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To suspend temporarily the duty on 2,4-Xylidine.

Bill: 109-hr-1785
Sponsor: Rep. Jenkins, William L. [R-TN-1]
Introduced: 2005-04-21 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Chemicals
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 2008, the duty on 2,4-Xylidine.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: Introduced in House
To suspend temporarily the duty on Crotonaldehyde.

Bill: 109-hr-1786
Sponsor: Rep. Jenkins, William L. [R-TN-1]
Introduced: 2005-04-21 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Chemicals
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 2008, the duty on Crotonaldehyde (2-butenaldehyde).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: Introduced in House
To suspend temporarily the duty on t-Butyl acrylate.

Bill: 109-hr-1787
Sponsor: Rep. Jenkins, William L. [R-TN-1]
Introduced: 2005-04-21 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Chemicals
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 2008, the duty on t(ert)-Butyl acrylate.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: Introduced in House
To suspend temporarily the duty on propyl gallate.

Bill: 109-hr-1788
Sponsor: Rep. Jenkins, William L. [R-TN-1]
Introduced: 2005-04-21 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Chemicals
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 2008, the duty on Benzoic acid 3,4,5-trihydroxy-, propyl ester (propyl gallate).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: Introduced in House
Health Professionals Substance Abuse Education Act

Bill: 109-hr-1789
Sponsor: Rep. Kennedy, Patrick J. [D-RI-1]
Introduced: 2005-04-21 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Alcoholism
Community health services
Counseling
Curricula
Dentists
Drug abuse
Drug abuse prevention
Drug abuse treatment
Drug addiction
Drugs and youth
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Evaluation research (Social action programs)
Families
Federal aid to education
Higher education
Marriage counseling
Medical education
Medical research
Medication abuse
Nongovernmental organizations
Paramedical personnel
Parents
Pharmacists
Physicians' assistants
Psychologists
Research centers
Scholarships
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare
Social work
Teacher education
Technology transfer

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: 
Health Professionals Substance Abuse Education Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to provide support and continue grants to specified organizations to train health professionals to: (1) recognize substance abuse in their patients or patients' family members; (2) intervene, treat, or refer for treatment those individuals who are affected by substance abuse; (3) identify and assist children of substance abusing parents; (4) serve as advocates and resources for community-based substance abuse prevention programs; and (5) address the non-therapeutic use of prescription medications.
 
Directs the Secretary to: (1) encourage community colleges and other academic institutes to offer academic credit for classes offered by the Addiction Technology Transfer Centers; (2) conduct a process and outcome evaluation of the programs and activities carried out under this Act; and (3) establish and administer a substance abuse faculty fellowship program.
 
Requires the Secretary to establish centers of excellence at U.S. medical centers or universities to: (1) initiate, promote, and implement training, research, and clinical activities related to targeted issues or special areas of focus; and (2) provide opportunities for interdisciplinary collaboration in curriculum development, course development, clinical practice, research and translation of research into practice, and policy analysis and formulation.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to reduce the rate of tax on distilled spirits to its pre-1985 level.

Bill: 109-hr-1791
Sponsor: Rep. Lewis, Ron [R-KY-2]
Introduced: 2005-04-21 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Alcohol tax
Budget surpluses
Economics and Public Finance
Federal budgets
Government trust funds
Social Welfare
Social security finance
Tax rates

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: Amends the Internal Revenue Code to reduce the tax rate on distilled spirits.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: Introduced in House
Stop Senior Hunger Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-1792
Sponsor: Rep. LoBiondo, Frank A. [R-NJ-2]
Introduced: 2005-04-21 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Authorization
Department of Health and Human Services
Economics and Public Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Nutrition

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: 
Stop Senior Hunger Act of 2005 - Amends the Older Americans Act of 1965 to extend through FY 2010 the authorization of appropriations for nutrition services for older individuals through congregate programs at local senior centers and through home-delivery programs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-06-21
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H4356)
action_date: 2005-05-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Select Education.
action_date: 2005-04-22
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E743)
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: Introduced in House
Fueling the U.S.A. Through Unlimited Reliable Energy Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-1793
Sponsor: Rep. Lofgren, Zoe [D-CA-16]
Introduced: 2005-04-21 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Alternative energy sources
Buy American
Commercialization
Communication in science
Computer simulation
Congress
Congress and foreign policy
Congressional oversight
Congressional reporting requirements
Construction costs
Cost accounting
Cost effectiveness
Decision making
Economics and Public Finance
Electric power production
Energy research
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Hydrogen
International Affairs
International competitiveness
International cooperation in science
Laboratories
Nuclear energy research
Nuclear facilities
Nuclear fusion
Performance measurement
Planning
Research and development
Research and development facilities
Science, Technology, Communications
Scientists
Technological innovations
Treaties

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: 
Fueling the U.S.A. Through Unlimited Reliable Energy Act of 2005 - Declares that it shall be the policy of the United States to conduct research, development, demonstration, and commercial application activities to provide for the scientific, engineering, and commercial infrastructure necessary to ensure that the United States is competitive with other nations in providing fusion energy for its own needs and the needs of other nations, including by demonstrating electric power or hydrogen production for the United States energy grid utilizing fusion energy at the earliest date possible.
 
Instructs the Secretary of Energy to transmit to Congress a plan meeting specified requirements for carrying out such policy.
 
Authorizes the Secretary, subject to certain guidelines, to negotiate an agreement for U.S. participation in ITER (international burning plasma fusion research project). 
 
Directs the Secretary to develop a plan for the participation of U.S. scientists in ITER that includes the U.S. research agenda for ITER, methods to evaluate whether ITER is promoting progress toward making fusion a reliable and affordable source of power, and a description of how work at ITER will relate to other elements of the domestic fusion program. 
 
Directs the Secretary to send to Congress a plan for implementing a domestic burning plasma experiment such as Fusion Ignition Research Experiment (FIRE), if at any time during the negotiations on ITER the Secretary determines that construction and operation of ITER is unlikely or infeasible.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy.
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Science.
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: Introduced in House
9/11 Can You Hear Me Now Act

Bill: 109-hr-1794
Sponsor: Rep. Maloney, Carolyn B. [D-NY-14]
Introduced: 2005-04-21 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime and Law Enforcement
Emergency communication systems
Federal-city relations
Fire departments
Fire fighters
Geographic information systems
Government Operations and Politics
Government procurement
Identification devices
New York City
Office buildings
Radio
Science, Technology, Communications
Terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: 
9/11 Can You Hear Me Now Act - Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security to procure development and provision of a communications system for the New York City Fire Department, including appropriate radios and upgrades to the Department's critical information dispatch system that allow communication in all locations and under all conditions in which firefighters can reasonably be expected to work.
 
Directs that any communications system procured include provision to each firefighter of a supplemental radio communication device that: (1) allows the firefighter to transmit emergency notification warning signals to other firefighters; and (2) has the capability to operate automatically by transmitting messages that will relay an incapacitated firefighter's identification and location.
 
Requires that upgrades procured: (1) provide useful, detailed data concerning all likely terrorist target locations in the city; and (2) be capable of providing to responding firefighters, instantaneously, details about particular buildings and other locations to assist in making decisions about how to mitigate a terrorist attack.
 
Requires that: (1) radios, any dispatch system upgrades, and supplemental communication devices procured be tested; and (2) the Secretary coordinate with the city to ensure that the communications system procured is compatible with city plans to upgrade its 911 system and interoperable with other public safety communications systems.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet.
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E729-730)
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: Introduced in House
Whatever It Takes To Rebuild Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-1795
Sponsor: Rep. Maloney, Carolyn B. [D-NY-14]
Introduced: 2005-04-21 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Crime and Law Enforcement
Disaster loans
Disaster relief
Economics and Public Finance
Federal-local relations
Federal-state relations
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government lending
Income tax
Interest
International Affairs
Local finance
Local taxation
New York City
New York State
September 11, 2001
State finance
State taxation
Taxation
Terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: Whatever It Takes To Rebuild Act of 2005 - Amends the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to: (1) authorize the President to make community disaster loans to State governments; (2) eliminate the $5 million limit on the amount of any such loan; and (3) prohibit the President from requiring the payment of any interest or principal on such a loan made to a State or local government which may suffer a substantial loss of tax and other revenues as a result of a major disaster caused by a terrorist attack. Provides that this Act shall apply to any major disaster occurring on or after October 30, 2000. 
Authorizes the President to make community disaster loans to New York City and the State of New York for tax and other revenue losses as a result of the major disaster caused by the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Provides that the total amount of such loans shall be $8.8 billion or such greater amount as is determined by the President to be necessary to cover such losses. Prohibits the President from requiring the payment of any interest or principal on such loans.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-10-20
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2140)
action_date: 2005-04-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E728)
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: Introduced in House
Clean Ocean and Safe Tourism Anti-Drilling Act

Bill: 109-hr-1798
Sponsor: Rep. Pallone, Frank, Jr. [D-NJ-6]
Introduced: 2005-04-21 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Atlantic Ocean
Continental shelf
Gas in submerged lands
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Mining leases
Ocean mining
Oil and gas leases
Petroleum in submerged lands
Prospecting
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Submarine oil well drilling

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: Clean Ocean and Safe Tourism Anti-Drilling Act, or the COAST Anti-Drilling Act - Amends the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to prohibit the Secretary of the Interior from issuing a lease for the exploration, development, or production of oil, natural gas, or any other mineral in either the Mid-Atlantic or the North Atlantic planning areas.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-26
text: Executive Comment Requested from Interior.
action_date: 2005-04-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: Introduced in House
To extend the duty suspension on ORGASOL polyamide powders.

Bill: 109-hr-1799
Sponsor: Rep. Peterson, John E. [R-PA-5]
Introduced: 2005-04-21 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Commerce
Polymers
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend the suspension, through December 31, 2008, of the duty on ORGASOL polyamide powders.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: Introduced in House
Retirement Security Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-1800
Sponsor: Rep. Petri, Thomas E. [R-WI-6]
Introduced: 2005-04-21 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Accounting
Administrative procedure
Alien labor
American investments
Annuities
Auditing
Child abuse
Child sexual abuse
Collection of accounts
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Contracts
Crime and Law Enforcement
Damages
Divorce
Economics and Public Finance
Families
Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board
Federal-state relations
Finance and Financial Sector
Financial statements
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Garnishment
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Government securities
Government trust funds
Illegal aliens
Immigration
Income tax
Information disclosure (Securities law)
Intergovernmental tax relations
Investments
Labor and Employment
Law
Local taxation
Married people
Mutual funds
Old age, survivors and disability insurance
Pension funds
Securities
Separation (Law)
Small business
Social security finance
Social security numbers
State taxation
Stocks
Surety and fidelity
Survivors' benefits
Tax deductions
Tax exemption
Tax-deferred compensation plans
Taxation
Trusts and trustees
Withholding tax

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: 
Retirement Security Act of 2005 - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act to create a new part B (Individual Retirement Investment Program) providing for personal Social Security investment accounts (investment accounts) for certain new Social Security account holders.
 
Amends the Social Security Amendments of 1983 and the Internal Revenue Code to provide for financing of Government contributions to investment accounts and for the tax treatment of individual retirement investment program and personal Social Security investment accounts.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Social Security.
action_date: 2005-04-22
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E734-735)
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: Introduced in House
Teaching Fellows Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-1801
Sponsor: Rep. Price, David E. [D-NC-4]
Introduced: 2005-04-21 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Collection of accounts
College costs
Colleges
Community colleges
Distance education
Economics and Public Finance
Education of the disadvantaged
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Families
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Higher education
Law
Leadership
Licenses
Paraprofessional school personnel
Public schools
Revolving funds
Scholarships
Secondary education
Social Welfare
Student loan funds
Teacher education
Teacher supply and demand

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: 
Teaching Fellows Act of 2005 - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to direct the Secretary of Education to make competitive matching grants to States for Teaching and Partnership Fellows programs of scholarships for prospective public school teachers.
 
Provides for scholarships: (1) under the Teaching program for high school seniors and second-year college students to encourage them to enter the teaching field and become career educators; and (2) under the Partnership program for individuals, such as teaching assistants and others currently in the education field, to complete a bachelor's degree with a State license or certification in education through partnerships among associate-and-bachelor-degree-granting institutions.
Requires scholarship recipients to repay specified amounts if they do not fulfill certain obligations to teach in their State's public elementary or secondary schools, under such Federal Teaching and Partnership Fellows program.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness.
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Tariff Act of 1930 with respect to the marking of imported live bovine animals.

Bill: 109-hr-1802
Sponsor: Rep. Rehberg, Dennis R. [R-MT-At Large]
Introduced: 2005-04-21 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Animals
Cattle
Commerce
Imports
Labeling

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: 
Amends the Tariff Act of 1930 with respect to the requirement that an article of foreign origin (or its container) imported into the United States be marked in a conspicuous place to indicate to an ultimate purchaser in the United States the English name of the article's country of origin.
 
Excludes live bovine animals from the exception to such requirement (thus subjecting them to it).
 
Requires each live bovine animal to be marked as to country of origin by means of branding or an equally permanent method of marking.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow amounts in a health flexible spending arrangement that are unused during a plan year to be carried over to subsequent plan years or deposited into certain health or retirement plans.

Bill: 109-hr-1803
Sponsor: Rep. Royce, Edward R. [R-CA-40]
Introduced: 2005-04-21 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Annuities
Employee health benefits
Flexible benefit plans
Health
Income tax
Individual retirement accounts
Labor and Employment
Medical economics
Medical savings accounts
Tax exclusion
Tax-deferred compensation plans

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to permit up to $500 of unused health benefits to be carried forward to the next year of a health or retirement plan or arrangement, or to be contributed to a health savings account or a qualified retirement plan, without affecting the status of such plan or arrangement as a tax-exempt employee benefit cafeteria plan. Sets forth rules for the tax treatment of contributions to such plans.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: Introduced in House
To prescribe the oath of renunciation and allegiance for purposes of the Immigration and Nationality Act.

Bill: 109-hr-1804
Sponsor: Rep. Ryun, Jim [R-KS-2]
Introduced: 2005-04-21 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Allegiance
Government Operations and Politics
Oaths

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: 
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to prescribe the oath of renunciation and allegiance for purposes of such Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims.
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: Introduced in House