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1. <109th> H.CON.RES.321 : Providing that the new permanent Council of Representatives of Iraq is encouraged to debate and vote on whether or not a continued United States military presence in Iraq is desired by the Government of Iraq. 12/16/2005 Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on International Relations.
2. <109th> H.CON.RES.364 : Supporting the goals and ideals of St. Patrick's Day. 3/16/2006 Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on Government Reform.
3. <109th> H.CON.RES.450 : Calling upon the President to appeal to all sides in the current crisis in the Middle East for an immediate cessation of violence and to commit United States diplomats to multi-party negotiations with no preconditions. 7/19/2006 Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on International Relations.
4. <109th> H.RES.170 : Of inquiry requesting the President to transmit certain information to the House of Representatives respecting a claim made by the President on February 16, 2005, at a meeting Portsmouth, New Hampshire, that there is not a Social Security trust. 4/27/2005 Placed on the House Calendar, Calendar No. 29.
5. <109th> H.RES.505 : Requesting the President of the United States and directing the Secretary of State to provide to the House of Representatives certain documents in their possession relating to the White House Iraq Group. 11/10/2005 Placed on the House Calendar, Calendar No. 117.
6. <109th> H.RES.515 : Of inquiry requesting the President of the United States to provide to the House of Representatives certain documents in his possession relating to the anticipated effects of climate change on the coastal regions of the United States. 11/15/2005 Placed on the House Calendar, Calendar No. 119.
7. <109th> H.RES.685 : Requesting the President and directing the Secretary of State and Secretary of Defense provide to the House of Representatives certain documents in their possession relating to any entity with which the United States has contracted for public relations purposes concerning Iraq. 3/16/2006 Placed on the House Calendar, Calendar No. 156.
8. <109th> H.RES.718 : Requesting the President and directing the Secretary of Homeland Security to provide to the House of Representatives certain documents in their possession relating to the Dubai Ports World acquisition of 6 United States commercial ports leases. 4/7/2006 Placed on the House Calendar, Calendar No. 163.
9. <109th> H.RES.950 : Calling for the abolition of all nuclear weapons. 7/26/2006 Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on International Relations.
10. <109th> H.RES.1066 : Requesting the President to provide to the House of Representatives certain documents in his possession relating to United States policy toward Iran. 9/29/2006 Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committees on International Relations, and Intelligence (Permanent Select), for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
11. <109th> H.J.RES.54 : Proclaiming Casimir Pulaski to be an honorary citizen of the United States posthumously. 7/1/2005 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims.
12. <109th> H.R.2070 : To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to impose a windfall profit tax on oil and natural gas (and products thereof) and to allow an income tax credit for purchases of fuel-efficient passenger vehicles, and to allow grants for mass transit. 5/5/2005 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways, Transit and Pipelines.
13. <109th> H.R.2420 : To preserve the cooperative, peaceful uses of space for the benefit of all humankind by prohibiting the basing of weapons in space and the use of weapons to destroy or damage objects in space that are in orbit, and for other purposes. 6/21/2005 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Strategic Forces.
14. <109th> H.R.2969 : To amend title 9 of the United States Code to exclude all employment contracts from the arbitration provisions of chapter 1 of such title; and for other purposes. 7/25/2005 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations.
15. <109th> H.R.3760 : To establish a Department of Peace and Nonviolence. 11/7/2005 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.
16. <109th> H.R.3800 : To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to extend for 1 year the qualified individual (QI) program of Medicare cost-sharing assistance to low-income Medicare beneficiaries. 11/4/2005 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
17. <109th> H.R.4923 : To abolish the death penalty under Federal law. 3/9/2006 Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
18. <109th> H.R.5266 : To provide additional protections for farmers and ranchers that may be harmed economically by genetically engineered seeds, plants, or animals, to ensure fairness for farmers and ranchers in their dealings with biotech companies that sell genetically engineered seeds, plants, or animals, and for other purposes. 5/11/2006 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Credit, Rural Development, and Research.
19. <109th> H.R.5267 : To prohibit the open-air cultivation of genetically engineered pharmaceutical and industrial crops, to prohibit the use of common human food or animal feed as the host plant for a genetically engineered pharmaceutical or industrial chemical, to establish a tracking system to regulate the growing, handling, transportation, and disposal of pharmaceutical and industrial crops and their byproducts to prevent human, animal, and general environmental exposure to genetically engineered pharmaceutical and industrial crops and their byproducts, and for other purposes. 5/9/2006 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Credit, Rural Development, and Research.
20. <109th> H.R.5268 : To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act with respect to the safety of genetically engineered foods, and for other purposes. 5/15/2006 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
21. <109th> H.R.5269 : To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, the Federal Meat Inspection Act, and the Poultry Products Inspection Act to require that food that contains a genetically engineered material, or that is produced with a genetically engineered material, be labeled accordingly. 5/25/2006 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock and Horticulture .
22. <109th> H.R.5270 : To ensure that efforts to address world hunger through the use of genetically engineered animals and crops actually help developing countries and peoples while protecting human health and the environment, and for other purposes. 5/16/2006 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Domestic and International Monetary Policy, Trade, and Technology.
23. <109th> H.R.5271 : To assign liability for injury caused by genetically engineered organisms. 5/15/2006 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman .
24. <109th> H.R.5754 : -- Private Bill; For the relief of Theresa and Stefan Sajac. 7/10/2006 Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
25. <109th> H.R.6114 : To assist States in establishing a universal prekindergarten program to ensure that all children 3, 4, and 5 years old have access to a high-quality full-day, full-calendar-year prekindergarten education. 11/2/2006 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.
26. <109th> H.R.6200 : To amend the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to require States to conduct Presidential elections using paper ballots and to count those ballots by hand, and for other purposes. 9/27/2006 Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the Committee on House Administration, and in addition to the Committee on Government Reform, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
27. <109th> H.AMDT.86 to H.R.6 Amendment permits 30 communities to apply for grants to invest in alternative fuel vehicles under the Department of Energy Clean City program. 4/21/2005 House amendment agreed to. Status: On agreeing to the Kucinich amendment (A017) as modified Agreed to by voice vote.
28. <109th> H.AMDT.94 to H.R.6 Amendment requires the Secretary of Energy to enter into an arrangement with the National Academy of Sciences for a study to determine the feasibility of using of mustard seed as a feedstock for biodiesel. House amendment agreed to. Status: On agreeing to the Kucinich amendment (A025) Agreed to by recorded vote: 259 - 171 (Roll no. 127).
29. <109th> H.AMDT.241 to H.R.2744 An amendment to prohibit use of funds in the bill for the approval or process of approval of an application for an animal drug for creating transgenic salmon or any other transgenic fish. 6/8/2005 By unanimous consent, the Kucinich amendment was withdrawn.
30. <109th> H.AMDT.246 to H.R.2744 An amendment to require the Department of Agriculture, at the request of a producer or processor, to test ruminants, ruminant products, and ruminant by-products for the presence of bovine spongiform encephalopathy subject to reimbursement by the producer or processor of the costs incurred by the Department to conduct the tests. 6/8/2005 Mr. Bonilla raised a point of order against the Kucinich amendment (A023). Mr. Bonilla stated that the provisions of the Kucinich amendment seek to impose new duties and thus change existing law constituting legislation in an appropriations bill. The Chair sustained the point of order.
31. <109th> H.AMDT.317 to H.R.2745 Amendment sought to require the President to direct the U.S. Permanent Representative to work to strengthen and expand the Social Protection sector of the International Labor Organization (ILO) in order to allow the ILO to issue more field and regional units of the ILO, to increase site inspections of working conditions, and to issue more reports on such conditions to the international community. 6/17/2005 House amendment not agreed to. Status: On agreeing to the Kucinich amendment (A024) Failed by voice vote.
32. <109th> H.AMDT.323 to H.R.2863 Amendment reduces and then increases by the same amount, funding for Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation for the Army. 6/20/2005 House amendment agreed to. Status: On agreeing to the Kucinich amendment (A003) Agreed to by voice vote.
33. <109th> H.AMDT.326 to H.R.2863 An amendment to add a new section entitled "Space Preservation Act of 2005". 6/20/2005 Mr. Young (FL) raised a point of order against the Kucinich amendment (A006). Mr. Young (FL) stated that the Kucinich amendment sought to change existing law and constituted legislation in an appropriations bill. The Chair sustained the point of order.
34. <109th> H.AMDT.475 to H.R.2601 An amendment numbered 23 printed in part B of House Report 109-175 to require the President to direct the U.S. representatives to the United Nations to commence negotiations for an international treaty banning space-based weapons. 7/20/2005 House amendment not agreed to. Status: On agreeing to the Kucinich amendment (A022) Failed by recorded vote: 124 - 302 (Roll no. 391).
35. <109th> H.AMDT.871 to H.R.5384 An amendment to reduce the appropriation for expenses of the office of the Secretary by $1. 5/23/2006 By unanimous consent, the Kucinich amendment was withdrawn.
36. <109th> H.AMDT.880 to H.R.5384 An amendment to direct attention to the funding levels provided for BSE (mad-cow disease) under the enhanced surveillance program. 5/23/2006 By unanimous consent, the Kucinich amendment was withdrawn.
37. <109th> H.AMDT.937 to H.R.5441 Amendment sought to increase funding for FEMA by $500,000. 5/25/2006 House amendment not agreed to. Status: On agreeing to the Kucinich amendment (A002) Failed by recorded vote: 170 - 251 (Roll no. 211).
38. <109th> H.AMDT.999 to H.R.5522 An amendment to prohibit use of funds in the bill to implement the Northern Zone Investment Plan in El Salvador with respect to the Northern Transnational Highway. 6/9/2006 House amendment not agreed to. Status: On agreeing to the Kucinich amendment (A015) Failed by recorded vote: 118 - 288 (Roll no. 246).
39. <109th> H.AMDT.1009 to H.R.5576 Amendment increases funding for the Federal Railroad Administration Safety and Operations account by $70,000. 6/13/2006 House amendment agreed to. Status: On agreeing to the Kucinich amendment (A003) Agreed to by voice vote.
1. <109th> H.RES.864 : Recognizing the importance of shared housing in the United States. 6/12/2006 Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on Government Reform.
2. <109th> H.J.RES.27 : Withdrawing the approval of the United States from the Agreement establishing the World Trade Organization. 6/9/2005 Failed of passage/not agreed to in House. Status: On passage Failed by the Yeas and Nays: 86 - 338, 1 Present (Roll no. 239).
3. <109th> H.R.417 : To provide incentives for investment in research and development for new medicines, to enhance access to new medicines, and for other purposes. 3/2/2005 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property.
4. <109th> H.R.594 : To amend titles XIX and XXI of the Social Security Act to provide for expanded dental coverage under Medicaid and State children's health insurance programs and to provide for funding for expanded community oral health services. 2/25/2005 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
5. <109th> H.R.728 : To withdraw normal trade relations treatment from the products of the People's Republic of China. 2/25/2005 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
6. <109th> H.R.1157 : To amend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act to exempt bookstores and libraries from orders requiring the production of any tangible things for certain foreign intelligence investigations, and for other purposes. 5/10/2005 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
7. <109th> H.R.1440 : To prohibit the Federal Communications Commission from imposing penalties for indecent broadcasts on providers of video over cable television systems, satellite carriers, the Internet, or non-broadcast providers. 3/22/2005 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet.
8. <109th> H.R.1474 : To designate certain functions performed at flight service stations of the Federal Aviation Administration as inherently governmental functions, and for other purposes. 4/5/2005 Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on Government Reform.
9. <109th> H.R.1619 : To amend the Truth in Lending Act to protect consumers from usury and unreasonable fees, and for other purposes. 5/19/2005 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit.
10. <109th> H.R.2240 : To provide assistance for the development of indoor disease prevention and health promotion centers in urban and rural areas throughout the United States. 5/31/2005 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
11. <109th> H.R.2457 : To amend the Community Reinvestment Act of 1977 to allow community reinvestment credit for investments and other financial support to enable employees to establish certain employee stock ownership plans or eligible worker owned cooperatives. 6/3/2005 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit.
12. <109th> H.R.3492 : To amend the Truth in Lending Act to protect consumers from unfair practices of credit card issuers, and for other purposes. 8/24/2005 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit.
13. <109th> H.R.3601 : To require the establishment of a Consumer Price Index for Elderly Consumers to compute cost-of-living increases for Social Security and Medicare benefits under titles II and XVIII of the Social Security Act. 10/12/2005 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations.
14. <109th> H.R.4052 : To amend the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to protect pension benefits of employees in defined benefit plans and to direct the Secretary of the Treasury to enforce the age discrimination requirements of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986. 11/17/2005 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations.
15. <109th> H.R.4333 : To require the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to establish performance standards for fine particulates for certain pulp and paper mills, and for other purposes. 12/2/2005 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality.
16. <109th> H.R.4420 : To repeal tax subsidies enacted by the Energy Policy Act of 2005 for oil and gas, to repeal certain other oil and gas subsidies in the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, and to use the proceeds to carry out the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Act of 1981 and to provide weatherization assistance. 3/27/2006 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.
17. <109th> H.R.4697 : To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to replace the Medicare prescription drug benefit adopted by the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 with a revised and simplified prescription benefit program for all Medicare beneficiaries. 2/17/2006 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
18. <109th> H.R.5034 : To redesignate the White Rocks National Recreation Area in the State of Vermont as the "Robert T. Stafford White Rocks National Recreation Area". 4/4/2006 House committee/subcommittee actions. Status: Executive Comment Requested from Interior.
19. <109th> H.R.5157 : To designate certain National Forest System land in the State of Vermont for inclusion in the National Wilderness Preservation system and designate a National Recreation Area. 4/26/2006 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry.
20. <109th> H.R.5245 : To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1 Marble Street in Fair Haven, Vermont, as the "Matthew Lyon Post Office Building". Became Public Law No: 109-263
21. <109th> H.R.5761 : To amend the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 to improve the material control and accounting and data management systems used by civilian nuclear power reactors to better account for spent nuclear fuel and reduce the risks associated with the handling of those materials. 7/17/2006 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality.
22. <109th> H.AMDT.196 to H.R.2419 Amendment increases Energy Supply and Conservation funding by $1,000,000. 5/24/2005 House amendment agreed to. Status: On agreeing to the Sanders amendment (A003) Agreed to by voice vote.
23. <109th> H.AMDT.280 to H.R.2862 An amendment numbered 15 printed in the Congressional Record 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). 6/15/2005 House amendment agreed to. Status: On agreeing to the Sanders amendment (A033) Agreed to by recorded vote: 238 - 187 (Roll no. 258).
24. <109th> H.AMDT.381 to H.R.3057 An amendment to prohibit any o the funds made available in the Act from being 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. 6/28/2005 House amendment agreed to. Status: On agreeing to the Sanders amendment (A011) Agreed to by recorded vote: 313 - 114 (Roll no. 332).
25. <109th> H.AMDT.423 to H.R.3058 An amendment to prohibit use of funds in the bill to provide for the competitive sourcing of flight service stations. 6/30/2005 House amendment agreed to. Status: On agreeing to the Sanders amendment (A030) Agreed to by recorded vote: 238 - 177 (Roll no. 347).
26. <109th> H.AMDT.840 to H.R.5386 Amendment increases funding for the Environmental Protection Agency's EnergyStar Program in K-12 school systems by $1.8 million. 5/18/2006 House amendment agreed to. Status: On agreeing to the Sanders amendment (A007) Agreed to by voice vote.
27. <109th> H.AMDT.883 to H.R.5384 Amendment provides $1.5 million for the National Agri-Tourism Initiative under the USDA Rural Community Advancement Program. 5/23/2006 House amendment agreed to. Status: On agreeing to the Sanders amendment (A013) Agreed to by voice vote.
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I don't see any clearly substantive differences. Am I missing them?
I'll also just mention again that DK sacrificed his career for the public good. Did Bernie ever do anything remotely similar? Not that I'm aware.
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