Enacting President Obama's Recommendations for Program Termination Act
Latest action · Mar 3, 2011 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedMar 3, 2011
- Passed SenateNot reached
- Passed HouseNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Enacting President Obama's Recommendations for Program Termination Act - Prohibits federal expenditures for specified programs in: (1) the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), (2) the Department of Education, (3) the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), (4) the Department of Labor, (5) the Department of Defense (DOE), (6) the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), (7) the Department of Agriculture, (8) the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), (9) the Department of Energy (DOE), (10) the Department of Justice (DOJ), (11) the Department of the Interior, and (12) the Department of Commerce.
Prohibits federal expenditures for: (1) the Christopher Columbus Fellowship Foundation, (2) the Deep Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory of the National Science Foundation (NSF), (3) Election Reform Grants of the Election Assistance Commission (EAC), (4) the NSF STEM Fellows in K-12 Education, (5) the Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation, (6) the NSF STEM Distributed Learning (Digital Library), (7) NSF Grants to Broad Participation in Biology, (8) the Revenue Forgone from Reduced Rate Mail of the Postal Service, (9) NSF Synchrotron Radiation Center, and (10) the Water and Wastewater Treatment of the Corps of Engineer.
Provides that any funds appropriated to or unobligated by such programs shall be rescinded and returned to the Treasury.
Deems any authorization in law for such programs to be repealed.
Cosponsors
Members who signed on, in the order they did.
Committees 1
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| Senate | Appropriations Committee | Referred Mar 3, 2011 |
Actions 2
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Mar 3, 2011Introduced in Senate
- Mar 3, 2011Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations.
Research
What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.
CRS reports 2
Congressional Research Service work that CRS links to this bill or the law it became, newest first.
Cite it 2
Products on other subjects that cite it, usually among other measures.
| Product | Title | Kind | Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| R41613 | Fishery, Aquaculture, and Marine Mammal Issues in the 112th Congress Archived | Report | Jan 22, 2013 |
| R41961 | Army Corps Fiscal Challenges: Frequently Asked Questions Archived | Report | Dec 15, 2011 |
Titles 2
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- A bill to enact President Obama's recommendations for program terminations.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- Enacting President Obama's Recommendations for Program Termination Act
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Economics and Public Finance.
- Agricultural prices, subsidies, credit
- Air quality
- Alaska
- Appropriations
- Broadcasting, cable, digital technologies
- Census and government statistics
- Child health
- Climate change and greenhouse gases
- Defense spending
- Department of Agriculture
- Department of Defense
- Department of Education
- Department of Health and Human Services
- Department of Homeland Security
- Department of Housing and Urban Development
- Department of Labor
- Department of the Interior
- Disability assistance
- Economic development
- Economics and Public Finance
- Education programs funding
- Election Assistance Commission
- Elections, voting, political campaign regulation
- Employment and training programs
- Energy prices
- Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
- Fires
- Floods and storm protection
- Forests, forestry, trees
- Government lending and loan guarantees
- Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
- Health care coverage and access
- Health facilities and institutions
- Health personnel
- Health programs administration and funding
- Health promotion and preventive care
- Higher education
- Historic sites and heritage areas
- Homeland security
- Housing and community development funding
- Housing finance and home ownership
- Housing supply and affordability
- Lawyers and legal services
- Massachusetts
- Medical education
- Military procurement, research, weapons development
- National Science Foundation
- New Mexico
- Parks, recreation areas, trails
- Postal service
- Research administration and funding
- Rural conditions and development
- Science and engineering education
- Student aid and college costs
- Teaching, teachers, curricula
- Trade adjustment assistance
- Transportation safety and security
- Urban and suburban affairs and development
- Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation
- Water quality
- Water use and supply
- Watersheds
- Wilderness and natural areas, wildlife refuges, wild rivers, habitats
- Wildlife conservation and habitat protection
- Women's education
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Mar 3, 2011Introduced in Senate
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