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Energy Price Discipline Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-4114
Sponsor: Rep. LoBiondo, Frank A. [R-NJ-2]
Introduced: 2005-10-20 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Commerce
Crime and Law Enforcement
Diesel motor
Energy prices
Energy supplies
Federal Trade Commission
Fines (Penalties)
Gas industry
Gasoline
Government Operations and Politics
Independent regulatory commissions
Law
Natural gas
Petroleum
Petroleum industry
Petroleum refineries
Profit
Restrictive trade practices
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2005-10-20
text: 
Energy Price Discipline Act of 2005 - Declares it is unlawful for any entity engaged in the petroleum or gasoline business to sell crude oil, gasoline, diesel fuel, natural gas, or petroleum distillates at an unjust or unreasonable price.
 
Directs the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to promulgate rules to enforce this Act, and to establish what constitutes an unjust or unreasonable price, taking the following factors into consideration: (1) the relation of the price to the prevailing price of that commodity in the market in the same geographic region during the previous 12-month period; (2) shipping, manufacturing, or other costs to the entity; (3) whether there has been a national or regional disruption in the supply of the commodity; and (4) whether there is any indication of the entity taking unfair advantage of any circumstances.
 
Prescribes FTC enforcement guidelines, including civil and criminal penalties.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-11-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality.
action_date: 2005-10-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2005-10-20
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2147-2148)
action_date: 2005-10-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-10-20
text: Introduced in House
To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 118 East Hancock Street in Milledgeville, Georgia, as the "Boddie Davis Simmons Post Office Building".

Bill: 109-hr-4115
Sponsor: Rep. Marshall, Jim [D-GA-3]
Introduced: 2005-10-20 in the House
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Blacks
Congress
Congressional tributes
County politics and government
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Georgia
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Local officials
Minorities
Minorities in government
Minorities in medicine
Names
Physicians
Postal facilities
Teachers
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2005-10-20
text: Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 118 East Hancock Street in Milledgeville, Georgia, as the "Boddie Davis Simmons Post Office Building."

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-10-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Government Reform.
action_date: 2005-10-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-10-20
text: Introduced in House
To prohibit the Secretary of Transportation from requiring the sounding of a locomotive horn in suburban areas in nonpeak traffic hours.

Bill: 109-hr-4116
Sponsor: Rep. McCarthy, Carolyn [D-NY-4]
Introduced: 2005-10-20 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Environmental Protection
Noise
Railroad safety
Railroads
Suburbs
Traffic signs and signals
Urban affairs

Summary:
action_date: 2005-10-20
text: 
Amends federal transportation law to prohibit the Secretary of Transportation from requiring the sounding of a locomotive horn in suburban areas in nonpeak traffic hours.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-11-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Railroads.
action_date: 2005-10-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2005-10-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-10-20
text: Introduced in House
To permit the cancellation of certain loans under the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act.

Bill: 109-hr-4117
Sponsor: Rep. Melancon, Charlie [D-LA-3]
Introduced: 2005-10-20 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Collection of accounts
Disaster loans
Disaster relief
Economics and Public Finance
Federal-local relations
Government Operations and Politics
Government lending
Hurricane aftermath legislation
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Local finance
Local taxation
Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2005-10-20
text: 
Amends the Community Disaster Loan Act of 2005 to repeal the prohibition against cancelling (thus permitting the cancellation) of certain disaster loans authorized under the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to assist local governments in providing essential services.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-10-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
action_date: 2005-10-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2005-10-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-10-20
text: Introduced in House
Human Cloning Prevention Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-4118
Sponsor: Rep. Paul, Ron [R-TX-14]
Introduced: 2005-10-20 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Cloning
Commerce
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid programs
Federal aid to research
Genetic research
Genetics
Government Operations and Politics
Government and business
Government contractors
Human embryology
Medical research
Research grants
Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
action_date: 2005-10-20
text: 
Human Cloning Prevention Act of 2005 - Prohibits any federal agency from making, or entering into any obligation to make, any grant, contract, or other payment to any individual, business, institution, or organization that: (1) has engaged in human cloning in the past year; or (2) controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with any such individual or entity. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-11-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2005-10-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2005-10-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-10-20
text: Introduced in House
Passport for All Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-4120
Sponsor: Rep. Poe, Ted [R-TX-2]
Introduced: 2005-10-20 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Admission of nonimmigrants
Aliens
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Diplomacy
Emergency Management
Immigrants
International Affairs
International agencies
International cooperation
Passports
Standards
Travel

Summary:
action_date: 2005-10-20
text: 
Passport for All Act of 2005 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to eliminate passport waiver authority for immigrant and nonimmigrant aliens and U.S. citizens (thus requiring a passport for all travel into or from the United States). Authorizes passport waiver for a U.S. citizen in individual cases of unforeseen emergency or humanitarian or national interest.
 
Amends the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 to require (by January 1, 2008) that all U.S. citizens and aliens carry and produce a passport when traveling into the United States (except as provided by this Act).
 
Directs the Secretary of State to endeavor to persuade all countries to issue machine-readable passports which comply with document identifying standards established by the International Civil Aviation Organization.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-07-11
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H5012-5013)
action_date: 2006-02-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims.
action_date: 2005-10-28
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H9418-9424)
action_date: 2005-10-20
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Homeland Security, and 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: 2005-10-20
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Homeland Security, and 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: 2005-10-20
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Homeland Security, and 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: 2005-10-20
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Homeland Security, and 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: 2005-10-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-10-20
text: Introduced in House
Disabled Veterans Commissary and Exchange Store Benefits Act

Bill: 109-hr-4121
Sponsor: Rep. Sodrel, Michael E. [R-IN-9]
Introduced: 2005-10-20 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Disabled
Families
Post exchanges
Veterans' benefits
Veterans' disability compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2005-10-20
text: 
Disabled Veterans Commissary and Exchange Store Benefits Act - Permits a veteran with any compensable service-connected disability (and their dependents) to use commissary and exchange stores on the same basis as a member of the Armed Forces entitled to retired or retainer pay.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-11-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2005-10-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2005-10-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-10-20
text: Introduced in House
Comprehensive Entitlement Reform Commission Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-4122
Sponsor: Rep. Tanner, John S. [D-TN-8]
Introduced: 2005-10-20 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Congress
Congressional agencies
Congressional reporting requirements
Economics and Public Finance
Entitlements
Federal advisory bodies
Health
Medicaid
Medicare
Old age, survivors and disability insurance
Social security finance

Summary:
action_date: 2005-10-20
text: 
Comprehensive Entitlement Reform Commission Act of 2005 - Establishes the Comprehensive Entitlement Reform Commission to review Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid and make comprehensive recommendations to sustain the solvency and stability of these programs for future generations. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-11-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman.
action_date: 2005-10-20
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2005-10-20
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2005-10-20
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2005-10-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-10-20
text: Introduced in House
Air Cargo Fire and Rescue Enhancement Act

Bill: 109-hr-4123
Sponsor: Rep. Weldon, Curt [R-PA-7]
Introduced: 2005-10-20 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Air cargo
Airlines
Airports
Aviation safety
Department of Transportation
Emergency Management
Fire prevention
Government Operations and Politics
Law
Licenses
Rescue work

Summary:
action_date: 2005-10-20
text: 
Air Cargo Fire and Rescue Enhancement Act - Amends federal transportation law to require the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to issue an airport operating certificate to a person desiring to operate an airport that serves an air carrier operating aircraft that provide all cargo air transportation and have a maximum certificated gross take-off weight of 100,000 pounds or greater.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-10-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Aviation.
action_date: 2005-10-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2005-10-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-10-20
text: Introduced in House
Children and Media Research Advancement Act

Bill: 109-hr-4124
Sponsor: Rep. Markey, Edward J. [D-MA-7]
Introduced: 2005-10-24 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Advertising
Agriculture and Food
Child development
Child health
Child nutrition
Child welfare
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Diet
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Families
Federal aid to child health services
Federal aid to research
Government Operations and Politics
Infants
Interactive media
Internet
Learning
Learning disabilities
Lifestyle
Medical research
Motion pictures
Obesity
Parent and child
Psychiatry
Psychology
Research grants
Science, Technology, Communications
Television and children
Video games
Wireless communication

Summary:
action_date: 2005-10-24
text: 
Children and Media Research Advancement Act or the CAMRA Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), to establish an independent panel of experts to: (1) review, synthesize, and report on research, theory, and applications in the social, behavioral, and biological sciences regarding the impact of the content and use of electronic media on youth in certain core areas of child and adolescent development; and (2) establish research priorities regarding such issues.
 
Requires the Secretary to: (1) initiate and support pilot projects to supplement and inform the panel's work; and (2) conduct or support additional research determined to be necessary by the panel concerning the role and impact of electronic media in the development of children and adolescents, with a particular focus on media content, format, length of exposure, age of the child or adolescent, and nature of parental involvement.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-11-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2005-10-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2005-10-24
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2153-2154)
action_date: 2005-10-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-10-24
text: Introduced in House
EXPENSE Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-4129
Sponsor: Rep. Sessions, Pete [R-TX-32]
Introduced: 2005-10-25 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Accounting
Commerce
Depreciation and amortization
Finance and Financial Sector
Income tax
Tax deductions

Summary:
action_date: 2005-10-25
text: 
Expensing Property Expands our Nation's Strong Economy Act of 2005 or the EXPENSE Act of 2005 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) repeal the limitations on the expensing of depreciable business assets; and (2) allow taxpers to elect a two-year recovery period for depreciable property.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-10-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-10-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-10-25
text: Introduced in House
Sludge Disclosure Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-4130
Sponsor: Rep. Andrews, Robert E. [D-NJ-1]
Introduced: 2005-10-25 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Business records
Commerce
Consumer education
Fertilizers
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Risk
Sewage sludge

Summary:
action_date: 2005-10-25
text: 
Sludge Disclosure Act of 2005 - Amends the Solid Waste Disposal Act to require any person who sells or transfers sludge from a waste treatment plant for agricultural or related purposes to disclose to purchasers and the public information on the source and content of such sludge.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-11-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment and Hazardous Materials.
action_date: 2005-10-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2005-10-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-10-25
text: Introduced in House
Public Health Emergency Medicines Act

Bill: 109-hr-4131
Sponsor: Rep. Brown, Sherrod [D-OH-13]
Introduced: 2005-10-25 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Access to health care
Commercialization
Compensation (Law)
Drug approvals
Drug industry
Drugs
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Exports
Federal aid to research
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Health
Intellectual property
Inventions
Law
Licenses
Medical supplies
Medical technology
Patents
Pharmaceutical research
Product development
Public health
Research grants
Restrictive trade practices
Risk
Science, Technology, Communications
Technology transfer
World health

Summary:
action_date: 2005-10-25
text: 
Public Health Emergency Medicines Act - Gives the Secretary of Health and Human Services the right to authorize use of the subject matter of a patent relating to health care without authorization of the patent holder if the Secretary determines that the invention is needed to address a public health emergency. Provides for reasonable remuneration for the patent holder for use of the patent.
 
Allows the Secretary to authorize the use of a patent, without the patent holder's authorization, to export medicines or other health care products that are needed to address global public health emergencies when the legitimate rights of the patent holder are protected in the export market. 
 
Authorizes the Secretary to immediately approve a new drug application upon request by a person authorized to manufacture the drug under this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-02-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property.
action_date: 2005-11-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman.
action_date: 2005-10-25
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2005-10-25
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2005-10-25
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2005-10-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-10-25
text: Introduced in House
Law Enforcement Cooperation Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-4132
Sponsor: Rep. Delahunt, William D. [D-MA-10]
Introduced: 2005-10-25 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Criminal justice information
Department of Justice
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
Federal law enforcement officers
Federal-local relations
Federal-state relations
Fines (Penalties)
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Informers
Law enforcement officers
Local laws
Police
Public prosecutors
State laws
Violence

Summary:
action_date: 2005-10-25
text: 
Law Enforcement Cooperation Act of 2005 - Amends the federal criminal code to prescribe penalties to be imposed on any officer or employee of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) who obtains knowledge in the course of official duty pertaining to a crime of violence that violates state or local law and who knowingly fails to promptly inform any chief law enforcement officer or local prosecuting official that such officer or employee reasonably should know has jurisdiction over the matter. Makes it the duty of such officer or employee to promptly notify the Attorney General that he or she has provided information.

action_date: 2006-07-14
text: 
Law Enforcement Cooperation Act of 2006 - Amends the federal criminal code to impose a fine and/or up to five year prison term on any officer or employee of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) who obtains information that a confidential informant or other individual has committed a serious violent felony in violation of state or local law and knowingly and intentionally fails to inform the appropriate chief state law enforcement official and local prosecutor.

Directs the FBI to inform the Attorney General that an FBI officer or employee has provided crime information under this Act. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-07-14
text: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 320.
action_date: 2006-07-14
text: Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Judiciary. H. Rept. 109-564.
action_date: 2006-07-14
text: Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Judiciary. H. Rept. 109-564.
action_date: 2006-07-12
text: Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Voice Vote.
action_date: 2006-07-12
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2005-10-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-10-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-10-25
text: Introduced in House
To provide that rates of pay for Members of Congress shall not be increased as a result of any adjustment otherwise scheduled to take effect in fiscal year 2006.

Bill: 109-hr-4134
Sponsor: Rep. Flake, Jeff [R-AZ-6]
Introduced: 2005-10-25 in the House
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Congressional salaries
Cost of living adjustments
Economics and Public Finance
Government spending reductions
Members of Congress

Summary:
action_date: 2005-10-25
text: 
Prohibits a Member of Congress from receiving during FY2006 a cost of living adjustment under the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-10-25
text: Referred to the Committee on House Administration, and in addition to the Committee on Government Reform, 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: 2005-10-25
text: Referred to the Committee on House Administration, and in addition to the Committee on Government Reform, 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: 2005-10-25
text: Referred to the Committee on House Administration, and in addition to the Committee on Government Reform, 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: 2005-10-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-10-25
text: Introduced in House