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To establish a national commission on presidential war powers and civil liberties.

Bill: 111-hr-6501
Sponsor: Rep. Conyers, John, Jr. [D-MI-14]
Introduced: 2010-12-08 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Detention of persons
Due process and equal protection
Government studies and investigations
Human rights
Intelligence activities, surveillance, classified information
Military law
Military operations and strategy
Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents
Right of privacy
Terrorism
War and emergency powers

Summary:
action_date: 2010-12-08
text: 
Establishes the National Commission on Presidential War Powers and Civil Liberties to investigate, and report to the President and Congress on, the broad range of executive branch national security policies undertaken since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, including: (1) detention by the Armed Forces and the intelligence community; (2) the use by such entities of enhanced interrogation techniques or techniques not authorized by the Uniform Code of Military Justice; (3) &quot;ghosting&quot; or other policies intended to conceal an individual's capture or detention; (4) extraordinary rendition; (5) domestic warrantless electronic surveillance; (6) targeted killings away from conventional battlefields; and (7) the use of state secrets or other litigation tactics or privileges to avoid judicial review of national security actions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-12-08
text: Referred to House Intelligence (Permanent)
action_date: 2010-12-08
text: Referred to House Foreign Affairs
action_date: 2010-12-08
text: Referred to House Judiciary
action_date: 2010-12-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, Foreign Affairs, and Intelligence (Permanent Select), 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: 2010-12-08
text: Referred to House Armed Services
action_date: 2010-12-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-12-08
text: Introduced in House
Medicare Beneficiary Preservation of Choice Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-6502
Sponsor: Rep. Gonzalez, Charles A. [D-TX-20]
Introduced: 2010-12-08 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Medicare
Prescription drugs

Summary:
action_date: 2010-12-08
text: 
Medicare Beneficiary Preservation of Choice Act of 2010 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act, as amended by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, to repeal the allowance for disenrollment, between January 1 and March 15 of each year, only from an MedicareAdvantage plan to elect enrollment in the original Medicare fee-for-service program.
 
Restores the option under previous law to elect to change from a MedicareAdvantage to the original Medicare fee-for-service plan, or from the original Medicare fee-for-service to a MedicareAdvantage plan, once a year during the first three months.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-12-08
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2010-12-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2010-12-08
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2010-12-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-12-08
text: Introduced in House
To require reports on the management of Arlington National Cemetery.

Bill: 111-hr-6503
Sponsor: Rep. Braley, Bruce L. [D-IA-1]
Introduced: 2010-12-08 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Cemeteries and funerals
Congressional oversight
District of Columbia
Military procurement, research, weapons development
Public contracts and procurement
Virginia

Summary:
action_date: 2010-12-08
text: 
Directs the Secretary of the Army to submit to specified congressional committees: (1) a one-time report on the management and oversight of contracts at Arlington National Cemetery, requiring, among other things, certain information concerning burial operations and errors in burials; and (2) biennial reports on the execution of and compliance with Army Directive 2010-04, Enhancing the Operations and Oversight of the Army National Cemeteries Program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-12-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2010-12-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-12-08
text: Introduced in House
Homebuyer Tax Credit Renewal Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-6504
Sponsor: Rep. Filner, Bob [D-CA-51]
Introduced: 2010-12-08 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Housing finance and home ownership
Income tax credits

Summary:
action_date: 2010-12-08
text: 
Homebuyer Tax Credit Renewal Act of 2010 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to reinstate the first-time homebuyer tax credit for one year beginning on the enactment date of this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-12-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2010-12-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-12-08
text: Introduced in House
Pakistani Temporary Protected Status Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-6505
Sponsor: Rep. Green, Al [D-TX-9]
Introduced: 2010-12-08 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Asia
Floods and storm protection
Immigration status and procedures
Pakistan
Refugees, asylum, displaced persons
Travel and tourism

Summary:
action_date: 2010-12-08
text: 
Pakistani Temporary Protected Status Act of 2010 - Expresses the sense of Congress that the extraordinary and temporary conditions caused by flooding in Pakistan qualifies Pakistan for designation under the Immigration and Nationality Act pursuant to which its nationals would be eligible for temporary protected status (TPS) in the United States. 
 
Designates Pakistan as a TPS-eligible country for an initial 12-month period.
 
Sets forth related TPS eligibility requirements, including continuous U.S. presence since July 22, 2010. 
 
Requires the Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS) to give prior consent to such aliens for temporary trips abroad in emergency and extenuating circumstances.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-12-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
action_date: 2010-12-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2010-12-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-12-08
text: Introduced in House
Securing Human Intelligence and Enforcing Lawful Dissemination Act

Bill: 111-hr-6506
Sponsor: Rep. King, Peter T. [R-NY-3]
Introduced: 2010-12-08 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Arms control and nonproliferation
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Drug trafficking and controlled substances
Intelligence activities, surveillance, classified information
Organized crime
Terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2010-12-08
text: 
Securing Human Intelligence and Enforcing Lawful Dissemination Act or the SHIELD Act - Amends the federal criminal code to expand the prohibition against disclosure of classified information to include: (1) disclosures of classified information that benefit a transnational threat; and (2) any classified information concerning the human intelligence activities of the United States or any foreign government or concerning the identity of a classified source or informant of an element of the U.S. intelligence community. 
 
Defines &quot;transnational threat&quot; as: (1) any activity, including international terrorism, narcotics trafficking, the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and the delivery systems for such weapons, or organized crime, that threatens the national security of the United States; or (2) any individual or group that engages such activity.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-12-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2010-12-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2010-12-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-12-08
text: Introduced in House
To designate the buildings occupied by the Department of Transportation located at 1200 New Jersey Avenue, Southeast, and 1201 4th Street, Southeast, in the District of Columbia as the "James L. Oberstar United States Department of Transportation Building Complex".

Bill: 111-hr-6507
Sponsor: Rep. Lipinski, Daniel [D-IL-3]
Introduced: 2010-12-08 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congressional tributes
Department of Transportation
District of Columbia
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Members of Congress
Minnesota

Summary:
action_date: 2010-12-08
text: 
Designates buildings occupied by the Department of Transportation (DOT) located at 1200 New Jersey Avenue, Southeast, and 1201 4th Street, Southeast, in the District of Columbia as the James L. Oberstar United States Department of Transportation Building Complex for the period the buildings are occupied by the DOT.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-12-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2010-12-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-12-08
text: Introduced in House
Custodial Interrogation Recording Act

Bill: 111-hr-6508
Sponsor: Rep. Richardson, Laura [D-CA-37]
Introduced: 2010-12-09 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Law enforcement administration and funding
Sound recording

Summary:
action_date: 2010-12-09
text: 
Custodial Interrogation Recording Act - Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to direct the Attorney General to make grants to states and local governments for the complete and accurate recording, by both audio and video means, of every custodial interrogation occurring within the state or unit of local government. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-12-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2010-12-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2010-12-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-12-09
text: Introduced in House
To designate a portion of Interstate Route 710 located in Los Angeles County, California, as the "Jenny Oropeza Highway".

Bill: 111-hr-6509
Sponsor: Rep. Richardson, Laura [D-CA-37]
Introduced: 2010-12-09 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: California
Congressional tributes
Roads and highways

Summary:
action_date: 2010-12-09
text: 
Designates a certain portion of Interstate Route 710 located in Los Angeles County, California, as the Jenny Oropeza Highway.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-12-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2010-12-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-12-09
text: Introduced in House
Ensuring Affordable Energy Act

Bill: 111-hr-6511
Sponsor: Rep. Poe, Ted [R-TX-2]
Introduced: 2010-12-09 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Air quality
Appropriations
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Executive agency funding and structure
Industrial facilities

Summary:
action_date: 2010-12-09
text: 
Ensuring Affordable Energy Act - Prohibits any funds appropriated or otherwise available for the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from being used to implement or enforce: (1) a cap-and-trade program; or (2) any statutory or regulatory requirement pertaining to emissions of one or more greenhouse gases from stationary sources that is issued or becomes applicable or effective after January 1, 2011.
 
Defines: (1) &quot;cap-and-trade program&quot; as any regulatory program established after the date of enactment of this Act that provides for the sale, auction, or other distribution of a limited amount of allowances that permit the emission of one or more greenhouse gases; and (2) &quot;greenhouse gas&quot; to include carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, sulfur hexafluoride, hydrofluorocarbons, perfluorocarbons, or any other designated anthropogenic gas.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-12-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2010-12-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-12-09
text: Introduced in House
To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to prevent the catastrophic loss of wage index reclassification.

Bill: 111-hr-6512
Sponsor: Rep. Space, Zachary T. [D-OH-18]
Introduced: 2010-12-09 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Health facilities and institutions
Medicare
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2010-12-09
text: 
Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to extend through FY2013 the reclassification to a specific Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) or New England County Metropolitan Area of any hospital so reclassified for FY2010 by the Medicare Geographic Classification Review Board, if: (1) that hospital would no longer qualify for such reclassification for FY2011; and (2) for FY2011 the average wage index for the geographic area in which such hospital is located is at least 0.1 less than the hospital's average wage index for FY2010.
 
Declares that such extension shall not result in the recalculation of any diluted wage index for hospitals otherwise utilizing the wage index of the geographic area to which such hospital is reclassified.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-12-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2010-12-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-12-09
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 38, United States Code, to allow for the transfer of educational assistance under the Post-9/11 Educational Assistance Program to certain dependents to be used for special education.

Bill: 111-hr-6513
Sponsor: Rep. Fortenberry, Jeff [R-NE-1]
Introduced: 2010-12-09 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of Defense
Family relationships
Special education
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation

Summary:
action_date: 2010-12-09
text: 
Allows veterans' educational benefits that are transferred to an intellectually or developmentally disabled dependent to be used for special education, even if the dependent has not earned a secondary school diploma or equivalency certificate.
 
Directs the Secretary of Defense to prescribe regulations to determine whether those dependents must enroll in the exceptional family member program of the Department of Defense (DOD).
 
Prohibits payment of the monthly stipend to such dependents if the Secretary determines that it is not relevant to their special education.
 
Prohibits this Act's special education benefits from affecting a dependent's receipt of, or eligibility for, other federal educational benefits.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-12-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2010-12-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-12-09
text: Introduced in House
Protecting Jobs in Your State Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-6514
Sponsor: Rep. Latta, Robert E. [R-OH-5]
Introduced: 2010-12-09 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Appropriations
Business investment and capital
Congressional oversight
Department of Commerce
Disaster relief and insurance
Economic development
Industrial facilities
Intergovernmental relations
State and local finance

Summary:
action_date: 2010-12-09
text: 
Protecting Jobs in Your State Act of 2010 - Prohibits a state or a political subdivision from using funds made available under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA), the Hiring Incentives to Restore Employment Act, Public Law 111-226 (relating to education jobs and Medicaid payments to states), the Small Business Jobs Act of 2010, or the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act, or funds for disaster relief administered by the Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS), as an incentive for a business to: (1) relocate a plant, facility, or other operation from one state to another; or (2) expand an operation in a state in a manner that will result in a reduction in such an operation in another state.
 
Authorizes a political subdivision to submit to the state governor a petition stating that it has been adversely affected by a violation of such prohibition and requesting that the governor submit to the Secretary of Commerce a petition for an investigation. Provides that if the Secretary determines that a violation has occurred, the state in which such a violation was committed shall be liable to the United States for the amount of funds involved. Prohibits such a state from receiving any other funds under such Acts until it fully repays such amount to the United States.
 
Directs the Comptroller General, biannually during the period that ends five years after this Act's enactment, to submit to specified committees a report on the impact of such provisions, including: (1) a statement of the number of petitions received by the Secretary of Commerce and a summary of the disposition of such petitions; (2) a list of U.S. claims that arose, were outstanding, or were collected; and (3) a list of any funds withheld.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-12-09
text: Referred to House Financial Services
action_date: 2010-12-09
text: Referred to House Transportation and Infrastructure
action_date: 2010-12-09
text: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committees on Transportation and Infrastructure, and Financial 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: 2010-12-09
text: Referred to House Oversight and Government Reform
action_date: 2010-12-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-12-09
text: Introduced in House
American Microturbine Manufacturing and Clean Energy Deployment Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-6515
Sponsor: Rep. Sánchez, Linda T. [D-CA-39]
Introduced: 2010-12-09 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Electric power generation and transmission
Income tax credits

Summary:
action_date: 2010-12-09
text: 
American Microturbine Manufacturing and Clean Energy Deployment Act of 2010 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) allow a 30% energy tax credit for qualified microturbine property; (2) revise the definition of "qualified microturbine property" to increase the maximum nameplate capacity of such property to 5,000 kilowatts; and (3) eliminate the limitation on such credit based upon kilowatt capacity.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-12-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2010-12-09
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2101)
action_date: 2010-12-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-12-09
text: Introduced in House
To make technical corrections to provisions of law enacted by the Coast Guard Authorization Act of 2010.

Bill: 111-hr-6516
Sponsor: Rep. Oberstar, James L. [D-MN-8]
Introduced: 2010-12-13 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Coast guard
Department of Homeland Security
Executive agency funding and structure
Marine and inland water transportation
Navigation, waterways, harbors

Summary:
action_date: 2010-12-13
text: 
Makes technical and conforming changes to the Coast Guard Authorization Act of 2010.

action_date: 2010-12-14
text: 

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

 
Makes technical and conforming changes to the Coast Guard Authorization Act of 2010.

action_date: 2010-12-15
text: 

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

 
Makes technical and conforming changes to the Coast Guard Authorization Act of 2010.

action_date: 2010-12-22
text: 

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

 
Makes technical and conforming changes to the Coast Guard Authorization Act of 2010.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-12-22
text: Became Public Law No: 111-330.
action_date: 2010-12-22
text: Became Public Law No: 111-330.
action_date: 2010-12-22
text: Signed by President.
action_date: 2010-12-22
text: Signed by President.
action_date: 2010-12-17
text: Presented to President.
action_date: 2010-12-17
text: Presented to President.
action_date: 2010-12-16
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2010-12-15
text: Cleared for White House.
action_date: 2010-12-15
text: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S10308; text: CR 12/14/2010 H8328-8329))
action_date: 2010-12-15
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S10308; text: CR 12/14/2010 H8328-8329))
action_date: 2010-12-14
text: Received in the Senate, read twice.
action_date: 2010-12-14
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2010-12-14
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H8328-8329)
action_date: 2010-12-14
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote.(text: CR H8328-8329)
action_date: 2010-12-14
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 6516.
action_date: 2010-12-14
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H8328-8329)
action_date: 2010-12-14
text: Mr. Cummings moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
action_date: 2010-12-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2010-12-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-12-13
text: Introduced in House

Enacted as: number: 111-330