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A bill to permit certain funds made available for the Wagner Service Unit of the Indian Health Service to be used to pay expenses incurred in keeping the emergency room of that Unit open 24 hours per day, 7 days per week, through September 30, 2006.

Bill: 109-s-2174
Sponsor: Sen. Thune, John [R-SD]
Introduced: 2005-12-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Access to health care
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Emergency medicine
Federal aid to Indians
Federal aid to health facilities
Health
Hospital care
Indian medical care
Minorities
South Dakota

Summary:
action_date: 2005-12-21
text: 
Permits certain funds made available for the Wagner Service Unit (South Dakota) of the Indian Health Service to be used to pay expenses incurred in keeping the emergency room of that Unit open 24 hours per day, seven days per week, through September 30, 2006. 
 
Requires Indian tribes served by the Unit to pay for any expenses incurred in excess of those funds.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-12-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs.
action_date: 2005-12-21
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to require the submittal to Congress of any Presidential Daily Briefing relating to Iraq during the period beginning on January 20, 1997, and ending on March 19, 2003.

Bill: 109-s-2175
Sponsor: Sen. Kennedy, Edward M. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2005-12-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Bush (George W.) Administration
Congress
Congress and foreign policy
Congressional reporting requirements
Government Operations and Politics
International Affairs
Iraq
Iraq compilation
Middle East and North Africa
Military operations
President and foreign policy
President as Commander-in-Chief

Summary:
action_date: 2005-12-21
text: 
Requires the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) to submit to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and the House of Representatives Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence any Presidential Daily Briefing, or any portion of a Briefing, of the Director of Central Intelligence during the period January 20, 1997-March 19, 2003, that refers to Iraq or otherwise addresses Iraq in any fashion.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-12-22
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Intelligence. (text of measure as introduced: CR S14334)
action_date: 2005-12-21
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend title 10, United States Code, to modify eligibility for income replacement payments for Reserves experiencing extended and frequent mobilization for active duty service.

Bill: 109-s-2176
Sponsor: Sen. Bayh, Evan [D-IN]
Introduced: 2005-12-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Armed forces reserves
Earnings
Iraq compilation
Labor and Employment
Military pay

Summary:
action_date: 2005-12-21
text: 
Amends federal military pay provisions to reduce from 18 to six continuous months of active duty service under an involuntary mobilization order the eligibility requirement for income replacement payments for reserve personnel subject to extended and frequent mobilization for active duty service.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-12-22
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2005-12-21
text: Introduced in Senate
Phone Records Protection Act of 2006

Bill: 109-s-2177
Sponsor: Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL]
Introduced: 2006-01-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Broadband
Business records
Commerce
Consumer protection
Data banks
Fines (Penalties)
Fraud
Restrictive trade practices
Science, Technology, Communications
Telecommunication industry
Telephone
Wireless communication

Summary:
action_date: 2006-01-18
text: 
Phone Records Protection Act of 2006 - Amends the federal criminal code to prohibit the intentional sale or fraudulent transfer or use of the records of a customer of a telephone service provider. Imposes a fine and/or imprisonment of up to 10 years. Exempts law enforcement agencies. 
 
Defines &quot;telephone service&quot; to include cellular phones, broadband, and specialized mobile radio service.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-01-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S15)
action_date: 2006-01-18
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S15)
action_date: 2006-01-18
text: Introduced in Senate
Consumer Telephone Records Protection Act of 2006

Bill: 109-s-2178
Sponsor: Sen. Schumer, Charles E. [D-NY]
Introduced: 2006-01-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Business records
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Commerce
Consumer protection
Fraud
Internet
Restrictive trade practices
Right of privacy
Science, Technology, Communications
Telephone
Wireless communication

Summary:
action_date: 2006-01-18
text: 
Consumer Telephone Records Protection Act of 2006 - Amends the federal criminal code to prohibit: (1) the obtaining by fraud or other unauthorized means of confidential phone records information from a telecommunications carrier or IP-enabled voice service provider (covered entity); and (2) the sale of such records by any person, including any employee of a covered entity. Exempts law enforcement agencies.
 
 Imposes a fine and/or imprisonment for up to five years. Doubles such penalties for violations occurring in a 12-month period involving more than $100,000 or more than 50 customers of a covered entity. 

action_date: 2006-03-02
text: 

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

Consumer Telephone Records Protection Act of 2006 - Amends the federal criminal code to prohibit: (1) the obtaining by fraud or other unauthorized means of confidential phone records information from a telecommunications carrier or IP-enabled voice service provider (covered entity); and (2) the sale of such records by any person, including any employee of a covered entity. Exempts law enforcement agencies.

 Imposes a fine and/or imprisonment for up to five years. Doubles such penalties for violations occurring in a 12-month period involving more than $100,000 or more than 50 customers of a covered entity. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-03-02
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 368.
action_date: 2006-03-02
text: Committee on the Judiciary. Reported by Senator Specter without amendment. Without written report.
action_date: 2006-03-02
text: Committee on the Judiciary. Reported by Senator Specter without amendment. Without written report.
action_date: 2006-03-02
text: Committee on the Judiciary. Ordered to be reported favorably.
action_date: 2006-01-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2006-01-18
text: Introduced in Senate
CLEAN UP Act

Bill: 109-s-2179
Sponsor: Sen. Obama, Barack [D-IL]
Introduced: 2006-01-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Appropriations
Congressional conference committees
Congressional information resources
Congressional voting
Economics and Public Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Internet
Legislation
Members of Congress
Public meetings
Record votes
Science, Technology, Communications
Senate rules and procedure

Summary:
action_date: 2006-01-18
text: 
Curtailing Lobbyist Effectiveness Through Advance Notification, Updates, and Posting Act or the CLEAN UP Act - Amends rule XXVII (Conference Committees, Reports, Open Meetings) of the Standing Rules of the Senate to require the joint explanatory statement by a conference committee to identify and explain separately each provision of the report in violation of the rule against inclusion of new or non-germane matter, and, if possible, identify the Member who proposed such provision.
 
Makes it out of order to consider a conference report unless the senior managers from the majority and minority parties on the part of the Senate include in the accompanying statement of managers a signed statement that: (1) all Senate managers have been afforded an opportunity at a meeting of the conference committee to vote on all amendments and other propositions considered; (2) roll call votes have been held in public meetings of the conferees on the matter contained in any motion to instruct conferees passed by the Senate; and (3) the minority was offered an opportunity to submit dissenting or minority views for the joint statement.
 
Declares that the reading in full of any bill, resolution, conference report, or amendment shall not be dispensed with unless such measure is available to all Members and made available to the general public by means of the Internet for at least 72 hours before its consideration.
 
Prohibits consideration of an appropriation bill unless a list of all earmarks in the bill and accompanying reports is available in the same manner.
 
Allows a waiver of such prohibitions by a two-thirds majority vote of Members.
 

 
 

 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-01-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Rules and Administration.
action_date: 2006-01-18
text: Introduced in Senate
Medicare State Reimbursement Act of 2006

Bill: 109-s-2181
Sponsor: Sen. Lautenberg, Frank R. [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2006-01-20 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Access to health care
Collection of accounts
Drugs
Economics and Public Finance
Federal-state relations
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Health insurance
Health maintenance organizations
Interest
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Managed care
Medicaid
Medicare
Prescription pricing
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2006-01-20
text: 
Medicare State Reimbursement Act of 2006 - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act with respect to required state reimbursements to the Secretary of Health and Human Services for federal assumption of Medicaid prescription drug costs for dual-eligible individuals (Medicaid clawback).
 
Requires an offset from the Medicaid clawback for state prescription drug expenditures for covered part D (Voluntary Prescription Drug Benefit Program) drugs for Medicare beneficiaries enrolled in a part D plan but unable to access on a timely basis benefits to which they were entitled.
 
Requires the Secretary to provide for recovery of payment reductions owing to such offset from those part D or Medicare Advantage-Prescription Drug (MA-PD) plans that would otherwise be responsible for the expenditures made by the states.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-01-25
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S130)
action_date: 2006-01-20
text: Read twice and referred, under authority of the order of the Senate of Jan. 18, 2006,  to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR 1/24/2006 S24)
action_date: 2006-01-20
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR 1/24/2006 S23-24)
action_date: 2006-01-20
text: Introduced in Senate
Tax Code Termination Act

Bill: 109-s-2182
Sponsor: Sen. Isakson, Johnny [R-GA]
Introduced: 2006-01-20 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Capital
Capital investments
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Economics and Public Finance
Families
Federal advisory bodies
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Income tax
Internal revenue law
Labor and Employment
Legislation
Progressive taxation
Saving and investment
Tax administration
Tax incidence
Tax rates
Tax simplification
Taxpayer compliance

Summary:
action_date: 2006-01-20
text: 
 Tax Code Termination Act - Terminates the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 for taxable years beginning after 2008, except provisions of such Code relating to social security taxation (i.e., taxes on wage, self-employment, and railroad retirement income).

Establishes within the legislative branch a National Commission on Tax Reform and Simplification. Directs the Commission to: (1) review the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and its impact on the economy, families, and the workforce: (2) determine whether the current income tax system can be replaced by more a more efficient and fair system of taxation; and (3) submit a report to Congress on the results of its review with recommendations for fundamental reform and simplification of the Code.

Requires congressional approval of a new federal tax system no later than July 4, 2008, or a vote of Congress to reauthorize the Internal Revenue Code of 1986.



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-01-20
text: Read twice and referred, under authority of the order of the Senate of Jan. 18, 2006, to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2006-01-20
text: Introduced in Senate
Long-Term Care Resident Part D Assistance Act of 2006

Bill: 109-s-2184
Sponsor: Sen. Schumer, Charles E. [D-NY]
Introduced: 2006-01-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Access to health care
Administrative procedure
Commerce
Consumer education
Contracts
Department of Health and Human Services
Drugs
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Health counseling
Health insurance
Health maintenance organizations
Law
Managed care
Medicaid
Medical economics
Medicare
Nursing homes
Patients' rights
Pharmacies
Prescription pricing
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare
Telephone

Summary:
action_date: 2006-01-25
text: 
Long-Term Care Resident Part D Assistance Act of 2006 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish procedures (which may waive requirements) in order to provide residents of long-term care (LTC) facilities with assistance with respect to prescription drug coverage under part D (Voluntary Prescription Drug Benefit Program).
 
Requires such procedures to include at least: (1) a dedicated toll-free telephone number for LTC facility staff to request coverage information; and (2) plan selection assistance for full-benefit dual eligible LTC facility residents who have failed to enroll in a prescription drug plan or a Medicare Advantage-Prescription Drug (MA-PD) plan. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-01-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S126-130)
action_date: 2006-01-25
text: Introduced in Senate
IDEA Full Funding Act

Bill: 109-s-2185
Sponsor: Sen. Hagel, Chuck [R-NE]
Introduced: 2006-01-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Authorization
Department of Education
Disabled
Economics and Public Finance
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Secondary education
Special education

Summary:
action_date: 2006-01-25
text: 
IDEA Full Funding Act - Amends the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) to reauthorize part B programs of education of all children with disabilities. 

Authorizes appropriations for part B: (1) for FY2007-FY2011 in specified amounts; and (2) for FY2012 and each fiscal year thereafter in an amount equal to the sum of the maximum amounts of the grants all states may receive under certain IDEA provisions. (Provides phased-in increases of such authorized funding designed to reach a promised 40% federal share by FY2011.)

Makes appropriations for part B for FY2007-FY2011, as well as for FY2012 and each fiscal year thereafter, in amounts less than those this Act authorizes to be appropriated.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-01-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2006-01-25
text: Introduced in Senate
Commission to Strengthen Confidence in Congress Act of 2006

Bill: 109-s-2186
Sponsor: Sen. Coleman, Norm [R-MN]
Introduced: 2006-01-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Appropriations
Congressional agencies
Congressional employees
Congressional ethics
Congressional information resources
Congressional investigations
Congressional reorganization
Congressional reporting requirements
Congressional travel
Economics and Public Finance
Ex-Members of Congress
Federal budget process
Financial disclosure
Gifts
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
House rules and procedure
Lobbying
Members of Congress
Senate rules and procedure
Waste in government spending

Summary:
action_date: 2006-01-25
text: 
Commission to Strengthen Confidence in Congress Act of 2006 - Establishes a Commission to Strengthen Confidence in Congress to evaluate and report to Congress on congressional ethics requirements, and recommend improvements to ethical safeguards.
 
 

 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-01-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Rules and Administration. (text of measure as introduced: CR S134-135)
action_date: 2006-01-25
text: Introduced in Senate
Paul Coverdell Homestead Open Space Preservation and Conservation Act of 2006

Bill: 109-s-2187
Sponsor: Sen. Isakson, Johnny [R-GA]
Introduced: 2006-01-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Agricultural conservation
Agriculture and Food
Animals
Capital gains tax
Commerce
Conservation easements
Environmental Protection
Environmental protection groups
Farm lands
Forest conservation
Habitat conservation
Income tax
Land transfers
Nature conservation
Open space lands
Partnerships
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Tax credits
Tax exclusion
Tax-exempt organizations
Unrelated business income tax

Summary:
action_date: 2006-01-25
text: 
Paul Coverdell Homestead Open Space Preservation and Conservation Act of 2006 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow certain tax-exempt conservation organizations a tax credit for expenditures to acquire and maintain real property interests exclusively for conservation purposes. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-01-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2006-01-25
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to suspend temporarily the duty on hydrazine hydrate.

Bill: 109-s-2188
Sponsor: Sen. Santorum, Rick [R-PA]
Introduced: 2006-01-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Chemicals
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2006-01-25
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 2008, the duty on hydrazine hydrate.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-01-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2006-01-25
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to suspend temporarily the duty on certain fungicides containing zinc dimethyldithiocarbamate.

Bill: 109-s-2189
Sponsor: Sen. Santorum, Rick [R-PA]
Introduced: 2006-01-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Environmental Protection
Fungicides
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2006-01-25
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 2008, the duty on certain fungicides containing zinc dimethyldithiocarbamate.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-01-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2006-01-25
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to extend the temporary suspension of duty on 11-aminoundecanoic acid (monomer 11).

Bill: 109-s-2190
Sponsor: Sen. Santorum, Rick [R-PA]
Introduced: 2006-01-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Chemicals
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2006-01-25
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend the suspension, through December 31, 2008, of the duty on 11-aminoundecanoic acid (monomer 11).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-01-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2006-01-25
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to extend the temporary suspension of duty on thiophanate-methyl.

Bill: 109-s-2191
Sponsor: Sen. Santorum, Rick [R-PA]
Introduced: 2006-01-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Environmental Protection
Pesticides
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2006-01-25
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend the suspension, through December 31, 2008, of the duty on thiophanate methyl.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-01-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2006-01-25
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to extend the temporary suspension of duty on thiophanate-methyl fungicide 70% wettable powder.

Bill: 109-s-2192
Sponsor: Sen. Santorum, Rick [R-PA]
Introduced: 2006-01-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Environmental Protection
Fungicides
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2006-01-25
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 2008, the duty on thiophanate-methyl fungicide 70% wettable powder.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-01-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2006-01-25
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to establish fairness in the treatment of certain pension plans maintained by churches, and for other purposes.

Bill: 109-s-2193
Sponsor: Sen. Hutchison, Kay Bailey [R-TX]
Introduced: 2006-01-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Clergy
Commerce
Debt
Defined benefit pension plans
Finance and Financial Sector
Housing and Community Development
Income tax
Real estate investment
Religion
Taxation
Unrelated business income tax

Summary:
action_date: 2006-01-25
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exempt: (1) participants in church pension plans who are not highly compensated employees from certain defined benefit plan limitations; and (2) church-maintained retirement income accounts from the tax on unrelated debt-financed income from real property interests.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-01-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S135-136)
action_date: 2006-01-25
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S135)
action_date: 2006-01-25
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill for the relief of Nadezda Shestakova.

Bill: 109-s-2194
Sponsor: Sen. Stevens, Ted [R-AK]
Introduced: 2006-01-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Private Legislation
Subjects: Immigration

Summary:
action_date: 2006-01-25
text: 
Declares Nadezda Shestakova to have been lawfully admitted to the United States for permanent residence under the Immigration and Nationality Act upon payment of the required visa fees.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-01-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2006-01-25
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill for the relief of Ilya Shestakov.

Bill: 109-s-2195
Sponsor: Sen. Stevens, Ted [R-AK]
Introduced: 2006-01-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Private Legislation
Subjects: Immigration

Summary:
action_date: 2006-01-25
text: 
Declares Ilya Shestakov to have been lawfully admitted to the United States for permanent residence under the Immigration and Nationality Act upon payment of the required visa fees.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-01-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2006-01-25
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S136)
action_date: 2006-01-25
text: Introduced in Senate