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Trade Adjustment Assistance Improvement Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1963
Sponsor: Sen. Baucus, Max [D-MT]
Introduced: 2005-11-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Authorization
Economic statistics
Economics and Public Finance
Farm income
Farmers
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Labor and Employment
Trade adjustment assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2005-11-04
text: 
Trade Adjustment Assistance Improvement Act of 2005- Amends the Trade Act of 1974 to prohibit an adversely affected worker that would otherwise be entitled to a trade readjustment allowance (TRA) from being denied such allowance because of a pending judicial or administrative appeal regarding denial by the Secretary of Labor of a trade adjustment assistance (TAA) petition.
 
 
Establishes the Office of the Trade Adjustment Assistance Advisor in the Department of Labor.
 
Requires an employer's legal counsel or officer to certify any TAA petitions submitted to the Secretary as well as the accuracy or completeness of any requested evidence or information regarding the petition.
 
Modifies TAA certification requirements for a group of workers (including those in any agricultural firm or subdivision) where there has been a shift in production by such workers' firm or subdivision to a foreign country of articles like or directly competitive with articles produced by such firm or subdivision. Repeals the additional requirements that: (1) such country be a party to a free trade agreement with the United States or a beneficiary country under the Andean Trade Preference Act, African Growth and Opportunity Act, or the Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act; or (2) there has been or is likely to be an increase in imports of articles like or directly competitive with articles produced by such firm or subdivision.
 
Changes eligibility requirements for the demonstration project for alternative trade adjustment assistance for older workers.
 

 
Revises TRA eligibility requirements for adversely affected workers to: (1) extend training enrollment deadlines and TRA to accommodate such training; (2) modify funding for TRA training; and (3) include integrated workforce and entrepreneurial training in TRA approved training programs.
 
Trade Adjustment Assistance Accountability Act - Requires the Secretary to collect necessary data and establish an effective performance measuring system to evaluate: (1) TAA program performance and participation before and after the effective date of Trade Adjustment Assistance Reform Act of 2002; and (2) ensure state participation in the program.
 

 

 
Makes fishermen who harvest wild stock eligible for TAA.
 
Modifies TAA group eligibility requirements for agricultural commodity producers.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-11-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S12404-12406)
action_date: 2005-11-04
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S12402-12404)
action_date: 2005-11-04
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify the determination and deduction of interest on qualified education loans.

Bill: 109-s-1964
Sponsor: Sen. Snowe, Olympia J. [R-ME]
Introduced: 2005-11-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Education
Finance and Financial Sector
Higher education
Income tax
Interest
Student loan funds
Tax deductions

Summary:
action_date: 2005-11-04
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to set forth provisions governing the determination of interest amounts on education loans made after December 31, 2004, and treat such interest, with certain adjustments and restrictions, as tax deductible.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-11-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2005-11-04
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S12406-12407)
action_date: 2005-11-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Yakima-Tieton Irrigation District Conveyance Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1965
Sponsor: Sen. Cantwell, Maria [D-WA]
Introduced: 2005-11-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Government Operations and Politics
Government property
Irrigation
Irrigation districts
Land transfers
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Washington State

Summary:
action_date: 2005-11-07
text: 
Yakima-Tieton Irrigation District Conveyance Act of 2005 - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to convey certain buildings and lands of the Yakima Project, Washington, to the Yakima-Tieton Irrigation District.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-06-28
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Water and Power. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 109-677.
action_date: 2005-11-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2005-11-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Elizabeth Cady Stanton Pregnant and Parenting Student Services Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1966
Sponsor: Sen. Dole, Elizabeth [R-NC]
Introduced: 2005-11-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Access to health care
Adoption
Agriculture and Food
Clothing
College administration
College teachers
Colleges
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Day care
Distance education
Economics and Public Finance
Educational accountability
Families
Fathers
Federal aid to education
Finance and Financial Sector
Foster home care
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Health
Health counseling
Health insurance
Higher education
Housing and Community Development
Infant formulas
Infants
Marriage
Married people
Maternal health services
Mothers
Parent and child
Parents
Performance measurement
Pregnant women
School health programs
School personnel
Student housing
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2005-11-07
text: 
Elizabeth Cady Stanton Pregnant and Parenting Student Services Act of 2005 - Directs the Secretary of Education to establish a pilot program to provide grants to encourage eligible institutions of higher education to establish and operate pregnant and parenting student services offices for pregnant students, parenting students, prospective parenting students anticipating a birth or adoption, and students who are placing or have placed a child for adoption.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-11-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2005-11-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Secret Service Authorization and Technical Modification Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1967
Sponsor: Sen. Specter, Arlen [R-PA]
Introduced: 2005-11-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Criminal investigation
Department of Homeland Security
Diplomats
Embassies
Ex-presidents
Executive reorganization
Families
Federal law enforcement officers
Federal office buildings
Foreign leaders
Government Operations and Politics
International Affairs
Missing children
Presidential protection
Protection of officials
Secret service
Sentences (Criminal procedure)
Vice Presidents
White House (Washington, D.C.)

Summary:
action_date: 2005-11-07
text: 
Secret Service Authorization and Technical Modification Act of 2005 - Amends the federal criminal code to revise prohibitions on entering or remaining in areas the President or other person protected by the Secret Service is visiting. Prohibits willfully and knowingly entering or remaining in such an area that is restricted in conjunction with a special event of national significance, with intent to impede or disrupt business or access or to engage in violence. (Repeals provisions: (1) prohibiting willfully and knowingly entering or remaining, with such intent, in facilities designated by the Secretary of the Treasury as temporary residences and offices of the President, his staff, and other persons protected by the Secret Service; and (2) authorizing the Secretary to make such designations.) Specifies penalties for violations.
 
Revises prohibitions involving false or fraudulent identification documents to cover false documents that appear to represent a sponsoring entity of a special event of national significance.
 
Modifies the duties of the United States Secret Service Uniformed Division to include protection of: (1) any officer next in the order of succession to the Office of President after the Vice President, the President-elect, the Vice President-elect, and their immediate families; (2) former Presidents and their spouses; (3) a special event of national significance; (4) major presidential and vice presidential candidates and, within 120 days of the general presidential election, their spouses; and (5) visiting heads of foreign states or foreign governments. Specifies the authority of members of the Division to carry firearms and to make arrests without warrants for certain offenses. 
 
Authorizes the Secretary of Homeland Security to carry out functions related to the protection of foreign diplomatic missions located in metropolitan areas (other than the District of Columbia) where 20 or more such missions are located, and visits of foreign government officials to such areas, by contract or by using the services, personnel, equipment, and facilities of state and local governments on a reimbursable basis.
 
Requires the Secret Service to be maintained as a distinct entity within the Department of Homeland Security with its members reporting only to its Director.
 



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-11-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-11-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Court Security Improvement Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1968
Sponsor: Sen. Specter, Arlen [R-PA]
Introduced: 2005-11-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Appellate courts
Armed Forces and National Security
Bankruptcy courts
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Courthouses
Economics and Public Finance
Families
Federal aid to Indians
Federal aid to law enforcement
Finance and Financial Sector
Firearms
Government Operations and Politics
Government employees' health insurance
Government employees' life insurance
Health
Indian law enforcement
Judges
Judicial compensation
Judicial officers
Juries
Labor and Employment
Liens
Magistrates
Minorities
Protection of officials
Right of privacy
Security measures
State courts
Survivors' benefits
Victims of crimes
Weapons
Witnesses

Summary:
action_date: 2005-11-07
text: 
Court Security Improvement Act of 2005 - Amends the federal judicial code to require the Director of the U.S. Marshals Service and the Judicial Conference of the United States to consult and coordinate with each other on a continuing basis on security requirements for the judicial branch.
 
Extends protections against disclosure of judges' personal information through 2009 and includes family members of judges in such disclosure protections.
 
Amends the federal criminal code to prohibit: (1) the recording of fictitious liens against the property of federal judges and law enforcement officers; (2) the public disclosure of restricted personal information about judges, law enforcement officials, jurors, witnesses, or their immediate family members, with the intent to harm such individuals; and (3) the possession of dangerous weapons in federal court facilities.
 
Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to: (1) authorize the Attorney General to make grants to states, local governments, and Indian tribes to create and expand victim and witness protection programs; and (2) allow grants to states to improve security for for state and local court systems.
 
 Amends the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 to authorize grants to states to create and expand victim and witness protection programs.
 
Revises compensation standards for judges of the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims.
 
Extends life insurance coverage to active and retired bankruptcy, magistrate, and territorial judges and health insurance coverage for surviving family members of federal judges.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-11-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-11-07
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S12448-12449)
action_date: 2005-11-07
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to express the sense of the Senate regarding Medicaid reconciliation legislation to be reported by a conference committee during the 109th Congress.

Bill: 109-s-1969
Sponsor: Sen. Baucus, Max [D-MT]
Introduced: 2005-11-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: AIDS (Disease)
Access to health care
Budget reconciliation
Cancer
Child health
Chronically ill
Congress
Congressional conference committees
Diabetes
Disabled
Economics and Public Finance
Families
Human immunodeficiency viruses
Legislation
Medicaid
Mental health services
Mental illness
Poor children
Pregnant women
Social Welfare
Welfare eligibility
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2005-11-07
text: 
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the conferees for any budget reconciliation bill of the 109th Congress shall not report a reconciliation bill that would with respect to low-income children, pregnant women, disabled individuals, elderly individuals, individuals with chronic illnesses like HIV/AIDS, cancer, and diabetes, individuals with mental illnesses, and other Medicaid beneficiaries: (1) impair access to Medicaid services; (2) undermine eligibility for such beneficiaries; (3) make Medicaid services unaffordable, hence unavailable, to them; or (4) cut health care services them.
 
 Expresses the sense of the Senate, also, that the conferees shall not report a reconciliation bill that would undermine the federal guarantee of health insurance coverage that the Medicaid program provides, which would threaten not only the health care safety net of the United States, but the entire health care system of the United States. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-11-08
text: Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 283.
action_date: 2005-11-07
text: Introduced in the Senate. Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time.
action_date: 2005-11-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Browns Canyon Wilderness Act

Bill: 109-s-1971
Sponsor: Sen. Allard, Wayne [R-CO]
Introduced: 2005-11-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Colorado
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Government Operations and Politics
Maps
National forests
Wilderness areas

Summary:
action_date: 2005-11-07
text: 
Browns Canyon Wilderness Act - Designates certain lands in the Pike and San Isabel National Forests and certain lands in the Royal Gorge Resource Area of the Bureau of Land Management in Colorado as wilderness and as a component of the National Wilderness Preservation System to be known as Browns Canyon Wilderness.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-11-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2005-11-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Terrorist Lobby Disclosure Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1972
Sponsor: Sen. Santorum, Rick [R-PA]
Introduced: 2005-11-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congress
Congressional employees
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime and Law Enforcement
Foreign agents
Government paperwork
International Affairs
Lobbying
Members of Congress
State-sponsored terrorism
Terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2005-11-07
text: 
Terrorist Lobby Disclosure Act of 2005 - Amends the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995 to require a Member of Congress and any legislative branch employee to disclose and report to the Secretary of State and the appropriate Secretary of the Senate or the Clerk of the House of Representatives on any contacts with representatives or officials of governments that have been designated by the Department of State as state sponsors of terrorism.
 
Requires the Secretaries to provide the names of such individuals to specified congressional committees and subcommittees.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-11-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2005-11-07
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S12450)
action_date: 2005-11-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Energy Tax Rebate Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1973
Sponsor: Sen. Stabenow, Debbie [D-MI]
Introduced: 2005-11-08 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Appropriations
Civil actions and liability
Commerce
Competition
Consumer protection
Crime and Law Enforcement
Economics and Public Finance
Electronic government information
Energy assistance for the poor
Energy prices
Federal Trade Commission
Fines (Penalties)
Gasoline
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Income tax
Independent regulatory commissions
Law
Parties to actions
Petroleum
Petroleum industry
Price discrimination
Profit
Restrictive trade practices
Social Welfare
Tax rebates
Taxation
Wholesale trade

Summary:
action_date: 2005-11-08
text: 
Energy Tax Rebate Act of 2005 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide a formula for an energy tax rebate to eligible individuals for the taxable year beginning in 2005.
 
Expresses the sense of the Senate that Congress should appropriate $5.1 billion for FY2006 and each subsequent fiscal year for the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) under the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Act of 1981.
 
Declares it is unlawful for any person to sell crude oil, gasoline, or petroleum distillates at a price that: (1) is unconscionably excessive; or (2) indicates the seller is taking unfair advantage of circumstances to increase prices unreasonably.
 
 Prohibits geographic price-setting and territorial restrictions.
 
Empowers the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the State Attorneys General to enforce this Act. 
 
Sets forth civil and criminal penalties for violations of this Act.
 
Directs the FTC to: (1) facilitate price transparency in markets for the sale of crude oil and essential petroleum products at wholesale; (2) seek to ensure that consumers and competitive markets are protected from the adverse effects of potential collusion or other anticompetitive behaviors that can be facilitated by untimely public disclosure of transaction-specific information; and (3) conclude a memorandum of understanding with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and other appropriate agencies relating to information sharing.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-11-08
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S12528-12530)
action_date: 2005-11-08
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S12528)
action_date: 2005-11-08
text: Introduced in Senate
Drug Free Varsity Sports Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1974
Sponsor: Sen. Nelson, Bill [D-FL]
Introduced: 2005-11-08 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Drug abuse
Drug testing
Drugs and athletes
Economics and Public Finance
Elementary and secondary education
Federal aid to education
Parent and child
Secondary education
Sports and Recreation
Steroids
Students

Summary:
action_date: 2005-11-08
text: 
Drug Free Varsity Sports Act of 2005 - Directs the Secretary of Education, acting through the Assistant Deputy Secretary of the Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools, to award competitive grants to state educational agencies to develop and carry out statewide pilot programs that test secondary school students for performance-enhancing drug use.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-11-08
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S12530-12531)
action_date: 2005-11-08
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S12530)
action_date: 2005-11-08
text: Introduced in Senate
Deceptive Practices and Voter Intimidation Prevention Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1975
Sponsor: Sen. Obama, Barack [D-IL]
Introduced: 2005-11-08 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Civil actions and liability
Civil rights enforcement
Congress
Congressional elections
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime and Law Enforcement
Criminal investigation
Department of Justice
Election administration
Election fraud
Fines (Penalties)
Government publicity
Governmental investigations
Law
Presidential elections
Prosecution
Public service advertising
Voting
Voting rights

Summary:
action_date: 2005-11-08
text: 
Deceptive Practices and Voter Intimidation Prevention Act of 2005 - Amends the Revised Statutes and federal criminal law to prohibit any person, whether acting under color of law or otherwise, from knowingly deceiving any other person regarding: (1) the time, place, or manner of conducting any federal election; or (2) the qualifications for or restrictions on voter eligibility for any such election. Creates a private right of action for any person aggrieved by a violation of such prohibition.
 
Prescribes a criminal penalty for such deceptive acts.
 
Authorizes any person to report a deceptive act to the Assistant Attorney General (AAG) of the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice (or a designee).
 
Requires the AAG to investigate such a report within 48 hours after its receipt and provide correct information to the voters if it is determined that an act of deception occurred.
 
Requires an immediate investigation if such a report is received within 72 hours before an election. Directs the AAG, in such an instance, to undertake immediately all effective measures necessary to provide correct information to voters affected by the deception.
 
Directs the Attorney General to study the feasibility of providing such corrective information through public service announcements, the emergency alert system, or other forms of public broadcast.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-11-08
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Rules and Administration. (text of measure as introduced: CR S12531-12532)
action_date: 2005-11-08
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S12531)
action_date: 2005-11-08
text: Introduced in Senate
Iran Nonproliferation Enforcement Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1976
Sponsor: Sen. Feingold, Russell D. [D-WI]
Introduced: 2005-11-08 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Administrative procedure
American investments
Armed Forces and National Security
Arms sales
Commerce
Congress
Congress and foreign policy
Congressional oversight
Congressional reporting requirements
Defense industries
Economic assistance
Economics and Public Finance
Executive orders
Export controls
Federally-guaranteed loans
Finance and Financial Sector
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Government procurement
Government publicity
Iran
Law
Middle East and North Africa
Nuclear nonproliferation
President and foreign policy
Sanctions (International law)
Science, Technology, Communications
Subsidiary corporations
Technology transfer

Summary:
action_date: 2005-11-08
text: 
Iran Nonproliferation Enforcement Act of 2005 - Amends the Iran Nonproliferation Act of 2000 to: (1) make sanctions mandatory, and impose a minimum two-year sanction; (2) subject controlling and subsidiary companies of a foreign person to sanctions; (3) expand sanctions to include prohibitions on U.S. investment, financing, and financial assistance; and (4) expand the justification requirements for a presidential national security waiver of sanctions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-01-31
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S363)
action_date: 2005-11-08
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. (text of measure as introduced: CR S12533-12534)
action_date: 2005-11-08
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S12532-12533)
action_date: 2005-11-08
text: Introduced in Senate