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American Heroes Act

Bill: 108-hr-5038
Sponsor: Rep. Kirk, Mark Steven [R-IL-10]
Introduced: 2004-09-09 in the House
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Air piracy
Arts, Culture, Religion
Authors and authorship
Bombings
Capitol (Washington, D.C.)
Civics education
Commemorations
Commercial aircraft
Congressional officers
Congressional reorganization
Crime and Law Enforcement
EBB Terrorism
Families
Fund raising
Government Operations and Politics
Government procurement
International Affairs
Monuments and memorials
Pennsylvania
Sculpture
September 11, 2001
Terrorism
Tourism
Transportation and Public Works
Victims of terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2004-09-09
text: 
American Heroes Act - Authorizes each State to provide one statue of an individual representing that State to be displayed in the Capitol Visitor Center.
 
Specifies criteria for such statues.
 
Requires the Clerk of the House of Representatives and the Secretary of the Senate to assign jointly to one of their employees the post of the American Hero Administrator to prepare statue guidelines.
 
Requires: (1) a State to establish an American Hero Commission to select the individual to represent that State; and (2) the Architect of the Capitol to procure and install a statue honoring the passengers of United Airlines flight number 93 who died on September 11, 2001, for their heroic role in protecting Washington, D.C. from attack.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-09-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.
action_date: 2004-09-09
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H6905)
action_date: 2004-09-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-09-09
text: Introduced in House
Minimum Wage Indexation Act of 2004

Bill: 108-hr-5043
Sponsor: Rep. Bell, Chris [D-TX-25]
Introduced: 2004-09-09 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Cost of living adjustments
Minimum wages

Summary:
action_date: 2004-09-09
text: 
Minimum Wage Act of 2004 - Amends the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to increase the Federal minimum wage to: (1) $5.85 an hour, beginning on the 60th day after enactment of this Act; (2) $6.45 an hour, beginning 365 days after that 60th day; (3) $7.00 an hour, beginning 365 days after the $5.85 rate begins; and (4) $7.00 an hour plus a yearly increase determined by the Secretary of Labor to be in proportion to any increase in the Consumer Price Index for all urban consumers for the period between the beginning of the $7.00 rate and the first day of each subsequent 365-day period.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-09-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
action_date: 2004-09-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2004-09-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-09-09
text: Introduced in House
Federal Hydroelectric and Environmental Enhancement Act of 2004

Bill: 108-hr-5044
Sponsor: Rep. Burns, Max [R-GA-12]
Introduced: 2004-09-09 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Animals
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Cost control
Dams
Economics and Public Finance
Electric power production
Emergency Management
Energy development
Energy efficiency
Energy supplies
Environmental Protection
Federal-Indian relations
Fishes
Fishing
Flood control
Governmental investigations
Hydroelectric power
Infrastructure
Irrigation
Minorities
Native Americans
Navigation
Outdoor recreation
Reservoirs
Riparian ecology
Sports and Recreation
Transportation and Public Works
Water Resources Development
Water quality
Wildlife
Wildlife conservation

Summary:
action_date: 2004-09-09
text: 
Federal Hydroelectric and Environmental Enhancement Act of 2004 - Directs the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of the Army to study and report to Congress on: (1) the potential for creating or increasing electric power production capability at facilities under their respective administrative jurisdiction; and (2) operational methods and water scheduling techniques to increase operational efficiencies at certain-sized hydroelectric power plants.
 
Requires each Secretary to coordinate with the Administrator of each Federal power marketing administration in determining how the value of electric power produced by each hydroelectric power facility that produces power marketed by the administration can be optimized.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-09-16
text: Executive Comment Requested from Interior.
action_date: 2004-09-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water and Power.
action_date: 2004-09-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
action_date: 2004-09-09
text: Referred to the Committee on Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2004-09-09
text: Referred to the Committee on Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2004-09-09
text: Referred to the Committee on Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2004-09-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-09-09
text: Introduced in House
Restoration of State Sovereignty Act of 2004

Bill: 108-hr-5045
Sponsor: Rep. Culberson, John Abney [R-TX-7]
Introduced: 2004-09-09 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid programs
Federal mandates
Federal-state relations
Grants-in-aid
State laws
States' rights

Summary:
action_date: 2004-09-09
text: 
Restoration of State Sovereignty Act of 2004 - Provides that no officer, employee, or other authority of the Federal Government shall enforce against an authority of a State, nor shall any authority of a State have any obligation to obey, any requirement imposed as a condition of receiving Federal financial assistance under a grant program established under Federal law, nor shall such program operate within a State, unless the legislature of that State shall have by law expressly approved that program and, in doing so, have waived the State's rights and authorities to act inconsistently with any requirement that might be imposed by the Federal Government as a condition of receiving that assistance.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-09-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Government Reform.
action_date: 2004-09-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-09-09
text: Introduced in House
Pentagon 9/11 Memorial Commemorative Coin Act of 2004

Bill: 108-hr-5046
Sponsor: Rep. Davis, Tom [R-VA-11]
Introduced: 2004-09-09 in the House
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Air piracy
Armed Forces and National Security
Bombings
Coins and coinage
Commercial aircraft
Construction costs
Crime and Law Enforcement
Department of Defense
EBB Terrorism
Economics and Public Finance
Federal employees
Federal installations
Federal office buildings
Finance and Financial Sector
Gold
Government Operations and Politics
Government trust funds
Military personnel
Monuments and memorials
September 11, 2001
Silver
Terrorism
Transportation and Public Works
Victims of terrorism
Virginia

Summary:
action_date: 2004-09-09
text: 
Pentagon 9/11 Memorial Commemorative Coin Act of 2004 - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to mint and issue: (1) $50 gold coins; (2) $1 silver coins; and (3) half dollar clad coins emblematic of the spirit and bravery of the civilians and servicemen and servicewomen that work at the Pentagon and were aboard Flight 77 on September 11, 2001.
 
Requires: (1) surcharges on the sale of any coins minted under this Act; and (2) all surcharges received from the sale of coins issued under this Act to be promptly paid to the Pentagon Memorial Fund for the purposes of construction of a memorial at the Pentagon, Arlington, Virginia.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Domestic and International Monetary Policy, Trade, and Technology.
action_date: 2004-09-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2004-09-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-09-09
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 38, United States Code, to increase the maximum coverage under the Servicemembers' Group Life Insurance and Veterans' Group Life Insurance programs from $250,000 to $500,000.

Bill: 108-hr-5047
Sponsor: Rep. Edwards, Chet [D-TX-11]
Introduced: 2004-09-09 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Finance and Financial Sector
Government life insurance
Military personnel
Veterans' benefits

Summary:
action_date: 2004-09-09
text: 
Increases the maximum coverage for members under the Servicemembers' Group Life Insurance and Veterans' Group Life Insurance programs from $250,000 to $500,000.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-10-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Benefits.
action_date: 2004-09-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2004-09-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-09-09
text: Introduced in House
Providing Annual Pap Tests to Save Women's Lives Act of 2004

Bill: 108-hr-5048
Sponsor: Rep. Green, Gene [D-TX-29]
Introduced: 2004-09-09 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Cervical cancer
Medical screening
Medical tests
Medicare
Ovarian cancer
Pelvic inflammatory disease
Social Welfare
Standards
Women
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2004-09-09
text: 
Providing Annual Pap Tests to Save Women's Lives Act of 2004 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to extend coverage of screening pap smears and screening pelvic exams to annual examinations regardless of whether a woman is of childbearing age or at high-risk. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-09-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2004-09-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2004-09-09
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2004-09-09
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2004-09-09
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2004-09-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-09-09
text: Introduced in House
To require the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to revoke the authority granted to Enron to sell electricity at market rates and to prohibit Enron from enforcing certain contract provisions, and for other purposes.

Bill: 108-hr-5049
Sponsor: Rep. Inslee, Jay [D-WA-1]
Introduced: 2004-09-09 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Affiliated corporations
Civil actions and liability
Claims
Commerce
Contracts
Corporations
Damages
Department of Energy
Electric power
Electric utility rates
Energy industries
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Fraud
Government Operations and Politics
Independent regulatory commissions
Law
Natural gas
Restrictive trade practices

Summary:
action_date: 2004-09-09
text: 
Directs the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to issue an order revoking the authority granted to the Enron Corporation (and any Enron affiliate, bankruptcy trustee for the company, or any successor in interest to Enron or its affiliates) to sell electric energy at market-based rates. 
 
Declares such revocation of market rate authority effective retroactive to the date on which FERC determines that Enron initially engaged in price manipulation of electric energy sales or in any fraudulent activity regarding such sales.
 
Requires FERC to issue an order prohibiting Enron (and any Enron affiliate, bankruptcy trustee for the company, or any successor in interest to Enron or its affiliates) from enforcing claims for monetary damages or otherwise enforcing contract provisions against the purchaser in the case of certain electric energy or natural gas sales contracts.
 



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-09-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality.
action_date: 2004-09-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2004-09-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-09-09
text: Introduced in House
Director of National Intelligence Act of 2004

Bill: 108-hr-5050
Sponsor: Rep. Jackson-Lee, Sheila [D-TX-18]
Introduced: 2004-09-09 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Advice and consent of the Senate
Appropriations
Arms control
Central Intelligence Agency
Congress
Counterintelligence
Department of Energy
Department of Homeland Security
Department of Justice
Department of State
Department of the Treasury
Dismissal of employees
Drug abuse
Drug law enforcement
Economics and Public Finance
Employee selection
Employee training
Executive Office of the President
Executive reorganization
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
Federal employees
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Information technology
Intelligence community staff
Intelligence officers
Labor and Employment
Military intelligence
Personnel management
Planning-programming-budgeting
Presidential appointments
Reprogramming of appropriated funds
Science, Technology, Communications
Terrorism
Weapons of mass destruction

Summary:
action_date: 2004-09-09
text: 
Director of National Intelligence Act of 2004 - Establishes in the Executive Office of the President a Director of National Intelligence to act as the principal adviser to the President for intelligence matters related to national security, and to oversee budget, operations, and personnel of the national intelligence program and national intelligence agencies.
 
Establishes in the National Security Council an executive committee for the resolution of differences in priorities among national intelligence agencies. Requires: (1) the Director to be a member of such committee; and (2) directors of national intelligence centers to report directly to the Director.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-09-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Intelligence (Permanent Select).
action_date: 2004-09-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-09-09
text: Introduced in House
To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1001 Williams Street in Ignacio, Colorado, as the "Leonard C. Burch Post Office Building".

Bill: 108-hr-5051
Sponsor: Rep. McInnis, Scott [R-CO-3]
Introduced: 2004-09-09 in the House
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Colorado
Congress
Congressional tributes
Government Operations and Politics
Minorities
Names
Native Americans
Postal facilities

Summary:
action_date: 2004-09-09
text: Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1001 Williams Street in Ignacio, Colorado, as the "Leonard C. Burch Post Office Building."
action_date: 2004-10-30
text: 

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

 
Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1001 Williams Street in Ignacio, Colorado, as the "Leonard C. Burch Post Office Building." 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-10-30
text: Became Public Law No: 108-404.
action_date: 2004-10-30
text: Became Public Law No: 108-404.
action_date: 2004-10-30
text: Signed by President.
action_date: 2004-10-30
text: Signed by President.
action_date: 2004-10-19
text: Presented to President.
action_date: 2004-10-19
text: Presented to President.
action_date: 2004-10-12
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2004-10-10
text: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S11125-11126)
action_date: 2004-10-10
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S11125-11126)
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: Received in the Senate, read twice.
action_date: 2004-10-06
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2004-10-06
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H8268)
action_date: 2004-10-06
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote.(text: CR H8268)
action_date: 2004-10-06
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 5051.
action_date: 2004-10-06
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H8268-8269)
action_date: 2004-10-06
text: Mr. Duncan moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
action_date: 2004-09-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Government Reform.
action_date: 2004-09-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-09-09
text: Introduced in House

Enacted as: number: 108-404
To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 222 West 8th Street in Durango, Colorado, as the "Ben Nighthorse Campbell Post Office Building".

Bill: 108-hr-5052
Sponsor: Rep. McInnis, Scott [R-CO-3]
Introduced: 2004-09-09 in the House
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Colorado
Congress
Congressional tributes
Ex-Members of Congress
Government Operations and Politics
Minorities
Names
Native Americans
Postal facilities
Senate

Summary:
action_date: 2004-09-09
text: Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 222 West 8th Street in Durango, Colorado, as the "Ben Nighthorse Campbell Post Office Building."

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-09-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Government Reform.
action_date: 2004-09-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-09-09
text: Introduced in House
To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1475 Western Avenue, Suite 45, in Albany, New York, as the "Lieutenant John F. Finn Post Office".

Bill: 108-hr-5053
Sponsor: Rep. McNulty, Michael R. [D-NY-21]
Introduced: 2004-09-09 in the House
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Congress
Congressional tributes
Crime and Law Enforcement
Government Operations and Politics
Law enforcement officers
Names
New York State
Police
Postal facilities

Summary:
action_date: 2004-09-09
text: Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1475 Western Avenue, Suite 45, in Albany, New York, as the "Lieutenant John F. Finn Post Office."
action_date: 2004-10-06
text: 

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

 
Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1475 Western Avenue, Suite 45, in Albany, New York, as the &quot;Lieutenant John F. Finn Post Office.&quot;


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: Received in the Senate.
action_date: 2004-10-06
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2004-10-06
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR 10/7/2004 H8272)
action_date: 2004-10-06
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote.(text: CR 10/7/2004 H8272)
action_date: 2004-10-06
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 5053.
action_date: 2004-10-06
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR 10/7/2004 H8272-8274)
action_date: 2004-10-06
text: Mr. Duncan moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
action_date: 2004-09-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Government Reform.
action_date: 2004-09-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-09-09
text: Introduced in House
Hardened Containers for Air Cargo Security Act of 2004

Bill: 108-hr-5054
Sponsor: Rep. Millender-McDonald, Juanita [D-CA-37]
Introduced: 2004-09-09 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Air cargo
Airline employees
Airline passenger traffic
Airlines
Aviation fuels
Aviation safety
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Containerization
Crime and Law Enforcement
Department of Homeland Security
EBB Terrorism
Economics and Public Finance
Employee training
Energy
Explosives
Federal aid to transportation
Fuel consumption
Government Operations and Politics
Governmental investigations
Labor and Employment
Law
Maintenance and repair
Packaging
Security measures
Standards
Terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2004-09-09
text: 
Hardened Containers for Air Cargo Security Act of 2004 - Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security, acting through the Administrator of the Transportation Security Administration, to: (1) carry out a pilot program to evaluate the use of hardened containers for cargo and luggage on passenger aircraft to minimize the potential effects of an explosive device; (2) develop guidelines for use by air carriers in determining the types of cargo and luggage to be placed in a hardened container on a passenger aircraft; and (3) carry out an incentive program to provide assistance to air carriers to test the use of hardened containers for cargo and luggage on passenger aircraft. Requires an air carrier to apply to be eligible to participate. Includes among assistance provided by the Secretary both the use of hardened containers and financial assistance to cover increased costs to the carriers associated with use and maintenance of the containers, including increased fuel costs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-09-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Aviation.
action_date: 2004-09-10
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1594)
action_date: 2004-09-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2004-09-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-09-09
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 10, United States Code, to increase the amount of the military death gratuity from $12,000 to $50,000.

Bill: 108-hr-5055
Sponsor: Rep. Moore, Dennis [D-KS-3]
Introduced: 2004-09-09 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Defense budgets
Department of Defense
Economics and Public Finance
Families
Federal employees
Government Operations and Politics
Government travel
Iraq compilation
Labor and Employment
Military dependents
Military pensions
Reprogramming of appropriated funds
Survivors' benefits
Transportation and Public Works
Travel costs

Summary:
action_date: 2004-09-09
text: 
Increases the death gratuity payable with respect to members of the Armed Forces from $12,000 to $50,000. Makes this increase applicable to deaths occurring on or after September 11, 2001.
 
Requires the Secretary of Defense to derive funds for payments under this Act in FY 2005 from travel funds for personnel of the Office of the Secretary.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-09-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2004-09-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-09-09
text: Introduced in House