H.R. 2272 - America COMPETES Act

America COMPETES Act

H.R. 2272 — 110^th Congress (2007–2008)

Keywords

National Science Foundation, NSF, innovation, science

Summary

This bill authorizes several funds for education in science and mathematics, including appropriations for the National Science Foundation and the National Institute of Standards and Technology. (by CRS)

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Title

To invest in innovation through research and development, and to improve the competitiveness of the United States.

Other Titles

• 21st Century Competitiveness Act of 2007
• 10,000 Teachers, 10 Million Minds Science and Math Scholarship Act
• National Science Foundation Authorization Act of 2007
• Sowing the Seeds Through Science and Engineering Research Act
• Technology Innovation and Manufacturing Stimulation Act of 2007
• 21st Century Competitiveness Act of 2007
• 10,000 Teachers, 10 Million Minds Science and Math Scholarship Act
• National Science Foundation Authorization Act of 2007
• Sowing the Seeds Through Science and Engineering Research Act
• Technology Innovation and Manufacturing Stimulation Act of 2007
• America COMPETES Act
• America Creating Opportunities to Meaningfully Promote Excellence in Technology, Education, and Science Act
• American Innovation and Competitiveness Act
• PACE-Energy Act
• Protecting America's Competitive Edge Through Energy Act
• America COMPETES Act
• America Creating Opportunities to Meaningfully Promote Excellence in Technology, Education, and Science Act
• PACE-Energy Act
• Protecting America's Competitive Edge Through Energy Act

Sponsor

Barton Gordon

Co-Sponsors

• Brad Miller
• Baron Hill
• Judy Biggert
• Phil Gingrey
• Ralph M. Hall
• Nancy Boyda
• Daniel Lipinski
• Jerry McNerney
• Mark Udall
• David Wu
• Gabrielle Giffords
• Roscoe G. Bartlett
• Ben Chandler
• Lynn C. Woolsey
• Steven R. Rothman
• Russ Carnahan
• Bob Inglis
• Michael M. Honda
• Vernon Ehlers
• Brian Baird
• Darlene Hooley

Subjects

• Science policy
• Academic performance
• Air pollution
• Air pollution control
• Alternative energy sources
• Antarctic regions
• Atmosphere
• Auditing
• Authorization
• Awards, medals, prizes
• Black colleges
• Budgets
• Business
• Climate change
• Coal
• College teachers
• Commemorations
• Communication in science
• Communications
• Community and school
• Computer networks
• Computer security measures
• Computers
• Congress
• Congressional investigations
• Congressional reporting requirements
• Consultants
• Continuing education
• Curricula
• Data banks
• Department of Commerce
• Department of Energy
• Depreciation and amortization
• Disabled
• Distance education
• Economic impact statements
• Economic policy
• Education
• Education of the disadvantaged
• Educational accountability
• Educational technology
• Educational tests
• Elementary and secondary education
• Elementary education
• Energy research
• Engineering
• Engineers
• Environmental protection
• Environmental research
• Executive Office of the President
• Executive departments
• Executive reorganization
• Federal advisory bodies
• Federal aid to education
• Federal aid to research
• Finance
• Gifts
• Government contractors
• Government information
• Government procurement
• Government publicity
• Graduate education
• Great Lakes
• Greenhouse gases
• Higher education
• Hispanic Americans
• Industrial research
• Industry-university relations
• Intellectual property
• International competitiveness
• Inventions
• Joint ventures
• Labor
• Laboratories
• Language and languages
• Law
• Licenses
• Manufacturing industries
• Marine resources
• Mathematics
• Mentoring
• Metric system
• Minorities
• Minority education
• National Aeronautics and Space Administration
• National Science Foundation
• Nonprofit organizations
• Nuclear fuels
• Oceanography
• Paraprofessional school personnel
• Patents
• Performance measurement
• Public contracts
• Recruiting of employees
• Research and development
• Research and development facilities
• Research centers
• Research ethics
• Research grants
• Scholarships
• Scientific education
• Scientific instruments and apparatus
• Scientists
• Secondary education
• Securities regulation
• Service industries
• Small business
• Social services
• Space activities
• Special education
• Standards
• Sunset legislation
• Supercomputers
• Teacher education
• Teacher supply and demand
• Teaching
• Teaching materials
• Technical education
• Technological innovations
• Technology
• Telecommunication
• Time
• Trade
• User charges
• Water resources
• Welfare
• Women
• Women's education

Related Bills

• H.Res. 602 (110^th) : Providing for Consideration of the Conference Report to Accompany the Bill (H.R. 2272) to Invest in Innovation Through Research and Development, and to Improve the Competitiveness of the United States.
• H.R. 362 (110^th) : 10,000 Teachers, 10 Million Minds Science and Math Scholarship Act
• H.R. 363 (110^th) : Sowing the Seeds Through Science and Engineering Research Act
• H.R. 1068 (110^th) : To Amend the High-Performance Computing Act of 1991.
• H.R. 1867 (110^th) : National Science Foundation Authorization Act of 2007
• H.R. 1868 (110^th) : Technology Innovation and Manufacturing Stimulation Act of 2007
• S. 761 (110^th) : America COMPETES Act
• S. 761 (110^th) : America COMPETES Act
• S. 761 (110^th) : America COMPETES Act
• S. 761 (110^th) : America COMPETES Act

Major Actions

Introduced	5/10/2007
Referred to Committee
Passed House	5/21/2007
Passed Senate	7/19/2007
Signed by President	8/09/2007

Bill History

• All Votes
• All Actions
• Amendments

	Chamber/Committee	Motion	Date	Result
select this vote	House	On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote.	5/21/2007	PASSED by voice vote
currently selected	Senate	Passed Senate with an amendment by Unanimous Consent.	7/19/2007	PASSED by voice vote
select this vote	House	On Motion to Instruct Conferees: H.R. 2272 21st Century Competitiveness Act	7/31/2007	This motion PASSED the House 258 voted YES 167 voted NO 7 voted present/not voting
select this vote	House	Recommit Conference Report with Instructions: H.R. 2272 21st Century Competitiveness Act	8/02/2007	This motion DID NOT PASS the House 199 voted YES 227 voted NO 6 voted present/not voting
select this vote	House	On the Conference Report - House - H.R. 2272 21st Century Competitiveness Act	8/02/2007	This motion PASSED the House 367 voted YES 57 voted NO 9 voted present/not voting

	Action	Date	Description
	Introduced	5/10/2007
		5/10/2007	Referred to the House Committee on Science and Technology.
		5/21/2007	Mr. Wu moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
		5/21/2007	Considered under suspension of the rules.
		5/21/2007	DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 2272.
select this vote	House Vote on Passage	5/21/2007	On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote.
	Put on a legislative calendar	5/22/2007	Received in the Senate. Read twice. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 159.
		7/19/2007	Measure laid before Senate by unanimous consent.
		7/19/2007	Senate struck all after the Enacting Clause and substituted the language of S. 761 amended.
currently selected	Senate Vote on Passage	7/19/2007	Passed Senate with an amendment by Unanimous Consent.
		7/19/2007	Senate insists on its amendment, asks for a conference, appoints conferees Bingaman; Inouye; Kennedy; Lieberman; Mikulski; Kerry; Nelson FL; Domenici; Stevens; Enzi; Alexander; Ensign; Coleman.
		7/19/2007	See also S. 761.
		7/20/2007	Message on Senate action sent to the House.
		7/31/2007	Conference held.
		7/31/2007	Conferees agreed to file conference report.
		7/31/2007	Mr. Wu asked unanimous consent that the House disagree to the Senate amendment, and agree to a conference.
		7/31/2007	On motion that the House disagree to the Senate amendment, and agree to a conference Agreed to without objection.
		7/31/2007	Mr. Hall (TX) moved that the House instruct conferees.
		7/31/2007	DEBATE - The House proceeded with one hour of debate on Hall (TX) motion to instruct conferees. The instructions contained in the motion seek to require the managers on the part of the House to insist on the lower overall authorization level as set forth by the House in H.R. 2272 and insist on the language of subsection (a) of Section 203 of the House bill, relating to prioritization of early career grants to science and engineering researchers for the expansion of domestic energy production and use through coal-to-liquids technology and advanced nuclear reprocessing.
		7/31/2007	The previous question was ordered without objection.
		7/31/2007	POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - The Chair put the question on the Hall (TX) motion to instruct conferees and by voice vote, announced that the ayes had prevailed. Mr. Hall (TX) demanded the yeas and nays and the Chair postponed further proceedings on the Hall (TX) motion to instruct conferees until a time to be announced.
		7/31/2007	The Speaker appointed conferees - from the Committee on Science and Technology for consideration of the House bill and the Senate amendment, and modifications committed to conference: Gordon, Lipinski, Baird, Wu, Lampson, Udall (CO), Giffords, McNerney, Hall (TX), Sensenbrenner, Ehlers, Biggert, Feeney, and Gingrey.
		7/31/2007	The Speaker appointed conferees - from the Committee on Education and Labor for consideration of Division C of the Senate amendment, and modifications committed to conference: Miller, George, Holt, and McKeon.
select this vote	Vote	7/31/2007	On Motion to Instruct Conferees: H.R. 2272 21st Century Competitiveness Act
		8/01/2007	Conference report H. Rept. 110-289 filed.
		8/02/2007	Rules Committee Resolution H. Res. 602 Reported to House. Rule provides for consideration of the conference report to H.R. 2272 with 1 hour of general debate.
		8/02/2007	Conference papers: Senate report and manager's statement and message on House action held at the desk in Senate.
	Presented to President	8/02/2007	Cleared for White House.
		8/02/2007	Rule H. Res. 602 passed House.
		8/02/2007	Mr. Gordon brought up conference report H. Rept. 110-289 for consideration under the provisions of H. Res. 602.
		8/02/2007	DEBATE - The House proceeded with one hour of debate on the conference report to accompany H.R. 2272.
		8/02/2007	The previous question was ordered pursuant to the rule.
		8/02/2007	Mr. Shimkus moved to recommit with instructions to the conference report.
		8/02/2007	The previous question on the motion to recommit with instructions to conference report was ordered without objection.
		8/02/2007	Motions to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
select this vote	Vote	8/02/2007	Recommit Conference Report with Instructions: H.R. 2272 21st Century Competitiveness Act
select this vote	Vote	8/02/2007	On the Conference Report - House - H.R. 2272 21st Century Competitiveness Act
		8/03/2007	Message on Senate action sent to the House.
	Presented to President	8/04/2007	Presented to President.
	Signed	8/09/2007	Signed by President.
	Enacted	8/09/2007	Became Public Law No: 110-69.
		5/06/2008	Hearing Held by Full Committee Prior to Introduction and Referral (March 13, 2007).
		9/08/2008	Hearing Held by Subcommittee on Energy and Environment Prior to Introduction and Referral ( April 26, 2007)..

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