hyperdemocracy/usc-billstatus huggingface dataset:
Advanced Research Projects Energy Act (ARPA-E) Act

Bill: 109-s-2196
Sponsor: Sen. Clinton, Hillary Rodham [D-NY]
Introduced: 2006-01-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Air pollution control
Awards, medals, prizes
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Commemorations
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Department of Energy
Economics and Public Finance
Electric power
Energy conservation
Energy efficiency
Energy research
Energy security
Environmental Protection
Executive reorganization
Federal aid to research
Federal officials
Fuel consumption
Government Operations and Politics
High technology
Petroleum
Research and development
Research grants
Science, Technology, Communications
Strategic planning
Technological innovations

Summary:
action_date: 2006-01-25
text: 
Advanced Research Projects Energy Act (ARPA-E) Act - Instructs the Secretary of Energy to establish in the Department of Energy the position of Assistant Secretary for Advanced Energy Research, Technology Development, and Deployment to: (1) implement an innovative energy research, technology development, and deployment program; and (2) sponsor a diverse portfolio of cutting-edge, high-payoff research, development, and deployment projects to carry it out.
 
Authorizes the Assistant Secretary to award cash prizes in recognition of outstanding achievements in basic, advanced, and applied research, technology development, and prototype development. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-01-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2006-01-25
text: Introduced in Senate
PACE-Finance Act

Bill: 109-s-2199
Sponsor: Sen. Domenici, Pete V. [R-NM]
Introduced: 2006-01-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Capital gains tax
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Continuing education
Corporation taxes
Data banks
Department of the Treasury
Education
Employee benefit plans
Engineering
Engineers
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Foreign investments
Government Operations and Politics
Governmental investigations
High technology
Higher education
Income tax
Infrastructure
Joint ventures
Labor and Employment
Law
Manufacturing industries
Research and development tax credit
Science, Technology, Communications
Scientific education
Scientific instruments and apparatus
Tax auditing
Tax credits
Tax rates
Technological innovations
Wages

Summary:
action_date: 2006-01-26
text: 
Protecting America's Competitive Edge Through Tax Incentives Act of 2006 or the PACE-Finance Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) make permanent the tax credit for increasing research activities; (2) increase the rate of such credit from 20 to 40%; (3) expand such credit to include expenses of a research consortia; and (4) allow a business tax credit for the cost of employee continuing education in science or engineering. 

Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to: (1) study and make recommendations on methods to expand the scope of the tax credit for increasing research activities; (2) conduct an analysis of the U.S. tax system and its effect on innovation investment and related activities; and (3) report on such studies to the President and Congress. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-26
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S10127)
action_date: 2006-01-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S224-225)
action_date: 2006-01-26
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S212)
action_date: 2006-01-26
text: Introduced in Senate
United States-Poland Parliamentary Youth Exchange Program Act of 2006

Bill: 109-s-2200
Sponsor: Sen. Lugar, Richard G. [R-IN]
Introduced: 2006-01-26 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Civics education
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Education
Educational exchanges
Elementary and secondary education
Europe
Government Operations and Politics
History
Law
Poland
Secondary education

Summary:
action_date: 2006-01-26
text: 
United States-Poland Parliamentary Youth Exchange Program Act of 2006 - Authorizes the President, through the Secretary of State and in cooperation with the government of Poland, to establish a United States-Poland Parliamentary Youth Exchange Program.

action_date: 2006-05-25
text: 
United States-Poland Parliamentary Youth Exchange Program Act of 2006 - Authorizes the Secretary of State, in cooperation with the government of Poland, to establish a United States-Poland Parliamentary Youth Exchange Program for secondary students from the United States and Poland.
 
Directs the Secretary to report annually to the appropriate congressional committees.
 
Authorizes FY2007 appropriations.

action_date: 2006-09-07
text: 
United States-Poland Parliamentary Youth Exchange Program Act of 2006 - Authorizes the Secretary of State, in cooperation with the government of Poland, to establish a United States-Poland Parliamentary Youth Exchange Program for American and Polish secondary students under 19 years old to live in and attend public secondary school in the host country.
 
Requires an annual program report to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the House International Relations Committee.
 
Authorizes FY2007 appropriations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on International Relations.
action_date: 2006-09-08
text: Received in the House.
action_date: 2006-09-08
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2006-09-07
text: Passed Senate with amendments by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S9213-9214; text of measure as report in Senate: CR S9213; text as passed Senate: CR (9213-9214)
action_date: 2006-09-07
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate with amendments by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S9213-9214; text of measure as report in Senate: CR S9213; text as passed Senate: CR (9213-9214)
action_date: 2006-05-25
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 455.
action_date: 2006-05-25
text: Committee on Foreign Relations. Reported by Senator Lugar with amendments. Without written report.
action_date: 2006-05-25
text: Committee on Foreign Relations. Reported by Senator Lugar with amendments. Without written report.
action_date: 2006-05-23
text: Committee on Foreign Relations. Ordered to be reported with amendments favorably.
action_date: 2006-01-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
action_date: 2006-01-26
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S227-228)
action_date: 2006-01-26
text: Introduced in Senate
Federal Aviation Administration Fair Labor Management Dispute Resolution Act of 2006

Bill: 109-s-2201
Sponsor: Sen. Obama, Barack [D-IL]
Introduced: 2006-01-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Air traffic
Congress
Congressional oversight
Congressional reporting requirements
Department of Transportation
Employee-management relations in government
Federal employees
Government Operations and Politics
Industrial arbitration
Labor and Employment
Labor contracts
Law
Legislation
Personnel management
Transportation workers

Summary:
action_date: 2006-01-26
text: 
Federal Aviation Administration Fair Labor Management Dispute Resolution Act of 2006 - Amends federal transportation law to revise certain federal aviation administration personnel management system requirements to prohibit the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) from implementing any proposed change to the FAA personnel management system in cases where the services of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service do not lead to an agreement between the Administrator and FAA employees unless a bill is enacted into law by Congress that authorizes the change during the 60-day period beginning from the time Congress received the proposed change. (Current law does not require congressional action.) Requires the Administrator and FAA employee bargaining representatives to submit the proposed change to binding arbitration if Congress does not enact a bill into law within the 60-day period.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-01-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2006-01-26
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S228-229)
action_date: 2006-01-26
text: Introduced in Senate
Federal Judiciary Ethics Reform Act of 2006

Bill: 109-s-2202
Sponsor: Sen. Leahy, Patrick J. [D-VT]
Introduced: 2006-01-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Conferences
Conflict of interests
Continuing education
Education
Financial disclosure
Fund raising
Gifts
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Higher education
Judges
Judicial ethics
Legal education

Summary:
action_date: 2006-01-26
text: 
Federal Judiciary Ethics Reform Act of 2006 - Amends the federal judicial code to: (1) establish within the Treasury a Judicial Education Fund for the payment of necessary expenses incurred by a judge or justice in attending a private judicial seminar approved by the Board of the Federal Judicial Center; and (2) require each justice, judge, and magistrate of the United States to maintain a list (to be made available to the public) of all financial interests that would require disqualification in any proceeding in which his or her impartiality might reasonably be questioned.
 
Directs the Judicial Conference of the United States to promulgate regulations to prohibit the solicitation or acceptance of anything in value in connection with a private judicial seminar, with specified exceptions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-01-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S229-230)
action_date: 2006-01-26
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S229)
action_date: 2006-01-26
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to eliminate cost-sharing under part D of such title for certain full-benefit dual eligible individuals.

Bill: 109-s-2203
Sponsor: Sen. Clinton, Hillary Rodham [D-NY]
Introduced: 2006-01-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Coinsurance
Compensation (Law)
Congregate housing
Drugs
Finance and Financial Sector
Health insurance
Health maintenance organizations
Housing and Community Development
Law
Managed care
Medicaid
Medical economics
Medicare
Prescription pricing
Social Welfare
Welfare recipients

Summary:
action_date: 2006-01-26
text: 
Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to eliminate cost-sharing under part D (Voluntary Prescription Drug Benefit Program) for certain full-benefit dual eligible individuals.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-01-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2006-01-26
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S230)
action_date: 2006-01-26
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to validate certain conveyances made by the Union Pacific Railroad Company of lands located in Reno, Nevada, that were originally conveyed by the United States to facilitate construction of transcontinental railroads, and for other purposes.

Bill: 109-s-2204
Sponsor: Sen. Ensign, John [R-NV]
Introduced: 2006-01-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Land transfers
Nevada
Railroad land grants
Railroads
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2006-01-26
text: 
Validates the conveyance made by: (1) the Union Pacific Railroad Company pursuant to the Memorandum of Understanding for Reno Rail Corridor, entered into on December 1, 1998, to the City of Reno, Nevada, of land originally granted by the United States to the predecessor of the Union Pacific Railroad Company to facilitate construction of transcontinental railroads; and (2) CTB Inc., a Nevada Corporation, to the City of Reno, Nevada, of certain land deeded dated October 22, 2002. Releases all right, title, and interest of the United States in and to such lands to the City of Reno, Nevada, without consideration.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-01-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2006-01-26
text: Introduced in Senate
Title X Family Planning Act

Bill: 109-s-2206
Sponsor: Sen. Vitter, David [R-LA]
Introduced: 2006-01-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Abortion
Appropriations
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Economics and Public Finance
Family planning and birth control
Federal aid to health facilities
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Pregnant women
Women
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2006-01-27
text: 
Title X Family Planning Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to prohibit federal family planning funds from being awarded to any grantees who perform abortions or whose subgrantees perform abortions, except where a woman suffers from a physical disorder, physical injury, or physical illness that would, as certified by a physician, place the woman in danger of death unless an abortion is performed. (Current law prohibits such funds from being used in programs where abortion is a method of family planning.) Excludes hospitals from such provisions as long as the hospital does not subgrant to a non-hospital entity that performs abortions.
 
Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to submit to Congress a list of grantees who perform abortions, regardless of how such abortions are funded. Makes such a grantee ineligible for family planning funds for subsequent fiscal years unless the grantee certifies that neither the grantee nor any subgrantee performs abortions that are not explicitly permitted under this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-01-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2006-01-27
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S250)
action_date: 2006-01-27
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to extend the temporary suspension of duty on certain manufacturing equipment.

Bill: 109-s-2207
Sponsor: Sen. DeMint, Jim [R-SC]
Introduced: 2006-01-30 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Automobile tires
Commerce
Machinery
Tariff
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2006-01-30
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend the suspension, through December 31, 2009, of the duty on certain manufacturing equipment.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-01-30
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2006-01-30
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to suspend temporarily the duty on para-Chlorophenol.

Bill: 109-s-2208
Sponsor: Sen. DeMint, Jim [R-SC]
Introduced: 2006-01-30 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Chemicals
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2006-01-30
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 2008, the duty on para-Chlorophenol.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-01-30
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2006-01-30
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to suspend temporarily the duty on 4-Chloro-3-[[3-(4-methoxyphenyl)-1,3-dioxopropyl]-amino]-do decyl ester.

Bill: 109-s-2209
Sponsor: Sen. DeMint, Jim [R-SC]
Introduced: 2006-01-30 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Chemicals
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2006-01-30
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 2008, the duty on 4-Chloro-3-[[3-(4-methoxyphenyl)-1,3-dioxopropyl]-amino]-do decyl ester.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-01-30
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2006-01-30
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to extend the temporary suspension of duty on 2,6 Dichlorotoluene.

Bill: 109-s-2210
Sponsor: Sen. DeMint, Jim [R-SC]
Introduced: 2006-01-30 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Chemicals
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2006-01-30
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend the suspension, through December 31, 2008, of the duty on 2,6 Dichlorotoluene.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-01-30
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2006-01-30
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to extend the temporary suspension of duty on Fluorobenzene.

Bill: 109-s-2211
Sponsor: Sen. DeMint, Jim [R-SC]
Introduced: 2006-01-30 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Chemicals
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2006-01-30
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend the suspension, through December 31, 2008, of the duty on Fluorobenzene. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-01-30
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2006-01-30
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill  to suspend temporarily the duty on Diresul Brown GN Liquid Crude.

Bill: 109-s-2212
Sponsor: Sen. DeMint, Jim [R-SC]
Introduced: 2006-01-30 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Commerce
Dyes and dyeing
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2006-01-30
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 2008, the duty on Diresul Brown GN Liquid Crude.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-01-30
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2006-01-30
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to extend the suspension of duty on sulfur black 1.

Bill: 109-s-2213
Sponsor: Sen. DeMint, Jim [R-SC]
Introduced: 2006-01-30 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Commerce
Dyes and dyeing
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2006-01-30
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend the suspension, through December 31, 2008, of the duty on sulfur black 1.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-01-30
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2006-01-30
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to extend the suspension of duty on reduced vat blue 43.

Bill: 109-s-2214
Sponsor: Sen. DeMint, Jim [R-SC]
Introduced: 2006-01-30 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Commerce
Dyes and dyeing
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2006-01-30
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend the suspension, through December 31, 2008, of the duty on reduced vat blue 43.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-01-30
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2006-01-30
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to suspend temporarily the duty on Sulfur Blue 7.

Bill: 109-s-2215
Sponsor: Sen. DeMint, Jim [R-SC]
Introduced: 2006-01-30 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Commerce
Dyes and dyeing
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2006-01-30
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 2008, the duty on Sulfur Blue 7.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-01-30
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2006-01-30
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to suspend temporarily the duty on 1,4-Benzendicarboxylic Acid, Polymer With N,N-Bis(2-Aminoethyl)-1,2-Ethanediamine, Cyclized, Me Sulfates.

Bill: 109-s-2216
Sponsor: Sen. DeMint, Jim [R-SC]
Introduced: 2006-01-30 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Commerce
Polymers
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2006-01-30
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 2008, the duty on 1,4-Benzenedicarboxylic Acid, Polymer With N,N-Bis(2-Aminoethyl)-1,2-Ethanediamine, Cyclized, Me Sulfates. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-01-30
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2006-01-30
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to suspend temporarily the duty on Aniline 2.5 Di-sulphonic Acid.

Bill: 109-s-2217
Sponsor: Sen. DeMint, Jim [R-SC]
Introduced: 2006-01-30 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Chemicals
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2006-01-30
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 2008, the duty on Aniline 2.5 Di-sulphonic Acid.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-01-30
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2006-01-30
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to extend the temporary suspension of duty on certain sawing machines.

Bill: 109-s-2218
Sponsor: Sen. DeMint, Jim [R-SC]
Introduced: 2006-01-30 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Automobile tires
Commerce
Machinery
Tariff
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2006-01-30
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend the suspension, through December 31, 2009, of the duty on certain sawing machines. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-01-30
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2006-01-30
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to extend the temporary suspension of duty on certain sector mold press machines.

Bill: 109-s-2219
Sponsor: Sen. DeMint, Jim [R-SC]
Introduced: 2006-01-30 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Automobile tires
Commerce
Machinery
Tariff
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2006-01-30
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend the suspension, through December 31, 2009, of the duty on certain sector mold press machines.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-01-30
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2006-01-30
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to extend the temporary suspension of duty on certain manufacturing equipment for molding.

Bill: 109-s-2220
Sponsor: Sen. DeMint, Jim [R-SC]
Introduced: 2006-01-30 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Automobile tires
Commerce
Machinery
Tariff
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2006-01-30
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend the suspension, through December 31, 2009, of the duty on certain manufacturing equipment for molding.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-01-30
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2006-01-30
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to extend the temporary suspension of duty on certain extruders used in the production of radial tires.

Bill: 109-s-2221
Sponsor: Sen. DeMint, Jim [R-SC]
Introduced: 2006-01-30 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Automobile tires
Commerce
Machinery
Tariff
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2006-01-30
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend the suspension, through December 31, 2009, of the duty on certain extruders used in the production of radial tires.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-01-30
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2006-01-30
text: Introduced in Senate