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111TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2415 
To require the Federal Government to use purchases of goods or services 
through the Federal supply schedules for the purpose of meeting certain 
contracting goals for participation by small business concerns owned 
and controlled by service-disabled veterans. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MAY 14, 2009 
Mr. ADLER of New Jersey (for himself and Mr. LANCE) introduced the fol-
lowing bill; which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and Gov-
ernment Reform 
A BILL 
To require the Federal Government to use purchases of 
goods or services through the Federal supply schedules 
for the purpose of meeting certain contracting goals for 
participation by small business concerns owned and con-
trolled by service-disabled veterans. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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SEC. 2. MODIFICATIONS TO ALTERNATIVE MINIMUM TAX. 
(a) INCREASE IN EXEMPTION AMOUNTS.— 
(1) IN
GENERAL.—Paragraph (1) of section 
55(d) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is 
amended— 
(A) by striking ‘‘$45,000 ($62,550 in the 
case of taxable years beginning in 2006)’’ and 
inserting ‘‘$100,000’’, 
(B) by striking ‘‘$33,750 ($42,500 in the 
case of taxable years beginning in 2006)’’ and 
inserting ‘‘50 percent of the dollar amount ap-
plicable under subparagraph (A)’’, and 
(C) by striking ‘‘paragraph (1)(A)’’ and in-
serting ‘‘subparagraph (A)’’. 
(2) INFLATION ADJUSTMENT.—Subsection (d) 
of section 55 of such Code is amended by adding at 
the end the following new paragraph: 
‘‘(4) INFLATION ADJUSTMENT.— 
‘‘(A) IN
GENERAL.—In the case of any 
taxable year beginning in a calendar year after 
2008, the dollar amounts contained in para-
graphs (1) and (3) shall be increased by an 
amount equal to— 
‘‘(i) such dollar amount, multiplied by 
‘‘(ii) the cost-of-living adjustment de-
termined under section 1(f)(3) for the cal-
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Calendar No. 488
106TH CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. R. 3090
[Report No. 106–258]
A BILL
To amend the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act
to restore certain lands to the Elim Native Cor-
poration, and for other purposes.
APRIL 10, 2000
Reported without amendment
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(3) recruit and retain individuals with appro-
priate expertise in clean, renewable, and efficient en-
ergy technologies to identify and evaluate opportuni-
ties for projects that involve clean and efficient en-
ergy technologies and services. 
(b) REPORT.—The President shall include in the an-
nual report on the activities of the Trade and Development 
Agency required under section 661(d) of the Foreign As-
sistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2421(d)) a description 
of the activities carried out to implement this section. 
SEC. 2207. GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE EXCHANGE PRO-
GRAM. 
(a) PROGRAM AUTHORIZED.—The Secretary of State 
is authorized to establish a program to strengthen re-
search, educational exchange, and international coopera-
tion with the aim of reducing global greenhouse gas emis-
sions and addressing the challenges posed by global cli-
mate change. The program authorized by this subsection 
shall be carried out pursuant to the authorities of the Mu-
tual Educational and Cultural Exchange Act of 1961 (22 
U.S.C. 2451 et seq.) and may be referred to as the ‘‘Glob-
al Climate Change Exchange Program’’. 
(b) ELEMENTS.—The program authorized by sub-
section (a) shall contain the following elements: 
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(ii) by striking ‘‘loss’’ and all that fol-
lows through ‘‘person’’ and inserting ‘‘loss, 
if’’; 
(iii) in subparagraph (A), by inserting 
‘‘such entity or party or finance facility’’ 
before ‘‘was’’; and 
(iv) by striking subparagraph (B) and 
inserting the following: 
‘‘(B) the violation or practice involved a 
reckless disregard for the law or any applicable 
regulations or prior order of the Director;’’; and 
(C) in paragraph (4), by inserting ‘‘loan 
or’’ before ‘‘asset’’; 
(5) in subsection (e), by inserting ‘‘or entity-af-
filiated party’’— 
(A) before ‘‘or any executive’’; and 
(B) before the period at the end; and 
(6) in subsection (f)— 
(A) by striking ‘‘enterprise’’ and inserting 
‘‘regulated entity, finance facility,’’; and 
(B) by striking ‘‘or director’’ and inserting 
‘‘director, or entity-affiliated party’’.
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110TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3759 
To amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to enable 
local educational agencies to use amounts received from the Fund for 
the Improvement of Education for innovative programs to increase learn-
ing in financial literacy. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
OCTOBER 4, 2007 
Ms. KILPATRICK (for herself and Ms. WATSON) introduced the following bill; 
which was referred to the Committee on Education and Labor 
A BILL 
To amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act 
of 1965 to enable local educational agencies to use 
amounts received from the Fund for the Improvement 
of Education for innovative programs to increase learn-
ing in financial literacy. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. INNOVATIVE PROGRAMS TO INCREASE LEARN-
ING IN FINANCIAL LITERACY. 
Section 5131(a) of the Elementary and Secondary 
Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7215(a)) is amended 
by adding at the end the following: 
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(2) TIMING.—
(A) PROPOSED REGULATIONS.—Not later 
than the expiration of the 60-day period begin-
ning on the date of the enactment of this Act, 
the Secretary shall prepare and submit to the 
appropriate Committees a copy of the regula-
tions under this subsection that are proposed to 
be published for comment. The Secretary may 
not publish such regulations for comment in the 
Federal Register until the expiration of the 15-
day period beginning upon such submission to 
the appropriate Committees. 
(B) FINAL REGULATIONS.—Not later than 
90 days after the date of the enactment of this 
Act, the Secretary shall submit to the appro-
priate Committees a copy of the regulations 
under this section to be published as final. 
(C) EFFECTIVE DATE.—Such regulations 
shall become effective upon the expiration of the 
30-day period beginning upon such submission 
to the appropriate Committees. 
(3) DEFINITION.—For the purposes of this sec-
tion, the term ‘‘appropriate Committees’’ means—
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(ii) general expenses of doing business 
that are either not allocable to the good or 
are not related to the growth, production, 
or manufacture of the good, such as ad-
ministrative salaries, casualty and liability 
insurance, advertising, and sales staff sala-
ries, commissions, or expenses. 
(2) GOOD.—The term ‘‘good’’ means any mer-
chandise, product, article, or material. 
(3) GOOD WHOLLY THE GROWTH, PRODUCT, OR 
MANUFACTURE
OF
BAHRAIN
OR
THE
UNITED 
STATES, OR
BOTH.—The term ‘‘good wholly the 
growth, product, or manufacture of Bahrain or the 
United States, or both’’ means— 
(A) a mineral good extracted in the terri-
tory of Bahrain or the United States, or both; 
(B) a vegetable good, as such a good is 
provided for in the HTS, harvested in the terri-
tory of Bahrain or the United States, or both; 
(C) a live animal born and raised in the 
territory of Bahrain or the United States, or 
both; 
(D) a good obtained from live animals 
raised in the territory of Bahrain or the United 
States, or both;
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(E) a good obtained from hunting, trap-
ping, or fishing in the territory of Bahrain or 
the United States, or both; 
(F) a good (fish, shellfish, and other ma-
rine life) taken from the sea by vessels reg-
istered or recorded with Bahrain or the United 
States and flying the flag of that country; 
(G) a good produced from goods referred 
to in subparagraph (F) on board factory ships 
registered or recorded with Bahrain or the 
United States and flying the flag of that coun-
try; 
(H) a good taken by Bahrain or the 
United States or a person of Bahrain or the 
United States from the seabed or beneath the 
seabed outside territorial waters, if Bahrain or 
the United States, as the case may be, has 
rights to exploit such seabed; 
(I) a good taken from outer space, if such 
good is obtained by Bahrain or the United 
States or a person of Bahrain or the United 
States and not processed in the territory of a 
country other than Bahrain or the United 
States; 
(J) waste and scrap derived from—
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(i) production or manufacture in the 
territory of Bahrain or the United States, 
or both; or 
(ii) used goods collected in the terri-
tory of Bahrain or the United States, or 
both, if such goods are fit only for the re-
covery of raw materials; 
(K) a recovered good derived in the terri-
tory of Bahrain or the United States from used 
goods and utilized in the territory of that coun-
try in the production of remanufactured goods; 
and 
(L) a good produced in the territory of 
Bahrain or the United States, or both, exclu-
sively— 
(i) from goods referred to in subpara-
graphs (A) through (J), or 
(ii) from the derivatives of goods re-
ferred to in clause (i), 
at any stage of production. 
(4) INDIRECT MATERIAL.—The term ‘‘indirect 
material’’ means a good used in the growth, produc-
tion, manufacture, testing, or inspection of a good 
but not physically incorporated into the good, or a 
good used in the maintenance of buildings or the op-
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(A) the Committee on Financial Services 
and the Committee on Armed Services of the 
House of Representatives; and 
(B) the Committee on Banking, Housing, 
and Urban Affairs and the Committee on 
Armed Services of the Senate. 
SEC. 111. SENSE OF CONGRESS. 
It is the sense of the Congress that the Federal and 
State agencies responsible for insurance and securities 
regulation should provide advice to the appropriate Fed-
eral entities to consider—
(1) significantly increasing the life insurance 
coverage made available through the Federal Gov-
ernment to members of the Armed Forces; 
(2) implementing appropriate procedures to en-
courage members of the Armed Forces to improve 
their financial literacy and obtain objective financial 
counseling before purchasing additional life insur-
ance coverage or investments beyond those provided 
by the Federal Government; and 
(3) improving the benefits and matching con-
tributions provided under the Thrift Savings Plan to 
members of the Armed Forces.
‘‘(28) Programs to increase learning in finan-
cial literacy, either through classroom learning or 
after school programs.’’. 
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SEC. 112. DEFINITIONS. 
For purposes of this Act, the following definitions 
shall apply: 
(1) ENTITY.—The term ‘‘entity’’ includes insur-
ers. 
(2) INDIVIDUAL.—The term ‘‘individual’’ in-
cludes insurance agents and producers. 
(3) NAIC.—The term ‘‘NAIC’’ means the Na-
tional Association of Insurance Commissioners. 
(4) STATE
INSURANCE
COMMISSIONER.—The 
term ‘‘State insurance commissioner’’ means, with 
respect to a State, the officer, agency, or other enti-
ty of the State that has primary regulatory authority 
over the business of insurance and over any person 
engaged in the business of insurance, to the extent 
of such business activities, in such State. 
TITLE II—LENDING TO ARMED 
FORCES PERSONNEL 
SEC. 201. REQUIREMENTS APPLICABLE TO CERTAIN LOANS 
TO MILITARY SERVICEMEMBERS. 
(a) DEFINITIONS.—For purposes of this section, the 
following definitions shall apply: 
(1) MILITARY LENDER.—
(A) IN
GENERAL.—The term ‘‘military 
lender’’ means—
106TH CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. R. 3100
AN ACT
To amend the Communications Act of 1934 to pro-
hibit telemarketers from interfering with the call-
er identification service of any person to whom a
telephone solicitation is made, and for other pur-
poses.
106TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 3111
AN ACT
To exempt certain reports from automatic elimi-
nation and sunset pursuant to the Federal Re-
ports Elimination and Sunset Act of 1995.
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(i) a person engaged in the business 
of extending consumer credit that—
(I) targets customers who are ac-
tive duty members of the Armed 
Forces; or 
(II) knows or has reason to know 
that more than 10 percent of the per-
son’s customers for consumer credit 
products are active duty members of 
the Armed Forces; and 
(ii) any assignee of such person with 
respect to any credit extended to any such 
customer. 
(B) 
EXCEPTION.—The 
term 
‘‘military 
lender’’ does not include any insured depository 
institution, except as provided in paragraph 
(3)(B). 
(C) TREATMENT
OF
EACH
OFFICE
AS 
LENDER.—In the case of any person engaged in 
the business of extending consumer credit from 
more than 1 office or at more than 1 location, 
each office or location at which credit is offered 
or extended or a credit transaction is con-
summated shall be treated as a separate person 
for purposes of this section.
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(2) 
COVERED
LOAN.—The 
term 
‘‘covered 
loan’’—
(A) means any extension of credit to an ac-
tive duty member of the Armed Forces by a 
military lender that has an annual percentage 
rate that exceeds by more than 5 percentage 
points the average annual percentage rate for 
24-month personal loans, as published by the 
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve Sys-
tem for the most recent calendar quarter pre-
ceding the quarter in which such extension of 
credit is made; and 
(B) does not include any extension of cred-
it on margin on securities by a broker or dealer 
registered with the Securities and Exchange 
Commission under the Securities Exchange Act 
of 1934 to the extent such extension of credit 
complies with the rules and regulations of the 
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve Sys-
tem, the Securities and Exchange Commission, 
and any applicable self-regulatory organization 
relating to credit on margin on securities. 
(3) INSURED DEPOSITORY INSTITUTION.—
(A) IN GENERAL.—The term ‘‘insured de-
pository institution’’—
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(i) has the meaning given such term 
in section 3 of the Federal Deposit Insur-
ance Act; and 
(ii) includes any insured credit union 
(as defined in section 101(7) of the Fed-
eral Credit Union Act). 
(B) EXCLUSION.—For purposes of this 
section, the term ‘‘insured depository institu-
tion’’ does not include an insured depository in-
stitution in any circumstance in which—
(i) such depository institution is ex-
tending credit pursuant to a contractual 
relationship with a third-party agent; and 
(ii) such agent would be a military 
lender, under this section, if the agent 
made the same loan as a principal. 
(4) ACTIVE
DUTY
MEMBER
OF
THE
ARMED 
FORCES.—The term ‘‘active duty member of the 
Armed Forces’’ means any member of the Armed 
Forces who is on active duty (as defined in section 
101(d)(1) of title 10, United States Code) under a 
call or order that does not specify a period of 30 
days or less. 
(5) TARGETS
CUSTOMERS.—For purposes of 
paragraph (1)(A)(i)(I), the term ‘‘targets cus-
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under section 502(f) of title 32 may perform duties in sup-
port of the ground-based elements of the National Ballistic 
Missile Defense System. 
SEC. 8069. None of the funds provided in this Act may 
be used to transfer to any nongovernmental entity ammuni-
tion held by the Department of Defense that has a center- 
fire cartridge and a United States military nomenclature 
designation of ‘‘armor penetrator’’, ‘‘armor piercing (AP)’’, 
‘‘armor piercing incendiary (API)’’, or ‘‘armor-piercing in-
cendiary-tracer (API–T)’’, except to an entity performing 
demilitarization services for the Department of Defense 
under a contract that requires the entity to demonstrate to 
the satisfaction of the Department of Defense that armor 
piercing projectiles are either: (1) rendered incapable of 
reuse by the demilitarization process; or (2) used to manu-
facture ammunition pursuant to a contract with the De-
partment of Defense or the manufacture of ammunition for 
export pursuant to a License for Permanent Export of Un-
classified Military Articles issued by the Department of 
State. 
SEC. 8070. Notwithstanding any other provision of 
law, the Chief of the National Guard Bureau, or his des-
ignee, may waive payment of all or part of the consider-
ation that otherwise would be required under section 2667 
of title 10, United States Code, in the case of a lease of
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tomers’’ means to, directly or indirectly, solicit, or 
engage in other promotional activities explicitly di-
rected at, members of the Armed Forces for the pur-
pose of securing business from the recipients of such 
solicitations or promotions. 
(6) ANNUAL
PERCENTAGE
RATE.—The term 
‘‘annual percentage rate’’ has the same meaning as 
in section 107 of the Truth in Lending Act, as im-
plemented by regulations of the Board of Governors 
of the Federal Reserve System. 
(b) PROTECTION OF MILITARY SERVICEMEMBERS.—
Any military lender who makes a loan to an active duty 
member of the Armed Forces (other than a loan described 
in paragraph (2)(B)) may not, with respect to such loan—
(1) garnish any military salary or wages, or ac-
cept any assignment of or institute any allotment of 
any military salary or wages, to secure payment of 
the loan, unless any such allotment or assignment is 
voluntary and may be cancelled at any time by the 
borrower; 
(2) contact, or threaten to contact, the bor-
rower’s commanding officer or any other person in 
the borrower’s military chain of command in an ef-
fort to collect on such loan;
106TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 3111
AN ACT
To exempt certain reports from automatic elimination and
sunset pursuant to the Federal Reports Elimination and
Sunset Act of 1995.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
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personal property for a period not in excess of 1 year to 
any organization specified in section 508(d) of title 32, 
United States Code, or any other youth, social, or fraternal 
non-profit organization as may be approved by the Chief 
of the National Guard Bureau, or his designee, on a case- 
by-case basis. 
SEC. 8071. None of the funds appropriated by this Act 
shall be used for the support of any nonappropriated funds 
activity of the Department of Defense that procures malt 
beverages and wine with nonappropriated funds for resale 
(including such alcoholic beverages sold by the drink) on 
a military installation located in the United States unless 
such malt beverages and wine are procured within that 
State, or in the case of the District of Columbia, within 
the District of Columbia, in which the military installation 
is located: Provided, That in a case in which the military 
installation is located in more than one State, purchases 
may be made in any State in which the installation is lo-
cated: Provided further, That such local procurement re-
quirements for malt beverages and wine shall apply to all 
alcoholic beverages only for military installations in States 
which are not contiguous with another State: Provided fur-
ther, That alcoholic beverages other than wine and malt bev-
erages, in contiguous States and the District of Columbia
106TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 3122
AN ACT
To permit the enrollment in the House of Rep-
resentatives Child Care Center of children of
Federal employees who are not employees of the
legislative branch.
I 
110TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 375 
To declare, under the authority of Congress under Article I, section 8 of 
the Constitution to ‘‘provide and maintain a Navy’’, a national policy 
for the naval force structure required in order to ‘‘provide for the 
common defense’’ of the United States throughout the 21st century. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JANUARY 10, 2007 
Mrs. JO ANN DAVIS of Virginia introduced the following bill; which was 
referred to the Committee on Armed Services 
A BILL 
To declare, under the authority of Congress under Article 
I, section 8 of the Constitution to ‘‘provide and maintain 
a Navy’’, a national policy for the naval force structure 
required in order to ‘‘provide for the common defense’’ 
of the United States throughout the 21st century. 
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 ‘‘National Naval Force 
Structure Policy Act’’. 
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it Protection Act, in the manner provided in such section. 
For the purposes of any enforcement under such section 
917, any violation of a provision or requirement of this 
section shall be treated as a violation of a provision or 
requirement of title IX of such Act. 
(e) CIRCUMVENTION
PROHIBITED.—The Federal 
Trade Commission shall, with respect to entities and ac-
tivities under its jurisdiction, prescribe regulations to be-
come effective not later than 90 days after the date of 
the enactment of this Act to prevent a military lender from 
taking any action in connection with any loan made to 
an active duty member of the Armed Forces to structure 
a loan transaction, by structuring any loan as an open-
end credit plan (as defined in section 103 of the Truth 
in Lending Act), dividing any loan into separate trans-
actions, using a lower temporary or introductory rate of 
interest to lower the overall annual percentage rate appli-
cable for any loan, or any similar action, for the purpose 
of avoiding designation as a covered loan for purposes of
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this section or otherwise circumventing or evading any re-
quirement of this title.
Passed the House of Representatives June 28, 2005. 
Attest: 
JEFF TRANDAHL, 
Clerk.
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109TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 4342 
To enhance the effectiveness of rural business financing programs. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
NOVEMBER 16, 2005 
Mr. ANDREWS introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Agriculture 
A BILL 
To enhance the effectiveness of rural business financing 
programs. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. AUTHORITY TO PROVIDE CERTAIN RURAL 
BUSINESS LOAN GUARANTEES AND GRANTS 
IN URBANIZED AREAS IF RURAL BUSINESSES 
WOULD BENEFIT FROM THE USE OF THE FI-
NANCING. 
(a) RURAL BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY PROGRAM.— 
Section 310B of the Consolidated Farm and Rural Devel-
opment Act (7 U.S.C. 1932) is amended by adding at the 
end the following:
‘‘(i) AUTHORITY TO PROVIDE CERTAIN LOAN GUAR-
ANTEES AND GRANTS IN URBANIZED AREAS IF RURAL 
BUSINESSES WOULD BENEFIT FROM USE OF THE FI-
NANCING.—The Secretary may provide financing under 
subsection (a)(1), (c), or (d) to any entity located in an 
urbanized area if the entity demonstrates to the Secretary 
that a rural business would benefit from use of the financ-
ing.’’. 
(b) RENEWABLE ENERGY SYSTEMS AND ENERGY 
EFFICIENCY IMPROVEMENTS PROGRAM.—Section 9006 of 
the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 (7 
U.S.C. 8106) is amended by adding at the end the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(g) AUTHORITY TO PROVIDE LOAN GUARANTEES 
AND GRANTS TO BUSINESSES IN URBANIZED AREAS IF 
RURAL BUSINESSES WOULD BENEFIT FROM USE OF THE 
FINANCING.—The Secretary may provide a loan guar-
antee or grant under this section to a private business en-
terprise located in an urbanized area if the enterprise 
demonstrates to the Secretary that a rural business would 
benefit from use of the loan guarantee or grant.’’. 
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