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You are here: Home / Blog / Amendments to FY 2015 Defense Appropriations in House

June 20, 2014

Amendments to FY 2015 Defense Appropriations in House

NUCLEAR WEAPONS-RELATED AMENDMENTS

Rejected 187-233  Nadler (D-NY) amendment on Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles (ICBMs) to strike the existing bill language that prevents funding to reduce Minuteman III ICBM silos.

Rejected 179-242  Blumenauer (D-OR)amendment to eliminate. $3.4 million funding for a new long-range standoff  (LRSO) weapon.

OVERSEAS CONFLICTS

Rejected 165-250   Lee (D-CA) amendment to prohibit the use of funds to be used for the purposes of conducting combat operations in Iraq.

Rejected 182-231  Lee (D-CA) amendment to prohibit use of funds to be obligated or expended pursuant to the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002.

Approved by voice vote Hanabusa (D-HI) amendment to prohibit use of funds with respect to Iraq in contravention of the War Powers Resolution.

Rejected 167-244  Fortenberry (R-NE) amendment to prohibit use of funds to provide weapons in Syria.

Rejected 157-260  Lee (D-CA) amendment to prohibit use of funds to be obligated or expended pursuant to the Authorization for Use of Military of Force after December 31, 2014.

Rejected 153-260  Lee (D-CA), to prohibit use of funds for the purpose of conducting combat operations in Afghanistan after December 31, 2014.

Approved by voice vote  Nolan (D-MN) amendment to stop any funds from going to the Afghan reconstruction fund.

OTHER AMENDMENTS OF INTEREST

Approved by voice vote  Wittman (R-VA) amendment  to prohibit the use of funds to propose, plan for, or execute an additional Base Realignment and Closure round.

Approved 293-123  Massie (R-KY) amendment to prohibit warrantless collection of Americans’ online data.

Approved 300-114  Miller (R-MI) amendment to prohibit use of funds to divest, retire, transfer, or place in storage, or prepare to divest, retire, transfer, or place in storage, any A-10 aircraft, or to disestablish any units of the active or reserve component associated with such aircraft.

Approved by voice vote  Runyan amendment to prohibit funds from being used to retire, divest, or transfer, or to prepare or plan for the retirement, divestment, or transfer of, the entire KC–10 fleet during fiscal year 2015.

Approved by voice vote  Rogers (R-AL) amendment that prohibits funds from being used to implement the Treaty on Open Skies.

Approved by voice vote  Forbes R-VA) amendment to prohibit funds from being obligated or expended to implement the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their  Destruction.

Rejected by voice vote Grayson (D-FL) amendment to prohibit funds from being used to detain, without conviction, any person for more than 15 years at United States Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Approved by voice vote  Ellison’s (D-MN) amendment to transfer $10 million to the Office of Economic Adjustment, which helps with the transition of defense workers who are looking for new work as we wind down two wars, was accepted during debate on the Department of Defense FY2015 Appropriations bill.

Final passage: The bill was approved 340-73.

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