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Congressional Pardon for Border Patrol Agents Ramos and Compean Act

Bill: 110-hr-563
Sponsor: Rep. Hunter, Duncan [R-CA-52]
Introduced: 2007-01-18 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Border patrols
Department of Homeland Security
Federal law enforcement officers
Government Operations and Politics
Immigration
Law
Pardons
Prosecution

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-18
text: 
Congressional Pardon for Border Patrol Agents Ramos and Compean Act - Orders: (1) the criminal convictions and sentences of Border Patrol Agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean vacated; and (2) the release of said agents from government custody. Prohibits any further criminal prosecution or other proceedings against said agents.

Express the sense of Congress that the Department of Homeland Security should review the rules of engagement presently used by the U.S. Border Patrol.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2007-01-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Border, Maritime, and Global Counterterrorism.
action_date: 2007-01-18
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Homeland Security, 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: 2007-01-18
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Homeland Security, 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: 2007-01-18
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Homeland Security, 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: 2007-01-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-18
text: Introduced in House
Disadvantaged Business Disaster Eligibility Act

Bill: 110-hr-564
Sponsor: Rep. Jefferson, William J. [D-LA-2]
Introduced: 2007-01-18 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Alabama
Disaster loans
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Finance and Financial Sector
Floods
Government lending
Hurricanes
Louisiana
Minorities
Minority business enterprises
Mississippi
Small business
Texas

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-18
text: 
Disadvantaged Business Disaster Eligibility Act - Amends the Small Business Act to provide that if a small business is affected by a catastrophic incident while participating in any section 8(a) business development program, the eligibility period for its participation in such program shall be extended by 18 months.
 
Deems the 2005 Hurricanes Katrina, Wilma, and Rita as catastrophic incidents for purposes of this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Small Business.
action_date: 2007-01-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-18
text: Introduced in House
Small Business Disaster Loan Improvement Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-565
Sponsor: Rep. Jefferson, William J. [D-LA-2]
Introduced: 2007-01-18 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Alabama
Disaster loans
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Finance and Financial Sector
Floods
Government lending
Hurricanes
Louisiana
Mississippi
Small business
Texas

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-18
text: 
Small Business Disaster Loan Improvement Act of 2007 - Amends the Small Business Act to prohibit the Administrator of the Small Business Administration (SBA), in determining whether a person is eligible for a loan under the SBA's disaster loan program with respect to a catastrophic incident, or in determining the amount of such loan, to consider the extent to which: (1) the loss or injury of the person is compensated for by insurance or otherwise; or (2) the person paid insurance proceeds to a recorded lienholder.
 
Deems the 2005 Hurricanes Katrina, Wilma, and Rita as catastrophic incidents for purposes of this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Small Business.
action_date: 2007-01-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-18
text: Introduced in House
To waive the time limitations specified by law for the award of certain military decorations in order to allow the posthumous award of the Medal of Honor to Doris Miller for actions while a member of the Navy during World War II.

Bill: 110-hr-566
Sponsor: Rep. Johnson, Eddie Bernice [D-TX-30]
Introduced: 2007-01-18 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Commemorations
Congress
Congressional Medal of Honor
History
Military personnel
Navy
World War II

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-18
text: Waives certain time limitations with respect to the posthumous award of the Medal of Honor to Doris Miller for acts of heroism during World War II as a member of the United States Navy.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2007-01-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2007-01-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-18
text: Introduced in House
Children of Fallen Soldiers Pell Grant Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-567
Sponsor: Rep. Johnson, Eddie Bernice [D-TX-30]
Introduced: 2007-01-18 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Afghanistan
Armed Forces and National Security
Crime and Law Enforcement
Economics and Public Finance
Families
Federal aid to education
Higher education
Iraq
Iraq compilation
Middle East and North Africa
Military dependents
Military occupation
Military operations
Scholarships
September 11, 2001
South Asia
Terrorism
War
War casualties

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-18
text: 
Children of Fallen Soldiers Pell Grant Act of 2007 - Amends the Higher Educaton Act of 1965 to eliminate the expected family contribution used in determining Pell Grant eligibility in the case of a student applicant whose parent or guardian was killed while performing military service in Iraq or Afghanistan after September 11, 2001.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-05-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education, Lifelong Learning, and Competitiveness.
action_date: 2007-01-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2007-01-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-18
text: Introduced in House
Reverse Mortgages to Help America's Seniors Act

Bill: 110-hr-568
Sponsor: Rep. Matheson, Jim [D-UT-2]
Introduced: 2007-01-18 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Federally-guaranteed loans
Finance and Financial Sector
Home equity conversion
Housing for the aged
Mortgage guaranty insurance
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-18
text: 
Reverse Mortgages to Help America's Seniors Act - Amends the National Housing Act to remove the aggregate and insurance benefit limitations on the number of home equity conversion (reverse) mortgages for elderly homeowners that may be insured by the Federal Housing Administration (FHA). 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-04-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity.
action_date: 2007-01-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2007-01-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-18
text: Introduced in House
To provide grants from moneys collected from violations of the corporate average fuel economy program to be used to expand infrastructure necessary to increase the availability of alternative fuels.

Bill: 110-hr-570
Sponsor: Rep. Rogers, Mike J. [R-MI-8]
Introduced: 2007-01-18 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Alcohol as fuel
Alternative energy sources
Automobile industry
Biomass energy
Coal
Commerce
Economics and Public Finance
Electric vehicles
Energy conservation
Fines (Penalties)
Fuel cells
Fuel consumption
Government trust funds
Hydrogen
Infrastructure
Infrastructure (Economics)
Law
Liquefied petroleum gas
Methanol
Natural gas
Natural gas vehicles
Petroleum industry
Service stations
Solar energy
Subsidies

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-18
text: 
Establishes the Energy Security Fund, to be funded by proceeds deposited in the general fund of the Treasury from fines, penalties, and other funds obtained through enforcement actions for violations of automobile fuel economy standards.
 
Directs the Secretary of Energy, acting through the Clean Cities Program of the Department of Energy, to establish a program of grants to expand the availability of alternative fuels to consumers. Makes amounts in the Fund available to the Secretary for such grants. 
 
Declares eligible for assistance any entity that is eligible for assistance under the Clean Cities Program.
 
Bars from such assistance: (1) large, vertically-integrated oil companies; and (2) any entity that receives other federal funds for the construction or expansion of the same alternative refueling infrastructure.
 
Sets forth a maximum ceiling for grants and for stations. 
 
Limits the use of such funds to construction or expansion of alternative fueling infrastructure.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality.
action_date: 2007-01-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2007-01-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-18
text: Introduced in House
To require additional tariffs be imposed on products of any nonmarket economy country until the President certifies to the Congress that the country is a market economy country, and to direct the Secretary of the Treasury to deposit the amounts generated from those tariffs into the Social Security trust funds.

Bill: 110-hr-571
Sponsor: Rep. Tancredo, Thomas G. [R-CO-6]
Introduced: 2007-01-18 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Albania
Armenia
Azerbaijan
Belarus
Cambodia
Caribbean area
Central Asia
China
Commerce
Congress
Congress and foreign policy
Congressional oversight
Congressional reporting requirements
Cuba
East Asia
Economics and Public Finance
Europe
Free enterprise
Georgia (Republic)
Government Operations and Politics
Government trust funds
Imports
International Affairs
Kyrgyzstan
Laos
Latin America
Moldova
North Korea
Old age, survivors and disability insurance
President and foreign policy
Social Welfare
Social security finance
Taiwan
Tajikistan
Tariff
Turkmenistan
Ukraine
Uzbekistan
Vietnam

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-18
text: 
Requires additional tariffs to be imposed on products of any nonmarket economy country (Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Cambodia, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Moldova, the People's Republic of China, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Vietnam and, to the extent that any of their products enter U.S. customs territory, Cuba and North Korea), as well as any other country determined to be a nonmarket economy country until the President certifies to Congress that such country is a market economy country (operating on market principles of cost and pricing structures so that sales of merchandise in such country reflect their fair value).
 
Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to deposit the amounts generated from such additional tariffs into the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund and the Federal Disability Insurance Trust Fund created by the Social Security Act.
 
States that, for purposes of this Act, the People's Republic of China shall not be construed to include Taiwan or any island over which Taiwan exercises jurisdiction.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2007-01-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-01-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-18
text: Introduced in House
Comprehensive Immigration Reform Commission Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-572
Sponsor: Rep. Towns, Edolphus [D-NY-10]
Introduced: 2007-01-18 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Alien labor
Congress
Congressional agencies
Congressional investigations
Congressional reorganization
Congressional reporting requirements
Families
Federal advisory bodies
Labor and Employment
Refugees

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-18
text: 
Comprehensive Immigration Reform Commission Act of 2007 - Establishes the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Commission which shall: (1) conduct a comprehensive review of immigration reform policies that affect family reunification, employment-based immigration, refugee protection, and diversity of admissions by country of origin; and (2) submit a final report to Congress and the President. 
 
Terminates the Commission 30 days after submission of such report.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
action_date: 2007-01-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-01-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-18
text: Introduced in House
Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore Corrections Act

Bill: 110-hr-573
Sponsor: Rep. Visclosky, Peter J. [D-IN-1]
Introduced: 2007-01-18 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Government Operations and Politics
Indiana
Land transfers
Local taxation
National lakeshores
Right-of-way
State taxation
Taxation
Transportation and Public Works
Water Resources Development

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-18
text: Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore Corrections Act - Permits the Secretary of the Interior, with respect to the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore in Indiana, to: (1) accept donations of lands located outside the present boundaries of the Lakeshore if they are either contiguous or separated from such lands by only a right-of-way; and (2) make acquisitions to the boundaries of the Lakeshore from units of state or local government by satisfaction of delinquent state or local taxes.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-06-05
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2007-02-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2007-01-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-01-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-18
text: Introduced in House
Lake Barkley Water Level Improvement Act

Bill: 110-hr-574
Sponsor: Rep. Whitfield, Ed [R-KY-1]
Introduced: 2007-01-18 in the House
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Boats and boating
Drainage
Kentucky
Lakes
Marine safety
Outdoor recreation
Sports and Recreation
Transportation and Public Works
Water supply

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-18
text: 
Lake Barkley Water Level Improvement Act - Directs the Army Corps of Engineers, together with any other federal agency that has the authority to change the pool elevation of Lake Barkley, Kentucky, to conduct a two-year pilot program to extend, under normal weather conditions, the summer pool elevation of 359 feet on such lake from the current draw down date of July 1 until after the first Monday in September. 
 
Requires: (1) the Chief of Engineers to evaluate the effectiveness of such extension and report to Congress; and (2) the Corps, if it determines that the pilot program is effective, to continue the summer elevation of 359 feet on that lake through the first Monday in September each year. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
action_date: 2007-01-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2007-01-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-18
text: Introduced in House
For the relief of Enrique Soriano, Cleotilde Soriano, and Areli Soriano.

Bill: 110-hr-575
Sponsor: Rep. Green, Gene [D-TX-29]
Introduced: 2007-01-18 in the House
Policy area: Private Legislation
Subjects: Immigration

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-18
text: Provides for the relief of Enrique Soriano, Cleotilde Soriano, and Areli Soriano.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
action_date: 2007-01-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-01-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-18
text: Introduced in House
Federal Mine Ventilation Safety Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-576
Sponsor: Rep. Rahall, Nick J., II [D-WV-3]
Introduced: 2007-01-19 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Coal
Department of Labor
Government Operations and Politics
Law
Mine safety

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-19
text: 
Federal Mine Ventilation Safety Act of 2007 - Amends the Federal Mine Safety and Health Act of 1977 to require the Secretary of Labor to revise regulations in order to prohibit belt haulage entries from being used to ventilate active working places in any coal mine.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-20
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1344)
action_date: 2007-05-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
action_date: 2007-01-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2007-01-19
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E157-158)
action_date: 2007-01-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-19
text: Introduced in House
To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 3903 South Congress Avenue in Austin, Texas, as the "Sergeant Henry Ybarra III Post Office Building".

Bill: 110-hr-577
Sponsor: Rep. Doggett, Lloyd [D-TX-25]
Introduced: 2007-01-19 in the House
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Army
Congressional tributes
Government Operations and Politics
Military personnel
Names
Postal facilities
Texas

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-19
text: Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 3903 South Congress Avenue in Austin, Texas, as the "Sergeant Henry Ybarra III Post Office Building."
action_date: 2007-03-07
text: 

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

Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 3903 South Congress Avenue in Austin, Texas, as the "Sergeant Henry Ybarra III Post Office Building." 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-07
text: Became Public Law No: 110-11.
action_date: 2007-03-07
text: Became Public Law No: 110-11.
action_date: 2007-03-07
text: Signed by President.
action_date: 2007-03-07
text: Signed by President.
action_date: 2007-03-05
text: Presented to President.
action_date: 2007-03-05
text: Presented to President.
action_date: 2007-02-20
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2007-02-17
text: Cleared for White House.
action_date: 2007-02-17
text: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2007-02-17
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2007-02-17
text: Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs discharged by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S2217-2218)
action_date: 2007-02-17
text: Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs discharged by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S2217-2218)
action_date: 2007-02-15
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2007-02-06
text: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2007-02-05
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2007-02-05
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H1156)
action_date: 2007-02-05
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote.(text: CR H1156)
action_date: 2007-02-05
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 577.
action_date: 2007-02-05
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H1156-1158)
action_date: 2007-02-05
text: Mr. Lynch moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
action_date: 2007-01-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2007-01-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-19
text: Introduced in House

Enacted as: number: 110-11
Access to Capital for Entrepreneurs Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-578
Sponsor: Rep. Pomeroy, Earl [D-ND-At Large]
Introduced: 2007-01-19 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Commerce
Finance and Financial Sector
Income tax
Investment tax credit
Investments
Small business
Stocks
Tax credits
Tax returns

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-19
text: 
Access to Capital for Entrepreneurs Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow certain investors a business tax credit for 25% of equity investments made in small businesses, up to an annual limit of $500,000. Terminates such credit after 2011.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-01-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-19
text: Introduced in House
Military Retirees Health Care Protection Act

Bill: 110-hr-579
Sponsor: Rep. Edwards, Chet [D-TX-17]
Introduced: 2007-01-19 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Armed forces reserves
Coinsurance
Drugs
Finance and Financial Sector
Health
Hospital care
Hospital rates
Insurance premiums
Medical economics
Medical fees
Military medicine
Prescription pricing
Retired military personnel
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-19
text: 
Military Retirees Health Care Protection Act - Expresses the sense of Congress that: (1) the Department of Defense (DOD) and the nation have a committed health benefits obligation to retired military personnel that exceeds the obligation of corporate employers to civilian employees; and (2) DOD has many additional options to constrain the growth of health care spending in ways that do not disadvantage beneficiaries, and should pursue such options rather than seeking large fee increases for beneficiaries.
 
Prohibits an increase after: (1) April 1, 2006, in a premium, deductible, copayment, or other charge prescribed by the Secretary of Defense for medical and dental health care coverage for military personnel; and (2) September 30, 2007, in the dollar amount of a cost-sharing requirement under the DOD pharmacy benefits program.
 
Prohibits: (1) charges for DOD inpatient care from exceeding $535 per day; and (2) beginning on April 1, 2006, an increase in premiums under TRICARE (a DOD managed health care program) for certain members of the Selected Reserve. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2007-01-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2007-01-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-19
text: Introduced in House