Claim: The stimulus bill contains "$20 million for the removal of small to medium-sized fish passage barriers" and "$25 million to rehabilitate off-roading trails for ATVs.
Verdict: SUPPORTS

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title: Nashua River Wild and Scenic River Study Act
text: to study segments of the Nashua River in Massachusetts and New Hampshire for potential addition to the Wild and Scenic Rivers System. Based on information provided by the NPS, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates that implementing the legislation would cost about $350,000 over the next three years, assuming the availability of appropriated funds. Enacting H.R. 412 would not affect direct spending or revenues; therefore, pay-as-you-go procedures do not apply. H.R. 412 contains no intergovernmental or private-sector mandates as defined in the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act and would not affect the budgets of state, local, or tribal governments. The Nashua

title: Presidential transition of Barack Obama
text: similar stimulus bill was passed by the House of Representatives on September 26, 2008, but never approved by the Senate. Obama promised to promote a stimulus bill early in his presidency if one was not passed before his inauguration on January 20, 2009. In addition, Obama considered the request of the U.S. automotive industry for a cash infusion of $50 billion in addition to the $25 billion that had already been approved, but emphasizing that his support is "conditioned on them making significant adjustments." Obama also planned to push for a program to spend $150 billion over 10 years to

title: Public Access and Lands Improvement Act
text: concerning use of off-road vehicles at the seashore, which was filed on April 30, 2008. Based on information provided by the NPS, CBO estimates that implementing the legislation would cost about $2 million over the 2014-2019 period, assuming the availability of appropriated funds. Those costs would be incurred as management of the seashore transitioned to the Interim Strategy and the new final rule is developed. CBO estimates that enacting title V also would affect direct spending. Under the existing final rule, the NPS charges fees (which are recorded in the budget as offsetting receipts) for off-road vehicle permits. Those fees

title: Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009
text: management, public safety, and public outreach training and education." Title XIII deals with miscellaneous bills, including one that funds the National Tropical Botanical Garden in Hawaii and another that increases the number of Assistant Energy Secretaries in the United States Department of Energy to eight. Title XIII also amends the Fisheries Restoration and Irrigation Mitigation Act of 2000 and the Alaska Natural Gas Pipeline Act. Title XIV, the Christopher and Dana Reeve Paralysis Act, provides $105 million over five years for coordinated paralysis research by the National Institutes of Health. Title XV grants the Smithsonian Institution $69 million for laboratory

title: Sportsmen’s Heritage And Recreational Enhancement Act of 2013
text: UMRA for private-sector mandates ($152 million in 2014, adjusted annually for inflation). The Recreational Fishing and Hunting Heritage and Opportunities Act was introduced into the United States House of Representatives on November 21, 2013 by Rep. Robert E. Latta (R, OH-5). It was referred to several committees and subcommittees, including: United States House Committee on Natural Resources, United States House Committee on Agriculture, United States House Committee on the Judiciary, United States House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, United States House Committee on Energy and Commerce, United States House Transportation Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment, United States House Energy

title: American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
text: $27.2 billion Total: $14.7 billion Total: $7.6 billion Total: $10.6 billion ARRA included a protectionist 'Buy American' provision, which imposed a general requirement that any public building or public works project funded by the new stimulus package must use only iron, steel and other manufactured goods produced in the United States. A May 15, 2009, "Washington Post" article reported that the 'Buy American' provision of the stimulus package caused outrage in the Canadian business community, and that the government in Canada "retaliated" by enacting its own restrictions on trade with the U.S. On June 6, 2009, delegates at the Federation

title: Sportsmen’s Heritage And Recreational Enhancement Act of 2013
text: would require the Secretary of the Interior to issue permits to certain hunters seeking to import polar bear remains from Canada. Based on information provided by the affected agencies, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates that implementing H.R. 3590 would have no significant net impact on the federal budget. Enacting the legislation would affect direct spending and revenues; therefore, pay-as-you-go procedures apply. However, CBO estimates that the net budgetary effects would not be significant in any year. H.R. 3590 contains no intergovernmental mandates as defined in the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act (UMRA). H.R. 3590 would impose a private-sector mandate as

title: Public Access and Lands Improvement Act
text: on the plan. Based on information from EPA, CBO estimates that implementing this legislation would cost about $1 million annually over the 2015-2019 period, subject to the availability of appropriated funds. H.R. 2954 was introduced into the United States House of Representatives on August 1, 2013 under the long title "To authorize Escambia County, Florida, to convey certain property that was formerly part of Santa Rosa Island National Monument and that was conveyed to Escambia County subject to restrictions on use and reconveyance." The bill was introduced by Rep. Jeff Miller (R, FL-1). It was referred to the United States

title: Great Lakes
text: that border the Great Lakes as well as the U.S. Congress, and was signed into law by President George W. Bush on October 3, 2008. The Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, described as "the largest investment in the Great Lakes in two decades," was funded at $475 million in the U.S. federal government's Fiscal Year 2011 budget, and $300 million in the Fiscal Year 2012 budget. Through the program a coalition of federal agencies is making grants to local and state entities for toxics cleanups, wetlands and coastline restoration projects, and invasive species-related projects. In 2006, the United States Coast Guard

title: Omnibus Appropriations Act, 2009
text: Agriculture Department, a 10 percent increase in Amtrak subsidies, a 10 percent increase in Congress's budget, a 12 percent increase in the Department of State budget and foreign aid, and eliminated spending for the Millennium Challenge Corporation. The watchdog group Taxpayers for Common Sense identified over 8,500 earmarks totaling $7.7 billion (1.9% of the bill's total), including $22 million for the John F. Kennedy Library, dozens of grants to assist states and counties prevent the spread of methamphetamine use, and $200,000 for the removal of tattoos from gang members. The bill passed the House by a vote of 245-178 (including

title: American Jobs Act
text: to proceed to consider the legislation, 51 Democrats voted in favor of opening debate on the legislation and 47 Republicans Senators, joined by 1 Democratic Senator Ben Nelson and 1 Independent Senator Joseph Lieberman, voted no. The $60 billion bill investing in roads, bridges and infrastructure, would have been paid with a 0.7% tax on Americans earning more than $1 million per year. A third component is scheduled to receive a cloture vote, in the US Senate, on November 7, 2011. , a bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the imposition of 3 percent withholding

title: American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
text: years. The main funding differences between the Senate bill and the House bill were: More funds for health care in the Senate ($153.3 vs $140 billion), renewable energy programs ($74 vs. $39.4 billion), for home buyers tax credit ($35.5 vs. $2.6 billion), new payments to the elderly and a one-year increase in AMT limits. The House had more funds appropriated for education ($143 vs. $119.1 billion), infrastructure ($90.4 vs. $62 billion) and for aid to low income workers and the unemployed ($71.5 vs. $66.5 billion). Congressional negotiators said that they had completed the Conference Report on February 11. On February

title: American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
text: fiscal year 2009, by $399 billion in 2010, and by $134 billion in 2011, or $787 billion over the 2009–2019 period. In a February 11 letter, CBO Director Douglas Elmendorf noted that there was disagreement among economists about the effectiveness of the stimulus, with some skeptical of any significant effects while others expecting very large effects. Elmendorf said the CBO expected short term increases in GDP and employment. In the long term, the CBO expects the legislation to reduce output slightly by increasing the nation's debt and crowding out private investment, but noted that other factors, such as improvements to

title: John E. Peterson
text: transform the environment, and according to its supporters, put America on the road to energy independence. While locking up the first 25 miles of coastline and giving states the option to lock up an additional 25 miles, this legislation would remove the congressional moratorium on offshore energy production and use the royalties gained from that production to develop next generation alternative and renewable energy sources. H.R. 6709 also would invest upwards of $250 billion in an environmental restoration fund to restore and preserve pristine waterways and national parks. It has 141 cosponsors as of October 1, 2008. In January 2008,

title: H.R. 3174 (113th Congress)
text: million per emergency incident. Under the bill, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates that $300 million of funds made available for the Emergency Relief Program in Public Law 113-2 would be used in Colorado to repair roads damaged by flooding in 2013. The CBO estimates that by using those funds in Colorado in fiscal year 2014 instead of on emergency repair projects in other states in future years, the pace of spending of that money would be slightly faster over the 2014-2015 period but slower in later years and thus result in no net change in direct spending over the

title: American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
text: to be $787 billion at the time of passage, later revised to $831 billion between 2009 and 2019. The ARRA's rationale was based on the Keynesian economic theory that, during recessions, the government should offset the decrease in private spending with an increase in public spending in order to save jobs and stop further economic deterioration. Since its inception, the impact of the stimulus has been a subject of disagreement. Studies on its effects have produced a range of conclusions, from strongly positive to strongly negative and all reactions in between. In 2012, the IGM Forum poll conducted by the

title: Sportsmen’s Heritage And Recreational Enhancement Act of 2013
text: Office, as introduced on November 21, 2013. This is a public domain source." H.R. 3590 would establish or amend certain laws related to the use of firearms and other recreational activities on federal lands. The bill also would authorize the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) to permanently allow any state to provide hunting and conservation stamps for migratory birds (referred to as federal duck stamps). In addition, the bill would require the Secretaries of the Interior and Agriculture to charge an annual permit fee for small crews that conduct commercial filming activities on certain federal lands. Finally, the bill

title: Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2014
text: $4.9 billion, which is $104 million less than the previous year, but $50 million more than President Obama requested in his budget. The bill includes a provision that would prohibit the "Army Corps from revising regulations on the discharge of fill material." An amendment offered by Rep. Stephen Lynch was adopted that would increase funding for Civil Works construction by $20 million and cut Fossil Energy Research and Development by an equal amount. The bill would make appropriations for FY2014 to the United States Department of the Interior for: (1) the Central Utah Project Completion Account; (2) the United States

title: Pittman–Robertson Federal Aid in Wildlife Restoration Act
text: manner the money can be spent. On November 21, 2013, Rep. Robert E. Latta (R, OH-5) introduced an omnibus bill called the Sportsmen’s Heritage And Recreational Enhancement Act of 2013 (H.R. 3590; 113th Congress). Title II of that bill, the Target Practice and Marksmanship Training Support Act, would amend the Pittman-Robertson Wildlife Restoration Act to: (1) authorize a state to pay up to 90% of the costs of acquiring land for, expanding, or constructing a public target range; (2) authorize a state to elect to allocate 10% of a specified amount apportioned to it from the federal aid to wildlife

title: American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
text: $15 billion, or less than 2% of the $862 billion. The two senators did concede that the stimulus has had a positive effect on the economy, though they criticized it for failing to give "the biggest bang for our buck" on the issue of job creation. CNN noted that the two senators' stated objections were brief summaries presenting selective accounts that were unclear, and the journalists pointed out several instances where they created erroneous impressions. One of the primary purposes and promises of the Act was to launch a large number of "shovel ready" projects that would generate jobs. However,