Senate Floor Activity - Friday, March 22, 2013

S.Amdt. 136 (Sen. Ayotte): To establish a deficit-neutral reserve fund for the prohibition on funding of the Medium Extended Air Defense System .

S.Amdt. 138 (Sen. Isakson): To establish a deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to establishing a biennial budget and appropriations process .

S.Amdt. 139 (Sen. Inhofe): To uphold Second Amendment rights and prevent the United States from entering into the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty .

S.Amdt. 144 (Sen. Collins): To establish a deficit-neutral reserve fund to restore a sensible definition of full-time employee for purposes of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

S.Amdt. 149 (Sen. Shaheen): To establish a deficit-neutral reserve fund to increase the capacity of Federal agencies to ensure effective contract management and contract oversight.

S.Amdt. 152 (Sen. Portman): To provide reconciliation instructions to reduce the deficit by $63,860,000,000 for the period of fiscal years 2014 through 2023.

S.Amdt. 153 (Sen. Portman): To establish a deficit-neutral reserve fund to promote exports.

S.Amdt. 154 (Sen. Portman): To require the Congressional Budget Office to include macroeconomic feedback scoring of tax legislation .

S.Amdt. 158 (Sen. Ayotte): To prohibit the consideration of a budget resolution that includes revenue increases while the civilian unemployment rate is above 5.5 percent, the administration's prediction for the unemployment rate without the stimulus.

S.Amdt. 161 (Sen. Ayotte): To establish a deficit-neutral reserve fund for achieving full auditability of the financial statements of the Department of Defense by 2017.

S.Amdt. 184 (Sen. Barrasso): To establish a deficit-neutral reserve fund to expedite exports from the United States through reform of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 in such a manner that greenhouse gas emissions produced outside the United States by any good exported from the United States are not subject to the requirements of that Act .

S.Amdt. 187 (Sen. Roberts): To prohibit the use of funds for promotional or marketing materials promoting the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act or its benefits.

S.Amdt. 192 (Sen. Udall, of NM): To modify the deficit-neutral reserve fund for America's servicemembers and veterans to increase access to health care for veterans in rural areas.

S.Amdt. 195 (Sen. Coats): To require fuller reporting on possible costs to taxpayers of any budget submitted by the President.

S.Amdt. 198 (Sen. Sanders): To establish a deficit-neutral reserve fund to protect the benefits of disabled veterans and their survivors, which may not include a chained CPI.

S.Amdt. 202 (Sen. Cruz): To establish a deficit-neutral reserve fund to provide for the repeal of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 and to encourage patient-centered reforms to improve health outcomes and reduce health care costs, promoting economic growth.

S.Amdt. 213 (Sen. Johnson, of WI): To force Congress to ensure the solvency of the Social Security and Medicare programs.

S.Amdt. 217 (Sen. Hoeven): To establish a deficit-neutral reserve fund to support programs related to the nuclear missions of the Department of Defense and the National Nuclear Security Administration .

S.Amdt. 222 (Sen. Crapo): To establish a deficit neutral reserve fund to repeal the tax increases enacted under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act that were imposed on low- and middle-income Americans .

S.Amdt. 225 (Sen. Flake): To prohibit earmarks.

S.Amdt. 232 (Sen. Burr): To protect the American people and strengthen our national security by fully funding the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) and the BioShield Special Reserve Fund .

S.Amdt. 239 (Sen. Udall, of CO): To provide additional suppression resources to the Forest Service and the Department of the Interior for the protection of communities, homes, water supplies, utility infrastructure, and natural resources from catastrophic wildfires.

S.Amdt. 247 (Sen. Cornyn): To ensure that if the President fails to submit his budget by the deadline set in law, the Director of the Office on Management and Budget does not get paid until he submits a budget; and that any savings will reduce the deficit.

S.Amdt. 261 (Sen. Blunt): To create a point of order against legislation that would create a Federal tax or fee on carbon emissions .

S.Amdt. 263 (Sen. Paul): In the nature of a substitute.

S.Amdt. 265 (Sen. Casey): To prohibit certain revisions of allocations for workforce investment measures that lack program integrity controls for the Job Corps program.

S.Amdt. 267 (Sen. Baucus): To establish a deficit-neutral reserve fund to support rural schools and districts.

S.Amdt. 269 (Sen. Hagan): To establish a deficit-neutral reserve fund to strengthen the enforcement provisions of free trade agreements that relate to textile and apparel articles.

S.Amdt. 273 (Sen. Cardin): To establish a deficit-neutral reserve fund to improve oral health care for children with Medicaid coverage .

S.Amdt. 278 (Sen. Hagan): To establish a deficit-neutral reserve fund for the families of United States servicemembers and veterans .

S.Amdt. 292 (Sen. Rubio): To express the sense of the Senate to enact Child Interstate Abortion Notification Act.

S.Amdt. 293 (Sen. Heller): To establish a deficit-neutral reserve fund to ensure that the Bureau of Land Management collaborates with States in efforts to promote sustainable sage-grouse habitat by developing and approving State plans that prevent the listing of the bird under the Endangered Species Act of 1973 and preserve the way of life in, and economic health of, the impacted areas.

S.Amdt. 295 (Sen. Corker): To end a scoring gimmick that allows changes in mandatory program spending that do not save money to offset increased spending.

S.Amdt. 307 (Sen. Thune): To establish a deficit-neutral reserve fund to permanently eliminate the Federal estate tax.

S.Amdt. 314 (Sen. Landrieu): To modify the deficit-neutral reserve fund for America's servicemembers and veterans to include leases of major medical facilities of the Department of Veterans Affairs.

S.Amdt. 316 (Sen. Manchin): To address prescription drug abuse in the United States.

S.Amdt. 318 (Sen. Crapo): To amend the reconciliation instructions to include instructions to the Committee on Finance to achieve the Budget's stated goal of $275 billion in mandatory health care savings .

S.Amdt. 319 (Sen. Hoeven): To provide additional resources to Criminal Investigations and Police Services of the Bureau of Indian Affairs .

S.Amdt. 329 (Sen. Graham): To establish a deficit-neutral reserve fund to broaden the effects of the sequester, including allowing Members of Congress to donate 20 percent of their salaries to charity or to the Department of the Treasury during sequestration.

S.Amdt. 338 (Sen. Vitter): To end the mobile phone welfare program .

S.Amdt. 340 (Sen. Shelby): To establish a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation that requires financial regulators to conduct rigorous cost-benefit analyses on all proposed rules.

S.Amdt. 341 (Sen. Begich): To establish a deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to the labeling of genetically engineered fish .

S.Amdt. 348 (Sen. Alexander): To establish a deficit-neutral reserve fund to prevent restrictions to public access to fishing downstream of dams owned by the Corps of Engineers.

S.Amdt. 353 (Sen. Franken): To amend section 308 relating to broadband infrastructure investments in rural areas.

S.Amdt. 359 (Sen. Inhofe): To reduce spending and decrease the risk of drastic energy price increases by prohibiting further greenhouse gas regulations for the purposes of addressing climate change .

S.Amdt. 366 (Sen. McCaskill): To establish a deficit-neutral reserve fund to support the transition of servicemembers to the civilian workforce by streamlining the process associated with Federal and State credentialing requirements.

S.Amdt. 373 (Sen. Lee): To provide a point of order against budgets spending more on net interest payments on the debt than on national defense , and to ensure the United States government funds its military at higher levels than the militaries of foreign holders of its debt .

S.Amdt. 382 (Sen. Paul): To provide funding to the Department of Transportation for interstate bridge infrastructure projects and to reduce the Federal deficit by decreasing the amounts available for foreign assistance and loan guarantee programs administered by the Department of Energy.

S.Amdt. 389 (Sen. Boozman): To establish a deficit-neutral reserve fund to address the disproportionate regulatory burdens on community banks .

S.Amdt. 394 (Sen. Wyden): To ensure that chronic illness is addressed as part of health care improvement.

S.Amdt. 398 (Sen. Merkley): To increase investment in high-impact breakthrough clean energy technologies through the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy of the Department of Energy.

S.Amdt. 409 (Sen. Coburn): To establish a deficit-neutral reserve fund to sunset the provision of Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act that increases payments to hospitals in a few States by reducing payments to the majority of States through the Medicare hospital wage index .

S.Amdt. 412 (Sen. Coburn): To create a deficit-reduction reserve fund that addresses the nonprofit postal discount for State and national political committees.

S.Amdt. 414 (Sen. Coburn): To establish a deficit-neutral reserve fund to eliminate tax loopholes and special interest tax breaks for the PGA tour, the NFL, NASCAR, Hollywood, fish tackle box manufacturers, and Eskimo whaling captains.

S.Amdt. 416 (Sen. Coburn): To establish a deficit-neutral reserve fund to eliminate non-defense related spending by the Department of Defense .

S.Amdt. 430 (Sen. Levin): To eliminate abuses of offshore tax abuses by large corporations.

S.Amdt. 431 (Sen. Mikulski): To establish a deficit-neutral reserve fund to require equal pay policies and practices.

S.Amdt. 434 (Sen. Toomey): To establish a deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to increasing funding for the inland waterways system .

S.Amdt. 438 (Sen. Shaheen): To establish a deficit-neutral reserve fund to protect women's access to health care, including primary and preventative health care, family planning and birth control, and employer-provided contraceptive coverage, such as was provided under the Affordable Care Act (PL 111-148).

S.Amdt. 439 (Sen. Murray): To amend the deficit-neutral reserve fund for tax relief to provide tax relief for low and middle income families .

S.Amdt. 442 (Sen. Casey): To establish a deficit-neutral reserve fund for State and local law enforcement.

S.Amdt. 453 (Sen. Cardin): To establish a deficit-neutral reserve fund on health care improvement.

S.Amdt. 455 (Sen. Brown): To establish a deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to establish a national network for manufacturing innovation that leverages private and public sector investments for proven United States based manufacturing industries.

S.Amdt. 471 (Sen. Cruz): To establish a deficit-neutral reserve fund to reduce foreign assistance to Egypt and increase funding for an east coast missile defense shield.

S.Amdt. 477 (Sen. Heller): To establish a deficit-neutral reserve fund to authorize the provision of per diem payments for the provision of services to dependents of homeless veterans under laws administered by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs.

S.Amdt. 479 (Sen. Franken): To provide an additional use for the deficit-neutral reserve fund for higher education.

S.Amdt. 482 (Sen. Reed): To provide funding for low-income weatherization and energy efficiency retrofit programs.

S.Amdt. 483 (Sen. Udall, of NM): To establish a deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to hardrock mineral royalty and fee reform.

S.Amdt. 489 (Sen. Enzi): To establish a deficit-neutral reserve fund to phase-in any changes to the individual or corporate tax systems .

S.Amdt. 494 (Sen. Hoeven): To establish a deficit-neutral reserve fund to promote investment and job growth in United States manufacturing, oil and gas production, and refining sectors through the construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline.

S.Amdt. 499 (Sen. Manchin): To establish a deficit-neutral reserve fund to ensure that abundant domestic energy sources and technologies can meet present and future greenhouse gas emissions rules.

S.Amdt. 514 (Sen. Coats): To establish a deficit-neutral reserve fund to enable prompt action relating to the Presidential exemption for the rule of the Environmental Protection Agency commonly known as the Mercury and Air Toxins Standard for affected electric utility steam generating units that need additional time to install the major emissions control equipment, construct replacement generation, or implement other mitigation measures in order to ensure the reliability of the grid.

S.Amdt. 515 (Sen. Alexander): To establish a deficit-neutral reserve fund related to the education of low-income children, which may include allowing funding under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to follow children from low-income families to the school children attend .

S.Amdt. 521 (Sen. Lee): To establish a deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to supporting the reauthorization of the Payments in Lieu of Taxes program at levels roughly equivalent to property tax revenues lost due to the presence of Federal land.

S.Amdt. 525 (Sen. Durbin): To establish a deficit-neutral reserve fund to increase funding for the National Institutes of Health.

S.Amdt. 526 (Sen. Vitter): To establish a deficit-neutral reserve fund to ensure election integrity by requiring a valid government-issued photographic ID for voting in federal elections.

S.Amdt. 527 (Sen. Boozman): To establish a deficit-neutral reserve fund to protect private property rights by discouraging eminent domain abuse by State and local governments, while providing for continued economic development assistance eligibility where eminent domain is used for customary purposes, including to acquire abandoned property, or to remove immediate threats to public health and safety, and to provide that any savings will reduce the deficit.

S.Amdt. 535 (Sen. Toomey): To repeal the tax increase on catastrophic medical expenses created by Obamacare.

S.Amdt. 537 (Sen. Tester): To establish a deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to authorizing children who are eligible to receive health care furnished under laws administered by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to retain such eligibility until age 26.

S.Amdt. 538 (Sen. Wicker): To increase the vote threshold required to waive a budget point of order prohibiting unfunded mandates in excess of limit .

S.Amdt. 577 (Sen. Blumenthal): To establish a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation to ensure operation of all contract air traffic control towers receiving funding through the contract tower program of the Federal Aviation Administration as of March 20, 2013, and that are located at airports still in service as of the date of the introduction of such legislation.

S.Amdt. 578 (Sen. Durbin): To establish a deficit-neutral reserve fund to ensure marketplace fairness by allowing States to enforce State and local use tax laws.

S.Amdt. 581 (Sen. Baucus): To exempt remote sales of business inputs .

S.Amdt. 593 (Sen. Johnson, of SD): To establish a scorekeeping rule to ensure that increases in guarantee fees of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac shall not be used to offset provisions that increase the deficit.

S.Amdt. 594 (Sen. Sanders): To establish a deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to the Older Americans Act of 1965, which may include congregate and home-delivered meals programs, or other assistance to low-income seniors.

S.Amdt. 597 (Sen. Scott): To establish a deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to the prohibition of taxpayer dollars and resources being used to automatically deduct union dues from the pay of Federal employees .

S.Amdt. 606 (Sen. Menendez): To establish a deficit-neutral reserve fund to provide funding for the purposes of embassy or diplomatic security .

S.Amdt. 614 (Sen. Sessions): To establish a deficit-neutral reserve fund to achieve savings by prohibiting illegal immigrants or illegal immigrants granted legal status from qualifying for federally subsidized health care .

S.Amdt. 618 (Sen. Wyden): To provide for the enforcement of the trade remedy laws of the United States.

S.Amdt. 619 (Sen. Menendez): To establish a deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to helping homeowners and small businesses mitigate against flood loss.

S.Amdt. 622 (Sen. Boxer): To establish a deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to protecting the interests of the United States in making a decision relating to the Keystone XL pipeline.

S.Amdt. 623 (Sen. Rubio): To express the sense of the Senate on underutilized facilities of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and their potential use.

S.Amdt. 624 (Sen. Johanns): To establish a deficit-neutral reserve fund to restore families' health care flexibility by repealing the $2,500 federal cap on flexible spending accounts and the requirement that individuals obtain a prescription from a physician before purchasing over-the-counter drugs with their own flexible spending account or health savings account dollars in order to safeguard families' capacity to plan ahead for the rising cost of care, make their own health care decisions, and ensure children who have special needs can receive adequate care .

S.Amdt. 630 (Sen. Fischer): To establish a deficit-neutral reserve fund to protect women's access to health care, including primary and preventive care, in a manner consistent with protecting rights of conscience .

S.Amdt. 646 (Sen. Whitehouse): To establish a deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to ensuring that all revenue from a fee on carbon pollution is returned to the American people.

S.Amdt. 651 (Sen. Menendez): To call for a comprehensive approach for wage index reform.

S.Amdt. 655 (Sen. Hoeven): To establish a deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to increases in aid for tribal education programs, including the Tribally Controlled Postsecondary Career and Technical Institutions Program administered by the Department of Education.

S.Amdt. 656 (Sen. Enzi): Of a perfecting nature.

S.Amdt. 671 (Sen. Kirk): To establish a deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to sanctions with respect to Iran.

S.Amdt. 672 (Sen. Murkowski): To permit a deficit-neutral reserve fund to provide assistance for fishery disasters declared during 2012 .

S.Amdt. 673 (Sen. Lee): To create a point of order against legislation that would further restrict the right of law-abiding Americans to own a firearm.

S.Amdt. 689 (Sen. Vitter): To end "Too Big To Fail" subsidies or funding advantage for Wall Street mega-banks (over $500 billion in total assets) .

S.Amdt. 693 (Sen. Warner): To repeal or reduce the estate tax, but only if done in a fiscally responsible way.

S.Amdt. 696 (Sen. Merkley): To establish a deficit-neutral reserve fund to facilitate the criminal prosecutions of financial institutions operating in the United States, regardless of size.

S.Amdt. 697 (Sen. Burr): To create a point of order against legislation that would raise taxes on veterans, and for other purposes .

S.Amdt. 702 (Sen. Cruz): To create a point of order against any legislation that would provide taxpayer funds to the United Nations while any member nation forces citizens or residents of that nation to undergo involuntary abortions.

S.Amdt. 705 (Sen. Menendez): To address the eligibility criteria for certain undocumented immigrant individuals with respect to certain health insurance plans.

S.Amdt. 706 (Sen. Cardin): To establish a deficit-neutral reserve fund to ensure that any carbon emissions standards must be cost effective, based on the best available science, and benefit low-income and middle class families.

S.Amdt. 709 (Sen. Coburn): No Statement of Purpose on File .

S.Amdt. 710 (Sen. Leahy): To establish a deficit-neutral reserve fund to ensure that the United States will not negotiate or support treaties that violate Americans' Second Amendment rights under the Constitution of the United States.