[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 729 Placed on Calendar Senate (PCS)]

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                                                        Calendar No. 35
116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 729

To prohibit the use of funds to Federal agencies to establish a panel, 
   task force, advisory committee, or other effort to challenge the 
    scientific consensus on climate change, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             March 7, 2019

  Mr. Schumer (for himself, Mr. Carper, Mr. Reed, Mr. Van Hollen, Mr. 
  Whitehouse, Mr. Markey, Mr. Schatz, Ms. Smith, Mr. Blumenthal, Mrs. 
   Shaheen, Mr. Booker, Ms. Stabenow, Ms. Klobuchar, Ms. Hassan, Mr. 
 Merkley, and Mrs. Feinstein) introduced the following bill; which was 
                          read the first time

                             March 11, 2019

            Read the second time and placed on the calendar

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                                 A BILL


 
To prohibit the use of funds to Federal agencies to establish a panel, 
   task force, advisory committee, or other effort to challenge the 
    scientific consensus on climate change, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. PROHIBITION ON USE OF FUNDS TO CHALLENGE SCIENTIFIC 
              CONSENSUS ON CLIMATE CHANGE.

    No amounts appropriated or otherwise made available to a Federal 
agency (as defined in section 1004 of the Solid Waste Disposal Act (42 
U.S.C. 6903) and including the Executive Office of the President) may 
be used to establish or operate a panel, task force, other advisory 
committee, or other effort intended to challenge the scientific 
consensus on climate change, as presented in the assessment required 
under section 106 of the Global Change Research Act of 1990 (15 U.S.C. 
2936).
                                                        Calendar No. 35

116th CONGRESS

  1st Session

                                 S. 729

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                                 A BILL

To prohibit the use of funds to Federal agencies to establish a panel, 
   task force, advisory committee, or other effort to challenge the 
    scientific consensus on climate change, and for other purposes.

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                             March 11, 2019

            Read the second time and placed on the calendar