Republican "Riders" to the Budget Bill

[AlwaysAnAztec]

As one can see. The Tea-Party is NOT about reducing the budget but about shoving their ideology down our throats.

The number of "riders" on HR 1 is currently greater than 500.


Policy Riders in H.R.1
The following are brief descriptions and locations of provisions included in the continuing resolution (H.R. 1) passed by the House of Representatives on Feb. 19, 2011. These provisions appear in the introduced version of the bill and in subsequently approved amendments. This list is not comprehensive.

Agriculture
- Prohibits funding for the Biomass Crop Assistance Program. Sec. 1285

Consumer Protection
- Restricts the ability of the FDA to transfer funds. Sec. 1268
- Prohibits the Federal Reserve from transferring more than $80 million to the new Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection. Sec. 1517
- Prohibits funds for a government sponsored “consumer products complaints database.” Sec. 4046

Defense
- Prohibits agencies from obligating funds in contravention of parts of the Iran Sanctions Act of 1996. Sec. 1115
- Prohibits funds to take any action to effect or implement the disestablishment, closure or realignment of the US Joint Forces Command. Sec. 4020
- Prohibits funds made available to the Department of Defense for official representation purposes. Sec. 4031

Education
- Bans funding for the Department of Education regulations on Gainful Employment, as-yet-unpublished rules that would restrict federal student aid to for-profit colleges whose students have high debt-to-income ratios and require the schools to report more information about student outcomes. Sec. 4012
- Prohibits funds for implementing a provision specific to the State of Texas in the “Education Job Fund.” Sec. 4051

Environment
- Prohibits funding for the Wetlands Reserve Program. Sec. 1281
- Prohibits funding for the Conservation Stewardship Program. Sec. 1282
- Prohibits funding for the Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention Act. Sec. 1283
- Prohibits funding for the Weatherization Assistance Program or the State Energy Program. Sec. 1434
- Prohibits funding for various environmental projects in California. Sec. 1475
- Prohibits funding for a climate change czar in the White House. Sec. 1535
- Prohibits funding for EPA efforts to regulate greenhouse gases. Sec. 1746
- Prohibits funding for the EPA to change a rule regulating water. Sec. 1747
- Prohibits funding for enforcing an order by the Secretary of the Interior calling for protecting public natural spaces. Sec. 1778
- Puts a moratorium, for the duration of the CR, on the payment of legal fees to citizens and groups who sue the government. Sec. 4007
- Prohibits funds to implement, administer or enforce the rule entitled “National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants From the Portland Cement Manufacturing Industry and Standards of Performance for Portland Cement Plants,” published by the Environmental Protection Agency on September 9, 2010, which limits the levels of mercury in cement. Sec. 4008
-Prohibits funds to the EPA’s Environmental Appeals Board to consider, review, reject remand or other invalidate any permit issued for Outer Continental Shelf sources located offshore of the States along the Arctic Coast. Sec. 4014
- Defines specifically what greenhouse gases are and prohibits the EPA from imposing regulations on those gasses emitted by a stationary source for seven months. Sec. 4015
- Prohibits funds to implement the Klamath (California) Dam Removal and Sedimentation Study, conducted by the US Bureau of Reclamation and the US Fish and Wildlife Service. Sec. 4028
- Prohibits funds to implement or enforce the Travel Management Rule, which would close roads and trails on National Forest System land. Sec. 4029
- Prohibits funds for the Department of the Interior’s Office of Surface Mining, Reclamation and Enforcement (OSM) from moving forward with a proposed rule that would effectively eliminate the Stream Buffer Zone Rule, a rule that presently allows surface mining operations with qualified permits to work within 100 feet of a stream. Sec. 4032
- Prohibit EPA funding for enforcement of total maximum daily loads in the Chesapeake Bay watershed. Sec. 4033
- Prohibits funds for the EPA to impose and enforce federally mandated numeric Florida water quality standards. Sec. 4035
- Prohibits funds from being used to construct ethanol blender pumps or ethanol storage facilities. Sec. 4037
- Prohibits funds to implement a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Climate Service, part of the President’s fiscal year 2012 budget request. Sec. 4038
- Prohibits the EPA, Corps of Engineers and the Office of Surface Mining from implementing coordination procedures that have served to extend and delay the review of coal mining permits. Sec. 4039
- Prohibits funds from being used to develop or approve a new limited access privilege program – “catch-shares” – for any fishery under the jurisdiction of the South Atlantic, Mid-Atlantic, New England or Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council. Sec. 4040
- Prohibits funds for the study of the Missouri River projects. Sec. 4041
- Prohibits funds for the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Sec. 4042
- Blocks funds for the EPA to implement a waiver to increase the ethanol content in gasoline from 10 percent to 15 percent. Sec. 4043
- Prohibits funds for the EPA to deny proposed and active mining permits under Section 404 (c) of the Clean Water Act, specifically to revoke retroactively a permit for the Spruce Mine in West Virginia. Sec. 4044
- Prohibits funds for the EPA to implement regulations to designate coal ash reside as hazardous waste. Sec. 4045
- Prohibits funds for EPA to modify the national primary ambient air quality standards applicable to coarse particulate matter (dust). Sec. 4048

Federal Elections
- Restricts funds from being used for the Presidential Election Campaign Fund or political party conventions. Sec. 4004

Health Care
- Prohibits funding for the IRS to implement health care reform. Sec. 1516
- Prohibits funds for a White House Director of Health Care reform. Sec. 1536
- Prohibits the District of Columbia from using its own, non federal funds to pay for abortions beyond the very limited circumstances in which federal funds are currently available (in circumstances of rape or incest and to save the life of a pregnant woman). Sec. 1590
- Prohibits funding for needle-exchange programs. Sec. 1591
- Prohibits funding for sections of the Public Health Service Act. Sec. 1820
- Prohibits funds to the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc., or any of its affiliates. Sec. 4013
- Prohibits funds to pay any employee, officer or contractor to implement the provisions of the health care reform law, stopping the Department of Health and Human Services from Sec. 4016
- Strips funding for any provision of the health care reform law. Sec. 4017
- Prohibits the payment of salaries for any officer or employee of any federal department or agency with respect to carrying out the health care reform law. Sec. 4018
- Bars funds to implement the individual mandate and penalties and reporting requirements of the health care reform law. Sec. 4019
- Prohibits funds to carry out the medical loss ratio restrictions in the health care reform law. These provisions require insurers to spend at least a certain percent of their premium revenues on medical care. Sec. 4027
- Blocks funds for Health Insurance Exchanges, a set of state regulated health care plans offered under the health care reform law. Sec. 4034
- Prohibits funds for employee and officer salaries at the Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight at the Department of Health and Human Services, created by the health care reform law. Sec. 4047
- Prohibits funds for salaries for any officer or employee of the government to issue regulations on essential benefits under section 1302 of the health care reform law. Sec. 4049
- Prohibits funds for the independent payment advisory board. Sec. 4050

Homeland Security
- Prohibits transferring detainees from Guantanamo Bay. Sec. 1112
- Prohibits transferring detainees from Guantanamo Bay. Sec. 1113
- Prohibits constructing facilities to house detainees in Guantanamo Bay. Sec. 1114
- Prohibits funding for hiring new TSA employees. Sec. 1614
- Prohibits funding for immigrant integration programs. Sec. 1635
- Prohibits the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives from collecting information on multiple sales of rifles or shotguns to the same person. Sec. 4030

Housing
- Prohibits funding for the Sustainable Communities Initiative. Sec. 2226
- Prohibits funding for capital advances or rental assistance contracts for HUD Housing for the Elderly projects. Sec. 2237
- Prohibits funding for renewing tenant-based assistance contracts. Sec. 2238
- Prohibits funds for the Department of Homeland Security, Federal Emergency Management Agency, State and Local Programs to provide grants under the Urban Area Security Initiative. Sec. 4002

International
- Prohibits funding for the US Ambassador's Fund for Cultural Preservation, UN Population Fund, or for foreign NGOs that use their own non-U.S. funds to provide abortion services. Sec. 2122
- Places various restrictions on Afghanistan funding. Sec. 2124
- Prohibits U.S. military assistance to Chad, due to its continued use of child conscription, consistent with the Child Soldiers Prevention Act of 2007. Sec. 4011
- Prohibits funds for the Overseas Comparability Pay Adjustment, an increase in pay for overseas Foreign Service Officers approved by President Obama under the supplemental appropriations Sec. 4021
- Bans foreign aid to Saudi Arabia. Sec. 4023
- Prohibits funds for UN construction within the US. Sec. 4036

Internet and Communications
- Blocks funds for the Federal Communications Commission to institute Net Neutrality rules. Sec. 4006
- Prohibits funds for the Community Connect broadband grant program administered by the Rural Utilities Service of the Department of Agriculture. Sec. 4022

Job Training
- Prohibits funding for competitions for new Job Corps centers. Sec. 1802

Legislative Branch
- Prohibits funding for upgrading Congressional committee rooms. Sec. 1904

Nutrition
- Prohibits funding for carrying out section 19 of the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act. Sec. 1284

Recovery Act
- Prohibits Recovery Act funding for Department of Energy employees employed through the Recovery Act. Sec. 1474
- Rescinds unobligated Recovery Act funds. Sec. 3001
- Prohibits Recovery Act funds for signage. Sec. 3002

Trade
- Prohibits NASA from collaborating with China. Sec. 1339
- Prohibits Export-Import Bank funding for anyone subject to sanctions under the Iran Sanctions Act of 1996. Sec. 2123
- Prohibits funds to provide nonrecourse marketing assistance loans to mohair farmers. Sec. 4026

White House
- Prohibits funds to pay the salaries and expenses of the following “czars,” or special presidential advisers who are not required to go through the Senate confirmation process: Obama Care Czar, Climate Change Czar, Global Warming Czar, Green Jobs Czar, Car Czar, Guantanamo Bay Closure Czar, Pay Czar and Fairness Doctrine Czar. Sec. 4009

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So funding of all of this useless crap is non-ideological? It all looks pretty good to me except the Joint Forces Command. IT NEEDS TO GO....YESTERDAY.

Other than that...more please! cut more, cut deeper.

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They're Like Economic Locusts

If you want to understand better why so many states—from New York to Wisconsin to California—are teetering on the brink of bankruptcy, consider this depressing statistic: Today in America there are nearly twice as many people working for the government (22.5 million) than in all of manufacturing (11.5 million). This is an almost exact reversal of the situation in 1960, when there were 15 million workers in manufacturing and 8.7 million collecting a paycheck from the government.

Locusts With Two Mouths!
PHOENIX — Carlos Bejarano, a local schools superintendent with more than 30 years in education, is nearing retirement, but his plans include neither long afternoons on the golf course nor extended road trips with the family. His retirement, in fact, will closely resemble the workaday life he has been living.

Gold Plated , Two Mouthed Locusts!

Health insurance plans to cover city and town employees cost 37 percent more than similar plans for workers at private companies, mostly because municipal employees pay minimal copayments or deductibles when they get care, according to a new statewide survey.

[aztec70]

afan, how about shrinking your chart so it fits the screen?

[aztec70]

afan, there is a very simple reason for that chart. Conservatives have sent so many jobs overseas that high school grads cans not longer find work. So they join the military.

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Apr 6, 2011 11:15:28 GMT -8 aztec70 said:

afan, there is a very simple reason for that chart. Conservatives have sent so many jobs overseas that high school grads cans not longer find work. So they join the military.

What's your evidence that conservatives "have sent so many jobs overseas".

Name one.

Steve Jobs?

Phil Knight?

Jeff Immelt?


There's three Liberals that have sent manufacturing jobs overseas. Name a conservative.

[aztec70]

afan, I am not talking about any one man, but the policys of conservatives in general.

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Apr 6, 2011 12:49:55 GMT -8 aztec70 said:

afan, I am not talking about any one man, but the policys of conservatives in general.

Which policies?

[aztecwin]

I find very little in those "riders" that I object too. There are a couple, but then I could add many more.

Business people get things done in the method that is most advantages to the business. It is not a liberal or Conservative issue, but a economic step that must be made to be competitive. Jobs going overseas is just the result of poor tax policy and onerous regulation here at home.

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Apr 6, 2011 13:21:04 GMT -8 aztecwin said:

I find very little in those "riders" that I object too. There are a couple, but then I could add many more.

Business people get things done in the method that is most advantages to the business. It is not a liberal or Conservative issue, but a economic step that must be made to be competitive. Jobs going overseas is just the result of poor tax policy and onerous regulation here at home.

They'll never understand win. 30 years of near uninterrupted job growth due to "conservative "policies. The Punaho Pothead gets in office and blows up our economy with a Keynesian SCUD missile and somehow it's the conservatives fault. Maybe we need to figure out how to steal elections like the liberals.

[Montezuma]

The greatest budget proposal EVER! Wow, finally someone is welling to make moves to save the country and the leftist waskos go crazy. The leftish HATE us ordinary tax paying citizens.

[aztec70]

Apr 6, 2011 13:08:59 GMT -8 afan said:

Apr 6, 2011 12:49:55 GMT -8 aztec70 said:

afan, I am not talking about any one man, but the policys of conservatives in general.

Which policies?

You call yourself a conservative? Surely you know.

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Apr 6, 2011 15:33:38 GMT -8 aztec70 said:

Apr 6, 2011 13:08:59 GMT -8 afan said:

Which policies?

You call yourself a conservative? Surely you know.

So you have no idea and all you're really doing is parroting something you heard Rick Maddow say on MSNBC. Got it...

[AlwaysAnAztec]

Apr 6, 2011 15:48:20 GMT -8 afan said:

Apr 6, 2011 15:33:38 GMT -8 aztec70 said:

You call yourself a conservative? Surely you know.

So you have no idea and all you're really doing is parroting something you heard Rick Maddow say on MSNBC. Got it...

Still homophobic I see.

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Apr 7, 2011 7:18:13 GMT -8 AlwaysAnAztec said:

Apr 6, 2011 15:48:20 GMT -8 afan said:

So you have no idea and all you're really doing is parroting something you heard Rick Maddow say on MSNBC. Got it...

Still homophobic I see.

And racist too! You forgot racist! Nothing more pathetic than a liberal attempting to debate on facts. Sickening really. They're just not all that bright when it gets right down to it.

[aztecwin]

Apr 7, 2011 9:52:06 GMT -8 afan said:

Apr 7, 2011 7:18:13 GMT -8 AlwaysAnAztec said:

Still homophobic I see.

And racist too! You forgot racist! Nothing more pathetic than a liberal attempting to debate on facts. Sickening really. They're just not all that bright when it gets right down to it.

You don't even have to get "right down to it".

[aztec70]

Apr 6, 2011 15:48:20 GMT -8 afan said:

Apr 6, 2011 15:33:38 GMT -8 aztec70 said:

You call yourself a conservative? Surely you know.

So you have no idea and all you're really doing is parroting something you heard Rick Maddow say on MSNBC. Got it...

Actually I saw the start while I was in business school in the 1970's. When my professors told me that as a business manager I should only pay attention to the needs of the shareholders and that customers and employees were expendable and replaceable.

Now rather than get into a long discussion when I am trying to get my clients work done I suggest you simply put the phrase, "How conservatives have outsourced American jobs", into your search engine. Then you can spend a lot of time telling how wrong those articles are.

[AlwaysAnAztec]

Apr 7, 2011 9:52:06 GMT -8 afan said:

Apr 7, 2011 7:18:13 GMT -8 AlwaysAnAztec said:

Still homophobic I see.

And racist too! You forgot racist! Nothing more pathetic than a liberal attempting to debate on facts. Sickening really. They're just not all that bright when it gets right down to it.

I don't doubt it. The two tend to go hand in hand. However, you didn't write anything of a racist nature. Just homophobic.

[inevitec]

Afan doesn't like to pay taxes. Poor little, limited Afan.

[McQuervo]

Idiots like that should be forced to live in another country to sample their version of Democracy.

This administration is the worst I have witnessed in my lifetime- by far.