This amendment directed RHS-epidemiologists to deliver more comparable data for municipalities and, also to deliver more usable knowledge for specific municipalities.
Without much warning or debate, the Senate passed an amendment directing the Federal Reserve to reduce the hidden "swipe fees" that banks collect from retailers each time a customer makes a purchase with a debit card.
The next government, whatever its makeup, will reduce this: members of the euro zone are supposed to limit public-sector deficits to 3% of GDP, and a new constitutional amendment directs the federal government to cut its structural deficit (ie, adjusted for the business cycle) to 0.35% of GDP by 2016.
The amendment directs the secretaries of both the Energy and Agriculture departments and the head of the EPA to create policies for forest biomass energy, and to recognize its "carbon neutrality" so long as the forests involved continue to be managed to grow trees.
Since she had not mentioned the much-maligned task force, Senator David Vitter, a Louisiana Republican, offered an amendment to her amendment that directed the government to ignore the task force's most recent mammography recommendations.
The law, known as the Food and Drug Administration Amendments Act, directed the agency to conduct regular screenings of its adverse event reporting database and post quarterly reports online.
"This amendment is directed against injustice," said David R. Obey of Wisconsin, the senior Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee.
Senator Barbara Mikulski, Democrat of Maryland, championed an amendment that directed a unit of the Department of Health and Human Services to issue guidelines on what preventive services private insurance plans should provide free to women.
Vitter's amendment is directed at the soft-minded people who think there's something unusual or untoward about this.
As a remedy, Representative Joe Pitts, Republican of Pennsylvania, said he would offer an amendment to direct a third of the money for AIDS prevention to abstinence programs.
