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Strategy for Success in Iraq Act

Bill: 109-s-1993
Sponsor: Sen. Kerry, John F. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2005-11-10 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Armed forces abroad
Boundaries
Conferences
Congress
Congress and foreign policy
Congress and military policy
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime and Law Enforcement
Diplomacy
Diplomats
Energy
Ethnic relations
Government Operations and Politics
International cooperation
International military forces
Iraq
Iraq compilation
Job creation
Labor and Employment
Middle East and North Africa
Military assistance
Military bases
Military civic action
Military occupation
Military operations
Military strategy
Military training
Military withdrawal
Minorities
NATO countries
Petroleum
Petroleum industry
Police
Political participation
President and foreign policy
Public administration
Regionalism (International organization)
Russia
Sovereignty
War relief

Summary:
action_date: 2005-11-10
text: 
Strategy for Success in Iraq Act - Directs the the President to implement a comprehensive new strategy for success in Iraq that simultaneously pursues a political solution and the redeployment of U.S. forces tied to specific political and military benchmarks, including actions to achieve the following: (1) reducing the sense of U.S. occupation of Iraq; (2) giving Sunnis a real stake in Iraq's future; (3) appointing a high-level presidential envoy to strengthen U.S. diplomatic efforts with respect to Iraq; (4) developing a new regional security structure with U.S. participation to enlist the support of the Sunni neighbors of Iraq; (5) accelerating reconstruction efforts in Iraq by providing the necessary civilian personnel, establishing civil-military reconstruction teams, streamlining fund disbursement to the provinces, expanding job creation programs, and strengthening the capacity of Iraqi government ministries; and (6) creating the military conditions for the redeployment of U.S. forces. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-11-10
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
action_date: 2005-11-10
text: Introduced in Senate
Fuel Security and Consumer Choice Act

Bill: 109-s-1994
Sponsor: Sen. Harkin, Tom [D-IA]
Introduced: 2005-11-10 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Alternative energy sources
Automobile industry
Automobiles
Commerce
Diesel motor
Energy
Energy efficiency
Fuel consumption

Summary:
action_date: 2005-11-10
text: 
Fuel Security and Consumer Choice Act - Amends federal transportation law to require manufacturers of new automobiles that can operate on gasoline or diesel fuel (dual fueled automobiles) to manufacture such automobiles by increasing percentages for 10 model years and beyond. Allows manufacturers to earn credits which may be applied to any three consecutive model years after the year in which they were earned if the manufacturer exceeds the number of dual fueled automobiles required to be manufactured in a particular year. Authorizes a manufacturer to sell credits to another manufacturer to enable the purchaser to meet the percentage requirements under this Act.
 
Requires the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to measure the fuel economy for each model of dual fueled automobile based on certain formulas.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-11-10
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2005-11-10
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S12685-12686)
action_date: 2005-11-10
text: Introduced in Senate
Wastewater Treatment Works Security Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1995
Sponsor: Sen. Jeffords, James M. [I-VT]
Introduced: 2005-11-10 in the Senate
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Chemicals
Chlorine
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Civil actions and liability
Confidential communications
Crime and Law Enforcement
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Environmental Protection Agency
Environmental health
Environmental law enforcement
Environmental research
Environmental technology
Federal aid to water pollution control
Freedom of information
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Health
Infrastructure
Law
Nonprofit organizations
Science, Technology, Communications
Security measures
Social Welfare
Terrorism
Waste water treatment
Water supply
Water treatment plants

Summary:
action_date: 2005-11-10
text: 
Wastewater Treatment Works Security Act of 2005 - Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to authorize the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to provide grants to a wastewater treatment works, state, municipality, or intermunicipal or interstate agency to: (1) conduct vulnerability assessments of wastewater treatment works; (2) prepare and implement site security plans; (3) prepare emergency response plans; (4) implement certain security enhancements and alternative approaches to wastewater treatment to reduce security threats; and (5) obtain technical assistance.
 
Requires the Administrator to: (1) issue regulations to require owners or operators of wastewater treatment works to conduct vulnerability assessments and to implement and submit to the EPA site security and emergency response plans for treatment works; and (2) establish confidentiality protocols to protect information submitted by such owners or operators.
 
Authorizes the Administrator to: (1) provide technical guidance to small wastewater treatment works (serving a population of fewer than 10,000 people) on conducting vulnerability assessments, preparing emergency response and site security plans, and implementing security enhancements; (2) make grants to nonprofit organizations to improve vulnerability assessment methodologies and tools for publicly-owned treatment works, including those that are part of a combined wastewater treatment and water supply system; and (3) designate substances of concern based upon the threat from an unauthorized release from a treatment works. 
 
Requires the Administrator to research and review terrorist threats to wastewater treatment plants and alternative means for providing wastewater treatment in the event of attacks on such treatment plants.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-11-10
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2005-11-10
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S12686-12687)
action_date: 2005-11-10
text: Introduced in Senate
Stop Heating Oil Exports Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1996
Sponsor: Sen. Kohl, Herb [D-WI]
Introduced: 2005-11-10 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Commerce
Energy supplies
Export controls
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Heating
Liquefied petroleum gas
Petroleum
Petroleum industry

Summary:
action_date: 2005-11-10
text: 
Stop Heating Oil Exports Act of 2005 - Authorizes the Secretary of Energy to prohibit temporarily the exportation from the United States of a finished petroleum product or liquefied petroleum gas if its supply in any of the five Petroleum Allocation Defense Districts has fallen or will fall below expected demand.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-11-10
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S12687)
action_date: 2005-11-10
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S12687)
action_date: 2005-11-10
text: Introduced in Senate
School Energy Crisis Relief Act

Bill: 109-s-1997
Sponsor: Sen. Harkin, Tom [D-IA]
Introduced: 2005-11-10 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Education of the disadvantaged
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Energy
Energy prices
Federal aid to education
Gasoline
Heating
School districts
Secondary education
Social Welfare
Student transportation
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2005-11-10
text: 
School Energy Crisis Relief Act - Directs the Secretary of Energy to establish a grants program for eligible local educational agencies that have experienced the highest percentage increase (or expenditure increase) in transportation and heating fuel costs among all local educational agencies in a state for a specific time period during the 2005-2006 school year, in comparison to the same time period during the 2004-2005 school year.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-11-10
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2005-11-10
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S12687-12688)
action_date: 2005-11-10
text: Introduced in Senate
YouthBuild Transfer Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1999
Sponsor: Sen. Kerry, John F. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2005-11-10 in the Senate
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Affordable housing
Apprenticeship
Community development
Compensatory education
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Educational counseling
Elementary and secondary education
Employment agencies
Employment of the disadvantaged
Employment subsidies
English language
Families
Federal aid to housing
Government Operations and Politics
Grants-in-aid
Higher education
Homeless
Housing and Community Development
Infrastructure
Job hunting
Language and languages
Low-income housing
Mentoring
Residential rehabilitation
Secondary education
Social Welfare
Student aid
Vocational guidance
Youth employment
Youth services

Summary:
action_date: 2005-11-10
text: 
YouthBuild Transfer Act of 2005 - Transfers the YouthBuild program from the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to the Department of Labor.
 
Repeals authority for the HUD YouthBuild program under the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act.
 
Amends the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 to establish a revised YouthBuild program under the authority of the Secretary of Labor.
 



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-11-10
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2005-11-10
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S12689)
action_date: 2005-11-10
text: Introduced in Senate
Alaska Native Veterans Land Allotment Equity Act

Bill: 109-s-2000
Sponsor: Sen. Murkowski, Lisa [R-AK]
Introduced: 2005-11-10 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Alaska
Armed Forces and National Security
Department of the Interior
Estates (Law)
Families
Government Operations and Politics
Indian claims
Indian lands
Indigenous peoples
Land transfers
Law
Minorities
Survivors' benefits
Veterans' benefits
Vietnam veterans

Summary:
action_date: 2005-11-10
text: 
Alaska Native Veterans Land Allotment Equity Act - Amends the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA) with respect to the open season during which certain Alaska Native Vietnam veterans are eligible to file for allotments of up to two parcels of federal land totaling up to 160 acres. Ends such open season three years after regulations have been issued under this Act.
 
Revises the requirements for selection of such allotments. Allows allotments to be selected from land that is selected by or conveyed to the State of Alaska or a Native Corporation if the State or Native Corporation voluntarily relinquishes or conveys to the United States the land for the allotment.
 
Limits the prohibition against the conveyance of certain allotments to: (1) lands within the right-of-way granted for the TransAlaska Pipeline; or (2) the inner or outer corridor of such right-of-way.
 
Expands the eligibility for allotment to veterans who served between August 5, 1964, and May 7, 1975. Allows an heir (currently, only the personal representative or special administrator for the benefit of heirs) to apply for and receive an allotment on behalf of the estate of a deceased eligible individual.
 
Prescribes criteria for the approval of allotment applications. 
 
Permits any person who made an allotment selection under this Act to withdraw it and reselect land in accordance with this Act, if the land originally selected: (1) was selected before enactment of this Act; and (2) as of the enactment of this Act, was not conveyed to the person. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-11-10
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2005-11-10
text: Introduced in Senate
Department of Veterans Affairs Information Technology Management Improvement Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-2001
Sponsor: Sen. Thune, John [R-SD]
Introduced: 2005-11-10 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Appropriations
Chief information officers
Computer software
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Cost control
Department of Veterans Affairs
Economics and Public Finance
Executive reorganization
Federal officials
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government procurement
Information technology
Performance measurement
Planning-programming-budgeting
Productivity in government
Science, Technology, Communications
Strategic planning

Summary:
action_date: 2005-11-10
text: 
Department of Veterans Affairs Information Technology Management Improvement Act of 2005 - Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to ensure that the Chief Information Officer (CIO) of the Department of Veterans Affairs has the authority and control necessary for the development, approval, implementation, integration, and oversight of policies, procedures, processes, activities, and systems relating to the management of Department information technology.
 
Requires the: (1) Secretary to develop, implement, and maintain a process for the selection and oversight of information technology for the Department, including a strategic plan that includes performance measurements and an integrated enterprise architecture; and (2) CIO to review and update on an ongoing basis the plan and architecture.
 
Directs the CIO to select the CIOs for each of the Veterans Health Administration, Veterans Benefits Administration, and National Cemetery Administration, who will implement the plan and architecture within their departments.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-11-10
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2005-11-10
text: Introduced in Senate
Bridge Safety and Repair Demonstration Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-2004
Sponsor: Sen. Vitter, David [R-LA]
Introduced: 2005-11-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Bridges
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to transportation
Hawaii
Highway finance
Highway maintenance
Louisiana
Maine
Massachusetts
Mississippi
Missouri
New York State
Oklahoma
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
Vermont
West Virginia

Summary:
action_date: 2005-11-14
text: 
Bridge Safety and Repair Demonstration Act of 2005 - Amends federal highway law to direct the Secretary of Transportation to provide grants to the state departments of transportation for the states of Oklahoma, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, Missouri, Mississippi, New York, Vermont, West Virginia, Hawaii, Massachusetts, Maine, and Louisiana for the rehabilitation of the most structurally deficient off-system bridges in those states. 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-11-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2005-11-14
text: Introduced in Senate
National Flood Mapping Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-2005
Sponsor: Sen. Reed, Jack [D-RI]
Introduced: 2005-11-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Congress
Congressional investigations
Disaster insurance
Executive orders
Federal advisory bodies
Federal-local relations
Federal-state relations
Finance and Financial Sector
Flood control
Flood damage prevention
Floodplains
Floods
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Hurricane aftermath legislation
Hurricanes
Maps
Water Resources Development

Summary:
action_date: 2005-11-14
text: 
National Flood Mapping Act of 2005 - Amends the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 to require the Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to cooperate with state and local mapping partners in establishing, updating, and maintaining flood-risk zone data and estimating the rates of loss caused by floods in flood-risk zones.
 
Requires specified federal agency heads to give the highest practicable priority in the allocation of manpower and other resources to the review and updating of maps in coastal areas. 
 
Requires flood insurance maps and related information to be made available on the FEMA website and in a format that is digital and geospatial data-compliant.
 
Amends the National Flood Insurance Reform Act of 1994 to direct the Technical Mapping Advisory Council to make recommendations to the Director with respect to: (1) performance metrics and milestones to effectively and efficiently map flood risk areas; and (2) procedures for delegating mapping activities to state and local government mapping partners. Makes the Council permanent.
 
Requires the Under Secretary of Homeland Security for Emergency Preparedness and Response, acting through the Director of FEMA or a successor official, to establish a program for review, updating, and maintenance of National Flood Insurance Program rate maps in accordance with this Act.
 
Requires the Secretary of Homeland Security, for purposes of the National Flood Insurance Program, to identify areas that are, or could be, affected by hurricanes.
 
Directs the Comptroller General to review the guidance and regulations issued pursuant to Executive Order 11988 to: (1) determine federal agency compliance with the Order; and (2) make recommendations for restricting federal investment and assistance in floodplains.
 
Directs the Secretary to publish periodically an inventory of levees in the United States.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-11-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2005-11-14
text: Introduced in Senate
National Commission on Health Care Act

Bill: 109-s-2007
Sponsor: Sen. Salazar, Ken [D-CO]
Introduced: 2005-11-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Access to health care
Administrative procedure
Commerce
Congress
Congressional investigations
Congressional reorganization
Executive orders
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Health insurance
Insurance premiums
Law
Legislation
Medical economics
Public health administration
Quality of care

Summary:
action_date: 2005-11-14
text: 
National Commission on Health Care Act - Establishes in the legislative branch the National Commission on Health Care to conduct a study that investigates: (1) problems within the sphere of health care; (2) the rising costs of health care; (3) the impact of such rising costs on American businesses; (4) the provision of health care by state and local health care agencies; (5) the effects of increases in insurance premiums on health care coverage for businesses; (6) the private health insurance industry; (7) public health programs; (8) innovations and reforms necessary to increase the provision of affordable, quality health care to all Americans; (9) the role of congressional oversight and resource allocation; and (10) other relevant areas of the public and private sectors.
 
Directs the Commission to identify, review, evaluate, and report on the lessons learned from past legislative structuring of health care, coordination, management policies, and procedures of the federal government and, when appropriate, state and local governments and nongovernmental entities relative to administering, representing, implementing, and receiving health care
 
.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-11-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2005-11-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Tire-Derived Fuel Safety Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-2011
Sponsor: Sen. Jeffords, James M. [I-VT]
Introduced: 2005-11-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Air pollution control
Autoimmune diseases
Automobile tires
Birth defects
Child health
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Energy
Environmental Protection Agency
Environmental health
Environmental technology
Environmentally induced diseases
Epidemiology
Families
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Law
Licenses
Medical research
Paper and paper products
Pollution measurement
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Refuse as fuel
Respiratory diseases
Science, Technology, Communications
Standards
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2005-11-15
text: 
Tire-Derived Fuel Safety Act of 2005 - Prohibits the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from issuing a permit under the Clean Air Act authorizing the burning of tire-dervied fuel at any pulp or paper mill unless such mill meets specified performance standards promulgated by the Administrator or has agreed to install control equipment and operate at or below required emission performance standards. Allows the Administrator to issue interim permits under certain conditions.
 
Requires the Administrator to: (1) establish performance standards for fine particulates for new and existing mills; and (2) conduct studies of the health effects of increased emissions from the use of tire-derived fuel and report to Congress on such studies.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-11-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. (text of measure as introduced: CR S12849-12850)
action_date: 2005-11-15
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S12849)
action_date: 2005-11-15
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to expand and enhance educational assistance for survivors and dependents of veterans.

Bill: 109-s-2014
Sponsor: Sen. DeWine, Mike [R-OH]
Introduced: 2005-11-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Agricultural education
Agriculture and Food
Apprenticeship
Correspondence schools and courses
Disabled
Education
Educational tests
Elementary and secondary education
Families
Higher education
Labor and Employment
Military personnel
Rehabilitation of the disabled
Special education
Survivors' benefits
Veterans' benefits
Veterans' education

Summary:
action_date: 2005-11-15
text: 
Revises basic educational assistance for veterans' survivors and dependents to: (1) eliminate the present 45 month cap on benefit payments and set an aggregate limit of $80,000; (2) extend from a dependent's 26th to 30th birthday the delimiting age for the use of such assistance; (3) increase the amount of such assistance for survivors and dependents pursuing certain types of education; and (4) authorize the provision of tutorial assistance to such individuals without charge to their educational assistance entitlement.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-11-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2005-11-15
text: Introduced in Senate