Trying to find proof of Obama as "change" in Legislation carrying his name - below

[papau]

are his 2 bi-partisan bills that reflect the "new way of working with the GOP to get things done". He works with GOP to get a increase from 8 million to 25 million for small arms destruction around the world, and in return joins a promote coal bill that gives tax breaks to corporations.


Step 1:
http://www.globalsolutions.org/in_the_beltway/lugar_oba...

The “Conventional Arms Disarmament Act of 2005” (Title II of S.1949), commonly referred to as the Lugar-Obama initiative, was introduced in November 2005 and proposes to restructure small arms destruction operations within the U.S. government.

Cosmetically, the bill renames PM/WRA as the Office of Conventional Arms Threat Reduction, and joins all conventional weapons stockpile security and destruction programs within the U.S. government under one office. More substantially, the bill authorizes $20 million dollars (later 25 million) of NADR funding to be specifically earmarked for small arms destruction. However, unless budget requests raise the level of total NADR funding to compensate for the Lugar-Obama earmark, the increase in small arms destruction would have to be funded from the coffers of other NADR-funded programs.

Step 2

Senators Obama and Bunning Introduce Legislation to Expand Coal Use

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- U.S. Senators Jim Bunning (R-KY) and Barack Obama (D-IL) today announced that they have introduced S.3325, the "Coal-To-Liquid Fuel Promotion Act of 2006." Joining this bipartisan legislation as original co-sponsors are Senators Conrad Burns (R-MT); Richard Lugar (R-IN); Mark Pryor (D-AR); and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK). This comprehensive piece of legislation creates tax incentives for coal-to-liquids (CTL) technology and the construction of CTL plants. If passed, this legislation will help create the infrastructure needed to make CTL a viable energy resource throughout America......Tax Incentives for Investment and Production...Investment Tax Credit and Expensing - Expands 20% tax credit for CTL plants (including the infrastructure needed to capture, transport and sequester carbon) capped at $200 million a plant and limited to 10 plants. Provides a similar provision for expensing these investments, but does not allow double dipping....Fuel Excise Tax Extension for CTL - Extends the fuel tax credit for CTL products from 2009 (From SAFETEA-LU) until January 1, 2020.

Is there any other bills with his name that show the new bi-partisan world of Obama and how "change" is to be expected from that world.

[Lucinda]

1. His state legislative work is worth a peek too, unless you're just looking at congressional stuff

http://www.ilga.gov/previousga.asp

[papau]

4. Now that is a link that is hard to use - Obama's web site listed state and federal bi partisan bills

last year but has been "cleaned up" - I would be interested in named with "Obama" state bills that he joined GOP to co-sponsor - but that looks like a secret.

[Lucinda]

8. No...it's all still there...let me get you a more direct link.

http://www.ilga.gov/senate/SenatorBills.asp?MemberID=747&GA=93
http://www.ilga.gov/senate/SenatorBills.asp?MemberID=747&GA=92
http://www.ilga.gov/senate/SenatorBills.asp?MemberID=747&GA=91
http://www.ilga.gov/senate/SenatorBills.asp?MemberID=747&GA=90
http://www.ilga.gov/senate/SenatorBills.asp?MemberID=747&GA=89
http://www.ilga.gov/senate/SenatorBills.asp?MemberID=747&GA=88
http://www.ilga.gov/senate/SenatorBills.asp?MemberID=747&GA=87
http://www.ilga.gov/senate/SenatorBills.asp?MemberID=747&GA=86

[papau]

16. A tip of the hat = that was what was summarized on the Obama site in the past and there

are some good changes in those lists among the "technical" and "task force" and such bills. Indeed he once spoke about INCOME TX-EARNED INCOME CREDIT, VIDEOTAPED INTERROGATIONS, STATE POLICE-CULTURE DIVERSITY, CHILD HEALTH INS SUNSET 2006, HOSPICE PROGRAM LIC-TERMINL IL, and PRENATAL CARE PROIDERS-HIV that are all real legislation that was passed.

It will take a while to get through all those bills - but thanks a lot for posting them. It is looking like we are going to have to push these as his change accomplishments if he wins on 2/5 - as seems more and more likely these days. And it would be good if we spin them before the GOP writes the storyline for the media.

[NYCGirl]

2. Here's another:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Funding_Accountability_and_Transparency_Act_of_2006

The Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006 (S. 2590)<1> is an act that requires the full disclosure of all entities or organizations receiving federal funds beginning in fiscal year (FY) 2007 on a website maintained by the Office of Management and Budget. This bill was introduced by Senators Tom Coburn and Barack Obama on April 6, 2006 and passed unanimously in the Senate on September 7, 2006 and was passed in the House on September 13, 2006. The bill was signed into law by President George W. Bush on September 26, 2006. In August 2006 there was a "secret hold" on the legislation placed by Senators Ted Stevens<2> and Robert Byrd.<3> The Congressional Budget Office estimates S. 2590 will cost $15 million over its authorized time period of 2007 - 2011.<4>. The website USAspending.gov opened in December 2007 as a result of the FFAT act of 2006.

[papau]

6. Now that is a plus - originated in the house - but it was a good idea - but

seems like a small step in a Senate controlled by your party.

On June 21, 2006, before S.2590 had been debated in the Senate, the House passed Blunt-Davis, a bill to amend the Federal Financial Assistance Management Improvement Act of 1999 by a voice vote. Specifically, it would establish a public database on the Internet to track federal grants. The director of the Office of Management and Budget would be directed to work with other agencies to ensure that the information was available to the public on a single web site within 30 days of the grant being awarded. The site would include the following for each grant<1>:

* The name of the grantee and sub-grantees who have received the award
* An itemized breakdown of that assistance by agency and program source
* All awards a grantee has received for the past 10 years
* A list of dates and amounts of federal financial assistance awards to the grantee<2>

As passed and signed into law the publicly available database that the legislation will create will include both federal contracts and grants (an earlier House bill, Blunt-Davis, would have disclosed grants but not contracts)

[NYCGirl]

3. And here's another:

http://obama.senate.gov/news/070930-many_soldiers_g/

[NYCGirl]

5. Here's another one with Hagel (this time re: nuclear proliferation)

http://obama.senate.gov/press/070918-senate_passes_o_2/

[papau]

13. An amendment that provides a directive for development of a comprehensive strategy is "big change"?

[papau]

10. temporary moratorium on personality disorder discharges has not yet passed - but its a good

idea - is it a big change?

[NYCGirl]

7. This climate change bill was sponsored with McCain:

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c109:s.1151:

Unfortunately, it didn't pass the Senate, but they reintroduced another one in 2007 with our nemesis, Lieberman:

http://www.environmentalleader.com/2007/01/12/mccain-lieberman-obama-bill-would-cut-emissions-2-per-year/

[papau]

11. beyond not passing it was weaker than the Dem bill with a 2040 date - but 2050 is

better than we have now - and it is a big change - but again a "change agent" needs to pass things - and the two bills I posted appear to be the only ones passed to date.

[sandnsea]

9. usaspending.gov

He did this with Coburn, of all people. Take a look.

[papau]

12. Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006 is a good idea - and a

a major change - but it originated in the House

On June 21, 2006, before S.2590 had been debated in the Senate, the House passed Blunt-Davis, a bill to amend the Federal Financial Assistance Management Improvement Act of 1999 by a voice vote. Specifically, it would establish a public database on the Internet to track federal grants. The director of the Office of Management and Budget would be directed to work with other agencies to ensure that the information was available to the public on a single web site within 30 days of the grant being awarded. The site would include the following for each grant<1>:

* The name of the grantee and sub-grantees who have received the award
* An itemized breakdown of that assistance by agency and program source
* All awards a grantee has received for the past 10 years
* A list of dates and amounts of federal financial assistance awards to the grantee<2>

As passed and signed into law the publicly available database that the legislation will create will include both federal contracts and grants (an earlier House bill, Blunt-Davis, would have disclosed grants but not contracts)

[sandnsea]

14. These aren't grants, this is the budget

Some call it a pork tracker. It's actual contracts, broken all the way down to district and county.

[papau]

18. Hi - I believe I said the Senate version - Obama's - added contracts to the House bills requirements

for grants.

We have no disagreement.

[sandnsea]

19. HR 5060 is in committee

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d109:HR05060:@@@L&summ2=m&

[papau]

20. No - it died with the last Congress - but was "father" of concept that was passed in other bill

the bills do not live from each 2 year Congress to the next 2 year Congress. A new Congress began in 2007 so the 2006 bill is dead. The bill that passed was an expansion of the data base idea to include contracts in addition to the grants that were to be in the database under HR 5060's original wording.

[sandnsea]

21. Exactly, from 1999 to 2006, dead

Obama and Coburn got it done, got it done better, and it was done ahead of schedule.

[papau]

22. I agree - but it does appear to be the only Federal major "change" thing he's done

but perhaps he is growing into the job.

[sandnsea]

23. Nuclear Threat Reduction Plan

Of course, you could look all this up just as easily as I can.

Washington, DC – Today, Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) and Representative Adam Schiff (D-CA) announced that a provision authored by Obama and Senator Hagel (R-NE) in the Senate and advanced by Schiff in the House requiring a comprehensive nuclear threat reduction plan passed as part of the omnibus appropriations bill. This provision requires the President to submit to Congress a comprehensive plan for ensuring that all nuclear weapons and weapons-usable material at vulnerable sites around the world are secure by 2012 from the threats that terrorists have shown they can pose. The Senate passed the omnibus appropriations bill last night and the House approved the same bill today. It will now be sent to the President to be signed into law.

http://obama.senate.gov/

[papau]

24. Once again - I mention upthread the "big change" of asking the executive to do some planning

[Bitwit1234]

15. You can go to the congressional record and see how pathetic

his record is. He votes for silly stuff for the republicans. And if you check out the bills he voted for, most of them are his vote for the republican sponsored bill. He does things to ingrate himself with the opposition. He does not care for our military I know that he hasn't voted for one good bill that was proposed for them. Never mind it might not get passed, he should at least vote for it.

And another thing all this students he bussed in to vote for him, well if they knew he wouldn't vote for the bill giving them more funds for college wonder what they would say. Congress wanted to restore the bill that provided more funds for their tuition and he didn't vote for it.

[papau]

17. that I didn't know about - thanks for the info.