Passed amendments sponsored by Bernie Sanders

Red indicates GOP control, blue Dem control

Amendment description

Voice or unanimous consent

To establish a deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to supporting programs that keep low-income older individuals healthy and able to live at home, such as those programs funded through the Older Americans Act of 1965.

Voice or unanimous consent

To establish a deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to strengthening the United States Postal Service by establishing a moratorium to protect mail processing plants, reinstating overnight delivery standards, and protecting rural service.

Voice or unanimous consent

To establish a deficit-neutral reserve fund to protect and strengthen the Department of Veterans Affairs, hire more health care professionals for the Department, and ensure quality and timely access to health care for all veterans.

To establish a deficit-neutral reserve fund to protect Medicaid beneficiaries from benefit cuts.

Voice or unanimous consent

Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 2014

To express the sense of the Senate on significantly reducing child poverty by calendar year 2019.

Voice or unanimous consent

Alicia Dawn Koehl Respect for National Cemeteries Act

Relative to authority to reconsider decisions of Secretary of Veterans Affairs or Secretary of the Army to inter the remains or honor the memory of a person in a national cemetery.

Voice or unanimous consent

Helping Homeless Veterans Act of 2013

Relative to extension of authority for program of referral and counseling services for veterans at risk of homelessness who are transitioning from certain institutions.

Voice or unanimous consent

Department of Veterans Affairs Expiring Authorities Act of 2013

To amend the title.

Voice or unanimous consent

Department of Veterans Affairs Expiring Authorities Act of 2014

In the nature of a substitute.

Voice or unanimous consent

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.

Voice or unanimous consent

To establish a deficit-neutral reserve fund to protect the benefits of disabled veterans and their survivors, which may not include a chained CPI.

Voice or unanimous consent

National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2013

To require an annual report on Federal contracting fraud.

Voice or unanimous consent

National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2013

To require public availability of the database of senior Department officials seeking employment with defense contractors.

Voice or unanimous consent

National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2014

To amend the Federal renewable energy purchase requirement to include geothermal heat pumps.

Voice or unanimous consent

Agriculture Reform, Food, and Jobs Act of 2012

To improve the community wood energy programs.

Voice or unanimous consent

Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2012

To provide amounts to support innovative, utility-administered energy efficiency programs for small businesses.

Voice or unanimous consent

Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2010

To require the Administrator of the General Services to make publicly available the contractor integrity performance database established under the Clean Contracting Act of 2008.

Restoring American Financial Stability Act of 2010

To require the non-partisan Government Accountability Office to conduct an independent audit of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System that does not interfere with monetary policy, to let the American people know the names of the recipients of over $2,000,000,000,000 in taxpayer assistance from the Federal Reserve System, and for other purposes.

Voice or unanimous consent

Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2010

To make available from Overseas Contingency Operations $20,000,000 for outreach and reintegration services under the Yellow Ribbon Reintegration Program.

Voice or unanimous consent

Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2010

To make available from Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation, Army $12,000,000 for the peer-reviewed Gulf War Illness Research Program of the Army.

Voice or unanimous consent

Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2011

To require a report on Federal contracting fraud.

Voice or unanimous consent

Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2010

To provide funds for the school community garden pilot program, with an offset.

Voice or unanimous consent

Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2011

To require the Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition to use certain funds to conduct a study on obesity

Voice or unanimous consent

Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2011

To modify the amount made available for the Farm Service Agency.

Voice or unanimous consent

Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2010

To provide additional amounts for technical assistance grants.

Voice or unanimous consent

National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2010

To require the Comptroller General of the United States to report to Congress on financial assistance for child care available to deployed members of the reserve components of the Armed Forces.

Voice or unanimous consent

Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2010

To require the Secretary of Homeland Security to submit to Congress a report on reducing the time to travel between locations in the United States and locations in Ontario and Quebec by intercity passenger rail.

Voice or unanimous consent

American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009

To require recipients of TARP funding to meet strict H-1B worker hiring standard to ensure non-displacement of U.S. workers.

Voice or unanimous consent

Passenger Rail Investment and Improvement Act of 2008

To clarify that the Secretary of Transportation should favor projects that involve the purchase of environmentally sensitive, fuel-efficient, and cost-effective passenger rail equipment in selecting projects to receive capital investment grants to support intercity passenger rail service.

Voice or unanimous consent

Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2008

To increase, with an offset, the amount appropriated for Operation and Maintenance, Army National Guard, by $10,000,000.

Voice or unanimous consent

National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008

To require a pilot program on military family readiness and servicemember reintegration.

Voice or unanimous consent

National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2009

To provide, with an offset, and additional $15,000,000 Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation, Army, for a program of research on Gulf War illnesses.

Voice or unanimous consent

National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2010

To provide for an enhancement of the utility of the Certificate of Release or Discharge from Active Duty of members of the Armed Forces.

Voice or unanimous consent

Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2008

To ensure that the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development awards capital fund bonuses to deserving high-performing public housing authorities.

Voice or unanimous consent

Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2008

To prohibit the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, with respect to increases in dollar amounts for the payment of disability compensation and dependency and indemnity compensation, from rounding down such dollar amounts to the next lower whole dollar.

Consolidated Security, Disaster Assistance, and Continuing Appropriations Act, 2009

To prohibit funds made available in this Act from being used to implement a rule or regulation related to certain petitions for aliens to perform temporary labor in the United States.

Voice or unanimous consent

Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007

To require that not less than 30 percent of the hot water demand for certain new or substantially modified Federal buildings be met through the installation and use of solar hot water heaters.

Voice or unanimous consent

Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007

To establish an energy efficiency and renewable energy worker training program.

Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2007

To establish the American Competitiveness Scholarship Program.

Voice or unanimous consent

U.S. Troop Readiness, Veterans' Care, Katrina Recovery, and Iraq Accountability Appropriations Act, 2007

To provide funds for the weatherization assistance program.

Voice or unanimous consent

Honest Leadership and Open Government Act of 2007

To require a report by the Commission to Strengthen Confidence in Congress regarding political contributions before and after the enactment of certain laws.

Voice or unanimous consent

Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2007

Voice or unanimous consent

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

Amendment increases funding for the Environmental Protection Agency's EnergyStar Program in K-12 school systems by $1.8 million.

Transportation, Treasury, Housing and Urban Development, the Judiciary, the District of Columbia, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 2006

At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: "None of the funds made available in this Act may be used to provide for the competitive sourcing of flight service stations.".

Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2006

At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: \ TITLE VI--ADDITIONAL GENERAL PROVISIONS \ PROHIBITION ON USE OF FUNDS BY THE EXPORT-IMPORT BANK OF THE UNITED STATES TO APPROVE AN APPLICATION FOR A LONG-TERM LOAN OR LOAN GUARANTEE WITH RESPECT TO A NUCLEAR PROJECT IN THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA \ SEC. 601. None of the funds made available in this Act may be used by the Export-Import Bank of the United States to approve an application for a long-term loan or loan guarantee with respect to a nuclear project in the People's Republic of China.

Science, State, Justice, Commerce, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2006

To prohibit funds in the bill from being used to implement provisions of Section 215 of the USA PATRIOT Act which permits searches of library circulation records, library patron lists, book sales records, or book customer lists under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA).

Voice or unanimous consent

Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, 2006

Amendment increases Energy Supply and Conservation funding by $1,000,000.

Transportation, Treasury, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 2005

At the end of the bill, insert after the last section (preceding the short title) the following new section: \ SEC. __. None of the funds appropriated by this Act may be used to assist in overturning the judicial ruling contained in the Memorandum and Order of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Illinois entered on July 31, 2003, in the action entitled Kathi Cooper, Beth Harrington, and Matthew Hillesheim, Individually and on Behalf of All Those Similarly Situated vs. IBM Personal Pension Plan and IBM Corporation (Civil No. 99-829-GPM).

Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2005

Amendment increases funding for the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance (LIHEAP) program and the Weatherization Assistance program.

Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2005

At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: \ LIMITATION ON PROVISION BY EXPORT-IMPORT BANK OF CREDIT TO ENTITIES REINCORPORATING OVERSEAS \ SEC.__. None of the funds made available in this Act may be used by the Export-Import Bank of the United States to approve an application for a master guarantee and political risk supplement where the applicant's charter or articles of incorporation show that the entity is incorporated or chartered in Bermuda, Barbados, the Cayman Islands, Antigua, or Panama.

Voice or unanimous consent

Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2005

Amendment increases funding for the Rural Community Advancement Program.

Transportation, Treasury, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 2004

At the end of the bill, insert after the last section (preceding the short title) the following new section: \ SEC. 742. None of the funds appropriated by this Act may be used to assist in overturning the judicial ruling contained in the Memorandum and Order of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Illinois entered on July 31, 2003, in the action entitled Kathi Cooper, Beth Harrington, and Matthew Hillesheim, Individually and on Behalf of All Those Similarly Situated vs. IBM Personal Pension Plan and IBM Corporation (Civil No. 99- 829-GPM).

Voice or unanimous consent

Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 2004

At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: \ SEC. . None of the funds made available in this Act may be used to implement any policy prohibiting the Directors of the Veterans Integrated Service Networks from conducting outreach or marketing to enroll new veterans within their respective Networks.

Voice or unanimous consent

Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2004

At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: \ SEC. __. None of the funds made available in this Act may be used to make an application under section 501 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (50 U.S.C. 1861) for an order requiring the production of library circulation records, library patron lists, library Internet records, bookseller sales records, or bookseller customer lists.

Voice or unanimous consent

Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2004

Amendment increases funding for weatherization assistance grants by $15 million with offsets from other energy conservation activities.

Treasury and General Government Appropriations Act, 2003

Amendment prohibits the Internal Revenue Service from using any funds for activities that violate current pension age discrimination laws.

Voice or unanimous consent

Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2003

Amendment increases funding for the Energy Conservation Energy Star Program by $3 million and decreases salaries and expense funding in the Department of Energy accordingly.

Voice or unanimous consent

Department of Defense and Emergency Supplemental Appropriations for Recovery from and Response to Terrorist Attacks on the United States Act, 2002

Amendment makes available an additional $100 million for federally qualified community health centers.

Voice or unanimous consent

Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2002

Amendment deals with the granting of certain licenses to pharmaceutical companies.

Voice or unanimous consent

Treasury and General Government Appropriations Act, 2002

Amendment prohibits the importation of goods on which the United States Customs Service has issued a detention order on the basis that such goods were made by forced or indentured child labor.

Voice or unanimous consent

Treasury and General Government Appropriations Act, 2001

Amendment prohibits the IRS from using any funds for activities that violate current pension age discrimination laws.

Voice or unanimous consent

Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2001

Amendment increases funding for weatherization assistance and energy conservation programs by $45 million and reduces fossil fuel energy research and development programs accordingly.

Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2001

Amendment prohibits the use of NIH funding to grant an exclusive or partially exclusive license pursuant to chapter 18 of title 35, USC, except in accordance with section 209 of such title (relating to the availability to the public of an invention and its benefits on reasonable terms).

Voice or unanimous consent

Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 2000

At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following new section: \ RURAL VETERANS HEALTH CARE SERVICES \ SEC. . The house supports efforts to implement improvements in health care services for veterans in rural areas.

Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2000

Amendment increases funding for the Weatherization Assistance Program by $13 million and reduces Strategic Petroleum Reserve funding accordingly.

Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2000

Amendment increases Payment In Lieu of Taxes (PILT) funding by $20 million; provides $30 million for deficit reduction; and reduces fossil energy research and development funding by $50 million.

Voice or unanimous consent

Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2000

Amendment provides $1 million for a national pilot program to promote agritourism.

Voice or unanimous consent

Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2001

Amendment increases funding for the Commodity Assistance Program by $10 million.

Voice or unanimous consent

Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1999

Amendment increases funding for the SBA Women's Business Center program by $2 million.

Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1999

Amendment increases the Bureau of Land Management Payments In Lieu of Taxes (PILT) funding by $20 million.

Voice or unanimous consent

Treasury and General Government Appropriations Act, 1999

Amendment earmarks $2 million appropriated to the National Archives and Records Administration for the National Personnel Records Center for modernization of its records management system.

Voice or unanimous consent

Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 1999

At the end of title VIII (page___, after line___), insert the following new section: \ SEC. . None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available by this Act may be used to enter into or renew a contract with any company owned, or partially owned, by the People's Republic of China or the People's Liberation Army of the People's Republic of China.

Voice or unanimous consent

Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1999

Amendment increases funding for Senior Nutrition Programs by $10 million.

Voice or unanimous consent

Amendment requires the Comptroller General to report to Congress regarding the efficacy and benefits of uniformly limiting any commissions, fees, markups, or other costs incurred by customers in the acquisition of financial products.

Voice or unanimous consent

Amendment sought to reduce the intelligence budget for fiscal year 1999 by 5 percent with the CIA Retirement and Disability Fund exempted from the reduction.

Voice or unanimous consent

Higher Education Amendments of 1998

Amendment gives the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education, which administers a competitive grant program for higher education institutions, a broader mission and allows them to make competitive grants available to institutions which seek to cooperate and reduce costs through the joint purchase of goods and services.

Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1998

Amendment increases funding for the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative by $1 million.

Voice or unanimous consent

Treasury and General Government Appropriations Act, 1998

Page 101, after line 18, insert the following new section: \ SEC. 633. None of the funds made available in this Act for the United States Custom Service may be used to allow the importation into the United States of any good, ware, article, or merchandise mined, produced, or manufactured by forced or indentured child labor, as determined pursuant to section 307 of the Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. 1307).

Voice or unanimous consent

Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 1998

Amendment increases funding for the National Guard Starbase program by $2 million.

Voice or unanimous consent

Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1998

Amendment increases funding for the Meals on Wheels program by $5 million and reduces funding for the Food and Drug Administration by $5.5 million.

Voice or unanimous consent

Foreign Affairs Reform and Restructuring Act of 1998

Amendment expresses the sense of Congress that Ngawang Choephel and other prisoners of conscience in Tibet, as well as in China, should be released immediately, and that the U.S. government should seek access for internationally recognized human rights groups to monitor human rights in Tibet.

Voice or unanimous consent

Treasury, Postal Service, and General Government Appropriations Act, 1997

Amendment prohibits any funds in the bill from being paid to any managed care network under the Federal Employees Health Benefits Plan that offers physicians financial incentives to withhold medically necessary information from their patients.

Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 1997

Amendment increases funding for the Court of Veterans Appeals by $1.4 million and reduces funding for HUD salaries and expenses by $1.4 million.

Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1997

Amendment transfers $11.7 million from the Naval Petroleum Reserve into the Low-Income Weatherization Assistance Program.

Voice or unanimous consent

United States Housing Act of 1996

Amendment increases the level of administrative fees provided to local housing authorities administering the rental assistance program; and establishes a two-tiered payment schedule that gives local authorities 7.65 percent of the base grant amount for the first 600 units and seven percent for all units in excess of 600 units.

Voice or unanimous consent

Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 1996

Amendment prohibits any funds in the bill from being obligated or expended to pay a contractor for costs paid to an employee if such costs are for a bonus or in excess of the normal salary paid by the contractor to the employee or if such bonus is part of restructuring costs associated with a business combination.

Treasury, Postal Service, and General Government Appropriations Act, 1996

Amendment prohibits the use of any funds in connection with the obligation or expenditure of funds in the exchange stabilization fund.

Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1996

Amendment transfers $2 million from the salaries and expenses of the Department of the Interior to the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation.

Voice or unanimous consent

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995

Amendment specifies that the functions of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs should place an emphasis on minimizing the burden on small businessess with 50 or fewer employees.

Voice or unanimous consent

Amendment requires companies convicted of crimes to notify as best as possible all the victims of those crimes.

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