H.R. 1 -- American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009

Motion Offered By

Summary of Motion

Vote Tally

Dreier

To grant an open rule for the consideration of H.R. 1, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.

Defeated 3 to 9*

Dreier

To make in order and provide the appropriate waivers for an en bloc amendment to be separately debatable, consisting of: amendment #64, offered by Rep. Tiahrt (R-KS) to strike the authority and associated funding in the bill that provides for new or significantly-expanded programs, including afterschool feeding programs for at-risk children, broadband provisions, innovative technology loan guarantee programs, small business provisions, and summer job programs. It also suspends certain employment and income taxes, repeals the final $350 billion of TARP funds, and terminates TARP purchase authority upon enactment.  Amendment #67, offered by Rep. Simpson (R-ID) to prohibit any provision in the bill that provides new or increased direct spending from taking effect until Congress enacts a bill to provide the corresponding offsets. Amendment #66, offered by Reps. Frelinghuysen (R-NJ) and Latham (R-IA) to take funds legislatively withheld from obligation until not earlier than fiscal year 2010 and makes them available for Army Corps of Engineers construction projects and Department of Transportation highway infrastructure investment and capital improvement projects.

Defeated 3 to 9*

Dreier

To make in order and provide the appropriate waivers for an en bloc amendment to be separately debatable, consisting of: Amendment #127, offered by Rep. Barton (R-TX) to eliminate the requirement that, in order to receive energy efficiency funds, governors notify the Secretary of Energy that they would seek to change state utility ratemaking policy to ensure the utility's fixed costs are covered independent of sales. Amendment #151, offered by Rep. Deal (R-GA) to require, starting in FY2010, States to cover at least 90 percent of eligible individuals at or below 100 percent of the federal poverty level before increasing eligibility to other individuals.

Defeated 3 to 9*

Diaz-Balart

To make  in order and provide the appropriate waivers for amendment #169, offered by Reps. Hastings (D-FL) and Diaz-Balart (R-FL) to allow the Secretary to grant a waiver of maintenance of effort requirements for the Department of Education’s State Fiscal Stabilization Fund to states facing economic hardship due to natural disasters or a precipitous decline in the financial resource of the State.

Defeated 3 to 9*

Diaz-Balart

To make in order and provide the appropriate waivers for an en bloc amendment to be separately debatable, consisting of: Amendment #44, offered by Rep. Buyer (R-IN) to provide that $10 million in grant funding is appropriated for entities that provide job skill training for homeless women veterans and homeless veterans with children. Amendment #45, offered by Rep. Buyer (R-IN) to increase the amount of subsistence allowance to $1,200 for veterans undergoing vocational and rehabilitation training.  Amendment #46, offered by Rep. Buyer (R-IN) to provide $20 million for veteran's workforce investment programs under section 168 of the Workforce Investment Act. Amendment # 47, offered by Rep. Buyer (R-IN) to provide $1 billion to guarantee small business loans for veterans.  Amendment #90, offered by Rep. McCotter (R-MI) to require any new infrastructure project created by funding provided in H.R. 1 to be named after a member of the United States Armed Forces who was killed in combat or an emergency response provider who was killed in the line of duty.

Defeated 3 to 9*

Diaz-Balart

To make in order and provide the appropriate waivers for amendment #2, offered by Rep. Heller (R-NV) to strike section 1301, extend homebuyer credit to the  end of 2009, and expand the credit to cover all purchases of primary residences.

Defeated 3 to 9*

Diaz-Balart

To make in order and provide the appropriate waivers for amendment # 118, offered by Reps. Brown (D-FL) and Mica (R-FL) to negate the need for local matching funds for airport improvement projects.

Defeated 3 to 9*

Foxx

To make in order and provide the appropriate waivers for an en bloc amendment to be separately debatable, consisting of: Amendment #34, offered by Reps. Blunt (R-MO) and Rogers (R-MI) to amend provisions in the bill regulating the receipt of payment for making health care communications to ensure nothing in the bill will prevent a pharmacist from collecting and sharing information with their patients to reduce errors and improve their safety and it stipulates that any money received for these activities is reasonable and cost based. Amendment #145, offered by Rep. Stearns (R-FL) to allow unemployed workers who are eligible for COBRA to receive premium assistance from the federal government, require the federal government to pay 65 percent of the worker’s COBRA premium, and would prohibit anyone who made over $1 million in 2008 from receiving COBRA premium assistance under this new COBRA premium assistance program. Amendment #92, offered by Rep. Murphy (R-PA) to require that Health Information Technology purchased with funds made available by this Act be engineered and manufactured in the United States.

Defeated 2 to 9**

Foxx

To make in order and provide the appropriate waivers for an en bloc amendment to be separately debatable, consisting of: Amendment #128, offered by Rep. Flake (R-AZ) to ensure Members shall not influence discretionary funding by agencies or state and local officials on behalf of campaign contributors. Amendment #129, offered by Rep. Flake (R-AZ) to prohibit  funds from being used for any duck pond, museum, skate park, equestrian center, dog park, ski hill, historic home, ice rink, splash playground, or speaker system. Amendment #130, offered by Rep. Flake (R-AZ) to strike funding in the bill for the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Defeated 2 to 9**

Foxx

To make in order and provide the appropriate waivers for substitute amendment #18, offered by Rep. Garrett (R-NJ) to repeal the Alternative Minimum Tax on individuals, reduce individual income taxes, reduce taxes on capital assets, make rescissions in non-defense discretionary spending, and include other provisions relating to business, individuals and higher education.

Defeated 2 to 9**

McGovern

To report the structured rule that rewrites the bill, provides an additional one hour of general debate and makes only 11 out of 206 amendments submitted. 

Agreed to 9 to 2**