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To exempt the natural aging process in the determination of the production period for distilled spirits under section 263A of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986.

Bill: 108-hr-3979
Sponsor: Rep. Lewis, Ron [R-KY-2]
Introduced: 2004-03-16 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Accounting
Agriculture and Food
Alcoholic beverages
Commerce
Costs
Finance and Financial Sector
Income tax
Inventories
Tax deductions

Summary:
action_date: 2004-03-16
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from determination of the production period for distilled spirits any period allocated to the natural aging process for purposes of determining whether a taxpayer can expense, rather than capitalize, interest costs paid or incurred during the production period.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-03-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2004-03-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-03-16
text: Introduced in House
To reclassify fees paid into the Nuclear Waste Fund as offsetting collections, and for other purposes.

Bill: 108-hr-3981
Sponsor: Rep. Barton, Joe [R-TX-6]
Introduced: 2004-03-17 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Economics and Public Finance
Fees
Government trust funds
Radioactive wastes
Transportation and Public Works
Transportation of hazardous substances

Summary:
action_date: 2004-03-17
text: 
States that fees collected by the Secretary of Energy and deposited into the Nuclear Waste Fund shall be credited to the Fund as offsetting collections beginning October 1, 2004, until the end of the fiscal year when construction is complete for surface facilities for the fully operating nuclear waste repository.
 
Amends the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 to repeal the exemption from annual apportionment of receipts, proceeds, and recoveries realized by the Secretary, as well as expenditures of amounts from the Fund.
 
 

action_date: 2004-07-09
text: 
(Sec. 1) States that fees collected by the Secretary of Energy and deposited into the Nuclear Waste Fund shall be credited to the Fund as offsetting collections beginning October 1, 2004, and continuing through September 30, 2009, not to exceed the amounts annually appropriated during that period from the Fund. Sets a maximum amount for FY 2005 at $576 million.
 
Authorizes necessary appropriations from the Fund to the extent that the level of budgetary resources from offsetting collections is insufficient to implement activities under the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 for a fiscal year.
 
 
(Sec. 2) Instructs the Secretary to report to Congress biennially regarding the Fund's adequacy (including an assessment of whether current unexpended balances in the Fund, if made fully available to the Secretary, would affect annual fee determinations).
 
Requires the report also to recommend whether this Act should be extended beyond its current expiration date of September 30, 2009, and whether alternative approaches may be necessary to access unexpended balances in the Fund.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-07-09
text: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 356.
action_date: 2004-07-09
text: Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Energy and Commerce. H. Rept. 108-594.
action_date: 2004-07-09
text: Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Energy and Commerce. H. Rept. 108-594.
action_date: 2004-06-24
text: Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 29 - 19.
action_date: 2004-06-24
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2004-06-16
text: Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee (Amended) by Voice Vote.
action_date: 2004-06-16
text: Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2004-03-25
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2004-03-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality.
action_date: 2004-03-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2004-03-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-03-17
text: Introduced in House
To make 1 percent across-the-board rescissions in non-defense, non-homeland-security discretionary spending for fiscal year 2005.

Bill: 108-hr-3984
Sponsor: Rep. Blackburn, Marsha [R-TN-7]
Introduced: 2004-03-17 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Appropriations
Armed Forces and National Security
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Defense budgets
Department of Defense
Department of Energy
Department of Homeland Security
Federal budgets
Government Operations and Politics
Government spending reductions
Legislation
Rescission of appropriated funds

Summary:
action_date: 2004-03-17
text: 
Makes a one percent rescission in the: (1) budget authority provided (or obligation limitation imposed) for FY 2005 for any non-defense, non-homeland-security discretionary account in any FY 2005 appropriation Act; (2) budget authority provided in any advance appropriation for FY 2005 for such account in any prior fiscal year appropriation Act; and (3) contract authority provided in FY 2005 for any program that is subject to a limitation contained in any FY 2005 appropriation Act for the account.
 
Excludes any account: (1) included in a Department of Defense Appropriations Act, Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, or Military Construction Appropriations Act; or (2) for Department of Energy defense activities included in an Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-03-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Appropriations.
action_date: 2004-03-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-03-17
text: Introduced in House
To make 2 percent across-the-board rescissions in non-defense, non-homeland-security discretionary spending for fiscal year 2005.

Bill: 108-hr-3985
Sponsor: Rep. Blackburn, Marsha [R-TN-7]
Introduced: 2004-03-17 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Appropriations
Armed Forces and National Security
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Defense budgets
Department of Defense
Department of Energy
Department of Homeland Security
Federal budgets
Government Operations and Politics
Government spending reductions
Legislation
Rescission of appropriated funds

Summary:
action_date: 2004-03-17
text: 
Provides a two-percent rescission in the: (1) budget authority provided (or obligation limitation imposed) for FY 2005 for any non-defense, non-homeland-security discretionary account in any FY 2005 appropriation Act; (2) budget authority provided in any advance appropriation for FY 2005 for such account in any prior fiscal year appropriation Act; and (3) contract authority provided in FY 2005 for any program that is subject to a limitation contained in any FY 2005 appropriation Act for the account.
 
Excludes any account: (1) included in a Department of Defense Appropriations Act, Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, or Military Construction Appropriations Act; or (2) for Department of Energy defense activities included in an Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-03-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Appropriations.
action_date: 2004-03-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-03-17
text: Introduced in House
To make 5 percent across-the-board rescissions in non-defense, non-homeland-security discretionary spending for fiscal year 2005.

Bill: 108-hr-3986
Sponsor: Rep. Blackburn, Marsha [R-TN-7]
Introduced: 2004-03-17 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Appropriations
Armed Forces and National Security
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Defense budgets
Department of Defense
Department of Energy
Department of Homeland Security
Federal budgets
Government Operations and Politics
Government spending reductions
Legislation
Rescission of appropriated funds

Summary:
action_date: 2004-03-17
text: 
Provides a five percent rescission in the: (1) budget authority provided (or obligation limitation imposed) for FY 2005 for any non-defense, non-homeland-security discretionary account in any FY 2005 appropriation Act; (2) budget authority provided in any advance appropriation for FY 2005 for such account in any prior fiscal year appropriation Act; and (3) contract authority provided in FY 2005 for any program that is subject to a limitation contained in any FY 2005 appropriation Act for the account.
 
Excludes any account: (1) included in a Department of Defense Appropriations Act, Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, or Military Construction Appropriations Act; or (2) for Department of Energy defense activities included in an Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-03-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Appropriations.
action_date: 2004-03-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-03-17
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide for the automatic acquisition of citizenship by certain individuals born in Korea, Vietnam, Laos, Kampuchea, or Thailand.

Bill: 108-hr-3987
Sponsor: Rep. Evans, Lane [D-IL-17]
Introduced: 2004-03-17 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Cambodia
Citizenship
East Asia
Immigrants
Laos
North Korea
Residence requirements
South Korea
Thailand
Vietnam

Summary:
action_date: 2004-03-17
text: 
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to confer automatic citizenship on aliens residing in the United States in lawful permanent resident status pursuant to a classification petition approved under a provision that gives preferential treatment to persons born in Korea, Vietnam, Laos, Kampuchea, or Thailand after 1950 and before October 22, 1982, who were fathered by U.S. citizens.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-04-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims.
action_date: 2004-03-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2004-03-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-03-17
text: Introduced in House
GEAR UP & GO Act

Bill: 108-hr-3988
Sponsor: Rep. Fattah, Chaka [D-PA-2]
Introduced: 2004-03-17 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance
Authorization
Career education
College costs
Department of Education
Economics and Public Finance
Education of the disadvantaged
Educational counseling
Elementary and secondary education
Federal aid to education
Finance and Financial Sector
Financial planning
Government Operations and Politics
Higher education
Mentoring
Personal budgets
Scholarships
Secondary education
Social Welfare
Student enrollment
Textbooks

Summary:
action_date: 2004-03-17
text: 
GEAR UP & GO Act - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to revise specified requirements for Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs (GEAR UP) to facilitate the transition of low-income high school students into postsecondary education.
 
Authorizes the Secretary of Education to carry out a GEAR UP & GO grants program to provide low-income high school students participating in GEAR UP partnerships or State programs opportunities for dual/concurrent enrollment in college courses while still enrolled in high school. Provides that students in such program: (1) shall not be required to apply for admission to the institution of higher education; and (2) may receive college credit. Requires up to 25 percent of GEAR UP & GO program funds to be reserved for grants to early/middle college high schools designed to provide 9th through 12th grade low-income and first-generation college students with a coherent course of study enabling them to earn simultaneously a high school diploma and college credit toward a postsecondary degree.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-04-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness.
action_date: 2004-03-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2004-03-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-03-17
text: Introduced in House
Helping the People of Haiti Act

Bill: 108-hr-3989
Sponsor: Rep. Hastings, Alcee L. [D-FL-23]
Introduced: 2004-03-17 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Caribbean area
Development credit institutions
Diplomacy
Economic assistance
Economic development
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Environmental Protection
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Foreign loans
Haiti
Haiti compilation
Health
Infrastructure
Latin America
Public health
Refuse and refuse disposal
Secondary education
Transportation and Public Works
Water Resources Development
Water supply

Summary:
action_date: 2004-03-17
text: 
Helping the People of Haiti Act - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to direct the United States Executive Director at the Inter-American Development Bank to use the voice and vote of the United States to urge the Bank to release the four social sector and development loans for health, education, water and sanitation, and transportation, that have been approved by the Board of Executive Directors of the Bank and ratified by the Parliament of Haiti. 
 
Directs the Secretary and the Secretary of State, respectively, to: (1) appeal to international financial institutions and foreign governments to strengthen their assistance efforts to Haiti; and (2) urge such institutions and governments to take immediate steps to provide Haiti with the full range of loans and other financial assistance. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-03-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Domestic and International Monetary Policy, Trade, and Technology.
action_date: 2004-03-17
text: Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committee on International Relations, 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: 2004-03-17
text: Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committee on International Relations, 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: 2004-03-17
text: Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committee on International Relations, 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: 2004-03-17
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E398-399)
action_date: 2004-03-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-03-17
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 to extend contracts for national dairy market loss payments through fiscal year 2007.

Bill: 108-hr-3990
Sponsor: Rep. Peterson, Collin C. [D-MN-7]
Introduced: 2004-03-17 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural subsidies
Commerce
Dairy industry
Government Operations and Politics
Milk

Summary:
action_date: 2004-03-17
text: 
Amends the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 to extend contract authority for national dairy market loss payments.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-03-19
text: Executive Comment Requested from USDA.
action_date: 2004-03-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2004-03-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-03-17
text: Introduced in House
To make supplemental appropriations for fiscal year 2004 for the Federal Air Marshals program, and for other purposes.

Bill: 108-hr-3991
Sponsor: Rep. Sabo, Martin Olav [D-MN-5]
Introduced: 2004-03-17 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Airline passenger traffic
Aviation safety
Department of Homeland Security
Economics and Public Finance
Federal budgets
Federal law enforcement officers
Government Operations and Politics
Rescission of appropriated funds
Supplemental appropriations
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2004-03-17
text: 
Makes specified supplemental appropriations for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for Federal Air Marshals. 
 
Rescinds funds in the same amount previously appropriated for the DHS Office of the Secretary and Executive Management and the Office of the Under Secretary for Management.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-03-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Appropriations.
action_date: 2004-03-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-03-17
text: Introduced in House
To amend the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 to require preparation of statements regarding the environmental impacts of legal and illegal immigration.

Bill: 108-hr-3992
Sponsor: Rep. Tancredo, Thomas G. [R-CO-6]
Introduced: 2004-03-17 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Aliens
Environmental assessment
Illegal aliens
Immigration

Summary:
action_date: 2004-03-17
text: 
Amends the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 to require the Secretary of Homeland Security and the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to jointly publish every five years a statement regarding the environmental impacts of immigration, for use in determining environmentally sustainable levels for legal immigration and measures needed to prevent illegal immigration.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-03-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2004-03-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-03-17
text: Introduced in House
Country-of-Origin Labeling Enhancement Act of 2004

Bill: 108-hr-3993
Sponsor: Rep. Bono, Mary [R-CA-45]
Introduced: 2004-03-18 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agriculture in foreign trade
Animals
Business records
Commerce
Fines (Penalties)
Food industry
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Identification devices
Labeling
Law
Livestock
Meat
Retail trade

Summary:
action_date: 2004-03-18
text: 
Country-of-Origin Labeling Enhancement Act of 2004 - Amends the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946, as amended by the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2004, to make country-of-origin notice requirements applicable to retail sales of all covered commodities as of September 30, 2004. (Current law applies such requirements to farm-raised and wild fish as of such date, and other covered commodities as of September 30, 2006.) 
 
Requires a retailer to maintain country-of-origin records for at least 180 days. Provides for the future inclusion of national animal identification system information into the certification of origin requirements.
 
Revises civil money penalty provisions for country-of-origin notice violations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-03-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2004-03-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-03-18
text: Introduced in House
Assuring Fiscal Honesty and Accountability Act of 2004

Bill: 108-hr-3995
Sponsor: Rep. Hill, Baron P. [D-IN-9]
Introduced: 2004-03-18 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Authorization
Balanced budgets
Budget deficits
Budget reconciliation
Budget resolutions
Budget surpluses
Congress
Congressional Record
Congressional budget
Congressional reporting requirements
Congressional voting
Disaster relief
Emergency Management
Expedited congressional procedure
Federal budgets
Government spending reductions
House rules and procedure
Interest
Legislation
Legislative amendments
Legislative resolutions
Public debt
Senate rules and procedure
Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2004-03-18
text: Assuring Honesty and Accountability Act of 2004 - Amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 to extend through FY 2007 the spending limits (spending caps) for the discretionary categories in new budget authority and outlays. 
Extends pay-as-you-go requirements through FY 2009. 
Extends specified budget enforcement mechanisms through FY 2009. 
Amends the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 concerning legislation which: (1) evades specified budget enforcement mechanisms; (2) provides direct spending (to be included in the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) analysis (scoring)); and (3) is unreported by committee (for purposes of budget point of order rules). 
Requires reports on legislation which provide new budget, spending, or credit authority or otherwise provide an increase or decrease in revenues or tax expenditures to include a projection by CBO of the cost of debt servicing (interest). 
Amends the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 to address issues of emergency spending through: (1) establishing criteria and guidelines; and (2) requiring a separate House vote on an emergency designation. 
Amends the Rules of the House of Representatives concerning: (1) budget compliance statements (permitting inclusion of budgetary implications); (2) requirements for budget act waivers (inclusion mandatory for bill consideration); and (3) a separate vote to waive a major budget act point of order.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-03-18
text: Referred to the Committee on the Budget, and in addition to the Committee on Rules, 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: 2004-03-18
text: Referred to the Committee on the Budget, and in addition to the Committee on Rules, 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: 2004-03-18
text: Referred to the Committee on the Budget, and in addition to the Committee on Rules, 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: 2004-03-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-03-18
text: Introduced in House
To direct the Secretary of Agriculture to convey to the New Hope Cemetery Association a small parcel of National Forest System land in the State of Arkansas for use as a cemetery.

Bill: 108-hr-3997
Sponsor: Rep. Boozman, John [R-AR-3]
Introduced: 2004-03-18 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Arkansas
Cemeteries and funerals
Land transfers
National forests

Summary:
action_date: 2004-03-18
text: 
Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to convey certain National Forest System land in Pope County, Arkansas, to the New Hope Cemetery Association for use as a cemetery.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-03-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Forests and Forest Health.
action_date: 2004-03-23
text: Rereferred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2004-03-23
text: Committee on Agriculture discharged.
action_date: 2004-03-23
text: Committee on Agriculture discharged.
action_date: 2004-03-23
text: RE-REFERRAL OF H.R. 3997 - Mr. Nunes asked unanimous consent that the Committee on Agriculture be discharged from further consideration of H.R. 3997 and that the bill be re-referred to the Committee on Resources. Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2004-03-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry.
action_date: 2004-03-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2004-03-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-03-18
text: Introduced in House