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An original concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2016 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2017 through 2025. [SCR-11]
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An original concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2016 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2017 through 2025. Establishes the congressional budget for the federal government for FY2016 and sets forth budgetary levels for FY2017-FY2025. TITLE I--RECOMMENDED LEVELS AND AMOUNTS Subtitle A--Budgetary Levels in Both Houses (Sec. 1101) Recommends levels and amounts for FY2016-FY2025 for federal revenues, new budget authority, budget outlays, deficits,
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Sponsored by: Sen. Michael Enzi
Message On Senate Action Sent To The House. on 05/06/2015
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U.S. OUTDOOR Act United States Optimal Use of Trade to Develop Outerwear and Outdoor Recreation Act [S.952]
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U.S. OUTDOOR Act United States Optimal Use of Trade to Develop Outerwear and Outdoor Recreation Act Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to provide for the duty-free treatment of certain recreational performance outerwear. Establishes the Sustainable Textile and Apparel Research Fund (STAR Fund). Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to impose and collect, with specified exceptions, a fee of 1.5% of the appraised value of imported recreational performance outerwear and to deposit amounts collected into the STAR Fund. Requires
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Sponsored by: Sen. Rob Portman
Read Twice And Referred To The Committee On Finance. on 04/15/2015
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Innovate America Act [S.894]
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Innovate America Act The Department of Education, in coordination with the Director of the National Science Foundation (NSF), shall award grants, on a competitive basis, to state educational agencies to establish or expand the number of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, including computer science (STEM) secondary schools in the United States from approximately 100 to approximately 200. The Department, in coordination with the NSF Director, shall: develop a database identifying existing STEM secondary schools, and study how to improve
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Sponsored by: Sen. Amy Klobuchar
Read Twice And Referred To The Committee On Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions. on 03/26/2015
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American Mineral Security Act of 2015 [S.883]
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American Mineral Security Act of 2015 This bill amends the National Materials and Minerals Policy, Research and Development Act of 1980 to direct the President to: (1) establish an analytical and forecasting capability for identifying critical mineral market factors so as to avoid supply shortages, mitigate price volatility, and prepare for demand growth and other market shifts; and (2) encourage federal agencies to facilitate development and production of domestic resources to meet national critical material and minerals needs. The Director of
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Sponsored by: Sen. Lisa Murkowski
Committee On Energy And Natural Resources. Hearings Held. Hearings Printed: S.hrg. 114-141. on 05/12/2015
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Smarter Approach to Nuclear Expenditures Act [S.831]
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Smarter Approach to Nuclear Expenditures Act Prohibits the obligation or expenditure of funds authorized to be appropriated to the Department of Defense (DOD) for FY2015-FY2024: (1) for the research, development, test, and evaluation (RDT&E) or procurement of a long-range penetrating bomber aircraft; (2) to procure an SSBN-X submarine (and prohibits the use of such funds for FY2025 and thereafter to procure more than eight such submarines); or (3) for the RDT&E or procurement of a new intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM). Prohibits the obligation
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Sponsored by: Sen. Edward Markey
Read Twice And Referred To The Committee On Armed Services. on 03/23/2015
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LDRD Enhancement Act of 2015 [S.830]
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LDRD Enhancement Act of 2015 Amends the Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2009 to increase from 8% to 10% the percentage of Department of Energy (DOE) funding for government-owned, contractor-operated laboratories that may be used for laboratory directed research and development. Amends the Atomic Energy Defense Act to increase from 6% to 10% the maximum percentage of DOE funding to government-owned, contractor-operated laboratories for national security activities that DOE may provide to such laboratories for
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Sponsored by: Sen. Tom Udall
Read Twice And Referred To The Committee On Energy And Natural Resources. on 03/23/2015
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Manufacturing Universities Act of 2015 [S.771]
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Manufacturing Universities Act of 2015 Authorizes the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to establish a program to designate up to 25 institutions of higher education as U.S. manufacturing universities that are to be awarded funds over a four-year period. Requires an institution applying for such program to submit a plan describing its engineering programs, its relationship to manufacturing industries, and its ability to positively impact local and regional economic development. Requires NIST to recommend adaptations to certain
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Sponsored by: Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand
Read Twice And Referred To The Committee On Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions. on 03/18/2015
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Energy Savings and Industrial Competitiveness Act of 2015 [S.720]
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Energy Savings and Industrial Competitiveness Act of 2015 This bill revises a variety of programs to encourage energy efficiency in buildings, industry, the federal government, and certain appliances. TITLE I--BUILDINGS Subtitle A--Building Energy Codes (Sec. 101) This bill amends the Energy Conservation and Production Act (ECPA) to require states and Indian tribes to measure and certify their compliance with certain residential and commercial building energy codes by a specified deadline. The Department of Energy (DOE) must: (1) provide technical
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Sponsored by: Sen. Susan Collins
Committee On Energy And Natural Resources. Reported By Senator Murkowski With Amendments. With Written Report No. 114-130. on 09/09/2015
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Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act [S.697]
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Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act This bill revises the standard under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) used to determine whether regulatory control of a certain chemical is warranted. If a chemical presents an unreasonable risk of injury to health or the environment, the TSCA requires the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to initiate rulemaking to reduce risks to a reasonable level. The bill requires that standard to be based on exposure to a chemical under its conditions of use. The conditions of use are the
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By Senator Inhofe From Committee On Environment And Public Works Filed Written Report. Report No. 114-67. Minority Views Filed. on 06/18/2015
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ACCTION Act of 2015 Advanced Clean Coal Technology Investment in Our Nation Act of 2015 [S.601]
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ACCTION Act of 2015 Advanced Clean Coal Technology Investment in Our Nation Act of 2015 This bill amends the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to require the Department of Energy (DOE) to implement a program to demonstrate the integration of systems for the capture, transportation, and injection of carbon dioxide from industrial sources for long-term geological storage or enhanced oil recovery at a commercial scale. The types of activities that must be undertaken under the existing coal and related technologies program are expanded. DOE may carry out a
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Sponsored by: Sen. Tim Kaine
Read Twice And Referred To The Committee On Finance. on 02/26/2015
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Success in the Middle Act of 2015 [S.581]
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Success in the Middle Act of 2015 This bill directs the Department of Education (ED) to allot grants to states, based on their proportion of poor children aged 5 to 17, to: (1) implement state middle grades needs analyses and, on the basis of such analyses, improvement plans that describe what students must master to complete successfully the middle grades and succeed in academically rigorous secondary school coursework; and (2) award competitive subgrants to local educational agencies (LEAs) or partnerships of LEAs and institutions of higher education,
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Sponsored by: Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse
Read Twice And Referred To The Committee On Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions. on 02/26/2015
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HERO Act of 2015 Human Exploitation Rescue Operations Act of 2015 [S.575]
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HERO Act of 2015 Human Exploitation Rescue Operations Act of 2015 This bill amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to direct the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to operate, within U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), a Cyber Crimes Center to provide investigative assistance, training, and equipment to support domestic and international investigations by ICE of cyber-related crimes. Within the Cyber Crimes Center, DHS shall operate a Child Exploitation Investigations Unit, which shall: coordinate all ICE child exploitation initiatives,
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Read Twice And Referred To The Committee On The Judiciary. on 02/25/2015
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COMPETE Act of 2015 Competitiveness and Opportunity by Modernizing and Permanently Extending the Tax Credit for Experimentation Act of 2015 [S.537]
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COMPETE Act of 2015 Competitiveness and Opportunity by Modernizing and Permanently Extending the Tax Credit for Experimentation Act of 2015 Amends the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to the tax credit for research expenditures, to: (1) increase the rate of such credit to 25% of so much of the taxpayer's qualified research expenses in a taxable year as exceeds 50% of the average expenses for the three preceding taxable years; (2) allow such credit for the basic research expenditures of educational institutions, scientific research organizations,
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Sponsored by: Sen. Thomas Carper
Read Twice And Referred To The Committee On Finance. on 02/24/2015
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Innovators Job Creation Act of 2015 [S.455]
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Innovators Job Creation Act of 2015 Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a qualified small business to elect to use a portion of its tax credit for increasing research expenditures as an offset against its payroll tax liability under the Federal Insurance Contributions Act. Defines "qualified small business" as a corporation, a partnership, or a person other than a tax-exempt organization that had gross receipts of less than $5 million for the taxable year and that did not have gross receipts for any period preceding the five-taxable-year period
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Sponsored by: Sen. Christopher Coons
Read Twice And Referred To The Committee On Finance. on 02/11/2015
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ExaSCALE Computing Leadership Act of 2015 Exascale Computing for Science, Competitiveness, Advanced Manufacturing, Leadership, and the Economy Act of 2015 [S.454]
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ExaSCALE Computing Leadership Act of 2015 Exascale Computing for Science, Competitiveness, Advanced Manufacturing, Leadership, and the Economy Act of 2015 Renames the Department of Energy High-End Computing Revitalization Act of 2004 as the Exascale Computing for Science, Competitiveness, Advanced Manufacturing, Leadership, and the Economy Act of 2015. Defines "exascale computing" as computing through the use of a computing machine that performs near or above 10 to the 18th power floating point operations per second. Directs the Secretary of Energy
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Sponsored by: Sen. Lamar Alexander
Committee On Energy And Natural Resources. Hearings Held. on 06/09/2015
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TALENT Act To Aid Gifted and High-Ability Learners by Empowering the Nation's Teachers Act [S.363]
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TALENT Act To Aid Gifted and High-Ability Learners by Empowering the Nation's Teachers Act Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to require state assessments of student proficiency to measure individual academic achievement, including above grade level achievement. Requires states to: (1) recognize local educational agencies (LEAs) that significantly increase the proportion of their students, overall and in specified student subgroups, that score at or above the advanced level of achievement on such assessments; (2) assist their
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Sponsored by: Sen. Robert Casey
Read Twice And Referred To The Committee On Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions. on 02/04/2015
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Start-up Jobs and Innovation Act [S.341]
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Start-up Jobs and Innovation Act Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) make permanent the increase to $500,000 of the expensing allowance for business assets, including computer software, and the treatment of qualified real property as depreciable business property; (2) make permanent the 100% exclusion from gross income of gain from the sale or exchange of small business stock; (3) increase and equalize the tax deduction for business start-up expenses and organizational expenditures; (4) increase from $5 million to $10 million the gross receipt
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Sponsored by: Sen. Robert Menendez
Read Twice And Referred To The Committee On Finance. on 02/03/2015
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration Transition Authorization Act of 2016 [S.3346]
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration Transition Authorization Act of 2016
Sponsored by: Sen. Roger Wicker
Message On Senate Action Sent To The House. on 12/12/2016
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American Innovation and Competitiveness Act [S.3084]
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American Innovation and Competitiveness Act This bill calls on the National Science Foundation (NSF) to maintain the intellectual merit and broader impacts criteria as the basis for evaluating grant proposals in the merit review process. The NSF shall issue and periodically update policy guidance for both NSF staff and other NSF merit review process participants, emphasizing the importance of transparency and accountability of the outcomes made through such process. The bill renames the Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research as the
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Sponsored by: Sen. Bill Nelson
Presented To President. on 12/28/2016
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Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017 [S.3017]
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Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017 TITLE I--INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES (Sec. 101) This bill authorizes FY2017 appropriations for the conduct of intelligence and intelligence-related activities of: the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI); the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA); the Department of Defense (DOD); the Defense Intelligence Agency; the National Security Agency (NSA); the Departments of the Army, Navy, and Air Force; the U.S. Coast Guard; the Departments of State, the Treasury, Energy, and Justice; the Federal
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Sponsored by: Sen. Richard Burr
By Senator Burr From Select Committee On Intelligence Filed Written Report. Report No. 114-277. Additional And Minority Views Filed. on 06/15/2016