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For the relief of Flavia Maboloc Cahoon.

Bill: 110-hr-630
Sponsor: Rep. Filner, Bob [D-CA-51]
Introduced: 2007-01-22 in the House
Policy area: Private Legislation
Subjects: Immigration

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-22
text: Provides for the relief of Flavia Maboloc Cahoon.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
action_date: 2007-01-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-01-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-22
text: Introduced in House
Earmark Transparency and Accountability Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-631
Sponsor: Rep. Flake, Jeff [R-AZ-6]
Introduced: 2007-01-23 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Appropriations
Congress
Congressional publicity
Federally-guaranteed loans
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government lending
Grants-in-aid
Legislation

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-23
text: 
Earmark Transparency and Accountability Act of 2007 - Prohibits a federal agency from obligating funds made available in an appropriation Act or other Act to implement an earmark that is included in a congressional report accompanying such legislation, unless the earmark is also included in the Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Government Management, Organization, and Procurement.
action_date: 2007-01-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2007-01-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-23
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995 to require lobbyists to disclose the candidates, leadership PACs, and political party committees for whom they collect or arrange contributions, and for other purposes.

Bill: 110-hr-633
Sponsor: Rep. Van Hollen, Chris [D-MD-8]
Introduced: 2007-01-23 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Campaign funds
Commemorations
Conferences
Congress
Congressional elections
Congressional ethics
Congressional reporting requirements
Congressional travel
Election candidates
Federal officials
Foundations
Fund raising
Gifts
Government ethics
Government travel
Lobbying
Political action committees
Presidential elections
Presidential inaugurations
Presidential libraries
Social Welfare
Transportation and Public Works
Travel costs

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-23
text: 
Amends the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995 to require a lobbyist, registrant, or political committee established or administered by the registrant to file quarterly contribution reports that include, but are not limited to, the names of federal candidates or officerholders, leadership PACs, and political party committees (except for committees of a political party) for whom they collect or arrange contributions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties.
action_date: 2007-01-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-01-23
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E178)
action_date: 2007-01-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-23
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Clean Air Act to require that, after the year 2012, all gasoline sold to consumers in the United States for motor vehicles contain not less than 10 percent renewable fuel, and for other purposes.

Bill: 110-hr-635
Sponsor: Rep. Upton, Fred [R-MI-6]
Introduced: 2007-01-23 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Alternative energy sources
Energy
Environmental Protection Agency
Gasoline
Government Operations and Politics
Law
Motor vehicle pollution control
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-23
text: 
Amends the Clean Air Act to direct the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator to promulgate regulations requiring that all gasoline motor vehicle fuel sold or dispensed to consumers in the United States after 2012 contain not less than 10% renewable fuel on an annual average basis.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality.
action_date: 2007-01-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2007-01-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-23
text: Introduced in House
Health Care Freedom of Choice Act

Bill: 110-hr-636
Sponsor: Rep. Bachmann, Michele [R-MN-6]
Introduced: 2007-01-23 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Coinsurance
Finance and Financial Sector
Health
Health insurance
Income tax
Insurance premiums
Medical economics
Tax deductions

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-23
text: 
Health Care Freedom of Choice Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow the tax deduction for medical expenses without the gross income percentage limitation.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-01-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-23
text: Introduced in House
To grant a Federal charter to the National American Indian Veterans, Incorporated.

Bill: 110-hr-637
Sponsor: Rep. Herseth, Stephanie [D-SD-At Large]
Introduced: 2007-01-23 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Alaska
Armed Forces and National Security
Commerce
Federal incorporation
Hawaiians
Indigenous peoples
Minorities
Native Americans
Veterans' organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-23
text: 
Grants a Federal charter to the National American Indian Veterans, Incorporated (a nonprofit corporation organized in the United States). 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
action_date: 2007-01-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-01-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-23
text: Introduced in House
Violent Crime Reduction Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-638
Sponsor: Rep. Jindal, Bobby [R-LA-1]
Introduced: 2007-01-23 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Arrest
Authorization
Continuing education
Criminal investigation
Criminal justice information
Data banks
Department of Justice
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Employee training
Equipment and supplies
Families
Federal aid to law enforcement
Federal law enforcement officers
Federal-local relations
Federal-state relations
Gangs
Government Operations and Politics
Higher education
Juvenile delinquency
Labor and Employment
Law enforcement officers
Legal education
Police training
Prosecution
Public prosecutors
Recruiting of employees
Science, Technology, Communications
Transfer of employees
Violence

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-23
text: 
Violent Crime Reduction Act of 2007 - Amends the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 to: (1) authorize the Attorney General to designate certain areas in states with a high level of gang crime activity as high-intensity interstate gang activity areas and provide assistance to such areas; (2) provide for community-based justice grants to state and local prosecutors to hire additional prosecutors to process more violent crime cases and to fund technology, equipment, and training for prosecutors and law enforcement officials; and (3) require the Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs to award grants to establish state-wide databases to track criminals, arrests, prosecutions, and convictions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2007-01-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-01-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-23
text: Introduced in House
To designate as HUBZones the disaster areas associated with Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.

Bill: 110-hr-639
Sponsor: Rep. Jindal, Bobby [R-LA-1]
Introduced: 2007-01-23 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Alabama
Depressed areas
Disaster relief
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Floods
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Government procurement
Hurricanes
Louisiana
Mississippi
Small business
Texas

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-23
text: 
Amends the Small Business Act to include as a HUBZone (historically underutilized business zone) any area in which the President has declared a major disaster as a result of the 2005 Hurricanes Katrina or Rita.
 
Amends the Small Business Competitive Demonstration Program Act of 1988 to make the Small Business Competitiveness Demonstration Program (to test innovative small business procurement methods and procedures) inapplicable to any contract related to relief or reconstruction from Hurricanes Katrina or Rita.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Small Business.
action_date: 2007-01-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-23
text: Introduced in House
Health and Higher Education Facilities Improvement Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-640
Sponsor: Rep. Jindal, Bobby [R-LA-1]
Introduced: 2007-01-23 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Bonds
Charities
Commerce
Education
Finance and Financial Sector
Health
Health facilities
Higher education
Income tax
Interest
Social Welfare
Tax deductions

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-23
text: Health and Higher Education Facilities Improvement Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a small tax-exempt bond issuer, the proceeds of the obligations of which are to be used to make or finance eligible loans for health care or educational purposes, to elect to apply specified current limitations on the amount of obligations by treating each borrower as the issuer of a separate issue.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-01-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-23
text: Introduced in House
To clarify the tax treatment of certain payments made to homeowners by the Louisiana Recovery Authority and the Mississippi Development Authority.

Bill: 110-hr-641
Sponsor: Rep. Jindal, Bobby [R-LA-1]
Introduced: 2007-01-23 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Disaster relief
Emergency Management
Floods
Home repair and improvement
Housing and Community Development
Housing finance
Hurricanes
Income tax
Losses
Louisiana
Mississippi
Residential rehabilitation
Tax deductions
Tax exclusion

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-23
text: 
Sets forth a special rule for the tax treatment of amounts received by a taxpayer from the Louisiana Recovery Authority or the Mississippi Development Authority for the repair or reconstruction of such taxpayer's primary residence due to hurricane damage in 2005.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-01-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-23
text: Introduced in House
Collegiate Housing and Infrastructure Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-643
Sponsor: Rep. Jones, Stephanie Tubbs [D-OH-11]
Introduced: 2007-01-23 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Charitable contributions
Charities
Colleges
Education
Educational facilities
Higher education
Housing and Community Development
Income tax
Student activities
Student housing
Students
Tax deductions
Tax-exempt organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-23
text: 
Collegiate Housing and Infrastructure Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow tax-exempt charitable or educational organizations to make collegiate housing and infrastructure improvement grants to certain tax-exempt social clubs (e.g., college fraternities and sororities) so long as all of the active members of such clubs are full-time students at the college or university with which such clubs are associated. Defines &quot;collegiate housing and infrastructure grants&quot; to include grants to provide, improve, operate, or maintain collegiate housing.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-01-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-23
text: Introduced in House
Kentucky Artisan Heritage Trails National Heritage Area Act

Bill: 110-hr-646
Sponsor: Rep. Rogers, Harold [R-KY-5]
Introduced: 2007-01-23 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Arts, Culture, Religion
Civil War
Coal
Commerce
Congress
Cultural property
Economics and Public Finance
Energy
Exhibitions
Government Operations and Politics
Grants-in-aid
Historic sites
History
Kentucky
Land use
Landscape protection
Maps
Museums
Music
National parks
Nature conservation
Nonprofit organizations
Outdoor recreation
Planning
Public-private partnerships
Regional economic development
Social Welfare
Sports and Recreation
State parks
Sunset legislation
Tourism
Trails

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-23
text: 
Kentucky Artisan Heritage Trails National Heritage Area Act - Establishes the Kentucky Artisan Heritage Trails National Heritage Area in Kentucky. Designates the Southern and Eastern Kentucky Tourism Development Association (SEKTDA) as the management entity for the Heritage Area. Requires the Association to develop a management plan for the Heritage Area. 
 
Prohibits the Association from using federal funds received under this Act to acquire real property or an interest in real property. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2007-01-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-01-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-23
text: Introduced in House
Mark-to-Market Extension Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-647
Sponsor: Rep. Waters, Maxine [D-CA-35]
Introduced: 2007-01-23 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Affordable housing
Apartment houses
Disaster relief
Emergency Management
Finance and Financial Sector
Housing management
Housing subsidies
Mortgages
Nonprofit organizations
Rent
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-23
text: 
Mark-to-Market Extension Act of 2007 - Amends the Multifamily Assisted Housing Reform and Affordability Act of 1997 to reauthorize through FY2011: (1) the Federal Housing Administration (FHA)-insured Multifamily Housing Mortgage and Housing Assistance Restructuring (Mark-to-Market) program; and (2) the Office of Multifamily Housing Assistance Restructuring.
 
Permits the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to waive rent level limits for: (1) disaster-damaged eligible projects; and (2) up to 9% (currently 5%) of all units subject to restructured mortgages in any fiscal year, based on certain findings of special need.
 
Redefines multifamily housing project eligible for the Mark-to-Market program to authorize eligibility treatment, upon owner request, for certain projects whose rents do not, on an average per unit or per room basis, exceed the rent of comparable properties in the same market area, if the Secretary determines that such treatment is necessary to preserve a project in the most cost-effective manner in relation to other alternative preservation options.
 
Requires each mortgage restructuring and rental assistance sufficiency plan to determine, for units assisted with project-based assistance in eligible multifamily housing projects, adjusted rent levels for disaster-damaged eligible projects equal to 100% of the fair market rents for the relevant market area.
 
Revises requirements for an approved mortgage restructuring and rental assistance sufficiency plan with respect to modification or forgiveness of all or part of a second mortgage held by the Secretary (debt relief) if the project concerned is acquired by a tenant organization or tenant-endorsed community-based nonprofit or public agency.
 
 Sets forth requirements for alternative periods of eligibility for such nonprofit debt relief if the purchaser acquires the project subsequent to the date of recordation of the related affordability agreement.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-10-23
text: Committee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2007-04-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity.
action_date: 2007-01-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2007-01-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-23
text: Introduced in House
Blind Veterans Fairness Act

Bill: 110-hr-649
Sponsor: Rep. Reynolds, Thomas M. [R-NY-26]
Introduced: 2007-01-24 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Annuities
Armed Forces and National Security
Blind
Disabled
Government Operations and Politics
Labor and Employment
State laws
Supplemental security income program
Veterans' pensions
Welfare eligibility

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-24
text: 
Blind Veterans Fairness Act - Amends title XVI (Supplemental Security Income) (SSI) of the Social Security Act to disregard state paid annuities for blind veterans and their spouses in determining SSI benefits. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-01-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-24
text: Introduced in House
To provide for the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to conduct a pilot program to determine the effectiveness of contracting for the use of private memory care facilities for veterans with Alzheimer's Disease.

Bill: 110-hr-650
Sponsor: Rep. Reynolds, Thomas M. [R-NY-26]
Introduced: 2007-01-24 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Alzheimer's disease
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Government service contracts
Health
Health facilities
Housing and Community Development
Veterans' hospitals
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-24
text: 
Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to conduct during fiscal years 2007 and 2008 a pilot program to determine the effectiveness of contracting with private memory care facilities to provide services for veterans suffering from Alzheimer's disease as an alternative to the provision by the Secretary of inpatient or home health care for such veterans. Requires the pilot program to be conducted through five medical centers of the Veterans Health Administration selected by the Secretary.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-01-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2007-01-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-24
text: Introduced in House
To permit States to place supplemental guide signs relating to veterans cemeteries on Federal-aid highways.

Bill: 110-hr-651
Sponsor: Rep. Reynolds, Thomas M. [R-NY-26]
Introduced: 2007-01-24 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Cemeteries and funerals
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to transportation
Government Operations and Politics
Highway finance
Signs and signboards
Traffic signs and signals

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-24
text: 
Authorizes states to place supplemental guide signs relating to veterans cemeteries on federal-aid highways. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
action_date: 2007-01-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2007-01-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-24
text: Introduced in House
Veterans Eagle Parks Pass Act

Bill: 110-hr-652
Sponsor: Rep. Reynolds, Thomas M. [R-NY-26]
Introduced: 2007-01-24 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Law
Licenses
National parks
National recreation areas
Veterans' benefits

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-24
text: 
Veterans Eagle Parks Pass Act - Makes the National Parks and Federal Recreational Lands Pass available at a discount to certain veterans. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2007-02-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry.
action_date: 2007-01-24
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2007-01-24
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2007-01-24
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2007-01-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-24
text: Introduced in House
Joseph I. Hoover Combat Veteran Affidavit Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-653
Sponsor: Rep. Reynolds, Thomas M. [R-NY-26]
Introduced: 2007-01-24 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Disabled
Diseases
Evidence (Law)
Health
Korean War, 1950-1953
Law
Veterans' benefits
Veterans' disability compensation
Veterans' medical care
War casualties
World War II

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-24
text: Joseph I. Hoover Combat Veteran Affidavit Act of 2007 - Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, for purposes of eligibility for veterans' disability compensation and benefits, to accept the sworn affidavit of a veteran who served on or before July 27, 1953, as proof of a service connection of a disease or injury alleged to have been incurred in or aggravated by such service, if there is no clear and convincing evidence to the contrary.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.
action_date: 2007-01-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2007-01-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-24
text: Introduced in House
Export Freedom to Cuba Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-654
Sponsor: Rep. Rangel, Charles B. [D-NY-15]
Introduced: 2007-01-24 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Aliens
Caribbean area
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Cuba
Immigration
Latin America
Right to travel
Travel

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-24
text: 
Export Freedom to Cuba Act of 2007 - Prohibits the President from regulating or prohibiting travel to or from Cuba by U.S. citizens or legal residents, or any of the transactions ordinarily incident to such travel relating to: (1) accompanied personal baggage; (2) payment of living expenses and the acquisition of personal-use goods or services; (3) travel arrangements; (4) nonscheduled air, sea, or land voyage transactions (such provision does not permit the carriage of articles other than accompanied baggage into Cuba or the United States); and (5) normal banking transactions. 
 
States that such provision does not: (1) restrict presidential authority in time of war or armed hostilities between the United States and Cuba, or of imminent danger to the public health or the physical safety of U.S. travelers; and (2) authorize U.S. importation of personal consumption goods acquired in Cuba.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2007-01-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-24
text: Introduced in House