1.   The bill calls for penalizing recipients who fail to find work within two years, but provides too little money to prepare them to find jobs.

2.   The bill calls for scoring tax credit applications objectively, making them available online and revoking credits if projects change substantially.

3.   The bill calls, among other things, for denying visas to any foreign executive whose company buys or uses expropriated American property in Cuba.

4.   The bills calls for using federal welfare funds to give the states lump-sum payments that they could use as they wished to help the poor.

5.   The bipartisan bill calls for increasing access to DNA testing and setting minimum standards for competent counsel for indigent capital defendants.

6.   The bill calls for Medicare to come up with a payment system based on an average training cost for residents.

7.   The bill calls for the federal government to have a greater role in relieving, mitigating and insuring against natural disasters like hurricanes, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.

8.   The revised bill calls for national investors to be reimbursed for taxes paid with tax coupons at a later date.

9.   The Sensenbrenner-Kennedy bill calls for a single database to provide FBI and CIA intelligence to visa officers at embassies and INS inspectors at the borders.

10.   The Senate bill calls for the NAEP while the House version allows an alternative test to measure how students are performing from state to state.