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111TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. CON. RES. 334 
Expressing the sense of the Congress that the current Federal income tax 
deduction for interest paid on debt secured by a first or second home 
should not be further restricted. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
DECEMBER 15, 2010 
Mr. GARY G. MILLER of California submitted the following concurrent 
resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means 
CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 
Expressing the sense of the Congress that the current Fed-
eral income tax deduction for interest paid on debt se-
cured by a first or second home should not be further 
restricted. 
Whereas homeownership is a fundamental American ideal, 
which promotes social and economic benefits beyond the 
benefits that accrue to the occupant of the home; 
Whereas homeownership is an important factor in promoting 
economic security and stability for American families; 
Whereas it is proper that the policy of the Federal Govern-
ment is and should continue to be to encourage home-
ownership; 
Whereas the national homeownership rate for the third quar-
ter of the year 2010 was 66.7 percent; 
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Whereas the housing needs of the population will change as 
the population ages; 
Whereas the greatest growth sectors in homeownership are 
minorities and first-time homebuyers; 
Whereas the level of homeownership among foreign-born nat-
uralized citizens is the same as the level of homeowner-
ship of the nation as a whole (67 percent in 2009); 
Whereas the value of a home represents a valuable source of 
savings for a family; 
Whereas the provisions related to homeownership are among 
the simplest and most easily administered provisions of 
the Internal Revenue Code of 1986; 
Whereas the current Federal income tax deduction for inter-
est paid on debt secured by a first home has been a valu-
able cornerstone of this Nation’s housing policy for most 
of this century and may well be the most important com-
ponent of housing-related tax policy in America today; 
and 
Whereas the current Federal income tax deduction for inter-
est paid on debt secured by second homes is of crucial 
importance to the economies of many communities in 
each of the 50 States: Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate 
concurring), That it is the sense of the Congress that the 
current Federal income tax deduction for interest paid on 
debt secured by a first or second home should not be fur-
ther restricted. 
Æ 
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111TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. CON. RES. 335 
CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 
Whereas Ambassador Richard Holbrooke devoted nearly 50 
years of his life to public service, working tirelessly to de-
fend United States interests abroad and foster peace 
amongst warring factions for the betterment of United 
States and international stability and security; 
Whereas Ambassador Holbrooke was a proud New York na-
tive who attended Scarsdale High School before
113TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1246 
AN ACT 
To amend the District of Columbia Home Rule Act to pro-
vide that the District of Columbia Treasurer or one 
of the Deputy Chief Financial Officers of the Office 
of the Chief Financial Officer of the District of Columbia 
may perform the functions and duties of the Office in 
an acting capacity if there is a vacancy in the Office.
III 
Calendar No. 214 
111TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. CON. RES. 36 
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 
APRIL 29, 2009 
Received and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations 
NOVEMBER 18, 2009 
Reported by Mr. KERRY, without amendment 
CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 
Calling on the President and the allies of the United States 
to raise in all appropriate bilateral and multilateral fora 
the case of Robert Levinson at every opportunity, urging 
Iran to fulfill their promises of assistance to the family 
of Robert Levinson, and calling on Iran to share the 
results of its investigation into the disappearance of Rob-
ert Levinson with the Federal Bureau of Investigation. 
Whereas United States citizen Robert Levinson is a retired 
agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, a resident 
of Florida, the husband of Christine Levinson, and father 
of their 7 children; 
Whereas Robert Levinson traveled from Dubai to Kish Is-
land, Iran, on March 8, 2007; 
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111TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. CON. RES. 336 
CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 
Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate 
concurring), That when the House adjourns on any legisla-
tive day from Friday, December 17, 2010, through Fri-
day, December 24, 2010, on a motion offered pursuant 
to this concurrent resolution by its Majority Leader or his 
designee, it stand adjourned sine die, or until the time of 
any 
reassembly 
pursuant 
to 
section 
of 
this
HCON 36 RS 
Whereas, after traveling to Kish Island and checking into the 
Hotel Maryam, he disappeared on March 9, 2007; 
Whereas neither his family nor the United States Govern-
ment has received further information on his fate or 
whereabouts; 
Whereas March 9, 2009, marks the second anniversary of the 
disappearance of Robert Levinson; 
Whereas the Government of Switzerland, which has served as 
the Protecting Power for the United States in the Islamic 
Republic of Iran in the absence of diplomatic relations 
between the Government of the United States and the 
Government of Iran since 1980, has continuously pressed 
the Government of Iran on the case of Robert Levinson 
and lent vital assistance and support to the Levinson 
family during their December 2007 visit to Iran; 
Whereas officials of the Government of Iran promised their 
continued assistance to the relatives of Robert Levinson 
during the visit of the family to the Islamic Republic of 
Iran in December 2007; and 
Whereas the Government of Iran, including through a state-
ment made during an interview with NBC News broad-
cast on July 28, 2008, has declared that its officials are 
willing to cooperate with the Federal Bureau of Inves-
tigation in the search for Robert Levinson: Now, there-
fore, be it 
Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate 
concurring), That Congress— 
(1) commends the Embassy of Switzerland in 
Tehran, Iran, and the Government of Switzerland 
for the ongoing assistance to the Government of the 
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concurrent resolution, whichever occurs first; and that 
when the Senate adjourns on any day from Sunday, De-
cember 19, 2010, through 11:59 a.m. on Monday, January 
3, 2011, on a motion offered pursuant to this concurrent 
resolution by its Majority Leader or his designee, it stand 
adjourned sine die, or until the time of any reassembly 
pursuant to section 2 of this concurrent resolution, which-
ever 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-
ignate if, in their opinion, the public interest shall warrant 
it. 
Passed the House of Representatives December 17, 
2010. 
Attest: 
Clerk.
111TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. CON. RES. 336 
CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 
Providing for the sine die adjournment of the sec-
ond session of the One Hundred Eleventh Con-
gress.
H. Con. Res. 336 
Agreed to December 22, 2010
One Hundred Eleventh Congress 
of the 
United States of America 
AT THE SECOND SESSION 
Begun and held at the City of Washington on Tuesday, 
the fifth day of January, two thousand and ten 
Concurrent Resolution 
Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concur-
ring), That when the House adjourns on any legislative day from 
Friday, December 17, 2010, through Friday, December 24, 2010, 
on a motion offered pursuant to this concurrent resolution by its 
Majority Leader or his designee, it stand adjourned sine die, or 
until the time of any reassembly pursuant to section 2 of this 
concurrent resolution, whichever occurs first; and that when the 
Senate adjourns on any day from Sunday, December 19, 2010, 
through 11:59 a.m. on Monday, January 3, 2011, on a motion 
offered pursuant to this concurrent resolution by its Majority Leader 
or his designee, it stand adjourned sine die, or until the time 
of any reassembly pursuant to section 2 of this concurrent resolu-
tion, 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 designate if, in their opinion, the public 
interest shall warrant it. 
Attest: 
Clerk of the House of Representatives. 
Attest: 
Secretary of the Senate.
III 
111TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. CON. RES. 336 
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 
DECEMBER 17, 2010 
Received 
CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 
Providing for the sine die adjournment of the second session 
of the One Hundred Eleventh Congress. 
Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate 
concurring), That when the House adjourns on any legisla-
tive day from Friday, December 17, 2010, through Fri-
day, December 24, 2010, on a motion offered pursuant 
to this concurrent resolution by its Majority Leader or his 
designee, it stand adjourned sine die, or until the time of 
any 
reassembly 
pursuant 
to 
section 
of 
this 
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concurrent resolution, whichever occurs first; and that 
when the Senate adjourns on any day from Sunday, De-
cember 19, 2010, through 11:59 a.m. on Monday, January 
3, 2011, on a motion offered pursuant to this concurrent 
resolution by its Majority Leader or his designee, it stand 
adjourned sine die, or until the time of any reassembly 
pursuant to section 2 of this concurrent resolution, which-
ever 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-
ignate if, in their opinion, the public interest shall warrant 
it. 
Passed the House of Representatives December 17, 
2010. 
Attest: 
LORRAINE C. MILLER, 
Clerk. 
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IV 
111TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. CON. RES. 33 
Honoring and saluting Motown Records of Detroit, Michigan, on its 50th 
anniversary. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JANUARY 28, 2009 
Mr. CONYERS (for himself, Mr. DINGELL, and Ms. KILPATRICK of Michigan) 
submitted the following concurrent resolution; which was referred to the 
Committee on Oversight and Government Reform 
CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 
Honoring and saluting Motown Records of Detroit, Michigan, 
on its 50th anniversary. 
Whereas, on January 12, 1959, Barry Gordy, Jr. received an 
$800 loan to start Tamla Record Company from his fam-
ily, the Ber-Berry Co-Op, which was established by his 
eldest sister, Esther Gordy Edwards, and her husband, 
George Edwards, and named after their parents Bertha 
and Barry Gordy, Sr.; 
Whereas the Motown record label was also established in 
1959 and incorporated on April 4, 1960; 
Whereas within one year of creation, Motown Records pro-
duced two songs that reached number two on the Bill-
board Hot 100 list, ‘‘Money (That’s What I Want)’’, per-
formed by Barrett Strong, and ‘‘Shop Around’’, per-
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formed by the Miracles and written by Berry Gordy, Jr., 
and Janie Bradford; 
Whereas after one year, Motown Records produced its first 
Billboard Hot 100 number one song, ‘‘Please Mr. Post-
man’’, performed by the Marvelettes; 
Whereas the Miracles, featuring Smokey Robinson, Bobby 
Rogers, Ron White, Pete Moore, and Claudette Robinson, 
recorded the first Motown record to sell 1,000,000 copies, 
‘‘Shop Around’’; 
Whereas in 1965, six years after its inception, five Motown 
releases reached number one on pop charts across the 
country, including ‘‘I Can’t Help Myself’’ by the Four 
Tops and ‘‘Stop! In The Name of Love’’ by the 
Supremes; 
Whereas Motown Records fostered the careers of recording 
legends Marvin Gaye, Smokey Robinson, Martha Reeves, 
Diana Ross, Gladys Knight and the Pips, Tammi Terrell, 
and the Isley Brothers; and 
Whereas through the medium of music, during one of the 
most tumultuous times in the history of the United 
States, Motown Records established a uniquely American 
art form that defined the American experience for a gen-
eration and for generations to follow: Now, therefore, be 
it 
Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate 
concurring), That Congress— 
(1) congratulates and salutes Motown Records 
on its 50th anniversary; and 
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(2) directs the Clerk of the House of Represent-
atives to make available enrolled copies of this reso-
lution to Motown Records for appropriate display. 
Æ 
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H. Con. Res. 35 
Agreed to February 13, 2009
One Hundred Eleventh Congress 
of the 
United States of America 
AT THE FIRST SESSION 
Begun and held at the City of Washington on Tuesday, 
the sixth day of January, two thousand and nine 
Concurrent Resolution 
Whereas the National Association for the Advancement of Colored 
People (referred to in this resolution as the ‘‘NAACP’’), originally 
known as the National Negro Committee, was founded in New 
York City on February 12, 1909, the centennial of Abraham 
Lincoln’s birth, by a multiracial group of activists who met in 
a national conference to discuss the civil and political rights 
of African-Americans; 
Whereas the NAACP was founded by a distinguished group of 
leaders in the struggle for civil and political liberty, including 
Ida Wells-Barnett, W.E.B. DuBois, Henry Moscowitz, Mary White 
Ovington, Oswald Garrison Villard, and William English Walling; 
Whereas the NAACP is the oldest and largest civil rights organiza-
tion in the United States; 
Whereas the mission of the NAACP is to ensure the political, 
educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons 
and to eliminate racial hatred and racial discrimination; 
Whereas the NAACP is committed to achieving its goals through 
nonviolence; 
Whereas the NAACP advances its mission through reliance upon 
the press, the petition, the ballot, and the courts, and has been 
persistent in the use of legal and moral persuasion, even in 
the face of overt and violent racial hostility; 
Whereas the NAACP has used political pressure, marches, dem-
onstrations, and effective lobbying to serve as the voice, as well 
as the shield, for minority Americans; 
Whereas after years of fighting segregation in public schools, the 
NAACP, under the leadership of Special Counsel Thurgood Mar-
shall, won one of its greatest legal victories in the Supreme 
Court’s decision in Brown v. Board of Education, 374 U.S. 483 
(1954); 
Whereas in 1955, NAACP member Rosa Parks was arrested and 
fined for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated bus in 
Montgomery, Alabama—an act of courage that would serve as 
the catalyst for the largest grassroots civil rights movement in 
the history of the United States; 
Whereas the NAACP was prominent in lobbying for the passage 
of the Civil Rights Acts of 1957, 1960, and 1964, the Voting 
Rights Act of 1965, the Fannie Lou Hamer, Rosa Parks, Coretta 
Scott King, Ce´sar E. Cha´vez, Barbara C. Jordan, William C. 
Vela´squez, and Dr. Hector P. Garcia Voting Rights Act Reauthor-
ization and Amendments Act of 2006, and the Fair Housing
HCON 36 RS 
United States and to the family of Robert Levinson, 
particularly during the visit by Christine Levinson 
and other relatives to Iran in December 2007; 
(2) notes that Iranian officials ensured the safe-
ty of the family of Robert Levinson during their De-
cember 2007 visit to Iran, and have promised their 
continued assistance; 
(3) urges the Government of Iran, as a humani-
tarian gesture, to intensify its cooperation on the 
case of Robert Levinson with the Embassy of Swit-
zerland in Tehran and to share the results of its in-
vestigation 
into 
the 
disappearance 
of 
Robert 
Levinson with the Federal Bureau of Investigation; 
(4) urges the President and the allies of the 
United States to raise at every opportunity in all ap-
propriate multilateral and bilateral fora the case of 
Robert Levinson; and 
(5) expresses sympathy to the family of Robert 
Levinson during this trying period. 
Passed the House of Representatives April 28, 2009. 
Attest: 
LORRAINE C. MILLER, 
Clerk. 
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Act, laws that ensured Government protection for legal victories 
achieved; 
Whereas in 2005, the NAACP launched the Disaster Relief Fund 
to help survivors in Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas, Florida, and 
Alabama to rebuild their lives; 
Whereas in the 110th Congress, the NAACP was prominent in 
lobbying for the passage of H. Res. 826, whose resolved clause 
expresses that: (1) the hanging of nooses is a horrible act when 
used for the purpose of intimidation and which under certain 
circumstances can be criminal; (2) this conduct should be inves-
tigated thoroughly by Federal authorities; and (3) any criminal 
violations should be vigorously prosecuted; and 
Whereas in 2008 the NAACP vigorously supported the passage 
of the Emmett Till Unsolved Civil Rights Crime Act of 2007 
(28 U.S.C. 509 note), a law that puts additional Federal resources 
into solving the heinous crimes that occurred in the early days 
of the civil rights struggle that remain unsolved and bringing 
those who perpetrated such crimes to justice: Now, therefore, 
be it 
Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concur-
ring), That the Congress— 
(1) recognizes the 100th anniversary of the historic 
founding of the National Association for the Advancement of 
Colored People; and 
(2) honors and praises the National Association for the 
Advancement of Colored People on the occasion of its anniver-
sary for its work to ensure the political, educational, social, 
and economic equality of all persons. 
Attest: 
Clerk of the House of Representatives. 
Attest: 
Secretary of the Senate.
I 
113TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1246 
To amend the District of Columbia Home Rule Act to provide that the 
District of Columbia Treasurer or one of the Deputy Chief Financial 
Officers of the Office of the Chief Financial Officer of the District 
of Columbia may perform the functions and duties of the Office in 
an acting capacity if there is a vacancy in the Office. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 19, 2013 
Ms. NORTON introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Oversight and Government Reform 
A BILL 
To amend the District of Columbia Home Rule Act to pro-
vide that the District of Columbia Treasurer or one 
of the Deputy Chief Financial Officers of the Office 
of the Chief Financial Officer of the District of Columbia 
may perform the functions and duties of the Office in 
an acting capacity if there is a vacancy in the Office. 
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 ‘‘District of Columbia 
Chief Financial Officer Vacancy Act’’. 
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I 
111TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1220 
To amend title 49, United States Code, to provide certain exemptions to 
drivers of intrastate commercial motor vehicles engaged in agricultural 
purposes, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
FEBRUARY 26, 2009 
Mr. BOREN (for himself and Ms. FALLIN) introduced the following bill; which 
was referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure 
A BILL 
To amend title 49, United States Code, to provide certain 
exemptions to drivers of intrastate commercial motor 
vehicles engaged in agricultural purposes, 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. EXEMPTIONS FOR CERTAIN COMMERCIAL 
MOTOR VEHICLE DRIVERS. 
Section 31102 of title 49, United States Code, is 
amended by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(f) EXEMPTIONS
FOR
CERTAIN
COMMERCIAL 
MOTOR VEHICLE DRIVERS.—The Secretary of Transpor-
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