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A bill to extend the temporary suspension of duty on dimethyl malonate.

Bill: 111-s-2711
Sponsor: Sen. Lautenberg, Frank R. [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2009-11-02 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Tariffs

Summary:
action_date: 2009-11-02
text: Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend the temporary suspension of duty on dimethyl malonate.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-11-02
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2009-11-02
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to extend the temporary suspension of duty on D-Mannose.

Bill: 111-s-2712
Sponsor: Sen. Lautenberg, Frank R. [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2009-11-02 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Tariffs

Summary:
action_date: 2009-11-02
text: Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend the temporary suspension of duty on D-Mannose.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-11-02
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2009-11-02
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to provide for the liquidation or reliquidation of certain entries of granulated polytetrafluoroethylene resin from Italy.

Bill: 111-s-2713
Sponsor: Sen. Lautenberg, Frank R. [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2009-11-02 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Tariffs

Summary:
action_date: 2009-11-02
text: 
Directs U.S. Customs and Border Protection to provide for the liquidation or reliquidation of certain entries of granulated polytetrafluoroethylene resin from Italy.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-11-02
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2009-11-02
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to suspend temporarily the duty on Propanoic acid, 3-hydroxy-2-(hydroxymethyl)-2-methyl, polymers with 5-iso-cyanato-1-(isocyanatomethyl)-1,3,3-trimethylcyclohexane and reduced methyl esters of reduced polymerized, oxidized tetrafluoroethylene, compounds with trimethylamine.

Bill: 111-s-2714
Sponsor: Sen. Lautenberg, Frank R. [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2009-11-02 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Tariffs

Summary:
action_date: 2009-11-02
text: Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend temporarily the duty on Propanoic acid, 3-hydroxy-2-(hydroxymethyl)-2-methyl, polymers with 5-iso-cyanato-1-(isocyanatomethyl)-1,3,3-trimethylcyclohexane and reduced methyl esters of reduced polymerized, oxidized tetrafluoroethylene, compounds with trimethylamine.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-11-02
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2009-11-02
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to suspend temporarily the duty on neopor expandable polystyrene.

Bill: 111-s-2715
Sponsor: Sen. Lautenberg, Frank R. [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2009-11-02 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Tariffs

Summary:
action_date: 2009-11-02
text: Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend temporarily the duty on neopor expandable polystyrene.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-11-02
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2009-11-02
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to suspend temporarily the duty on preparations based on polyethylenimine.

Bill: 111-s-2716
Sponsor: Sen. Lautenberg, Frank R. [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2009-11-02 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Tariffs

Summary:
action_date: 2009-11-02
text: Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend temporarily the duty on preparations based on polyethylenimine.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-11-02
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2009-11-02
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to extend the temporary reduction of duty on palm fatty acid distillate.

Bill: 111-s-2717
Sponsor: Sen. Lautenberg, Frank R. [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2009-11-02 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Tariffs

Summary:
action_date: 2009-11-02
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend and increase the temporary reduction of duty on monocarboxylic fatty acids derived from palm oil.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-11-02
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2009-11-02
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to extend the temporary suspension of duty on certain ion-echange resins (cationic H form).

Bill: 111-s-2718
Sponsor: Sen. Lautenberg, Frank R. [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2009-11-02 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Tariffs

Summary:
action_date: 2009-11-02
text: Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend the temporary suspension of duty on certain ion-echange resins (cationic H form).

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-11-02
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2009-11-02
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to extend the temporary suspension of duty on diphenyl (2,4,6-trimethylbenzoyl) phosphine oxide.

Bill: 111-s-2719
Sponsor: Sen. Lautenberg, Frank R. [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2009-11-02 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Tariffs

Summary:
action_date: 2009-11-02
text: Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend the temporary suspension of duty on diphenyl (2,4,6-trimethylbenzoyl) phosphine oxide.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-11-02
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2009-11-02
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to extend the temporary suspension of duty on 1, 1, 2-2-Tetrafluoroethene, oxidized, polymerized.

Bill: 111-s-2720
Sponsor: Sen. Lautenberg, Frank R. [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2009-11-02 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Tariffs

Summary:
action_date: 2009-11-02
text: Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend the temporary suspension of duty on 1, 1, 2-2-Tetrafluoroethene, oxidized, polymerized.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-11-02
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2009-11-02
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to extend the temporary suspension of duty on Ethene, tetrafluoro-oxidized, polymerized, reduced, methyl esters, reduced.

Bill: 111-s-2721
Sponsor: Sen. Lautenberg, Frank R. [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2009-11-02 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Tariffs

Summary:
action_date: 2009-11-02
text: Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend the temporary suspension of duty on Ethene, tetrafluoro-oxidized, polymerized, reduced, methyl esters, reduced.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-11-02
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2009-11-02
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a special depreciation allowance and recovery period for noncommercial aircraft property.

Bill: 111-s-2723
Sponsor: Sen. Brownback, Sam [R-KS]
Introduced: 2009-11-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Aviation and airports
Income tax deductions

Summary:
action_date: 2009-11-03
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow: (1) increased depreciation of qualified noncommercial aircraft property placed in service in 2010 or 2011; and (2) a three-year recovery period for the depreciation of such property placed in service before 2015. Defines &quot;qualified noncommercial aircraft property&quot; as any aircraft that is not used in the trade or business of transporting persons or property and that is first used after 2009. Allows such increased depreciation as an offset against the alternative minimum tax.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-11-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2009-11-03
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S11051-11052)
action_date: 2009-11-03
text: Introduced in Senate
Federal Judicial Fairness Act of 2009

Bill: 111-s-2725
Sponsor: Sen. Feinstein, Dianne [D-CA]
Introduced: 2009-11-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Federal appellate courts
Federal district courts
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Inflation and prices
Judges
Supreme Court

Summary:
action_date: 2009-11-03
text: 
Federal Judicial Fairness Act of 2009 - Repeals the requirement limiting salary increases for federal judges or Supreme Court Justices to those specifically authorized by Act of Congress.
 
Amends the federal judicial code to apply the same automatic annual cost-of-living adjustment to judicial salaries as takes effect under the General Schedule for civilian federal employees.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-11-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S11060-11061)
action_date: 2009-11-03
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S11060)
action_date: 2009-11-03
text: Introduced in Senate
Minuteman Missile National Historic Site Boundary Modification Act

Bill: 111-s-2726
Sponsor: Sen. Johnson, Tim [D-SD]
Introduced: 2009-11-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Historic sites and heritage areas
Military facilities and property
Nuclear weapons
South Dakota

Summary:
action_date: 2009-11-04
text: 
Minuteman Missile National Historic Site Boundary Modification Act - Amends the Minuteman Missile National Historic Site Establishment Act of 1999 to modify the boundary of the Minuteman Missile National Historic Site in South Dakota by the inclusion in the Historic Site of a visitor facility and administrative site located on a parcel of land that: (1) consists of approximately 25 acres of Forest Service land in the Buffalo Gap National Grasslands; (2) is north of exit 131 on Interstate 90 in Jackson County, South Dakota; and (3) is identified on the map entitled &quot;Minuteman Missile National Historic Site Boundary Modification,&quot; dated July 17, 2009. 

action_date: 2010-08-05
text: 
Minuteman Missile National Historic Site Boundary Modification Act - Amends the Minuteman Missile National Historic Site Establishment Act of 1999 to modify the boundary of the Minuteman Missile National Historic Site in South Dakota by including in the Historic Site a visitor facility and administrative site located on a specified parcel of land that consists of approximately 25 acres of land in the Buffalo Gap National Grassland. 
 
Transfers administrative jurisdiction over such land from the Secretary of Agriculture to the Secretary of the Interior. 
 
Modifies the boundary of the Buffalo Gap National Grassland to exclude the transferred land.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-08-05
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 532.
action_date: 2010-08-05
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Bingaman with an amendment. With written report No. 111-262.
action_date: 2010-08-05
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Bingaman with an amendment. With written report No. 111-262.
action_date: 2010-06-21
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported with an amendment favorably.
action_date: 2009-12-03
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on National Parks. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 111-318.
action_date: 2009-11-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2009-11-04
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S11119)
action_date: 2009-11-04
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide that the value of certain historic property shall be determined using an income approach in determining the taxable estate of a decedent.

Bill: 111-s-2728
Sponsor: Sen. Burr, Richard [R-NC]
Introduced: 2009-11-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Historic sites and heritage areas
Transfer and inheritance taxes

Summary:
action_date: 2009-11-04
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow decedent estates to base the value of qualified historic property on the net earnings of such property for estate and gift tax purposes. Defines &quot;qualified historic property&quot; as any building designated as a national historic landmark for at least 25 years prior to the death of a decedent and originally used for residential or farming purposes.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-11-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2009-11-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Clean Energy Partnerships Act of 2009

Bill: 111-s-2729
Sponsor: Sen. Stabenow, Debbie [D-MI]
Introduced: 2009-11-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Advisory bodies
Agricultural conservation and pollution
Agricultural research
Air quality
Alternative and renewable resources
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Department of Agriculture
Electric power generation and transmission
Energy efficiency and conservation
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Environmental technology
Forests, forestry, trees
Government studies and investigations
Government trust funds
Land use and conservation
Oil and gas
Public contracts and procurement
Rural conditions and development
Wetlands

Summary:
action_date: 2009-11-04
text: 
Clean Energy Partnerships Act of 2009 - Requires the Secretary of Agriculture and the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to establish: (1) a program to govern the creation of credits from emission reductions from uncapped domestic sources and sinks; (2) the Greenhouse Gas Emission Reduction and Sequestration Advisory Committee to provide scientific and technical advice on the establishment and implementation of such offset program; and (3) a carbon conservation program to provide incentives to landowners or grazing contractor holders to implement projects that reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions or sequester or permanently store carbon through conservation easements, sequestration contracts, and timber harvest or grazing contracts with the Department of Agriculture or the Department of the Interior.
 
Requires the Administrator to establish a registry to record approved credits issued under such offset program. Requires each appropriate official to: (1) establish and maintain a list of types of offset projects eligible to generate offset credits under the program; and (2) prescribe regulations to ensure the emission reduction integrity of the offset projects. 
 
Authorizes the Administrator to issue offset credits for emissions reduced by specified international projects that reduce deforestation.
 
Provides that a person is not required to hold allowances or credits for emissions resulting from the use of gas as an energy source if the gas is derived from an approved domestic methane offset project.
 
Establishes: (1) the Carbon Conservation Fund for the carbon conservation program; and (2) the Rural Clean Energy Resources Fund to provide assistance for the development of biofuel and bioenergy, including by supporting the Rural Energy for America Program and implementing a research and demonstration program that includes approaches to sequestering carbon through agricultural, grazing, and forestry practices and reducing methane and nitrous oxide emissions associated with agricultural production.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-11-05
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (S11202-11203)
action_date: 2009-11-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2009-11-04
text: Introduced in Senate
COBRA Subsidy Extension and Enhancement Act of 2009

Bill: 111-s-2730
Sponsor: Sen. Brown, Sherrod [D-OH]
Introduced: 2009-11-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Employee benefits and pensions
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access

Summary:
action_date: 2009-11-04
text: 
COBRA Subsidy Extension and Enhancement Act of 2009 - Amends the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 to: (1) increase the subsidy under COBRA (health insurance continuation benefits under the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985) to 75% of a worker's health care insurance premium; (2) extend such subsidy from 9 to 15 months after termination from employment; (3) extend coverage under COBRA to employees whose work hours are involuntarily reduced; and (4) extend until June 30, 2010, the period of eligibility for COBRA premium assistance.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-11-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2009-11-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Small Business Administration Disaster Recovery and Reform Act of 2009

Bill: 111-s-2731
Sponsor: Sen. Landrieu, Mary L. [D-LA]
Introduced: 2009-11-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Agricultural prices, subsidies, credit
Alabama
Aquaculture
Asia
Building construction
China
Congressional oversight
Disaster relief and insurance
Government information and archives
Government lending and loan guarantees
Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
Housing industry and standards
Louisiana
Mississippi
Natural disasters
Rural conditions and development
Small business

Summary:
action_date: 2009-11-05
text: 
Small Business Administration Disaster Recovery and Reform Act of 2009 - Amends the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 to direct the Administrator of the Small Business Administration (SBA) to submit to the congressional small business committees recommendations for improvements to the Gulf Coast disaster loan refinancing program.
 
Extends for 24 additional months the authorized loan assistance term for small businesses affected by Hurricanes Katrina or Rita and participating in the SBA small business and capital ownership development program.
 
Allows the Administrator to declare a disaster with respect to small businesses that installed defective drywall manufactured in China, for purposes of qualification for SBA disaster loan assistance.
 
Amends the Small Business Act to increase authorized assistance under the SBA's: (1) pioneer business recovery program (formerly the expedited disaster assistance loan program); and (2) disaster loan assistance program.
 
Authorizes the Administrator to guarantee loans made under an approved state bridge loan program.
 
Requires the Administrator to report on: (1) regional outreach on disaster assistance programs; (2) coordination of economic injury disaster declarations; and (3) coordination between SBA and Department of Agriculture (USDA) disaster programs. 
 
Directs the Administrator to ensure that disaster recovery needs unmet by federal and private sources are not overlooked by the SBA in determining duplication of benefits for disaster victims.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-11-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship. (text of measure as introduced: CR S11210-11212)
action_date: 2009-11-05
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S11207-11210, S11212)
action_date: 2009-11-05
text: Introduced in Senate
Focused Flying Act

Bill: 111-s-2732
Sponsor: Sen. Menendez, Robert [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2009-11-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Aviation and airports
Department of Transportation
Government studies and investigations
Telephone and wireless communication
Transportation employees
Transportation safety and security

Summary:
action_date: 2009-11-05
text: 
Focused Flying Act - Directs the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to promulgate regulations prohibiting commercial flight crew members from using portable electronic devices in the aircraft's cockpit during a flight, except for: (1) uses directly related to flight operations or safety; (2) the collection of safety data; or (3) other FAA-approved purposes.
 
Directs the FAA Administrator to review relevant air carrier data and to study and report to Congress on: (1) common sources of distraction for cockpit commercial flight crew members; and (2) the safety impacts of such distractions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-11-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2009-11-05
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to provide for the establishment of a Private Education Loan Ombudsman.

Bill: 111-s-2733
Sponsor: Sen. Brown, Sherrod [D-OH]
Introduced: 2009-11-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Consumer affairs
Department of the Treasury
Executive agency funding and structure
Federal officials
Government information and archives
Government lending and loan guarantees
Higher education
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2009-11-05
text: 
Directs the Secretary of the Treasury (Secretary) to appoint a Private Education Loan Ombudsman to provide timely assistance to borrowers of private education loans.
 
Requires the Secretary and the Secretary of Education to disseminate information about the availability and functions of the Ombudsman to borrowers, potential borrowers, and other participants in private education and federal student loan programs.
 
Directs the Ombudsman to: (1) receive, review, and attempt to resolve informally complaints from borrowers of private education loans, in accordance with the Secretary's regulations; (2) establish a memorandum of understanding with the student loan ombudsman established under the Higher Education Act of 1965 to coordinate the provision of assistance to borrowers seeking to resolve complaints related to their private education or federal student loans; and (3) compile and analyze data on borrower complaints regarding private education loans.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-11-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2009-11-05
text: Introduced in Senate