit, unemployment benefit tax exemption, health insurance premium deduction, repeal of 3 percent withholding requirement for government contractors, extension of unemployment benefits, and a Sense of Congress against tax increases to offset outlays.
1/28/20093:33pm:
DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H.Res. 92, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 60 minutes of debate on the Camp amendment in the nature of a substitute.
1/28/20094:33pm:
POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on the Camp amendment in the nature of a substitute, the Chair put the question on adoption of the amendment and by voice vote announced the noes had prevailed. Mr. Camp demanded a recorded vote and the Chair postponed further proceedings on the question of adoption of the amendment in the nature of a substitute until later in the legislative day.
1/28/20094:42pm:
The Committee of the Whole rose informally.
1/28/20094:43pm:
Subsequently, the Committee resumed its sitting.
1/28/20094:44pm:
UNFINISHED BUSINESS - The Chair announced that the unfinished business was the question of adoption of amendments which had been debated earlier and on which further proceedings had been postponed.
1/28/2009 5:10pm:
H.AMDT.16 On agreeing to the Neugebauer amendment (A005) Failed by recorded vote: 134 - 302 (Roll no. 42).
1/28/20095:18pm:
H.AMDT.18 On agreeing to the Flake amendment (A007) Failed by recorded vote: 116 - 320 (Roll no. 43).
1/28/20095:31pm:
H.AMDT.22 On agreeing to the Camp amendment (A011) Failed by recorded vote: 170 - 266 (Roll no. 44).
1/28/20095:31pm:
The House rose from the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union to report H.R. 1.
1/28/20095:31pm:
The previous question was ordered pursuant to the rule. (consideration: CR H746)
1/28/20095:32pm:
The House adopted the amendments en gross as agreed to by the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union.
1/28/20095:33pm:
Mr. Lewis (CA) moved to recommit with instructions to Appropriations. (consideration: CR H746-748; text CR H746)
1/28/20095:34pm:
DEBATE - The House proceeded with ten minutes of debate on the Lewis (CA) motion to recommit with instructions. The instructions contained in the motion seek to require the bill to be reported back to the House with sundry amendments.
1/28/20095:46pm:
The previous question on the motion to recommit with instructions was ordered without objection. (consideration: CR H748)
1/28/2009 6:04pm:
On motion to recommit with instructions Failed by recorded vote: 159 - 270 (Roll no. 45). (consideration: CR H748)
1/28/2009 6:11pm:
On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 244 - 188 (Roll no. 46). (text: CR H642-711)
1/28/2009 6:12pm:
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
1/28/2009 6:12pm:
The Clerk was authorized to correct section numbers, punctuation, and cross references, and to make other necessary technical and conforming corrections in the engrossment of H.R. 1.
1/29/2009:
Received in the Senate, read twice.
1/30/2009:
S.Amdt.98 in the nature of a substitute ordered to be printed.
2/2/2009:
Measure laid before Senate by unanimous consent. (consideration: CR S1237-1243, S1266-1273)
2/2/2009:
S.AMDT.98 Amendment SA 98 proposed by Senator Reid for Senator Inouye. (consideration: CR S1237-1243, S1266-1273)
In the nature of a substitute.
2/3/2009:
Considered by Senate. (consideration: CR S1371-1387, S1387-1427)
2/3/2009:
S.AMDT.98 Considered by Senate. (consideration: CR S1371, S1397-1399, S1400-1403)
2/3/2009:
S.AMDT.110 Amendment SA 110 proposed by Senator Murray to Amendment SA 98. (consideration: CR S1374-1387; text: CR S1374)
To strengthen the infrastructure investments made by the bill.
2/3/2009:
S.AMDT.110 Point of order that an emergency designation within the amendment violates the CBA raised in Senate with respect to amendment SA 110.
2/3/2009:
S.AMDT.110 Motion to waive the Budget Act with respect to amendment SA 110 (the section within the amendment regarding an emergency designation) rejected in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 58 - 39. Record Vote Number: 33.
2/3/2009:
S.AMDT.110 The emergency designation within amendment SA 110 was stricken.
2/3/2009:
S.AMDT.109 Amendment SA 109 proposed by Senator Coburn to Amendment SA 98. (consideration: CR S1387-1389, S1390-1397, S1399-1400; text: CR S1387)
To strike the $246 million tax earmark for Hollywood production companies.
2/3/2009:
S.AMDT.104 Amendment SA 104 proposed by Senator Mikulski to Amendment SA 98. (consideration: CR S1389, S1390, S1397-1399, S1400-1403)
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow an above-the-line deduction against individual income tax for interest on indebtedness and for State sales and excise taxes with respect to the purchase of certain motor vehicles.
2/3/2009:
S.AMDT.109 Amendment SA 109 agreed to in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 52 - 45. Record Vote Number: 34.
2/3/2009:
S.AMDT.104 Point of order raised in Senate with respect to amendment SA 104.
2/3/2009:
S.AMDT.104 Motion to waive the Budget Act with respect to amendment SA 104 (Sect. 201, S. Con. Res. 21, 110th Congress) agreed in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 71 - 26. Record Vote Number: 35.
2/3/2009:
S.AMDT.104 Amendment SA 104 ruled in order by the chair.
2/3/2009:
S.AMDT.104 Amendment SA 104 agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote.
2/3/2009:
S.AMDT.101 Amendment SA 101 proposed by Senator Specter to Amendment SA 98. (consideration: CR S1403-1405; text as modified: CR S1403)
To provide an additional $6,500,000,000 to the National Institutes of Health for biomedical research.
2/3/2009:
S.AMDT.178 Amendment SA 178 proposed by Senator Harkin to Amendment SA 101. (consideration: CR S1405, S1420-1421; text: CR S1405-1406; text as modified: CR S1406)
To provide an additional $6,500,000,000 to the National Institutes of Health for biomedical research.
2/3/2009:
S.AMDT.178 Amendment SA 178 was modified to be a first degree amendment by Unanimous Consent.
2/3/2009:
S.AMDT.178 Amendment SA 178 proposed by Senator Harkin to Amendment SA 98.
2/3/2009:
S.AMDT.179 Amendment SA 179 proposed by Senator Vitter to Amendment SA 98. (consideration: CR S1406-1408; text: CR S1406-1407)
To eliminate unnecessary spending.
2/3/2009:
S.AMDT.112 Amendment SA 112 proposed by Senator Boxer to Amendment SA 98. (consideration: CR S1408-1420; text: CR S1408)
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow the deduction for dividends received from controlled foreign corporations for an additional year, and for other purposes.
2/3/2009:
S.AMDT.112 Point of order raised in Senate with respect to amendment SA 112.
2/3/2009:
S.AMDT.112 Motion to waive the Budget Act with respect to amendment SA 112 (Sect. 201, S. Con. Res. 21, 110th Congress) rejected in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 42 - 55. Record Vote Number: 36.
2/3/2009:
S.AMDT.112 Amendment SA 112 ruled out of order by the chair.
2/3/2009:
S.AMDT.101 Proposed amendment SA 101 withdrawn in Senate. (consideration: CR S1420)
2/3/2009:
S.AMDT.178 Point of order raised in Senate with respect to amendment SA 178.
2/3/2009:
S.AMDT.178 Point of order withdrawn in Senate with respect to amendment SA 178.
2/3/2009:
S.AMDT.178 Amendment SA 178 as modified agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote.
2/3/2009:
S.AMDT.106 Amendment SA 106 proposed by Senator Isakson to Amendment SA 98. (consideration: CR S1421-1422; text: CR S1421-1422)
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a Federal income tax credit for certain home purchases.
2/3/2009:
S.AMDT.140 Amendment SA 140 proposed by Senator Feingold to Amendment SA 98. (consideration: CR S1422-1427; text: CR S1422-1423)
To provide greater accountability of taxpayers' dollars by curtailing congressional earmarking and requiring disclosure of lobbying by recipients of Federal funds.
2/4/2009:
Considered by Senate. (consideration: CR S1474-1538)
2/4/2009:
S.AMDT.98 Considered by Senate. (consideration: CR S1474)
2/4/2009:
S.AMDT.106 Considered by Senate. (consideration: CR S1474, S1481-1484, S1523)
2/4/2009:
S.AMDT.110 Considered by Senate. (consideration: CR S1474)
2/4/2009:
S.AMDT.140 Considered by Senate. (consideration: CR S1474, S1479-1481, S1488-1489, S1504-1507, S1512-1518)
2/4/2009:
S.AMDT.179 Considered by Senate. (consideration: CR S1474, S1521-1523)
2/4/2009:
S.AMDT.237 Amendment SA 237 proposed by Senator Cardin to Amendment SA 98. (consideration: CR S1484-1485, S1523; text: CR S1484)
To amend certain provisions of the Small Business Investment Act of 1958, related to the surety bond guarantee program.
2/4/2009:
S.AMDT.168 Amendment SA 168 proposed by Senator Grassley for Senator DeMint to Amendment SA 98. (consideration: CR S1485-1488, S1492-1493, S1507-1512, S1523-1524; text: CR S1485-1486)
In the nature of a substitute.
2/4/2009:
S.AMDT.197 Amendment SA 197 proposed by Senator Grassley for Senator Thune to Amendment SA 98. (consideration: CR S1485-1488)
In the nature of a substitute.
2/4/2009:
S.AMDT.238 Amendment SA 238 proposed by Senator Grassley for Senator Thune to Amendment SA 98. (consideration: CR S1485-1488, S1489-1491, S1524; text: CR S1486)
To ensure that the $1 trillion spending bill is not used to expand the scope of the Federal Government by adding new spending programs.
2/4/2009:
S.AMDT.200 Amendment SA 200 proposed by Senator Baucus for Senator Dorgan to Amendment SA 98. (consideration: CR S1491-1492; text: CR S1491-1492)
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for the taxation of income of controlled foreign corporations attributable to imported property.
2/4/2009:
S.AMDT.159 Amendment SA 159 proposed by Senator Martinez to Amendment SA 98. (consideration: CR S1493-1494, S1518-1522, S1524-1525; text as modified: CR S1518-1520)
To reduce home foreclosures, compensate servicers who modify mortgages, and remove the legal constraints that inhibit modification, and for other purposes.
2/4/2009:
S.AMDT.278 Amendment SA 278 proposed by Senator McCain to Amendment SA 98. (consideration: CR S1494-1498, S1518-1522, S1525; text: CR S1494; text as modified: CR S1520-1521)
To reimplement Gramm-Rudman-Hollings to require deficit reduction and spending cuts upon 2 consecutive quarters of positive GDP growth.
2/4/2009:
S.AMDT.279 Amendment SA 279 proposed by Senator McCain to Amendment SA 98. (consideration: CR S1494-1498, S1528-1530; text: CR S1494)
To prohibit the applicability of Buy American requirements in the Act to the utilization of funds provided by the Act.
2/4/2009:
S.AMDT.161 Amendment SA 161 proposed by Senator Bond to Amendment SA 98. (consideration: CR S1498-1499, S1525-1526; text: CR S1498)
To provide $2,000,000,000 from the HOME program for investment in the low income housing tax credit projects.
2/4/2009:
S.AMDT.262 Amendment SA 262 proposed by Senator Inhofe to Amendment SA 98. (consideration: CR S1499-1500, S1526-1527; text: CR S1499)
To appropriate, with an offset, $5,232,000,000 for procurement for the Department of Defense to reconstitute military units to an acceptable readiness rating and to restock prepositioned assets and war reserve material.
2/4/2009:
S.AMDT.277 Amendment SA 277 proposed by Senator Cornyn to Amendment SA 98. (consideration: CR S1500-1501, S1527; text: CR S1500)
To reduce income taxes for all working taxpayers.
2/4/2009:
S.AMDT.242 Amendment SA 242 proposed by Senator Bunning to Amendment SA 98. (consideration: CR S1501-1504, S1527-1528; text: CR S1501)
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to suspend for 2009 the 1993 income tax increase on Social Security benefits, and for other purposes.
2/4/2009:
S.AMDT.179 Amendment SA 179 not agreed to in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 32 - 65. Record Vote Number: 37.
2/4/2009:
S.AMDT.106 Amendment SA 106 as modified agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote. (text as modified: CR S1482-1483)
2/4/2009:
S.AMDT.237 Amendment SA 237 agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote.
2/4/2009:
S.AMDT.168 Point of order raised in Senate with respect to amendment SA 168.
2/4/2009:
S.AMDT.168 Motion to waive the Budget Act with respect to amendment SA 168 (Sect. 201, S. Con. Res. 21, 110th Congress) rejected in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 36 - 61. Record Vote Number: 38.
2/4/2009:
S.AMDT.168 Amendment SA 168 ruled out of order by the chair.
2/4/2009:
S.AMDT.238 Amendment SA 238 not agreed to in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 35 - 62. Record Vote Number: 39.
2/4/2009:
S.AMDT.159 Proposed amendment SA 159 withdrawn in Senate. (consideration: CR S1525)
2/4/2009:
S.AMDT.278 Point of order raised in Senate with respect to amendment SA 278.
2/4/2009:
S.AMDT.278 Motion to waive the Budget Act with respect to amendment SA 278 rejected in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 44 - 53. Record Vote Number: 40.
2/4/2009:
S.AMDT.278 Amendment SA 278 ruled out of order by the chair.
2/4/2009:
S.AMDT.161 Amendment SA 161 agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote.
2/4/2009:
S.AMDT.262 Point of order raised in Senate with respect to amendment SA 262.
2/4/2009:
S.AMDT.262 Motion to waive the Budget Act with respect to amendment SA 262 rejected in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 38 - 59. Record Vote Number: 41.
2/4/2009:
S.AMDT.262 Amendment SA 262 ruled out of order by the chair.
2/4/2009:
S.AMDT.277 Point of order raised in Senate with respect to amendment SA 277.
2/4/2009:
S.AMDT.277 Motion to waive the Budget Act with respect to amendment SA 277 (Sect. 201, S. Con. Res. 21, 110th Congress) rejected in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 37 - 60. Record Vote Number: 42.
2/4/2009:
S.AMDT.277 Amendment SA 277 ruled out of order by the chair.
2/4/2009:
S.AMDT.242 Point of order raised in Senate with respect to amendment SA 242.
2/4/2009:
S.AMDT.242 Motion to waive the Budget Act with respect to amendment SA 242 (Sect. 201, S. Con. Res. 21, 110th Congress) rejected in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 39 - 57. Record Vote Number: 43.
2/4/2009:
S.AMDT.242 Amendment SA 242 ruled out of order by the chair.
2/4/2009:
S.AMDT.300 Amendment SA 300 proposed by Senator Dorgan to Amendment SA 98. (consideration: CR S1528; text: CR S1528)
To clarify that the Buy American provisions shall be applied in a manner consistent with United States obligations under international agreements.
2/4/2009:
S.AMDT.300 Amendment SA 300 agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote.
2/4/2009:
S.AMDT.279 Amendment SA 279 not agreed to in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 31 - 65. Record Vote Number: 44.
2/4/2009:
S.AMDT.353 Amendment SA 353 proposed by Senator Ensign to Amendment SA 98. (consideration: CR S1530)
In the nature of a substitute.
2/4/2009:
S.AMDT.354 Amendment SA 354 proposed by Senator Dodd to Amendment SA 98. (consideration: CR S1530-1531; text: CR S1530-1531)
To impose executive compensation limitations with respect to entities assisted under the Troubled Asset Relief Program.
2/4/2009:
S.AMDT.326 Amendment SA 326 proposed by Senator Barrasso to Amendment SA 98. (consideration: CR S1531-1533, S1536; text: CR S1536)
To expedite reviews required to be carried out under the National Environment Policy Act of 1969.
2/4/2009:
S.AMDT.189 Amendment SA 189 proposed by Senator Barrasso for Senator DeMint to Amendment SA 98. (consideration: CR S1536; text: CR S1536)
To allow the free exercise of religion at institutions of higher education that receive funding under section 803 of division A.
2/4/2009:
S.AMDT.363 Amendment SA 363 proposed by Senator Baucus for Senator Boxer to Amendment SA 98. (consideration: CR S1538; text: CR S1538)
To ensure the expeditious completion of National Environmental Policy Act reviews under applicable law.
2/4/2009:
S.AMDT.338 Amendment SA 338 proposed by Senator Baucus for Senator Harkin to Amendment SA 98. (consideration: CR S1533-1536, S1537-1538; text: CR S1537-1538)
To require the Secretary of the Treasury to carry out a program to enable certain individuals to trade certain old automobiles for certain new automobiles.
2/4/2009:
S.AMDT.145 Amendment SA 145 proposed by Senator Baucus for Senator Dodd to Amendment SA 98. (consideration: CR S1536-1537; text: CR S1536-1538)
To improve the efforts of the Federal Government in mitigating home foreclosures and to require the Secretary of the Treasury to develop and implement a foreclosure prevention loan modification plan.
2/4/2009:
S.AMDT.125 Amendment SA 125 proposed by Senator Baucus for Senator McCaskill to Amendment SA 98. (consideration: CR S1536-1538; text: CR S1538)
To limit compensation to officers and directors of entities receiving emergency economic assistance from the Government.
2/4/2009:
S.AMDT.236 Amendment SA 236 proposed by Senator Baucus for Senator McCaskill to Amendment SA 98. (consideration: CR S1536-1538; text as modified: CR S1538)
To establish funding levels for various offices of inspectors general and to set a date until which such funds shall remain available.
2/4/2009:
S.AMDT.102 Amendment SA 102 proposed by Senator Baucus for Senator Landrieu to Amendment SA 98. (consideration: CR S1538; text: CR S1538)
To ensure that assistance for the redevelopment of foreclosed and abandoned homes to States or units of local government impacted by catastrophic natural disasters may be used to support the redevelopment of homes damaged or destroyed as a result of the 2005 hurricanes, the severe flooding in the Midwest in 2008, and other natural disasters.
2/4/2009:
S.AMDT.102 Amendment SA 102 agreed to in Senate by Unanimous Consent.
2/5/2009:
Considered by Senate. (consideration: CR S1617-1676)
2/5/2009:
S.AMDT.98 Considered by Senate. (consideration: CR S1617)
2/5/2009:
S.AMDT.110 Considered by Senate. (consideration: CR S1617)
2/5/2009:
S.AMDT.125 Considered by Senate. (consideration: CR S1617, S1661)
2/5/2009:
S.AMDT.140 Considered by Senate. (consideration: CR S1617, S1658-1659, S1659-1660)
2/5/2009:
S.AMDT.145 Considered by Senate. (consideration: CR S1617, S1661)
2/5/2009:
S.AMDT.189 Considered by Senate. (consideration: CR S1617, S1650-1651, S1661)
2/5/2009:
S.AMDT.197 Considered by Senate. (consideration: CR S1617, S1653-1654, S1664)
2/5/2009:
S.AMDT.200 Considered by Senate. (consideration: CR S1617, S1659, S1660)
2/5/2009:
S.AMDT.236 Considered by Senate. (consideration: CR S1617, S1663-1664)
2/5/2009:
S.AMDT.326 Considered by Senate. (consideration: CR S1617, S1665)
2/5/2009:
S.AMDT.338 Considered by Senate. (consideration: CR S1617)
2/5/2009:
S.AMDT.353 Considered by Senate. (consideration: CR S1617, S1662)
2/5/2009:
S.AMDT.354 Considered by Senate. (consideration: CR S1617, S1660-1661)
2/5/2009:
S.AMDT.363 Considered by Senate. (consideration: CR S1617, S1656, S1664-1665; text as modified: CR S1656; text as further modified: CR S1664)
2/5/2009:
S.AMDT.364 Amendment SA 364 proposed by Senator McCain to Amendment SA 98. (consideration: CR S1617-1650, S1656, S1659; text as modified: CR S1656)
In the nature of a substitute.
2/5/2009:
S.AMDT.364 Point of order raised in Senate with respect to amendment SA 364.
2/5/2009:
S.AMDT.364 Motion to waive the Budget Act with respect to amendment SA 5264 rejected in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 40 - 57. Record Vote Number: 45.
2/5/2009:
S.AMDT.364 Amendment SA 364 ruled out of order by the chair.
2/5/2009:
S.AMDT.140 Amendment SA 140 not agreed to in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 32 - 65. Record Vote Number: 46.
2/5/2009:

S.AMDT.138 Amendment SA 138 proposed by Senator Dorgan to Amendment SA 98. (consideration: CR S1660)
To provide for reports on the use of funds made available under this Act and the economic impact made by the expenditure or obligation of such funds, and for other purposes.
2/5/2009:
S.AMDT.200 Proposed amendment SA 200 withdrawn in Senate. (consideration: CR S1660)
2/5/2009:
S.AMDT.138 Amendment SA 138 as modified agreed to in Senate by Unanimous Consent. (text as modified: CR S1660)
2/5/2009:
S.AMDT.354 Amendment SA 354 agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote.
2/5/2009:
S.AMDT.189 Amendment SA 189 not agreed to in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 43 - 54. Record Vote Number: 47.
2/5/2009:
S.AMDT.338 Proposed amendment SA 338 withdrawn in Senate. (consideration: CR S1661)
2/5/2009:
S.AMDT.125 Amendment SA 125 agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote.
2/5/2009:
S.AMDT.353 Point of order raised in Senate with respect to amendment SA 353.
2/5/2009:
S.AMDT.353 Motion to waive the Budget Act with respect to amendment SA 353 rejected in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 35 - 62. Record Vote Number: 48.
2/5/2009:
S.AMDT.353 Amendment SA 353 ruled out of order by the chair. (consideration: CR S1662)
2/5/2009:
S.AMDT.236 Amendment SA 236 as modified agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote. (text as further modified: CR S1663-1664)
2/5/2009:
S.AMDT.197 Point of order raised in Senate with respect to amendment SA 197.
2/5/2009:
S.AMDT.197 Motion to waive the Budget Act with respect to amendment SA 197 rejected in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 37 - 60. Record Vote Number: 49.
2/5/2009:
S.AMDT.197 Amendment SA 197 ruled out of order by the chair. (consideration: CR S1664)
2/5/2009:
S.AMDT.363 Amendment SA 363 as modified agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote.
2/5/2009:
S.AMDT.326 Amendment SA 326 not agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote.
2/5/2009:
S.AMDT.176 Amendment SA 176 proposed by Senator Coburn to Amendment SA 98. (consideration: CR S1665-1666, S1670; text: CR S1665)
To require the use of competitive procedures to award contracts, grants, and cooperative agreements funded under this Act.
2/5/2009:
S.AMDT.359 Amendment SA 359 proposed by Senator Udall NM to Amendment SA 98. (consideration: CR S1666; text: CR S1666)
To expand the number of veterans eligible for the employment tax credit for unemployed veterans.
2/5/2009:
S.AMDT.309 Amendment SA 309 proposed by Senator Coburn to Amendment SA 98. (consideration: CR S1666-1669; text: CR S1667)
To ensure that taxpayer money is not lost on wasteful and non-stimulative projects.
2/5/2009:
S.AMDT.306 Amendment SA 306 proposed by Senator Sanders to Amendment SA 98. (consideration: CR S1669-1670; text: CR S1669)
To require recipients of TARP funding to meet strict H-1B worker hiring standard to ensure non-displacement of U.S. workers.
/5/2009:
S.AMDT.176 Motion to table amendment SA 176 rejected in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 1 - 96. Record Vote Number: 50. (consideration: CR S1670)
2/6/2009:
Considered by Senate. (consideration: CR S1774-1840, S1841-1859)
2/6/2009:
S.AMDT.98 Considered by Senate. (consideration: CR S1774, S1859)
2/6/2009:
S.AMDT.110 Considered by Senate. (consideration: CR S1775, S1855)
2/6/2009:
S.AMDT.176 Considered by Senate. (consideration: CR S1775, S1804-1805)
2/6/2009:
S.AMDT.306 Considered by Senate. (consideration: CR S1775, S1803)
2/6/2009:
S.AMDT.309 Considered by Senate. (consideration: CR S1775, S1803-1804)
2/6/2009:
S.AMDT.359 Considered by Senate. (consideration: CR S1775, S1804)
2/6/2009:
S.AMDT.145 Considered by Senate. (consideration: CR S1775, S1850-1851, S1852)
2/6/2009:
S.AMDT.306 Amendment SA 306 as modified agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote.
2/6/2009:
S.AMDT.309 Amendment SA 309 agreed to in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 73 - 24. Record Vote Number: 51.
2/6/2009:
S.AMDT.359 Amendment SA 359 agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote.
2/6/2009:
S.AMDT.176 Amendment SA 176 agreed to in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 97 - 0. Record Vote Number: 52.
2/6/2009:
S.AMDT.107 Amendment SA 107 proposed by Senator Vitter to Amendment SA 98. (consideration: CR S1807-1808, S1854; text: CR S1808)
Prohibiting direct or indirect use of funds to fund the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN).
2/6/2009:
S.AMDT.501 Amendment SA 501 proposed by Senator Graham to Amendment SA 98. (consideration: CR S1808-1817, S1831, S1851-1852; text as modified: CR S1808-1810)
To limit wasteful spending, to fund a systematic program of foreclosure prevention, to be administered by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and for other purposes.
2/6/2009:
S.AMDT.297 Amendment SA 297 proposed by Senator Grassley to Amendment SA 98. (consideration: CR S1817-1819, S1852-1853; text: CR S1817-1818)
To provide the same temporary increase in the FMAP for all States and to permit States to choose the period through June 2011 for receiving the increase.
2/6/2009:
S.AMDT.274 Amendment SA 274 proposed by Senator Cantwell to Amendment SA 98. (consideration: CR S1819-1826, S1853-1854)
To improve provisions relating to energy tax incentives and provisions relating manufacturing tax incentives for energy property.
2/6/2009:
S.AMDT.531 Amendment SA 531 proposed by Senator Bunning to Amendment SA 98. (consideration: CR S1826-1827, S1855; text: CR S1826)
To temporarily increase the limitations on offsetting ordinary income with capital losses and to strike the 5-year carry back of general business credits.
2/6/2009:
S.AMDT.485 Amendment SA 485 proposed by Senator Feingold to Amendment SA 98. (consideration: CR S1827-1828, S1855; text: CR S1827)
To clarify that certain programs constitute a qualified conservation purpose for qualified energy conservation bonds.
2/6/2009:
S.AMDT.538 Amendment SA 538 proposed by Senator Thune to Amendment SA 98. (consideration: CR S1828-1831, S1855-1856; text: CR S1829-1830)
To replace all spending and tax provisions with a direct rebate to all Americans filing a tax return.
2/6/2009:
S.AMDT.293 Amendment SA 293 proposed by Senator Enzi to Amendment SA 98. (consideration: CR S1831-1834, S1856-1859)
In the nature of a substitute.
2/6/2009:
S.AMDT.468 Amendment SA 468 proposed by Senator Wyden to Amendment SA 98. (consideration: CR S1834-1837, S1855; text: CR S1835)
To require financial institutions receiving TARP assistance to redeem from the United States preferred stock in an amount equal to excess bonuses for 2008 or to pay a 35 percent tax on such amount.
2/6/2009:
S.AMDT.501 Amendment SA 501 not agreed to in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 39 - 57. Record Vote Number: 53.
2/6/2009:
S.AMDT.145 Amendment SA 145 as modified agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote. (text as modified: CR S1850-1851)
2/6/2009:
S.AMDT.297 Amendment SA 297 not agreed to in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 47 - 49. Record Vote Number: 54.
2/6/2009:
S.AMDT.274 Point of order raised in Senate with respect to amendment SA 274.
2/6/2009:
S.AMDT.274 Motion to waive the Budget Act with respect to amendment SA 274 agreed in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 80 - 16. Record Vote Number: 55.
2/6/2009:
S.AMDT.274 Amendment SA 274 ruled in order by the chair.
2/6/2009:
S.AMDT.274 Amendment SA 274 as modified agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote. (text as modified: CR S1819-1825)
2/6/2009:
S.AMDT.107 Amendment SA 107 not agreed to in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 45 - 51. Record Vote Number: 56.
2/6/2009:
S.AMDT.485 Proposed amendment SA 485 withdrawn in Senate. (consideration: CR S1855)
2/6/2009:
S.AMDT.531 Amendment SA 531 not agreed to in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 41 - 55. Record Vote Number: 57.
2/6/2009:
S.AMDT.110 Proposed amendment SA 110 withdrawn in Senate. (consideration: CR S1855)
2/6/2009:
S.AMDT.468 Amendment SA 468 agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote.
2/6/2009:
S.AMDT.538 Point of order raised in Senate with respect to amendment SA 538.
2/7/2009:
S.AMDT.538 Motion to waive the Budget Act with respect to amendment SA 538 rejected in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 35 - 61. Record Vote Number: 58.
2/7/2009:
S.AMDT.538 Amendment SA 538 ruled out of order by the chair.
2/7/2009:
S.AMDT.293 Amendment SA 293 as modified agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote. (text as modified: CR 2/6/2009 S1831-1834; text as further modified: CR 2/6/2007 S1856-1859)
2/7/2009:
S.AMDT.98 Proposed amendment SA 98 withdrawn in Senate. (consideration: CR S1859)
2/7/2009:
S.Amdt.570 in the nature of a substitute ordered to be printed.
2/7/2009:
Considered by Senate. (consideration: CR S1885-1906, S1906-1907)
2/7/2009:
S.AMDT.570 Amendment SA 570 proposed by Senator Reid for Senator Collins. (consideration: CR S1906-1907)
In the nature of a substitute.
2/7/2009:
S.AMDT.570 Cloture motion on amendment SA 570 presented in Senate. (consideration: CR S1906-1907; text: CR S1906)
2/9/2009:
Considered by Senate. (CR S1992-2024)
2/9/2009:
S.AMDT.570 Considered by Senate. (CR S1992, S2024)
2/9/2009:
S.AMDT.570 Cloture on Amendment SA 570 invoked in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 61 - 36. Record Vote Number: 59. (consideration: CR S2024; text: CR S2024)
2/10/2009:
Considered by Senate. (consideration: CR S2039-2069)
2/10/2009:
S.AMDT.570 Considered by Senate. (consideration: CR S2039-2069)
2/10/2009:
S.AMDT.570 Point of order raised in Senate with respect to amendment SA 570.
2/10/2009:
S.AMDT.570 Motion to waive section 201, S.Con.Res. 21, 110th Congress, with respect to amendment SA 570 agreed in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 61 - 37. Record Vote Number: 60.
2/10/2009:
S.AMDT.570 Amendment SA 570 agreed to in Senate by Unanimous Consent.
2/10/2009:
Passed Senate with an amendment by Yea-Nay Vote. 61 - 37. Record Vote Number: 61.
2/10/2009:
Senate insists on its amendment, asks for a conference, appoints conferees Inouye; Baucus; Reid; Cochran; Grassley.
2/10/2009:
Message on Senate action sent to the House.
2/10/20092:17pm:
Mr. Obey moved that the House disagree to the Senate amendment, and agree to a conference. (consideration: CR H1090-1102)
2/10/20092:18pm:
DEBATE - The House proceeded with one of debate on the motion to agree to a conference with the Senate.
2/10/2009 3:06pm:
The previous question was ordered without objection. (consideration: CR H1096)
2/10/2009 3:06pm:
On motion that the House disagree to the Senate amendment, and agree to a conference Agreed to by voice vote.
2/10/2009 3:07pm:
Mr. Lewis (CA) moved that the House instruct conferees. (consideration: CR H1096)
2/10/2009 3:07pm:
DEBATE - The House proceeded with one hour of debate of the Lewis (CA) motion to instruct conferees. The instructions contained in the motion require the conferees to not record their approval of the final conference agreement unless the text of the agreement has been available at least 48 hours.
2/10/20094:00pm:
The previous question was ordered without objection. (consideration: CR H1101)
2/10/20094:30pm:
On motion that the House instruct conferees Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: 403 - 0 (Roll no. 54). (consideration: CR H1101-1102)
2/10/20094:30pm:
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
2/10/20094:47pm:
The Speaker appointed conferees: Obey, Rangel, Waxman, Lewis (CA), and Camp.
2/12/200910:25pm:
Conference report H. Rept. 111-16 filed. (text of conference report: CR H1307-1516)
2/13/2009 12:01am:
Rules Committee Resolution H. Res. 168 Reported to House. Rule provides for consideration of the conference report to H.R. 1. The resolution provides 90 minutes of debate on the conference report. The resolution waives all points of order against consideration of the conference report except those arising under clause 9 of rule XXI and provides that the conference report be considered as read. The resolution waives all points of order against the conference report. The waiver does not affect the point of order available under clause 9 of rule XXI. Finally, the resolution provides one motion to recommit, if applicable.
2/13/2009 11:15am:
Rule H. Res. 168 passed House.
2/13/2009 11:20am:
Mr. Obey brought up conference report H. Rept. 111-16 for consideration under the provisions of H. Res. 168. (consideration: CR H1536-1588)
2/13/2009 11:20am:
PRELIMINARY ACTION - The Chair stated that the conference report to accompany the bill (H.R. 1) contains an emergency designation for purposes of pay-as-you-go principles. Accordingly, the Chair must put the question of consideration under clause 10(c)(3) of rule 21.
2/13/2009 11:37am:
On question of consideration of conference report Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: 232 - 195 (Roll no. 68). (consideration: CR H1537)
2/13/2009 11:43am:
DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H. Res. 168, the House proceeded with ninety minutes of debate on the conference report to accompany H.R. 1.
2/13/20091:53pm:
The previous question was ordered pursuant to the rule. (consideration: CR H1586)
2/13/20091:54pm:
Mrs. Miller (MI) moved to recommit with instructions to the conference committee. (consideration: CR H1586-1587; text: CR H1586)
2/13/20091:54pm:
The previous question on the motion to recommit with instructions to conference committee was ordered without objection. (consideration: CR H1586)
2/13/20092:16pm:
On motion to recommit with instructions to conference committee Failed by the Yeas and Nays: 186 - 244 (Roll no. 69). (consideration: CR H1587)
2/13/20092:24pm:
Motions to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
2/13/20092:24pm:
On agreeing to the conference report Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: 246 - 183, 1 Present (Roll no. 70).
2/13/2009:
Conference papers: Senate report and manager's statement and message on House action held at the desk in Senate.
2/13/2009:
Conference report considered in Senate. (consideration: CR S2288-2313)
2/13/2009:
Point of order that an emergency designation within the conference report violates the CBA (Sec. 201(a)(5)(A) of S.Con.Res. 21, 110th Congress) raised in Senate with respect to the conference report to accompany H.R. 1.
2/13/2009:
Motino to waive the Budget Act (Sec. 201(a)(5)(A) of S.Con.Res. 21, 110th Congress) with respect to the conference report to accompany H.R. 1 (the section within the conference report regarding the emergency designation) agreed to in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 60 - 38. Record Vote Number: 63.
2/13/2009:
Senate agreed to conference report by Yea-Nay Vote. 60 - 38. Record Vote Number: 64.
2/13/2009:
Message on Senate action sent to the House.
2/13/2009:
Cleared for White House.
2/16/2009:
Presented to President.
2/17/2009:
Signed by President.

TITLE(S):  (italics indicate a title for a portion of a bill)

• SHORT TITLE(S) AS INTRODUCED:
  American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
  American Recovery and Reinvestment Tax Act of 2009
  Assistance for Unemployed Workers and Struggling Families Act
  Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act
  Health Insurance Assistance for the Unemployed Act of 2009
  HITECH Act
• SHORT TITLE(S) AS PASSED HOUSE:
  American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
  American Recovery and Reinvestment Tax Act of 2009
  Assistance for Unemployed Workers and Struggling Families Act
  Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act
  Health Insurance Assistance for the Unemployed Act of 2009
  HITECH Act
  Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act of 2009
• SHORT TITLE(S) AS PASSED SENATE:
  American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
  American Recovery and Reinvestment Tax Act of 2009
  Assistance for Unemployed Workers and Struggling Families Act
  Cap Executive Officer Pay Act of 2009
  Employ American Workers Act
  Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act
  Help Families Keep Their Homes Act of 2009
  HITECH Act
  Jobs Accountability Act
  M-HITECH Act
  Medicare and Medicaid Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act
• OFFICIAL TITLE AS INTRODUCED:
  Making supplemental appropriations for job preservation and creation, infrastructure investment, energy efficiency and science, assistance to the unemployed, and State and local fiscal stabilization, for fiscal year ending September 30, 2009, and for other purposes.

COSPONSORS(9), ALPHABETICAL [followed by Cosponsors withdrawn]:     (Sort: by date)

Rep Frank, Barney [MA-4] - 1/26/2009	Rep Gordon, Bart [TN-6] - 1/26/2009
Rep Miller, George [CA-7] - 1/26/2009	Rep Oberstar, James L. [MN-8] - 1/26/2009
Rep Rangel, Charles B. [NY-15] - 1/26/2009	Rep Spratt, John M., Jr. [SC-5] - 1/26/2009
Rep Towns, Edolphus [NY-10] - 1/26/2009	Rep Velazquez, Nydia M. [NY-12] - 1/26/2009
Rep Waxman, Henry A. [CA-30] - 1/26/2009

COMMITTEE(S):

Committee/Subcommittee:	Activity:
House Appropriations	Referral
House Budget	Referral

RELATED BILL DETAILS:  (additional related bills may be indentified in Status)

Bill:	Relationship:
H.RES.88	Rule related to H.R.1 in House
H.RES.92	Rule related to H.R.1 in House
H.RES.168	Rule related to H.R.1 in House
H.R.290	Related bill identified by CRS
H.R.291	Related bill identified by CRS
H.R.598	Related bill identified by CRS
H.R.629	Related bill identified by CRS
H.R.679	Related bill identified by CRS
H.R.679	Related bill as identified by the House Clerk's office
S.336	Related bill identified by CRS
S.336	Related bill as identified by the House Clerk's office
S.350	Related bill identified by CRS
S.350	Related bill as identified by the House Clerk's office

AMENDMENT(S):

1. H.AMDT.12 to H.R.1 An amendment to amend the aviation, highway, rail, and transit priority consideration and `use-it-or-lose-it' provisions to require that 50 percent of the funds be obligated within 90 days. Sponsor: Rep Oberstar, James L. [MN-8] (introduced 1/28/2009)      Cosponsors (None) Latest Major Action: 1/28/2009 House amendment agreed to. Status: On agreeing to the Oberstar amendment (A001) Agreed to by voice vote. 2. H.AMDT.13 to H.R.1 An amendment to require that the Secretary require, as a condition of receiving funding under Title XIII of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007, that the demonstration projects utilize Internet-based or other open protocols and standards if available and appropriate, and would require that grants recipients utilize Internet-based or other open protocols and standards. Sponsor: Rep Markey, Edward J. [MA-7] (introduced 1/28/2009)      Cosponsors (None) Latest Major Action: 1/28/2009 House amendment agreed to. Status: On agreeing to the Markey (MA) amendment (A002) Agreed to by voice vote. 3. H.AMDT.14 to H.R.1 An amendment to clarify that federal funds received by States under the bill for highway maintenance shall not be used to replace existing funds in place for transportation projects. Sponsor: Rep Shuster, Bill [PA-9] (introduced 1/28/2009)      Cosponsors (None) Latest Major Action: 1/28/2009 House amendment agreed to. Status: On agreeing to the Shuster amendment (A003) Agreed to by voice vote. 4. H.AMDT.15 to H.R.1 An amendment to increase transit capital funding by $3 billion. Sponsor: Rep Nadler, Jerrold [NY-8] (introduced 1/28/2009)      Cosponsors (None) Latest Major Action: 1/28/2009 House amendment agreed to. Status: On agreeing to the Nadler (NY) amendment (A004) Agreed to by voice vote. 5. H.AMDT.16 to H.R.1 Amendment sought to strike the appropriations provisions from the bill. Sponsor: Rep Neugebauer, Randy [TX-19] (introduced 1/28/2009)      Cosponsors (None) Latest Major Action: 1/28/2009 House amendment not agreed to. Status: On agreeing to the Neugebauer amendment (A005) Failed by recorded vote: 134 - 302 (Roll no. 42). 6. H.AMDT.17 to H.R.1 An amendment to provide that job training funds may be used for broadband deployment and related activities provided in the bill. Sponsor: Rep Waters, Maxine [CA-35] (introduced 1/28/2009)      Cosponsors (None) Latest Major Action: 1/28/2009 House amendment agreed to. Status: On agreeing to the Waters amendment (A006) Agreed to by voice vote. 7. H.AMDT.18 to H.R.1 Amendment sought to strike funding for Amtrak. Sponsor: Rep Flake, Jeff [AZ-6] (introduced 1/28/2009)      Cosponsors (None) Latest Major Action: 1/28/2009 House amendment not agreed to. Status: On agreeing to the Flake amendment (A007) Failed by recorded vote: 116 - 320 (Roll no. 43). 8. H.AMDT.19 to H.R.1 An amendment to expand the Berry Amendment Extension Act to include DHS to require the government to purchase uniforms for more than one hundred thousand uniformed employees from U.S. textile and apparel manufacturers. Sponsor: Rep Kissell, Larry [NC-8] (introduced 1/28/2009)      Cosponsors (None) Latest Major Action: 1/28/2009 House amendment agreed to. Status: On agreeing to the Kissell amendment (A008) Agreed to by voice vote. 9. H.AMDT.20 to H.R.1 An amendment to insert the text of the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act (H.R. 985 in the 110th Congress) regarding protections for federal employees who report waste, fraud, and abuse. Sponsor: Rep Platts, Todd Russell [PA-19] (introduced 1/28/2009)      Cosponsors (None) Latest Major Action: 1/28/2009 House amendment agreed to. Status: On agreeing to the Platts amendment Agreed to by voice vote. 10. H.AMDT.21 to H.R.1 An amendment to require that the Recovery.gov website contain links and other information on how to access job information created at or by entities receiving funding under the bill; including links to local employment agencies, state, local, and other public agencies receiving recovery funds, and private firms contracted to perform work funded by the bill. Sponsor: Rep Teague, Harry [NM-2] (introduced 1/28/2009)      Cosponsors (None) Latest Major Action: 1/28/2009 House amendment agreed to. Status: On agreeing to the Teague amendment (A010) Agreed to by voice vote. 11. H.AMDT.22 to H.R.1 Amendment in the Nature of a Substitute sought to strike everything after enacting clause and adds income tax rate deductions for bottom two income tax brackets, alternative minimum tax relief, small business deduction, bonus depreciation, small business expensing, expanded carryback of net operating losses, improved home buyer credit, unemployment benefit tax exemption, health insurance premium deduction, repeal of 3 percent withholding requirement for government contractors, extension of unemployment benefits, and a Sense of Congress against tax increases to offset outlays. Sponsor: Rep Camp, Dave [MI-4] (introduced 1/28/2009)      Cosponsors (None) Latest Major Action: 1/28/2009 House amendment not agreed to. Status: On agreeing to the Camp amendment (A011) Failed by recorded vote: 170 - 266 (Roll no. 44). 12. S.AMDT.98 to H.R.1 In the nature of a substitute. Sponsor: Sen Inouye, Daniel K. [HI] (introduced 1/30/2009)      Cosponsors (1) Latest Major Action: 2/7/2009 Proposed amendment SA 98 withdrawn in Senate. 13. S.AMDT.99 to H.R.1 Purpose will be available when the amendment is proposed for consideration. See Congressional Record for text. Sponsor: Sen Casey, Robert P., Jr. [PA] (introduced 2/2/2009)      Cosponsors (None) Latest Major Action: 2/2/2009 Senate amendment submitted 14. S.AMDT.100 to H.R.1 Purpose will be available when the amendment is proposed for consideration. See Congressional Record for text. Sponsor: Sen Casey, Robert P., Jr. [PA] (introduced 2/2/2009)      Cosponsors (1) Latest Major Action: 2/2/2009 Senate amendment submitted 15. S.AMDT.101 to H.R.1 To provide an additional $6,500,000,000 to the National Institutes of Health for biomedical research. Sponsor: Sen Specter, Arlen [PA] (introduced 2/2/2009)      Cosponsors (1) Latest Major Action: 2/3/2009 Proposed amendment SA 101 withdrawn in Senate. 16. S.AMDT.102 to H.R.1 To ensure that assistance for the redevelopment of foreclosed and abandoned homes to States or units of local government impacted by catastrophic natural disasters may be used to support the redevelopment of homes damaged or destroyed as a result of the 2005 hurricanes, the severe flooding in the Midwest in 2008, and other natural disasters. Sponsor: Sen Landrieu, Mary L. [LA] (introduced 2/2/2009)      Cosponsors (6) Latest Major Action: 2/4/2009 Senate amendment agreed to. Status: Amendment SA 102 agreed to in Senate by Unanimous Consent. 17. S.AMDT.103 to H.R.1 Purpose will be available when the amendment is proposed for consideration. See Congressional Record for text. Sponsor: Sen Landrieu, Mary L. [LA] (introduced 2/2/2009)      Cosponsors (None) Latest Major Action: 2/2/2009 Senate amendment submitted 18. S.AMDT.104 to H.R.1 To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow an above-the-line deduction against individual income tax for interest on indebtedness and for State sales and excise taxes with respect to the purchase of certain motor vehicles. Sponsor: Sen Mikulski, Barbara A. [MD] (introduced 2/2/2009)      Cosponsors (7) Latest Major Action: 2/3/2009 Senate amendment agreed to. Status: Amendment SA 104 agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote. 19. S.AMDT.105 to H.R.1 Purpose will be available when the amendment is proposed for consideration. See Congressional Record for text. Sponsor: Sen Casey, Robert P., Jr. [PA] (introduced 2/2/2009)      Cosponsors (1) Latest Major Action: 2/2/2009 Senate amendment submitted 20. S.AMDT.106 to H.R.1 To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a Federal income tax credit for certain home purchases. Sponsor: Sen Isakson, Johnny [GA] (introduced 2/3/2009)      Cosponsors (3) Latest Major Action: 2/4/2009 Senate amendment agreed to. Status: Amendment SA 106 as modified agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote. 21. S.AMDT.107 to H.R.1 Prohibiting direct or indirect use of funds to fund the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN). Sponsor: Sen Vitter, David [LA] (introduced 2/3/2009)      Cosponsors (None) Latest Major Action: 2/6/2009 Senate amendment not agreed to. Status: Amendment SA 107 not agreed to in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 45 - 51. Record Vote Number: 56. 22. S.AMDT.108 to H.R.1 Purpose will be available when the amendment is proposed for consideration. See Congressional Record for text. Sponsor: Sen Coburn, Tom [OK] (introduced 2/3/2009)      Cosponsors (None) Latest Major Action: 2/3/2009 Senate amendment submitted 23. S.AMDT.109 to H.R.1 To strike the $246 million tax earmark for Hollywood production companies. Sponsor: Sen Coburn, Tom [OK] (introduced 2/3/2009)      Cosponsors (3) Latest Major Action: 2/3/2009 Senate amendment agreed to. Status: Amendment SA 109 agreed to in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 52 - 45. Record Vote Number: 34. 24. S.AMDT.110 to H.R.1 To strengthen the infrastructure investments made by the bill. Sponsor: Sen Murray, Patty [WA] (introduced 2/3/2009)      Cosponsors (24) Latest Major Action: 2/6/2009 Proposed amendment SA 110 withdrawn in Senate. 25. S.AMDT.111 to H.R.1 Purpose will be available when the amendment is proposed for consideration. See Congressional Record for text. Sponsor: Sen Murray, Patty [WA] (introduced 2/3/2009)      Cosponsors (None) Latest Major Action: 2/3/2009 Senate amendment submitted 26. S.AMDT.112 to H.R.1 To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow the deduction for dividends received from controlled foreign corporations for an additional year, and for other purposes. Sponsor: Sen Boxer, Barbara [CA] (introduced 2/3/2009)      Cosponsors (3) Latest Major Action: 2/3/2009 Amendment SA 112 ruled out of order by the chair. 27. S.AMDT.113 to H.R.1 Purpose will be available when the amendment is proposed for consideration. See Congressional Record for text. Sponsor: Sen Wyden, Ron [OR] (introduced 2/3/2009)      Cosponsors (None) Latest Major Action: 2/3/2009 Senate amendment submitted 28. S.AMDT.114 to H.R.1 Purpose will be available when the amendment is proposed for consideration. See Congressional Record for text. Sponsor: Sen Kerry, John F. [MA] (introduced 2/3/2009)      Cosponsors (7) Latest Major Action: 2/3/2009 Senate amendment submitted 29. S.AMDT.115 to H.R.1 Purpose will be available when the amendment is proposed for consideration. See Congressional Record for text. Sponsor: Sen Inhofe, James M. [OK] (introduced 2/3/2009)      Cosponsors (1) Latest Major Action: 2/3/2009 Senate amendment submitted 30. S.AMDT.116 to H.R.1 Purpose will be available when the amendment is proposed for consideration. See Congressional Record for text. Sponsor: Sen Cardin, Benjamin L. [MD] (introduced 2/3/2009)      Cosponsors (4) Latest Major Action: 2/3/2009 Senate amendment submitted 31. S.AMDT.117 to H.R.1 Purpose will be available when the amendment is proposed for consideration. See Congressional Record for text. Sponsor: Sen Vitter, David [LA] (introduced 2/3/2009)      Cosponsors (None) Latest Major Action: 2/3/2009 Senate amendment submitted 32. S.AMDT.118 to H.R.1 Purpose will be available when the amendment is proposed for consideration. See Congressional Record for text. Sponsor: Sen Vitter, David [LA] (introduced 2/3/2009)      Cosponsors (None) Latest Major Action: 2/3/2009 Senate amendment submitted 33. S.AMDT.119 to H.R.1 Purpose will be available when the amendment is proposed for consideration. See Congressional Record for text. Sponsor: Sen DeMint, Jim [SC] (introduced 2/3/2009)      Cosponsors (None) Latest Major Action: 2/3/2009 Senate amendment submitted 34. S.AMDT.120 to H.R.1 Purpose will be available when the amendment is proposed for consideration. See Congressional Record for text. Sponsor: Sen Brown, Sherrod [OH] (introduced 2/3/2009)      Cosponsors (None) Latest Major Action: 2/3/2009 Senate amendment submitted 35. S.AMDT.121 to H.R.1 Purpose will be available when the amendment is proposed for consideration. See Congressional Record for text. Sponsor: Sen Boxer, Barbara [CA] (introduced 2/3/2009)      Cosponsors (1) Latest Major Action: 2/3/2009 Senate amendment submitted 36. S.AMDT.122 to H.R.1 Purpose will be available when the amendment is proposed for consideration. See Congressional Record for text. Sponsor: Sen Bunning, Jim [KY] (introduced 2/3/2009)      Cosponsors (None) Latest Major Action: 2/3/2009 Senate amendment submitted 37. S.AMDT.123 to H.R.1 Purpose will be available when the amendment is proposed for consideration. See Congressional Record for text. Sponsor: Sen Bunning, Jim [KY] (introduced 2/3/2009)      Cosponsors (None) Latest Major Action: 2/3/2009 Senate amendment submitted 38. S.AMDT.124 to H.R.1 Purpose will be available when the amendment is proposed for consideration. See Congressional Record for text. Sponsor: Sen Bunning, Jim [KY] (introduced 2/3/2009)      Cosponsors (None) Latest Major Action: 2/3/2009 Senate amendment submitted 39. S.AMDT.125 to H.R.1 To limit compensation to officers and directors of entities receiving emergency economic assistance from the Government. Sponsor: Sen McCaskill, Claire [MO] (introduced 2/3/2009)      Cosponsors (8) Latest Major Action: 2/5/2009 Senate amendment agreed to. Status: Amendment SA 125 agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote. 40. S.AMDT.126 to H.R.1 Purpose will be available when the amendment is proposed for consideration. See Congressional Record for text. Sponsor: Sen McCaskill, Claire [MO] (introduced 2/3/2009)      Cosponsors (5) Latest Major Action: 2/3/2009 Senate amendment submitted 41. S.AMDT.127 to H.R.1 Purpose will be available when the amendment is proposed for consideration. See Congressional Record for text. Sponsor: Sen McCaskill, Claire [MO] (introduced 2/3/2009)      Cosponsors (1) Latest Major Action: 2/3/2009 Senate amendment submitted 42. S.AMDT.128 to H.R.1 Purpose will be available when the amendment is proposed for consideration. See Congressional Record for text. Sponsor: Sen Bayh, Evan [IN] (introduced 2/3/2009)      Cosponsors (None) Latest Major Action: 2/3/2009 Senate amendment submitted 43. S.AMDT.129 to H.R.1 Purpose will be available when the amendment is proposed for consideration. See Congressional Record for text. Sponsor: Sen Carper, Thomas R. [DE] (introduced 2/3/2009)      Cosponsors (2) Latest Major Action: 2/3/2009 Senate amendment submitted 44. S.AMDT.130 to H.R.1 Purpose will be available when the amendment is proposed for consideration. See Congressional Record for text. Sponsor: Sen Inhofe, James M. [OK] (introduced 2/3/2009)      Cosponsors (None) Latest Major Action: 2/3/2009 Senate amendment submitted 45. S.AMDT.131 to H.R.1 Purpose will be available when the amendment is proposed for consideration. See Congressional Record for text. Sponsor: Sen Vitter, David [LA] (introduced 2/3/2009)      Cosponsors (None) Latest Major Action: 2/3/2009 Senate amendment submitted 46. S.AMDT.132 to H.R.1 Purpose will be available when the amendment is proposed for consideration. See Congressional Record for text. Sponsor: Sen Cornyn, John [TX] (introduced 2/3/2009)      Cosponsors (None) Latest Major Action: 2/3/2009 Senate amendment submitted 47. S.AMDT.133 to H.R.1 Purpose will be available when the amendment is proposed for consideration. See Congressional Record for text. Sponsor: Sen Cornyn, John [TX] (introduced 2/3/2009)      Cosponsors (None) Latest Major Action: 2/3/2009 Senate amendment submitted 48. S.AMDT.134 to H.R.1 Purpose will be available when the amendment is proposed for consideration. See Congressional Record for text. Sponsor: Sen Cornyn, John [TX] (introduced 2/3/2009)      Cosponsors (None) Latest Major Action: 2/3/2009 Senate amendment submitted 49. S.AMDT.135 to H.R.1 Purpose will be available when the amendment is proposed for consideration. See Congressional Record for text. Sponsor: Sen Cornyn, John [TX] (introduced 2/3/2009)      Cosponsors (None) Latest Major Action: 2/3/2009 Senate amendment submitted 50. S.AMDT.136 to H.R.1 Purpose will be available when the amendment is proposed for consideration. See Congressional Record for text. Sponsor: Sen Vitter, David [LA] (introduced 2/3/2009)      Cosponsors (None) Latest Major Action: 2/3/2009 Senate amendment submitted 51. S.AMDT.137 to H.R.1 Purpose will be available when the amendment is proposed for consideration. See Congressional Record for text. Sponsor: Sen Kennedy, Edward M. [MA] (introduced 2/3/2009)      Cosponsors (6) Latest Major Action: 2/3/2009 Senate amendment submitted 52. S.AMDT.138 to H.R.1 To provide for reports on the use of funds made available under this Act and the economic impact made by the expenditure or obligation of such funds, and for other purposes. Sponsor: Sen Dorgan, Byron L. [ND] (introduced 2/3/2009)      Cosponsors (1) Latest Major Action: 2/5/2009 Senate amendment agreed to. Status: Amendment SA 138 as modified agreed to in Senate by Unanimous Consent. 53. S.AMDT.139 to H.R.1 Purpose will be available when the amendment is proposed for consideration. See Congressional Record for text. Sponsor: Sen Dorgan, Byron L. [ND] (introduced 2/3/2009)      Cosponsors (1) Latest Major Action: 2/3/2009 Senate amendment submitted 54. S.AMDT.140 to H.R.1 To provide greater accountability of taxpayers' dollars by curtailing congressional earmarking and requiring disclosure of lobbying by recipients of Federal funds. Sponsor: Sen Feingold, Russell D. [WI] (introduced 2/3/2009)      Cosponsors (7) Latest Major Action: 2/5/2009 Senate amendment not agreed to. Status: Amendment SA 140 not agreed to in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 32 - 65. Record Vote Number: 46. 55. S.AMDT.141 to H.R.1 Purpose will be available when the amendment is proposed for consideration. See Congressional Record for text. Sponsor: Sen Ensign, John [NV] (introduced 2/3/2009)      Cosponsors (None) Latest Major Action: 2/3/2009 Senate amendment submitted 56. S.AMDT.142 to H.R.1 Purpose will be available when the amendment is proposed for consideration. See Congressional Record for text. Sponsor: Sen Coburn, Tom [OK] (introduced 2/3/2009)      Cosponsors (None) Latest Major Action: 2/3/2009 Senate amendment submitted 57. S.AMDT.143 to H.R.1 Purpose will be available when the amendment is proposed for consideration. See Congressional Record for text. Sponsor: Sen Coburn, Tom [OK] (introduced 2/3/2009)      Cosponsors (None) Latest Major Action: 2/3/2009 Senate amendment submitted 58. S.AMDT.144 to H.R.1 Purpose will be available when the amendment is proposed for consideration. See Congressional Record for text. Sponsor: Sen Coburn, Tom [OK] (introduced 2/3/2009)      Cosponsors (None) Latest Major Action: 2/3/2009 Senate amendment submitted 59. S.AMDT.145 to H.R.1 To improve the efforts of the Federal Government in mitigating home foreclosures and to require the Secretary of the Treasury to develop and implement a foreclosure prevention loan modification plan. Sponsor: Sen Dodd, Christopher J. [CT] (introduced 2/3/2009)      Cosponsors (2) Latest Major Action: 2/6/2009 Senate amendment agreed to. Status: Amendment SA 145 as modified agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote. 60. S.AMDT.146 to H.R.1 Purpose will be available when the amendment is proposed for consideration. See Congressional Record for text. Sponsor: Sen Carper, Thomas R. [DE] (introduced 2/3/2009)      Cosponsors (1) Latest Major Action: 2/3/2009 Senate amendment submitted 61. S.AMDT.147 to H.R.1 Purpose will be available when the amendment is proposed for consideration. See Congressional Record for text. Sponsor: Sen Brownback, Sam [KS] (introduced 2/3/2009)      Cosponsors (None) Latest Major Action: 2/3/2009 Senate amendment submitted 62. S.AMDT.148 to H.R.1 Purpose will be available when the amendment is proposed for consideration. See Congressional Record for text. Sponsor: Sen Brownback, Sam [KS] (introduced 2/3/2009)      Cosponsors (None) Latest Major Action: 2/3/2009 Senate amendment submitted 63. S.AMDT.149 to H.R.1 Purpose will be available when the amendment is proposed for consideration. See Congressional Record for text. Sponsor: Sen DeMint, Jim [SC] (introduced 2/3/2009)      Cosponsors (None) Latest Major Action: 2/3/2009 Senate amendment submitted 64. S.AMDT.150 to H.R.1 Purpose will be available when the amendment is proposed for consideration. See Congressional Record for text. Sponsor: Sen DeMint, Jim [SC] (introduced 2/3/2009)      Cosponsors (None) Latest Major Action: 2/3/2009 Senate amendment submitted 65. S.AMDT.151 to H.R.1 Purpose will be available when the amendment is proposed for consideration. See Congressional Record for text. Sponsor: Sen DeMint, Jim [SC] (introduced 2/3/2009)      Cosponsors (None) Latest Major Action: 2/3/2009 Senate amendment submitted 66. S.AMDT.152 to H.R.1 Purpose will be available when the amendment is proposed for consideration. See Congressional Record for text. Sponsor: Sen Kyl, Jon [AZ] (introduced 2/3/2009)      Cosponsors (None) Latest Major Action: 2/3/2009 Senate amendment submitted 67. S.AMDT.153 to H.R.1 Purpose will be available when the amendment is proposed for consideration. See Congressional Record for text. Sponsor: Sen Kyl, Jon [AZ] (introduced 2/3/2009)      Cosponsors (None) Latest Major Action: 2/3/2009 Senate amendment submitted 68. S.AMDT.154 to H.R.1 Purpose will be available when the amendment is proposed for consideration. See Congressional Record for text. Sponsor: Sen Kyl, Jon [AZ] (introduced 2/3/2009)      Cosponsors (None) Latest Major Action: 2/3/2009 Senate amendment submitted 69. S.AMDT.155 to H.R.1 Purpose will be available when the amendment is proposed for consideration. See Congressional Record for text. Sponsor: Sen Klobuchar, Amy [MN] (introduced 2/3/2009)      Cosponsors (2) Latest Major Action: 2/3/2009 Senate amendment submitted 70. S.AMDT.156 to H.R.1 Purpose will be available when the amendment is proposed for consideration. See Congressional Record for text. Sponsor: Sen Klobuchar, Amy [MN] (introduced 2/3/2009)      Cosponsors (None) Latest Major Action: 2/3/2009 Senate amendment submitted 71. S.AMDT.157 to H.R.1 Purpose will be available when the amendment is proposed for consideration. See Congressional Record for text. Sponsor: Sen Klobuchar, Amy [MN] (introduced 2/3/2009)      Cosponsors (None) Latest Major Action: 2/3/2009 Senate amendment submitted 72. S.AMDT.158 to H.R.1 Purpose will be available when the amendment is proposed for consideration. See Congressional Record for text. Sponsor: Sen Martinez, Mel [FL] (introduced 2/3/2009)      Cosponsors (1) Latest Major Action: 2/3/2009 Senate amendment submitted 73. S.AMDT.159 to H.R.1 To reduce home foreclosures, compensate servicers who modify mortgages, and remove the legal constraints that inhibit modification, and for other purposes. Sponsor: Sen Martinez, Mel [FL] (introduced 2/3/2009)      Cosponsors (None) Latest Major Action: 2/4/2009 Proposed amendment SA 159 withdrawn in Senate. 74. S.AMDT.160 to H.R.1 Purpose will be available when the amendment is proposed for consideration. See Congressional Record for text. Sponsor: Sen Bond, Christopher S. [MO] (introduced 2/3/2009)      Cosponsors (None) Latest Major Action: 2/3/2009 Senate amendment submitted 75. S.AMDT.161 to H.R.1 To provide $2,000,000,000 from the HOME program for investment in the low income housing tax credit projects. Sponsor: Sen Bond, Christopher S. [MO] (introduced 2/3/2009)      Cosponsors (8) Latest Major Action: 2/4/2009 Senate amendment agreed to. Status: Amendment SA 161 agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote. 76. S.AMDT.162 to H.R.1 Purpose will be available when the amendment is proposed for consideration. See Congressional Record for text. Sponsor: Sen Bond, Christopher S. [MO] (introduced 2/3/2009)      Cosponsors (None) Latest Major Action: 2/3/2009 Senate amendment submitted 77. S.AMDT.163 to H.R.1 Purpose will be available when the amendment is proposed for consideration. See Congressional Record for text. Sponsor: Sen Inhofe, James M. [OK] (introduced 2/3/2009)      Cosponsors (None) Latest Major Action: 2/3/2009 Senate amendment submitted 78. S.AMDT.164 to H.R.1 Purpose will be available when the amendment is proposed for consideration. See Congressional Record for text. Sponsor: Sen Sessions, Jeff [AL] (introduced 2/3/2009)      Cosponsors (None) Latest Major Action: 2/3/2009 Senate amendment submitted 79. S.AMDT.165 to H.R.1 Purpose will be available when the amendment is proposed for consideration. See Congressional Record for text. Sponsor: Sen Sessions, Jeff [AL] (introduced 2/3/2009)      Cosponsors (None) Latest Major Action: 2/3/2009 Senate amendment submitted 80. S.AMDT.166 to H.R.1 Purpose will be available when the amendment is proposed for consideration. See Congressional Record for text. Sponsor: Sen Sessions, Jeff [AL] (introduced 2/3/2009)      Cosponsors (None) Latest Major Action: 2/3/2009 Senate amendment submitted 81. S.AMDT.167 to H.R.1 Purpose will be available when the amendment is proposed for consideration. See Congressional Record for text. Sponsor: Sen DeMint, Jim [SC] (introduced 2/3/2009)      Cosponsors (None) Latest Major Action: 2/3/2009 Senate amendment submitted 82. S.AMDT.168 to H.R.1 In the nature of a substitute. Sponsor: Sen DeMint, Jim [SC] (introduced 2/3/2009)      Cosponsors (None) Latest Major Action: 2/4/2009 Amendment SA 168 ruled out of order by the chair. 83. S.AMDT.169 to H.R.1 Purpose will be available when the amendment is proposed for consideration. See Congressional Record for text. Sponsor: Sen Bond, Christopher S. [MO] (introduced 2/3/2009)      Cosponsors (7) Latest Major Action: 2/3/2009 Senate amendment submitted 84. S.AMDT.170 to H.R.1 Purpose will be available when the amendment is proposed for consideration. See Congressional Record for text. Sponsor: Sen Carper, Thomas R. [DE] (introduced 2/3/2009)      Cosponsors (1) Latest Major Action: 2/3/2009 Senate amendment submitted 85. S.AMDT.171 to H.R.1 Purpose will be available when the amendment is proposed for consideration. See Congressional Record for text. Sponsor: Sen Carper, Thomas R. [DE] (introduced 2/3/2009)      Cosponsors (8) Latest Major Action: 2/3/2009 Senate amendment submitted 86. S.AMDT.172 to H.R.1 Purpose will be available when the amendment is proposed for consideration. See Congressional Record for text. Sponsor: Sen Udall, Mark [CO] (introduced 2/3/2009)      Cosponsors (2) Latest Major Action: 2/3/2009 Senate amendment submitted 87. S.AMDT.173 to H.R.1 Purpose will be available when the amendment is proposed for consideration. See Congressional Record for text. Sponsor: Sen Levin, Carl [MI] (introduced 2/3/2009)      Cosponsors (3) Latest Major Action: 2/3/2009 Senate amendment submitted 88. S.AMDT.174 to H.R.1 Purpose will be available when the amendment is proposed for consideration. See Congressional Record for text. Sponsor: Sen Coburn, Tom [OK] (introduced 2/3/2009)      Cosponsors (None) Latest Major Action: 2/3/2009 Senate amendment submitted 89. S.AMDT.175 to H.R.1 Purpose will be available when the amendment is proposed for consideration. See Congressional Record for text. Sponsor: Sen Coburn, Tom [OK] (introduced 2/3/2009)      Cosponsors (None) Latest Major Action: 2/3/2009 Senate amendment submitted 90. S.AMDT.176 to H.R.1 To require the use of competitive procedures to award contracts, grants, and cooperative agreements funded under this Act. Sponsor: Sen Coburn, Tom [OK] (introduced 2/3/2009)      Cosponsors (None) Latest Major Action: 2/6/2009 Senate amendment agreed to. Status: Amendment SA 176 agreed to in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 97 - 0. Record Vote Number: 52. 91. S.AMDT.177 to H.R.1 Purpose will be available when the amendment is proposed for consideration. See Congressional Record for text. Sponsor: Sen Specter, Arlen [PA] (introduced 2/3/2009)      Cosponsors (None) Latest Major Action: 2/3/2009 Senate amendment submitted 92. S.AMDT.178 to H.R.1 To provide an additional $6,500,000,000 to the National Institutes of Health for biomedical research. Sponsor: Sen Harkin, Tom [IA] (introduced 2/3/2009)      Cosponsors (None) Latest Major Action: 2/3/2009 Senate amendment agreed to. Status: Amendment SA 178 as modified agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote. 93. S.AMDT.179 to H.R.1 To eliminate unnecessary spending. Sponsor: Sen Vitter, David [LA] (introduced 2/3/2009)      Cosponsors (None) Latest Major Action: 2/4/2009 Senate amendment not agreed to. Status: Amendment SA 179 not agreed to in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 32 - 65. Record Vote Number: 37. 94. S.AMDT.180 to H.R.1 Purpose will be available when the amendment is proposed for consideration. See Congressional Record for text. Sponsor: Sen Stabenow, Debbie [MI] (introduced 2/3/2009)      Cosponsors (4) Latest Major Action: 2/3/2009 Senate amendment submitted 95. S.AMDT.181 to H.R.1 Purpose will be available when the amendment is proposed for consideration. See Congressional Record for text. Sponsor: Sen Stabenow, Debbie [MI] (introduced 2/3/2009)      Cosponsors (1) Latest Major Action: 2/3/2009 Senate amendment submitted 96. S.AMDT.182 to H.R.1 Purpose will be available when the amendment is proposed for consideration. See Congressional Record for text. Sponsor: Sen Rockefeller, John D., IV [WV] (introduced 2/3/2009)      Cosponsors (3) Latest Major Action: 2/3/2009 Senate amendment submitted 97. S.AMDT.183 to H.R.1 Purpose will be available when the amendment is proposed for consideration. See Congressional Record for text. Sponsor: Sen Rockefeller, John D., IV [WV] (introduced 2/3/2009)      Cosponsors (2) Latest Major Action: 2/3/2009 Senate amendment submitted 98. S.AMDT.184 to H.R.1 Purpose will be available when the amendment is proposed for consideration. See Congressional Record for text. Sponsor: Sen Leahy, Patrick J. [VT] (introduced 2/3/2009)      Cosponsors (1) Latest Major Action: 2/3/2009 Senate amendment submitted 99. S.AMDT.185 to H.R.1 Purpose will be available when the amendment is proposed for consideration. See Congressional Record for text. Sponsor: Sen Schumer, Charles E. [NY] (introduced 2/3/2009)      Cosponsors (4) Latest Major Action: 2/3/2009 Senate amendment submitted 100. S.AMDT.186 to H.R.1 Purpose will be available when the amendment is proposed for consideration. See Congressional Record for text. Sponsor: Sen Udall, Mark [CO] (introduced 2/3/2009)      Cosponsors (1) Latest Major Action: 2/3/2009 Senate amendment submitted 101. S.AMDT.187 to H.R.1 Purpose will be available when the amendment is proposed for consideration. See Congressional Record for text. Sponsor: Sen Udall, Mark [CO] (introduced 2/3/2009)      Cosponsors (6) Latest Major Action: 2/3/2009 Senate amendment submitted 102. S.AMDT.188 to H.R.1 Purpose will be available when the amendment is proposed for consideration. See Congressional Record for text. Sponsor: Sen Inhofe, James M. [OK] (introduced 2/3/2009)      Cosponsors (None) Latest Major Action: 2/3/2009 Senate amendment submitted 103. S.AMDT.189 to H.R.1 To allow the free exercise of religion at institutions of higher education that receive funding under section 803 of division A. Sponsor: Sen DeMint, Jim [SC] (introduced 2/3/2009)      Cosponsors (6) Latest Major Action: 2/5/2009 Senate amendment not agreed to. Status: Amendment SA 189 not agreed to in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 43 - 54. Record Vote Number: 47. 104. S.AMDT.190 to H.R.1 Purpose will be available when the amendment is proposed for consideration. See Congressional Record for text. Sponsor: Sen Landrieu, Mary L. [LA] (introduced 2/3/2009)      Cosponsors (1) Latest Major Action: 2/3/2009 Senate amendment submitted 105. S.AMDT.191 to H.R.1 Purpose will be available when the amendment is proposed for consideration. See Congressional Record for text. Sponsor: Sen Murkowski, Lisa [AK] (introduced 2/3/2009)      Cosponsors (None) Latest Major Action: 2/3/2009 Senate amendment submitted 106. S.AMDT.192 to H.R.1 Purpose will be available when the amendment is proposed for consideration. See Congressional Record for text. Sponsor: Sen Murkowski, Lisa [AK] (introduced 2/3/2009)      Cosponsors (None) Latest Major Action: 2/3/2009 Senate amendment submitted 107. S.AMDT.193 to H.R.1 Purpose will be available when the amendment is proposed for consideration. See Congressional Record for text. Sponsor: Sen Murkowski, Lisa [AK] (introduced 2/3/2009)      Cosponsors (None) Latest Major Action: 2/3/2009 Senate amendment submitted 108. S.AMDT.194 to H.R.1 Purpose will be available when the amendment is proposed for consideration. See Congressional Record for text. Sponsor: Sen Murkowski, Lisa [AK] (introduced 2/3/2009)      Cosponsors (None) Latest Major Action: 2/3/2009 Senate amendment submitted 109. S.AMDT.195 to H.R.1 Purpose will be available when the amendment is proposed for consideration. See Congressional Record for text. Sponsor: Sen Bingaman, Jeff [NM] (introduced 2/3/2009)      Cosponsors (6) Latest Major Action: 2/3/2009 Senate amendment submitted 110. S.AMDT.196 to H.R.1 Purpose will be available when the amendment is proposed for consideration. See Congressional Record for text. Sponsor: Sen McCaskill, Claire [MO] (introduced 2/3/2009)      Cosponsors (1) Latest Major Action: 2/3/2009 Senate amendment submitted 111. S.AMDT.197 to H.R.1 In the nature of a substitute. Sponsor: Sen Thune, John [SD] (introduced 2/3/2009)      Cosponsors (5) Latest Major Action: 2/5/2009 Amendment SA 197 ruled out of order by the chair. 112. S.AMDT.198 to H.R.1 Purpose will be available when the amendment is proposed for consideration. See Congressional Record for text. Sponsor: Sen Inhofe, James M. [OK] (introduced 2/3/2009)      Cosponsors (1) Latest Major Action: 2/3/2009 Senate amendment submitted 113. S.AMDT.199 to H.R.1 Purpose will be available when the amendment is proposed for consideration. See Congressional Record for text. Sponsor: Sen Lincoln, Blanche L. [AR] (introduced 2/3/2009)      Cosponsors (5) Latest Major Action: 2/3/2009 Senate amendment submitted 114. S.AMDT.200 to H.R.1 To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for the taxation of income of controlled foreign corporations attributable to imported property. Sponsor: Sen Dorgan, Byron L. [ND] (introduced 2/3/2009)      Cosponsors (None) Latest Major Action: 2/5/2009 Proposed amendment SA 200 withdrawn in Senate. 115. S.AMDT.201 to H.R.1 Purpose will be available when the amendment is proposed for consideration. See Congressional Record for text. Sponsor: Sen Klobuchar, Amy [MN] (introduced 2/3/2009)      Cosponsors (3) Latest Major Action: 2/3/2009 Senate amendment submitted 116. S.AMDT.202 to H.R.1 Purpose will be available when the amendment is proposed for consideration. See Congressional Record for text. Sponsor: Sen Sanders, Bernard [VT] (introduced 2/3/2009)      Cosponsors (None) Latest Major Action: 2/3/2009 Senate amendment submitted 117. S.AMDT.203 to H.R.1 Purpose will be available when the amendment is proposed for consideration. See Congressional Record for text. Sponsor: Sen Sanders, Bernard [VT] (introduced 2/3/2009)      Cosponsors (1) Latest Major Action: 2/3/2009 Senate amendment submitted 118. S.AMDT.204 to H.R.1 Purpose will be available when the amendment is proposed for consideration. See Congressional Record for text. Sponsor: Sen Landrieu, Mary L. [LA] (introduced 2/3/2009)      Cosponsors (3) Latest Major Action: 2/3/2009 Senate amendment submitted 119. S.AMDT.205 to H.R.1 Purpose will be available when the amendment is proposed for consideration. See Congressional Record for text. Sponsor: Sen Landrieu, Mary L. [LA] (introduced 2/3/2009)      Cosponsors (1) Latest Major Action: 2/3/2009 Senate amendment submitted 120. S.AMDT.206 to H.R.1 Purpose will be available when the amendment is proposed for consideration. See Congressional Record for text. Sponsor: Sen Landrieu, Mary L. [LA] (introduced 2/3/2009)      Cosponsors (2) Latest Major Action: 2/3/2009 Senate amendment submitted 121. S.AMDT.207 to H.R.1 Purpose will be available when the amendment is proposed for consideration. See Congressional Record for text. Sponsor: Sen Kyl, Jon [AZ] (introduced 2/4/2009)      Cosponsors (None) Latest Major Action: 2/4/2009 Senate amendment submitted 122. S.AMDT.208 to H.R.1 Purpose will be available when the amendment is proposed for consideration. See Congressional Record for text. Sponsor: Sen Grassley, Chuck [IA] (introduced 2/4/2009)      Cosponsors (None) Latest Major Action: 2/4/2009 Senate amendment submitted 123. S.AMDT.209 to H.R.1 Purpose will be available when the amendment is proposed for consideration. See Congressional Record for text. Sponsor: Sen Grassley, Chuck [IA] (introduced 2/4/2009)      Cosponsors (2) Latest Major Action: 2/4/2009 Senate amendment submitted 124. S.AMDT.210 to H.R.1 Purpose will be available when the amendment is proposed for consideration. See Congressional Record for text. Sponsor: Sen Cornyn, John [TX] (introduced 2/4/2009)      Cosponsors (3) Latest Major Action: 2/4/2009 Senate amendment submitted 125. S.AMDT.211 to H.R.1 Purpose will be available when the amendment is proposed for consideration. See Congressional Record for text. Sponsor: Sen Cornyn, John [TX] (introduced 2/4/2009)      Cosponsors (4) Latest Major Action: 2/4/2009 Senate amendment submitted 126. S.AMDT.212 to H.R.1 Purpose will be available when the amendment is proposed for consideration. See Congressional Record for text. Sponsor: Sen Martinez, Mel [FL] (introduced 2/4/2009)      Cosponsors (None) Latest Major Action: 2/4/2009 Senate amendment submitted 127. S.AMDT.213 to H.R.1 Purpose will be available when the amendment is proposed for consideration. See Congressional Record for text. Sponsor: Sen Kennedy, Edward M. [MA] (introduced 2/4/2009)      Cosponsors (3) Latest Major Action: 2/4/2009 Senate amendment submitted 128. S.AMDT.214 to H.R.1 Purpose will be available when the amendment is proposed for consideration. See Congressional Record for text. Sponsor: Sen Kohl, Herb [WI] (introduced 2/4/2009)      Cosponsors (6) Latest Major Action: 2/4/2009 Senate amendment submitted 129. S.AMDT.215 to H.R.1 Purpose will be available when the amendment is proposed for consideration. See Congressional Record for text. Sponsor: Sen Sanders, Bernard [VT] (introduced 2/4/2009)      Cosponsors (None) Latest Major Action: 2/4/2009 Senate amendment submitted 130. S.AMDT.216 to H.R.1 Purpose will be available when the amendment is proposed for consideration. See Congressional Record for text. Sponsor: Sen Sanders, Bernard [VT] (introduced 2/4/2009)      Cosponsors (2) Latest Major Action: 2/4/2009 Senate amendment submitted 131. S.AMDT.217 to H.R.1 Purpose will be available when the amendment is proposed for consideration. See Congressional Record for text. Sponsor: Sen Brown, Sherrod [OH] (introduced 2/4/2009)      Cosponsors (1) Latest Major Action: 2/4/2009 Senate amendment submitted 132. S.AMDT.218 to H.R.1 Purpose will be available when the amendment is proposed for consideration. See Congressional Record for text. Sponsor: Sen Murray, Patty [WA] (introduced 2/4/2009)      Cosponsors (6) Latest Major Action: 2/4/2009 Senate amendment submitted 133. S.AMDT.219 to H.R.1 Purpose will be available when the amendment is proposed for consideration. See Congressional Record for text. Sponsor: Sen Menendez, Robert [NJ] (introduced 2/4/2009)      Cosponsors (None) Latest Major Action: 2/4/2009 Senate amendment submitted 134. S.AMDT.220 to H.R.1 Purpose will be available when the amendment is proposed for consideration. See Congressional Record for text. Sponsor: Sen Menendez, Robert [NJ] (introduced 2/4/2009)      Cosponsors (6) Latest Major Action: 2/4/2009 Senate amendment submitted 135. S.AMDT.221 to H.R.1 Purpose will be available when the amendment is proposed for consideration. See Congressional Record for text. Sponsor: Sen Leahy, Patrick J. [VT] (introduced 2/4/2009)      Cosponsors (1) Latest Major Action: 2/4/2009 Senate amendment submitted 136. S.AMDT.222 to H.R.1 Purpose will be available when the amendment is proposed for consideration. See Congressional Record for text. Sponsor: Sen Leahy, Patrick J. [VT] (introduced 2/4/2009)      Cosponsors (None) Latest Major Action: 2/4/2009 Senate amendment submitted 137. S.AMDT.223 to H.R.1 Purpose will be available when the amendment is proposed for consideration. See Congressional Record for text. Sponsor: Sen Menendez, Robert [NJ] (introduced 2/4/2009)      Cosponsors (None) Latest Major Action: 2/4/2009 Senate amendment submitted 138. S.AMDT.224 to H.R.1 Purpose will be available when the amendment is proposed for consideration. See Congressional Record for text. Sponsor: Sen Snowe, Olympia J. [ME] (introduced 2/4/2009)      Cosponsors (3) Latest Major Action: 2/4/2009 Senate amendment submitted 139. S.AMDT.225 to H.R.1 Purpose will be available when the amendment is proposed for consideration. See Congressional Record for text. Sponsor: Sen Snowe, Olympia J. [ME] (introduced 2/4/2009)      Cosponsors (1) Latest Major Action: 2/4/2009 Senate amendment submitted 140. S.AMDT.226 to H.R.1 Purpose will be available when the amendment is proposed for consideration. See Congressional Record for text. Sponsor: Sen Ensign, John [NV] (introduced 2/4/2009)      Cosponsors (2) Latest Major Action: 2/4/2009 Senate amendment submitted 141. S.AMDT.227 to H.R.1 Purpose will be available when the amendment is proposed for consideration. See Congressional Record for text. Sponsor: Sen Ensign, John [NV] (introduced 2/4/2009)      Cosponsors (None) Latest Major Action: 2/4/2009 Senate amendment submitted 142. S.AMDT.228 to H.R.1 Purpose will be available when the amendment is proposed for consideration. See Congressional Record for text. Sponsor: Sen Kerry, John F. [MA] (introduced 2/4/2009)      Cosponsors (1) Latest Major Action: 2/4/2009 Senate amendment submitted 143. S.AMDT.229 to H.R.1 Purpose will be available when the amendment is proposed for consideration. See Congressional Record for text. Sponsor: Sen Schumer, Charles E. [NY] (introduced 2/4/2009)      Cosponsors (2) Latest Major Action: 2/4/2009 Senate amendment submitted 144. S.AMDT.230 to H.R.1 Purpose will be available when the amendment is proposed for consideration. See Congressional Record for text. Sponsor: Sen Schumer, Charles E. [NY] (introduced 2/4/2009)      Cosponsors (None) Latest Major Action: 2/4/2009 Senate amendment submitted 145. S.AMDT.231 to H.R.1 Purpose will be available when the amendment is proposed for consideration. See Congressional Record for text. Sponsor: Sen Schumer, Charles E. [NY] (introduced 2/4/2009)      Cosponsors (None) Latest Major Action: 2/4/2009 Senate amendment submitted 146. S.AMDT.232 to H.R.1 Purpose will be available when the amendment is proposed for consideration. See Congressional Record for text. Sponsor: Sen Schumer, Charles E. [NY] (introduced 2/4/2009)      Cosponsors (None) Latest Major Action: 2/4/2009 Senate amendment submitted 147. S.AMDT.233 to H.R.1 Purpose will be available when the amendment is proposed for consideration. See Congressional Record for text. Sponsor: Sen Schumer, Charles E. [NY] (introduced 2/4/2009)      Cosponsors (3) Latest Major Action: 2/4/2009 Senate amendment submitted 148. S.AMDT.234 to H.R.1 Purpose will be available when the amendment is proposed for consideration. See Congressional Record for text. Sponsor: Sen Schumer, Charles E. [NY] (introduced 2/4/2009)      Cosponsors (3) Latest Major Action: 2/4/2009 Senate amendment submitted 149. S.AMDT.235 to H.R.1 Purpose will be available when the amendment is proposed for consideration. See Congressional Record for text. Sponsor: Sen McCaskill, Claire [MO] (introduced 2/4/2009)      Cosponsors (1) Latest Major Action: 2/4/2009 Senate amendment submitted 150. S.AMDT.236 to H.R.1 To establish funding levels for various offices of inspectors general and to set a date until which such funds shall remain available. Sponsor: Sen McCaskill, Claire [MO] (introduced 2/4/2009)      Cosponsors (1) Latest Major Action: 2/5/2009 Senate amendment agreed to. Status: Amendment SA 236 as modified agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote.