To increase natural resources, environment, energy and other spending to ensure full funding of the Land Conservation, Preservation, and Infrastructure Improvement Program; to help preserve the core operating budgets of the major environmental agencies to provide appropriate funding for activities related to enforcement of environmental statutes and setting of standards that protect natural resources and the public's health; to address contaminated brownfield sites and urban sprawl and promote s

Increase Environmental Spending by $50 billion. This amendment by Senator Jon Corzine (D-N.J.) would eliminate nearly $100 billion from the proposed tax cut and apply half the money toward federal environmental program increases (the other half would go toward debt reduction).

The Senate rejected the Corzine amendment to H. Con. Res. 83 on April 5, 2001 by a vote of 46-54 (Roll Call 77). We have assigned pluses to the nays.