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are not officers or employees of the Federal Govern-
ment. 
(3) DEADLINE FOR APPOINTMENT.—The mem-
bers of the commission shall be appointed not later 
than 60 days after the date of the enactment of this 
Act. 
(4) VACANCIES.—Any vacancy of the commis-
sion shall not affect its powers and shall be filled in 
the manner in which the original appointment was 
made. 
(5) CHAIRPERSON; VICE
CHAIRPERSON.—The 
Chairperson and Vice Chairperson of the commission 
shall be elected by the members. 
(6) COMPENSATION.—Members of the commis-
sion shall serve without pay. 
(7) TRAVEL EXPENSES.—Each member of the 
commission shall receive travel expenses, including 
per diem in lieu of subsistence, in accordance with 
applicable provisions under subchapter I of chapter 
57 of title 5, United States Code. 
(c) POWERS.— 
(1) HEARINGS
AND
SESSIONS.—The commis-
sion may, for the purpose of carrying out this sec-
tion, hold hearings, sit and act at times and places,
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109TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1050 
To establish a living wage, jobs for all policy for all peoples in the United 
States and its territories, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 2, 2005 
Ms. LEE introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee 
on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committees on 
the Budget, Armed Services, and Rules, for a period to be subsequently 
determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provi-
sions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To establish a living wage, jobs for all policy for all peoples 
in the United States and its territories, and for other 
purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
(a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as the ‘‘A 
Living Wage, Jobs For All Act’’. 
(b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of contents is 
as follows: 
Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. 
Sec. 2. Findings and declaration of policy.
H. R. 925
One Hundred Eighth Congress
of the
United States of America
AT THE FIRST SESSION
Begun and held at the City of Washington on Tuesday,
the seventh day of January, two thousand and three
An Act
To redesignate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1859
South Ashland Avenue in Chicago, Illinois, as the ‘‘Cesar Chavez Post Office’’.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of
the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. REDESIGNATION.
The facility of the United States Postal Service located at
1859 South Ashland Avenue in Chicago, Illinois, and known as
the Pilsen Post Office, shall be known and designated as the ‘‘Cesar
Chavez Post Office’’.
SEC. 2. REFERENCES.
Any reference in a law, map, regulation, document, paper,
or other record of the United States to the facility referred to
in section 1 shall be deemed to be a reference to the ‘‘Cesar Chavez
Post Office’’.
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Vice President of the United States and
President of the Senate.
that has executed an agreement with a sponsoring 
agency to participate in the System. 
‘‘(5) SPONSORING AGENCY.—The term ‘spon-
soring agency’ means a State or local government 
that is the sponsor of a task force designated by the 
Administrator to participate in the System. 
‘‘(6) SYSTEM.—The term ‘System’ means the 
National Urban Search and Rescue Response Sys-
tem to be administered under this section. 
‘‘(7) SYSTEM
MEMBER.—The term ‘System 
member’ means an individual who is not a regular 
full-time employee of the Federal Government, who 
serves on a task force or on a System management 
or other technical team. 
‘‘(8) TASK
FORCE.—The term ‘task force’ 
means an urban search and rescue team designated 
by the Administrator to participate in the System. 
‘‘(b) GENERAL AUTHORITY.—Subject to the require-
ments of this section, the Administrator shall continue to 
administer the emergency response system known as the 
‘National Urban Search and Rescue Response System’. 
‘‘(c) FUNCTIONS.—In administering the System, the 
Administrator shall provide for a national network of 
standardized search and rescue resources to assist States 
and local governments in responding to hazards. 
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ments of working people, the elderly, racial or ethnic 
minorities, the jobless, the homeless, poor people, the 
disabled, welfare parents, and immigrants. 
(D) Others have been undermining collective 
bargaining rights through anti-union propaganda, 
trade promotion authority, subcontracting to non- 
unionized companies, and plant closings. 
(E) Funds now deposited into the Social Secu-
rity Trust Fund are enormously attractive to those 
who would like to divert the people’s savings from 
secure Government bonds into the risk-laden stock 
and bond markets. 
(5) DEFECTIVE
GROWTH.—(A) Recent eco-
nomic growth has been below the levels needed to 
provide decent employment for a larger and more 
productive population. 
(B) As a result, many individuals have been 
forced into jobs that are underpaid, part-time, tem-
porary, irregular, or lacking in health insurance or 
other social benefits. 
(C) Many face the disappearance of career lad-
ders and an ever-present specter of lay-offs. 
(D) Consumer debt and business bankruptcy 
have been reaching historic levels.
(E) These trends have created deeper and 
longer term poverty or insecurity, with the con-
sequent loss of personal dignity and self-respect. 
(F) Among the more obvious symptoms are the 
fostering of mental depression, family breakdown, 
child or spousal abuse, and illegal forms of income. 
(G) Lesser known symptoms have been the in-
crease in the prison population, the exploitation of 
prison labor, the spread of new hate groups, church 
bombings, homophobia, and unregulated armed mili-
tias. 
(H) As a result, an insecurity plague unravels 
the social fabric of United States society. 
(6) MISLEADING
INFORMATION.—(A) While 
most individuals are flooded by information over-
loads, much of the information they receive consists 
of 
oversimplifications, 
misinformation 
or 
disinformation. 
(B) By themselves, aggregate measures of na-
tional output or income neglect their disaggregated 
components, overemphasize monetary data, ignore 
the entire world of unpaid volunteer and household 
elderly and healthcare services and care for children.
(C) Their use tends to nurture the misleading 
idea that human progress or regress can be rep-
resented by a single overall measurement. 
(D) Statistical data on employment, unemploy-
ment, prices, education, crime, and health are often 
based on outmoded concepts that have not been 
adapted to changing conditions or new capabilities 
for information collection, processing, and distribu-
tion. 
(E) Many people misuse averages and other 
measures of central tendency without attention to 
frequency distributions and other measures of dis-
persion. The use of a single measure of consumer 
prices and inflation ignores the long-established fact 
that poor individuals pay more. 
(7) LOST LEGACIES.—(A) Few people now re-
member, and many young people never learned, how 
President Franklin D. Roosevelt started planning for 
conversion from war to peace by proclaiming a ‘‘sec-
ond Bill of Rights’’. 
(B) The first principle in this long-forgotten 
document was ‘‘the right to a useful and remunera-
tive job in the industries or shops or farms or mines 
of the Nation’’.
(C) This right was backed up with seven other 
human rights: adequate income, adequate medical 
care, family farming, freedom from monopolies, de-
cent housing, Social Security, and a good education. 
(D) These ideals led to law-based entitlements 
that nurtured high wages, a successful Social Secu-
rity system, unemployment insurance, other social 
benefits, collective bargaining, higher productivity 
and the rising purchasing power needed for private 
enterprises to earn profits without Government sub-
sidy. 
(8) 
LIMITATIONS
IN
MAINSTREAM
DIS-
COURSE.—(A) During World War II and the subse-
quent conversion from war to peace, the idea of full 
employment was widely held. 
(B) The United States made a commitment to 
promote full employment when it ratified the United 
Nations Charter, including a commitment to adhere 
to articles 55(a) and 56 of that treaty. 
(C) More recently, the full employment ideal 
has been mistakenly defined as a high level of un-
used labor or regarded as impossible without exces-
sive deficits, inflation or regulations. 
(D) Discussion of full employment has thus be-
come taboo in mainstream discourse.
105TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 652
AN ACT
To extend the deadline under the Federal Power
Act for the construction of a hydroelectric project
located in the State of Washington, and for other
purposes.
I 
108TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 966
To amend title 38, United States Code, to reinstate the vocational training 
program of the Department of Veterans Affairs for certain low-income 
veterans in receipt of pension from that Department. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
FEBRUARY 27, 2003
Mr. BROWN of South Carolina (for himself, Mr. RODRIGUEZ, Mr. SMITH of 
New Jersey, and Mr. EVANS) introduced the following bill; which was re-
ferred to the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs 
A BILL 
To amend title 38, United States Code, to reinstate the 
vocational training program of the Department of Vet-
erans Affairs for certain low-income veterans in receipt 
of pension from that Department.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Disabled Veterans’ Re-
turn-to-Work Act of 2003’’.
SEC. 2. REINSTATEMENT OF VETERANS VOCATIONAL 
TRAINING PROGRAM FOR CERTAIN PENSION 
RECIPIENTS. 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT OF NEW PROGRAM PERIOD.—
Subsection (a)(3) of section 1524 of title 38, United 
States Code, is amended by striking ‘‘the period beginning 
on February 1, 1985, and ending on December 31, 1995’’ 
and inserting ‘‘the five-year period beginning on the date 
of the enactment of the Disabled Veterans’ Return-to-
Work Act of 2003’’. 
(b) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—Subsection (b)(4) 
of such section is amended by striking ‘‘December 31, 
1995’’ and inserting ‘‘the end of the program period’’. 
(c) OUTREACH.—Such section is further amended by 
adding at the end the following new subsection: 
‘‘(f) The Secretary shall ensure that the availability 
of vocational training under this section is made known 
through a variety of means, including the Internet and an-
nouncements in Department publications and other vet-
erans’ publications.’’. 
(d) REPORTS.—Such section is further amended by 
adding at the end the following new subsection: 
‘‘(g) Not later than two years after the date of the 
enactment of the Disabled Veterans’ Return-to-Work Act 
of 2003, and each year thereafter, the Secretary shall sub-
mit to the Committees on Veterans’ Affairs of the Senate
and House of Representatives a report on the operation 
of this section. The report shall set forth an evaluation 
of the vocational training provided under this section for 
the period involved, and shall include an analysis of the 
cost-effectiveness of the vocational training provided under 
this section as well as data on the entered-employment 
rate of veterans pursuing such vocational training.’’. 
(e) STYLISTIC AMENDMENTS.—Such section is fur-
ther amended—
(1) by striking ‘‘of Veterans Affairs’’ in sub-
section (a)(1); and 
(2) by striking ‘‘of this section’’ in subsections 
(a)(2), (b)(1), (b)(4) (both places it appears), (c), 
(d), and (e).
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(E) Something similar has happened with the 
ideal of decent job opportunities as a human right. 
(F) In earlier decades this ideal was supported 
by most religious leaders and articulated, under 
United States leadership, in the United Nations 
Charter and in other United Nations treaties and 
declarations. 
(G) More recently, the idea of full employment 
has also become taboo in mainstream economic dis-
course. 
(9) GLOBALIZATION.—(A) Transnational cor-
porations have evolved into giant global institutions 
that control much of the world’s information, assets 
and money, while often undermining, if not entirely 
escaping, national and international defenses against 
the violation of the right to dignity and all basic 
human rights and responsibilities. 
(B) One-third of world trade is transactions 
among the various units or sub-units of the same or-
ganization. 
(C) An excessive amount of global financial 
transactions consists of speculative operations that 
create no new wealth and thereby divert resources 
from productive use.
(b) DECLARATION OF POLICY.—To help promote the 
general welfare and secure the blessings of liberty to our-
selves and our posterity, the Congress hereby declares the 
following to be the policy of the Federal Government: 
(1) REAFFIRMING BASIC RIGHTS.—To reaffirm 
to public discourse the human rights proclaimed by 
President Roosevelt more than half a century earlier, 
express them in terms that have been developed in 
more recent years and, as part of the bridges to the 
twenty-first century, affirm basic rights regarding 
dignity, personal security, collective bargaining, the 
environment, information, and voting. 
(2) MORE EMPHASIS ON BASIC RESPONSIBIL-
ITIES.—(A) To help root these ideals of living wage 
jobs for all individuals in explicit recognition of per-
sonal, corporate, and Federal responsibilities. 
(B) These include the continuing responsibility 
of government of the following: 
(i) To protect the rights of individuals. 
(ii) To nurture healthy partnerships among 
Federal, State, county, and local government 
agencies, and between government agencies and 
such private sectors as nonprofit enterprises, 
labor unions, trade or fraternal associations, re-
ligious groups, and cooperatives.
108TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 978
AN ACT
To amend chapter 84 of title 5, United States
Code, to provide that certain Federal annuity
computations are adjusted by 1 percentage point
relating to periods of receiving disability pay-
ments, and for other purposes.
108TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 978
AN ACT
To amend chapter 84 of title 5, United States Code, to
provide that certain Federal annuity computations are
adjusted by 1 percentage point relating to periods of
receiving disability payments, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. ANNUITY COMPUTATION ADJUSTMENT FOR PE-
RIODS OF DISABILITY.
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 8415 of title 5, United
States Code, is amended—
(1) by redesignating the second subsection (i)
as subsection (k); and
(2) by adding at the end the following:
‘‘(l) In the case of any annuity computation under
this section that includes, in the aggregate, at least 2
months of credit under section 8411(d) for any period
while receiving benefits under subchapter I of chapter 81,
the percentage otherwise applicable under this section for
that period so credited shall be increased by 1 percentage
point.’’.
(b) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—Section 8422(d)(2)
of title 5, United States Code (as added by section
122(b)(2) of Public Law 107–135) is amended by striking
‘‘8415(i)’’ and inserting ‘‘8415(k)’’.
(c) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by
this section shall apply with respect to any annuity entitle-
ment to which is based on a separation from service occur-
ring on or after the date of enactment of this Act.
Passed the House of Representatives September 10,
2003.
Attest:
Clerk.
(4) FREEDOM
FROM
MONOPOLIES.—(A) The 
right of every business enterprise, large and small, 
to operate in freedom from domination by domestic 
and foreign monopolies and cartels, and from 
threats of undesirable mergers or leveraged buy- 
outs, and the right of consumers to obtain goods and 
services at prices that are not determined by monop-
olies, cartels, and price leadership. 
(B) With more full employment at living wages, 
more business enterprises will be able to earn profits 
without monopolistic controls or government welfare 
and consumers will be able to enjoy lower prices. 
(5) DECENT HOUSING.—(A) The right of every 
American to decent, safe, and sanitary housing, pub-
lic utilities, and community facilities, with adequate 
maintenance and weatherization, including large- 
scale rehabilitation of millions of existing buildings, 
thereby helping to reduce overcrowding and energy 
loss and the need to build new roads, power plants, 
storm sewers, sewage, and refuse disposal. 
(B) With more full employment at living wages 
more people will be able afford adequate housing 
with less government subsidy. 
(6) ADEQUATE
HEALTH
SERVICES.—(A) The 
right of every American to such widely available
I 
108TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 994
To enhance notification to union members of their rights under the Labor-
Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
FEBRUARY 27, 2003
Mr. SAM JOHNSON of Texas (for himself, Mr. BALLENGER, Mr. NORWOOD, 
Mr. MCKEON, Mr. CARTER, and Mrs. MUSGRAVE) introduced the fol-
lowing bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and the 
Workforce 
A BILL 
To enhance notification to union members of their rights 
under the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure 
Act of 1959.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Union Member Infor-
mation Enforcement Act’’. 
SEC. 2. ENFORCEMENT. 
Section 102 of the Labor-Management Reporting and 
Disclosure Act of 1959 (29 U.S.C. 412) is amended—
(1) by striking ‘‘Any person’’ and inserting ‘‘(a) 
Unless the Secretary has brought a civil action 
under subsection (b), any person’’; and 
(2) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(b) Upon the written complaint of any member of 
a labor organization alleging that such organization has 
violated section 105, the Secretary shall investigate the 
complaint and if the Secretary determines that such viola-
tion has occurred and has not been remedied, the Sec-
retary shall, without disclosing the identity of the com-
plainant, bring a civil action in any district court of the 
United States having jurisdiction of the labor organization 
for such relief (including injunctions) as may be appro-
priate.’’. 
SEC. 3. REGULATIONS. 
Not later than 6 months after the date of the enact-
ment of this Act, the Secretary of Labor shall review and 
revise all regulations promulgated before such date to im-
plement the amendments made in this Act to the Labor-
Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959. 
SEC. 4. EFFECTIVE DATE. 
The amendments made by this Act shall take effect 
180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act.
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HR 4040 EAS
(3) 
CONFORMING
AMENDMENTS
TO
OTHER
ACTS.—
(A) FEDERAL
HAZARDOUS
SUBSTANCES
ACT.—Section 5(b)(3) of the Federal Hazardous
Substances Act (15 U.S.C. 1264(b)(3)) is amend-
ed by striking ‘‘substance presents an unreason-
able risk of injury to persons residing in the
United States,’’ and inserting ‘‘substance is pro-
hibited under section 18(c) of the Consumer
Product Safety Act,’’.
(B) FLAMMABLE FABRICS ACT.—Section 15
of the Flammable Fabrics Act (15 U.S.C. 1202)
is amended by adding at the end thereof the fol-
lowing:
‘‘(d)(1) Notwithstanding any other provision of law,
except as provided in paragraph (2), the Consumer Product
Safety Commission may prohibit a person from exporting
from the United States for purpose of sale any fabric, re-
lated material, or product that the Commission determines,
after notice to the manufacturer—
‘‘(A) is not in conformity with an applicable
consumer product safety standard under the Con-
sumer Product Safety Act or with a rule under this
Act;
(c) PERSONAL
RESPONSIBILITY.—The Congress 
hereby recognizes that every person benefiting from the 
rights set forth in subsections (a) and (b) has a personal 
responsibility to promote her or his health and wellbeing, 
rather than relying exclusively on health services by oth-
ers, to provide for appropriate care to the best of their 
abilities of children and elderly parents, to protect the en-
vironment, to work productively, to vote, to involve herself 
or himself in public concerns and in ongoing education and 
training, to speak out against corruption or injustice, and 
to cooperate with others in promoting the nonviolent han-
dling of inevitable conflicts in the household, the work-
place, the community and elsewhere. 
(d) CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY.— 
(1) REPORTS
TO
THE
SECURITIES
AND
EX-
CHANGE COMMISSION.—To help implement the rec-
ognition of the most responsible corporations and 
encourage more responsible behavior by other cor-
porations, each corporation registered with the Secu-
rities and Exchange Commission shall include in the 
annual reports filed with the Commission a full and 
fair disclosure of information regarding the impact 
of their activities in the United States and other 
countries on environmental quality, on child labor,
and on the rights of other stakeholders, including 
employees, consumers, and communities. 
(2) REPORTS BY STATE-CHARTERED CORPORA-
TIONS.—To help implement the recognition of the 
most responsible corporations and encourage move-
ment in this direction by other corporations, a State 
shall not be entitled to receive any Federal grants or 
enter into any Federal contracts unless the State 
has initiated a time-phased program to require that 
all State-chartered corporations submit annual re-
ports that include full and fair disclosure of informa-
tion regarding the impact of their activities in this 
or other countries on environmental quality, on child 
labor, and on the rights of other stakeholders, in-
cluding employees, consumers, and communities. 
(3) RECOGNITION OF MOST RESPONSIBLE COR-
PORATIONS.—Because some profit-seeking corpora-
tions have managed their enterprises with recogni-
tion not only of the rights of stockholders and chief 
executives, but also with responsible action toward 
environmental quality and the rights of other stake-
holders, including employees, consumers, and com-
munities, the Secretary of Labor, in cooperation 
with the Director of the Environmental Protection 
Agency, shall identify those corporations that have
109TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. CON. RES. 103
CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
Providing for an conditional adjournment or recess
of the two Houses.
109TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. CON. RES. 103
CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate
concurring), That when the House adjourns on the legisla-
tive day of Thursday, March 17, 2005, Friday, March 18,
2005, or Saturday, March 19, 2005, on a motion offered
pursuant to this concurrent resolution by its Majority
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Leader or his designee, it stand adjourned until 2 p.m.
on Tuesday, April 5, 2005, or until the time of any re-
assembly pursuant to section 2 of this concurrent resolu-
tion, whichever occurs first; and that when the Senate re-
cesses or adjourns on any day from Thursday, March 17,
2005, through Saturday, March 26, 2005, on a motion
offered pursuant to this concurrent resolution by its Ma-
jority Leader or his designee, it stand recessed or ad-
journed until noon on Monday, April 4, 2005, or at such
other time on that day as may be specified by its Majority
Leader or his designee in the motion to recess or adjourn,
or until the time of any reassembly pursuant to section
2 of this concurrent resolution, whichever occurs first.
SEC. 2. The Speaker of the House and the Majority
Leader of the Senate, or their respective designees, acting
jointly after consultation with the Minority Leader of the
House and the Minority Leader of the Senate, shall notify
the Members of the House and the Senate, respectively,
to reassemble at such place and time as they may des-
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ignate whenever, in their opinion, the public interest shall
warrant it.
Passed the House of Representatives March 17,
2005.
Attest:
Clerk.