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To designate the United States courthouse located at 225 Cadman Plaza East, Brooklyn, New York, as the "Hugh L. Carey United States Courthouse".

Bill: 110-hr-429
Sponsor: Rep. Towns, Edolphus [D-NY-10]
Introduced: 2007-01-11 in the House
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Congress
Congressional tributes
Courthouses
Ex-Members of Congress
Government Operations and Politics
Governors
Law
Names
New York City
New York State

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-11
text: 
Designates the U.S. courthouse located at 225 Cadman Plaza East, Brooklyn, New York, as the &quot;Hugh L. Carey United States Courthouse.&quot;

action_date: 2007-02-16
text: 

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

Designates the U.S. courthouse located at 225 Cadman Plaza East, Brooklyn, New York, as the &quot;Hugh L. Carey United States Courthouse.&quot;

action_date: 2007-03-13
text: 

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

Designates the U.S. courthouse located at 225 Cadman Plaza East, Brooklyn, New York, as the &quot;Hugh L. Carey United States Courthouse.&quot;


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-14
text: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2007-03-13
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2007-03-13
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H2458)
action_date: 2007-03-13
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote.(text: CR H2458)
action_date: 2007-03-13
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 429.
action_date: 2007-03-13
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H2458-2459)
action_date: 2007-03-13
text: Mr. Boswell moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
action_date: 2007-02-16
text: Placed on the House Calendar, Calendar No. 16.
action_date: 2007-02-16
text: Reported by the Committee on Transportation. H. Rept. 110-22.
action_date: 2007-02-16
text: Reported by the Committee on Transportation. H. Rept. 110-22.
action_date: 2007-02-07
text: Ordered to be Reported by Voice Vote.
action_date: 2007-02-07
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2007-02-06
text: Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee by Voice Vote .
action_date: 2007-02-06
text: Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2007-02-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
action_date: 2007-01-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
action_date: 2007-01-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2007-01-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-11
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to make residents of Puerto Rico eligible for the refundable portion of the child tax credit.

Bill: 110-hr-431
Sponsor: Rep. Towns, Edolphus [D-NY-10]
Introduced: 2007-01-11 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Families
Income tax
Puerto Ricans
Puerto Rico
Tax credits
Tax refunds

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-11
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make residents of Puerto Rico eligible for the refundable portion of the child tax credit.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-01-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-11
text: Introduced in House
Seniors' Tax Simplification Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-432
Sponsor: Rep. Reynolds, Thomas M. [R-NY-26]
Introduced: 2007-01-12 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Annuities
Capital gains tax
Dividends
Finance and Financial Sector
Income
Income tax
Interest
Labor and Employment
Losses
Old age, survivors and disability insurance
Pension funds
Social Welfare
Tax returns
Tax-deferred compensation plans
Taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-12
text: 
 Seniors' Tax Simplification Act of 2007 - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to make available a new Federal income tax Form 1040S (similar to Form 1040EZ) to individuals who have turned 65 as of the close of the taxable year. Allows the form to be used even if income includes: (1) social security benefits; (2) distributions from qualified retirement plans, annuities, or other such deferred payment arrangements; (3) interest and dividends; or (4) capital gains and losses.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-01-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-12
text: Introduced in House
To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1700 Main Street in Little Rock, Arkansas, as the "Scipio A. Jones Post Office Building".

Bill: 110-hr-433
Sponsor: Rep. Snyder, Vic [D-AR-2]
Introduced: 2007-01-12 in the House
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Arkansas
Blacks
Congressional tributes
Law
Lawyers
Minorities
Names
Postal facilities

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-12
text: Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1700 Main Street in Little Rock, Arkansas, as the "Scipio A. Jones Post Office Building."
action_date: 2007-03-07
text: 

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

Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1700 Main Street in Little Rock, Arkansas, as the "Scipio A. Jones Post Office Building." 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-07
text: Became Public Law No: 110-9.
action_date: 2007-03-07
text: Became Public Law No: 110-9.
action_date: 2007-03-07
text: Signed by President.
action_date: 2007-03-07
text: Signed by President.
action_date: 2007-03-05
text: Presented to President.
action_date: 2007-03-05
text: Presented to President.
action_date: 2007-02-20
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2007-02-17
text: Cleared for White House.
action_date: 2007-02-17
text: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2007-02-17
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2007-02-17
text: Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs discharged by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S2217-2218)
action_date: 2007-02-17
text: Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs discharged by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S2217-2218)
action_date: 2007-02-15
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2007-02-06
text: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2007-02-05
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2007-02-05
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H1158-1159)
action_date: 2007-02-05
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote.(text: CR H1158-1159)
action_date: 2007-02-05
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 433.
action_date: 2007-02-05
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H1158-1159)
action_date: 2007-02-05
text: Mr. Lynch moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
action_date: 2007-01-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2007-01-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-12
text: Introduced in House

Enacted as: number: 110-9
Study of Ways to Improve the Accuracy of the Collection of Federal Oil, Condensate, and Natural Gas Royalties Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-435
Sponsor: Rep. Maloney, Carolyn B. [D-NY-14]
Introduced: 2007-01-12 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Air pollution control
Carbon dioxide
Carcinogens
Collection of accounts
Commerce
Crime and Law Enforcement
Economics and Public Finance
Energy
Energy storage
Energy transportation
Environmental Protection
Fines (Penalties)
Gas industry
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Governmental investigations
Helium
Indian lands
Law
Marketing
Minorities
Native Americans
Nitrogen
Oil and gas leases
Oil and gas royalties
Petroleum industry
Pipelines
Sulphur
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-12
text: 
Study of Ways to Improve the Accuracy of the Collection of Federal Oil, Condensate, and Natural Gas Royalties Act of 2007 - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to arrange with the National Academy of Engineering to study and report to the Secretary regarding whether the accuracy of collection of royalties on production of oil, condensate, and natural gas under leases of federal lands (including submerged, deep water, and Indian lands) would be improved by implementing certain prescribed measures.
 
Requires the Secretary to award a contract under which the contractor shall: (1) compare royalty payments made under federal oil and gas lease provisions for covered lands against data supplied to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission; (2) make such comparison retroactive to June 1, 1974; (3) determine whether the correct production standard volume and heating content analysis was used to calculate such payments; and (4) determine whether such payments were adequate under the terms of the oil and gas leases.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
action_date: 2007-01-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-01-12
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E105)
action_date: 2007-01-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-12
text: Introduced in House
Cell Phone Tax Moratorium Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-436
Sponsor: Rep. Bono, Mary [R-CA-45]
Introduced: 2007-01-12 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Excise tax
Government Operations and Politics
Local taxation
Science, Technology, Communications
State taxation
Tax rates
Wireless communication

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-12
text: 
Cell Phone Tax Moratorium Act of 2007 - Prohibits states from imposing any new discriminatory tax on mobile services (cell phones), mobile services providers, or mobile services property for three years after enactment of this Act. Defines &quot;new discriminatory tax&quot; as a tax imposed on mobile services, providers, or property which is not generally imposed on other types of services or property or is generally imposed at a lower rate.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law.
action_date: 2007-01-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-01-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-12
text: Introduced in House
To prohibit an escalation in the number of members of the United States Armed Forces deployed in Iraq.

Bill: 110-hr-438
Sponsor: Rep. Jackson, Jesse L., Jr. [D-IL-2]
Introduced: 2007-01-12 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Armed forces abroad
Congress
Congress and military policy
Defense budgets
International Affairs
Iraq
Iraq compilation
Middle East and North Africa
Military occupation
Military operations

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-12
text: 
Prohibits any funds made available to the Department of Defense (DOD) from being obligated or expended to increase the number of U.S. Armed Forces serving in Iraq at any time in excess of the number serving there as of January 1, 2007, unless a specific authorization for the increase is enacted into law.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2007-01-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-12
text: Introduced in House
Servitude and Emancipation Archival Research ClearingHouse Act

Bill: 110-hr-439
Sponsor: Rep. Cummings, Elijah E. [D-MD-7]
Introduced: 2007-01-12 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Archives
Arts, Culture, Religion
Blacks
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Colleges
Data banks
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Families
Federal aid to education
Genealogy
Government paperwork
Grants-in-aid
Higher education
History
Minorities
Public records
Science, Technology, Communications
Slavery

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-12
text: 
Servitude and Emancipation Archival Research ClearingHouse Act or the SEARCH Act - Directs the Archivist of the United States to establish, as part of the National Archives, a national database consisting of historic records of servitude and emancipation in the United States to assist African Americans in researching their genealogy. Requires the National Historical Publications and Records Commission to maintain the database.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Information Policy, Census, and National Archives.
action_date: 2007-01-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2007-01-12
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E103)
action_date: 2007-01-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-12
text: Introduced in House
To amend titles 10 and 14, United States Code, to provide for the use of gold in the metal content of the Medal of Honor.

Bill: 110-hr-440
Sponsor: Rep. Baca, Joe [D-CA-43]
Introduced: 2007-01-12 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Commemorations
Congress
Congressional Medal of Honor
Gold
Public Lands and Natural Resources

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-12
text: Requires the metal content of the Medal of Honor, awarded by the President to members of the Armed Forces and Coast Guard, to be 90 percent gold and ten percent alloy.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2007-01-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2007-01-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-12
text: Introduced in House
Retirement Security for America's Domestic Workers Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-441
Sponsor: Rep. Becerra, Xavier [D-CA-31]
Introduced: 2007-01-12 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Household workers
Income tax
Labor and Employment
Old age, survivors and disability insurance
Social security eligibility
Social security taxes
Tax exclusion
Tax exemption
Taxation
Wages

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-12
text: 
Retirement Security for America's Domestic Workers Act of 2007 - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act and the Internal Revenue Code to provide that compensation paid for domestic services in an employer's private home will not be exempt from employment taxes unless such compensation is less than the greater of $1,500 or the amount of wages and self-employment income required for a quarter of coverage under the Social Security Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Social Security.
action_date: 2007-01-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-01-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-12
text: Introduced in House
To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to study the suitability and feasibility of designating the Wolf House, located in Norfolk, Arkansas, as a unit of the National Park System, and for other purposes.

Bill: 110-hr-442
Sponsor: Rep. Berry, Marion [D-AR-1]
Introduced: 2007-01-12 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Arkansas
Commemorations
Congressional reporting requirements
Courthouses
Governmental investigations
Historic sites
History
Law
National parks

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-12
text: Directs the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Director of the National Park Service, to: (1) study and report to specified congressional committees on the suitability and feasibility of designating the Wolf House located on Highway 5 in Norfolk [
sic
], Arkansas, as a unit of the National Park System; and (2) consider management alternatives for the Wolf House.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-14
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2007-02-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2007-01-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-01-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-12
text: Introduced in House
To suspend the antidumping duty orders on imports of solid urea from Russia and Ukraine.

Bill: 110-hr-443
Sponsor: Rep. Berry, Marion [D-AR-1]
Introduced: 2007-01-12 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Countervailing duties
Dumping
Europe
Fertilizers
Imports
Russia
Ukraine

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-12
text: 
Suspends the antidumping duty orders on imports of solid urea from Russia and Ukraine. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2007-01-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-01-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-12
text: Introduced in House
To suspend temporarily the duty on certain plasma flat panel displays.

Bill: 110-hr-444
Sponsor: Rep. Berry, Marion [D-AR-1]
Introduced: 2007-01-12 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Equipment and supplies
Science, Technology, Communications
Tariff
Television
Video display terminals

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-12
text: Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend temporarily the duty on certain plasma flat panel displays.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2007-01-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-01-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-12
text: Introduced in House
To terminate the limitations on imports of ammonium nitrate from the Russian Federation.

Bill: 110-hr-445
Sponsor: Rep. Berry, Marion [D-AR-1]
Introduced: 2007-01-12 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Ammonia
Countervailing duties
Dumping
Fertilizers
Import restrictions
Imports
International Affairs
Nitrates
Nitrogen compounds
Russia
Trade agreements

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-12
text: 
Declares that no limitations contained in the Agreement Suspending the Antidumping Investigation on Solid Fertilizer Grade Ammonium Nitrate shall be imposed with respect to entry of any solid fertilizer grade ammonium nitrate imported from the Russian Federation.
 
States that no antidumping duty deposit shall be required upon entry of such a product, nor shall any antidumping duty be assessed on it.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2007-01-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-01-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-12
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide that World War II merchant mariners who were awarded the Mariners Medal shall be provided eligibility for Department of Veterans Affairs health care on the same basis as veterans who have been awarded the Purple Heart.

Bill: 110-hr-447
Sponsor: Rep. Fortenberry, Jeff [R-NE-1]
Introduced: 2007-01-12 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Commemorations
Health
Labor and Employment
Merchant seamen
Military medals, decorations, etc.
Transportation and Public Works
Veterans' medical care
War casualties
World War II

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-12
text: 
Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to furnish hospital care and medical services, and authorizes the Secretary to furnish nursing home care, as needed to any veteran who was awarded the Mariners Medal (currently, only the Purple Heart). 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-01-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2007-01-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-12
text: Introduced in House
Identification Integrity Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-448
Sponsor: Rep. Gallegly, Elton [R-CA-24]
Introduced: 2007-01-12 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Congress
Congressional agencies
District of Columbia
Government Operations and Politics
Identification devices
Immigration
International Affairs
Law
Passports

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-12
text: 
Identification Integrity Act of 2007 - Prohibits federal agencies from accepting for any official purpose an identification document for an individual issued by a foreign government. Creates an exception for foreign passports authorized by federal law to be accepted for a specific official purpose.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Government Management, Organization, and Procurement.
action_date: 2007-02-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
action_date: 2007-01-12
text: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, House Administration, and 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: 2007-01-12
text: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, House Administration, and 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: 2007-01-12
text: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, House Administration, and 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: 2007-01-12
text: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, House Administration, and 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: 2007-01-12
text: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, House Administration, and 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: 2007-01-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-12
text: Introduced in House