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National Security Culture and Language Training Act

Bill: 110-hr-6037
Sponsor: Rep. Giffords, Gabrielle [D-AZ-8]
Introduced: 2008-05-13 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Area studies
Armed forces reserves
Arts, Culture, Religion
Cultural relations
Department of Defense
Education
Executive reorganization
Fringe benefits
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Higher education
Labor and Employment
Language and languages
Military pay
Military personnel
Military training
Officer personnel
Psychology
Sociology
Unconventional warfare

Summary:
action_date: 2008-05-13
text: 
National Security Culture and Language Training Act - Establishes an: (1) Assistant Secretary of Defense for Irregular Warfare, Cultural Training, and Social Sciences Initiatives; and (2) Office of Irregular Warfare, Cultural Training, and Social Sciences Initiatives. Requires the Office to, among other things: (1) devise and implement a training doctrine that includes the development of cultural, sociological, and psychological knowledge and skills for members of the Armed Forces; and (2) use existing military cultural training programs to expand training efforts for all military personnel.
 
Authorizes the Secretary of the military department concerned (Secretary concerned) to pay: (1) a skill proficiency bonus to a regular or reserve member in training to acquire proficiency in a foreign language or expertise in foreign cultural studies or a related skill designated as critical by the Secretary concerned; and (2) incentive pay to a person enrolled in an officer training program to also participate in an education or training program to acquire such proficiency.
 
Directs the Secretary of Defense to conduct a pilot program to provide a skill proficiency bonus to a member of the reserves receiving compensation for inactive-duty training while participating in an education or training program to acquire such proficiency.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-05-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Terrorism, Unconventional Threats and Capabilities.
action_date: 2008-05-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2008-05-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-05-13
text: Introduced in House
Integrated Public Alert and Warning System Modernization Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-6038
Sponsor: Rep. Graves, Sam [R-MO-6]
Introduced: 2008-05-13 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Disabled
Disasters
Emergency communication systems
Government Operations and Politics
Illiteracy
Information technology
Regional planning
Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
action_date: 2008-05-13
text: 
Integrated Public Alert and Warning System Modernization Act of 2008 - Amends the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to direct the President, acting through the Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), to: (1) modernize and implement the integrated U.S. public alert and warning system to ensure that the President can alert governmental authorities and the civilian population in areas endangered by disasters under all conditions; (2) assign to the National Continuity Programs Directorate responsibility for advising on system modernization and implementation; (3) establish or adopt common alerting and warning protocols, standards, terminology, and operating procedures; (4) include in such system the capability to adapt the distribution and content of communications on the basis of geographic location, risks, or personal user preferences and to alert individuals with disabilities or limited English proficiency; and (5) ensure the conduct of training, tests, and exercises.

Requires the system to: (1) incorporate multiple communications technologies; (2) be designed to adapt to and incorporate future technologies for communicating directly with the public; (3) be designed to provide alerts to the largest portion of the affected population feasible and improve the ability of remote areas to receive alerts; (4) promote local and regional partnerships to enhance community preparedness and response; and (5) provide redundant alert mechanisms.

Requires the Director to conduct pilot programs to demonstrate the feasibility of using a variety of methods for achieving system requirements.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-05-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
action_date: 2008-05-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2008-05-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-05-13
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to authorize certain aliens who have earned a master's or higher degree from a United States institution of higher education in a field of science, technology, engineering, or mathematics to be admitted for permanent residence.

Bill: 110-hr-6039
Sponsor: Rep. Lofgren, Zoe [D-CA-16]
Introduced: 2008-05-13 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Alien labor
Education
Engineering
Engineers
Graduate education
Higher education
Immigrants
Infrastructure
Labor and Employment
Mathematics
Science, Technology, Communications
Scientific education
Scientists

Summary:
action_date: 2008-05-13
text: 
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to include among those aliens not subject to worldwide numerical immigrant limitations persons who have earned a master's or higher degree from a U.S. institution of higher education in science, technology, engineering, or mathematics and who have an employment offer from a U.S. employer in a field related to such degree.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-06-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
action_date: 2008-05-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2008-05-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-05-13
text: Introduced in House
To redesignate the Rio Grande American Canal in El Paso, Texas, as the "Travis C. Johnson Canal".

Bill: 110-hr-6041
Sponsor: Rep. Reyes, Silvestre [D-TX-16]
Introduced: 2008-05-13 in the House
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Canals
Congressional tributes
Judges
Law
Lawyers
Names
Texas
Transportation and Public Works
Water Resources Development

Summary:
action_date: 2008-05-13
text: 
Redesignates the Rio Grande American Canal in El Paso, Texas, as the &quot;Travis C. Johnson Canal.&quot;

action_date: 2008-07-31
text: 

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

 
Redesignates the Rio Grande American Canal in El Paso, Texas, as the &quot;Travis C. Johnson Canal.&quot;


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-07-31
text: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 528.
action_date: 2008-07-31
text: Reported by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 110-814.
action_date: 2008-07-31
text: Reported by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 110-814.
action_date: 2008-06-25
text: Ordered to be Reported by Voice Vote.
action_date: 2008-06-25
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2008-06-25
text: Subcommittee on Water and Power Discharged.
action_date: 2008-05-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water and Power.
action_date: 2008-05-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2008-05-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-05-13
text: Introduced in House
Price Stability and Inflation Targeting Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-6042
Sponsor: Rep. Saxton, Jim [R-NJ-3]
Introduced: 2008-05-13 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Finance and Financial Sector
Inflation
Open market operations
Prices

Summary:
action_date: 2008-05-13
text: 
Price Stability and Inflation Targeting Act of 2008 - Declares that the primary and overriding goal of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and the Federal Open Market Committee with regard to monetary policy shall be the achievement of price stability.
 
Authorizes the Board and the Committee to suspend such goal if the Committee, by a majority vote, and the President jointly determine such suspension necessary due to war or an economic emergency.
 
Requires the Board and the Committee to: (1) establish a definition of the goal of price stability; (2) implement such definition through inflation targets; and (3) specify a timeframe for achieving such goal.
 
Directs the Board to determine in advance what action it will take if the goal of fully achieving price stability is not met within the timeframe established by the Board and the Committee.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-05-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2008-05-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-05-13
text: Introduced in House
To authorize appropriations for the Federal Trade Commission for certain international technical assistance activities.

Bill: 110-hr-6044
Sponsor: Rep. Towns, Edolphus [D-NY-10]
Introduced: 2008-05-13 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Authorization
Consumer protection
Economics and Public Finance
Federal Trade Commission
Government Operations and Politics
Independent regulatory commissions
International Affairs
Restrictive trade practices
Technical assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2008-05-13
text: 
Authorizes appropriations to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to enhance its provision of international technical assistance regarding foreign consumer protection and competition regimes, including for consultations and meetings hosted by the FTC with foreign government agency officials and appropriate representatives and staff and related necessary administrative and logistical expenses.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-05-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2008-05-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-05-13
text: Introduced in House
To extend the authorization provided in the Act titled "An Act to preserve the cultural resources of the Route 66 corridor and to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to provide assistance".

Bill: 110-hr-6046
Sponsor: Rep. Wilson, Heather [R-NM-1]
Introduced: 2008-05-13 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Arts, Culture, Religion
Authorization
Commemorations
Cultural property
Economics and Public Finance
Historic sites
History
Roads and highways
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2008-05-13
text: 
Authorizes appropriations through FY2019 to carry out the purposes of Public Law 106-45 (relating to the preservation of the cultural resources of the Route 66 Corridor and authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to provide assistance for the preservation of the Corridor). 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-05-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2008-05-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2008-05-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-05-13
text: Introduced in House
Early Access to Treatment Act

Bill: 110-hr-6047
Sponsor: Rep. Jones, Walter B., Jr. [R-NC-3]
Introduced: 2008-05-14 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Access to health care
Administrative remedies
Clinical trials
Department of Health and Human Services
Drug approvals
Drug therapy
Drugs
Electronic data interchange
Electronic government information
Emergency Management
Emergency medicine
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Informed consent (Medical law)
Law
Pharmaceutical research
Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
action_date: 2008-05-14
text: 
Early Access to Treatment Act - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to require a drug that is not approved for marketing, but that is under clinical investigation for a serious or immediately life-threatening disease condition in patients for whom no comparable or satisfactory alternative drug or other therapy is available, to be made available for treatment use by an individual patient if: (1) the drug is intended to treat such condition; (2) there is no comparable or satisfactory alternative available to treat that stage of the disease; (3) the drug is under investigation in a controlled clinical trial as an investigational new drug or all clinical trials have been completed; and (4) an application for treatment use has been filed with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) by a licensed practitioner which sets forth the intended use of the drug, an explanation of the rationale for its use, the treatment protocol, statements of the practitioner's qualifications to use the drug and familiarity with its safety and effectiveness, and a notarized statement of the patient's informed consent.

 Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services, within 30 days after an application is filed, to grant permission to the sponsor to furnish such drug to the practitioner under such terms as the sponsor, practitioner, and patient determine to be appropriate, including any agreement to waive liability. Provides for application transmission by telephone or other means of rapid communication and for rapid action on it in an emergency situation.

Requires (current law authorizes) the Secretary to approve an application under the Public Health Service Act for a fast track product determined to have an effect on a clinical endpoint or on a surrogate endpoint that is reasonably likely to predict clinical benefit.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-05-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2008-05-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2008-05-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-05-14
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act to provide for the protection of child custody arrangements for parents who are members of the Armed Forces deployed in support of a contingency operation.

Bill: 110-hr-6048
Sponsor: Rep. Turner, Michael R. [R-OH-3]
Introduced: 2008-05-14 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Armed forces abroad
Custody of children
Evidence (Law)
Families
Iraq compilation
Law
Military dependents
Military operations
Military personnel

Summary:
action_date: 2008-05-14
text: 
Amends the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act to provide for the protection of child custody arrangements for parents who are members deployed in support of a contingency operation. States that if a motion for change of custody of a child of such a member is filed while the member is so deployed, no court may enter an order modifying or amending a previous child custody judgment, except if there is clear and convincing evidence that it is in the best interest of the child. Prohibits any court from considering a member's absence due to deployment, or possible deployment, in support of a contingency operation in determining the best interest of the child.

action_date: 2008-05-20
text: 

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

 
Amends the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act to provide for the protection of child custody arrangements for parents who are members deployed in support of a contingency operation. States that if a motion for change of custody of a child of such a member is filed while the member is so deployed, no court may enter an order modifying or amending a previous child custody judgment, except if there is clear and convincing evidence that it is in the best interest of the child. Prohibits any court from considering a member's absence due to deployment, or possible deployment, in support of a contingency operation in determining the best interest of the child.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-05-21
text: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2008-05-20
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2008-05-20
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H4202-4203)
action_date: 2008-05-20
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote.(text: CR H4202-4203)
action_date: 2008-05-20
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 6048.
action_date: 2008-05-20
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H4202-4206)
action_date: 2008-05-20
text: Mr. Filner moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
action_date: 2008-05-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2008-05-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-05-14
text: Introduced in House
Lock Up Child Rapists Now Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-6050
Sponsor: Rep. Reichert, David G. [R-WA-8]
Introduced: 2008-05-14 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Child sexual abuse
Families
Life imprisonment
Mandatory sentences
Rape
Sex offenders
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2008-05-14
text: 
Lock Up Child Rapists Now Act of 2008 - Amends the federal criminal code to impose a mandatory sentence of life imprisonment on any adult individual (age 18 or older) convicted of engaging in sexual intercourse with a child who is under the age of 12 years. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-07-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2008-05-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2008-05-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-05-14
text: Introduced in House
Price Stability Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-6053
Sponsor: Rep. Ryan, Paul [R-WI-1]
Introduced: 2008-05-14 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Economic growth
Finance and Financial Sector
Free enterprise
Inflation
Monetary policy
Money
Open market operations
Prices
Right of property
Standard of living
Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2008-05-14
text: 
Price Stability Act of 2008 - Declares it is US policy that the principal economic responsibilities of the Government are to establish both long-term economic growth and increases in living standards, maintain free markets, low taxes, respect for private property, and the stable, long-term purchasing power of US currency.
 
Declares that the promotion of price stability should be the primary long-term goal of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.
 
Amends the Federal Reserve Act to revise the mandate of the Board and the Federal Open Market Committee to require them to: (1) establish a numerical definition of the term &quot;price stability&quot;; and (2) maintain a monetary policy that promotes long-term price stability.
 
Requires the Board to consult with, and report to, Congress semi-annually about Board and Committee objectives and plans to achieve and maintain price stability.
 
Repeals the Full Employment and Balanced Growth Act of 1978.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-05-14
text: Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committees on Education and Labor, and the Budget, 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: 2008-05-14
text: Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committees on Education and Labor, and the Budget, 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: 2008-05-14
text: Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committees on Education and Labor, and the Budget, 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: 2008-05-14
text: Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committees on Education and Labor, and the Budget, 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: 2008-05-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-05-14
text: Introduced in House
Human Rights Commission Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-6054
Sponsor: Rep. Delahunt, William D. [D-MA-10]
Introduced: 2008-05-14 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Congress
Congressional agencies
Congressional reporting requirements
Federal advisory bodies
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Human rights
Treaties

Summary:
action_date: 2008-05-14
text: 
Human Rights Commission Act of 2007
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 - Establishes the Human Rights Commission which shall monitor U.S. compliance with all international human rights treaties to which the United States is a party (including treaties to which the United States becomes a party after the date of the enactment of this Act).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-05-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2008-05-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-05-14
text: Introduced in House
Public Safety Broadband Authorization Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-6055
Sponsor: Rep. Harman, Jane [D-CA-36]
Introduced: 2008-05-14 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Broadband
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Emergency communication systems
Federal Communications Commission
Government Operations and Politics
Grants-in-aid
Independent regulatory commissions
Law
Licenses
Nonprofit organizations
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2008-05-14
text: 
Public Safety Broadband Authorization Act of 2008 - Requires the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to modify the nationwide license issued under the Communications Act of 1934 to the Public Safety Broadband Licensee (PSBL) for the use of the broadband spectrum allocated for public safety services to require, among other things, that the PSBL: (1) collaborate with a commercial entity to establish a nationwide, interoperable broadband public safety communications network; (2) be representative of the public safety community; (3) be nonprofit; and (4) have no participation in its management by commercial interests.
 
Requires the FCC to make grants to the PSBL for administrative and operational costs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-05-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet.
action_date: 2008-05-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2008-05-14
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E919)
action_date: 2008-05-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-05-14
text: Introduced in House