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Restore a Rational Tax Rate on Petroleum Production Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-103
Sponsor: Sen. Kerry, John F. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Commerce
Corporation taxes
Energy
Gas companies
Gas industry
Income tax
Petroleum industry
Tax deductions
Tax rates

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
Restore a Rational Tax Rate on Petroleum Production Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to deny a tax deduction in the case of any major integrated oil company for income attributable to the domestic production, refining, processing, transportation, or distribution of oil, natural gas, or any primary product thereof.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S111)
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S111)
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Ethics in Government Act of 1978 to establish criminal penalties for knowingly and willfully falsifying or failing to file or report certain information required to be reported under that Act.

Bill: 110-s-104
Sponsor: Sen. Vitter, David [R-LA]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Crime and Law Enforcement
Federal employees
Federal officials
Finance and Financial Sector
Financial disclosure
Fraud
Government ethics
Government paperwork
Honoraria
Presidential ethics
Vice Presidents

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
Amends the Ethics in Government Act of 1978 to impose a fine and/or prison term of up to one year for an intentional failure to file or report certain financial information. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to prohibit the spouse of a Member of Congress previously employed as a lobbyist from lobbying the Member after the Member is elected.

Bill: 110-s-105
Sponsor: Sen. Vitter, David [R-LA]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Congress
Congressional ethics
Families
Government Operations and Politics
Lobbying
Married people
Members of Congress
Politicians' families

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
Amends the federal criminal code to subject to criminal penalties the spouse of a Member of Congress who knowingly lobbies on behalf of a client for compensation any Member of Congress, or is associated with any such lobbying activity by the spouse's employer, if that spouse was not serving as a registered lobbyist at least one year before the spouse Member's election.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in Senate
National Center for Social Work Research Act

Bill: 110-s-106
Sponsor: Sen. Inouye, Daniel K. [D-HI]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Child abuse
Chronically ill
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime and Law Enforcement
Day care
Department of Health and Human Services
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Executive reorganization
Families
Family services
Federal advisory bodies
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Health education
Higher education
Preventive medicine
Research centers
Scholarships
Science, Technology, Communications
Social work
Sociological research
Youth violence

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
National Center for Social Work Research Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to establish the National Center for Social Work Research as an agency of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to conduct, support, and disseminate targeted research on social work methods and outcomes related to problems of significant social concern.
 
Authorizes the Director of the Center to: (1) provide research training and instruction; (2) establish research traineeships and fellowships; (3) provide stipends and allowances; and (4) make grants to nonprofit institutions to provide such training, instruction, traineeships, and fellowships. 
 
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish an advisory council for the Center. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S111-112)
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S111)
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Strengthen the Public Health Service

Bill: 110-s-107
Sponsor: Sen. Inouye, Daniel K. [D-HI]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Discrimination in education
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Educational statistics
Federal aid to education
Federally-guaranteed loans
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Graduate education
Higher education
Medical education
Medical statistics
Psychologists
Sex discrimination
Student loan funds
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
Strengthen the Public Health Service Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to allow the Secretary of Health and Human Services to enter into an agreement for the establishment and operation of a student loan fund with any public or other nonprofit school that offers a graduate program in professional psychology.
 
Revises provisions concerning the collection of health professions data, sex discrimination in medical education programs, and definitions to make these applicable to "professional" (rather than "clinical") psychologists.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S113)
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S113)
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Psychologists in the Service of the Public Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-108
Sponsor: Sen. Inouye, Daniel K. [D-HI]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Access to health care
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Federal aid to health facilities
Graduate education
Higher education
Psychologists
Scholarships

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
Psychologists in the Service of the Public Act of 2007 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish a psychology postdoctoral program to make grants to and enter into contracts with eligible individuals and institutions to encourage the provision of psychological training and services in underserved treatment areas. Requires individuals to possess a doctoral degree in psychology and to agree to provide services to a medically underserved population during the grant and at least one year thereafter. Requires institutions to use provided amounts for fellowships to such individuals.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-18
text: Star Print ordered on the bill.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S113-114)
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S113)
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in Senate
National Academies of Practice Recognition Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-109
Sponsor: Sen. Inouye, Daniel K. [D-HI]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Commerce
Federal incorporation
Health
Medical associations

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: National Academies of Practice Recognition Act of 2007 - Grants a federal charter to the National Academies of Practice (a nonprofit corporation organized under the laws of the District of Columbia).

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S114)
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S114)
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Psychiatric and Psychological Examinations Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-110
Sponsor: Sen. Inouye, Daniel K. [D-HI]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Disabled
Health
Insanity defense
Law
Mental health services
Mental illness
Physical examinations
Psychiatry
Rehabilitation of the disabled
Social Welfare
Social work

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
Psychiatric and Psychological Examinations Act of 2007 - Amends the federal criminal code to allow clinical social workers (in addition to licensed or certified psychiatrists or psychologists) to conduct psychiatric or psychological examinations on criminal defendants to determine mental capacity to stand trial and insanity at the time of a criminal offense.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S115)
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S114)
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend title 10, United States Code, to recognize the United States Military Cancer Institute as an establishment within the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, to require the Institute to promote the health of members of the Armed Forces and their dependents by enhancing cancer research and treatment, to provide for a study of the epidemiological causes of cancer among various ethnic groups for cancer prevention and early detection efforts, and for other purposes.

Bill: 110-s-111
Sponsor: Sen. Inouye, Daniel K. [D-HI]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Cancer
Carcinogens
Congressional reporting requirements
Education
Environmental Protection
Environmental health
Epidemiology
Health
Higher education
Medical education
Medical research
Military hospitals
Military medicine
Minorities
Minority health
Nursing
Preventive medicine
Research centers
Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
 Establishes in the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences the United States Military Cancer Institute, headed by a Director, to carry out research studies on: (1) the epidemiological features of cancer among populations of various ethnic origins, as well as complementary research on oncologic nursing; (2) the prevention and early detection of cancer; and (3) basic, translational, and clinical investigation matters relating to such studies.
 
Directs the Institute to conduct the study in collaboration with other cancer research organizations and entities selected by the Institute.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services. (text of measure as introduced: CR S115)
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S115)
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Native Hawaiian Medicaid Coverage Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-112
Sponsor: Sen. Inouye, Daniel K. [D-HI]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Government Operations and Politics
Hawaii
Hawaiians
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Medicaid
Minorities
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
Native Hawaiian Medicaid Coverage Act of 2007 - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to provide full reimbursement (100% of the federal medical assistance percentage, or FMAP) for medical assistance given to a Native Hawaiian through a federally-qualified health center or a Native Hawaiian health care system.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S115-116)
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S115)
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to make appropriations for military construction and family housing projects for the Department of Defense for fiscal year 2007.

Bill: 110-s-113
Sponsor: Sen. Inhofe, James M. [R-OK]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Appropriations
Defense budgets
Department of Defense
Economics and Public Finance
Families
Government Operations and Politics
Housing and Community Development
Military base closures
Military construction operations
Military dependents
Military housing

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
Appropriates to the Department of Defense (DOD) for FY2007 for military construction, family housing, and base realignment and closure functions, an amount equal to that authorized to be appropriated for such purposes for such fiscal year under the Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2007 (Division B of the John Warner National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2007).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-08
text: Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 4.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in the Senate. Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Innovation Districts for School Improvement Act

Bill: 110-s-114
Sponsor: Sen. Obama, Barack [D-IL]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance
Charter schools
Collective bargaining
Community and school
Continuing education
Data banks
Disabled
Dropouts
Economics and Public Finance
Education of the disadvantaged
Educational accountability
Educational innovations
Educational tests
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Federal advisory bodies
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Higher education
Identification devices
Labor and Employment
Labor unions
Mathematics
Mentoring
Minorities
Minority education
Nonprofit organizations
Rating of teachers
Reading
Recruiting of employees
Scholarships
School administration
School districts
School personnel
Science, Technology, Communications
Scientific education
Secondary education
Social Welfare
Special education
Student records
Teacher education
Teacher salaries
Teacher supply and demand
Teachers

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
Innovation Districts for School Improvement Act - Directs the Secretary of Education to award competitive grants to 10 urban and 10 non-urban local educational agencies (LEAs) for the creation of innovation districts. 
 
Requires the LEAs to: (1) establish tests and longitudinal data systems to track the academic progress of each elementary and secondary school student and use such performance measures in evaluating and awarding school personnel and programs; (2) work with teacher representatives and other community partners to attain the administrative flexibility to staff more equitably all agency schools with effective personnel; (3) evaluate and award effective teachers on the basis of student progress and observations of teacher performance; (4) provide grants to recent college graduates and mid-career professionals to attend LEA-established Teacher Academies which provide classroom mentoring and concurrent teacher education from partner institutions in exchange for three years of service in hard-to-staff schools; (5) establish career ladders allowing teachers to progress from novice to master with a concomitant increase in compensation and responsibility for the development of fellow teachers; and (6) plan for the recruitment, training, and evaluation of school principals who are to serve as instructional leaders in the schools and hold significant responsiblity for teacher hiring and placement.
 
Allows the LEAs to support new schools or networks of public schools, serving predominantly disadvantaged students, which are sponsored by universities, education management organizations, or nonprofit organizations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Oil Subsidy Elimination for New Strategies on Energy Act

Bill: 110-s-115
Sponsor: Sen. Obama, Barack [D-IL]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Alaska
Commerce
Continental shelf
Depletion allowances
Depreciation and amortization
Economics and Public Finance
Energy prices
Energy transportation
Gas in submerged lands
Gas industry
Geology
Geophysical prediction
Gulf of Mexico
Income tax
Indexing (Economic policy)
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Natural gas
Oil and gas leases
Oil and gas royalties
Oil well drilling
Petroleum in submerged lands
Petroleum industry
Petroleum refineries
Pipelines
Prospecting
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Tax deductions
Taxation
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
Oil Subsidy Elimination for New Strategies on Energy Act or the Oil SENSE Act - Repeals provisions of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 relating to: (1) incentives for production from marginal oil wells; (2) incentives for natural gas production in the Gulf of Mexico; (3) royalty relief for deep water production; (4) Alaska offshore royalty suspension; (5) the inventory of Outer Continental Shelf oil and natural gas resources; (6) management of federal oil and gas leasing programs; and (7) ultra-deepwater and unconventional natural gas and other petroleum resources. 
 
Requires the Secretary of the Interior to: (1) suspend royalty relief for producers of oil or natural gas on federal lands during periods in which oil and natural gas production is at certain levels; and (2) renegotiate certain existing leases for oil and natural gas production on federal land.
 
Repeals provisions of the Internal Revenue Code relating to: (1) the election to expense certain costs associated with liquid fuel refineries; (2) accelerated depreciation of natural gas distribution lines and natural gas gathering lines; and (3) accelerated amortization of geological and geophysical expenditures. Reduces the daily barrel production requirement (from 75,000 to 50,000) applicable to small refiners eligible for the exemption from limitations on the oil and gas depletion allowance.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Summer Term Education Programs for Upward Performance Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-116
Sponsor: Sen. Obama, Barack [D-IL]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Education of the disadvantaged
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Federal aid to education
Literacy programs
Mathematics
Reading
Social Welfare
Year round schools

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
Summer Term Education Programs for Upward Performance Act of 2007, or the STEP UP Act of 2007 - Directs the Secretary of Education to make competitive demonstration grants to state educational agencies to pay the federal share of summer learning grants for eligible students to be summer scholars in summer learning opportunity programs primarily designed to increase the literacy and numeracy of such students.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-04-26
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S5177)
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Lane Evans Veterans Health and Benefits Improvement Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-117
Sponsor: Sen. Obama, Barack [D-IL]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Afghanistan
Anthrax
Armed forces reserves
Brain
Cemeteries and funerals
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Commemorations
Commerce
Congress
Congress and military policy
Congressional reporting requirements
Counseling
Disabled
Drugs
Education
Electronic government information
Families
Family services
Federal employees
Finance and Financial Sector
Flags
Government Operations and Politics
Government life insurance
Government publicity
Head injuries
Health
Health counseling
Higher education
Hospital care
Housing and Community Development
Housing for the disabled
Iraq
Iraq compilation
Labor and Employment
Marriage counseling
Medical screening
Mental health services
Middle East and North Africa
Military discharges
Military medals, decorations, etc.
Military operations
Mortgages
National Guard
Nursing homes
Physical examinations
Post-traumatic stress disorder
Recruiting and enlistment
Right of privacy
Small business
Social Welfare
South Asia
Survivors' benefits
Terrorism
Vaccines
Veterans' disability compensation
Veterans' education
Veterans' employment
Veterans' loans
Veterans' pensions
Veterans' rehabilitation
Vocational rehabilitation
War casualties

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
Lane Evans Veterans Health and Benefits Improvement Act of 2007 - Makes a veteran who served on active duty during a period of war eligible for a mental health evaluation and hospital care, medical services, nursing home care, and family and marital counseling for any identified mental health condition, notwithstanding insufficient medical evidence to conclude that the condition is attributable to such service.
 
Requires: (1) post-deployment medical and mental health screenings to be conducted within 30 days after a deployment; (2) each member, upon discharge, to be provided an electronic copy of all military records of such member; and (3) the Secretary of Defense to ensure appropriate outreach to members of the National Guard and reserves concerning benefits and services available upon discharge or deactivation.
 
Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to establish and maintain a Global War on Terrorism Veterans Information System.
 
Requires quarterly reports from the Secretaries of Veterans Affairs, Labor, and Defense on the effects on veterans and on each such department of participation in the Global War on Terrorism.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-08-02
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S10781)
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S116-117)
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Effective Corruption Prosecutions Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-118
Sponsor: Sen. Leahy, Patrick J. [D-VT]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Bribery
Conspiracy
Criminal investigation
Department of Justice
Economics and Public Finance
Electronic surveillance
Embezzlement
Extortion
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
Federal aid programs
Federal employees
Fraud
Government Operations and Politics
Government attorneys
Indictments
Larceny
Law
Limitation of actions
Misconduct in office
Organized crime
Prosecution
Public corruption
Public prosecutors
State laws

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
Effective Corruption Prosecutions Act of 2007 - Amends the federal criminal code to: (1) extend to eight years the statute of limitations for certain public corruption offenses involving bribery, theft of government funds, mail fraud, and racketeering; and (2) permit interception of wire, oral or electronic communications in connection the crimes of theft of federal funds or bribery (federal program bribery) and include such crimes within the definition of racketeering for purposes of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Practices Act (RICO).

Authorizes appropriations for additional Department of Justice personnel to investigate and prosecute public corruption offenses.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S118)
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S117-118)
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in Senate