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Legislative Line Item Veto Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-689
Sponsor: Rep. Ryan, Paul [R-WI-1]
Introduced: 2007-01-24 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Appropriations
Authorization
Budget deficits
Budget reconciliation
Budget resolutions
Budget surpluses
Congress
Congressional conference committees
Congressional ethics
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Congressional voting
Economic impact statements
Entitlements
Executive impoundment of appropriated funds
Expedited congressional procedure
Food stamps
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Government spending reductions
House rules and procedure
Income tax
Item veto
Legislation
Legislative resolutions
Presidential messages
Rescission of appropriated funds
Senate rules and procedure
Social Welfare
Tariff
Tax credits
Tax deductions
Tax exclusion
Tax expenditures
Tax preferences
Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-24
text: 
Legislative Line Item Veto Act of 2007 - Amends the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 to authorize the President to propose the cancellation (line item veto) of any dollar amount of discretionary budget authority, item of direct spending, limited tariff benefit, or targeted tax benefit.
 
 
Sets forth requirements for the President's transmittal to Congress of a special message regarding a proposed cancellation.
 
Dedicates any cancellation only to deficit reduction or increase of a surplus.
 
Provides for adjustment of: (1) committee allocations resulting from such rescission; and (2) applicable limits, as appropriate, under the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act).
 
Sets forth procedures for expedited congressional consideration of a proposed rescission.
 
 Expresses the sense of Congress that no President or any executive branch official should condition the inclusion or exclusion, or threaten to condition the inclusion or exclusion, of any proposed cancellation in any special message under this Act upon any vote cast or to be cast by any Member of either chamber.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-24
text: Referred to the Committee on the Budget, and in addition to the Committee on Rules, 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: 2007-01-24
text: Referred to the Committee on the Budget, and in addition to the Committee on Rules, 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: 2007-01-24
text: Referred to the Committee on the Budget, and in addition to the Committee on Rules, 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: 2007-01-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-24
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 10, United States Code, to reduce the minimum age for receipt of military retired pay for non-regular service from 60 to 55.

Bill: 110-hr-690
Sponsor: Rep. Saxton, Jim [R-NJ-3]
Introduced: 2007-01-24 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Armed forces reserves
Labor and Employment
Military pensions
Retirement age
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-24
text: Reduces from 60 to 55 the minimum age for the receipt of military retired pay for non-regular service.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2007-01-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2007-01-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-24
text: Introduced in House
Fallen Servicemember Respectful Return Act

Bill: 110-hr-691
Sponsor: Rep. Stupak, Bart [D-MI-1]
Introduced: 2007-01-24 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Access to airports
Air travel
Airports
Cemeteries and funerals
Families
Iraq compilation
Military dependents
Military personnel
Military transportation
Survivors' benefits
Transportation and Public Works
War casualties

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-24
text: 
Fallen Servicemember Respectful Return Act - Requires that, when transportation of the remains of a deceased member of the Armed Forces who dies during active duty or inactive-duty training includes transportation by aircraft, the Secretary of the military department concerned shall provide for the delivery of such remains to the commercial, general aviation, or military airport nearest to the place selected by the deceased's designee, or if such a selection is not made, nearest to the cemetery selected by the Secretary.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2007-01-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2007-01-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-24
text: Introduced in House
Restroom Gender Parity in Federal Buildings Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-693
Sponsor: Rep. Towns, Edolphus [D-NY-10]
Introduced: 2007-01-24 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Building construction
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Congressional reporting requirements
Discrimination in public facilities
Federal office buildings
Leases
Sex discrimination
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-24
text: 
Restroom Gender Parity in Federal Buildings Act of 2007 - Requires the Administrator of General Services to include in a prospectus submitted to Congress for approval of a proposed public facility a statement that the number of toilets in women's restrooms in such facility will exceed the number of toilets (including urinals) in men's restrooms by a ratio of two to one or a statement as to why such a ratio is not needed.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
action_date: 2007-01-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2007-01-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-24
text: Introduced in House
Taxpayer Abuse and Harassment Prevention Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-695
Sponsor: Rep. Van Hollen, Chris [D-MD-8]
Introduced: 2007-01-24 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Collection of accounts
Congressional reporting requirements
Economics and Public Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Government procurement
Government service contracts
Tax returns

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-24
text: 
Taxpayer Abuse and Harassment Prevention Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to repeal the authority of the Secretary of the Treasury to enter into contracts with private collection agencies to collect unpaid taxes.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-29
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E199)
action_date: 2007-01-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-01-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-24
text: Introduced in House
Arts Education Advancement Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-696
Sponsor: Rep. Wilson, Heather [R-NM-1]
Introduced: 2007-01-24 in the House
Policy area: Arts, Culture, Religion
Subjects: Arts
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Federal aid to education
Federal aid to the arts and humanities
Higher education
Secondary education

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-24
text: Arts Education Advancement Act of 2007 - Amends the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965 to require, when appropriations for the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) exceed a certain level, that all of the excess funds be used for the arts education program. (Current law requires the use of only half such excess NEA funds for arts education, and allows the NEA to use a greater amount for other purposes before such set-aside for arts education is triggered.) 
Requires half the funds for the arts education program in any fiscal year to be used in formal systems of elementary and secondary education.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-05-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Healthy Families and Communities.
action_date: 2007-01-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2007-01-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-24
text: Introduced in House
National Right-to-Work Act

Bill: 110-hr-697
Sponsor: Rep. Wilson, Joe [R-SC-2]
Introduced: 2007-01-24 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Commerce
Construction industries
Construction workers
Employee rights
Labor unions
Payroll deductions
Railroad employees
Railroads
Transportation and Public Works
Unfair labor practices
Union dues
Union security

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-24
text: 
National Right-to-Work Act - Amends the National Labor Relations Act and the Railway Labor Act to repeal those provisions that permit employers, pursuant to a collective bargaining agreement that is a union security agreement, to require employees to join a union as a condition of employment (including provisions permitting railroad carriers to require, pursuant to such an agreement, payroll deduction of union dues or fees as a condition of employment). 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-05-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2007-01-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2007-01-24
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H890)
action_date: 2007-01-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-24
text: Introduced in House
Pledge Protection Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-699
Sponsor: Rep. Akin, W. Todd [R-MO-2]
Introduced: 2007-01-29 in the House
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Allegiance
Appellate courts
Constitutional law
District courts
Government Operations and Politics
Judicial review
Jurisdiction
Oaths
Supreme Court

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-29
text: 
Pledge Protection Act of 2007 - Amends the federal judicial code to deny jurisdiction to any federal court, and appellate jurisdiction to the Supreme Court, to hear or decide any question pertaining to the interpretation of the Pledge of Allegiance or its validity under the Constitution.
 
Makes this limitation inapplicable to: (1) any court established by Congress under its power to make needful rules and regulations respecting the territory of the United States; or (2) the Superior Court of the District of Columbia or the District of Columbia Court of Appeals.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties.
action_date: 2007-01-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-01-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-29
text: Introduced in House
Government Reservation Accelerated Development for Education Act

Bill: 110-hr-701
Sponsor: Rep. Kirk, Mark Steven [R-IL-10]
Introduced: 2007-01-29 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Authorization
Building construction
Construction costs
Department of Education
Disabled
Economics and Public Finance
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Entitlements
Families
Government Operations and Politics
Impact aid
Indian children
Indian education
Military dependents
Minorities
School buildings
Secondary education
Social Welfare
Special education

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-29
text: 
Government Reservation Accelerated Development for Education Act - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to entitle certain local educational agencies (LEAs) to specified payment amounts under Impact Aid programs: (1) relating to federal acquisition of real property; and (2) for basic support for eligible federally-connected children. (Current law makes such LEAs eligible for such payments up to specified maximum amounts.) 
 
Revises the formula for calculating additional Impact Aid payments to LEAs for federally-connected children with disabilities who are eligible for services under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.
Extends the authorization of appropriations for: (1) construction and school modernization payments for certain LEAs, including ones with high percentages of children living on Indian lands or children of military parents; and (2) facilities maintenance payments for certain schools located on military bases and serving military dependent children.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-05-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2007-01-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2007-01-29
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E204)
action_date: 2007-01-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-29
text: Introduced in House
Secure Border Crossing Card Entry Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-702
Sponsor: Rep. Cuellar, Henry [D-TX-28]
Introduced: 2007-01-29 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Administrative remedies
Admission of nonimmigrants
Aliens
Commerce
Crime and Law Enforcement
Criminal justice information
Department of Homeland Security
Government Operations and Politics
Identification devices
Identification of criminals
Illegal aliens
Law
Tourism

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-29
text: 
Secure Border Crossing Card Entry Act of 2007 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act provide that the initial admission period for an alien with a valid machine-readable biometric border crossing identification card who has completed required background checks and who is admitted to the United States as a nonimmigrant business or tourist visitor at a port of entry where such card is processed shall be not less than the initial admission period granted to any other nonimmigrant business or tourist visitor.
 
Authorizes the Secretary of Homeland Security to prescribe the period of such initial admission as: (1) a minimum of six months; or (2) a different period determined on a case-by-case basis.
 
Prohibits the admission or admission extension of such an alien if: (1) the alien previously violated nonimmigrant status conditions; (2) the alien is inadmissible as a nonimmigrant; or (3) the alien's border crossing card has not been processed through a machine reader at the U.S. port of entry or land border at which the person seeks U.S. admission.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
action_date: 2007-01-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-01-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-29
text: Introduced in House
National Nuclear Security Administration Accountability Act

Bill: 110-hr-703
Sponsor: Rep. Barton, Joe [R-TX-6]
Introduced: 2007-01-29 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Classified defense information
Computer security measures
Delegation of powers
Department of Energy
Emergency Management
Federal employees
Federal officials
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Health
Labor and Employment
Laboratories
Nuclear research
Nuclear security measures
Nuclear weapons
Occupational health and safety
Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-29
text: 
National Nuclear Security Administration Accountability Act - Amends the National Nuclear Security Administration Act (NNSA) to subject to the authority, direction, and control of the Secretary of Energy each officer or employee of the NNSA, or of a contractor of the NNSA, who carries out activities related to safeguards and security (including cyber security), emergency management, integrated safety management, or environment, safety, and health operations.
 
Amends the Department of Energy Organization Act with respect to delegation only to the Deputy Secretary of Energy, without redelegation, of the Secretary's authority, direction, and control of the Under Secretary for Nuclear Security. Excepts NNSA activities enumerated in this Act from the exclusive scope of such delegation. (Thus allows the Secretary to delegate oversight of such activities elsewhere within the Department of Energy.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Strategic Forces.
action_date: 2007-02-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality.
action_date: 2007-01-29
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2007-01-29
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2007-01-29
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2007-01-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-29
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 38, United States Code, to reduce from age 57 to age 55 the age after which the remarriage of the surviving spouse of a deceased veteran shall not result in termination of dependency and indemnity compensation otherwise payable to that surviving spouse.

Bill: 110-hr-704
Sponsor: Rep. Bilirakis, Gus M. [R-FL-9]
Introduced: 2007-01-29 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Families
Labor and Employment
Marriage
Social Welfare
Survivors' benefits
Veterans' pensions
Widowers
Widows
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-29
text: 
Reduces from age 57 to age 55 the age after which the remarriage of the surviving spouse of a deceased veteran shall not result in termination of dependency and indemnity compensation otherwise payable to that surviving spouse. Prohibits payment of retroactive benefits. Permits eligibility for such benefits by an individual who but for having remarried would be eligible for such benefits by reason such age reduction and whose remarriage was before the date of the enactment of this Act and after the individual had attained age 57 only if the individual submits an application for such benefits within one year of enactment.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-19
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2007-03-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.
action_date: 2007-01-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2007-01-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-29
text: Introduced in House
To provide for the issuance of a commemorative postage stamp in honor of George Henry White.

Bill: 110-hr-705
Sponsor: Rep. Butterfield, G. K. [D-NC-1]
Introduced: 2007-01-29 in the House
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Black history
Blacks
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Civil rights workers
Congress
Ex-Members of Congress
Government Operations and Politics
History
House of Representatives
Minorities
North Carolina
Postage stamps

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-29
text: 
Requires the Postmaster General to issue a commemorative postage stamp in honor of George Henry White.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2007-01-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-29
text: Introduced in House
To redesignate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 2777 Logan Avenue in San Diego, California, as the "Cesar E. Chavez Post Office".

Bill: 110-hr-706
Sponsor: Rep. Davis, Susan A. [D-CA-53]
Introduced: 2007-01-29 in the House
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Agricultural labor
Agriculture and Food
California
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Civil rights workers
Congressional tributes
Employee rights
Government Operations and Politics
Labor and Employment
Migrant labor
Names
Postal facilities

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-29
text: Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 2777 Logan Avenue in San Diego, California, as the "Cesar E. Chavez Post Office."

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2007-01-29
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E198-199)
action_date: 2007-01-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-29
text: Introduced in House
Chattahoochee National Forest Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-707
Sponsor: Rep. Deal, Nathan [R-GA-9]
Introduced: 2007-01-29 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Georgia
National forests
National scenic areas
Old growth forests
Wilderness areas

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-29
text: 
Chattahoochee National Forest Act of 2007 - Establishes the Mountaintown National Scenic Area in the Chattahoochee National Forest in Georgia. Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to develop a management plan for the Scenic Area as an amendment to the land and resource management plan for the Forest.
 
Designates specified lands in Georgia which are administered by the Secretary as part of the Chattahoochee National Forest as wilderness and incorporates such lands into the existing wilderness area to which they adjoin. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2007-02-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry.
action_date: 2007-01-29
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, 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: 2007-01-29
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, 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: 2007-01-29
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, 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: 2007-01-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-29
text: Introduced in House