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Bring Our Troops Home Responsibly Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-3938
Sponsor: Rep. Dingell, John D. [D-MI-15]
Introduced: 2007-10-23 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Armed forces abroad
Boundaries
Civil War
Congress
Congress and foreign policy
Congress and military policy
Congressional reporting requirements
Defense budgets
Diplomacy
Economics and Public Finance
Embassies
Government Operations and Politics
Immigration
Iraq
Iraq compilation
Middle East and North Africa
Military bases
Military occupation
Military operations
Military withdrawal
President and foreign policy
Refugees
September 11, 2001
Terrorism
United Nations
Violence
War and emergency powers
War relief

Summary:
action_date: 2007-10-23
text: 
Bring Our Troops Home Responsibly Act of 2007 - Repeals the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002 (P.L. 107-243).
 
States U.S. policy with respect to Iraq, including that the United States should: (1) begin withdrawing its Armed Forces from there; (2) continue assisting the Iraqi government with rebuilding and reconstruction efforts; and (3) provide humanitarian assistance to displaced Iraqi refugees.
 
Directs the Secretary of Defense to begin the withdrawal of U.S. Armed Forces from Iraq within 30 days after the enactment of this Act, and to complete such withdrawal by January 20, 2009.
 
Prohibits funds appropriated to the Department of Defense (DOD) from being expended: (1) to increase the number of U.S. forces in Iraq; or (2) for the construction of permanent U.S. military installations in Iraq.
 
Allows DOD to retain members of the Armed Forces in Iraq for: (1) protection of the United States Embassy; (2) limited counterterrorism activities directed at the al-Qaeda terrorist network; (3) nonoffensive military actions to address humanitarian concerns; and (4) assisting the Iraqi military in securing Iraq's borders.
 
Requires the Secretary of Defense to submit to Congress a strategy for removing U.S. Armed Forces from Iraq by the required deadline.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-10-23
text: Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, 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: 2007-10-23
text: Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, 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: 2007-10-23
text: Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, 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: 2007-10-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-10-23
text: Introduced in House
To increase the safety for crew and passengers on an aircraft providing emergency medical services.

Bill: 110-hr-3939
Sponsor: Rep. Doolittle, John T. [R-CA-4]
Introduced: 2007-10-23 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Aircraft
Aircraft pilots
Ambulances
Aviation safety
Department of Transportation
Emergency Management
Emergency medicine
Equipment and supplies
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Hours of labor
Labor and Employment
Law
Risk
Sound recording and reproducing

Summary:
action_date: 2007-10-23
text: 
Requires a pilot of an aircraft providing emergency medical services to comply with federal crewmember flight time and duty period and rest requirements whenever there is a medical crew on board, without regard to whether there are patients on board. Requires the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to initiate a rulemaking to: (1) require pilots of aircraft providing emergency medical service to use a standardized checklist of risk evaluation factors to determine whether a mission should be accepted; (2) establish performance based flight dispatch procedures for such pilots; and (3) require, after a certain feasibility study is done, flight data and cockpit voice recorders on board such aircraft.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-10-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Aviation.
action_date: 2007-10-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2007-10-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-10-23
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005.

Bill: 110-hr-3940
Sponsor: Rep. Ellison, Keith [D-MN-5]
Introduced: 2007-10-23 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Case management
Department of Health and Human Services
Government Operations and Politics
Law
Medicaid
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2007-10-23
text: 
Amends the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to promulgate final regulations revising case management and targeted case management under title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act. (Currently, such regulations may be effective and final immediately on an interim basis as of their publication date.)

Requires such regulations to be consistent with: (1) federal rule making notice and comment requirements, except that the period of public comment on them shall be at least 80 days; and (2) congressional review requirements.

Makes the regulations effective at least 90 days after publication in the Federal Register or presentation to each chamber or the Comptroller General, whichever occurs later.

Repeals the Secretary's authority to change or revise such regulations after completion of the comment period.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-10-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-10-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2007-10-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-10-23
text: Introduced in House
Bridge Spending Accountability, Flexibility, and Efficiency Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-3941
Sponsor: Rep. Flake, Jeff [R-AZ-6]
Introduced: 2007-10-23 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Bridges
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to transportation
Infrastructure
Maintenance and repair
Road construction

Summary:
action_date: 2007-10-23
text: 
Bridge Spending Accountability, Flexibility, and Efficiency Act of 2007 - Authorizes a state to obligate certain apportioned high priority project funds for projects to improve structurally deficient bridges located within the state.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-10-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
action_date: 2007-10-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2007-10-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-10-23
text: Introduced in House
To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to permit the disabled surviving spouse of an individual to elect to retain private health insurance as the primary payor of health insurance benefits under the Medicare Program.

Bill: 110-hr-3942
Sponsor: Rep. Frank, Barney [D-MA-4]
Introduced: 2007-10-23 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Disabled
Employee health benefits
Families
Labor and Employment
Married people
Medicare
Social Welfare
Survivors' benefits

Summary:
action_date: 2007-10-23
text: 
Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to permit the disabled surviving spouse of an individual to elect to retain a private group health plan as the primary payor of health insurance benefits under the Medicare program. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-11-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-11-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-10-23
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2007-10-23
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2007-10-23
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2007-10-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-10-23
text: Introduced in House
Trade Adjustment Assistance and Training Improvements Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-3943
Sponsor: Rep. Herger, Wally [R-CA-2]
Introduced: 2007-10-23 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Agriculture and Food
Commerce
Community colleges
Department of Labor
Dislocated workers
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Farmers
Federal aid to education
Federal-state relations
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Health insurance
Higher education
Income tax
Judicial review
Labor and Employment
Law
Occupational retraining
Performance measurement
Relocation
Tax credits
Taxation
Trade adjustment assistance
Unemployment insurance
Wages

Summary:
action_date: 2007-10-23
text: 
Trade Adjustment Assistance and Training Improvement Act of 2007 - Amends the Trade Act of 1974 to revise requirements with respect to the filing of a petition for certification of eligibility to apply for trade adjustment assistance (TAA) by a group of adversely affected workers in a firm or subdivision (including agricultural firm or subdivision).
 
Revises TAA group eligibility requirements for such workers and for adversely affected secondary workers.
 
Sets forth a process for administrative reconsideration of Secretary of Labor determinations that deny certification of eligibility to apply for TAA by a group of adversely affected workers.
 
Revises: (1) trade readjustment allowance (TRA) eligibility requirements for adversely affected workers (including to provide for the the payment of an additional TRA provided certain conditions are met); and (2) training program requirements for adversely affected workers.
 
Establishes a program where adversely affected workers that have been certified for TAA may alternatively elect to receive wage supplement and health insurance costs tax credit benefits from the state provided certain requirements are met.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to award grants to community colleges or entities that provide training for occupations in demand in order to expand available training slots and prepare adversely affected workers for occupations in demand.
 
Extends the TAA program for firms and farmers through FY2012.
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) authorize the reduction of the credit against the federal unemployment tax liability of a state that fails to meet certain benchmark requirements in the provision of reemployment services and training to adversely affected workers under the TAA program; and (2) make TAA wage supplement recipients eligible for a health insurance costs tax credit.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-11-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2007-10-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-10-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-10-23
text: Introduced in House
National Hepatitis B Act

Bill: 110-hr-3944
Sponsor: Rep. Honda, Michael M. [D-CA-15]
Introduced: 2007-10-23 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: AIDS (Disease)
Access to health care
Alcoholism
Asian American ethnic groups
Cancer
Child health
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Community health services
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime and Law Enforcement
Curricula
Drug abuse
Drug abuse treatment
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Epidemiology
Families
Federal aid to education
Federal-Indian relations
Federal-local relations
Federal-state relations
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Health counseling
Health education
Health planning
Health surveys
Hepatitis
Human immunodeficiency viruses
Indian medical care
Infants
Liver diseases
Medical records
Medical research
Medical screening
Medical tests
Minorities
Native Americans
Pregnant women
Preventive medicine
Prisoners
Right of privacy
School health programs
Science, Technology, Communications
Secondary education
Sexually transmitted diseases
Vaccines
Women
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2007-10-23
text: 
National Hepatitis B Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to develop a plan for hepatitis B prevention, control, and medical management.
 
Requires the Secretary, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), to: (1) support the integration of testing, counseling, immunization, and medical referral activities into existing clinical and public health programs at state, local, and tribal levels; and (2) provide hepatitis B coordinators to health departments in order to ensure the success of such integration.
 
Requires the Secretary, acting through the Director of CDC, the Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), and the Administrator of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, to implement programs to increase awareness and enhance knowledge and understanding of hepatitis B.
 
Requires the Secretary, acting through the Director of CDC, to: (1) support the establishment of a national hepatitis B surveillance program; and (2) report on population-based seroprevalence studies and hepatitis B's economic and clinical impact and its impact on quality of life.
 
Requires the Secretary, acting through the Directors of CDC, the National Cancer Institute, and the National Institutes of Health (NIH), to conduct research on hepatitis B.
 
Requires the Secretary to give priority in carrying out this Act to individuals with limited access to health education, testing, and health care services and groups that may be disproportionately affected by hepatitis B.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-10-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-10-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2007-10-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-10-23
text: Introduced in House
Clean Energy Partnership Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-3945
Sponsor: Rep. Israel, Steve [D-NY-2]
Introduced: 2007-10-23 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Alternative energy sources
Biomass energy
Cogeneration of electric power and heat
Economics and Public Finance
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Energy
Energy conservation
Energy efficiency
Federal aid to education
Geothermal resources
Public Lands and Natural Resources
School buildings
Secondary education
Solar energy
Wind power

Summary:
action_date: 2007-10-23
text: 
Clean Energy Partnership Act of 2007 - Directs the Secretary of Energy to provide grants to local educational agencies covering up to 50% of their costs in implementing clean energy projects that include measures to conserve energy and equip school buildings for renewable power sources.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-01-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2007-10-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2007-10-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-10-23
text: Introduced in House
Historically Black Colleges and Universities Katrina and Rita Relief Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-3946
Sponsor: Rep. Jefferson, William J. [D-LA-2]
Introduced: 2007-10-23 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Alabama
Black colleges
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Federal aid to education
Higher education
Hurricanes
Louisiana
Minorities
Minority education
Mississippi
Texas

Summary:
action_date: 2007-10-23
text: 
Historically Black Colleges and Universities Katrina and Rita Relief Act of 2007 - Directs the Secretary of Education to waive or modify the application of any statutory or regulatory provision related to the Strengthening Institutions program, under part B of title III of the Higher Education Act of 1965, to historically Black colleges and universities that suffered certain adverse effects from Hurricane Katrina or Rita if the application of such provision would result in such institutions receiving less program funding for FY2009-FY2012 than they received in FY2006.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-11-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education, Lifelong Learning, and Competitiveness.
action_date: 2007-10-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2007-10-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-10-23
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for a carryforward of unused benefits in health flexible spending arrangements.

Bill: 110-hr-3947
Sponsor: Rep. Larson, John B. [D-CT-1]
Introduced: 2007-10-23 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Employee health benefits
Finance and Financial Sector
Flexible benefit plans
Health
Health insurance
Income tax
Labor and Employment
Tax exclusion

Summary:
action_date: 2007-10-23
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to permit up to $500 of unused health benefits in a plan or other arrangement that provides for a health flexible spending arrangement to be carried forward to the next year of such health flexible spending arrangement without affecting the status of such plan or arrangement as a tax-exempt employee benefit cafeteria plan. Terminates such carryforward after 2009.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-10-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-10-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-10-23
text: Introduced in House
Share the Sacrifice Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-3948
Sponsor: Rep. Obey, David R. [D-WI-7]
Introduced: 2007-10-23 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Commerce
Corporation taxes
Defense budgets
Economics and Public Finance
Income tax
Iraq
Iraq compilation
Middle East and North Africa
Military operations
Tax rates

Summary:
action_date: 2007-10-23
text: 
Share the Sacrifice Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to impose an Iraq War surtax on the net income tax liabilities of individuals, estates and trusts, and corporations. Exempts from such surtax: (1) members of the Armed Forces who have received combat pay after September 11, 2001; (2) survivors of military personnel who received a death gratuity; and (3) taxpayers with adjusted gross income not in excess of $30,000.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-10-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-10-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-10-23
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow distilled spirits to be produced in dwelling houses, other connected structures, and certain other premises.

Bill: 110-hr-3949
Sponsor: Rep. Stupak, Bart [D-MI-1]
Introduced: 2007-10-23 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Alcohol tax
Alcoholic beverages
Commerce
Food industry
Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2007-10-23
text: Amends the Internal Revenue Code to repeal the prohibition on producing distilled spirits in specified locations, including dwelling houses, sheds, yards, and enclosed areas connected with any dwelling house.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-10-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-10-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-10-23
text: Introduced in House
To approve a final rule of the Department of Homeland Security relating to employers who receive a "no-match" letter from the Commissioner of Social Security.

Bill: 110-hr-3950
Sponsor: Rep. Tancredo, Thomas G. [R-CO-6]
Introduced: 2007-10-23 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Alien labor
Department of Homeland Security
Employee selection
Employers' liability
Government Operations and Politics
Illegal aliens
Labor and Employment
Law

Summary:
action_date: 2007-10-23
text: 
Approves the final rule promulgated by the Department of Homeland Security entitled &quot;Safe-Harbor Procedures for Employers Who Receive a No-Match Letter.&quot;
 
Declares that such rule shall have the force and effect of enacted law until changed by law.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-01-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2007-11-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
action_date: 2007-10-23
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Education and Labor, 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: 2007-10-23
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Education and Labor, 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: 2007-10-23
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Education and Labor, 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: 2007-10-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-10-23
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify and make permanent the election to treat certain costs of qualified film and television productions as expenses.

Bill: 110-hr-3951
Sponsor: Rep. Becerra, Xavier [D-CA-31]
Introduced: 2007-10-24 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Arts, Culture, Religion
Commerce
Depreciation and amortization
Income tax
Motion pictures
Science, Technology, Communications
Tax deductions
Television industry
Television programs

Summary:
action_date: 2007-10-24
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) exclude participations and residuals from the dollar limitation on the taxpayer election to expense qualified film and television production costs; (2) allow amortization of costs ineligible for expensing; and (3) make such expensing election permanent.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-10-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-10-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-10-24
text: Introduced in House
To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 901 Pleasant Street in Attleboro, Massachusetts, as the "Max Volterra Post Office Building".

Bill: 110-hr-3952
Sponsor: Rep. McGovern, James P. [D-MA-3]
Introduced: 2007-10-24 in the House
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Congressional tributes
Government Operations and Politics
Massachusetts
Names
Postal facilities

Summary:
action_date: 2007-10-24
text: Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 901 Pleasant Street in Attleboro, Massachusetts, as the "Max Volterra Post Office Building."

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-10-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2007-10-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-10-24
text: Introduced in House