House of Representatives
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Dennis Kucinich
U.S. House: Representative
Democratic
Next Election Year: 2010
Education:
MA, Speech Communications, Case Western Reserve University, 1974
BA, Speech Communications, Case Western Reserve University, 1973
Profession:
Consultant, Publicly Owned Electric Systems, 1979-present
President, Marketing and Communications Firm, 1985-1995
Instructor, Communications and Political Science, Case Western Reserve University and Cleveland State University, 1991-1994
Professor, Political Science, Case Western Reserve University, 1982-1992
Communications Entrepreneur, Software and Public Relations, 1982-1992
Clerk of Courts, Cleveland Municipal Court, 1976-1977
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(2009) HR 2454 Energy and Environmental Law Amendments ("Cap and Trade")
Outcome: Bill Passed (219/212)
Summary: -Establishes the following greenhouse gas emission reduction goals for the U.S. (Sec. 702):-3 percent reduction from 2005 levels in 2012;
-20 percent reduction from 2005 levels in 2020;
-42 percent reduction from 2005 levels in 2030; and
-83 percent reduction from 2005 levels in 2050. -Establishes a cap and trade program in which covered entities are prohibited from emitting greenhouse gas in excess of the number of emission allowances and offset credits that the entity acquired during each calendar year (Sec. 311).
-Specifies that a "covered entity" includes, but is not limited to, the following (Sec. 312):-Any electricity source;
-Stationary source that produces and entities that import for sale or distribution in 2008 or any subsequent year petroleum-based or coal-based liquid fuel, petroleum coke, or natural gas liquid, the combustion of which would emit at least 25,000 tons of carbon dioxide equivalent of greenhouse gas;
-Any geologic sequestration site;
-Any stationary source involved in adipic acid production, primary aluminum production, ammonia manufacturing, cement production other than grinding-only operations, hydrochlorofluorocarbon production, lime manufacturing, nitric acid production, petroleum refining, phosphoric acid production, silicon carbine production, soda ash production, titanium dioxide production, and coal-based liquid or gaseous fuel production; and
-Natural gas local distribution companies that deliver at least 460 million cubic feet of natural gas. -Specifies that any of the following constitute a greenhouse gas: carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, sulfur hexafluoride, hydrofluorocarbons emitted from a chemical manufacturing process at an industrial stationary source, any perfluorocarbon, nitrogen trifluoride, and any other anthropogenic gas designated as a greenhouse gas by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) (Sec. 311).
-Specifies that the following measurements are all equal to 1 ton of carbon dioxide for the purposes of establishing the carbon dioxide equivalent of greenhouse gas (Sec. 311):-25 tons of methane;
-298 tons of nitrous oxide;
-14,800 tons of HFC-23 (fluoroform);
-3,500 tons of HFC-125 (pentafluoroethane);
-1,430 tons of HFC-134a (tetrafluoroethane);
-4,470 tons of HFC-143a (trifluoroethane);
-124 tons of HFC-152a (difluoroethane);
-3,220 tons of HFC-227ea (heptafluoropropane);
-9,810 tons of HFC-236fa (hexafluoropropane);
-1,640 tons of HFC-43-10mee (decafluoropentane);
-7,390 tons of CF4 (tetrafluoromethane);
-12,200 tons of C2F6 (hexafluorethane);
-8,860 tons of C4F10 (perfluorobutane);
-9,300 tons of C6F14 (perfluorohexane);
-22,800 tons of SF6 (sulfur hexafluoride); and
-17,200 tons of NF3 (nitrogen fluoride). -Specifies that one emission allowance is equal to one ton of carbon dioxide equivalent of greenhouse gas (Sec. 311).
-Specifies that emission allowances are not required for fugitive greenhouse gas emissions produced by electricity sources, nitrogen trifluoride sources, industrial stationary sources, and industrial fossil fuel-fired combustion devices, unless the Administrator of the EPA determines that such emissions can be determined with sufficient precision, reliability, accessibility and timeliness (Sec. 311).
-Specifies that emission allowances are not required for petroleum-based or coal-based liquid fuel, petroleum coke, natural gas liquid, fossil fuel-based carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide, or fluorinated gas that is exported for sale or use (Sec. 311).
-Limits the number of available emission allowances to the following, with some exceptions for adjustments by the Administrator of the EPA (Sec. 311):-4.63 billion for 2012;
-4.54 billion for 2013;
-5.1 billion for 2014;
-5 billion for 2015;
-5.48 billion for 2016;
-5.38 billion for 2017;
-5.27 billion for 2018;
-5.16 billion for 2019;
-5.06 billion for for 2020;
-4.9 billion for 2021;
-4.75 billion for 2022;
-4.6 billion for 2023;
-4.45 billion for 2024;
-4.29 billion for 2025;
-4.14 billion for 2026;
-3.99 billion for 2027;
-3.84 billion for 2028;
-3.69 billion for 2029;
-3.53 billion for 2030;
-3.41 billion for 2031;
-3.28 billion for 2032;
-3.16 billion for 2033;
-3.03 billion for 2034;
-2.91 billion for 2035;
-2.78 billion for 2036;
-2.66 billion for 2037;
-2.53 billion for 2038;
-2.41 billion for 2039
-2.28 billion for 2040;
-2.16 billion for 2041;
-2.03 billion for 2042;
-1.91 billion for 2043;
-1.79 billion for 2044;
-1.66 billion for 2045;
-1.54 billion for 2046;
-1.41 billion for 2047;
-1.29 billion for 2048;
-1.16 billion for 2049; and
-1.04 billion for 2050 and each year thereafter. -Allocates a specific annual percentage of emission allowances automatically for various purposes, including, but not limited to, the following (Sec. 321):-For the benefit of electricity consumers:-43.75 percent for 2012 and 2013;
-38.89 percent for 2014 and 2015;
-35 percent for 2016 through 2025;
-28 percent for 2026;
-21 percent for 2027;
-14 percent for 2028; and
-7 percent for 2029; -For support of state renewable energy and energy efficiency programs:-9.5 percent for 2012 and 2015;
-6.5 percent for 2016 and 2017;
-5.5 percent for 2018 and 2021;
-1 percent for 2022 through 2025;
-4.5 percent for 2026 through 2050; and
-At the same time allowances are distributed for years 2022 through 2025, 3.55 percent is distributed to be used in four years, in addition to the allocation for years 2026 through 2050; -For the benefit of natural gas consumers:-9 percent for 2016 through 2025;
-7.2 percent for 2026;
-5.4 percent for 2027;
-3.6 percent for 2028; and
-1.8 percent for 2029; -For supplemental emission reductions through the International Deforestation Reduction Program established by this Act:-5 percent for 2012 through 2025;
-3 percent for 2026 through 2030; and
-2 percent for 2031 through 2050; -For the deployment of carbon capture and sequestration technology:-1.75 percent for 2014 through 2017;
-4.75 percent for 2018 through 2019; and
-5 percent for 2020 through 2050. -Requires the Administrator of the EPA to hold a single-round, sealed-bid, uniform price auction 4 times per year at regular intervals, with the first auction to be held no later than March 31, 2011, in which covered entities may purchase emission allowances that were not automatically allocated for various purposes as described above (Sec. 311).
-Prohibits participants from purchasing more than 5 percent of the emission allowances offered for sale at any quarterly auction (Sec. 311).
-Requires the Administrator of the EPA to set aside a specific number of emission allowances for small businesses at each auction as follows (Sec. 311):-6.2 percent of the emission allowances from 2012 through 2013;
-5.4 percent of the emission allowances from 2014 through 2015; and
-4.9 percent of the emission allowances from 2016 through 2024. -Authorizes covered entities to utilize offset credits to demonstrate compliance in the cap and trade program for projects that result in reductions or avoidance of greenhouse gas emissions or sequestration of greenhouse gas, provided that such credits do not exceed 2 billion tons of annual greenhouse gas emissions (Sec. 311).
-Authorizes the holder of an emission allowance, compensatory allowance, or offset credit to sell, exchange, transfer, hold for compliance, or request that the Administration retire the emission allowance, compensatory allowance, or offset credit (Sec. 311).
-Establishes a penalty for covered entities that emit greenhouse gases in excess of the amount of emission allowances and offset credits the covered entity has acquired. The penalty is equal to the product obtained by multiplying the following (Sec. 311):-Total amount of carbon dioxide equivalent of greenhouse gas emissions for which the covered entity failed to demonstrate compliance; and
-Twice the auction clearing price for the earliest year emission allowances in the last auction carried out. -Requires retail electric suppliers that supply more than 4 million megawatt hours of electric energy to consumers per year to derive the following amounts of the total electricity they sell from renewable sources (Sec. 101):-6 percent in 2012 and 2013;
-9.5 percent in 2014 and 2015;
-13 percent in 2016 and 2017;
-16.5 percent in 2018 and 2019; and
-20 percent from 2020 through 2039. -Authorizes electric suppliers to opt out of the renewable sources requirement listed above and pay $25 per megawatt hour of electricity savings that would otherwise be due (Sec. 101).
-Requires electric utilities to develop a plan to support the use of plug-in electric drive vehicles, including the deployment of the charging infrastructure or other infrastructure necessary to adequately support the use of plug-in electric drive vehicles (Sec. 121).
-Requires the Secretary of Energy to establish a program to deploy and integrate plug-in electric drive vehicles into the the electricity grid in multiple regions, and authorizes the Secretary to provide financial assistance for the purchase of such vehicles, supporting the use of such vehicles, or other projects the Secretary determines appropriate to support the large-scale deployment of such vehicles (Sec. 122).
-Requires the Secretary of Energy to establish a program to provide financial assistance to automobile manufactures to facilitate the manufacture of plug-in electric drive vehicles, and requires the Secretary to select recipients that are most likely to be successful and are located in local markets that have the greatest need for such assistance (Sec. 123).
-Establishes the energy efficiency goal of the U.S. as an improvement of overall energy productivity by at least 2.5 percent per year through 2030, and requires the Secretary of Energy to develop a strategic plan to achieve this goal, which must include the following (Sec. 272):-Future regulatory, funding, and policy priorities;
-Energy savings estimates for each sector; and
-Data collection methodologies and compilations used to establish baseline and energy savings data. -Authorizes the states to utilize funds from their SEED Account, composed of federal funds appropriated pursuant to the Clean Air Act, to provide rebates of up to $7,500 to owners of manufactured homes constructed prior 1976 in which the total income of all members of the household does not exceed 200 percent of the Federal poverty level for income in the applicable area for the purposes of purchasing a new Energy Star qualified manufactured home (Sec. 203).
-Increases energy efficiency standards for electric motors and florescent and incandescent lamps beginning December 19, 2010 (Sec. 161).
-Increases energy efficiency standards for various domestic appliances (Sec. 213).
-Establishes the following national building code energy efficiency targets (Sec. 201):-30 percent reduction in energy use relative to a comparable building constructed in compliance with the baseline code effective on the date of enactment of this Act;
-50 percent reduction in energy use relative to the baseline code beginning January 1, 2014 for residential buildings and January 1, 2015 for commercial buildings; and
-5 percent additional reduction in energy use relative to the baseline code beginning January 1, 2017 for residential buildings and January 1, 2018 for commercial buildings, and every three years thereafter, respectively, through January 1, 2029. -Appropriates $25 million to the Secretary of Energy to enforce the national energy efficiency building code (Sec. 201).
-Appropriates $600 million for fiscal years 2010-2011, 2011-2012 and 2012-2013 respectively to establish the Best in Class Appliances Deployment Program for the following reasons (Sec. 214):-Provide bonus payments to retailers or distributors for the sale of best-in-class high-efficiency household appliance models, high efficiency installed building equipment, and high-efficiency consumer electronics;
-Provide bounties to retailers and manufacturers for the replacement, retirement, and recycling of old inefficient and environmentally harmful products; and
-Provide premium awards to manufacturers for developing and producing new Superefficient Best-in-Class Products. -Appropriates $7.5 million for fiscal year 2009-2010, $10 million for fiscal year 2010-2011, $20 million for fiscal year 2011-2012, and $50 million for fiscal year 2012-2013 to establish the WaterSense program within the Environmental Protection Agency to promote water efficient products, buildings and landscapes, and services (Sec. 215).
-Appropriates $15 billion for fiscal years 2009-2010 and 2010-2011 respectively to establish the Clean Energy Manufacturing Revolving Loan Fund Program for issuing grants to States to issue loans to manufactures for investments in clean energy technology, including, but not limited to, wind turbines, solar energy, fuel cells, biomass equipment, geothermal equipment, advanced biofuels, ocean energy equipment, carbon capture and storage, and advanced batteries, battery systems, or storage devices (Sec. 246).
-Appropriates $200 million for fiscal year 2009-2010, $250 million for fiscal year 2010-2011, $300 million for fiscal year 2011-2012, $350 million for fiscal year 2012-2013 and $400 for fiscal year 2013-2014 for the Hollings Manufacturing Partnership Program (Sec. 247).
-Appropriates $2.5 billion to establish the Residential Energy Efficiency Block Grant Program for issuing grants to States, metropolitan cities and urban counties, Indian tribes, and insular areas to carry out energy efficiency improvements in new and existing single-family and multifamily housing (Sec. 296).
-Appropriates $5 billion to the Alternative Energy Sources State Loan Fund established by this Act for the Secretary of Energy to issue loans to states and Indian tribes to provide incentives to owners of single-family and multifamily housing, commercial properties, and public buildings to provide renewable energy sources, energy efficiency and energy conserving improvements, and infrastructure related to the delivery of electricity and hot water for structures lacking such amenities (Sec. 299D).
-Increases appropriation for loans to be issued by the Secretary of Energy under the Advanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing Incentive Program from $25 million to $50 million (Sec. 125).
-Increases appropriation for the Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Worker Training Program from $125 million to $150 million (Sec. 422). |
Kucinich's Vote
N |
(2009) HR 2751 Trade-in Vouchers for Fuel Efficient Cars
Outcome: Bill Passed (298/119)
Summary: -Establishes the "Consumer Assistance to Recycle and Save Program" which authorizes electronic vouchers to be issued to participating dealers (Sec. 2).
-Grants a $3,500 voucher for trading in an old vehicle for a passenger vehicle with at least 4 miles per gallon more, a non-passenger truck with at least 2 miles per gallon more, or a large van or pickup truck with at least 1 mile per gallon more fuel economy than the vehicle being traded in (Sec. 2).
-Grants a $4,500 voucher for trading in an old vehicle for a passenger vehicle with at least 10 miles per gallon more, a non-passenger truck with at least 5 miles per gallon more, or a large van or pickup truck with at least 2 miles per gallon more fuel economy than the vehicle being traded in (Sec. 2).
-Requires that dealers who participate in the program do not sell, lease, or exchange the traded in vehicle and will ensure the vehicle gets crushed or shredded (Sec. 2).
-Defines an eligible trade-in vehicle as an automobile or work truck manufactured after 1984 that is still in drivable condition, has been owned by the same person and insured for at least one year and has a combined fuel economy of 18 miles per gallon or less (Sec. 2).
-Requires the Secretary of Transportation and the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to make information available to the public about how to determine if a trade-in vehicle is eligible for a voucher, how to participate in the program, and a list of new fuel efficient vehicles that meet the requirements of the program (Sec. 2).
-This bill was amended into the final version of HR 2346. |
Kucinich's Vote
Y |
(2009) HR 1 Appropriations, Tax Law Amendments, and Unemployment Benefit Amendments ("Stimulus Bill")
Outcome: Conference Report Adopted (246/183)
Summary: -Allows an income tax credit of up to $400 for individuals with an adjusted gross income of less than $70,000 or $800 for joint returns for taxpayers with an adjusted gross income of less than $140,000 (Div. B, Sec. 1001).
-Rescinds taxes on up to $2,400 of unemployment benefits (Division B, Sec. 1007).
-Extends the Emergency Unemployment Compensation Act to December 31, 2009 and increases benefits by $25 per week (Division B, Sec. 2001, 2002).
-Provides COBRA assistance for coverage beginning after the enactment of this bill of up to 35 percent of the premium amount (Div. B, 3001).
-Increases the credit percentage for taxpayers with three or more children to 45 percent and reduces the marriage tax by changing the formula for the amount of credit allowed (Div. B, Sec. 1002).
-Extends the first-time homebuyer's tax credit to December 1, 2009 and increases the maximum amount of the tax credit to $8,000 or $4,000 for married individuals filing separately (Div. B, Sec. 1006).
-Extends tax credits for electricity produced from wind facilities until 2013, and from other renewable resource facilities such as biomass, geothermal, solar energy, landfill gas, trash combustion, and qualified hydropower facilities until 2014 (Div. B, Sec. 1101).
-Establishes the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board to oversee appropriated funds and prevent fraud, waste, and abuse (Div. A, Title XV).
-Establishes the Office of National Coordinator for Health Information Technology to allow for the electronic use and exchange of information that secures and protects patient health information, improves health care quality, reduces medical errors and health disparities, reduces costs from inefficiency, medical errors, inappropriate or duplicate care, and incomplete information, and improves coordination of care between hospitals, laboratories, and physician offices (Div. A, Title XIII).
-Increases the Hope Scholarship credit by making up to $2,000 of education expenses deductible, plus 25% of such expenses that exceed $2,000 but not $4,000 dollars (Div. B, Sec. 1004).
-Grants qualified school construction bonds for up to $11 billion in 2009 and $11 billion in 2010 (Div. B, Sec. 1521).
-Requires states to periodically verify if documented immigrants receiving benefits still maintain legal immigrant status (Div. B, Sec. 1853).
-Appropriates $4.7 billion for the Broadband Technology Opportunities Program (Div. A, Titles II).
-Appropriates $650 million to extend the digital to analog converter box program (Div. A, Title II).
-Appropriates $16.8 billion for energy efficiency and renewable energy (Div. A, Title IV).
-Appropriates $100 million for border security, fencing, infrastructure and technology (Div. A, Title VI).
-Appropriates $13 billion for education of the disadvantaged, $12.2 billion for special education, and $15.84 billion for student financial assistance, including Pell Grants (Div. A, Title VIII).
-Appropriates $27.5 billion for highway, rail, and port infrastructure construction and repair (Div. A, Title XII). |
Kucinich's Vote
Y |
(2009) HR 1 Appropriations, Tax Law Amendments, and Unemployment Benefit Amendments ("Stimulus Bill")
Outcome: Bill Passed (244/188)
Summary: -Allows an income tax credit of up to $500 for individuals with an adjusted gross income of less than $75,000 or $1,000 for joint returns for taxpayers with an adjusted gross income of less than $150,000 (Division B, Sec. 1001).
-Requires projects funded by this bill to use only iron and steel produced in the United States, unless it is inconsistent with public interest, there are insufficient quantities produced in the United States, or it would increase the cost of the overall project by over 25 percent (Division A, Sec. 1110).
-Increases the credit percentage for taxpayers with three or more children to 45 percent and reduces the marriage tax by changing the formula for the amount of credit allowed (Division B, Sec. 1101).
-Prohibits funds appropriated in this Act from being used to enter into contracts with businesses that do not participate in the E-verify program for their employees (Division A, Sec. 1114).
-Increases the Hope Scholarship credit to allow a 100% deduction for the first $2000 spent on tuition and related expenses and a 25% deduction for another $4000 (Division B, Sec. 1201).
-Grants qualified school construction bonds for up to $11 billion in 2009 and $11 billion for 2010 (Division B, Sec. 1511).
-Extends tax credits for electricity produced from wind facilities until 2013, and from other renewable resource facilities such as biomass, geothermal, solar energy, landfill gas, trash combustion, and qualified hydropower facilities until 2014 (Division B, Sec. 1601).
-Extends the Emergency Unemployment Compensation Act to December 31, 2009 (Division B, Sec. 2001).
-Provides COBRA assistance for coverage beginning after the enactment of this bill of up to 35 percent of the premium amount (Division B, Sec. 3002).
-Allows temporary Medicaid coverage for individuals who currently receive unemployment benefits or who were receiving but have exhausted unemployment benefits on or after July 1, 2008 (Division B, Sec. 3003).
-Establishes the Office of National Coordinator for Health Information Technology to allow for the electronic use and exchange of information that secures and protects patient health information, improves health care quality, reduces medical errors and health disparities, reduces costs from inefficiency, medical errors, inappropriate or duplicate care, and incomplete information, and improves coordination of care between hospitals, laboratories, and physician offices (Division B, Title IV).
-Establishes the National Telecommunications and Information Administration to develop a broadband map of the United States to identify the availability of broadband service from commercial or public providers in each state (Division B, Sec. 6001).
-Authorizes grants for any non-recurring costs related to building broadband infrastructure (Division B, Sec. 6002).
-Provides financial assistance of up to 50 percent of costs for electric "smart grid" system demonstration projects to increase reliability, security, and efficiency while meeting future growth demands of energy (Division B, Sec. 7002).
-Expands the definition of low income families eligible for weatherization assistance to include families whose income is 200 percent of the poverty level and increases the assistance per household from $2,500 to $5,000 (Division B, Sec. 7004).
-Appropriates $67.79 billion for the Department of Education, including $1.34 billion for Pell Grant funding (Division A, Title IX). |
Kucinich's Vote
Y |
(2008) HR 7081 United States - India Nuclear Agreement
Outcome: Bill Passed (298/117)
Summary: -Provides for the transfer of nuclear technology and materials to India for non-military use (Sec 101).
-Opens civilian nuclear facilities for inspection by the International Atomic Energy Agency (Sec 101, 104).
-Requires the president to certify to Congress that this agreement does not violate the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty by assisting India to produce or acquire nuclear weapons (Sec. 102).
-Text of the Agreement can be found at http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2007/aug/90050.htm |
Kucinich's Vote
N |
(2008) HR 7060 Renewable Energy Credits and Other Business and Individual Credits
Outcome: Bill Passed (257/166)
Summary: - Extends tax credits for wind facilities until January 1, 2010, and credits for qualified biomass, geothermal or solar, small irrigation power, landfill gas, trash combustion, hydropower, and marine and hydrokinetic renewable energy facilities until October 1, 2011 (Sec. 101, 102).
- Extends residential energy efficient property credits for solar electric, solar water heating, and fuel cell property expenditures until December 31, 2016 (Sec. 104).
- Extends the residential energy efficient property credit allowable against the alternative minimum tax to the taxable year starting in 2007 (Sec. 104).
- Reduces the maximum income tax deduction allowed for domestic production of oil and gas (Sec. 401).
- Extends the business research credit through December 31, 2009 (Sec. 221).
- Extends tax deductions for college tuition payments through the taxable year ending December 31, 2009 (Sec. 202).
- Allows a base credit of $3,000 for plug-in electric motor vehicles, with up to an additional $2,000 for vehicles drawing propulsion energy from a battery of 5 or more kilowatt hours of capacity (Sec. 124).
- Encourages bicycle commuting by allowing tax-free reimbursements to cover expenses such as the purchase of a bicycle and maintenance if the bicycle is regularly used to travel between the employee's residence and place of employment (Sec. 126).
- Extends the Federal Unemployment Tax Act surtax that employers pay with respect to individuals they employ through 2010 (Sec. 404).
- Extends tax credits for solar energy property until January 1, 2017 and credits for fuel cell and microturbine property until December 31, 2016 (Sec. 103). |
Kucinich's Vote
Y |
(2008) HR 2638 Continuing Appropriations
Outcome: Concurrence Vote Passed (370/58)
Summary: -Appropriates funds necessary to continue until March 6, 2009 projects or activities that were conducted in fiscal year 2008 and for which funds or other authority were made available in divisions A, B, C, D, F, G, H, J, and K of the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2008 (HR 2764) at the same rate for operations provided in those divisions of that Act, with the exception of some minor changes (Div. A, Sec. 101).
-Appropriates $22.88 billion for disaster relief and recovery, $480.25 billion for the Department of Defense, $43.48 billion for the Department of Homeland Security, and $119.92 billion for military construction and veterans affairs (Divs. B-E).
-Specifies that the funds appropriated in this act are not subject to a prohibition on use for offshore oil and natural gas preleasing and leasing (Div. A, Sec. 152).
-Maintains funding levels at $7.51 billion for 2009 to fund loans of up to $25 billion in total principal for automobile manufacturers and component suppliers to pay for up to 30 percent of the cost of equipping themselves to produce vehicles or components which meet specified emissions and fuel economy standards (Div. A, Sec. 129).
-Appropriates $5.1 billion for low-income home energy assistance instead of the previous amount of $2.6 billion (Div. A, Sec. 155). |
Kucinich's Vote
N |
(2008) HR 6604 Commodity Markets Speculation Bill
Outcome: Bill Passed (283/133)
Summary: - Limits off-shore trading by prohibiting foreign boards of trade from providing their members in the U.S. with direct access to an electronic trading and order matching system in order to settle against the price of one or more contracts dealing with energy or agricultural commodities listed for trading, and provides an exception if the foreign board of trade meets certain specifications including making all information public each day and having authority to prevent or reduce threats of price manipulation and "excessive" speculation (Sec. 4).
- Requires the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to set limits on the number of securities investments that may be held by any person in an effort to prevent "excessive" speculation, deter and prevent market manipulation, squeezes, and corners, ensure sufficient market liquidity for bona fide hedgers, and ensure that the price discovery function of the underlying market is not disrupted (Sec. 8).
- Requires the CFTC to hire an additional 100 full-time employees with the intent of increasing public transparency of operations in the agriculture and energy markets and to improve enforcement of rules set out in this act (Sec. 10).
- Requires the CFTC to issue a rule defining and classifying index traders and swap dealers in order to set reporting requirements for those entities (Sec. 6).
- Requires routine reporting on at least a monthly basis of over-the-counter trading of agricultural or energy commodities that is interchangeable with trading in accordance with the rules of any board of trade or electronic trading facility, and allows the CFTC to impose position limits if it finds that this trading could cause a severe market disturbance (Sec. 14). |
Kucinich's Vote
Y |
(2008) HR 6899 Offshore Oil and Gas Drilling and Extending Certain Renewable Energy Tax Credits
Outcome: Bill Passed (236/189)
Summary: - Opens areas for oil and gas leasing that were previously part of Outer Continental Shelf Planning Areas and located more than 50 miles from the coastline, as long as states with boundaries within 100 miles of a proposed site agree to the lease (Secs. 102, 103).
- Prohibits public officials in the Minerals Management Division of the Department of the Interior from receiving any gift "of value" from oil or gas corporation employees, imposes a prison sentence of up to two years for any persons giving or accepting such gifts, and allows for a civil penalty of up to $25 million, in addition to an amount equal to gross revenues accrued during the period in which the violation occurred for any oil or gas corporation responsible for offering gifts (Sec. 144).
- Requires retail energy suppliers to generate at least 15 percent of their energy from renewable resources by 2020 or by credits equal to that amount (Sec. 501).
- Requires the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to aid in the construction of new oil and natural gas pipelines from the National Petroleum Reserve to existing transportation or processing infrastructure on the North Slope in Alaska (Sec. 163).
- Bans the export of domestic crude oil to neighboring countries for refining unless an equal amount is sent from that country to the United States (Sec. 166).
- Updates national model building energy codes to require at least 50 percent energy savings for residential and commercial buildings in each code by 2020 (Sec. 401).
- Requires every gas station owned by major oil companies to have at least one alternative fuel pump by January 1, 2018, which dispenses natural gas, fuel that contains at least 85 percent ethanol, a mixture containing at least 20 percent biodiesel or renewable diesel, or hydrogen (Sec. 701).
- Encourages bicycle commuting by allowing tax-free reimbursements to cover expenses such as the purchase of a bicycle and maintenance if the bicycle is regularly used to travel between the employee's residence and place of employment (Sec. 827).
- Prohibits the oil or gas leasing of an area in the Outer Continental Shelf that was not available before July 1, 2008, or was not authorized in this bill (Sec. 101).
- Requires 70 million barrels of light crude petroleum from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to be sold within six months of this bill's enactment, which would be replaced with an equal amount of heavy crude petroleum within five years, as long as selling the barrels will not result in a total of less than 90 percent of the current amount in the Reserve (Sec. 203). |
Kucinich's Vote
Y |
(2008) HR 3221 Housing Bill with Energy Tax Credit Extensions
Outcome: Concurrence Vote Passed (272/152)
Summary: -Increases the national debt limit from $9.82 trillion to $10.62 trillion (Sec. 3083).
-Establishes the Home Ownership Preservation Entity Fund to fund the HOPE (Home Ownership Preservation Entity) for Homeowners Program, which will insure up to $300 billion for 30 year refinanced loans for distressed borrowers between October 1, 2008-September 30, 2011 (Sec. 1402).
-Provides that the mortgagor and the Secretary for Housing and Urban Development each receive 50 percent of the appreciation value for each eligible mortgage insured under the HOPE program if changes occur to the property value 5 years after the loan is taken over by HOPE (Sec. 1402).
-Allocates $3.92 billion in grants to States and other units of local government to redevelop abandoned and foreclosed property and $180 million to the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation, given that at least 15 percent of the $180 million be provided to housing counseling organizations that provide services for loss mitigation to minority and low-income homeowners (Sec. 2305).
-Establishes a Housing Trust Fund to be used to increase and preserve the supply of rental housing for extremely low and very low-income families (Sec. 1131).
-Establishes the Federal Housing Finance Agency, with regulatory authority over Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, the Federal Home Loan Banks, and the Office of Finance (Sec. 1101).
-Sets conforming loan limitations for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac at a maximum of $417,000 for a single-family residence up to $801,950 for a 4-family residence, adjusted annually (Sec. 1124).
-Raises the limits on the size of the principle mortgage obligation that is eligible for insurance for most homeowners, up to 115 percent of the local area median house price for single-family homes (Sec. 2112).
-Increases conforming loan limitations in areas where the average house price is over 115 percent of the housing price index (Sec. 1124).
-Increases appropriations under the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act from $70 million to $100 million for the fiscal year 2009 (Sec. 2901).
-Increases housing benefits for specially adapted houses for disabled veterans from $10,000 to $12,000, with increases each year tied to the residential home cost-of-construction index (Sec. 2605).
-Changes the limitation on the sale, foreclosure, or seizure of property owned by service members from 90 days to nine months after their return from military service, and limits their interest rates to 6 percent during service and one year after their return (Sec. 2203).
-Provides first-time home buyers with a tax credit of up to $7,500 for residences purchased on or after April 9, 2008, which the homebuyers will repay over fifteen years following their purchase (Sec. 3011).
-Expands home ownership counseling eligibility to include people who have a reduction in income due to divorce or death, or who have an increase in expenses due to medical expenses, divorce, unexpected property damages not covered by insurance, or a large property tax increase (Sec. 2127).
-Allows a real property tax deduction on the amount of state and local real property taxes paid during the taxable year of up to $500 for individuals and $1,000 for joint returns, applicable to taxable years beginning in 2008 (Sec. 3012). |
Kucinich's Vote
Y |
(2008) HR 6515 Oil Exploration in the National Petroleum Reserve - Alaska
Outcome: Bill Failed (244/173)
Summary: -Requires the Secretary of the Interior to conduct an "expeditious environmentally responsible program" of competitive leasing of oil and gas in the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska with no fewer than one lease sale in the Reserve each year during the period 2009 through 2013 (Sec. 2).
-Requires the Secretary of Transportation to facilitate the construction of pipelines to transport oil and gas from the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska to existing infrastructure on the North Slope of Alaska, and requires the President to facilitate construction of a natural gas pipeline from Alaska to United States markets (Sec. 3, 4).
-Reimposes prohibition on crude oil exports from Alaska (Sec. 6).
-Prohibits the Secretary of the Interior from issuing to a person any new lease that authorizes the exploration for or production of oil or natural gas unless the person is diligently developing the Federal lands that are subject to existing leases or the person has relinquished ownership interest in all Federal oil and gas leases under which oil and gas are not being diligently developed (Sec. 7). |
Kucinich's Vote
Y |
(2008) HR 6377 Energy Futures Trading
Outcome: Bill Passed (402/19)
Summary: |
Kucinich's Vote
Y |
(2008) HR 6251 Oil Production Leases
Outcome: Bill Failed (223/195)
Summary: |
Kucinich's Vote
Y |
(2008) HR 6049 Alternative Energy Tax Incentives
Outcome: Bill Passed (263/160)
Summary: -Extends the renewable energy tax credit by one year for new wind facilities (Sec. 101).
-Extends the renewable energy tax credit by 3 years for new qualified closed-loop or open-loop biomass facilities, geothermal or solar energy facilities, small irrigation power facilities, landfill gas facilities, trash combustion facilities, and qualified hydropower facilities (Sec. 101).
-Designates marine and hydrokinetic renewable energy as being qualified energy resources eligible for the renewable energy tax credit (Sec. 102).
-Extends for 6 years the 30 percent energy tax credit for qualified fuel cell property and solar energy property and the 10 percent credit for microturbine property (Sec. 103).
-Extends the tax credit for certain new residential "energy efficient" property for 6 years and raises the total tax credit for new solar electric property from $2,000 to $4,000 (Sec. 104).
-Extends the research tax credit, restaurant property depreciation tax credits, and optional state sales tax deductions for one year (Sec. 221, 225, 201).
-Extends tax credits for biodiesel and renewable diesel used as fuel for one year, and raises the biodiesel credits and biodiesel mixture credits from 50 cents per gallon to $1 per gallon (Sec. 122).
-Provides an additional standard deduction for real property taxes for non-itemizers of up to $350 or $700 for a joint return (Sec. 301).
-Increases the child tax credit for low-income parents (Sec. 302).
-Delays tax code provisions that would allow companies to allocate interest on a worldwide basis for 10 years (Sec. 402).
-Mandates that compensation deferred under a nonqualified deferred compensation plan of a foreign corporation shall be includible in gross income in the absence of a substantial risk of forfeiture of rights to such compensation (Sec. 401).
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Kucinich's Vote
Y |
(2008) HR 6074 Prohibiting Foreign States or Associations from Forming a Group to Control Oil
Outcome: Bill Passed (324/84)
Summary: -Amends the Sherman Act to make it illegal for foreign states to enter into agreements with any group or person that would limit the production, set prices, or restrict the trade of oil, natural gas, or any other petroleum product (Sec. 102).
-Declares that any foreign state violating this act is not immune under the doctrine of sovereign immunity from being tried or convicted in a US court of law (Sec. 102, 103).
-Establishes a Petroleum Industry Antitrust Task Force within the Department of Justice to investigate and enforce petroleum industry issues such as price gouging, restricting refinery capacity, anticompetitive market control, and unilateral actions to withhold the supply of petroleum products to inflate prices (Sec. 201). |
Kucinich's Vote
Y |
(2008) HR 6022 Suspending Acquisition of Petroleum for the Strategic Petroleum Reserve
Outcome: Bill Passed (385/25)
Summary: -Allows the Department of the Interior to continue to accept delivery of oil for contracts entered into prior to enactment of this bill (Sec. 2).
-Requires the Department of Energy to negotiate deferral of delivery of oil for any deliveries scheduled before enactment of this bill (Sec. 2). |
Kucinich's Vote
Y |
(2008) HR 3221 Housing Foreclosure Assistance Programs
Outcome: Amendment Adopted (266/154)
Summary: -Establishes the Refinance Program Oversight Board, which is responsible for coordinating a program that insures "homeownership retention mortgages," which are refinance loans designed for borrowers who are at risk of foreclosure (Sec. 112).
-Specifies that the aggregate original principal mortgages insured under the "homeownership retention mortgage" program may not exceed $300 billion (Sec. 112).
-Expands eligibility for FHA mortgage insurance to include borrowers who have been deemed "high risk" due to having a credit score equivalent to a Fair Isaac Corporation (FICO) score of less than 560 (Sec. 206).
-Provides incentives for "high risk" borrowers who have consistently paid their premiums on time that would reduce the amount of annual premium payments to payment levels equal to that of individuals who are not deemed "high risk" borrowers (Sec. 208).
-Mandates the establishment of underwriting standards which allow the FHA to insure mortgage loans for qualified borrowers who have existing mortgages with adverse terms or rates, qualified borrowers who do not have access to mortgages "at reasonable rates and terms for such refinancings due to adverse market conditions", and qualified borrowers who are in default or at imminent risk of being in default (Sec. 210).
-Outlines the following eligibility requirements for receiving insurance for a "homeownership retention mortgage":
- -The insured residence shall be the sole residence in which the mortgagor has a full ownership interest,
- -The mortgagor shall be verifiably unable to pay the existing mortgage(s) and, as of March 1, 2008, the mortgagor shall have had a mortgage debt-to-income ratio of greater than 35 percent,
- -The new loans shall not exceed 90 percent of the property's value,
- -Prepayment, default, and delinquency penalties on existing mortgages shall be waived,
- -Indebtedness under the existing senior mortgage shall have been reduced by such percentage as the Refinance Program Oversight Board may require, and holders of liens on property securing a mortgage to be insured under the program shall agree to accept the proceeds of the insured loan as payment in full for all indebtedness under all existing mortgages,
- -The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development shall hold and retain a lien on the residence which will be subordinate to the mortgage insured under the program but will be senior to all other mortgages,
- -The mortgage insured under the program shall bear a single rate which will be fixed for the entire mortgage term,
- -The mortgagor shall undergo a criminal history check to ensure that he or she has not been convicted of mortgage fraud in the past seven years (Sec. 112).
-Requires the implementation of the following underwriting standards for the "homeownership retention mortgage" program: the mortgagor insured under the program shall have "a reasonable expectation" of repaying the mortgage, there shall be no denial of insurance based on credit scores, based on previous delinquency or default, or based on bankruptcy, and a total debt-to-income ratio of up to 50 percent shall be allowed (Sec. 112).
-Terminates "homeownership retention mortgages" two years after the enactment of this amendment, in the absence of any approved extensions (Sec. 112).
-Increases the allowed levels of principal obligations for mortgages insured by the FHA (Sec. 203).
-Extends the term of mortgages insured by the FHA from thirty-five to forty years (Sec. 204).
-Establishes the Federal Housing Finance Agency, which shall supervise and regulate Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and Federal Home Loan Banks (Sec. 311).
-Raises limits on loans that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac can purchase from $93,750 to $417,000 for a single-family residence, from $120,000 to $533,850 for a two-family residence, from $145,000 to $645,300 for a three-family residence, and from $180,000 to $801,950 for a four-family residence (Sec. 333). |
Kucinich's Vote
Y |
(2008) HR 3221 Housing-Related Tax Provision Amendments
Outcome: Amendment Adopted (322/94)
Summary: -Provides first-time homebuyers with a tax credit of up to $7,500 for residences purchased on or after April 9, 2008, which the homebuyers will repay over fifteen years following their purchase (Sec. 712).
-Provides existing homeowners with a real property tax deduction of up to $350 for an individual or $700 for a joint return (Sec. 713).
-Provides the states with $10 billion of additional tax-exempt housing bonds to be issued before December 31, 2010 and used for qualified residential rental projects or mortgage issues, including the refinancing of mortgages on residences originally financed through subprime loans (Sec. 715).
-Provides that bonds guaranteed by federal home loan banks between the date of enactment of this bill and December 31, 2010 are eligible for treatment as tax-exempt bonds (Sec. 717).
-Repeals the Alternative Minimum Tax limitations on tax-exempt housing bonds issued after enactment of this bill and repeals limits on low-income housing and rehabilitation credits for periods after December 31, 2007 (Sec. 716).
-Requires that the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development implement procedural changes to expedite the approval of low-income multifamily housing projects (Sec. 752).
-Requires that the Secretary of Agriculture take actions to facilitate timely approval of requests to transfer ownership or control of multifamily housing projects for which assistance is provided by the Department of Agriculture in conjunction with certain low-income housing credits (Sec. 753).
-Changes the limitation on the sale, foreclosure, or seizure of property owned by servicemembers from 90 days to one year after their return from military service (Sec. 761).
-Requires that any charges accrued by a servicemember who defaults on an obligation for two consecutive months during their service or during the one-year limitation on foreclosures for servicemembers shall be provided with a statement describing his or her liability (Sec. 762). |
Kucinich's Vote
Y |
(2008) HR 5351 Energy Law Amendments
Outcome: Bill Passed (236/182)
Summary: -Extends tax credits for wind facilities, closed loop and open loop biomass facilities, geothermal and solar facilities, small irrigation power facilities, landfill gas facilities, trash combustion facilities, and hydropower facilities for three years (Sec. 101).
-Designates tax credits for marine and hydrokinetic renewable energy (Sec. 102).
-Extends by eight years the 30 percent tax credit for solar energy property and fuel cell property (Sec. 103).
-Creates new "clean renewable energy" bonds and designates a $2 billion limit on those bonds, which would be allocated to qualified projects of public power providers and cooperative electric companies (Sec. 104).
-Extends tax credits for residential energy efficient property for six years (Sec. 106).
-Raises the maximum credit for solar electric property from $2,000 to $4,000 (Sec. 106).
-Allots income tax credits to consumers who buy plug-in hybrid vehicles (Sec. 201).
-Extends and modifies tax credits for energy efficient appliances (Sec. 234).
-Prevents tax deductions to major integrated oil companies for income resulting from the domestic production of oil and gas (Sec. 301).
-Reduces the tax deduction of taxpayers with oil-related qualified production activities income by 3 percent after 2008 (Sec. 301). |
Kucinich's Vote
Y |
(2007) HR 6 Energy Act of 2007
Outcome: Concurrence Vote Passed (314/100)
Summary: -Increases Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) to 35 miles per gallon by the year 2020 (Sec. 102).
-Requires a minimum standard of 27.5 miles per gallon for domestic passenger vehicles (Sec. 102).
-Requires an increase in the production of renewable fuels from 4.0 billion gallons to 36.0 billion gallons by 2022 (Sec. 202).
-Stipulates that all renewable fuel refineries built after enactment of this bill reduce greenhouse gas emissions by at least 20 percent of the current baseline (Sec. 202).
-Increases energy efficiency standards for certain household appliances, battery chargers, walk-in coolers and freezers, electric motors, light bulbs, and other devices (Title III).
- Establishes the Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Worker Training Program to provide training to veterans, unemployed individuals, and workers impacted by energy and environmental policies (Sec. 1002). |
Kucinich's Vote
Y |
(2007) HR 6 Energy Act of 2007
Outcome: Concurrence Vote Passed (235/181)
Summary: -Raises the required fleet average fuel economy for domestic automobile manufacturers to at least 35 miles per gallon by model year 2020 (Sec. 102).
-Requires 36 billion gallons of renewable fuels to be added to the gasoline supply by 2020 (Sec. 202).
-Increases energy efficiency standards for certain household appliances, battery chargers, walk-in coolers and freezers, electric motors, light bulbs, and other devices (Title III).
-Establishes a renewable energy and energy efficiency development program that will provide training to veterans, unemployed individuals, and workers impacted by energy and environmental policies (Sec. 1002).
-Makes bonds available for local projects to conserve energy (Sec. 1541).
-Requires retail electric energy suppliers to obtain 15 percent of their energy from renewable sources by 2020 (Sec. 1401).
-Lowers the income tax deduction for income from oil-related qualified production activities (Sec. 1561). |
Kucinich's Vote
Y |
(2007) HR 3221 Renewable Energy and Energy Conservation Tax Act of 2007
Outcome: Bill Passed (241/172)
Summary: -Defines a retail electric supplier as a supplier that sells at least 1 million megawatt-hours of electricity for non-resale use, but excludes suppliers that are operated by the government or by rural electric cooperatives (sec. 9611).
-Requires 15% of energy produced by retail electrical suppliers to be generated from renewable energy sources by 2020 (Sec. 9611).
-Allows the Governor of any state to petition the Secretary of Energy to allow up to 25% of the renewable energy requirement to be met by purchasing energy efficiency credits (Sec. 9611).
-Repeals the tax deduction for income attributable to oil or natural gas (Sec. 13001).
-Increases development loan limits for companies undergoing projects designed to reduce energy consumption by at least 10 percent (Sec. 3003).
-Authorizes grants up to $300,000 under the Small Business Sustainability Initiative to provide support to smaller and medium sized businesses to improve environmental performance (Sec. 3005).
-Establishes the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA-E) within the Department of Energy to develop energy technologies that result in reductions in energy imports and greenhouse gas emissions (Sec. 4001).
-Requires the President to establish an interagency United States Global Change Research Program to develop scenarios for climate change and convene regional workshops to facilitate information exchange among experts (Sec. 4614).
-Authorizes loan guarantees of up to $1 billion to assist in the development and construction of bio-refineries and bio-fuel production plants (Sec. 5003).
-Requires Federal agencies to purchase light or medium-duty passenger vehicles that have been designated by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as low greenhouse-gas emitting vehicles (Sec. 6201).
-Requires on-shore oil operators operating a lease under the Mineral Leasing Act to restore any impacted land to its previous conditions, and to replace contaminated water supplies (Sec. 7222-7223).
-Authorizes $850 million a year in future appropriated funds to reduce fares and expand services for public transportation, including $750 million a year for grants to urbanized areas and $100 million for grants to non-urbanized areas (Sec. 8201).
-Authorizes $10 million a year in future appropriated funds for grants to railroad carriers and state and local governments for assistance in purchasing hybrid locomotives (Sec. 8301).
-Requires the Secretary of Energy to issue regulations prohibiting the sale of 100 watt general service incandescent lamps after January 1, 2012, unless they emit at least 60 lumens per watt (Sec. 9021).
-Requires the development of fuel standards for diesel fuel containing 20 percent bio-diesel if the American Society for Testing and Materials has not developed standards within a year (Sec. 9307).
-Allows a base tax credit for plug-in hybrid vehicles equal to the sum of $4,000 with additional credits for battery capacity, not to exceed an additional $2,000 (Sec. 12001).
-Phases out the hybrid tax credit the first year that the number of hybrid vehicles sold is at least 60,000 (Sec. 12001).
-Authorizes a credit for any qualified cellulosic alcohol fuel producer of 50 cents for each gallon of cellulosic fuel produced (Sec. 12004). |
Kucinich's Vote
- |
(2007) H Amdt 748 Renewable Energy Standards
Outcome: Amendment Adopted (220/190)
Summary: - Defines a retail electric supplier as a supplier that sells at least one million megawatt-hours of electric energy to consumers for purposes other than resale, excluding suppliers that are government entities or rural electric cooperatives.
- Requires retail electric suppliers to have 2.75 percent of their electricity produced using renewable energy resources by 2010 and 2011 or to reach this mark by obtaining energy efficiency credits, and to gradually increase this percentage to 15 percent by 2020.
- Defines Federal Energy Efficiency Credits as credits issued by the Secretary of Energy that satisfy the renewable energy requirement and may be obtained either through issuance by the Secretary of Energy, by purchase, by exchange, or through borrowing.
- Establishes that the Secretary of Energy shall issue one Federal renewable energy credit for each kilowatt-hour of electric energy generated by a generator of electric energy, provided the generator also indicates the type of renewable energy resource used to produce the electricity and the location where the electricity was produced.
- Establishes that the Secretary of Energy may also issue two renewable energy credits to suppliers on Indian land for each kilowatt-hour of electricity generated if the renewable energy resource is also located on Indian land.
- Establishes that the Secretary of Energy may also issue renewable energy credits for electric suppliers based on the proportion of renewable and non-renewable energy resources.
- Establishes that Federal Energy Efficiency Credits may either be purchased from the Secretary of Energy or traded among retail electric suppliers, and tracked in all transactions by the Department of Energy.
- Allows a retail electric supplier who cannot meet the renewable energy requirements for the current calendar year to borrow credits by submitting a plan to the Secretary of Energy demonstrating it can meet the necessary Federal efficiency credits within 3 years. |
Kucinich's Vote
- |
(2007) HR 2776 Renewable Energy and Energy Conservation Tax Act of 2007
Outcome: Bill Passed (221/189)
Summary: -Extends the renewable energy credit from January 1, 2009 to January 1, 2013 (Sec. 101).
-Adds energy derived from waves, tides, ocean currents, free flowing rivers, free flowing canals, and other marine sources to the list of qualified energy sources for the purpose of claiming renewable energy credits, unless diversionary structures such as dams or impoundments are used (Sec. 102).
-Extends solar energy property credits to January 1, 2017 and fuel cell property credits to December 31, 2016 (Sec. 103).
-Allows a base tax credit for plug-in hybrid vehicles of $4,000 with an additional $200 per kilowatt-hour for vehicles with a capacity above five kilowatt-hours (Sec. 201).
-Phases out the hybrid tax credit a year after the number of hybrid vehicles sold totals 60,000 (Sec. 201)
-Authorizes a 50 cent per gallon credit for any qualified cellulosic alcohol fuel producer (Sec. 204).
-Repeals the 9 percent tax deduction for income attributable to "the sale, exchange, or other disposition of oil, natural gas, or any primary product thereof" (Sec. 301).
-Extends the amortization period of geological and geophysical expenditures for major integrated oil companies from 5 years to 7 years (Sec. 302).
NOTE:
Pursuant to the provisions of H. Res. 615, bill text was appended at the end of H.R. 3221 as a new matter. |
Kucinich's Vote
Y |
(2007) HR 2641 Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act
Outcome: Bill Passed (312/112)
Summary: - Prohibits the use of the appropriated funds for the creation, elimination, or alteration of funding for new or existing programs, projects, or activities unless specifically directed by this Act. Also forbids the increase or reduction of funding for programs, projects, or activities by more than $2 million or 25 percent, whichever is less [Title I (Sec. 101 [a])].
- Requires the Secretary of the Army to make a 35 percent reduction in the number of full time employees of the Sacramento District Regulatory Division off of the Corps of Engineers [Title I (Sec. 104)].
- Prohibits the usage of the appropriations of this Act or for fiscal year 2008 for any noncompetitive management and operating contract, any contract for environmental cleanup or waste management in excess of $100 million annually or any significant extension or expansion to an existing management and operating contract unless competitive procedures are used to grant these contracts or the Secretary of Energy waives these requirements on a case by case basis [Title III (Sec. 301 [a])].
- Prohibits the usage of the funds appropriated by this Act for the initiation of requests or proposals for programs that have not been funded by Congress [Title III (Sec. 302)].
- Prohibits the usage of the funds appropriated by this Act to be used for the purpose of implementing or modifying contractor employee pension and medical benefits policy [Title III (Sec. 308)].
- Prohibits the use of any funds in this Act to be used for the purpose of influencing congressional action or appropriations before Congress in any way [Title V (Sec. 501)].
- Requires that any light bulbs purchased with money appropriated by this Act must carry the "Energy Star" designation [Title V (Sec. 504)].
- $5.59 billion to the Department of Army, Army Corps of Engineers including $342.35 million to Ohio, $25.72 million to Tennessee, $126.00 million to California, and $26.81 million to Alaska.
- $32.57 billion to the Department of Energy, including $213 million for hydrogen technologies, and also including $100 million for U.S. contributions to create a low-enriched uranium stockpile for an International Nuclear Fuel Bank to be used for peaceful purposes and regulated by the International Atomic Energy Agency.
- $1.07 billion to the Department of Interior.
- $1.00 billion to independent agencies. |
Kucinich's Vote
- |
(2007) HR 2264 Preventing the Organization of Petroleum Export Groups
Outcome: Bill Passed (345/72)
Summary: -Amends the Sherman Act to make it illegal for foreign states to enter into agreements with any group or person that would limit the production, set prices, or restrict the trade of oil, natural gas, or any other petroleum product.
-Declares that any foreign state violating this act is not immune under the doctrine of sovereign immunity from being tried or convicted in a US court of law. |
Kucinich's Vote
Y |
(2007) HR 6 Energy Act of 2007
Outcome: Bill Passed (264/163)
Summary: -Denies a deduction for income attributable to domestic production of oil, natural gas, or their related primary products (Sec. 102).
-Defines conditions of new leases authorizing oil or natural gas production in the Gulf of Mexico, requiring lessees to have: (1) renegotiated covered leases to change payment responsibilities to include price thresholds equal to or less than specified price thresholds; or (2) paid all conservation of resources fees or agreed to pay them (Sec. 204).
-Establishes fees for producing and nonproducing federal oil and gas leases in Gulf of Mexico (Sec. 204).
-Repeals incentives for natural gas production from wells in the shallow waters of the Gulf of Mexico (Sec. 205).
-Creates reserve of funds received as result of this Act, that will be used to offset costs of accelerating the use of renewable energy resources and alternative fuels (Sec. 301). |
Kucinich's Vote
Y |
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