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Reliable Farm Safety Net Act

Bill: 110-s-195
Sponsor: Sen. Dorgan, Byron L. [D-ND]
Introduced: 2007-01-08 in the Senate
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural subsidies
Animals
Crop insurance
Disaster relief
Emergency Management
Finance and Financial Sector
Indemnity
Livestock
Weather

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-08
text: 
Reliable Farm Safety Net Act - Amends the Federal Crop Insurance Act to establish permanent authority (beginning with crop year 2007) for the Secretary of Agriculture to provide disaster relief to qualifying agricultural producers who incur crop or livestock losses as a result of damaging weather or related condition in federally declared disaster areas.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-08
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
action_date: 2007-01-08
text: Introduced in Senate
Congressional Pension Accountability Act

Bill: 110-s-196
Sponsor: Sen. Kerry, John F. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2007-01-08 in the Senate
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Annuities
Bribery
Congressional ethics
Congressional pensions
Crime and Law Enforcement
Finance and Financial Sector
Fines (Penalties)
Fraud
Fugitives from justice
Government Operations and Politics
Interest
Labor and Employment
Law
Members of Congress
Misconduct in office
Perjury
Public corruption

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-08
text: 
Congressional Pension Accountability Act - Prohibits a Member of Congress, or a survivor or beneficiary, from receiving an annuity or retired pay if such Member is: (1) convicted of bribery of public officials and witnesses, conspiracy either to commit any offense against the United States or to defraud the United States, perjury, or subornation of perjury; or (2) indicted or has outstanding charges for such offenses under the Uniform Code of Military Justice. 


Legislative actions:
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 S236-237)
action_date: 2007-01-08
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to authorize salary adjustments for justices and judges of the United States for fiscal year 2007.

Bill: 110-s-197
Sponsor: Sen. Leahy, Patrick J. [D-VT]
Introduced: 2007-01-08 in the Senate
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Cost of living adjustments
Judges
Judicial compensation
Supreme Court justices

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-08
text: 
Authorizes salary adjustments for justices and judges of the United States for FY2007.

action_date: 2007-01-08
text: 

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

 
Authorizes salary adjustments for justices and judges of the United States for FY2007.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-14
text: Committee on the Judiciary. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 110-14.
action_date: 2007-02-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property.
action_date: 2007-01-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-01-09
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2007-01-09
text: Received in the House.
action_date: 2007-01-08
text: Introduced in the Senate, read twice, considered, read the third time, and passed without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration:  CR S219; text as passed Senate: CR S219)
action_date: 2007-01-08
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Introduced in the Senate, read twice, considered, read the third time, and passed without amendment by Unanimous Consent.(consideration:  CR S219; text as passed Senate: CR S219)
action_date: 2007-01-08
text: Introduced in Senate
Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-198
Sponsor: Sen. Lugar, Richard G. [R-IN]
Introduced: 2007-01-08 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Arms control
Arms control agreements
Arms control verification
Ballistic missile defenses
Chemical warfare
Crime and Law Enforcement
Europe
Export controls
Fissionable materials
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Former Soviet states
Government Operations and Politics
Nuclear nonproliferation
Nuclear weapons
President and foreign policy
Russia
Sanctions (International law)
Technical assistance
Terrorism
Treaties
Weapons of mass destruction

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-08
text: 
Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction Act of 2007 - Amends the Soviet Nuclear Threat Reduction Act of 1991, the Cooperative Threat Reduction Act of 1993, and the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2000 to repeal specified restrictions on the use of Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR) program funds and activities.
 
Amends the Freedom for Russia and Emerging Eurasian Democracies and Open Markets Support Act of 1992 to make specified funding requirements respecting independent countries of the former Soviet Union inapplicable to CTR programs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-09
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2007-01-09
text: Senate Committee on Foreign Relations discharged by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2007-01-09
text: Senate Committee on Foreign Relations discharged by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2007-01-08
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
action_date: 2007-01-08
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S237-238)
action_date: 2007-01-08
text: Introduced in Senate
9/11 Heroes Health Improvement Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-201
Sponsor: Sen. Clinton, Hillary Rodham [D-NY]
Introduced: 2007-01-08 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Access to health care
Congressional reporting requirements
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to health facilities
Health insurance
Health surveys
Medical screening
Medically uninsured
Mental health services
New York City
Physical examinations
September 11, 2001
Terrorism
Victims of terrorism
Virginia

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-08
text: 
9/11 Heroes Health Improvement Act of 2007 - Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), to award grants to eligible entities to provide medical and mental health monitoring, tracking, and treatment to individuals whose health has been directly impacted as a result of the attacks on New York City and at the Pentagon on September 11, 2001. Includes as eligible individuals firefighters, police officers, paramedics, workers, volunteers, residents, students, and any other individual who worked at Ground Zero, Fresh Kills (recovery site on Staten Island), or the Pentagon or lived or worked in the vicinity of such areas, whose health has deteriorated as a result of the attacks, and who has been evaluated by a physician or mental health professional for 9/11-related health conditions and needs treatment for such conditions. Sets the order of priority for individuals covered under this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-08
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2007-01-08
text: Introduced in Senate
Coffman Cove Administrative Site Conveyance Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-202
Sponsor: Sen. Murkowski, Lisa [R-AK]
Introduced: 2007-01-08 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Alaska
Land transfers
National forests
Right-of-way
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-08
text: 
Coffman Cove Administrative Site Conveyance Act of 2007 - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to convey to the city of Coffman Cove, Alaska, a specified parcel of National Forest System land within the city. 

action_date: 2007-02-15
text: 

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.)

 
Coffman Cove Administrative Site Conveyance Act of 2007 - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to convey to the city of Coffman Cove, Alaska, without consideration and by quitclaim deed, a specified parcel of National Forest System land within the city. 
 
Excludes a certain part of such land from the conveyance. 
 
Allows the United States to reserve a right-of-way to provide access to the excluded land. 
 
Provides that if any part of the land conveyed to the city (other than a part of land sold pursuant to this Act) ceases to be used for public purposes, the land may revert to the United States. 
 
Requires, if the city sells any part of such conveyed land: (1) the amount of consideration for the sale to reflect fair market value, as determined by an appraisal; and (2) the city to pay to the Secretary an amount equal to the gross proceeds of the sale which shall be available for the Tongass National Forest. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-15
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 31.
action_date: 2007-02-15
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Bingaman without amendment. With written report No. 110-6.
action_date: 2007-02-15
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Bingaman without amendment. With written report No. 110-6.
action_date: 2007-01-31
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2007-01-08
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-01-08
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to provide equitable treatment for the people of the Village Corporation established for the Native Village of Saxman, Alaska, and for other purposes.

Bill: 110-s-203
Sponsor: Sen. Murkowski, Lisa [R-AK]
Introduced: 2007-01-08 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Alaska
Indian claims
Indigenous peoples
Land transfers
Minorities
National forests

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-08
text: 
Declares that the Cape Fox Corporation (Cape Fox) of Saxman, Alaska, shall not be required to select or receive conveyance of specified unconveyed federal land.
 
Allows Cape Fox to select, and requires the Secretary of the Interior to convey, on receiving written notice of the selection, the approximately 99 acres of the surface estate of Tongass National Forest land located outside the exterior selection boundary of Cape Fox. 
 
Requires the Secretary, on conveyance to Cape Fox of the surface estate to such land, to convey its subsurface estate to Sealaska Corporation.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-08
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-01-08
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill for the relief of Ziad Mohamed Shaban Khweis, Heyam Ziad Khweis, and Juman Ziad Khweis.

Bill: 110-s-204
Sponsor: Sen. Bingaman, Jeff [D-NM]
Introduced: 2007-01-08 in the Senate
Policy area: Private Legislation
Subjects: Immigration

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-08
text: Provides for the relief of Ziad Mohamed Shaban Khweis, Heyam Ziad Khweis, and Juman Ziad Khweis.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-08
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-01-08
text: Introduced in Senate
Copper Valley Native Allotment Resolution Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-205
Sponsor: Sen. Stevens, Ted [R-AK]
Introduced: 2007-01-08 in the Senate
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Alaska
Compensation (Law)
Easements
Electric power transmission
Energy
Indian lands
Law
Minorities
Real estate appraisal
Right-of-way
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-08
text: 
Copper Valley Native Allotment Resolution Act of 2007 - Grants rights-of-way across specified Native allotments to the Copper Valley Electric Association for an electric transmission line.
 
Declares this Act inapplicable to land owned by Ahtna, Inc. and any prior or current right-of-way agreements that may exist between Ahtna, Inc. and the Copper Valley Electric Association or Alaska.
 
Prescribes compensation procedures.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-05-03
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Senate Subcommittee on Public Lands and Forests. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 110-91.
action_date: 2007-01-08
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-01-08
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S240)
action_date: 2007-01-08
text: Introduced in Senate
Social Security Fairness Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-206
Sponsor: Sen. Feinstein, Dianne [D-CA]
Introduced: 2007-01-09 in the Senate
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Civil service retirement
Government Operations and Politics
Labor and Employment
Old age, survivors and disability insurance

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-09
text: 
Social Security Fairness Act of 2007 - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act to repeal: (1) government pension offset requirements applicable to husband's and wife's insurance benefits, widow's and widower's insurance benefits, and mother's and father's insurance benefits with respect to OASDI payments; and (2) windfall elimination requirements with respect to computation of an individual's primary insurance amount.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-09
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S284)
action_date: 2007-01-09
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S283-284)
action_date: 2007-01-09
text: Introduced in Senate
Voluntary Support for Reservists and National Guard Members Act

Bill: 110-s-207
Sponsor: Sen. Coleman, Norm [R-MN]
Introduced: 2007-01-09 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Armed forces reserves
Income tax
Military pay
National Guard
Tax refunds
Tax returns

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-09
text: 
Voluntary Support for Reservists and National Guard Members Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow taxpayers to designate that a portion (but not less than $1) of any income tax overpayment be paid over to the Reserve Income Replacement Program to benefit reservists and National Guard members. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-09
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S285-286)
action_date: 2007-01-09
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S285)
action_date: 2007-01-09
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill for the relief of Luay Lufti Hadad.

Bill: 110-s-208
Sponsor: Sen. Levin, Carl [D-MI]
Introduced: 2007-01-09 in the Senate
Policy area: Private Legislation
Subjects: Immigration

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-09
text: Provides for the relief of Luay Lufti Hadad.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-09
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-01-09
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill for the relief of Marcos Antonio Sanchez-Diaz.

Bill: 110-s-209
Sponsor: Sen. Levin, Carl [D-MI]
Introduced: 2007-01-09 in the Senate
Policy area: Private Legislation
Subjects: Immigration

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-09
text: Provides for the relief of Marcos Antonio Sanchez-Diaz.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-09
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-01-09
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill for the relief of Anton Dodaj, Gjyljana Dodaj, Franc Dodaj, and Kristjan Dodaj.

Bill: 110-s-210
Sponsor: Sen. Levin, Carl [D-MI]
Introduced: 2007-01-09 in the Senate
Policy area: Private Legislation
Subjects: Immigration

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-09
text: Provides for the relief of Anton Dodaj, Gjyljana Dodaj, Franc Dodaj, and Kristjan Dodaj.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-09
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-01-09
text: Introduced in Senate
Calling for 2-1-1 Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-211
Sponsor: Sen. Clinton, Hillary Rodham [D-NY]
Introduced: 2007-01-09 in the Senate
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Access to health care
Church and social problems
Data banks
Economics and Public Finance
Families
Family services
Foundations
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Grants-in-aid
Health
Information services
Internet
Job hunting
Labor and Employment
Nonprofit organizations
Religion
Social Welfare
Telephone

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-09
text: 
Calling for 2-1-1 Act of 2007 - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to award a grant to each state to carry out a program for making available throughout that state the 2-1-1 telephone service for information and referral on human services. Requires a participating state to ensure that at least 50% of the resources of the program funded by the grant will be derived from other sources. Requires a state seeking a grant to carry out its activities through a lead entity to be known as a 2-1-1 Collaborative.
 
Requires grant amounts to be used solely to make available to a state 2-1-1 telephone service for community information and referral on human services to all citizens of that state with phone access, including telephone connections between families and individuals seeking services and the service providers.
 
Requires grant recipients to: (1) abide by the Key Standards for 2-1-1 Centers; and (2) collaborate with human service organizations to provide an exhaustive database of services with which to provide information or referral to individuals utilizing the 2-1-1 service.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-09
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2007-01-09
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S286)
action_date: 2007-01-09
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill for the relief of Perlat Binaj, Almida Binaj, Erina Binaj, and Anxhela Binaj.

Bill: 110-s-212
Sponsor: Sen. Levin, Carl [D-MI]
Introduced: 2007-01-09 in the Senate
Policy area: Private Legislation
Subjects: Immigration

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-09
text: Provides for the relief of Perlat Binaj, Almida Binaj, Erina Binaj, and Anxhela Binaj.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-09
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-01-09
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill for the relief of Mohamad Derani, Maha Felo Derani, and Tarek Derani.

Bill: 110-s-213
Sponsor: Sen. Levin, Carl [D-MI]
Introduced: 2007-01-09 in the Senate
Policy area: Private Legislation
Subjects: Immigration

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-09
text: Provides for the relief of Mohamad Derani, Maha Felo Derani, and Tarek Derani.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-09
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-01-09
text: Introduced in Senate
Internet Freedom Preservation Act

Bill: 110-s-215
Sponsor: Sen. Dorgan, Byron L. [D-ND]
Introduced: 2007-01-09 in the Senate
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Administrative remedies
Broadband
Commerce
Competition
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Consumer complaints
Consumer education
Damages
Federal Communications Commission
Government Operations and Politics
Independent regulatory commissions
Internet
Law
Telecommunication rates
Telephone

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-09
text: 
Internet Freedom Preservation Act - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to establish certain Internet neutrality duties for broadband service providers (providers), including not interfering with, or discriminating against, the ability of any person to use broadband service in a lawful manner. Allows providers to engage in activities in furtherance of certain management and business-related practices, such as protecting network security and offering consumer protection services such as parental controls.
 
Prohibits a provider from requiring a subscriber, as a condition on the purchase of broadband service, to purchase any cable service, telecommunications service, or IP-enabled voice service.
 
Requires a report from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to specified congressional committees on provider delivery of broadband content, applications, and services.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-09
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. (text of measure as introduced: CR S287-288)
action_date: 2007-01-09
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S286-287)
action_date: 2007-01-09
text: Introduced in Senate
Australian Wheat Board Accountability Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-217
Sponsor: Sen. Coleman, Norm [R-MN]
Introduced: 2007-01-09 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Agriculture in foreign trade
Australia
Congress
Congressional oversight
Congressional reporting requirements
Energy
Food relief
Governmental investigations
Import restrictions
International Affairs
Iraq
Iraq compilation
Middle East and North Africa
Nontariff trade barriers
Oceania
Petroleum
Tariff
Trade agreements
Trade negotiations
United Nations
Wheat

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-09
text: 
Australian Wheat Board Accountability Act of 2007 - Directs the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) to initiate an investigation in accordance with title III of the Trade Act of 1974 to determine if actions by the Australian Wheat Board with respect to the Board's abuse of the United Nations Oil-for-Food Programme constitutes an act, policy, or practice and justifies taking action against unfair trade practices and to enforce U.S. rights under trade agreements.
 
Deems economic damage suffered by U.S. wheat farmers as a result of the practices of the Australian Wheat Board related to the United Nations Oil-for-Food Programme during the period 1999 to 2003 to be such an act, policy, or practice.
 
Requires the USTR to seek a negotiated settlement with the Australian government upon an affirmative determination that the actions of the Australian Wheat Board have resulted in barriers to U.S. wheat exports or meet the requirements for mandatory action.
 
Imposes additional duties upon Australian imports in the event of failure to reach a negotiated settlement.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-09
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S289)
action_date: 2007-01-09
text: Introduced in Senate
Working Family Child Assistance Act

Bill: 110-s-218
Sponsor: Sen. Snowe, Olympia J. [R-ME]
Introduced: 2007-01-09 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Congress
Economics and Public Finance
Families
Income tax
Indexing (Economic policy)
Sunset legislation
Tax credits
Tax refunds

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-09
text: 
Working Family Child Assistance Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to repeal the annual inflation adjustment applicable to the $10,000 income threshold required to qualify for the refundable portion of the child tax credit.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-09
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2007-01-09
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S289-290)
action_date: 2007-01-09
text: Introduced in Senate