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For the relief of David Adekoya.

Bill: 108-hr-5371
Sponsor: Rep. Davis, Danny K. [D-IL-7]
Introduced: 2004-11-16 in the House
Policy area: Private Legislation
Subjects: Immigration

Summary:
action_date: 2004-11-16
text: 
Prohibits David Adekoya from being removed from, or denied admission to, the United States by reason of any act of his which is grounds for such removal or denial that is reflected in the records of the Department of Homeland Security or the Visa Office of the Department of State.
 
Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security to rescind any outstanding order of removal or deportation or any finding of deportability that has been entered against David Adekoya by reason of any such act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-11-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims.
action_date: 2004-11-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2004-11-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-11-16
text: Introduced in House
For the relief of Fatuka Kaikumba Flake.

Bill: 108-hr-5372
Sponsor: Rep. Pence, Mike [R-IN-6]
Introduced: 2004-11-16 in the House
Policy area: Private Legislation
Subjects: Immigration

Summary:
action_date: 2004-11-16
text: 
Declares Fatuka Kaikumba Flake to be eligible for issuance of an immigrant visa or for adjustment of status to that of an alien lawfully admitted to the United States for permanent residence under the Immigration and Nationality Act. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-11-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims.
action_date: 2004-11-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2004-11-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-11-16
text: Introduced in House
To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to enter into contracts for the use of excess storage and conveyance capacity of the Fryingpan-Arkansas Project, Colorado, and for other purposes.

Bill: 108-hr-5373
Sponsor: Rep. Beauprez, Bob [R-CO-7]
Introduced: 2004-11-17 in the House
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Colorado
Colorado River development
Congress
Congressional oversight
Congressional reporting requirements
Construction costs
Economics and Public Finance
Environmental Protection
Federal aid to water resources development
Federal-local relations
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Governmental investigations
Infrastructure
Interest
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Interstate compacts
Irrigation
Kansas
Pollution measurement
Rivers
Water allocation (Policy)
Water districts
Water quality
Water rates
Water rights
Water storage
Water supply
Watersheds

Summary:
action_date: 2004-11-17
text: 
Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to: (1) conduct a feasibility study to determine the most feasible method of meeting the present and future water supply and related storage requirements within the area served by the Fryingpan-Arkansas Project, Colorado, including the potential enlargement of Fryingpan-Arkansas facilities; and (2) enter into contracts with any entity, private or public for the use of excess capacity in such Project for the purpose of diverting, storing, impounding, pumping, exchanging, or conveying nonproject water for irrigation, domestic, municipal and industrial, or any other beneficial purpose; and (3) enter into new and renewal contracts with the City of Aurora, Colorado, or an enterprise of the City, for a specified term, for the use of excess capacity in such Project for the purpose of diverting, storing, impounding, pumping, exchanging, or conveying nonproject water for irrigation, domestic, municipal and industrial, or any other beneficial purpose.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-11-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water and Power.
action_date: 2004-11-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2004-11-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-11-17
text: Introduced in House
To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 30777 Rancho California Road in Temecula, California, as the "Dalip Singh Saund Post Office Building".

Bill: 108-hr-5374
Sponsor: Rep. Issa, Darrell E. [R-CA-49]
Introduced: 2004-11-17 in the House
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: California
Congress
Congressional tributes
Ex-Members of Congress
Government Operations and Politics
House of Representatives
Names
Postal facilities

Summary:
action_date: 2004-11-17
text: Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 30777 Rancho California Road in Temecula, California, as the "Dalip Singh Saund Post Office Building."

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-11-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Government Reform.
action_date: 2004-11-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-11-17
text: Introduced in House
United Nations Accountability Act of 2004

Bill: 108-hr-5375
Sponsor: Rep. Hyde, Henry J. [R-IL-6]
Introduced: 2004-11-17 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Auditing
Congress
Congress and foreign policy
Congressional reporting requirements
Energy
Finance and Financial Sector
Financial disclosure
Food relief
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Iraq
Iraq compilation
Middle East and North Africa
Petroleum
Sanctions (International law)
United Nations
United Nations finances

Summary:
action_date: 2004-11-17
text: 
United Nations Accountability Act of 2004 - States that Congress urges the President to instruct the Permanent Mission of the United States to the United Nations (UN) to seek to ensure that all UN Office of Internal Oversight Services are made available to member nations.
 
Directs the Secretary of State to report on UN officials' financial disclosure requirements. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-11-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on International Relations.
action_date: 2004-11-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-11-17
text: Introduced in House
For the relief of Nancy P. Gilbert.

Bill: 108-hr-5376
Sponsor: Rep. Collins, Mac [R-GA-8]
Introduced: 2004-11-17 in the House
Policy area: Private Legislation
Subjects: Federal employees
Government Operations and Politics

Summary:
action_date: 2004-11-17
text: 
Promotes, posthumously, Nancy P. Gilbert, formerly of Marietta, Georgia, to the position of supervisory investigator in the Atlanta District Office of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, effective as of July 2, 2001. Prohibits this promotion from being taken into account for any pay or other personnel management purposes.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-11-18
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2065)
action_date: 2004-11-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2004-11-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-11-17
text: Introduced in House
Act Commemorating the LITE

Bill: 108-hr-5377
Sponsor: Rep. Garrett, Scott [R-NJ-5]
Introduced: 2004-11-17 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Commemorations
Historic sites
History
Intellectual property
Inventors
Land transfers
National parks
New Jersey
Science, Technology, Communications
Scientists

Summary:
action_date: 2004-11-17
text: 
Act Commemorating the LITE, or Lifetime Innovations of Thomas Edison - Establishes the Thomas Edison National Historical Park in New Jersey as a unit of the National Park System.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-11-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Recreation and Public Lands.
action_date: 2004-11-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2004-11-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-11-17
text: Introduced in House
Community Restoration and Revitalization Act of 2004

Bill: 108-hr-5378
Sponsor: Rep. Portman, Rob [R-OH-2]
Introduced: 2004-11-17 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Building construction
Commemorations
Commerce
Depressed areas
Economics and Public Finance
Historic sites
History
Housing and Community Development
Income tax
Investment tax credit
Leases
Low-income housing
Maintenance and repair
Office buildings
Rental housing
Residential rehabilitation
Tax credits
Tax-exempt organizations
Valuation

Summary:
action_date: 2004-11-17
text: 
Community Restoration and Revitalization Act of 2004 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) allow an increased rehabilitation tax credit for certain low-income buildings; (2) allow a basis reduction adjustment for property eligible for the credit; (3) increase the credit for certain smaller buildings; (4) allow property eligible for the credit to be used for lodging purposes; (5) modify placed-in-service rules for credit property; (6) modify qualification rules for credit property that is tax-exempt use property; and (7) increase the credit for buildings in high cost areas.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-11-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2004-11-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-11-17
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to limit the timing of issuance of H-2B visas during a fiscal year.

Bill: 108-hr-5379
Sponsor: Rep. Stupak, Bart [D-MI-1]
Introduced: 2004-11-17 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Admission of nonimmigrants
Alien labor
Aliens
Labor and Employment
Temporary employment
Visas

Summary:
action_date: 2004-11-17
text: 
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to limit the issuance of H-2B (temporary nonagricultural workers) visas during any fiscal year to not more than one-third of the total during the first four months of the fiscal year and not more than two-thirds of the total during the first eight months of the fiscal year.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-11-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2004-11-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-11-17
text: Introduced in House
Flight 587 Accountability Act

Bill: 108-hr-5380
Sponsor: Rep. Weiner, Anthony D. [D-NY-9]
Introduced: 2004-11-17 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Administrative remedies
Aircraft industry
Airlines
Aviation safety
Commerce
Congress
Congressional investigations
Consumer education
Department of Transportation
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Law

Summary:
action_date: 2004-11-17
text: 
Flight 587 Accountability Act - Directs the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to: (1) require each aircraft manufacturer to list any information in the limitation section of each flight manual that may affect the safe operation of an aircraft; and (2) resolve a dispute between an aircraft manufacturer and an aircraft operator that arises regarding the safe operation of an aircraft (except in cases in which an adjudicatory resolution is sought).
 
Sets a deadline by which the Government Accountability Office must review the effectiveness and timeliness of the FAA in implementing recommendations made by the National Transportation Safety Board.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-11-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2004-11-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-11-17
text: Introduced in House
For the relief of Griselda Lopez Negrete.

Bill: 108-hr-5381
Sponsor: Rep. Wilson, Joe [R-SC-2]
Introduced: 2004-11-17 in the House
Policy area: Private Legislation
Subjects: Immigration

Summary:
action_date: 2004-11-17
text: 
Declares Griselda Lopez Negrete to be eligible for issuance of an immigrant visa or for adjustment of status to that of an alien lawfully admitted to the United States for permanent residence under the Immigration and Nationality Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-11-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2004-11-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-11-17
text: Introduced in House
To clarify that certain coal industry health benefits may not be modified or terminated.

Bill: 108-hr-5383
Sponsor: Rep. Rahall, Nick J., II [D-WV-3]
Introduced: 2004-11-18 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Bankruptcy
Coal
Energy
Finance and Financial Sector
Health
Miners
Retiree health benefits

Summary:
action_date: 2004-11-18
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to prohibit any court in a bankruptcy proceeding from terminating or modifying certain coal industry employee health benefits.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-11-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2004-11-18
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2068)
action_date: 2004-11-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-11-18
text: Introduced in House
Permanent Sales Tax Deduction Act of 2004

Bill: 108-hr-5384
Sponsor: Rep. Brady, Kevin [R-TX-8]
Introduced: 2004-11-18 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Government Operations and Politics
Income tax
Local taxation
Sales tax
State taxation
Tax deductions

Summary:
action_date: 2004-11-18
text: 
Permanent Sales Tax Deduction Act of 2004 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make the taxpayer election to deduct State and local sales taxes in lieu of State and local income taxes permanent. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-11-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2004-11-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-11-18
text: Introduced in House
To authorize the establishment of a Centennial Challenge Prize Program at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

Bill: 108-hr-5385
Sponsor: Rep. Boehlert, Sherwood [R-NY-24]
Introduced: 2004-11-18 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Aeronautics
Astronautics
Awards, medals, prizes
Commemorations
Congress
Congressional oversight
Congressional reporting requirements
Research and development
Space activities
Spacecraft
Technological innovations

Summary:
action_date: 2004-11-18
text: 
Amends the National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958 to provide for a Centennial Challenge Program to award competitive prizes for innovations with the potential for application to the space and aeronautical goals and activities of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Sets forth program requirements.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-11-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics.
action_date: 2004-11-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Science.
action_date: 2004-11-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-11-18
text: Introduced in House
Wauconda Technical and Environmental Remediation Act of 2004

Bill: 108-hr-5387
Sponsor: Rep. Crane, Philip M. [R-IL-8]
Introduced: 2004-11-18 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Environmental health
Environmental monitoring
Federal aid to water pollution control
Governmental investigations
Hazardous wastes
Health
Illinois
Landfills
Pollution measurement
Potable water
Vinyl chloride
Water Resources Development
Water pollution control
Wells

Summary:
action_date: 2004-11-18
text: 
Wauconda Technical and Environmental Remediation Act of 2004 - Requires the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to: (1) provide bottled water to individuals living within a 1.5-mile radius of the Wauconda Sand and Gravel Superfund site in Lake County, Illinois (Wauconda residents) who are served by residential wells with any contamination of vinyl chloride; and (2) increase testing and monitoring of such wells.
 
States that nothing in this Act may be construed to relieve the Administrator, other Federal agency heads, or potentially liable parties of legal liability with respect to site cleanup.
 
Directs the Administrator to: (1) study possible long-term solutions to remediate the site and provide a clean drinking water source for Wauconda residents; and (2) recommend and implement a long-term solution to provide a clean drinking water source for such residents.
 
Requires the Administrator to work with the heads of other appropriate Federal and State agencies to seek a comprehensive resolution to the short- and long-term environmental and health problems related to the site.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-12-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment and Hazardous Materials.
action_date: 2004-11-18
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2004-11-18
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2004-11-18
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2004-11-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-11-18
text: Introduced in House
To establish an interagency aerospace revitalization task force to develop a national strategy for aerospace workforce cultivation, training, and recruitment.

Bill: 108-hr-5388
Sponsor: Rep. Ehlers, Vernon J. [R-MI-3]
Introduced: 2004-11-18 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Aeronautics
Aerospace industries
Astronautics
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Engineering
Executive reorganization
Federal advisory bodies
Federal aid to education
Federal-local relations
Federal-state relations
Government Operations and Politics
Government lending
Government publicity
Higher education
Job hunting
Labor and Employment
Mathematics
Public-private partnerships
Science, Technology, Communications
Scientific education
Skilled labor
Space activities
Strategic planning
Student loan funds
Technical education

Summary:
action_date: 2004-11-18
text: 
Establishes the Interagency Aerospace Revitalization Task Force to develop a national strategy for aerospace workforce development.
 
Directs the Task Force to develop: (1) cooperation among Federal agencies to provide a skilled workforce; (2) integrated Federal policies to promote and monitor public and private sector education and training programs for science, engineering, technology, mathematics, and skilled trades; and (3) partnerships with industry, organized labor, academia, and State and local governments for occupational information and for workforce education, training, and certification resources, including grants, loans, and scholarships.
 



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-11-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2004-11-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-11-18
text: Introduced in House
Hybrid HOV Access Act of 2004

Bill: 108-hr-5389
Sponsor: Rep. Graves, Sam [R-MO-6]
Introduced: 2004-11-18 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Alcohol as fuel
Alternative energy sources
Bicycles
Biomass energy
Car pools
Coal
Commerce
Economics and Public Finance
Electric vehicles
Energy
Energy efficiency
Environmental Protection
Environmental Protection Agency
Federal aid to transportation
Fuel cells
Fuel consumption
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Highway finance
Hydrogen
Interstate highway system
Labeling
Law
Licenses
Limited access highways
Liquefied petroleum gas
Local laws
Mass rapid transit
Methanol
Motor buses
Motor vehicle pollution control
Motorcycles
Natural gas vehicles
Performance measurement
State laws
Toll roads
Traffic accidents and safety
Traffic congestion
Traffic engineering
User charges

Summary:
action_date: 2004-11-18
text: 
Hybrid HOV Access Act of 2004 - Amends the Federal Aid Highways program to require a State agency that has jurisdiction over the operation of a HOV facility to establish the occupancy requirements of vehicles operating on the facility.
 
Requires such agency to permit motorcycles and bicycles to use the HOV facility. 
 
Permits a State agency to restrict use of the HOV facility by motorcycles or bicycles (or both) if it certifies to the Secretary of Transportation that such use would create a safety hazard. 
 
Prescribes guidelines under which a State agency may permit use of an HOV facility by: (1) public transportation vehicles and high occupancy toll vehicles; (2) inherently low-emission vehicles and low emission and energy-efficient vehicles; and (3) advanced lean burn technology vehicles.
 
Permits tolls to be charged on a HOV facility on the Interstate System.
 
Requires a State agency that allows low-emission and energy-efficient vehicles to use a HOV facility to certify to the Secretary that it will establish: (1) a continuous monitoring, assessment, and reporting program regarding the impacts such vehicles may have on the operation of the facility and adjacent highways; and (2) an enforcement program that ensures the facility is operated in accordance with this Act.
 
Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection to issue: (1) a final rule establishing certification requirements for low emission and energy-efficient vehicles and advanced lean burn technology vehicles; and (2) guidance on methods for determining whether a vehicle meets the fuel efficiency standards required to qualify as a hybrid vehicle.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-11-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2004-11-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-11-18
text: Introduced in House
Presidential Succession Act of 2004

Bill: 108-hr-5390
Sponsor: Rep. Sherman, Brad [D-CA-27]
Introduced: 2004-11-18 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Advice and consent of the Senate
Cabinet officers
China
Congress
Congressional leadership
Congressional reporting requirements
Department of Homeland Security
Diplomats
East Asia
Electoral college
Europe
France
Government paperwork
International Affairs
Law
Nominations for office
Presidential appointments
Presidential succession
Presidential transitions
Resignation from office
Russia
Supreme Court
United Kingdom
United Nations
Vice Presidents

Summary:
action_date: 2004-11-18
text: 
Presidential Succession Act of 2004 - Rewrites provisions concerning presidential succession. Modifies the presidential succession list to include: (1) following the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, the Secretary of Homeland Security on the list; and (2) specified U.S. Ambassadors at the end of such list.
 
Requires the President-elect, prior to taking office, to file with the Clerk of the House of Representatives and the Secretary of the Senate a notice designating whether the Speaker or the minority leader of the House of Representatives, and whether the majority leader or minority leader of the Senate, should act as President. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-11-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2004-11-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-11-18
text: Introduced in House