Vote on Amendments to FY 2016 Senate Budget Resolution
Letters to Officials
March 25, 2015
U.S. Senate
Washington, D.C. 20510
Dear Senator,
You will vote today on the Senate Budget Committee’s FY 2016 budget resolution. On behalf of the more than one million members and supporters of the Council for Citizens Against Government Waste (CCAGW), I urge you to support the following amendments:
# | Purpose | Sponsor |
321 |
DNRF for biennial budget and appropriations process |
Isakson |
348 | DNRF to improve IG offices and prevent extended vacancies | Boozman |
390 | DNRF; regulatory review, may include reviewing every regulation every 10 years | Daines |
406 | SNRF; prohibit FCC research on certain news/editorial decision making | Fischer |
451 | SOS; no pay for Senators if budget not completed by Oct 1 | Heller |
457 | DNRF; no VA bonuses until disability backlog eliminated | Heller |
463 | DNRF; no promotional funds for marketing Obamacare | Roberts |
506 | SNRF; require agencies to consider full cost of regulations, including indirect job losses | Sullivan |
514 | SNRF; allow states to adopt work requirements for able-bodied Medicaid recipients | Vitter |
515 | SNRF; allow states to opt out of Common Core w/o penalty | Vitter |
518 | DNRF re recouping federal grants to states for exchanges that subsequently failed | Barrasso |
567 | SNRF; ending duplication in government economic development programs | Coats |
596 | Require CBO to publish 30 year budget projection incl graphs | Johnson |
597 | Require CBO to clearly convey budget information on 1 page | Johnson |
600 | Re federal sugar programs | Shaheen |
604 | DNRF; encouraging federal agences to use existing office space before buying or leasing new space | Coats |
607 | DNRF; eliminate estate tax | Thune |
625 | DNRF; improving effectiveness and efficiency of the federal regulatory process | Lankford |
626 | DNRF; streamlining overlapping programs identified by GAO | Lankford |
657 | DNRF; eliminate non-defense prgms at DOD | Cotton |
666 | SNRF; limiting premium support for crop insurance for producers with AGI over $750k | Flake |
667 | DNRF; ensuring people do not simultaneously collect SSDI and unemployment benefits | Flake |
668 | SNRF; use of performance data to reform federal programs, sell federal property, or reduce improper pymts | Flake |
669 | Recinds remaining amounts available for the Advanced Technology Vehicles Loan program | Flake |
671 | Eliminates premium subsidies on crop insurance when prices reach certain levels | Flake |
672 | BPOO to prohibit earmarks | Flake |
673 | Eliminates funding for the Economic Development Administration | Flake |
674 | Eliminates subsidies for Amtrak's food and beverage service | Flake |
675 | Eliminates funding for SelectUSA | Flake |
676 | Prohibit taxpayer subsidies of HHS officials flying first or business class | Flake |
677 | DNRF; prevent political targeting of groups by the IRS | Flake |
679 | SNRF; state opt-out of Clean Air Act requirments if they would cause higher electric prices | Portman |
680 | DNRF; furloughs of federal employees with serious tax delinquencies | Portman |
689 | Improve the existing dynamic scoring provision | Portman |
693 | Include IG reports among things for cmtes to consider in examining waste/fraud/abuse/duplication | Rounds |
747 | SNRF; sale of excess federal land, with proceeds to reduce debt | Lee |
751 | SNRF; maintaining U.S. oversight over ICANN | Lee |
754 | SNRF re repeal of Davis-Bacon Act | Lee |
766 | DNRF; congressmen's salaries subject to sequestration | Graham |
771 | DNRF; prohibit taxpayer funds for first-class travel by members of Congress | Ernst |
779 | DNRF; protect taxpayers against abuses by the IRS | Cornyn |
808 | DNRF; permanently extend Internet Tax Freedom Act | Thune |
819 | SNRF; Repeal of the extension of the wind production tax credit | Flake |
820 | SNRF; prohibit Defense Rapid Innovation Program | Flake |
823 | SNRF; consolidate financial literacy programs | Flake |
824 | SNRF; crop insurance transparency | Flake |
856 | SNRF; prevents FCC reclassification of broadband providers as common carriers | Lee |
886 | DNRF; Consumer Finance Protection Bureau transparency | Hoeven |
936 | Surgical BPOO against appropriations whose authorization expired over 5 years ago | Paul |
969 | Preventing FEC from further internet regulations on political speech | Cruz |
970 | Supporting full Title I portability to private, public, and charter schools (school choice) | Cruz |
CCAGW opposes the following amendments:
512 | Strikes underlying section on conversion to dollar coins | Vitter |
724 | DNRF; long-term reauthorization of Export-Import Bank | Kaine |
866 | DNRF; increase funds for TIGER grant program | Murray |
881 | DNRF; increase minimum wage | Sanders |
Lawmakers should always support amendments that eliminate, consolidate, or reduce financial support to government-funded programs, and oppose amendments that do the opposite. I urge you to vote on these amendments. All votes on amendments to the FY 2016 budget resolution will be among those considered in CCAGW’s 2015 Congressional Ratings.
Sincerely,
Tom Schatz
President, Council for Citizens Against Government Waste
