the oligarchy, or done anything for the environment?!? It's all just a new act because she's running for President.
Or at least, that's what I'm told here, time and again.
People ask those questions assuming they know the answer is "nothing," and put the onus on others to do the actual homework.
So I did.
I just looked at bills she sponsored in the Senate. Not the ones she signed on to as a co-sponsor and not amendment. Just bills she sponsored.
Here's a bit of what I found. There's more, of course. This doesn't touch what she did as Secretary of State, as First Lady, as First Lady of Arkansas, or in her private practice. And I didn't even look at every bill, amendment, or act she was a part of. But I thought it was a good place to start.
What did she ever do for the "little people," vs. Wall Street and the banksters?
S.2801 — 110th Congress (2007-2008)
Mortgage Enhancement and Modification Act of 2008
Sponsor: Sen. Clinton, Hillary Rodham [D-NY] (Introduced 04/02/2008)
Mortgage Enhancement and Modification Act of 2008 - Establishes a standard for loan modifications or workout plans for pools of certain residential mortgage loans.
States that a servicer of such pooled loans owes a duty to the securitization vehicle to maximize, or not negatively affect, the recovery of total proceeds from such loans for the benefit of all investors and holders of beneficial interests in the pooled loans, in the aggregate, and not to any individual party or group of parties.
Deems the loan servicer to be acting on behalf of the securitization vehicle in the best interest of all such investors and holders if the servicer: (1) makes reasonable, documented efforts to implement a modification or workout plan for a loan in or facing payment default; or (2) engages in other loss mitigation efforts, if the former efforts fail or the plan would be infeasible, in the reasonable belief that such efforts will maximize the net present value to be realized over that which would be realized through foreclosure.
Declares, furthermore, that a servicer shall be deemed to be acting on behalf of the securitization vehicle in the best interest of all investors and beneficial interest holders if the servicer makes efforts to: (1) contact proactively borrowers approaching a calendar date in which a predetermined or contractually established rate of interest shall increase or fluctuate in accordance with specified indicators or within a predetermined range; and (2) determine the borrower's ability to make payments following a reset of interest rates, whether the borrower is in danger of default or disclosure, and whether a loan modification or other mitigation effort is appropriate.
Declares that, absent specific contractual provisions to the contrary, a servicer acting in a manner consistent with such duty shall not be liable to specified persons for entering into a qualified loan modification or workout plan for loss mitigation purposes.
S.2574 — 110th Congress (2007-2008)
Mortgage Refinancing Initiative Act of 2008
Sponsor: Sen. Clinton, Hillary Rodham [D-NY] (Introduced 01/30/2008)
Mortgage Refinancing Initiative Act of 2008 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) allow, until December 31, 2009, proceeds of qualified mortgage bonds to be used to refinance an existing mortgage; and (2) increase in 2008 and 2009 the national limitation amount for such bonds.
S.2310 — 110th Congress (2007-2008)
Homeowners' Defense Act of 2007
Sponsor: Sen. Clinton, Hillary Rodham [D-NY] (Introduced 11/06/2007)
Homeowners' Defense Act of 2007 - Establishes the National Catastrophe Risk Consortium as a nonprofit, nonfederal entity to: (1) maintain an inventory of catastrophe risk obligations held by state reinsurance funds, and state residual insurance market entities; (2) issue, on a conduit basis, securities and other financial instruments linked to catastrophe risks insured or reinsured through Consortium members; and (3) act as a centralized repository of state risk information accessible by certain private-market participants.
Instructs the Secretary of the Treasury to implement a national homeowners' insurance stabilization program to make liquidity loans and catastrophic loans to qualified reinsurance programs to: (1) ensure their solvency; (2) improve the availability and affordability of homeowners' insurance; (3) provide incentive for risk transfer to the private capital and reinsurance markets; and (4) spread the risk of catastrophic financial loss resulting from natural disasters and catastrophic events.
Authorizes the Secretary to establish and collect, from qualified and precertified reinsurance programs, a reasonable fee to offset expenses of the program.
Instructs the Secretary to require full repayment of all loans made under this Act.
S.2114 — 110th Congress (2007-2008)
American Home Ownership Preservation Act of 2007
Sponsor: Sen. Clinton, Hillary Rodham [D-NY] (Introduced 09/27/2007)
American Home Ownership Preservation Act of 2007 - Amends the Truth in Lending Act to require certain mortgage originators or lenders with primary responsibility for underwriting an assessment on a home mortgage loan to include a borrower's ability to repay certain associated costs.
Requires a mortgage broker to clearly disclose its relationship to the borrower.
Directs the federal banking agencies to establish a nationwide registry and database system in which all mortgage brokers in the United States must register.
Eliminates prepayment penalties for home mortgages.
Instructs the Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to make grants to state governments and tribal organizations to assist: (1) programs established for foreclosure mitigation; and (2) housing trust funds supporting low- and moderate-income housing.
Amends the Federal Housing Enterprises Financial Safety and Soundness Act of 1992 to direct the HUD Secretary to establish an annual goal for each government-sponsored enterprise to identify and assist homeowners at risk of default or foreclosure on their mortgage, but who would be able to stabilize the situation with fixed rate 30- or 40-year mortgages.
Authorizes appropriations for mortgage fraud enforcement and prosecution.
S.947 — 110th Congress (2007-2008)
21st Century Housing Act
Sponsor: Sen. Clinton, Hillary Rodham [D-NY] (Introduced 03/21/2007)
21st Century Housing Act - Amends the Housing Act of 1948 to authorize the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), in carrying out any program through the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) to: (1) appoint and fix the compensation of Administration personnel; and (2) use premium-generated income for information technology upgrades.
Amends the National Housing Act to: (1) extend the maturity term for insured mortgages; (2) revise mortgage insurance eligibility criteria and requirements for premium charges; (3) authorize waiver of certain requirements for new product initiatives; (4) increase the maximum mortgage amount limit for multifamily housing in high-cost areas; (5) increase the FHA single family housing maximum mortgage limit; and (6) increase the capital ratio for the Mutual Mortgage Insurance Fund.
Increases prerequisites for insured mortgages covering condominiums to require that the condomium project have a HUD-insured blanket morgage.
S.3978 — 109th Congress (2005-2006)
Debit and Check Card Consumer Protection Act of 2006
Sponsor: Sen. Clinton, Hillary Rodham [D-NY] (Introduced 09/28/2006)
Debit and Check Card Consumer Protection Act of 2006 - Amends the Electronic Funds Transfer Act regarding consumer liability for unauthorized electronic fund transfers to repeal the provision that financial institutions need not reimburse a consumer for losses that would not have occurred but for the consumer's failure to report an unauthorized electronic fund transfer or account error within a certain time period. Repeals the $500 consumer liability limit for such unauthorized transfers or account errors (thus applying the regular $50 maximum limit currently specified for timely reported unauthorized transfers or account errors).
Applies error resolution requirements to any charge for goods or services not accepted by the consumer (or designee), or not delivered to the consumer (or designee), in accordance with the agreement made at the time of a transaction.
Sets forth the rights of consumers with respect to issuers of accepted credit and debit cards.
S.3173 — 109th Congress (2005-2006)
21st Century Housing Act
Sponsor: Sen. Clinton, Hillary Rodham [D-NY] (Introduced 05/25/2006)
21st Century Housing Act - Amends the Housing Act of 1948 to authorize the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, in carrying out any program through the Federal Housing Administration, to: (1) appoint and fix the compensation of Administration personnel; and (2) use premium-generated income for information technology upgrades.
Amends the National Housing Act to: (1) extend the maturity term for insured mortgages; (2) revise mortgage insurance eligibility criteria and requirements for premium charges; (3) authorize waiver of certain requirements for new product initiatives; (4) increase the maximum mortgage amount limit for multifamily housing in high-cost areas; and (5) increase the capital ratio for the Mutual Mortgage Insurance Fund.
S.2597 — 109th Congress (2005-2006)
Federal Housing Fairness Act of 2006
Sponsor: Sen. Clinton, Hillary Rodham [D-NY] (Introduced 04/07/2006)
Federal Housing Fairness Act of 2006 - Amends the National Housing Act to revise eligibility requirements for Federal Housing Administration (FHA) single family mortgage insurance to increase the maximum principal obligation to the lesser of: (1) 100% (currently 95%) of the median single-family house price in the area; or (2) 100% (currently 87%) of the alternative the dollar amount limitation.
S.3586 — 110th Congress (2007-2008)
Green Hospitals, Healthy Hospitals Act of 2008
Sponsor: Sen. Clinton, Hillary Rodham [D-NY] (Introduced 09/25/2008)
Green Hospitals, Healthy Hospitals Act of 2008 - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting in conjunction with the Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration, to provide nonprofit hospitals and health care institutions with 30-year no interest loans to enable such institutions to comply with the guidelines of the Green Guide for Health Care or successor regulations of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on green building technologies.
Directs the Secretary to enter into a contract with the Institute of Medicine for a report on the use of green building technologies, waste management techniques, and other environmentally sustainable practices to improve employee performance, reduce health care costs, and improve patient outcomes. Requires the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality to include in its annual report on health care quality a summary of the most recent research on green health care and the ways in which environmentally sustainable practices can improve employee performance, reduce health care costs, and improve patient outcomes.
S.3587 — 110th Congress (2007-2008)
Greening the Healthcare Workforce Act of 2008
Sponsor: Sen. Clinton, Hillary Rodham [D-NY] (Introduced 09/25/2008)
Greening the Healthcare Workforce Act of 2008 - Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to provide grants to nonprofit hospitals or health care institutions to promote environmentally sustainable practices in building and maintenance operations, including: (1) the training of employees in environmentally sound waste management and chemical management practices; (2) the reduction in use of mercury-containing medical supplies; and (3) the conduct of minor improvements to grounds and facilities to improve energy efficiency and indoor air quality and to reduce water waste.
HEATR Act of 2008
Sponsor: Sen. Clinton, Hillary Rodham [D-NY] (Introduced 09/24/2008)
Home Energy Affordability Tax Relief Act of 2008 or the HEATR Act of 2008 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow individual taxpayers an income-based refundable tax credit for residential energy costs. Limits such credit to the lesser of 33% of such costs or $500.
Eliminates for major integrated oil companies: (1) the tax deduction for intangible drilling and development costs in taxable years in which the average price of crude oil is greater than $34.71 per barrel and the average price of natural gas is greater that $4.34 per 1,000 cubic feet; and (2) the tax credit for enhanced oil recovery costs in taxable years in which the average price of crude oil is greater than $34.71 per barrel. Denies such oil companies and certain producers or refiners of crude oil a foreign tax credit for payments to certain foreign countries or U.S. possessions from which they receive a specified economic benefit as a dual capacity taxpayer.
S.3544 — 110th Congress (2007-2008)
Superfund Polluter Pays Act
Sponsor: Sen. Clinton, Hillary Rodham [D-NY] (Introduced 09/23/2008)
Superfund Polluter Pays Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code by reinstating until January 1, 2017, the Hazardous Substance Superfund financing rate and the corporate environmental income tax.
S.3489 — 110th Congress (2007-2008)
A bill to require the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to conduct a study on black carbon emissions.
Sponsor: Sen. Clinton, Hillary Rodham [D-NY] (Introduced 09/15/2008)
Requires the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to work with representatives of industry and environmental groups to conduct a study of black carbon emissions, which shall include: (1) an identification of the major sources of black carbon emissions in the United States and throughout the world, an estimate of the quantity of current and future emissions, and the net climate effects of the emissions from those sources; (2) an identification of the most effective and cost-effective control technologies, operations, or strategies for additional domestic and international reductions in black carbon reductions and the health benefits associated with additional reductions; and (3) recommendations regarding areas of focus for additional research for technologies, operations, and strategies with the highest potential to reduce black carbon emissions, government actions to encourage or require additional black carbon emission reductions, and the development of a climate-beneficial tropospheric ozone reduction strategy. Requires the Administrator to report to Congress on the study results within 180 days after enactment of this Act.
S.3502 — 110th Congress (2007-2008)
Children's Environmental Health and Safety Risk Reduction Act
Sponsor: Sen. Clinton, Hillary Rodham [D-NY] (Introduced 09/16/2008)
Children's Environmental Health and Safety Risk Reduction Act - Establishes the Task Force on Environmental Health and Safety Risks to Children to: (1) recommend to the President federal strategies for children's environmental health and safety; and (2) develop a proposed plan for use in ensuring that researchers and federal research agencies have access to information on federal research that relates to adverse health risk in children resulting from exposure to environmental health and safety risks.
Directs each federal agency, for each regulatory action submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review that may concern an environmental health risk or safety risk that may disproportionately affect children, to provide: (1) an evaluation of the environmental health and safety effects of the planned regulation; and (2) an explanation of why the planned regulation is preferable to other potentially effective and reasonable feasible alternatives considered by the agency. Requires agencies to comply with such requirements to the maximum extent practicable in emergency situations.
Requires the Director of OMB to convene the Forum on Child and Family Statistics to: (1) publish an annual report that describes the most important indicators of the well-being of U.S. children; (2) provide an ongoing review of federal collection and dissemination of data on children and families; and (3) make recommendations to improve the coverage and coordination of data collection and to reduce duplication and overlap.
Applies this Act only to the executive branch.
S.3380 — 110th Congress (2007-2008)
Saving Energy Through Public Transportation Act of 2008
Sponsor: Sen. Clinton, Hillary Rodham [D-NY] (Introduced 07/31/2008)
Saving Energy Through Public Transportation Act of 2008 - Authorizes appropriations for FY2008-FY2009 for public transportation formula grants. Authorizes the Secretary of Transportation to make such grants for: (1) operating costs of equipment and facilities being used to provide the public transportation the grant recipient is no longer able to pay as a result of reducing fares; (2) operating and capital costs of equipment and facilities being used to provide transportation services that the recipient incurs as a result of expanding such services; (3) the avoidance of increased fares or decreased services; (4) the costs of acquiring clean or alternative fuel vehicle-related equipment or facilities; and (5) administrative costs in establishing or expanding services to provide commuters with information about alternatives to single occupancy vehicle use.
Requires a grant that involves acquiring clean or alternative fuel vehicle-related equipment or facilities for complying with the Clean Air Act to be for 100% of the net project cost unless the grant recipient requests a lower percentage.
Amends the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users to require federal employees in urbanized areas served by fixed route public transportation to be offered transit pass transportation fringe benefits. Requires: (1) the Secretary to issue guidance on nationwide implementation of a transportation fringe benefit program; and (2) agencies to report on program implementation.
Requires the Secretary to establish a pilot program to carry out vanpool demonstration projects in not more than three urbanized areas and two other areas.
Requires a grant for a capital project during FY2008-FY2009 that involves additional parking facilities at an end-of-line fixed guideway station or at a park-and-ride lot that serves a fixed route commuter bus route that is more than 20 miles in length to be for 100% of the net capital cost of the project unless the grant recipient requests a lower percentage.
Requires the Secretary of Transportation to carry out a national consumer awareness program on the environmental, energy, and economic benefits of public transportation alternatives to the use of single occupancy vehicles.
Amends the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 to allow a federal agency to enter into a contract to purchase a generally available fuel that is not an alternative or synthetic fuel or a fuel predominantly produced from a nonconventional petroleum source if: (1) the contract does not specifically require the contractor to provide such an alternative, synthetic, or nonconventional fuel; (2) the purpose of the contract is not to obtain such a fuel; and (3) the contract does not provide incentives for a refinery upgrade or expansion to allow a refinery to use or increase its use of fuel from a nonconventional petroleum source.
S.2549 — 110th Congress (2007-2008)
Environmental Justice Renewal Act
Sponsor: Sen. Clinton, Hillary Rodham [D-NY] (Introduced 01/23/2008)
Environmental Justice Renewal Act - (Sec. 2) Defines: (1) "environmental justice" as the fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all individuals regardless or race, color, national origin, educational level, or income in the process of developing environmental laws and regulations; and (2) "environmental justice community" as a community with a significant representation of racial, ethnic, or low-income populations vulnerable to environmental or human health risks.
(Sec. 3) Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to establish the Interagency Working Group on Environmental Justice to provide guidance to federal agencies in identifying disproportionately high and adverse human health or environmental effects on minority and low-income populations and to assist such agencies in developing environmental justice strategies.
Requires the Working Group to: (1) develop and promulgate a coordinated interagency federal environmental justice strategy; and (2) submit to the President, through the Chairman of the Council on Environmental Quality and the Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy, a report that contains a description of the implementation of the strategy and a copy of the finalized strategy of each agency.
(Sec. 4) Requires each agency to conduct each program, policy, and activity that adversely affects or has the potential to affect human health or the environment in a manner that ensures that it does not exclude any individual from participation, deny any individual benefits, or subject any individuals to discrimination or disparate impact because of race, color, national origin, or income level.
Directs each agency that participates in the Working Group to develop an agency-wide environmental justice strategy that identifies and addresses any disproportionately high or adverse human health or environmental effects of each agency program, policy, or activity on minority and low-income populations.
Sets forth requirements regarding annual and periodic reports, periodic revision of the strategy, petitions for exemptions from Act requirements, and appeals.
(Sec. 5) Requires the Administrator to: (1) establish in EPA the position of Environmental Justice Ombudsman to receive, review, and process complaints and allegations relating to environmental justice programs; (2) provide training in environmental justice to EPA employees; and (3) establish grant programs to address local environmental justice concerns.
Directs the Administrator to establish a program of grants to enable states to: (1) establish culturally and linguistically appropriate protocols, activities, and mechanisms for addressing issues relating to environmental justice; and (2) carry out culturally and linguistically appropriate activities to reduce or eliminate disproportionately high and adverse human health or environmental effects on environmental justice communities.
Directs the Administrator to establish a program to provide up to 25 multiyear grants to eligible entities to carry out community-based participatory research to: (1) address issues relating to environmental justice; and (2) improve the environment and health outcomes of residents of environmental justice communities.
Authorizes appropiations.
(Sec. 8) Directs the Administrator to: (1) establish a basic training program to assist residents of environmental justice communities in identifying disproportionately high and adverse human health and environmental risks; (2) establish a National Environmental Justice Advisory Council to provide independent advice and recommendations to the Administrator on environmental justice issues; and (3) establish an Environmental Justice Clearinghouse to provide information on EPA activities relating to environmental justice. Authorizes appropriations.
(Sec. 11) Directs the Administrator to hold biennial public meetings on environmental justice issues at each regional office of EPA to gather public input regarding the planning of future activities. Mandates the attendance of certain employees.
(Sec. 12) Requires the Administrator to ensure that all supplemental environmental projects developed as part of a settlement relating to violations in an environmental justice community: (1) are developed through consultation with, and with the meaningful participation of, individuals from the affected community; and (2) result in a quantifiable improvement to the health or well-being of individuals in the affected community.
(Sec. 13) Requires the Comptroller General to report to Congress on the effectiveness of this Act.
S.2175 — 110th Congress (2007-2008)
Family Asthma Act
Sponsor: Sen. Clinton, Hillary Rodham [D-NY] (Introduced 10/17/2007)
Family Asthma Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), to award grants to eligible entities to conduct pilot projects to prevent and control asthma symptoms and to reduce asthma attacks and improve self-management for individuals and families. Requires the Secretary to give: (1) priority to entities that serve a medically underserved population; and (2) consideration to an adequate rural-urban distribution, so as to gain better information about asthma at the national level.
Authorizes additional appropriations to the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute to develop a National Asthma Action Plan and to fund a report to Congress by the National Asthma Education and Prevention Program.
Requires the Secretary, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), to: (1) collaborate with state and local health departments to conduct activities to inform and educate the public regarding asthma; (2) conduct asthma surveillance activities to collect data on the prevalence and severity of asthma, the effectiveness of public heath asthma intervention, and the quality of asthma management; and (3) compile and annually publish asthma data.
Requires the Director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences to establish Dr. Irving J. Selikoff individual and institutional training grants for education and training of health care providers on the role of environmental factors in the development and prevention of asthma and recurrent asthma attacks.
S.2082 — 110th Congress (2007-2008)
Coordinated Environmental Public Health Network Act of 2007
Sponsor: Sen. Clinton, Hillary Rodham [D-NY] (Introduced 09/20/2007)
Coordinated Environmental Public Health Network Act of 2007 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and with the involvement of other federal agencies, state and local health departments, and an advisory committee, to establish and operate a Coordinated Environmental Public Health Network.
Directs the Secretary to: (1) identify, expand, and coordinate among existing data and surveillance systems, surveys, registries, and other federal public health and environmental infrastructure; (2) provide for public access to an electronic national database that accepts data from the State Environmental Public Health Network (established by this Act), subject to privacy requirements; (3) prepare and periodically publish a Coordinated Environmental Public Health Network Status Report and a Coordinated Network Health and Environment Report; (4) operate and maintain National Environmental Health Rapid Response Services; (5) provide technical assistance; and (6) develop minimum standards and procedures for data collection and reporting.
Authorizes: (1) states to apply for grants to implement pilot projects to develop State Environmental Public Health Network enhancements and programs; and (2) the Secretary to award grants to at least five accredited schools or programs of public health for Centers of Excellence.
Directs the Secretary: (1) to award John H. Chafee Public Health Scholarships to eligible students enrolled in accredited schools of public health or medicine; and (2) through the CDC Director, to enter into cooperative agreements to train and place applied epidemiology fellows in state and local health departments and to expand CDC biomonitoring data collection.
S.1911 — 110th Congress (2007-2008)
TCE Reduction Act of 2008
Sponsor: Sen. Clinton, Hillary Rodham [D-NY] (Introduced 08/01/2007)
Toxic Chemical Exposure Reduction Act of 2008 or the TCE Reduction Act of 2008 - Amends the Safe Drinking Water Act to require the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to publish a health advisory for trichloroethylene that fully protects, with an adequate margin of safety, the health of susceptible populations (including pregnant women, infants, and children), taking into consideration body weight, exposure patterns, and all routes of exposure.
Requires the Administrator to promulgate a national primary drinking water regulation for trichloroethylene: (1) that is protective of susceptible populations; and (2) the maximum contaminant level of which is as close to the maximum contaminant level goal for trichloroethylene, and as protective of those susceptible populations, as is feasible.
Requires consumer confidence reports to disclose the presence of, and the potential health risks to susceptible populations from exposure to, trichloroethylene in drinking water.
Requires the Administrator to: (1) publish a health advisory for trichloroethylene that fully protects the health of susceptible populations from vapor intrusion; (2) establish an integrated risk information system reference concentration of trichloroethylene vapor that is protective of susceptible populations; and (3) apply such reference concentration with respect to any potential vapor intrusion-related investigations or actions to protect public health with respect to trichloroethylene exposure carried out pursuant to the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 and the Safe Drinking Water Act.
S.1059 — 110th Congress (2007-2008)
Zero-Emissions Building Act of 2007
Sponsor: Sen. Clinton, Hillary Rodham [D-NY] (Introduced 03/29/2007)
ero-Emissions Building Act of 2007 - Amends the Energy Conservation and Production Act to instruct the Secretary of Energy to establish revised federal building energy efficiency performance standards that require new federal buildings, if life-cycle cost-effective, be designed so that the greenhouse gas emissions are reduced, as compared to the fossil fuel-generated energy consumption by a similar federal building during FY2003, by specified increasing percentages between FY2007 and FY2030.
Prescribes alternative compliance guidelines.
S.2196 — 109th Congress (2005-2006)
Advanced Research Projects Energy Act (ARPA-E) Act
Sponsor: Sen. Clinton, Hillary Rodham [D-NY] (Introduced 01/25/2006)
Advanced Research Projects Energy Act (ARPA-E) Act - Instructs the Secretary of Energy to establish in the Department of Energy the position of Assistant Secretary for Advanced Energy Research, Technology Development, and Deployment to: (1) implement an innovative energy research, technology development, and deployment program; and (2) sponsor a diverse portfolio of cutting-edge, high-payoff research, development, and deployment projects to carry it out.
Authorizes the Assistant Secretary to award cash prizes in recognition of outstanding achievements in basic, advanced, and applied research, technology development, and prototype development.
S.2053 — 109th Congress (2005-2006)
Home Lead Safety Tax Credit Act of 2005
Sponsor: Sen. Clinton, Hillary Rodham [D-NY] (Introduced 11/18/2005)
Home Lead Safety Tax Credit Act of 2005 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a tax credit for 50 percent of the costs of reducing lead hazards in U.S. homes built before 1960 in which certain low-income children less than six years of age and women of child-bearing age reside. Allows a maximum credit of $3,000 for lead abatement costs and $1,000 for the cost of interim lead control measures.
S.1489 — 109th Congress (2005-2006)
Family Asthma Act
Sponsor: Sen. Clinton, Hillary Rodham [D-NY] (Introduced 07/26/2005)
Family Asthma Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), to award grants to eligible entities to conduct pilot projects to prevent and control asthma symptoms and to reduce asthma attacks in families. Requires the Secretary to give: (1) priority to entities that serve a medically underserved population; and (2) consideration to an adequate rural-urban distribution, so as to gain better information about asthma at the national level.
Authorizes additional appropriations to the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute to develop a National Asthma Action Plan and to fund a report to Congress by the National Asthma Education and Prevention Program.
Requires the Secretary, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), to: (1) collaborate with state and local health departments to conduct activities to inform and educate the public regarding asthma; (2) conduct asthma surveillance activities to collect data on the prevalence and severity of asthma, the effectiveness of public heath asthma intervention, and the quality of asthma management; and (3) compile and annually publish asthma data.
Requires the Director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences to establish Dr. Irving J. Selikoff individual and institutional training grants for education and training of health care providers on the role of environmental factors in the development and prevention of asthma and recurrent asthma attacks.
S.2763 — 108th Congress (2003-2004)
A bill to amend the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 to clarify the treatment of accelerator-produced and other radioactive material as byproduct material.
Sponsor: Sen. Clinton, Hillary Rodham [D-NY] (Introduced 07/22/2004)
Amends the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 to redefine "byproduct material" to include: (1) any discrete source of radium-226 produced, extracted, or converted after extraction, for use in a commercial, medical, or research activity; (2) any material that has been made radioactive by use of a particle accelerator and is produced, extracted, or converted after extraction for use such activities; and (3) any discrete source of naturally occurring radioactive material, other than source material that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) determines would pose a threat similar to that posed by a discrete source of radium-226 and is likewise extracted or converted after extraction, for use in such activities.
Instructs the NRC to: (1) promulgate final regulations establishing requirements and standards it considers necessary for the acquisition, possession, transfer, use, or disposal of byproduct material identified in this Act; and (2) cooperate with the States in formulating those regulations.
Prescribes transition guidelines.
S.2482 — 108th Congress (2003-2004)
Long Island Sound Protection Act
Sponsor: Sen. Clinton, Hillary Rodham [D-NY] (Introduced 06/01/2004)
Long Island Sound Protection Act - Amends the Marine Protection, Research, and Sanctuaries Act of 1972 to revise requirements for the dumping of dredged material in Long Island Sound.
Prohibits dredged material from any Federal or non-Federal dredging project from being dumped, or transported for the purpose of being dumped, into Long Island Sound, Fisher's Island Sound, Block Island Sound, or Peconic Bay (including any harbor or tributary of such bodies of water) until the dredged material is determined by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to: (1) have, or to cause, concentrations of chemical constituents that are not greater than those concentrations present in the water column, sediments, and biota of areas proximate to, but unaffected by, the proposed disposal site; and (2) meet certain Federal dumping requirements.
Prohibits dumping or transportation for dumping into any covered body of water, except at a site designated by the Administrator, and upon a determination that no feasible alternative to ocean disposal (including sediment remediation, beneficial reuse, and land-based alternatives) is available prior to the time of designation.
Requires the Secretary of the Army and the Administrator, before designation of a dredged material disposal site in a covered body of water, to develop a dredged material management plan and to submit it to Congress and to the Governors of the States of Connecticut and New York for their approval.
S.2139 — 108th Congress (2003-2004)
Residual Radioactive Contamination Compensation Act
Sponsor: Sen. Clinton, Hillary Rodham [D-NY] (Introduced 02/26/2004)
Residual Radioactive Contamination Compensation Act - Amends the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act of 2000 to cover individual employees: (1) at an atomic weapons employer facility with respect to which the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health found a potential for residual contamination outside of the period in which weapons-related production occurred; and (2) during a period of significant residual contamination at such facility.
Instructs the Director of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health to submit to Congress updated reports regarding residual contamination in such facilities and the employees working in them while their employers were under Federal contract to process nuclear weapons materials.
S.1228 — 108th Congress (2003-2004)
Home Lead Safety Tax Credit Act of 2003
Sponsor: Sen. Clinton, Hillary Rodham [D-NY] (Introduced 06/10/2003)
Home Lead Safety Tax Credit Act of 2003 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide owners of residential properties built in the United States before 1978 with a tax credit for lead-based paint abatement costs performed by a certified lead abatement contractor (50 percent of the cost of the abatement, not to exceed $1,500 per dwelling unit).
S.3045 — 107th Congress (2001-2002)
Finger Lakes Initiative Act of 2002
Sponsor: Sen. Clinton, Hillary Rodham [D-NY] (Introduced 10/03/2002)
Finger Lakes Initiative Act of 2002 - Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to establish the Finger Lakes Initiative to protect the environmental integrity and cultural and economic benefits of the region.
Establishes the Finger Lakes Management Conference to carry out the Initiative through the development of a comprehensive plan. Includes a technical advisory committee as part of the Conference.
Requires the comprehensive plan to address issues of water quality and level, native habitats, and recreational and economic activities. Subjects the plan to approval by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency.
Directs the Conference to establish a Finger Lakes Institute as an interdisciplinary environmental research and education program at an academic institution within the region.
Limits the Federal share of costs to 75 percent, permitting the non-Federal share to be made up of in-kind contributions.
Requires coordination with the relevant Federal programs of the Departments of Agriculture, Commerce, and the Interior.
S.751 — 107th Congress (2001-2002)
A bill to express the sense of the Senate concerning a new drinking water standard for arsenic.
Sponsor: Sen. Clinton, Hillary Rodham [D-NY] (Introduced 04/06/2001)
Expresses the sense of the Senate that: (1) the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) should promulgate a national primary drinking water regulation for arsenic no later than June 22, 2001; and (2) the regulation should conform with EPA's stated risk management policy for setting drinking water standards for contaminants that are known human carcinogens.
Do we know her position on Keystone? Nope. Do we accept her reasons for refusing to answer? Some of us do and some of us don't. But that doesn't mean we get to pretend she just heard the word "environment" when it came out of Bernie Sanders' mouth. The same is true for regulation of mortgages and support for homeowners, even if it wasn't in Wall Street's best interests.
Do with this what you will, but please top pretending Hillary Clinton didn't take these, or other, progressive positions until Bernie Sanders "pushed her to the left."
(That's it for me for the night. I'm crashing pretty hard. I'll be back in the morning (and make corrections to the errors I inevitably make). Play nice.)
9:02 AM PT: I did the same thing, going through bills sponsored by Sanders, here -> http://www.dailykos.com/...