The war on drugs continues. While the passed amendments contain restrictions protecting marijuana, the war on pain pills will expand. From the report on the bill:

Prescription drug abuse.— The growing, nationwide crisis of prescription drug abuse has resulted in skyrocketing fatalities, and addressing this challenge remains a core Federal law enforcement mission. The Committee expects U.S. Attorneys to make it a priority to investigate and prosecute criminals who profit from such trafficking, to include pain clinics that serve as fronts for the illegal distribution of addictive painkillers.

One of the passed amendments (via Thomas (search H.R. 2578 and click on Amendments):

• 32. H.AMDT.300 to H.R.2578 An amendment to reduce funding for BATF salaries and expenses by $5 million and increase funding for a program to monitor prescription drugs and scheduled limited chemical products by a similar amount.

Modest cuts were made to the DEA budget, for example, the report states that as a result of the recent flap over sexual misconduct in Colombia:

As explained in detail under the General Administration appropriation, the Committee has included language withholding $20,000,000 pending demonstration by the Attorney General that the Department has implemented or is in the process of implementing OIG recommendations to address employee misconduct.

These amendments provided additional cuts of $23 million:

• H.AMDT.295 to H.R.2578 An amendment to increase funds for Sexual Assault Kits by $4,000,000, and then decrease the DEA account by a similar amount.
• H.AMDT.296 to H.R.2578 An amendment to reduce the DEA salaries and expenses account by $9 million and increase the Office on Violence Against Women account by $4 million and increase the Juvenile Justice Programs by $3 million.
• H.AMDT.297 to H.R.2578 An amendment to increase community trust by $10 million and reduce the DEA account by a similar amount.

That's a pittance of the DEA's total budget recommendation of $2.4 billion.

The amendments to strike the prohibition of funds for transferring Guantanamo inmates failed:

• H.AMDT.305 to H.R.2578 An amendment to strike section 527 from the bill which prohibits use of funds to transfer, release, or assist in the transfer or release to or within the U.S., its territories, or possessions Khalid Sheikh Mohammed or any other detainee who is not a U.S. citizen or a member of the Armed Forces of the U.S. and is or was held on or after June 24, 2009, at the U.S. Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, by the Department of Defense.

Also failing:

• H.AMDT.306 to H.R.2578 An amendment to strike section 528 from the bill which prohibits use of funds to construct, acquire, or modify any facility in the U.S., its territories, or possessions to house any individual who as of June 24, 2009, is located at U.S. Naval Air Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

On money for stingray devices: This was withdrawn:

• H.AMDT.309 to H.R.2578 An amendment to prohibit use of funds to transfer cell site simulators, or IMSI Catcher, or similar cell phone tower mimicking technology to state and local law enforcement that haven't adopted procedures for the use of such technology that protects the constitutional rights of citizens.

This one passed:

• H.AMDT.344 to H.R.2578 An amendment to prohibit the use of funds to operate or disseminate a cell-site simulator or IMSI catcher in the United States except pursuant to a court order that identifies an individual, account, address, or personal device.

(How does that solve the problem when the devices capture information from every phone in the area?)

Also passed:

• H.AMDT.312 to H.R.2578 An amendment to prohibit use of funds to execute a subpoena of tangible things pursuant to the Controlled Substances Act that does not include the following sentence: "This subpoena limits the collection of any tangible things (including phone numbers dialed, telephone numbers of incoming calls, and the duration of calls) to those tangible things identified by a term that specifically identifies an individual, account, address, or personal device, and that limits, to the greatest extent reasonably practicable, the scope of the tangible things sought."
• H.AMDT.311 to H.R.2578 An amendment to prohibit use of funds made available for the DOJ or the FBI to mandate or request that a person alter the product or service of the person to permit the electronic surveillance of any user of such product or service except in the case of mandates or requests authorized under the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act.

• H.AMDT.338 to H.R.2578 An amendment to prohibit the use of funds for the Department of Justice's clemency initiative announced on April 23, 2014, or for Clemency Project 2014, or to transfer or temporarily assign employees to the Office of the Pardon Attorney for the purpose of screening clemency applications.

Worthy amendment that was withdrawn:

• H.AMDT.355 to H.R.2578 An amendment to prohibit use of funds for the monitoring or review of electronic communications between and inmate and attorney or attorney's agents who are traditionally covered by attorney client privilege except in specified instances.

The marijuana amendments that passed:

• H.AMDT.332 to H.R.2578 An amendment to prohibit the use of funds by various states to prevent any of them from implementing their own laws that authorize the use, distribution, possessions, or cultivation of medical marijuana.
• H.AMDT.321 to H.R.2578 An amendment numbered 9 printed in the Congressional Record to prohibit the use of funds to prevent a State from implementing its own State laws that authorize the use, distribution, possession, or cultivation of industrial hemp.
• H.AMDT.335 to H.R.2578 An amendment to prohibit the use of funds to take any action to prevent a State from implementing any law that makes it lawful to possess, distribute, or use cannabidiol oil.

Also passed:

• H.AMDT.333 to H.R.2578 An amendment to prohibit the use of funds to compel a person to testify about information or sources that the person states in a motion to quash the subpoena that he has obtained as a journalist or reporter and that he regards as confidential.

In the bill itself: No TV for inmates:

SEC. 208. (a) None of the funds appropriated by this Act may be used by Federal prisons to purchase cable television services, or to rent or purchase audiovisual or electronic media or equipment used primarily for recreational
purposes.

There is $145 million for building new prisons (which authorizes the use of inmate labor to construct them.)

There is $479 million for grants, contracts, cooperative agreements, and other assistance for the prevention and prosecution of violence against women. Do we really need to spend $500k for a video game teaching college males that rape is bad?