AMERICA CREATING OPPORTUNITIES TO MEANINGFULLY PROMOTE EXCELLENCE IN TECHNOLOGY, EDUCATION, AND SCIENCE (AMERICA COMPETES) ACT
Addresses
First Annual Capital Markets Summit—Securing America's Competitiveness: Senator Dodd, S5042 [25AP]
Amendments
Enact (H.R. 2272): consideration of conference report (H. Res. 602), H9562 [2AU]
Enact (S. 761), S4817 [20AP], S4825, S4831, S4837, S4856, S4857, S4858 [23AP], S4873, S4875, S4883, S4891, S4894, S4901, S4981, S4982, S4983, S4984, S4985, S4986, S4987, S4988, S4989, S4993, S4994, S4995, S4998, S4999, S5000, S5001, S5002, S5005 [24AP], S5029, S5030, S5031, S5033, S5034, S5045, S5046, S5047, S5052, S5058, S5059, S5060, S5062, S5063, S5064, S5068, S5113, S5115, S5116, S5117, S5118, S5119 [25AP]
Analyses
Provisions (S. 761), S4798-S4802 [20AP]
Appointments
Conferees: H.R. 2272, provisions, S9574 [19JY]
Articles and editorials
COMPETES Act Is Real Boost, Real News, S5559 [3MY]
Fish Perish as Conflict of Interest Snares Management Councils, S5048 [25AP]
Jeff, Pete Provide Boost for Scientific Resurgence, S5559 [3MY]
Oyster Grants to State Disputed—Senator Asks Details on $10 Million, S5051 [25AP]
Oystermen Reap Federal Bounty—Bid To Revive Bivalve Benefits Watermen More, S5049-S5050 [25AP]
Bills and resolutions
Enact (see S. 761), S2598 [5MR]
Enact (H.R. 2272): consideration of conference report (see H. Res. 602), H9466 (see H. Res. 602), H9543 [1AU]
Conference reports
Provisions (H.R. 2272), H9414-H9465 [1AU]
Excerpts
State of the Union Message: President Bush, S4871 [24AP]
Letters
Provisions: Lee T. Todd, Jr., University of Kentucky, S4792 [20AP]
———several Senators, S4797 [20AP]
Lists
Cosponsors of S. 761, provisions, S4798 [20AP]
Democratic and Republican staff that worked on H.R. 2272, provisions, S10768 [2AU]
Motions
Enact (H.R. 2272): conference report, H9604 [2AU]
Questions
NOAA financial assistance application, S5051 [25AP]
Remarks in House
Dept. of Commerce: Manufacturing Extension Partnership funding, H9557 [2AU]
Enact (H.R. 2272): conference report, H9592-H9606 [2AU], E1764, E1768, E1772 [4AU], E1784 [4SE]
———consideration of conference report (H. Res. 602), H9557-H9563 [2AU]
Power resources: promote coal-to-liquid fuel activities, H9558, H9597 [2AU]
Remarks in Senate
Appropriations: provide a point of order against any congressional earmark of authorized funds, S4875, S4876 [24AP], S5029, S5030, S5056 [25AP]
Budget: reform entitlement programs, reduce the deficit, and improve living standards for future generations, S4886-S4889 [24AP]
Congress: moral obligation to offset the cost of new government programs and initiatives, S4884, S4899 [24AP], S5045 [25AP]
Dept. of Commerce: collect data and conduct a study relative to export and import of services, S5024 [25AP]
———establish the U.S. Employee Ownership Competitiveness Fund to provide loans, grants, and technical assistance to expand employee ownership, S4890 [24AP]
———Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership Program cost sharing, S5073 [25AP]
———Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership Program funding, S5045 [25AP]
Dept. of Energy: Office of Science funding, S5025 [25AP]
———physical sciences basic research funding, S5067 [25AP]
Education: allow competency-based higher learning institutions to access grant programs to help train math, science, and foreign language teachers, S4906 [24AP]
———authorize resources to provide students with opportunities for summer learning through summer learning grants, S5177 [26AP]
———encourage States to incorporate 21st century learning skills in State education programs, S5024 [25AP]
———support study abroad programs at colleges and universities, S4876 [24AP]
Employment: increase the competitiveness of American workers through the expansion of employee stock ownership plans, S5023 [25AP]
Enact (H.R. 2272), S12710 [4OC], S12920 [16OC]
———conference report, S10761, S10762, S10764-S10772 [2AU], S10857, S10885 [3AU], S15028 [7DE]
Enact (S. 761), S2603-S2629, S2646 [5MR], S2649 [6MR], S2889, S2904 [8MR], S2970 [9MR], S4790-S4802 [20AP], S4823, S4825-S4837 [23AP], S4871-S4877, S4880-S4906, S5009-S5012 [24AP], S5020-S5026, S5029-S5074 [25AP], S5124, S5177 [26AP], S5264 [30AP], S5558 [3MY], S6833 [24MY]
———unanimous-consent agreement, S4788 [19AP]
Financial institutions: take steps to bolster U.S. competitiveness in global financial services market, S5064-S5066 [25AP]
GAO: provide for review of Federal activities, grants and programs to ensure fiscal responsibility, S5025 [25AP]
Immigration: charge additional fee to employers of H-1B nonimmigrants and set aside a percentage of such fees to improve programs and projects for gifted and talented students, S5034 [25AP]
———increase U.S. competitiveness through enhancing access to high-skilled foreign workers, retaining those educated in the U.S., and streamlining employer certification processes, S4893, S4894 [24AP]
Languages: allow distance learning projects as an optional activity for the foreign language partnership program, S5024 [25AP]
Math and Science Teaching Corps: establish, S4903 [24AP]
National Academy of Sciences: include historically Black colleges and universities in study on barriers to innovation, S5055 [25AP]
NIST: Advanced Technology Program funding, S5052-S5055, S5063, S5067, S5068 [25AP]
NOAA: promote accountability and transparency within the grants program, S5048-S5052, S5066 [25AP]
NSF: education and human resources directorate programs funding, S5020-S5023 [25AP]
———provide grants to strengthen the capacity of high schools and colleges to provide instruction in nanotechnology, S5066, S5067 [25AP]
Provisions: sunset provisions to ensure congressional review and oversight, S5046, S5047, S5057 [25AP]
Public Company Accounting Reform and Investor Protection Act: allow SEC and Public Company Accounting Oversight Board to complete revision of implementation of provisions dealing with internal controls and audits, S4895-S4897 [24AP]
———allow small businesses to opt out of requirement of public companies to conduct an additional audit on their internal controls, S4873-S4875, S4896-S4899 [24AP]
Taxation: prohibit Federal funding to any organization or entity that advocates against tax competition or U.S. tax competitiveness, S5032, S5033, S5046 [25AP]
———require a study to determine impact of Internal Revenue Code as a barrier to innovation, S4874, S4875 [24AP]
Reports filed
Consideration of Conference Report on H.R. 2272, Provisions: Committee on Rules (House) (H. Res. 602) (H. Rept. 110-293), H9466, H9543 [1AU]
Provisions: Committee of Conference (House) (H.R. 2272) (H. Rept. 110-289), H9466, H9543 [1AU]
Statements
Provisions: Executive Office of the President, S4871 [24AP]
Summaries
Provisions (H.R. 2272): Conference Report, S10766-S10768 [2AU]
Provisions (S. 761), S4798 [20AP]
Texts of
H. Res. 602, consideration of conference report on H.R. 2272, provisions, H9557 [2AU]