Date: August 3, 1995
Subject: Fiscal 1996 Labor, HHS, Education Appropriations
Description: Skaggs (D-CO) amendment to strike the bill's provisions prohibiting recipients of federal grants who have spent more than 5 percent of their annual expenditures in any of the previous five fiscal years from using grant funds to participate in political campaigns or litigation in which a government entity is a party, or lobby, or receive federal grants if they do so. The bill requires grantees to disclose their level of political advocacy annually to the federal entity providing the grant and directs the Bureau of the Census to make a database of registration and annual disclosure reports available via the internet.
Result: Amendment Rejected, 187-232
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