Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2007

Bill: 109-hr-5386
Sponsor: Rep. Taylor, Charles H. [R-NC-11]
Introduced: 2006-05-15 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Administrative fees
Administrative procedure
Agriculture and Food
Air pollution control
Alaska
American Samoa
Animals
Arizona
Arkansas
Armed Forces and National Security
Art
Arts, Culture, Religion
Beaches
Biological diversity
Biological research
Black history
Boundaries
Bridges
Building construction
California
Cattle
Charter schools
Civil actions and liability
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Coal
Colonias
Colorado River development
Commemorations
Commerce
Commission of Fine Arts
Computer software
Computers
Concessions
Congressional oversight
Congressional reporting requirements
Conservation easements
Construction industries
Consultants
Continental shelf
Coral reefs
Cultural centers
Cultural property
Dams
Department of Agriculture
Department of Health and Human Services
Department of the Interior
Disaster relief
Dislocated workers
Displaced persons
District of Columbia
Drainage
Earthquakes
Economic assistance
Ecosystem management
Education
Education of the disadvantaged
Elementary and secondary education
Elephants
Emergency Management
Eminent domain
Endangered species
Energy
Energy conservation
Energy efficiency
Energy prices
Environmental Protection
Environmental Protection Agency
Environmental assessment
Environmental justice
Environmental research
Everglades
Eviction
Executive Office of the President
Executive orders
Families
Federal advisory bodies
Federal aid to Indians
Federal aid to the arts and humanities
Federal aid to water pollution control
Federal employees
Federal law enforcement officers
Federal office buildings
Federal officials
Federal-Indian relations
Federally-guaranteed loans
Fines (Penalties)
Fire fighters
Fire prevention
Fishery management
Floods
Florida
Forest conservation
Forest ecology
Forest fires
Forest management
Forest roads
Forestry
Forestry research
Foundations
Gambling
Gas in submerged lands
Gas industry
Gifts
Government Operations and Politics
Government aircraft
Government and the press
Government contractors
Government liability
Government procurement
Government publications
Government publicity
Government travel
Government trust funds
Government vehicles
Governmental investigations
Grants-in-aid
Grazing
Groundwater
Guam
Gulf of Mexico
Habitat conservation
Hazardous wastes
Health
Helicopters
Historic sites
History
Horses
Housing and Community Development
Idaho
Indian claims
Indian education
Indian lands
Indian medical care
Indian water rights
Information technology
Infrastructure
Insect control
International Affairs
International cooperation
International education
Irrigation
Islands
Jewish holocaust (1939-1945)
Job creation
Judicial opinions
Labor and Employment
Lakes
Land transfers
Landowners
Latin America
Law
Lead poisoning
Leases
Legal fees
Liability for environmental damages
Licenses
Limited access highways
Local laws
Maintenance and repair
Maps
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Marine pollution
Marshall Islands
Memorial Day
Mexico
Micronesia
Migratory bird conservation
Military base closures
Mine wastes
Mining claims
Mining leases
Minnesota
Minorities
Minority business enterprises
Montana
Monuments and memorials
Motor vehicles
Museums
National Capital Planning Commission
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
National forests
National parks
Native Americans
Natural areas
Natural gas
Nature conservation
Nevada
New Jersey
New Mexico
New York City
Non-native species
North Atlantic Ocean
Northern Mariana Islands
Occupational health and safety
Oil and gas leases
Oil and gas royalties
Oil pollution
Oklahoma
Old growth forests
Oregon
Overhead costs
Pacific Ocean
Paints and varnishes
Palau Islands
Payments in lieu of taxes
Pedestrians
Performing arts
Pest control
Pesticide regulation
Pests
Petroleum
Petroleum in submerged lands
Petroleum industry
Petroleum storage
Pollution measurement
Potable water
Primates
Private forests
Privatization
Professional associations
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Railroad land grants
Range management
Real estate appraisal
Real estate development
Rebates
Reclamation of land
Recreation
Relocation
Reprogramming of appropriated funds
Rescission of appropriated funds
Research and development
Research centers
Restaurants
Restoration ecology
Revolving funds
Rhinoceroses
Road construction
Rural economic development
Salaries
Salmon
Science, Technology, Communications
Sewage disposal
Small business
Smithsonian Institution
Smog
Snakes
Social Welfare
Sports and Recreation

Summary:
action_date: 2006-05-15
text: 
Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2007 - Makes appropriations for FY2007 for the Department of the Interior for: (1) the Bureau of Land Management (including transfer of funds); (2) the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service; (3) the National Park Service; (4) the U.S. Geological Survey; (5) the Minerals Management Service; (6) the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement; (7) the Bureau of Indian Affairs (including transfer of funds); (8) departmental offices for insular affairs; (9) departmental management; (10) the Office of the Solicitor; (11) the Office of the Inspector General; (12) the Office of Special Trustee for American Indians; and (13) natural resource damage assessment and restoration. 
 
Makes appropriations for FY2007 for: (1) the Environmental Protection Agency (including transfers of funds); (2) the Department of Agriculture for the Forest Service (including transfers of funds); and (3) the Department of Health and Human Services for the Indian Health Service. 
 
Makes appropriations for FY2007 for specified related agencies, including: (1) the National Institutes of Health; (2) the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry; (3) the Executive Office of the President; (4) the Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board; (5) the Office of Navajo and Hopi Indian Relocation; (6) the Institute of American Indian and Alaska Native Culture and Arts Development; (7) the Smithsonian Institution; (8) the National Gallery of Art; (9) the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts; (10) the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; (11) the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities; (12) the Commission of Fine Arts; (13) the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation; (14) the National Capital Planning Commission; (15) the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum; (16) the Presidio Trust; and (17) the White House Commission on the National Moment of Remembrance.

action_date: 2006-05-18
text: 
Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2007 - Makes appropriations for the Department of the Interior, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and related agencies for FY2007. 
 
 
Title I: Department of the Interior 
- Makes appropriations for FY2007 to the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) for: (1) land and resource management; (2) wildland fire management (including transfer of funds); (3) construction; (4) land acquisition; (5) Oregon and California grant lands; (6) range improvements; (7) service charges, deposits, and forfeitures with respect to public lands; and (8) miscellaneous trust funds. 
 
 Appropriates funds for FY2007 to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for: (1) resource management; (2) construction; (3) land acquisition; (4) the Landowner Incentive Program that provides assistance to private landowners for private conservation efforts; (5) the Private Stewardship Grants Program; (6) expenses related to carrying out the Endangered Species Act of 1973; (7) the National Wildlife Refuge Fund; (8) expenses related to carrying out the North American Wetlands Conservation Act; (9) financial assistance for projects to promote the conservation of neotropical migratory birds; (10) expenses related to carrying out, through the Multinational Species Conservation Fund, the African Elephant Conservation Act, the Asian Elephant Conservation Act of 1997, the Rhinoceros and Tiger Conservation Act of 1994, the Great Ape Conservation Act of 2000, and the Marine Turtle Conservation Act of 2004; and (11) wildlife conservation grants to states, the District of Columbia, U.S. territories, and Indian tribes. 
 
 Makes appropriations for FY2007 to the National Park Service (NPS) for: (1) the National Park System; (2) U.S. Park Police; (3) expenses for national recreation and preservation programs; (4) expenses related to carrying out the Historic Preservation Act of 1966 and the Omnibus Parks and Public Lands Management Act of 1996; (5) construction; and (6) land acquisition and state assistance from the Land and Water Conservation Fund. 
 
Rescinds specified contract authority to obligate funds from the Land and Water Conservation Fund for FY2007. 
 
 Makes appropriations for FY2007 to: (1) the U.S. Geological Survey for surveys, investigations, and research; (2) the Minerals Management Service for royalty and offshore minerals management and oil spill research; (3) the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement for regulation and technology and the Abandoned Mine Reclamation Fund; (4) the Bureau of Indian Affairs for operation of Indian programs, construction, Indian land and water claim settlements and miscellaneous payments to Indians (including transfer of funds), and Indian guaranteed loans; (5) assistance to U.S. territories and to carry out the Compacts of Free Association with respect to the Marshall Islands, Palau, and Micronesia; (6) the Department of the Interior for departmental management; (7) make payments in lieu of taxes to units of local government containing certain federally owned lands; (8) the Central Hazardous Materials Fund for expenses of the Department of the Interior and its component offices and bureaus for the remedial action of hazardous waste substances, pollutants, or contaminants pursuant to the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act; (9) the Office of the Solicitor; (10) the Office of the Inspector General; (11) trust programs for Indians; (12) a program for consolidation of fractional interests in Indian lands by direct expenditure or cooperative agreement; and (13) the Department of the Interior for natural resource damage assessment and restoration. 
 
Sets forth authorized and prohibited uses of specified funds.
 
(Sec. 117) Prohibits a provision of the Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2002 concerning the determination of whether land is a &quot;reservation&quot; from affecting the decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit in
 Sac and Fox Nation v. Norton 
(2001). 
 
Prohibits the conduct of gaming under the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act on certain lands described in the Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2001, or land that is contiguous to such land, whether or not such land has been taken into trust by the Secretary of the Interior. 
 
 (Sec. 118) Prohibits the use of any funds appropriated for the Department of the Interior to study or implement any plan to drain Lake Powell or reduce the water level of the lake below the range of water levels required for the operation of the Glen Canyon Dam. 
 
 (Sec. 119) Limits the total amount of all fees imposed by the National Indian Gaming Commission for FY2008 to $13 million. 
 
(Sec. 120) Makes funds appropriated for FY2007 under this Act available to the tribes within the California Tribal Trust Reform Consortium, the Salt River Pima Maricopa Indian Community, the Confederated Salish-Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Reservation, and the Chippewa Cree Tribe of the Rocky Boys Reservation through the same methodology used to distribute funds in FY2003. 
 
Requires this Demonstration Project (sic), under specified conditions, to continue to operate separately and apart from the Department of the Interior's trust reform and reorganization. Prohibits the Department from imposing its trust management infrastructure upon or altering existing trust resource management systems of such tribes which have a self-governance compact and operate in accordance with the Tribal Self-Governance Program. 
 
(Sec. 121) Provides for: (1) the renewal of nonrenewable grazing permits authorized by the Jarbidge Field Office of the BLM within the past nine years; and (2) the Animal Unit Months contained in the most recently expired nonrenewable grazing permit, authorized between March 1, 1997, and February 28, 2005, to continue in effect under the renewed permit. Prohibits anything in this section from being deemed to extend such nonrenewable permits beyond the standard one-year term. 
 
(Sec. 122) Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to acquire land, waters, or interests therein for the purpose of operating and maintaining facilities in the support of transportation and accommodation of visitors to Ellis, Governors, and Liberty Islands. 
 
(Sec. 123) Directs the Secretary of the Interior, upon request by the permittee for the Clark Mountain Allotment lands adjacent to the Mojave National Preserve, to also issue a special use permit for that portion of the grazing allotment located within the Preserve. Instructs the Secretary to consider the permit to be one transferred in accordance with a specified section of the Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2004 concerning grazing permits.
 
(Sec. 124) Declares that the NPS final winter use rules for managing winter visitation and recreational use in Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks and the John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Memorial Parkway for up to three winter seasons shall be in force and effect for the winter use season of 2006-2007 that commences on or about December 15, 2006.
 
(Sec. 125) Prohibits the use of funds to set up Centers for Excellence and Partnership Skills Bank training without prior approval of the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations. 
 

Title II: Environmental Protection Agency 
- Makes appropriations for FY2007 to EPA for: (1) science and technology; (2) environmental programs and management; (3) the Office of Inspector General; (4) buildings and facilities; (5) the Hazardous Substance Superfund (including transfers of funds); (6) the Leaking underground Storage Tank Program; (7) expenses to carry out EPA responsibilities under the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 concerning oil spill response; and (8) state and tribal assistance grants for environmental programs and infrastructure assistance. 
 
(Sec. 201) Prohibits the use of funds under this Act to contravene or delay the implementation of Executive Order No. 12898 of February 11, 1994 (relating to federal actions to address environmental justice in minority populations and low-income populations). 
 
(Sec. 202) Prohibits the use of funds under this Act to contravene or delay the implementation of requirements regarding certification determination with respect to contractors who are engaged in renovation or remodeling activities in target housing, public buildings constructed before 1978, and commercial buildings that create lead-based paint hazards. 
 
 
Title III: Related Agencies 
- Makes appropriations for FY2007 to the Department of Agriculture for the Forest Service for: (1) forest and rangeland research; (2) state and private forestry; (3) the National Forest System; (4) wildland fire management (including transfers of funds); (5) capital improvement and maintenance (including transfer of funds); (6) land acquisitions, including specified National Forest areas in Utah, Nevada, and California; (7) range rehabilitation, protection, and improvement; (8) gifts, donations, and bequests for forest and rangeland research; and (9) federal land management in Alaska. 
 
 Makes appropriations for FY2007 to the Department of Health and Human Services for: (1) the Indian Health Service and Indian health facilities; and (2) the National Institutes of Health for the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry. 
 
Makes appropriations in specified amounts for various purposes to the: (1) Executive Office of the President; (2) the Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board; (3) the Office of Navajo and Hopi Indian Relocation; (4) the Institute of American Indian and Alaska Native Culture and Arts Development; (5) the Smithsonian Institution (earmarking certain funds for the National Museum of African American History and Culture, the Council of American Overseas Research Centers, and other specified programs); (6) the National Gallery of Art; (7) the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts; (8) the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; (9) the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities, including the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and the National Endowment for the Humanities; (10) the Commission of Fine Arts, including expenses for National Capital Arts and Cultural Affairs; (11) the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation; (12) the National Capital Planning Commission; (13) the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum; (14) the Presidio Trust; and (15) the White House Commission on the National Moment of Remembrance.
 

Title IV: General Provisions 
- Sets forth limitations on the use of funds under this Act. 
 
(Sec. 405) Requires: (1) estimated overhead charges, deductions, reserves or holdbacks from programs, projects, activities, and subactivities to support governmentwide, departmental, agency or bureau administrative functions or headquarters, regional or central operations to be presented in annual budget justifications and subject to approval by the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations; and (2) changes to such estimates to be presented to such Committees for approval. 
 
(Sec. 415) Permits the Secretaries of Agriculture and of the Interior (Secretaries) to make reciprocal agreements in which the individuals furnished by an agreement to provide fire management services are considered, for tort liability, employees of the foreign country receiving the services when the individuals are fighting fires. Prohibits the Secretaries from making any agreement in which a foreign country does not assume any and all responsibility for acts or omissions of American firefighters who are firefighting in such foreign country. 
 
(Sec. 416) Allows the Secretaries, in awarding a federal contract for any of specified purposes with funds made available by this Act, to give consideration to local contractors who are from economically disadvantaged rural communities and who provide employment and training for dislocated and displaced workers. Allows the Secretaries to award contracts, grants, or cooperative agreements in certain areas to various entities, including local non-profits and the Youth Conservation Corps. Includes in such areas habitat restoration or management and forest hazardous fuels reduction. 
 
(Sec. 418) Limits the amounts of funds made available by this Act or any other Act to the Department of the Interior to initiate or continue competitive sourcing studies in FY2007 for programs, projects, and activities for which funds are appropriated by this Act until such time as the appropriate Secretary submits a reprogramming proposal to the Committees on Appropriations and it has been processed consistent with the reprogramming guidelines included in the report accompanying this Act. 
 
Limits funds appropriated by this Act to $2.5 million in FY2007 for use by the Forest Service for competitive sourcing studies and related activities. 
 
Exempts the Forest Service from implementing the Letter of Obligation and post-competitive accountability guidelines where a competitive sourcing study involved 65 or fewer full-time equivalents, the performance decision was made in favor of the agency provider, no net savings were achieved by conducting the study, and such study was completed prior to the date of this Act. 
 
Directs agencies funded in this Act, in preparing any reports to the Committees on Appropriations on competitive sourcing activities, to include all costs attributable to conducting the competitive sourcing competitions and staff work to prepare for competitions or to determine the feasibility of starting competitions, including costs attributable to paying outside consultants and contractors and, in accordance with full cost accounting principles, all costs attributable to developing, implementing, supporting, managing, monitoring, and reporting on competitive sourcing, including personnel, consultant, travel, and training costs associated with program management. 
 
Instructs the Secretary of Agriculture, in carrying out any competitive sourcing study involving Forest Service employees, to: (1) determine whether any of the employees concerned are also qualified to participate in wildland fire management activities; and (2) take into consideration the effect that contracting with a private sector source would have on the ability of the Forest Service to effectively and efficiently fight and manage wildfires.
 
(Sec. 419) Prohibits the use of funds in this Act or prior Acts making appropriations for the Department of the Interior and Related Agencies from being provided to the managing partners or their agents for the SAFECOM or Disaster Management projects. 
 
(Sec. 420) Extends the authority for: (1) the pilot program for enhancing Forest Service administration of rights-of-way and other land uses; and (2) the deposit of all fees collected to recover the costs of processing applications for, and monitoring compliance with, authorizations to use and occupy National Forest System lands pursuant to certain Acts. 
 
(Sec. 421) Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to acquire a parcel of real property, including improvements, of the Inland Valley Development Agency of San Bernardino, California, or its successors and assigns, generally comprising Building No. 3 and Building No. 4 of the former Defense Finance and Accounting Services complex located at the southwest corner of Tippecanoe Avenue and Mill Street in San Bernardino adjacent to the former Norton Air Force Base. 
 
Allows the Secretary, as full consideration for such property, to terminate certain leasehold rights of the United States received pursuant the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2005. Permits the acquisition of the property to be carried out without appraisals, environmental or administrative surveys, consultations, analyses, or other considerations of the condition of such property. 
 
(Sec. 422) Prohibits the use of any of the funds made available in this Act to study, without specific authorization from Congress, a competitive sourcing activity of the Secretary or Agriculture or the Secretary of the Interior, including support personnel of the Department of Agriculture and the Department of the Interior, relating to wildfire management or wildfire suppression programs. 
 
(Sec. 423) Prohibits any of the funds made available in this Act from being used to work on, or enter into a contract to carry out, the Fire Program Analysis system, unless both the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior certify to the Comptroller General that this funding will accomplish the existing work plan, as determined by the Wildland Fire Leadership Council, and that state wildfire agencies will be full participants in the use and development of such system. 
 
(Sec. 424) Bars any officer or employee of the Smithsonian Institution or any of its subsidiary organizations from being compensated directly or indirectly at an annual rate of pay in excess of the statutorily established rate of pay of the President. 
 
(Sec. 425) Prohibits the use of any funds made available in this Act for the sale or slaughter of wild free-roaming horses and burros (all unbranded and unclaimed horses and burros on U.S. public lands). 
 

Title V: Additional General Provisions 
- (Sec. 501) Prohibits the use of any of the funds made available by this Act to contravene the federal buildings performance and reporting requirements of Executive Order No. 13123 (&quot;Greening the Government Through Efficient Energy Management&quot;), part 3 of title V of the National Energy Conservation Policy Act (relating to federal energy management), or subtitle A of title I of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (relating to energy efficiency with respect to federal programs). 
 
(Sec. 502) Prohibits the use of any of the funds made available in this Act to issue any new lease that authorizes production of oil or natural gas under the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to any lessee under an existing lease issued by the Department of the Interior pursuant to the Outer Continental Shelf Deep Water Royalty Relief Act, where such existing lease is not subject to limitations on royalty relief based on market price. 
 
(Sec. 503) Prohibits the use of any of the funds made available in this Act to plan, design, study, or construct, for the purpose of harvesting timber by private entities or individuals, a forest development road in the Tongass National Forest. 
 
(Sec. 504) Prohibits the use of any funds made available in this Act to send or otherwise pay for the attendance of more than 50 employees from a federal department or agency at any single conference occurring outside the United States. 
 
(Sec. 505) Prohibits any funds made available by this Act from being obligated or spent to conduct the San Gabriel Watershed and Mountains Special Resource Study in the cities of Diamond Bar, La Habra, Industry, Chino Hills, and the community of Rowland Heights in Los Angeles County, California (as defined by specified boundaries). 
 
(Sec. 506) Prohibits the use of any of the funds made available in this Act to eliminate or restrict programs that are for the reforestation of urban areas. 
 
(Sec. 507) Prohibits the use of any of the funds made available in this Act to limit outreach programs administered by the Smithsonian Institution.
 
(Sec. 508) Prohibits the use of any of the funds in this Act by the Administrator of the EPA to implement or enforce the Joint Memorandum published in the Federal Register on January 15, 2003, under Appendix A of the advance notice of proposed rulemaking on the Clean Water Act regulatory definition of &quot;waters of the United States.&quot; 
 
(Sec. 509) Prohibits any funds provided in title I of this Act from being spent by the Department of the Interior: (1) for the conduct of offshore natural gas preleasing, leasing, and related activities placed under restriction in the President's moratorium statement of June 12, 1998, in the areas of northern, central, and southern California, the North Atlantic, Washington and Oregon, and the eastern Gulf of Mexico south of 26 degrees north latitude and east of 86 degrees west longitude; (2) to conduct offshore natural gas preleasing, leasing, and related activities in the eastern Gulf of Mexico planning area for any lands located outside Sale 181, as identified in the final Outer Continental Shelf 5-Year Oil and Gas Leasing Program, 1997-2002; or (3) to conduct natural gas preleasing, leasing, and related activities in the Mid-Atlantic and South Atlantic planning areas. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-06-29
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 507.
action_date: 2006-06-29
text: Committee on Appropriations. Reported by Senator Burns with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 109-275.
action_date: 2006-06-29
text: Committee on Appropriations. Reported by Senator Burns with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 109-275.
action_date: 2006-06-29
text: Committee on Appropriations. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
action_date: 2006-06-27
text: Committee on Appropriations Subcommittee on Interior and Related Agencies. Approved for full committee consideration with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
action_date: 2006-05-22
text: Star Print ordered on the bill.
action_date: 2006-05-19
text: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations.
action_date: 2006-05-18
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2006-05-18
text: On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 293 - 128 (Roll no. 172).
action_date: 2006-05-18
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 293 - 128 (Roll no. 172).
action_date: 2006-05-18
text: The House adopted the amendments en gross as agreed to by the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union.
action_date: 2006-05-18
text: The previous question was ordered pursuant to the rule.
action_date: 2006-05-18
text: The House rose from the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union to report H.R. 5386.
action_date: 2006-05-18
text: 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.
action_date: 2006-05-18
text: DEBATE - Pursuant to a previous order of the House, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Dent amendment.
action_date: 2006-05-18
text: DEBATE - Pursuant to a previous order of the House, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Obey amendment, pending a reservation of a point of order.
action_date: 2006-05-18
text: POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on the Hefley amendment, the Chair put the question on adoption of the amendment and announced that the noes had prevailed. Mr. Hefley demanded a recorded vote and the Chair postponed further proceedings on adoption of the amendment until later in the legislative day.
action_date: 2006-05-18
text: DEBATE - Pursuant to a previous order of the House, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Hefley amendment.
action_date: 2006-05-18
text: DEBATE - Pursuant to a previous order of the House, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Jackson-Lee amendment.
action_date: 2006-05-18
text: DEBATE - Pursuant to a previous order of the House, the Commitee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Jackson-Lee amendment.
action_date: 2006-05-18
text: POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on the Putnam amendment, the Chair put the question on adoption of the amendment and announced that the ayes had prevailed. Mr. Peterson (PA) demanded a recorded vote and the Chair postponed further proceedings on adoption of the amendment until later in the legislative day.
action_date: 2006-05-18
text: DEBATE - Pursuant to a previous order of the House, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 1 hour of debate on the Putnam amendment.
action_date: 2006-05-18
text: DEBATE - Pursuant to a previous order of the House, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Conaway amendment, pending reservation of a point of order.
action_date: 2006-05-18
text: POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on the Oberstar amendment, the Chair put the question on adoption of the amendment and announced that the noes had prevailed. Mr. Oberstar demanded a recorded vote and the Chair postponed further proceedings on adoption of the amendment until later in the legislative day.
action_date: 2006-05-18
text: DEBATE - Pursuant to a previous order of the House, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 30 minutes of debate on the Oberstar amendment.
action_date: 2006-05-18
text: DEBATE - Pursuant to a previous order of the House, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Gary Miller amendment.
action_date: 2006-05-18
text: DEBATE - Pursuant to a previous order of the House, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Garrett amendment.
action_date: 2006-05-18
text: DEBATE - Pursuant to a previous order of the House, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Tiahrt amendment, pending reservation of a point of order.
action_date: 2006-05-18
text: UNFINISHED BUSINESS - The Chair announced that the unfinished business was the question of adoption of specified amendments which were debated earlier and on which further proceedings had been postponed.
action_date: 2006-05-18
text: POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on the Chabot amendment, the Chair put the question on adoption of the amendment and announced that the noes had prevailed. Mr. Chabot demanded a recorded vote and the Chair postponed further proceedings on adoption of the amendment until later in the legislative day.
action_date: 2006-05-18
text: DEBATE - Pursuant to a previous order of the House, the Committee of the Whole proceeded witn 20 minutes of debate on the Chabot amendment.
action_date: 2006-05-18
text: DEBATE - Pursuant to a previous order of the House, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Gordon amendment.
action_date: 2006-05-18
text: DEBATE - Pursuant to a previous order of the House, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Rahall amendment.
action_date: 2006-05-18
text: POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on the Hinchey amendment, the Chair put the question on adoption of the amendment and announced that the noes had prevailed. Mr. Hinchey demanded a recorded vote and the Chair postponed further proceedings on adoption of the amendment until later in the legislative day.
action_date: 2006-05-18
text: DEBATE - Pursuant to a previous order of the House, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 30 minutes of debate on the Hinchey amendment.
action_date: 2006-05-18
text: Mr. Pearce raised a point of order against the content of the measure. Mr. Pearce raised a point of order against section 502 of the bill stating that it violated clause 2b of rule XXI and constituted legislation in an appropriations bill. The Chair sustained the point of order.
action_date: 2006-05-18
text: Mr. Pearce raised a point of order against the content of the measure. Mr. Pearce raised a point of order against section 501 stating that it violated clause 2b of rule XXI. The Chair sustained the point of order.
action_date: 2006-05-18
text: DEBATE - Pursuant to a previous order of the House, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 30 minutes of debate on the Obey amendment.
action_date: 2006-05-18
text: Mr. Young (AK) raised a point of order against the content of the measure. Mr. Young (AK) raised a point of order against section 425, page 125, lines 3-25 stating that it constituted legislation in an appropriations bill in violation of clause 2 of rule XXI. The Chair sustained the point of order.
action_date: 2006-05-18
text: POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on the Beauprez amendment, the Chair put the question on adoption of the amendment and announced that the noes had prevailed. Mr. Beauprez demanded a recorded vote and the Chair postponed further proceedings on adoption of the amendment until later in the legislative day.
action_date: 2006-05-18
text: DEBATE - Pursuant to a previous order of the House, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minuntes of debate on the Beauprez amendment.
action_date: 2006-05-18
text: The House resolved into Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union for further consideration.
action_date: 2006-05-18
text: Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR 5/19/2006 H2835-2873)
action_date: 2006-05-18
text: Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union rises leaving H.R. 5386 as unfinished business.
action_date: 2006-05-18
text: On motion that the Committee rise Agreed to by voice vote.
action_date: 2006-05-18
text: Mr. Taylor (NC) moved that the Committee rise.
action_date: 2006-05-18
text: POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on the Pallone amendment, the Chair put the question on adoption of the amendment and announced that the ayes had prevailed. Mr. Pence demanded a recoreded vote and the Chair postponed further proceedings on adoption of the amendment until later in the legislative day.
action_date: 2006-05-18
text: DEBATE - The Committee of the Whole proceeded with debate on the Pallone amendment under the five-minute rule.
action_date: 2006-05-18
text: Mr. Duncan raised a point of order against the content of the measure. Mr. Duncan stated that the paragraph beginning on page 73, line 3 and ending on page 73, line 8 constituted legislation in an appropriations bill. The Chair sustained the point of order.
action_date: 2006-05-18
text: POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on the Poe amendments, the Chair put the question on adoption of the amendments and by voice vote, announced that the noes had prevailed. Mr. Poe demanded a recorded vote and the Chair postponed further proceedings on the question of adoption of the amendment until later in the legislative day.
action_date: 2006-05-18
text: DEBATE - Pursuant to a unanimous consent agreement, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Poe amendments.
action_date: 2006-05-18
text: DEBATE - The Committee of the Whole proceeded with debate on the Conaway amendment under the five-minute rule.
action_date: 2006-05-18
text: DEBATE - The Committee of the Whole proceeded with debate on the Sanders amendment under the five-minute rule.
action_date: 2006-05-18
text: DEBATE - Pursuant to a unanimous consent agreement, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 20 minutes of debate on the Cannon amendment.
action_date: 2006-05-18
text: DEBATE - The Committee of the Whole proceeded with debate on the Tancredo amendment under the five-minute rule.
action_date: 2006-05-18
text: POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on the Weiner amendment, the Chair put the question on adoption of the amendment and by voice vote, announced that the noes had prevailed. Mr. Weiner demanded a recorded vote and the Chair postponed further proceedings on the question of adoption of the amendment until later in the legislative day.
action_date: 2006-05-18
text: DEBATE - The Committee of the Whole proceeded with debate on the Weiner amendment under the five-minute rule.
action_date: 2006-05-18
text: DEBATE - The Committee of the Whole proceeded with debate on the Slaughter amendment under the five-minute rule.
action_date: 2006-05-18
text: GENERAL DEBATE - The Committee of the Whole proceeded with one hour of general debate on H.R. 5386.
action_date: 2006-05-18
text: The Speaker designated the Honorable Steven C. LaTourette to act as Chairman of the Committee.
action_date: 2006-05-18
text: House resolved itself into the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union pursuant to H. Res. 818 and Rule XVIII.
action_date: 2006-05-18
text: Rule provides for consideration of H.R. 5386 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 read by paragraph. Bill is open to amendments.
action_date: 2006-05-18
text: Considered under the provisions of rule H. Res. 818. (consideration: CR H2774-2831; text of Title I as reported in House: CR H2792, H2794-2796, H2797, H2801-2802, H2805, H2805-2807, H2807-2808, H2810-2811, H2813-2814; text of Title II as reported in House: CR H2814-2815, H2816, H2818; text of Title III as reported in House: CR H2818-2819, H2820-2824; text of Title IV as reported in House: CR H2824-2826; text of Title V as reported in House: CR H2829, H2830)
action_date: 2006-05-18
text: Rule H. Res. 818 passed House.
action_date: 2006-05-17
text: Rules Committee Resolution H. Res. 818 Reported to House. Rule provides for consideration of H.R. 5386 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 read by paragraph. Bill is open to amendments.
action_date: 2006-05-15
text: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 257.
action_date: 2006-05-15
text: The House Committee on Appropriations reported an original measure, H. Rept. 109-465, by Mr. Taylor (NC).
action_date: 2006-05-15
text: The House Committee on Appropriations reported an original measure, H. Rept. 109-465, by Mr. Taylor (NC).
action_date: 2006-05-15
text: Introduced in House