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Marque and Reprisal Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-3216
Sponsor: Rep. Paul, Ron [R-TX-14]
Introduced: 2007-07-27 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Congress
Congress and foreign policy
Congress and military policy
Crime and Law Enforcement
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Mercenaries
President and foreign policy
September 11, 2001
Surety and fidelity
Terrorism
War and emergency powers

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-27
text: 
Marque and Reprisal Act of 2007 - Authorizes and requests the President to issue letters of marque and reprisal to commission privately armed and equipped persons and entities to seize outside of the United States the person and property of Osama bin Laden, of any al Qaeda co-conspirator, and any conspirator with Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda who are responsible for the air piratical aggressions against the United States on September 11, 2001, and for any planned similar acts or acts of war against the United States in the future. 
 
States that no letter of marque and reprisal shall be issued without the posting of a security bond in such amount as the President determines sufficient to ensure the letter's execution. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2007-07-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-07-27
text: Introduced in House
Terror Immigration Elimination Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-3217
Sponsor: Rep. Paul, Ron [R-TX-14]
Introduced: 2007-07-27 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Admission of nonimmigrants
Alien labor
Aliens
Armed Forces and National Security
Crime and Law Enforcement
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Foreign students
Government Operations and Politics
Higher education
International Affairs
International cooperation
Labor and Employment
Middle East and North Africa
President and foreign policy
Saudi Arabia
State-sponsored terrorism
Terrorism
Visas

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-27
text: Terror Immigration Elimination Act of 2007 - Prohibits issuance without presidential review of a student, training, or vocational visa, or diversity visa to an alien who is a national of: (1) Saudi Arabia; or (2) a country that repeatedly supports terrorism or is not cooperating fully with U.S. antiterrorism efforts (&quot;designated country&quot;).

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-09-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
action_date: 2007-07-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-07-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-07-27
text: Introduced in House
Dog Fighting Prohibition Act

Bill: 110-hr-3219
Sponsor: Rep. Sutton, Betty [D-OH-13]
Introduced: 2007-07-27 in the House
Policy area: Animals
Subjects: Crime and Law Enforcement
Dogs
Gambling
Protection of animals
Sports and Recreation

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-27
text: 
Dog Fighting Prohibition Act - Amends the Animal Welfare Act to make it unlawful to: (1) knowingly sponsor or exhibit an animal in, or knowingly attend, a dog fighting venture; and (2) knowingly sell, buy, possess, train, transport, deliver, or receive for purposes of transportation any dog or other animal for the purposes of having the dog, animal, or offspring of the dog or other animal participate in a dog fighting venture. Provides for imprisonment for up to five years for violations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-04-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry.
action_date: 2007-09-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2007-07-27
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2007-07-27
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2007-07-27
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2007-07-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-07-27
text: Introduced in House
Keep Our Waterfronts Working Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-3223
Sponsor: Rep. Allen, Thomas H. [D-ME-1]
Introduced: 2007-07-30 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Coastal zone
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to water resources development
Fisheries
Fishing
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Sports and Recreation
Waterfronts

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-30
text: 
Keep Our Waterfronts Working Act of 2007 - Amends the Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972 to direct the Secretary of Commerce, acting through the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), to establish a Working Waterfront Grant Program to make a grant, through a regionally equitable, competitive funding process, to any coastal state for a plan to preserve and expand access to coastal waters for persons engaged in commercial fishing, recreational fishing, or other water-dependent coastal-related business.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-02-28
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2007-08-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, and Oceans.
action_date: 2007-07-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-07-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-07-30
text: Introduced in House
Mutual Fund Fee Reform Act

Bill: 110-hr-3225
Sponsor: Rep. Castle, Michael N. [R-DE-At Large]
Introduced: 2007-07-30 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Fees
Government Operations and Politics
Independent regulatory commissions
Information disclosure (Securities law)
Investors
Law
Mutual funds
Securities and Exchange Commission

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-30
text: 
Mutual Fund Fee Reform Act - Directs the Securities and Exchange Commission to initiate rulemaking proceedings to revise the requirements of regulations applicable to open-end investment companies relating to the disclosure of 12b-1 fees to investors in such investment companies.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-10-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Capital Markets, Insurance and Government Sponsored Enterprises.
action_date: 2007-07-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2007-07-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-07-30
text: Introduced in House
New Opportunities for Fuel Efficient Fleets Act

Bill: 110-hr-3226
Sponsor: Rep. DeLauro, Rosa L. [D-CT-3]
Introduced: 2007-07-30 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Alcohol as fuel
Alternative energy sources
Electric vehicles
Energy conservation
Energy efficiency
Environmental Protection
Fuel consumption
Government vehicles
Motor vehicle pollution control
Natural gas vehicles
Science, Technology, Communications
Service stations
Technological innovations
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-30
text: 
New Opportunities for Fuel Efficient Fleets Act - Amends the Energy Policy Act of 1992 regarding mandatory state fleet programs to consider a hybrid motor vehicle to be an alternative fueled vehicle when acquired by a state if publicly available fueling facilities that dispense E85 fuel are not convenient or accessible in the state.
 
Defines a hybrid motor vehicle as one that achieves at least: (1) 25% better fuel economy ratings than comparable gasoline fueled vehicles; or (2) 10% better fuel economy ratings than comparable gasoline fueled vehicles, and is determined by the Secretary of Energy to be appropriate for consideration as an alternative fueled vehicle on the basis of improved emissions, availability, or technological innovation.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality.
action_date: 2007-07-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2007-07-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-07-30
text: Introduced in House
To require the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to retain and redistribute certain amounts collected as fines.

Bill: 110-hr-3228
Sponsor: Rep. Lowey, Nita M. [D-NY-18]
Introduced: 2007-07-30 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Environmental Protection
Federal-local relations
Fines (Penalties)
Government Operations and Politics
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Law
Nuclear facilities
Planning
Radiation safety

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-30
text: 
Requires the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to retain amounts collected for safety-related fines, and distribute them to counties for maintaining radiological emergency preparedness plans required in connection with the nuclear facility with respect to which the fines were collected.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality.
action_date: 2007-07-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2007-07-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-07-30
text: Introduced in House
For the relief of Maha Dakar.

Bill: 110-hr-3230
Sponsor: Rep. Chabot, Steve [R-OH-1]
Introduced: 2007-07-30 in the House
Policy area: Private Legislation
Subjects: Immigration

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-30
text: Provides for the relief of Maha Dakar.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-08-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
action_date: 2007-07-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-07-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-07-30
text: Introduced in House
For the relief of Alejandro Gomez and Juan Sebastian Gomez.

Bill: 110-hr-3231
Sponsor: Rep. Diaz-Balart, Lincoln [R-FL-21]
Introduced: 2007-07-30 in the House
Policy area: Private Legislation
Subjects: Immigration

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-30
text: Provides for the relief of Alejandro Gomez and Juan Sebastian Gomez.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-08-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
action_date: 2007-07-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-07-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-07-30
text: Introduced in House
HSA Improvement and Expansion Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-3234
Sponsor: Rep. Cantor, Eric [R-VA-7]
Introduced: 2007-07-31 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Disabled
Families
Finance and Financial Sector
Flexible benefit plans
Health
Health insurance
Income tax
Married people
Medical savings accounts
Veterans' disability compensation
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-31
text: 
HSA Improvement and Expansion Act of 2007 - Amends Internal Revenue Code provisions relating to health savings accounts (HSAs) to: (1) allow HSAs to incorporate flexible spending and health reimbursement arrangements; (2) increase the annual HSA contribution limitation; (3) permit the use of HSAs to purchase health insurance; (4) allow the payment of certain medical expenses incurred before the establishment of an HSA; (5) allow veterans eligible for service-connected disability benefits to establish an HSA; and (6) allow spouses to make increased catch-up contributions to a single HSA.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-08-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-07-31
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-07-31
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-07-31
text: Introduced in House
To enhance availability of critical energy information.

Bill: 110-hr-3240
Sponsor: Rep. Boucher, Rick [D-VA-9]
Introduced: 2007-07-31 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Authorization
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Cost effectiveness
Department of Energy
Economics and Public Finance
Energy industries
Federal-state relations
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Law
Marketing
Planning

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-31
text: 
Directs the Administrator of the Energy Information Administration to establish and submit to Congress: (1) a five-year plan to enhance the quality and scope of the data collection necessary to ensure the scope, accuracy, and timeliness of the information needed for efficient functioning of energy markets and related financial operations; and (2) an assessment of state-level data needs, including a plan to address such needs.

action_date: 2007-08-03
text: 

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

 
Directs the Administrator of the Energy Information Administration to establish and submit to Congress: (1) a five-year plan to enhance the quality and scope of the data collection necessary to ensure the scope, accuracy, and timeliness of the information needed for efficient functioning of energy markets and related financial operations; and (2) an assessment of state-level data needs, including a plan to address such needs.
 
Requires the Administrator to: (1) establish guidelines to ensure the quality, comparability, and scope of state energy data required to provide a comprehensive, accurate energy profile; (2) share company-level data collected at the state level with the state involved, provided it has agreed to the Administrator's guidelines; (3) assess any existing gaps in data compiled by the Energy Information Administration; and (4) evaluate the most cost effective ways to address any data quality and quantity issues in conjunction with state officials.
 

 
Authorizes appropriations for FY2008-FY2012.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 195.
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Reported by the Committee on Energy and Commerce. H. Rept. 110-308.
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Reported by the Committee on Energy and Commerce. H. Rept. 110-308.
action_date: 2007-07-31
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2007-07-31
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-07-31
text: Introduced in House
Poverty Measurement Improvement Act

Bill: 110-hr-3243
Sponsor: Rep. Weller, Jerry [R-IL-11]
Introduced: 2007-07-31 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Earned income tax credit
Families
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Government statistics
Income statistics
Income tax
Poverty
Tax credits
Tax refunds
Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-31
text: 
Poverty Measurement Improvement Act - Requires the Bureau of the Census to publish, annually, statistics on levels of family income in the United States in order to more accurately determine the extent of poverty and the antipoverty effectiveness of means-tested benefit and tax programs. 

Requires such statistics to be based on the following measures of income: (1) full benefits poverty income (equal to the sum of partial benefits poverty income and noncash benefits attributable to the members of a household); and (2) full benefits and taxes poverty income (equal to full benefits poverty income increased by state and federal earned income tax credits, refundable child credits, and any other refundable tax credit and decreased by state and federal income and payroll taxes attributable to the members of a household).

Requires the Bureau to use such measures to produce corresponding tables and graphs showing for each year: (1) the partial benefits poverty rate; (2) the full benefits poverty rate; and (3) the full benefits and taxes poverty rate.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-09-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Information Policy, Census, and National Archives.
action_date: 2007-08-01
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1675-1676)
action_date: 2007-07-31
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2007-07-31
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-07-31
text: Introduced in House
National Commission on Detainee Treatment Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-3244
Sponsor: Rep. Johnson, Henry C. "Hank," Jr. [D-GA-4]
Introduced: 2007-07-31 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Congressional reporting requirements
Detention of persons
Federal advisory bodies
Government Operations and Politics
Immigration
International Affairs
Law
Prisoners of war
Repatriation
Terrorism
Trials

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-31
text: 
National Commission on Detainee Treatment Act of 2007 - Establishes the National Commission on Detainee Treatment to: (1) conduct a comprehensive review of matters relating to the capture, custody, judicial proceedings, and repatriation of suspected unlawful enemy combatants; and (2) prepare and submit to Congress and the President a final report on Commission recommendations, findings, and conclusions. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-09-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties.
action_date: 2007-07-31
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, 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: 2007-07-31
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, 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: 2007-07-31
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, 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: 2007-07-31
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-07-31
text: Introduced in House
To redesignate the Dryden Flight Research Center as the Neil A. Armstrong Flight Research Center and the Western Aeronautical Test Range as the Hugh L. Dryden Aeronautical Test Range.

Bill: 110-hr-3245
Sponsor: Rep. Calvert, Ken [R-CA-44]
Introduced: 2007-07-31 in the House
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Astronauts
California
Congressional tributes
Federal installations
Federal officials
Government Operations and Politics
Names
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Research centers
Science, Technology, Communications
Scientists
Space activities

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-31
text: 
Redesignates: (1) the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Hugh L. Dryden Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, as the &quot;NASA Neil A. Armstrong Flight Research Center;&quot; and (2) the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Western Aeronautical Test Range in California as the &quot;NASA Hugh L. Dryden Aeronautical Test Range.&quot; 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-08-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics.
action_date: 2007-07-31
text: Referred to the House Committee on Science and Technology.
action_date: 2007-07-31
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-07-31
text: Introduced in House
Veterans Burial Benefits Improvement Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-3249
Sponsor: Rep. Berkley, Shelley [D-NV-1]
Introduced: 2007-07-31 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Cemeteries and funerals
Cost of living adjustments
Veterans' benefits

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-31
text: Veterans Burial Benefits Improvement Act of 2007 - Increases the authorized allowance for burial and funeral expenses for deceased veterans who: (1) at the time of death were in receipt of veterans' disability compensation or veterans' pension benefits; or (2) were veterans of any war or were discharged or released from active military service for a service-connected disability and for whom there is no next of kin or sufficient resources to cover funeral and burial costs. 
Increases the burial plot allowance for veterans who, at the time of death, were receiving hospital or nursing home care in or through the Department of Veterans Affairs. 
Authorizes the annual adjustment of such allowances by the same percentage increase as adjustments to benefit amounts payable under title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-11-08
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2007-08-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.
action_date: 2007-07-31
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2007-07-31
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-07-31
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to impose an excise tax on State revenues from tolls first imposed during calendar year 2009, on Federally-financed interstate highways.

Bill: 110-hr-3250
Sponsor: Rep. English, Phil [R-PA-3]
Introduced: 2007-07-31 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Excise tax
Federal-state relations
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Interstate highway system
Toll roads
Trade adjustment assistance
Transportation and Public Works
User charges

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-31
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to impose an excise tax on state revenues from tolls first imposed during 2009 for the use of any federal-aid interstate highway. Makes such tax revenues available to the Secretary of Labor for use in carrying out the trade adjustment assistance program under the Trade Act of 1974.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-31
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-07-31
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-07-31
text: Introduced in House