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To ensure that Federal emergency management funds are not used for crisis counseling, recreation, or self esteem building classes or instruction.

Bill: 110-hr-344
Sponsor: Rep. Feeney, Tom [R-FL-24]
Introduced: 2007-01-09 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Arts, Culture, Religion
Counseling
Disaster relief
Exercise
Gardening
Performing arts
Physical education and training
Recreation
Social Welfare
Sports and Recreation
Theater

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-09
text: 
Requires the Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to ensure that no disaster relief funds are used for any type of crisis counseling, recreation, or self esteem building classes or instruction.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
action_date: 2007-01-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2007-01-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-09
text: Introduced in House
Cool and Efficient Buildings Investment Act

Bill: 110-hr-345
Sponsor: Rep. Hoekstra, Peter [R-MI-2]
Introduced: 2007-01-09 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Accounting
Air conditioning
Commerce
Depreciation and amortization
Electric appliances
Energy
Finance and Financial Sector
Heating
Income tax
Industrial buildings
Office buildings
Refrigeration
Tax deductions

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-09
text: 
Cool and Efficient Buildings Investment Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a 20-year depreciation recovery period, calculated on a straight line basis, for heating, ventilation, air conditioning, or commercial refrigeration systems installed in nonresidential buildings and placed in service between December 31, 2006, and January 1, 2009.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-01-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-09
text: Introduced in House
To redesignate the Department of the Navy as the Department of the Navy and Marine Corps.

Bill: 110-hr-346
Sponsor: Rep. Jones, Walter B., Jr. [R-NC-3]
Introduced: 2007-01-09 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Department of Defense
Government Operations and Politics
Marines
Names
Navy

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-09
text: 
Redesignates the: (1) Department of the Navy as the Department of the Navy and Marine Corps; and (2) Secretary of the Navy as the Secretary of the Navy and Marine Corps. Makes similar redesignations with respect to Department Assistant Secretaries and the General Counsel.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-20
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H6810)
action_date: 2007-06-19
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H6723)
action_date: 2007-05-14
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H4935)
action_date: 2007-03-20
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H2719-2720)
action_date: 2007-03-15
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H2599-2600)
action_date: 2007-03-14
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H2544)
action_date: 2007-01-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2007-01-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-09
text: Introduced in House
Leadership PAC Disclosure Act

Bill: 110-hr-347
Sponsor: Rep. Jones, Walter B., Jr. [R-NC-3]
Introduced: 2007-01-09 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Campaign funds
Congress
Congressional elections
Election candidates
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Political action committees
Political advertising
Presidential elections

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-09
text: 
Leadership PAC Disclosure Act - Amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to require political committees which are associated but not affiliated with a federal candidate or officeholder to include in the statements of organization and the reports they file with the Federal Election Commission the identification of each candidate or officeholder with which the committee is associated.

Requires the Commission to display and organize the designations, statements, reports, and notifications made accessible to the public on the Internet in a manner that maximizes the public's ability to determine all of the receipts and disabursements made to and by all persons associated with a particular candidate, officeholder, or political committee.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.
action_date: 2007-01-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-09
text: Introduced in House
Congressional Pension Forfeiture Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-348
Sponsor: Rep. Jones, Walter B., Jr. [R-NC-3]
Introduced: 2007-01-09 in the House
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Bribery
Campaign funds
Civil service retirement
Conflict of interests
Congressional ethics
Congressional pensions
Conspiracy
Crime and Law Enforcement
Election fraud
Embezzlement
Extortion
Finance and Financial Sector
Fines (Penalties)
Foreign agents
Forfeiture
Fraud
Fund raising
Government Operations and Politics
Government property
Income tax
Interest
International Affairs
Labor and Employment
Larceny
Law
Members of Congress
Misconduct in office
Obstruction of justice
Organized crime
Perjury
Practice of law
Public corruption
Tax evasion
Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-09
text: 
Congressional Pension Forfeiture Act of 2007 - Amends federal civil service law, with respect to both the Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) and the Federal Employees' Retirement System (FERS), to require the Office of Personnel and Management (OPM) to prescribe regulations that deny eligibility under CSRS or FERS for a Member convicted of certain offenses that are: (1) committed by the individual while a Member, (2) related to the individual's service as a Member, and (3) committed during the 111th Congress or later. Refunds annuity contributions and deposits, excluding interest earned, to a convicted individual.
 
Defines Member as the Vice President, a member of the Senate or the House of Representatives, a Delegate to the House of Representatives, and the Resident Commissioner from Puerto Rico.
 
Requires forfeit of Thrift Savings Plan contributions made by the government for the benefit of an individual, and all earnings attributed to such contributions, as a result of the Member's conviction.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-09
text: Referred to the Committee on House Administration, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, 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: 2007-01-09
text: Referred to the Committee on House Administration, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, 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: 2007-01-09
text: Referred to the Committee on House Administration, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, 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: 2007-01-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-09
text: Introduced in House
10 by 10 Act

Bill: 110-hr-349
Sponsor: Rep. Kline, John [R-MN-2]
Introduced: 2007-01-09 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Alternative energy sources
Business records
Commerce
Consumer education
Energy
Environmental Protection Agency
Gasoline
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Labeling
Law
Motor vehicle pollution control
Service stations
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-09
text: 
10 by 10 Act - Amends the Clean Air Act to make it unlawful after December 31, 2009, for any person to sell, supply, offer for sale or supply, dispense, transport, or introduce into commerce, for use in any motor vehicle, any gasoline with less than 10% renewable fuel by volume.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality.
action_date: 2007-01-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2007-01-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-09
text: Introduced in House
Sex Offender Visa Loophole Elimination Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-350
Sponsor: Rep. Kline, John [R-MN-2]
Introduced: 2007-01-09 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Aliens
Child abuse
Child labor
Child pornography
Child sexual abuse
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Computer crimes
Conspiracy
Crime and Law Enforcement
Families
Forced labor
Immigrants
Kidnapping
Married people
Parents
Pornography
Prostitution
Rape
Science, Technology, Communications
Sex crimes
Sex offenders
Slavery
Visas

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-09
text: 
Sex Offender Visa Loophole Elimination Act of 2007 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to prohibit a convicted U.S.-citizen sex offender from filing a family-based immigration petition.
 
Defines &quot;sex offense&quot; and &quot;specified offense against a minor.&quot;
 
Prohibits approval of a fiance/fiancee or waiting nonimmigrant spouse visa petition filed by a convicted sex offender.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
action_date: 2007-01-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-01-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-09
text: Introduced in House
To establish the Independent Commission on the 2004 Coup d'Etat in the Republic of Haiti.

Bill: 110-hr-351
Sponsor: Rep. Lee, Barbara [D-CA-9]
Introduced: 2007-01-09 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Americans in foreign countries
Armed Forces and National Security
Armed forces abroad
Associations, institutions, etc.
Caribbean area
Collective security
Congress
Congressional agencies
Congressional investigations
Congressional reorganization
Congressional reporting requirements
Coups d'etat
Democracy
Development credit institutions
Economic assistance
Federal advisory bodies
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Foreign leaders
Foreign loans
Government Operations and Politics
Haiti
Insurgency
International agencies
Latin America
Military agreements
Military assistance
Nongovernmental organizations
Political violence
United Nations

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-09
text: 
Establishes in the legislative branch the Independent Commission on the 2004 Coup d'Etat in the Republic of Haiti. 
 
Directs the Commission to examine the U.S. government's role in the February 2004 coup d'etat in the Republic of Haiti. 
 
Terminates the Commission 60 days after submission of its final report to Congress and the President.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere.
action_date: 2007-01-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2007-01-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-09
text: Introduced in House
Poverty Impact Trigger Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-352
Sponsor: Rep. Lee, Barbara [D-CA-9]
Introduced: 2007-01-09 in the House
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Authorization
Congressional Budget Office
Congressional agencies
Congressional information resources
Congressional reorganization
Congressional reporting requirements
Economics and Public Finance
Government Operations and Politics
House rules and procedure
Legislation
Legislative resolutions
Poverty
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-09
text: 
Poverty Impact Trigger Act of 2007 - Amends Rule XXI (Restrictions on Certain Bills) of the Rules of the House of Representatives to make it out of order to consider a public bill or joint resolution authorizing an appropriation of $10 million or more, unless: (1) the accompanying committee report includes a Congressional Budget Office (CBO) Poverty Impact Division impact statement; or (2) the chairman of the committee reporting the legislation submits such statement for publication in the Congressional Record before consideration of the measure.
 
Amends the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to establish the CBO Poverty Impact Division to prepare and submit poverty impact statements to the chairmen of House committees.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-04-26
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H4200)
action_date: 2007-01-09
text: Referred to the Committee on Rules, and in addition to the Committee on the Budget, 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: 2007-01-09
text: Referred to the Committee on Rules, and in addition to the Committee on the Budget, 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: 2007-01-09
text: Referred to the Committee on Rules, and in addition to the Committee on the Budget, 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: 2007-01-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-09
text: Introduced in House
To prohibit the use of funds for an escalation of United States forces in Iraq above the numbers existing as of January 9, 2007.

Bill: 110-hr-353
Sponsor: Rep. Markey, Edward J. [D-MA-7]
Introduced: 2007-01-09 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Armed forces abroad
Congress
Congress and military policy
Defense budgets
Economics and Public Finance
Iraq
Iraq compilation
Legislation
Middle East and North Africa
Military occupation
Military operations
Military strategy

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-09
text: 
Prohibits the U.S. government from obligating or expending funds to increase the number of U.S. forces in Iraq above the number for such forces which existed as of January 9, 2007, without a specific congressional authorization for such increase. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-09
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, 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: 2007-01-09
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, 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: 2007-01-09
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, 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: 2007-01-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-09
text: Introduced in House
SAVE Act

Bill: 110-hr-354
Sponsor: Rep. McCarthy, Carolyn [D-NY-4]
Introduced: 2007-01-09 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Authorization
Community and school
Counseling
Crime and Law Enforcement
Crime prevention
Criminal justice information
Department of Education
Drug abuse
Drug traffic
Drugs and youth
Economics and Public Finance
Educational accountability
Educational planning
Educational statistics
Educational surveys
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Families
Federal aid to education
Firearms
Firearms control
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publications
Parent and child
Parent-school relationships
School buses
School choice
School discipline
School districts
School security
Secondary education
Social Welfare
Student transportation
Transportation and Public Works
Victims of crimes
Youth violence

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-09
text: 
Safe Schools Against Violence in Education Act or the SAVE Act - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to require states to allow a student who is attending a public school that does not have a safe climate for academic achievement, or who becomes a victim of a violent criminal offense while on school grounds, in a school bus, or on a school function, to transfer to a safe public school within the school district. (Currently, the school must be persistently dangerous and the offense must occur on school grounds.)
 
Requires the counseling or removal of offenders. Requires a state's determination that a school is unsafe to: (1) be based on verifiable data reported in a consistent and uniform manner; (2) result in ameliorative efforts by unsafe schools; and (3) be relayed to local educational agencies (LEAs) within 45 days before the start of a school year so that LEAs can relay such information to parents in a timely manner.
 
Amends the Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities grant program to require LEAs to certify to states that the school truancy, violence, and drug and gun crime information they report is complete and accurate. Directs the Secretary of Education to publish a handbook providing guidance on specifically what incidents must be reported. Augments the information LEAs must provide states concerning students with guns to include school-related off-campus incidents and those that do not involve a student's expulsion. Requires LEAs to implement comprehensive school safety plans incorporating community input.
 
Directs the Secretary to fund schoolwide climate surveys of students, parents, and school personnel for use in creating collaborative plans for school improvement.
 
Gives funding priority to, and reserves program funding for, unsafe schools.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-05-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2007-01-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2007-01-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-09
text: Introduced in House
ACT for Schools Act

Bill: 110-hr-355
Sponsor: Rep. McCarthy, Carolyn [D-NY-4]
Introduced: 2007-01-09 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Congressional reporting requirements
Crime and Law Enforcement
Criminal justice information
Criminal statistics
Data banks
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Governmental investigations
School security
Science, Technology, Communications
Secondary education

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-09
text: 
Accurate Crime Trends for Schools Act or the ACT for Schools Act - Directs the Attorney General to study and report to the appropriate congressional committees on the feasibility of expanding the National Incident-Based Reporting System to include information on the occurrence of school-related crime in elementary and secondary schools.
 
Requires the study to identify and evaluate methods for collecting and reporting such information.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2007-01-10
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H313)
action_date: 2007-01-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-01-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-09
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 to implement mandatory country of origin labeling requirements for meat and produce on September 30, 2007.

Bill: 110-hr-357
Sponsor: Rep. Rehberg, Dennis R. [R-MT-At Large]
Introduced: 2007-01-09 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agriculture in foreign trade
Animals
Aquaculture
Commerce
Fishes
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Imports
Labeling
Marketing of farm produce
Meat
Peanuts
Seafood
Sheep
Swine

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-09
text: 
Amends the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 to change the country of origin labeling implementation date from September 30, 2008, to September 30, 2007.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry.
action_date: 2007-02-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Horticulture and Organic Agriculture.
action_date: 2007-01-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2007-01-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-09
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 38, United States Code, to expand and make permanent the Department of Veterans Affairs benefit for Government markers for marked graves of veterans buried in private cemeteries, and for other purposes.

Bill: 110-hr-358
Sponsor: Rep. Reichert, David G. [R-WA-8]
Introduced: 2007-01-09 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Cemeteries and funerals
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Veterans' benefits

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-09
text: 
Amends federal veterans' benefits provisions to make permanent (currently, terminates on December 31, 2006) the authority for the provision by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs of government markers or memorial headstones for the marked graves of veterans buried in private cemeteries.
 
Amends the Veterans Education and Benefits Expansion Act of 2001 to make eligible for such markers or headstones certain veterans dying on or after November 1, 1990 (currently, September 11, 2001).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.
action_date: 2007-01-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2007-01-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-09
text: Introduced in House