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Quinebaug and Shetucket Rivers Valley National Heritage Corridor Amendments Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-1182
Sponsor: Sen. Dodd, Christopher J. [D-CT]
Introduced: 2007-04-20 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Authorization
Commemorations
Commerce
Connecticut
Department of the Interior
Economics and Public Finance
Environmental Protection
Government Operations and Politics
Grants-in-aid
Historic sites
History
Land use
Landscape protection
Nature conservation
Public-private partnerships
Tourism
Water Resources Development
Watersheds

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-20
text: 
Quinebaug and Shetucket Rivers Valley National Heritage Corridor Amendments Act of 2007 - Amends the Quinebaug and Shetucket Rivers Valley National Heritage Corridor Act of 1994 to: (1) extend the authority of the Secretary of the Interior to make grants or provide any assistance under the Act for the Quinebaug and Shetucket Rivers Valley National Heritage Corridor to September 30, 2015; and (2) increase the total amount that may be appropriated for the Corridor.

action_date: 2007-09-17
text: 
Quinebaug and Shetucket Rivers Valley National Heritage Corridor Amendments Act of 2007 - Amends the Quinebaug and Shetucket Rivers Valley National Heritage Corridor Act of 1994 to extend the authority of the Secretary of the Interior to make grants or provide any assistance under the Act for the Quinebaug and Shetucket Rivers Valley National Heritage Corridor to September 30, 2015. 
 
Requires the Secretary to conduct an evaluation of the accomplishments of the Corridor by no later than three years before the date on which the authority for federal funding terminates for the Corridor, and based upon the evaluation, to prepare and submit to specified congressional committees a report that includes recommendations for the future role of the National Park Service (NPS), if any, with respect to the Corridor. 
 
 Increases the total amount that may be appropriated for the Corridor. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-09-17
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 357.
action_date: 2007-09-17
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Bingaman with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 110-159.
action_date: 2007-09-17
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Bingaman with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 110-159.
action_date: 2007-07-25
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
action_date: 2007-07-12
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Senate Subcommittee on National Parks. Hearings held.
action_date: 2007-04-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-04-20
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4815)
action_date: 2007-04-20
text: Introduced in Senate
Taunton, Massachusetts Special Resources Study Act

Bill: 110-s-1184
Sponsor: Sen. Kennedy, Edward M. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2007-04-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Architecture
Arts, Culture, Religion
Commemorations
Congressional reporting requirements
Cultural property
Environmental Protection
Government Operations and Politics
Governmental investigations
Historic sites
History
Landowners
Landscape protection
Massachusetts
National parks
Nature conservation
Outdoor recreation
Sports and Recreation

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-23
text: 
Taunton, Massachusetts Special Resources Study Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a study regarding the suitability and feasibility of designating certain historic buildings and areas in Taunton, Massachusetts, as a unit of the National Park System (NPS). 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-09-11
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Senate Subcommittee on National Parks. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 110-213.
action_date: 2007-04-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-04-23
text: Introduced in Senate
Graduation Promise Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-1185
Sponsor: Sen. Bingaman, Jeff [D-NM]
Introduced: 2007-04-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance
Colleges
Community and school
Congressional reporting requirements
Continuing education
Curricula
Data banks
Dropouts
Economics and Public Finance
Education of the disadvantaged
Educational accountability
Educational innovations
Educational planning
Educational statistics
Educational tests
Elementary and secondary education
Families
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Governmental investigations
Higher education
Labor and Employment
Language arts
Literacy programs
Mathematics
Nonprofit organizations
Parent-school relationships
Reading
School administration
School districts
Science, Technology, Communications
Secondary education
Social Welfare
Standards
State laws
Student records
Teacher education

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-23
text: 
Graduation Promise Act of 2007 - Authorizes the Secretary of Education to make grants to states and, through them, subgrants to local educational agencies (LEAs) for differentiated high school improvement systems targeting support to schools with low student achievement and graduation rates after the school fails for two consecutive years to make adequate yearly progress (AYP) pursuant to state academic performance standards.
 
Requires state grantees to establish comprehensive school performance indicators and minimum annual improvement benchmarks for use, in addition to current AYP measures, in analyzing school performance and determining the improvement category into which a school is placed. Directs LEA subgrantees to convene a local school improvement team for each school placed in an improvement category that will use performance indicators to conduct a school needs assessment and develop a multiyear school improvement plan tailored to the school's need categorization. Permits LEAs to use funds to improve feeder middle schools.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to award competitive grants to: (1) LEAs, nonprofit organizations, and institutions of higher education to develop and implement, or replicate, effective school models for struggling students and dropouts; and (2) states to adjust their policies to allow for educational innovations that improve high school graduation rates while ensuring rigorous education content standards and assessments, if such states implement differentiated high school improvement systems and statewide longitudinal student data systems.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-04-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S4844-4851)
action_date: 2007-04-23
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4843-4844)
action_date: 2007-04-23
text: Introduced in Senate
Congressional Accountability and Line-Item Veto Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-1186
Sponsor: Sen. Feingold, Russell D. [D-WI]
Introduced: 2007-04-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Appropriations
Budget deficits
Budget surpluses
Congress
Congressional voting
Expedited congressional procedure
Federal budgets
Government Operations and Politics
Income tax
Item veto
Presidential messages
Rescission of appropriated funds
Tax expenditures
Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-23
text: 
Congressional Accountability and Line Item Veto Act of 2007 - Amends the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 to authorize the President to propose the repeal of any congressional earmark or the cancellation (line item veto) of any limited tariff benefit or targeted tax benefit.
 
 
Sets forth requirements for the President's transmittal to Congress of a special message regarding a proposed repeal or cancellation.
 
Dedicates any repeal or 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 repeal or 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: 2007-04-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Budget. (text of measure as introduced: CR S4852-4855)
action_date: 2007-04-23
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4852)
action_date: 2007-04-23
text: Introduced in Senate
Clean Capitol Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-1187
Sponsor: Sen. Kerry, John F. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2007-04-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Air pollution control
Alternative energy sources
Capitol (Washington, D.C.)
Carbon dioxide
Energy
Energy conservation
Environmental Protection

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-23
text: 
Clean Capitol Act of 2007 - Requires the Architect of the Capitol to develop a plan to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide from the Capitol complex, with the goal of achieving carbon neutrality at the complex by December 31, 2020.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-04-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Rules and Administration.
action_date: 2007-04-23
text: Introduced in Senate
Farming Flexibility Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-1188
Sponsor: Sen. Lugar, Richard G. [R-IN]
Introduced: 2007-04-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Acreage allotments
Agricultural subsidies
Fruit
Vegetables

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-23
text: 
Farming Flexibility Act of 2007 - Amends the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002, with respect to direct and counter-cyclical payments, to: (1) permit a producer to reduce a covered commodity base acreage by electing to plant such acres with fruits or vegetables for processing; (2) require such election to be made annually; and (3) provide that if a farm's base acreage is recalculated, such fruit or vegetable production shall be considered the same as the planning, prevented planting, or production of the covered commodity.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-04-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
action_date: 2007-04-23
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to designate the Federal building and United States Courthouse located at 100 East 8th Avenue in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, as the "George Howard, Jr. Federal Building and United States Courthouse".

Bill: 110-s-1189
Sponsor: Sen. Pryor, Mark L. [D-AR]
Introduced: 2007-04-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Arkansas
Congressional tributes
Courthouses
Federal office buildings
Judges
Law
Names

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-23
text: 
Designates the federal building and U.S. courthouse located at 100 East 8th Avenue in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, as the &quot;George Howard, Jr. Federal Building and United States Courthouse.&quot;

action_date: 2008-01-22
text: 

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

Designates the federal building and U.S. courthouse located at 100 East 8th Avenue in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, as the &quot;George Howard, Jr. Federal Building and United States Courthouse.&quot;


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-01-22
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 560.
action_date: 2008-01-22
text: Committee on Environment and Public Works. Reported by Senator Boxer without amendment. Without written report.
action_date: 2008-01-22
text: Committee on Environment and Public Works. Reported by Senator Boxer without amendment. Without written report.
action_date: 2007-12-18
text: Committee on Environment and Public Works. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2007-04-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2007-04-23
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4855)
action_date: 2007-04-23
text: Introduced in Senate
Connect The Nation Act

Bill: 110-s-1190
Sponsor: Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL]
Introduced: 2007-04-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Broadband
Economics and Public Finance
Grants-in-aid
Internet

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-24
text: 
Connect The Nation Act - Provides for grants to develop and implement statewide initiatives to identify and track the availability and adoption of broadband services within each state.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-04-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. (text of measure as introduced: CR S4920)
action_date: 2007-04-24
text: Introduced in Senate
Growth Opportunity Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-1191
Sponsor: Sen. Brown, Sherrod [D-OH]
Introduced: 2007-04-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Grants-in-aid
Manufacturing industries
New products
Product development
Revolving funds
Small business

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-24
text: 
Growth Opportunity Act of 2007 - Authorizes the Secretary of Commerce to award grants to states to establish revolving loan funds to provide loans to small manufacturers (less than $50 million in annual sales) for new product development. Limits grants to $10 million each and requires states to contribute at least 25% of the grant funds provided.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-04-25
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S5015)
action_date: 2007-04-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2007-04-24
text: Introduced in Senate
Federal Criminal Immigration Courts Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-1192
Sponsor: Sen. Domenici, Pete V. [R-NM]
Introduced: 2007-04-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Advice and consent of the Senate
Arizona
Congress
District courts
Government Operations and Politics
Judges
New Mexico
Presidential appointments
Texas

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-24
text: 
Federal Criminal Immigration Courts Act of 2007 - Directs the President to appoint, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, the following permanent judgeships: (1) four additional district judges for the district of Arizona; (2) one additional district judge for the district of New Mexico; (3) two additional district judges for the southern district of Texas; and (4) one additional district judge for the western district of Texas. 
 
Directs the President to appoint, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, the following temporary judgeships: (1) one additional district judge for the district of Arizona; and (2) one additional district judge for the district of New Mexico. 
 
Provides that, for each of the judicial districts named in this Act, the first vacancy arising on the district court 10 years or more after a judge is first confirmed to fill the temporary district judgeship created by this Act shall not be filled.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-04-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S4921-4922)
action_date: 2007-04-24
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4920-4921)
action_date: 2007-04-24
text: Introduced in Senate
No Child Left Behind Reform Act

Bill: 110-s-1194
Sponsor: Sen. Dodd, Christopher J. [D-CT]
Introduced: 2007-04-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance
Computer software
Computers
Continuing education
Data banks
Disabled
Economics and Public Finance
Educational accountability
Educational statistics
Educational technology
Educational tests
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Higher education
Identification devices
Labor and Employment
Licenses
Rating of teachers
Recruiting of employees
School administration
School choice
School districts
School personnel
Science, Technology, Communications
Secondary education
Special education
Student enrollment
Student records
Teacher education
Teachers

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-24
text: 
No Child Left Behind Reform Act - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) to allow states to include measures of individual or cohort growth over time in determining whether students are making adequate yearly progress (AYP) toward state academic performance standards. Eliminates the consideration of student attendance rates.
 
Allows schools to be given credit for performing well on measures other than test scores when calculating student achievement.
 
Authorizes the Secretary of Education to award competitive: (1) grants to state educational agencies to develop or increase the capacity of data systems for accountability purposes; and (2) subgrants to increase the capacity of local educational agencies to upgrade, create, or manage information databases for the purpose of measuring AYP.
 
 Allows schools to target school choice and supplemental services to the students who are members of specified types of groups that fail to make AYP. Requires placement and service in the least restrictive environment for students who receive services under the Individuals With Disabilities Education Act who use an option to transfer under ESEA.
 
Revises the definition of highly qualified teacher to authorize states to: (1) use a generalist exam for middle school teachers; and (2) issue certificates that qualify teachers to teach a number of subjects in social studies or in science.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-04-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S4923-4924)
action_date: 2007-04-24
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4922-4923)
action_date: 2007-04-24
text: Introduced in Senate
Comprehensive Entitlement Reform Commission Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-1195
Sponsor: Sen. Hagel, Chuck [R-NE]
Introduced: 2007-04-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Entitlements
Federal advisory bodies
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Medicaid
Medicare
Old age, survivors and disability insurance
Social security finance

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-24
text: 
Comprehensive Entitlement Reform Commission Act of 2007 - Establishes the Comprehensive Entitlement Reform Commission to review Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid and make comprehensive recommendations to sustain the solvency and stability of these programs for future generations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-04-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2007-04-24
text: Introduced in Senate
Mental Health Care for Our Wounded Warriors Act

Bill: 110-s-1196
Sponsor: Sen. Lieberman, Joseph I. [ID-CT]
Introduced: 2007-04-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Brain
Congress
Congress and military policy
Congressional oversight
Congressional reporting requirements
Department of Defense
Drug abuse
Drug abuse treatment
Education
Employee training
Executive reorganization
Families
Family services
Government Operations and Politics
Head injuries
Health
Health planning
Higher education
Iraq compilation
Law
Legislation
Medical education
Medical personnel
Medical research
Mental depression
Mental health
Mental health services
Military dependents
Military medicine
Military pay
Minorities
Minority health
Neurology
Post-traumatic stress disorder
Preventive medicine
Psychologists
Psychology
Recruiting of employees
Scholarships
Science, Technology, Communications
Veterans' medical care
War casualties
Women
Women soldiers
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-24
text: 
Mental Health Care for Our Wounded Warriors Act - Expresses the sense of Congress that: (1) members of the Armed Forces (members) deserve the best possible treatment for mental and physical illnesses and injuries sustained while in military service; (2) members should have access to mental health providers; (3) mental health disorders such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) should be treated with an urgency similar to physical ailments incurred by members; (4) there is a need to recruit, train, and retain more mental health care professionals to diagnose and treat members; and (5) there is a continued need for research, new treatments, and best practices for treating PTSD, as well as a long-term strategy for recruiting, training, and retaining the mental health workforce of the Department of Defense (DOD).
 
Directs the Secretary of Defense to establish at least two centers of excellence in military mental health for, among other things, the development and implementation of DOD strategy for the prevention, identification, and treatment of combat-related mental health conditions, with an emphasis on PTSD and traumatic brain injury.
 
Requires a report from the Secretary to the congressional defense committees on appropriate actions to address current personnel shortages in the DOD mental health workforce.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-05-04
text: Star Print ordered on S.1196.
action_date: 2007-04-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2007-04-24
text: Introduced in Senate
Tax Depreciation, Modernization, and Simplification Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-1197
Sponsor: Sen. Kerry, John F. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2007-04-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Accounting
Administrative procedure
Commerce
Department of the Treasury
Depreciation and amortization
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Income tax
Law
Small business
Tax deductions

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-24
text: 
Tax Depreciation, Modernization, and Simplification Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to modify or create new class lives for depreciable business assets that reasonably reflect anticipated useful life and decline in value; (2) eliminate the mid-quarter accounting convention for determining depreciation; (3) allow an election to consolidate, in a mass asset account, the accounting of depreciable properties that each cost less than $10,000; and (4) extend permanently the $100,000 expensing allowance for depreciable business assets.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-04-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2007-04-24
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4924-4925)
action_date: 2007-04-24
text: Introduced in Senate