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McGee Creek Project Pipeline and Associated Facilities Conveyance Act

Bill: 110-s-177
Sponsor: Sen. Inhofe, James M. [R-OK]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Easements
Infrastructure
Land transfers
Law
Oklahoma
Pipelines
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Water supply

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
McGee Creek Project Pipeline and Associated Facilities Conveyance Act - Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to convey to the McGee Creek Authority all U.S. rights to the pipeline and any associated facilities described in the Agreement Between the United States and McGee Creek Authority for the Purpose of Defining Responsibilities Related to and Implementing the Title Transfer of Certain Facilities at the McGee Creek Project, Oklahoma. Excludes the mineral estate from the conveyance. 
 
Provides that any rights and obligations under a specified contract between the Authority and the United States for the construction, operation, and maintenance of the McGee Creek Project shall remain in force. Requires the Secretary to complete any actions required under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, the Endangered Species Act of 1973, and the National Historic Preservation Act before such conveyance.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-02-28
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Senate Subcommittee on Water and Power. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 110-376.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Religious Freedom Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-178
Sponsor: Sen. Inhofe, James M. [R-OK]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Charitable contributions
Churches
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Congress
Government Operations and Politics
Income tax
Legislation
Religion
Religion and politics
Religious liberty
Tax deductions
Tax-exempt organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
Religious Freedom Act of 2007 - Prohibits denial of: (1) a federal tax exemption under the Internal Revenue Code to any church, synagogue, mosque, temple, or other house of worship or meditation (including any affiliated organization) because it engages in activity protected by the U.S. Constitution, including comment on public issues, election contests, and pending legislation made in a theological or philosophical context; or (2) the tax deductibility of donor contributions to such organizations.


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
A bill to amend title 10, United States Code, to establish the position of Deputy Secretary of Defense for Management, and for other purposes.

Bill: 110-s-179
Sponsor: Sen. Ensign, John [R-NV]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Advice and consent of the Senate
Cabinet officers
Congress
Defense budgets
Defense procurement
Department of Defense
Economics and Public Finance
Executive reorganization
Federal employees
Federal officials
Government Operations and Politics
Logistics
Management
Management information systems
Performance measurement
Personnel management
Planning-programming-budgeting
Presidential appointments
Productivity in government
Strategic planning

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
Establishes in the Department of Defense (DOD) a Deputy Secretary of Defense for Management (Deputy Secretary) to: (1) serve as the Chief Management Officer of DOD; and (2) act as principal adviser to the Secretary of Defense on matters relating to the management of DOD, including defense business activities.
 
Makes the Deputy Secretary responsible to the Secretary for development, approval, implementation, integration, and oversight for the management of DOD that relate to performance of the the following functions: (1) planning and budgeting, including performance measurement; (2) acquisition; (3) logistics; (4) facilities, installations, and environment; (5) financial management; (6) human resources and personnel; and (7) management of information resources.
 
Requires the Deputy Secretary, among other things, to: (1) develop and maintain a department-wide strategic plan for defense business reform; and (2) establish performance goals and measures for improving and evaluating overall DOD economy, efficiency, and effectiveness.
 
Directs the Secretary and the Deputy Secretary to jointly identify each year the individual and organizational goals to be achieved by the Deputy Secretary.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to provide a permanent deduction for State and local general sales taxes.

Bill: 110-s-180
Sponsor: Sen. Hutchison, Kay Bailey [R-TX]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Government Operations and Politics
Income tax
Local taxation
Sales tax
State taxation
Tax deductions

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make permanent the tax deduction for state and local general sales taxes.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S167)
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Permanent Marriage Penalty Relief Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-181
Sponsor: Sen. Hutchison, Kay Bailey [R-TX]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Congress
Earned income tax credit
Families
Income tax
Married people
Social Welfare
Sunset legislation
Tax deductions
Tax exemption
Tax rates

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
Permanent Marriage Penalty Relief Act of 2007 - Makes provisions of the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 that eliminate the marriage penalty in the standard deduction, the 15-percent tax bracket, and the earned income tax credit, permanent.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S167)
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Family Abduction Prevention Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-182
Sponsor: Sen. Feinstein, Dianne [D-CA]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Crime prevention
Criminal investigation
Criminal justice information
Custody of children
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Extradition
Families
Federal aid to law enforcement
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Kidnapping
Labor and Employment
Police training
Public service advertising
Student records

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
Family Abduction Prevention Act of 2007 - Directs the Attorney General to make grants to states for projects involving: (1) the extradition of individuals suspected of committing a family abduction; (2) investigation by law enforcement agencies of family abduction cases; (3) training for law enforcement agencies in responding to family abductions and recovering abducted children; (4) outreach and media campaigns to educate parents on the dangers of family abductions; and (5) notifying law enforcement authorities of the name and address of anyone requesting the school records of an abducted child. Requires that not less than 50 percent of the cost of a project for which a grant is made be provided by non-federal sources.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S167-168)
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Improved Passenger Automobile Fuel Economy Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-183
Sponsor: Sen. Stevens, Ted [R-AK]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Air pollution control
Automobile industry
Automobiles
Carbon dioxide
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Commerce
Cost effectiveness
Department of Commerce
Department of Transportation
Emissions trading
Energy
Environmental Protection
Environmental monitoring
Executive reorganization
Finance and Financial Sector
Fluorocarbons
Fuel consumption
Government Operations and Politics
Industrial pollution
Law
Methane
Motor vehicle pollution control
Nitrogen oxides
Standards
Sulphur

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
Improved Passenger Automobile Fuel Economy Act of 2007 - Revises minimum corporate average fuel economy (CAFE) standards for passenger automobiles to direct the Secretary of Transportation, for each model year, to prescribe minimum CAFE standards for passenger automobiles, with the minimum standard being the current standard of 27.5 miles per gallon. Requires a CAFE standard of 40 miles per gallon for passenger automobiles manufactured in model year 2017.
 
Authorizes credits earned by a manufacturer when the average fuel economy of passenger automobiles manufactured by a manufacturer in a particular model year exceeds an applicable established average fuel economy standard to be applied to any of the three model years immediately following (currently, before) the model year in which such credits are earned, or transferred to a national registry system for greenhouse gases. Authorizes a manufacturer to apply credits purchased through the registry (greenhouse gas credits) toward applicable CAFE standards for passenger or non-passenger automobiles after model year 2010.
 
Establishes a national greenhouse registry to encourage voluntary actions to monitor and reduce greenhouse gas emissions and increase energy efficiency.
 
Establishes within the Department of Commerce an implementing panel to, among other things promulgate standards for: (1) certification of registries and operation of certified registries; and (2) measurement, verification, and recording of greenhouse gas emissions and greenhouse gas emission reductions by certified registries.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. (text of measure as introduced: CR S169-171)
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S168-169)
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Habeas Corpus Restoration Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-185
Sponsor: Sen. Specter, Arlen [R-PA]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Aliens
Armed Forces and National Security
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Detention of persons
Habeas corpus
International Affairs
Judicial review
Jurisdiction
Law
Military law
Prisoners' rights
Terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
Habeas Corpus Restoration Act of 2007- Repeals provisions of the Military Commissions Act of 2006 that eliminated the jurisdiction of any court to hear or consider applications for a writ of habeas corpus filed by aliens who have been determined by the United States to have been properly detained as enemy combatants (or who are awaiting such determination) and actions against the United States relating to the detention of such aliens and to military commissions (thus restoring habeas corpus rights existing prior to the enactment of such Act).

Allows courts to hear or consider legal challenges to military commissions only as provided by the Code of Military Justice or by a habeas corpus proceeding. 

action_date: 2007-06-26
text: 

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

Habeas Corpus Restoration Act of 2007- Repeals provisions of the Military Commissions Act of 2006 that eliminated the jurisdiction of any court to hear or consider applications for a writ of habeas corpus filed by aliens who have been determined by the United States to have been properly detained as enemy combatants (or who are awaiting such determination) and actions against the United States relating to the detention of such aliens and to military commissions (thus restoring habeas corpus rights existing prior to the enactment of such Act).

Allows courts to hear or consider legal challenges to military commissions only as provided by the Code of Military Justice or by a habeas corpus proceeding. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-26
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 220.
action_date: 2007-06-26
text: Committee on the Judiciary. Reported by Senator Leahy without amendment. With written report No. 110-90. Additional and Minority views filed.
action_date: 2007-06-26
text: Committee on the Judiciary. Reported by Senator Leahy without amendment. With written report No. 110-90. Additional and Minority views filed.
action_date: 2007-06-07
text: Committee on the Judiciary. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2007-05-22
text: Committee on the Judiciary. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 110-145.
action_date: 2007-01-16
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S545-546)
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S180)
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S179-180)
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Attorney-Client Privilege Protection Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-186
Sponsor: Sen. Specter, Arlen [R-PA]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Attorney-client privilege
Civil actions and liability
Criminal investigation
Evidence (Law)
Federal employees
Government Operations and Politics
Government attorneys
Indictments
Law
Legal fees

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
Attorney-Client Privilege Protection Act of 2007 - Amends the federal criminal code to prohibit any U.S. agent or attorney, in any federal investigation or criminal or civil enforcement matter, from demanding, requesting, or conditioning treatment on the disclosure by an organization (or affiliated person) of any communication protected by the attorney-client privilege or any attorney work product.

Prohibits a U.S. agent or attorney from conditioning a civil or criminal charging decision relating to an organization (or affiliated person) on one or more specified actions, or from using one or more such actions as a factor in determining whether an organization or affiliated person is cooperating with the government.

Numbers among the actions a U.S. agent or attorney may not use as a charging decision condition or a cooperation-determining factor: (1) any valid assertion of the attorney-client privilege or privilege for attorney work product; (2) the provision of counsel to, or contribution to the legal defense fees or expenses of, an employee of the organization; (3) entry into a joint-defense, information-sharing, or common-interest agreement with an employee of the organization if the organization determines it has a common interest in defending against the investigation or enforcement matter; (4) the sharing of relevant information with an employee; or (5) a failure to terminate an employee's employment, or otherwise sanction an employee, because of the employee's decision to exercise his or her constitutional rights or other legal protections in response to a government request.

Prohibits a U.S. agent or attorney from demanding or requesting that an organization or an affiliated person not take any such action.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-09-18
text: Committee on the Judiciary. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 110-280.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S183)
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S181-183)
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Oversight and Resource Enhancement Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-187
Sponsor: Sen. Specter, Arlen [R-PA]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Congress
Congressional oversight
Congressional reporting requirements
Congressional-executive relations
Counterintelligence
Courts of special jurisdiction
Crime and Law Enforcement
Criminal investigation
Department of Defense
Department of Justice
Electronic surveillance
Employee training
Evidence (Law)
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
Federal law enforcement officers
Foreign agents
Government Operations and Politics
Government attorneys
International Affairs
Judges
Judicial review
Law
President and foreign policy
Supreme Court
Terrorism
Warrants (Law)

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Oversight and Resource Enhancement Act of 2007 - Amends the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (FISA) to: (1) authorize the appointment of additional judges to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (Court); and (2) require FISA judges to act on applications for emergency electronic surveillance within 24 hours. Authorizes the hiring of additional personnel in the Department of Justice (DOJ), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), National Security Agency (NSA), and the Court to process surveillance applications.
 
Requires the Directors of the FBI and NSA to develop regulations for conducting and seeking approval for emergency electronic surveillance, preparing and submitting applications for such surveillance, and training personnel.
 
Extends from 72 to 168 hours the period during which the Attorney General may authorize emergency electronic surveillance pending judicial authorization of such surveillance.
 
Permits electronic surveillance without a court order of communications between individuals outside the United States for the purpose of collecting foreign intelligence information even if such communications pass through, or the surveillance device is located within, the United States. Requires a court order for the contents of any wire or radio communication sent by a person inside the United States to a person outside the United States.
 
Authorizes enhanced congressional oversight of electronic surveillance activities under FISA.
 
Requires Supreme Court review of any final decision of a U.S. court of appeals concerning the legality of the Terrorist Surveillance Program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S184-185)
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S183-184)
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to decrease the matching funds requirements and authorize additional appropriations for Keweenaw National Historical Park in the State of Michigan.

Bill: 110-s-189
Sponsor: Sen. Levin, Carl [D-MI]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Authorization
Commemorations
Department of the Interior
Economics and Public Finance
Environmental Protection
Federal advisory bodies
Government Operations and Politics
Historic sites
History
Land transfers
Michigan
National parks

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
Decreases the matching funds requirement, and authorizes additional appropriations, for the Keweenaw National Historical Park in Michigan. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-04-10
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 638.
action_date: 2008-04-10
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Bingaman without amendment. With written report No. 110-286.
action_date: 2008-04-10
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Bingaman without amendment. With written report No. 110-286.
action_date: 2008-01-30
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2007-09-27
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Senate Subcommittee on National Parks. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 110-266.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to provide a technical correction to the Pension Protection Act of 2006.

Bill: 110-s-190
Sponsor: Sen. Hutchison, Kay Bailey [R-TX]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Airline employees
Airlines
Pension funds
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
Amends the Pension Protection Act of 2006 to make technical corrections to special funding rules applicable to pension plans sponsored by commercial passenger airlines to provide for plans with plan years beginning on the first day of the month.


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
A bill to provide relief for all air carriers with pension plans that are not frozen pension plans.

Bill: 110-s-191
Sponsor: Sen. Hutchison, Kay Bailey [R-TX]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Airline employees
Airlines
Finance and Financial Sector
Interest rates
Pension funds
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
Amends the Pension Protection Act of 2006 to require commercial passenger airline pension plan sponsors electing not to utilitze the alternative funding schedule to use an interest rate of 8.25% in determining the funding target for each of the 10 plan years (rather than the segmented interest rates calculated on the basis of the corporate bond yield curve).


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
A bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1300 North Frontage Road West in Vail, Colorado, as the "Gerald R. Ford, Jr. Post Office Building".

Bill: 110-s-194
Sponsor: Sen. Allard, Wayne [R-CO]
Introduced: 2007-01-08 in the Senate
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Colorado
Congressional tributes
Ex-presidents
Ford Administration
Government Operations and Politics
History
Names
Postal facilities

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-08
text: Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1300 North Frontage Road West in Vail, Colorado, as the "Gerald R. Ford, Jr. Post Office Building."

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-30
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs referred to Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, Government Information, Federal Services, and International Security.
action_date: 2007-03-22
text: Indefinitely postponed by Senate by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2007-02-17
text: Ordered Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 54.
action_date: 2007-02-17
text: Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs discharged by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2007-02-17
text: Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs discharged by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2007-02-15
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2007-01-08
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2007-01-08
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S236)
action_date: 2007-01-08
text: Introduced in Senate