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9-11 Commission Combating Proliferation Implementation Act

Bill: 110-hr-360
Sponsor: Rep. Tauscher, Ellen O. [D-CA-10]
Introduced: 2007-01-09 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Advice and consent of the Senate
Armed Forces and National Security
Arms control
Arms control agreements
Arms control negotiations
Authorization
Biological warfare
Central Asia
Chemical warfare
Congress
Congress and foreign policy
Congress and military policy
Congressional oversight
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime and Law Enforcement
Department of Energy
Economics and Public Finance
Energy
Environmental Protection
Europe
Executive Office of the President
Executive reorganization
Federal employees
Fissionable materials
Former Soviet states
Fringe benefits
Government Operations and Politics
Government liability (International law)
International cooperation
International law
Labor and Employment
Military assistance
Military maneuvers
Military training
Nuclear facilities
Nuclear nonproliferation
Nuclear security measures
Nuclear terrorism
Nuclear weapons
Performance measurement
Planning-programming-budgeting
Plutonium
President and foreign policy
Presidential appointments
Reprogramming of appropriated funds
Russia
Strategic planning
Terrorism
Transfer of employees
Transportation and Public Works
Transportation of hazardous substances
United Nations
Uranium
Weapons of mass destruction

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-09
text: 
9-11 Commission Combating Proliferation Implementation Act - Establishes within the Executive Office of the President the Office for Combating the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMDs). Requires the Director of the Office to: (1) develop and advise the President on WMD anti-proliferation policies; and (2) implement a Strategy for Combating the Proliferation of WMDs. 
 
Expresses the sense of Congress that: (1) the President should request the President of the Russian Federation to appoint a corresponding official to the Director; (2) the President should expand and strengthen the Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI); and (3) the United States should engage the United Nations to develop a U.N. Security Council resolution authorizing the PSI under international law. 
 
Authorizes funding for: (1) acceleration of removal or security of fissile materials, radiological materials, and related equipment at vulnerable sites worldwide; (2) joint training exercises regarding interdiction of weapons of mass destruction under the PSI; and (3) Cooperative Threat Reduction programs (CTR).
 
Gives the President permanent waiver authority over provisions prohibiting the use of certain CTR funds for chemical weapons destruction facilities in Russia. 
 
Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2004 to repeal specified CTR fund limits for activities outside the former Soviet Union. 


Legislative actions:
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
To provide for the establishment of the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy.

Bill: 110-hr-364
Sponsor: Rep. Gordon, Bart [D-TN-6]
Introduced: 2007-01-10 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Alternative energy sources
Collection of accounts
Commerce
Commercialization
Congressional reporting requirements
Department of Energy
Economics and Public Finance
Energy efficiency
Energy research
Energy security
Executive reorganization
Federal advisory bodies
Federal aid to research
Federal officials
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Government trust funds
Imports
Intellectual property
Inventions
Patents
Performance measurement
Public-private partnerships
Research and development
Research grants
Science, Technology, Communications
Technological innovations
Technology transfer

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-10
text: 
Establishes the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) within the Department of Energy to reduce the amount of energy the United States imports from foreign sources by 20% over the next 10 years.
 
Establishes the Energy Independence Acceleration Fund, administered by the ARPA-E Director for the award of competitive grants, cooperative agreements, or contracts to institutions of higher education, companies, or consortia, including federally funded research and development centers, to achieve specified goals through targeted acceleration of: (1) energy-related research; (2) development of resultant techniques, processes, and technologies, and related testing and evaluation; and (3) demonstration and commercial application of the most promising technologies and research applications.
 
Directs the Secretary to establish procedures and criteria for recoupment of the federal share of each project supported under this Act.
 
Requires the President's Committee on Science and Technology to evaluate for Congress and the public how well ARPA-E is achieving its goals and mission.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-05-06
text: Hearing Held by Subcommitte on Energy and Environment Prior to Introduction and Referral (April 26, 2007).
action_date: 2007-05-23
text: Ordered to be Reported (Amended).
action_date: 2007-05-23
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2007-05-10
text: Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee (Amended) by Voice Vote .
action_date: 2007-05-10
text: Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2007-05-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment.
action_date: 2007-03-13
text: Committee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2007-01-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Science and Technology.
action_date: 2007-01-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-10
text: Introduced in House
Gang Elimination Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-367
Sponsor: Rep. Reichert, David G. [R-WA-8]
Introduced: 2007-01-10 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Congressional reporting requirements
Conspiracy
Drug abuse
Drug law enforcement
Drug traffic
Drugs and youth
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Families
Gangs
International Affairs
Organized crime
Rape
School security
Smuggling
State-sponsored terrorism
Strategic planning
Terrorism
Violence
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-10
text: 
Gang Elimination Act of 2007 - Directs the Attorney General to report to Congress on a national strategy to eliminate the illegal operations of National Threat Drug Gangs (i.e., the top three international drug gangs that present the greatest threat to law and order in the United States). Sets forth criteria for the Attorney General to consider in identifying a National Threat Drug Gang, including (1) ties to international terrorist organizations or state-sponsored terrorism; (2) the volume of controlled substances imported or distributed by such gangs; and (3) the threat to children and schools in the United States. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2007-01-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-01-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-10
text: Introduced in House
Notch Fairness Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-368
Sponsor: Rep. Hall, Ralph M. [R-TX-4]
Introduced: 2007-01-10 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Old age, survivors and disability insurance
Social security beneficiaries
Social security eligibility

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-10
text: 
Notch Fairness Act of 2007 - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act with respect to the benefit computation formula for individuals affected by the changes in benefit computation rules enacted in the Social Security Amendments of 1977 who became eligible (at age 62) for (early retirement) old-age insurance benefits after 1978 and before 1989 (and reached age 65 for full-retirement benefits after 1981 and before 1992).
 
Sets forth a schedule of additional benefit increases for such beneficiaries (and related beneficiaries), with percentages declining from 55% to 5% keyed to the year an individual became eligible for (early retirement) benefits between 1978 and 1989.
 
Provides for an election to receive such payments in a lump sum.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Social Security.
action_date: 2007-01-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-01-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-10
text: Introduced in House
Agricultural Job Opportunities, Benefits, and Security Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-371
Sponsor: Rep. Berman, Howard L. [D-CA-28]
Introduced: 2007-01-10 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Administrative fees
Administrative procedure
Administrative remedies
Admission of nonimmigrants
Agricultural labor
Agriculture and Food
Alien labor
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Collective bargaining
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime and Law Enforcement
Department of Homeland Security
Department of State
Deportation
Dismissal of employees
Economics and Public Finance
Families
Fines (Penalties)
Fraud
Government Operations and Politics
Identification devices
Judicial review
Labor and Employment
Law
Married people
Mediation
Prosecution
Recruiting of employees
Right to travel
Seasonal labor
Social Welfare
Social security numbers
Temporary employment
User charges
Visas

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-10
text: 
Agricultural Job Opportunities, Benefits, and Security Act of 2007 or the AgJOBS Act of 2007 - Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security to confer "blue card status" upon an alien who: (1) has performed agricultural employment in the United States for at least 863 hours or 150 work days during the 24-month period ending on December 31, 2006; (2) applied for such status during the 18-month application period beginning on the first day of the seventh month that begins after the date of enactment of this Act; (3) is otherwise admissible to the United States; and (4) has not been convicted of any felony or a misdemeanor, an element of which involves bodily injury, threat of serious bodily injury, or harm to property in excess of $500. 
 
Directs the Secretary to adjust a blue card alien (and spouse and minor children) to permanent resident status if the alien has fulfilled specified periods of agricultural employment.
 
Amends the Social Security Act to exempt blue card aliens from prosecution for social security-related identity or payment false statements if such conduct occurred prior to the granting of blue card status. 
 
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to revise H-2A visa (agricultural labor or temporary or seasonal services) provisions. Replaces the existing labor certification requirement with a labor attestation requirement containing: (1) a description of the nature and location of the job; (2) the job's expected beginning and ending dates; (3) the number of jobs; and (4) specified labor assurances respecting job opportunities covered by collective bargaining agreements and non-covered job opportunities. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
action_date: 2007-01-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-01-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-10
text: Introduced in House
Freedom from Automated Political Calls Act

Bill: 110-hr-372
Sponsor: Rep. Altmire, Jason [D-PA-4]
Introduced: 2007-01-10 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Campaign funds
Commerce
Consumer protection
Directories
Federal Trade Commission
Fund raising
Government Operations and Politics
Independent regulatory commissions
Law
Political advertising
Telemarketing
Telephone

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-10
text: 
 Freedom from Automated Political Calls Act - Directs the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to revise the do-not-call registry provisions of the Telemarketing Sales Rule to prohibit politically-oriented recorded message telephone calls to telephone numbers listed on that registry. 
 
Defines politically-oriented recorded message telephone call.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection.
action_date: 2007-01-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2007-01-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-10
text: Introduced in House
To make 1 percent across-the-board rescissions in non-defense, non-homeland-security discretionary spending for fiscal year 2007.

Bill: 110-hr-373
Sponsor: Rep. Blackburn, Marsha [R-TN-7]
Introduced: 2007-01-10 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Congressional reporting requirements
Federal budgets
Government spending reductions
Rescission of appropriated funds

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-10
text: 
Makes 1% across-the-board rescissions in non-defense, non-homeland-security discretionary spending for FY2007.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Appropriations.
action_date: 2007-01-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-10
text: Introduced in House
To make 2 percent across-the-board rescissions in non-defense, non-homeland-security discretionary spending for fiscal year 2007.

Bill: 110-hr-374
Sponsor: Rep. Blackburn, Marsha [R-TN-7]
Introduced: 2007-01-10 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Congressional reporting requirements
Federal budgets
Government spending reductions
Rescission of appropriated funds

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-10
text: 
Makes 2% across-the-board rescissions in non-defense, non-homeland-security discretionary spending for FY2007.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Appropriations.
action_date: 2007-01-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-10
text: Introduced in House
National Naval Force Structure Policy Act

Bill: 110-hr-375
Sponsor: Rep. Davis, Jo Ann [R-VA-1]
Introduced: 2007-01-10 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Amphibious operations
Congress and military policy
Military readiness
Navy
Peace
Warships

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-10
text: National Naval Force Structure Policy Act - States that it is U.S. policy to rebuild as soon as possible the size of the U.S. Navy fleet to no fewer than 375 vessels in active service, including 15 aircraft carrier battle groups and 15 amphibious ready groups.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Seapower and Expeditionary Forces.
action_date: 2007-01-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2007-01-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-10
text: Introduced in House
Insuring Families for Their Future Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-377
Sponsor: Rep. Burgess, Michael C. [R-TX-26]
Introduced: 2007-01-10 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Cost of living adjustments
Employee benefit plans
Finance and Financial Sector
Group insurance
Income tax
Labor and Employment
Life insurance
Tax exclusion

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-10
text: 
Insuring Families for Their Future Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase from $50,000 to $320,000 the amount of employer-provided group term life insurance that an employee can exclude from gross income. Indexes the $320,000 amount for inflation for taxable years beginning after 2007.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-01-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-10
text: Introduced in House
To make 5 percent across-the-board rescissions in non-defense, non-homeland-security discretionary spending for fiscal year 2007.

Bill: 110-hr-379
Sponsor: Rep. Blackburn, Marsha [R-TN-7]
Introduced: 2007-01-10 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Congressional reporting requirements
Federal budgets
Government spending reductions
Rescission of appropriated funds

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-10
text: 
Makes 5% across-the-board recissions in non-defense, non-homeland-security discretionary spending for FY2007.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Appropriations.
action_date: 2007-01-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-10
text: Introduced in House
Gifted and Talented Education Enhancement Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-381
Sponsor: Rep. Gillmor, Paul E. [R-OH-5]
Introduced: 2007-01-10 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Curricula
Economics and Public Finance
Educational accountability
Elementary and secondary education
Families
Federal aid to education
Gifted children
Higher education
Special education
Teacher education

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-10
text: 
Gifted and Talented Education Enhancement Act of 2007 - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to include teacher quality enhancement programs relating to the needs of gifted and talented students among authorized uses of title II grants for states and partnerships.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-05-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education, Lifelong Learning, and Competitiveness.
action_date: 2007-01-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2007-01-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-10
text: Introduced in House
Municipal Deposit Insurance Protection Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-382
Sponsor: Rep. Gillmor, Paul E. [R-OH-5]
Introduced: 2007-01-10 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Deposit insurance
Government Operations and Politics
Local finance

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-10
text: 
Municipal Deposit Insurance Protection Act of 2007 - Amends the Federal Deposit Insurance Act to set $2 million as the maximum amount of insurance for in-state municipal depositor accounts held by an insured depository institution. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-04-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit.
action_date: 2007-01-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2007-01-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-10
text: Introduced in House
HUBZone Improvement Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-383
Sponsor: Rep. Goode, Virgil H., Jr. [R-VA-5]
Introduced: 2007-01-10 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Depressed areas
Economics and Public Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Government procurement
Housing and Community Development
Labor and Employment
Labor statistics
Metropolitan areas
Population
Rural economic development
Small business
Unemployment
Urban affairs

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-10
text: 
HUBZone Improvement Act of 2007 - Amends the Small Business Act redefine a Hubzone Qualified Area to count as a qualified nonmetropolitan county any county located within a metropolitan statistical area if: (1) its total population is 80,000 or less; (2) the population residing within the county's urbanized areas is 10% or less of the county's total population; and (3) the county meets either a specified median household income or a specified unemployment rate requirement.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Small Business.
action_date: 2007-01-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-10
text: Introduced in House
To include Nelson County, Virginia, in the Appalachian region for purposes of the programs of the Appalachian Regional Commission.

Bill: 110-hr-384
Sponsor: Rep. Goode, Virgil H., Jr. [R-VA-5]
Introduced: 2007-01-10 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Appalachia
County politics and government
Economics and Public Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Regional economic development
Rural economic development
Virginia

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-10
text: 
Includes Nelson County, Virginia, in the Appalachian region for purposes of provisions regarding Appalachian regional development.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
action_date: 2007-01-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2007-01-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-10
text: Introduced in House
Social Security Disability Determination Simplification Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-385
Sponsor: Rep. Goode, Virgil H., Jr. [R-VA-5]
Introduced: 2007-01-10 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Disability evaluation
Disabled
Government Operations and Politics
Law
Old age, survivors and disability insurance
Social Security Administration
Social security eligibility

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-10
text: 
Social Security Disability Determination Simplification Act of 2007 - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act to eliminate any mandatory intervening reconsideration from the benefit entitlement decision review process.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Social Security.
action_date: 2007-01-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-01-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-10
text: Introduced in House
Yakima-Tieton Irrigation District Conveyance Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-386
Sponsor: Rep. Hastings, Doc [R-WA-4]
Introduced: 2007-01-10 in the House
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Government Operations and Politics
Government property
Irrigation
Irrigation districts
Land transfers
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Washington State

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-10
text: 
Yakima-Tieton Irrigation District Conveyance Act of 2007 - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to convey certain buildings and lands of the Yakima Project, Washington, to the Yakima-Tieton Irrigation District.

action_date: 2007-02-06
text: 

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

 
Yakima-Tieton Irrigation District Conveyance Act of 2007 - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to convey certain buildings and lands of the Yakima Project, Washington, to the Yakima-Tieton Irrigation District.
 

 

 
Directs the Secretary, if the conveyance has not been completed within 12 months, to report to Congress with an explanation and the date by which it will be completed.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-07
text: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-02-06
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2007-02-06
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 417 - 0 (Roll no. 77). (text: CR H1226)
action_date: 2007-02-06
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 417 - 0 (Roll no. 77).(text: CR H1226)
action_date: 2007-02-06
text: Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H1229)
action_date: 2007-02-06
text: At the conclusion of debate, the Yeas and Nays were demanded and ordered. Pursuant to the provisions of clause 8, rule XX, the Chair announced that further proceedings on the motion would be postponed.
action_date: 2007-02-06
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 386.
action_date: 2007-02-06
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H1226-1227)
action_date: 2007-02-06
text: Mrs. Napolitano moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
action_date: 2007-01-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-01-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-10
text: Introduced in House