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A bill to develop a policy to address the critical needs of Iraqi refugees.

Bill: 110-s-3177
Sponsor: Sen. Kennedy, Edward M. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2008-06-23 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Displaced persons
Economics and Public Finance
Executive Office of the President
Executive reorganization
Government Operations and Politics
Immigration
International agencies
Iraq
Iraq compilation
Middle East and North Africa
Refugees
Repatriation

Summary:
action_date: 2008-06-23
text: 
Establishes in the Executive Office of the President the position of White House Coordinator for Iraqi Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons who shall: (1) develop and implement U.S. policies, and coordinate federal functions, to address the protection, resettlement, and assistance needs of Iraqi refugees and displaced persons; (2) monitor the development and implementation of assistance strategies to countries in the Middle East hosting Iraqi refugees; (3) ensure that the President's budget requests to Congress are sufficient to meet the needs of such persons, including providing assistance for international efforts on behalf of such persons; (4) serve as principal liaison with the government of Iraq and the international community and organizations that are assisting such persons; and (5) ensure that the U.S. government will encourage refugee returns only when conditions permit safe and voluntary returns.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-06-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
action_date: 2008-06-23
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to authorize dental insurance for veterans and survivors and dependents of veterans, and for other purposes.

Bill: 110-s-3178
Sponsor: Sen. Burr, Richard [R-NC]
Introduced: 2008-06-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Dental care
Families
Finance and Financial Sector
Health
Health insurance
Insurance premiums
Military dependents
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2008-06-23
text: 
 Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to provide a dental insurance plan for any veteran enrolled in the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) annual patient enrollment system, as well as their survivors and dependents.
 
Provides for: (1) the payment of premiums for plan enrollment; and (2) voluntary plan disenrollment.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-06-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2008-06-23
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S5964-5965)
action_date: 2008-06-23
text: Introduced in Senate
End Oil Speculation Act of 2008

Bill: 110-s-3183
Sponsor: Sen. Dorgan, Byron L. [D-ND]
Introduced: 2008-06-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Commerce
Commodity Futures Trading Commission
Commodity exchanges
Energy
Futures trading
Government Operations and Politics
Governmental investigations
Independent regulatory commissions
Information disclosure (Securities law)
International Affairs
International cooperation
Law
Margins (Security trading)
Petroleum

Summary:
action_date: 2008-06-24
text: 
End Oil Speculation Act of 2008 - Amends the Commodity Exchange Act to direct the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to eliminate manipulation and excessive speculation on petroleum futures markets by investigation, regulation, and rulemaking, while distinguishing between: (1) transactions by commercial producers and purchasers (as well as counterparties) involving actual physical petroleum products for future delivery (&quot;legitimate hedge trading&quot;); and (2) all other trading.
 

 

 

 
Instructs the CFTC to review and: (1) revoke or modify prior action regarding certain transactions, participants, or petroleum futures market activity that is not a legitimate hedge trade; and (2) consider revoking results of prior actions that have the effect of limiting, reducing, or eliminating the full applicability of position limits on trading that is not legitimate hedge trading, or the filing of any report or data regarding a trade or trader.
 
Directs the CFTC to set margin requirements of at least 25% for any trading that is not legitimate hedge trading.
 
Directs the CFTC to subject to its regulation any person engaging in a petroleum futures market activity in any location unless and until the activity occurs in a market or exchange whose regulations are substantially identical to CFTC regulations and are fully enforced.
 
Requires the CFTC to ensure that petroleum futures market participant activities are fully and accurately disclosed. 
 
Instructs the CFTC to convene a working group of international regulators to develop uniform international oversight to protect petroleum futures markets from excessive speculation and other specified practices that pose systemic risks.
 



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-06-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
action_date: 2008-06-24
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S6021-6022)
action_date: 2008-06-24
text: Introduced in Senate
Empowering Teaching and Learning Through Education Portals Act

Bill: 110-s-3184
Sponsor: Sen. Kerry, John F. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2008-06-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Charitable contributions
Commerce
Computer software
Conferences
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Continuing education
Corporate philanthropy
Curricula
Data banks
Economics and Public Finance
Educational accountability
Educational planning
Educational technology
Educational television
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Families
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Graduate education
Higher education
Income tax
Interactive media
Labor and Employment
Parent-school relationships
Preschool education
Science, Technology, Communications
Secondary education
Tax deductions
Taxation
Teacher education
Teaching materials

Summary:
action_date: 2008-06-24
text: 
Empowering Teaching and Learning Through Education Portals Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Education to award matching grants to states to implement or maintain education portal initiatives that include collecting and making available: (1) high quality resources (including data, tools, and digital media content) for teachers, students, and parents, that support public education from Head Start through graduate school; and (2) resources for ongoing and sustainable teacher training in the use of education technology at such educational levels. Allows teachers, students, and parents to contribute resources to their state portal, which is to be accessible statewide.
 
Permits states to use funds available to them under part A (Teacher and Principal Training and Recruiting Fund) of title II of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to maintain such initiatives after their receipt of this Act's funding ends.
 
Requires the Secretary to hold a conference, at least biennially, for state advisory panels on education portal initiatives to share information on best practices.
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) count corporate contributions to such initiatives separately from other corporate contributions in applying charitable contribution deductibility limits; and (2) allow corporate deductions for contributions to such initiatives to reach 50% of a corporation's taxable income.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-06-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S6023-6024)
action_date: 2008-06-24
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S6022)
action_date: 2008-06-24
text: Introduced in Senate
Warm in Winter and Cool in Summer Act

Bill: 110-s-3186
Sponsor: Sen. Sanders, Bernard [I-VT]
Introduced: 2008-06-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Appropriations
Economics and Public Finance
Energy assistance for the poor
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2008-06-24
text: 
Warm in Winter and Cool in Summer Act - Makes appropriations for FY2008 for payments under the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Act of 1981 (LIHEAP Program).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-07-26
text: Motion to proceed to consideration of measure withdrawn in Senate. (consideration: CR S7509)
action_date: 2008-07-26
text: Motion by Senator Reid to reconsider the vote by which cloture was not invoked on the motion to proceed to the measure (Record Vote Number 187) entered in Senate. (consideration: CR S7508)
action_date: 2008-07-26
text: Cloture on the motion to proceed to the measure not invoked in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 50 - 35. Record Vote Number: 187. (consideration: CR S7506-7509; text: CR S7508)
action_date: 2008-07-24
text: Motion to proceed to measure considered in Senate. (consideration: CR S7207, S7246-7253, S7256-7262)
action_date: 2008-07-23
text: Cloture motion on the motion to proceed to the measure presented in Senate. (consideration: CR S7131; text: CR S7131)
action_date: 2008-07-23
text: Motion to proceed to consideration of measure made in Senate. (consideration: CR S7131-7140)
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S6212-6213)
action_date: 2008-06-25
text: Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 835.
action_date: 2008-06-24
text: Introduced in the Senate. Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time.
action_date: 2008-06-24
text: Introduced in Senate
Lung Cancer Mortality Reduction Act of 2008

Bill: 110-s-3187
Sponsor: Sen. Hagel, Chuck [R-NE]
Introduced: 2008-06-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Access to health care
Armed Forces and National Security
Carcinogens
Chemotherapy
Drug abuse
Economics and Public Finance
Federal advisory bodies
Federal aid to research
Government Operations and Politics
Lung cancer
Medical research
Medical tests
Military medicine
Minorities
Minority health
Mortality
Nicotine
Pharmaceutical research
Preventive medicine
Research grants
Science, Technology, Communications
Smoking
Surgery
Vaccines
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2008-06-25
text: 
Lung Cancer Mortality Reduction Act of 2008 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services (the Secretary) to implement a comprehensive program to achieve a 50% reduction in the mortality rate of lung cancer by 2015. Includes within such program: (1) a strategic review and prioritization of research grants; (2) an expansion of research programs, such as on predispositions to lung cancer; and (3) the expedited development of computer assisted diagnostic, surgical, treatment, and drug testing innovations.

Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to require the Secretary to provide incentives for the development of chemoprevention drugs for precancerous conditions of the lung, drugs for targeted therapeutic treatments and vaccines for lung cancer, and new agents to curtail or prevent nicotine addiction. 

Provides for compassionate access to drugs, biological products, and devices under the lung cancer mortality reduction program. Requires the Secretary to establish an early disease research and management program targeted at the high incidence and mortality rates among minority and low income populations.

Requires the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to coordinate with the Secretary in: (1) the development of the lung cancer mortality reduction program under this Act; (2) the implementation of an early detection and disease management research program for military personnel and veterans whose smoking history and exposure to carcinogens during active duty service has increased their risk for lung cancer; and (3) the implementation of coordinated care programs for military personnel and veterans diagnosed with lung cancer.

Requires the Secretary to establish a Lung Cancer Advisory Board to monitor the programs established under this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-06-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2008-06-25
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill for the liquidation or reliquidation of certain entries of top-of-the-stove stainless steel cooking ware from the Republic of Korea, and for other purposes.

Bill: 110-s-3188
Sponsor: Sen. Dodd, Christopher J. [D-CT]
Introduced: 2008-06-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Private Legislation
Subjects: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2008-06-25
text: 
Directs the Bureau of Customs and Border Protection to liquidate or reliquidate certain entries of top-of-the-stove stainless steel cooking ware from the Republic of Korea.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-06-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2008-06-25
text: Introduced in Senate
Earned Income Credit Information Act of 2008

Bill: 110-s-3190
Sponsor: Sen. Schumer, Charles E. [D-NY]
Introduced: 2008-06-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Earned income tax credit
Employee rights
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Income tax
Labor and Employment
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2008-06-25
text: 
Earned Income Credit Information Act of 2008 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to require certain employers (with more than 25 employees) to provide their employees with a notice explaining the earned income tax credit and eligibility rules for such credit. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-06-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S6161)
action_date: 2008-06-25
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S6160-6161, S6161-6162)
action_date: 2008-06-25
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Act of August 9, 1955, to authorize the Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Indians of Oregon, the Coquille Tribe of Oregon, and the Confederated Tribes of the Siletz Reservation, Oregon, to obtain 99-year lease authority for trust land, and to authorize the Morongo Band of Cahuilla Mission Indians of the Morongo Reservation, California, to obtain 50-year lease authority for trust land.

Bill: 110-s-3192
Sponsor: Sen. Wyden, Ron [D-OR]
Introduced: 2008-06-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: California
Indian lands
Leases
Minorities
Oregon

Summary:
action_date: 2008-06-25
text: 
Authorizes the Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Tribe of Indians, the Coquille Indian Tribe, and the Confederated Tribes of the Siletz Indians of Oregon to obtain 99-year lease authority for trust land. 

action_date: 2008-09-26
text: 
Amends federal law to authorize: (1) the Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Tribe of Indians, the Coquille Indian Tribe, and the Confederated Tribes of the Siletz Indians of Oregon to obtain 99-year lease authority for trust land; and (2) the Morongo Band of Cahuilla Mission Indians of the Morongo Reservation, California to obtain 50-year lease authority for trust land.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-09-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2008-09-27
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2008-09-27
text: Received in the House.
action_date: 2008-09-26
text: Passed Senate with an amendment and an amendment to the Title by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S9858-9859; text as passed Senate: CR S9858-9859)
action_date: 2008-09-26
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate with an amendment and an amendment to the Title by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S9858-9859; text as passed Senate: CR S9858-9859)
action_date: 2008-09-22
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 1041.
action_date: 2008-09-22
text: Committee on Indian Affairs. Reported by Senator Dorgan with an amendment in the nature of a substitute and an amendment to the title. With written report No. 110-480.
action_date: 2008-09-22
text: Committee on Indian Affairs. Reported by Senator Dorgan with an amendment in the nature of a substitute and an amendment to the title. With written report No. 110-480.
action_date: 2008-07-31
text: Committee on Indian Affairs. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
action_date: 2008-06-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs.
action_date: 2008-06-25
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to restrict nuclear cooperation with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Bill: 110-s-3193
Sponsor: Sen. Schumer, Charles E. [D-NY]
Introduced: 2008-06-25 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Energy
Export controls
Foreign Trade and International Finance
International cooperation
Iran
Law
Licenses
Middle East and North Africa
Nuclear energy
Nuclear exports
Nuclear nonproliferation
Saudi Arabia
Science, Technology, Communications
Technology transfer
Treaties

Summary:
action_date: 2008-06-25
text: 
Affirms the strong and historic ties between the United States and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
 
Disapproves of the May 2008 Memorandum of Understanding between the government of the United States of America and the government of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Concerning Cooperation in Nuclear Energy and Other Energy Fields. 
 
Reiterates that the United States is committed to nuclear weapons nonproliferation and to preventing the Islamic Republic of Iran's acquisition of nuclear weapons.
 
States that: (1) no agreement for nuclear cooperation between the United States and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia may enter into force on or after the date of the enactment of this Act; and (2) no nuclear materials and equipment or sensitive nuclear technology shall be exported or reexported, or transferred or retransferred, and no federal agency shall issue any license or authorization for the export or reexport, or transfer or retransfer of these items or assistance to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia if the end user is a nuclear production or utilization facility, or if the President determines that the material, equipment, technology, or item may be diverted to such a facility.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-06-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
action_date: 2008-06-25
text: Introduced in Senate
Oregon Surplus Federal Land Act of 2008

Bill: 110-s-3194
Sponsor: Sen. Smith, Gordon H. [R-OR]
Introduced: 2008-06-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Coast guard
Commemorations
Easements
Historic sites
History
Indian lands
Islands
Land transfers
Law
Lighthouses and lightships
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Minorities
Oregon
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2008-06-25
text: 
 Oregon Surplus Federal Land Act of 2008 - Requires transfer of administrative jurisdiction over Coast Guard lands in Coos County, Oregon (including Cape Arago Light Station on Chief's Island), in the areas commonly known as Gregory Point and Chief's Island, to the Secretary of the Interior to hold in trust for the benefit of the Confederated Tribes of the Coos, Lower Umpqua, and Siuslaw Indians and to be included in the reservation of those tribes. Allows the Coast Guard to retain easements for access to aids to navigation.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-09-23
text: Committee on Indian Affairs. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2008-06-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs.
action_date: 2008-06-25
text: Introduced in Senate
Healthy Transition Act of 2008

Bill: 110-s-3195
Sponsor: Sen. Smith, Gordon H. [R-OR]
Introduced: 2008-06-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Child health
Economics and Public Finance
Executive reorganization
Families
Federal aid to child health services
Federal aid to health facilities
Government Operations and Politics
Health planning
Mental health services
Youth
Youth services

Summary:
action_date: 2008-06-25
text: 
Healthy Transition Act of 2008 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to award grants or cooperative agreements to states: (1) to develop plans for the statewide coordination of services to assist adolescents and young adults with a serious mental health disorder in acquiring the skills, knowledge, and resources necessary to ensure their healthy transition to successful adult roles and responsibilities; and (2) for the coordination of such services.

Requires the Secretary to designate a federal entity, or establish a Committee of Federal Partners, to coordinate programs providing such services. Directs such entity or committee to: (1) review how federal programs and efforts that address issues related to the transition of adolescents and young adults with serious mental health disorders may be coordinated to ensure the maximum benefit for the individuals being served; and (2) provide technical assistance to the states who are planning or implementing programs under this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-06-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S6168-6169)
action_date: 2008-06-25
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S6167-6168)
action_date: 2008-06-25
text: Introduced in Senate