Act For Our Kids

Bill: 110-s-554
Sponsor: Sen. Dorgan, Byron L. [D-ND]
Introduced: 2007-02-12 in the Senate
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Accreditation (Medical care)
Administrative fees
Administrative procedure
Administrative remedies
Appropriations
Armed Forces and National Security
Auditing
Australia
Business records
Canada
Capital gains tax
Caribbean area
Checks
Citizenship
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Civil actions and liability
Claims
Commerce
Competitive bidding
Conflict of interests
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Consumer education
Continental shelf
Contracts
Corporation taxes
Cost of living adjustments
Courts of special jurisdiction
Credit cards
Crime and Law Enforcement
Cuba
Customs administration
Damages
Data banks
Defective products
Defense contracts
Department of Defense
Department of Health and Human Services
Department of Homeland Security
Department of the Interior
Department of the Treasury
Directories
Disciplining of employees
Dividends
Drug advertising
Drug approvals
Drug industry
Drugs
Due process of law
East Asia
Education
Electronic commerce
Electronic data interchange
Electronic funds transfers
Electronic government information
Employee rights
Energy
Environmental Protection Agency
Europe
European Union
Evidence (Law)
Expatriation
Export controls
Exports
Federal Emergency Management Agency
Federal Trade Commission
Federal employees
Federal officials
Federal preemption
Federal-state relations
Fees
Finance and Financial Sector
Fines (Penalties)
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Foreign corporations
Foreign tax credit
Forfeiture
Fraud
Gas in submerged lands
General Services Administration
Gifts
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Government paperwork
Government procurement
Government publicity
Government spending reductions
Governmental investigations
Gulf of Mexico
Health
Higher education
Identification devices
Immigration
Import restrictions
Imports
Income tax
Independent regulatory commissions
Indexing (Economic policy)
Infrastructure
Infrastructure (Economics)
Injunctions
Intellectual property
Interactive media
International Affairs
International broadcasting
Internet
Japan
Judicial review
Jurisdiction
Labeling
Latin America
Law
Legal fees
Liability (Law)
Licenses
Lobbying
Medical associations
Medical education
Medical records
Medical tests
Medicare
Minimum tax
New Zealand
Oceania
Office of Government Ethics
Office of Management and Budget
Office of Special Counsel
Oil and gas leases
Oil and gas royalties
Oil well drilling
Overhead costs
Packaging
Parties to actions
Patent infringement
Patents
Petroleum in submerged lands
Pharmaceutical research
Pharmacies
Pharmacists
Physical examinations
Prescription pricing
Presidential appointments
Price discrimination
Product counterfeiting
Profit
Restrictive trade practices
Right of privacy
Science, Technology, Communications
Security clearances
Social Welfare
State laws
Sunset legislation
Surety and fidelity
Switzerland
Tax deductions
Tax deferral
Tax exclusion
Tax exemption
Tax liens
Tax rates
Tax shelters
Taxation of foreign income
Telephone
Television broadcasting
User charges
Web sites
Whistle blowing
Wholesale trade

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-12
text: 
Act for Our Kids - Repeals the Television Broadcasting to Cuba Act. 
 
Amends the Cuban Liberty and Democratic Solidarity (LIBERTAD) Act of 1996 to prohibit federal funding of television broadcasting to Cuba.
 
Terminates the U.S. Court of Federal Claims.
 
Requires federal agencies to reduce administrative expenses.
 
Eliminates the Medicare Advantage Regional Plan Stabilization (SLUSH) Fund.
 
Amends the federal criminal code to prohibit profiteering and fraud involving a contract or the provision of goods or services in connection with a war or military action. 
 
Requires: (1) suspension and debarment of unethical contractors; (2) disclosure by federal agencies, upon request, to the appropriate committee chairman or ranking member of audit reports regarding federal contractors; and (3) public access to information on federal contractor penalties and violations through the Federal Procurement Data System website .
 
Amends the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 and federal armed forces law to prohibit awards of monopoly contracts exceeding $1 million.
 
Revises the Federal Acquisition Regulation to provide competition in multiple award contracts.
 
Sets forth prohibitions on contractor conflicts of interest.
 
Amends the Office of Federal Procurement Policy Act to prohibit former federal officials from accepting compensation from contractors or related entities.
 
Specifies minimum requirements for political appointees holding public contracting and safety positions.
 
Provides protection of certain disclosures of information by federal employees.
 
Pharmaceutical Market Access and Drug Safety Act of 2007 - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to revise requirements governing the importation of prescription drugs. 
 
Establishes registration conditions for importers and exporters.
 
Declares that the resale in the United States of prescription drugs that were properly sold abroad is not patent infringement.
 
Provides for the sale of prescription drugs through an Internet site.
 
Prohibits the introduction of restricted transactions with unregistered foreign pharmacies into a payment system or the completion of such transactions using a payment system.
 
Instructs the Secretary of the Interior to agree to any lessee request to amend a lease issued for any Central and Western Gulf of Mexico (Gulf) tract during 1998 and 1999 to incorporate specified price thresholds applicable to royalty suspension provisions. 
 
Reaffirms the authority of the Secretary to vary, based on the price of production from a lease, the suspension of royalties under specified leases on the Outer Continental Shelf.
 
Cites conditions for the issuance of new leases for oil or natural gas production in the Gulf.
 
Instructs the Secretary to establish conservation of resources fees for both producing and nonproducing federal oil and gas leases in the Gulf.
 
Prescribes restrictions on the transfer of such leases.
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) repeal various tax cuts for millionaire taxpayers; (2) prescribe tax treatment for offshore shelters and expatriation; (3) restate the economic substance doctrine; (4) deny any deduction for certain fines, penalties, and other amounts relating to trade or business expenses; (5) impose a temporary emergency duty surcharge; and (6) provide for offshore oil and gas leasing in 181 Area of Gulf of Mexico.
 
Amends the Federal Reserve Act to require the Federal Reserve Bank to transfer specified surplus funds to the Treasury.
 
Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to make permanent the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) authority to auction licenses to use radio spectrum.
 
Freedom to Travel to Cuba Act of 2007 - Prohibits the President from regulating or prohibiting travel to or from Cuba by U.S. citizens or legal residents, or any of the transactions ordinarily incident to such travel.
 



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2007-02-12
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1855-1857)
action_date: 2007-02-12
text: Introduced in Senate