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To provide additional funding for State health insurance counseling programs for Medicare part D enrollment.

Bill: 109-hr-4737
Sponsor: Rep. Thompson, Mike [D-CA-1]
Introduced: 2006-02-08 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Access to health care
Appropriations
Drugs
Economics and Public Finance
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Grants-in-aid
Health counseling
Health insurance
Health maintenance organizations
Managed care
Medicare
Prescription pricing
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2006-02-08
text: 
Makes additional appropriations to the Secretary of Health and Human Services for state health insurance counseling programs on Medicare part D (Voluntary Prescription Drug Benefit Program) and Medicare Advantage-Prescription Drug plan enrollment.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-02-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman.
action_date: 2006-02-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and 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: 2006-02-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and 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: 2006-02-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and 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: 2006-02-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and 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: 2006-02-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-02-08
text: Introduced in House
Commission to Strengthen Confidence in Congress Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-4738
Sponsor: Rep. Udall, Mark [D-CO-2]
Introduced: 2006-02-08 in the House
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: 2006-02-08
text: 
Commission to Strengthen Confidence in Congress Act of 2006 - Establishes in the legislative branch 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: 2006-02-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.
action_date: 2006-02-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-02-08
text: Introduced in House
Civilian Agent Orange Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-4739
Sponsor: Rep. Wexler, Robert [D-FL-19]
Introduced: 2006-02-08 in the House
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Birth defects
Claims
Compensation (Law)
Department of Defense
East Asia
Economics and Public Finance
Environmental Protection
Evidence (Law)
Families
Federal employees
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Government trust funds
Health
Herbicides
Labor and Employment
Occupational health and safety
South Korea
Subcontractors
Survivors' benefits
Vietnam
Vietnamese Conflict
Workers' compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2006-02-08
text: 
Civilian Agent Orange Act of 2006 - Establishes: (1) the Agent Orange Illness Compensation Program to be carried out by the Attorney General; and (2) the Agent Orange Illness Compensation Fund in the Treasury. Entitles an eligible exposed employee, or the eligible survivor of such employee, to $100,000 compensation.
 
Defines an &quot;exposed employee&quot; as an individual who: (1) was a civilian employee of the federal government, an employee of a contractor, or subcontractor at any tier of the Department of Defense; (2) was an employee present in the Republic of Vietnam or in or near the Korean demilitarized zone during the period beginning September 1, 1976, and ending on August 31, 1971; and (3) suffered injury or death by reason of an Agent Orange illness.
 
 
Defines &quot;eligible survivors&quot; as the surviving spouse or, if there is no surviving spouse, all surviving children of the employee who had not yet attained the age of 18 when the employee died or was permanently disabled. 
 
Offsets a payment of any compensation made under this Act by any claim paid on the basis of the same illness or death due to exposure to Agent Orange herbicides.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-02-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2006-02-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-02-08
text: Introduced in House
Save Our Small and Seasonal Businesses Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-4740
Sponsor: Rep. Bass, Charles F. [R-NH-2]
Introduced: 2006-02-14 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Admission of nonimmigrants
Alien labor
Aliens
Labor and Employment
Temporary employment
Visas

Summary:
action_date: 2006-02-14
text: 
Save Our Small and Seasonal Businesses Act of 2006 - Amends the Save Our Small and Seasonal Businesses Act of 2005 to extend for three years the annual cap exemption for returning H-2B aliens (temporary nonagricultural worker). 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-02-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2006-02-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-02-14
text: Introduced in House
Global Internet Freedom Act

Bill: 109-hr-4741
Sponsor: Rep. Ros-Lehtinen, Ileana [R-FL-18]
Introduced: 2006-02-14 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Censorship
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Computer security measures
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Department of State
Executive reorganization
Freedom of association
Freedom of speech
Freedom of the press
Government Operations and Politics
Human rights
Information technology
Internet
Political persecution
Science, Technology, Communications
Technological innovations
United Nations

Summary:
action_date: 2006-02-14
text: Global Internet Freedom Act - Establishes in the International Broadcasting Bureau the Office of Global Internet Freedom to develop and implement a comprehensive global strategy to combat state-sponsored and state-directed Internet jamming by repressive foreign governments, and the intimidation and persecution by such governments of their citizens who use the Internet. Requires an annual report from the Office to Congress on the status of state-sponsored and state-directed Internet jamming by repressive foreign governments and a description of U.S. efforts to counter such jamming. 
Expresses the sense of Congress that the United States should: (1) denounce repressive foreign governments that engage in Internet jamming; (2) direct the U.S. Representative to the United Nations (UN) to submit a resolution condemning repressive foreign governments that engage in Internet jamming and deny their citizens the freedom to access and share information on the Internet; and (3) deploy technologies aimed at defeating state-sponsored and state-directed Internet jamming by repressive foreign governments, and the intimidation and persecution by such governments of their citizens who use the Internet.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-02-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on International Relations.
action_date: 2006-02-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-02-14
text: Introduced in House
To amend part D of title XVIII of the Social Security Act to require prescription drug plans to provide enrollee notice of less expensive part D covered drugs that may be substituted for dispensed drugs.

Bill: 109-hr-4743
Sponsor: Rep. Ford, Harold E., Jr. [D-TN-9]
Introduced: 2006-02-14 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Coinsurance
Commerce
Consumer education
Drugs
Finance and Financial Sector
Health insurance
Health maintenance organizations
Managed care
Medical economics
Medicare
Prescription pricing
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2006-02-14
text: 
Amends part D (Voluntary Prescription Drug Benefit Program) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to require prescription drug plans to provide enrollee notice of less expensive part D covered drugs that may be substituted for dispensed drugs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-02-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2006-02-14
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2006-02-14
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2006-02-14
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2006-02-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-02-14
text: Introduced in House
To designate the Department of Veterans Affairs Outpatient Clinic in Tulsa, Oklahoma, as the Ernest Childers Department of Veterans Affairs Outpatient Clinic.

Bill: 109-hr-4744
Sponsor: Rep. Sullivan, John [R-OK-1]
Introduced: 2006-02-14 in the House
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Ambulatory care
Armed Forces and National Security
Clinics
Congress
Congressional tributes
Health
History
Minorities
Names
Native Americans
Oklahoma
Veterans' hospitals
World War II

Summary:
action_date: 2006-02-14
text: 
Designates the Department of Veterans Affairs Outpatient Clinic in Tulsa, Oklahoma, as the &quot;Ernest Childers Department of Veterans Affairs Outpatient Clinic.&quot;


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-02-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2006-02-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2006-02-14
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E152-153)
action_date: 2006-02-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-02-14
text: Introduced in House
Services to Prevent Veterans Homelessness Act

Bill: 109-hr-4746
Sponsor: Rep. Bradley, Jeb [R-NH-1]
Introduced: 2006-02-14 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Case management
Day care
Drug abuse
Drug abuse treatment
Economics and Public Finance
Families
Federal aid to housing
Financial planning
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Health
Health insurance
Homeless
Housing and Community Development
Housing subsidies
Indian housing
Labor and Employment
Law
Legal services
Low-income housing
Mental health services
Minorities
Post-traumatic stress disorder
Poverty
Rural housing
Social Welfare
Trusts and trustees
Veterans' benefits
Veterans' employment
Veterans' medical care
Veterans' rehabilitation

Summary:
action_date: 2006-02-14
text: 
Services To Prevent Veterans Homelessness Act - Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to provide financial assistance to eligible entities (private nonprofit organizations or consumer cooperatives) to provide and coordinate the provision of various supportive services for very low-income veteran families occupying permanent housing. Requires: (1) equitable geographic distribution of such assistance; and (2) the Secretary to provide training and technical assistance to participating entities regarding the planning, development, and provision of such services.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-02-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.
action_date: 2006-02-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2006-02-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-02-14
text: Introduced in House
Louisiana Emergency Needs Corps of Engineers Authorization Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-4748
Sponsor: Rep. Jindal, Bobby [R-LA-1]
Introduced: 2006-02-14 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Canals
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Compensation (Law)
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Eminent domain
Flood control
Flood damage prevention
Hurricane aftermath legislation
Hurricanes
Law
Louisiana
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Water Resources Development

Summary:
action_date: 2006-02-14
text: 
Louisiana Emergency Needs Corps of Engineers Authorization Act of 2006 - Directs the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, to report to Congress identifying: (1) activities to reconstruct hurricane and flood protection measures relating to canals adjacent to Lake Pontchartrain in the Jefferson and Orleans parishes in accordance with federally authorized levels of hurricane and flood protection; (2) activities to protect, restore, and reduce the risk of storm damage in Louisiana coastal areas in which a major disaster relating to Hurricane Katrina or Hurricane Rita was declared by the President on or after August 29, 2005; (3) activities to fortify, strengthen, and improve hurricane protection and flood control infrastructure in existence on or before August 28, 2005; and (4) any activity included in the Chief's report dated August 23, 2002, that the Secretary determines to be integral to the protection of life and property in the disaster area.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to implement such activities at full federal cost, absent a resolution of congressional disapproval, 30 days after the report is submitted.
 
Directs the Secretary, in acquiring property to improve, reconstruct, or develop hurricane and flood protection measures relating to Hurricane Katrina or Rita, to compensate the owner without taking into consideration damage caused by the hurricane. Allows the Secretary to reduce the amount of compensation paid by the amount of any other payment received by the owner, including from an insurance claim or from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-02-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
action_date: 2006-02-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2006-02-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-02-14
text: Introduced in House
Royalty Relief for American Consumers Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-4749
Sponsor: Rep. Markey, Edward J. [D-MA-7]
Introduced: 2006-02-14 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Commerce
Energy
Energy prices
Gas industry
Oil and gas leases
Oil and gas royalties
Petroleum industry
Subsidies

Summary:
action_date: 2006-02-14
text: 
Royalty Relief for American Consumers Act of 2006 - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to suspend relief from any federal requirement to pay royalty (thus requiring the payment of royalties to the federal government) for production of oil or natural gas from federal lands (including submerged lands) during any period in which average prices of either crude oil or natural gas exceed specified amounts. 
 
Instructs the Secretary to seek to renegotiate certain existing leases authorizing production of oil or natural gas on federal land to conform with this Act.
 
Conditions eligibility for renewal of such leases or new leases for existing lessees upon compliance with this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-02-17
text: Executive Comment Requested from Interior.
action_date: 2006-02-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
action_date: 2006-02-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2006-02-14
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E144)
action_date: 2006-02-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-02-14
text: Introduced in House
Savings for Working Families Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-4751
Sponsor: Rep. Pitts, Joseph R. [R-PA-16]
Introduced: 2006-02-14 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Bank accounts
Bank records
Capital
College costs
Community development banking
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Education
Federal aid to Indians
Fees
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Grants-in-aid
Higher education
Home ownership
Housing and Community Development
Housing finance
Income tax
Minorities
Nonprofit organizations
Personal budgets
Saving and investment
Social Welfare
Tax credits
Tax exclusion
Tax exemption
Welfare eligibility

Summary:
action_date: 2006-02-14
text: 
Savings for Working Families Act of 2006 - Allows certain low-income individuals between age 18 and 61 to establish tax-exempt individual development accounts (IDAs) to pay for certain qualified expenses, including education expenses, first-time homebuyer costs, and business capitalization or expansion costs. Sets forth rules for the establishment, maintenance, and termination of IDAs. Permits tax-free withdrawals from IDAs for qualified expenses, but requires IDA beneficiaries to complete one or more financial education courses prior to making an IDA withdrawal.

Allows certain financial institutions, tax-exempt organizations, and Indian tribes to sponsor and administer IDAs. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow such entities a business-related tax credit for the cost of administering IDAs and for making matching contributions to IDAs in parallel accounts. 

Provides that IDA amounts shall be disregarded for purposes of determining eligibility for assistance under certain means-tested federal programs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-02-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2006-02-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-02-14
text: Introduced in House
Universal National Service Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-4752
Sponsor: Rep. Rangel, Charles B. [D-NY-15]
Introduced: 2006-02-14 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Armed forces reserves
Compulsory military service
Conscientious objectors
Disability evaluation
Disabled
Draft registration
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Executive Office of the President
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Higher education
Labor and Employment
Law
Military discharges
Military education
Military training
National service
Physical examinations
Recruiting and enlistment
Religion
Secondary education
Social Welfare
Students
Women
Women soldiers

Summary:
action_date: 2006-02-14
text: 
Universal National Service Act of 2006 - Declares that it is the obligation of every U.S. citizen, and every other person residing in the United States, between the ages of 18 and 42 to perform a two-year period of national service, unless exempted, either as a member of an active or reserve component of the armed forces or in a civilian capacity that promotes national defense. Requires induction into national service by the President. Sets forth provisions governing: (1) induction deferments, postponements, and exemptions, including exemption of a conscientious objector from military service that includes combatant training; and (2) discharge following national service.
 
Amends the Military Selective Service Act to authorize the military registration of females. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-02-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2006-02-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2006-02-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-02-14
text: Introduced in House
Gift of Life Congressional Medal Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-4753
Sponsor: Rep. Stark, Fortney Pete [D-CA-13]
Introduced: 2006-02-14 in the House
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Awards, medals, prizes
Coins and coinage
Congress
Congressional tributes
Donation of organs, tissues, etc.
Economics and Public Finance
Families
Finance and Financial Sector
Gifts
Government trust funds
Health
Health information systems
Sunset legislation
Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc.

Summary:
action_date: 2006-02-14
text: 
Gift of Life Congressional Medal Act of 2006 - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to design and strike a bronze medal to commemorate organ donors and their families.
 
Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to direct the entity holding the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network to contract to establish an application procedure and determine eligibility. 
Allows the Secretary of Health and Human Services or the Network contractor to provide duplicates of the medal to any recipient. 
Allows the Secretary of the Treasury to enter into an agreement with the Network contractor to collect funds to offset expenditures relating to the issuance of medals, which the Secretary shall deposit in the Numismatic Public Enterprise Fund.
 



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-03-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Domestic and International Monetary Policy, Trade, and Technology.
action_date: 2006-02-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman.
action_date: 2006-02-14
text: Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, 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: 2006-02-14
text: Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, 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: 2006-02-14
text: Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, 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: 2006-02-14
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E141)
action_date: 2006-02-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-02-14
text: Introduced in House