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North Korea Sanctions and Diplomatic Nonrecognition Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5350
Sponsor: Rep. Ros-Lehtinen, Ileana [R-FL-18]
Introduced: 2010-05-20 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Arms control and nonproliferation
Asia
Conflicts and wars
Congressional oversight
Currency
Diplomacy, foreign officials, Americans abroad
Drug trafficking and controlled substances
Foreign aid and international relief
Human rights
International law and treaties
Iran
Japan
Middle East
News media and reporting
North Korea
Nuclear weapons
Refugees, asylum, displaced persons
Sanctions
South Korea
Sovereignty, recognition, national governance and status
Syria
Terrorism
Trade restrictions
United Nations

Summary:
action_date: 2010-05-20
text: 
North Korea Sanctions and Diplomatic Nonrecognition Act of 2010 - Continues diplomatic, economic, and military sanctions against the government of North Korea as a supporter of international terrorism until the President certifies to Congress that North Korea: (1) is no longer engaged in the illegal transfer of missile or nuclear technology, particularly to Iran and Syria; (2) is not assisting foreign terrorist organizations, engaged in counterfeiting U.S. currency, or engaged in illicit narcotics traffic; (3) has released specified U.S. citizens, Japanese nationals, and surviving Korean War prisoners of war; and (4) has undertaken specified actions regarding family reunification, penal reforms, refugee access, and religious organization communications. 
 
Expresses the sense of Congress that the Secretary of State should redesignate North Korea as a state sponsor of terrorism.
 
Finds that the United States did not grant diplomatic recognition to North Korea upon its establishment as a client regime of the former Soviet Union in 1948.
 
Continues diplomatic nonrecognition of North Korea until such benchmarks have been met.
 
Directs the President, in the case of a North Korean missile, rocket, or other airborne launch or the conducting of a nuclear test in violation of U.N. Security Council Resolutions 1695, 1718, and 1874, to instruct the U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations to use U.S. influence to secure adoption of a Security Council resolution condemning North Korea's action and requiring implementation of comprehensive sanctions against North Korea.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-05-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2010-05-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-05-20
text: Introduced in House
American Self-Defense Protection Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5351
Sponsor: Rep. Ros-Lehtinen, Ileana [R-FL-18]
Introduced: 2010-05-20 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Diplomacy, foreign officials, Americans abroad
International law and treaties
International organizations and cooperation
Israel
Middle East
Sovereignty, recognition, national governance and status
Specialized courts
War crimes, genocide, crimes against humanity

Summary:
action_date: 2010-05-20
text: 
American Self-Defense Protection Act of 2010 - Expresses the sense of Congress that: (1) the United States should not ratify, nor should the President submit for ratification, the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC); (2) the President and the Secretary of State should not undertake actions that could legitimize the ICC; (3) the President and the Secretary should lead a diplomatic effort to encourage additional countries to enter into agreements with the United States preventing the ICC from proceeding against U.S. personnel present in such countries; (4) the President and the Secretary should lead a diplomatic effort to defend the right to self-defense of the United States and other democracies, including Israel, against efforts such as the Goldstone Report that seek to deny democracies that very right via entities like the ICC; and (5) the President and the Secretary should explore alternative forums to combat impunity for war crimes and other atrocities while respecting the sovereignty and right to self-defense of democracies. 
 
Prohibits funds made available to any U.S. government, state, or local department, agency, or entity, including any court, from being used for U.S. participation in the ICC or its attendant activities, including any review conference or meeting of the Assembly of States Parties.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-05-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2010-05-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-05-20
text: Introduced in House
Alaska Clean Energy Development Act

Bill: 111-hr-5352
Sponsor: Rep. Young, Don [R-AK-At Large]
Introduced: 2010-05-20 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Alaska
Alternative and renewable resources
Income tax credits

Summary:
action_date: 2010-05-20
text: 
Alaska Clean Energy Development Act - Includes as renewable energy, for purposes of any federal program or standard, hydroelectric energy generated in the state of Alaska by a hydroelectric facility: (1) that has a nameplate capacity rating of a wattage that is less than 50 megawatts; or (2) through the use of a lake tap or siphon, pumped storage, or a run of the river system.
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make such a hydroelectric facility that is placed in service after the date of enactment of this Act eligible for the renewable electricity production tax credit. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-05-20
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2010-05-20
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: 2010-05-20
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2010-05-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-05-20
text: Introduced in House
War is Making You Poor Act

Bill: 111-hr-5353
Sponsor: Rep. Grayson, Alan [D-FL-8]
Introduced: 2010-05-20 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Afghanistan
Appropriations
Asia
Defense spending
Department of Defense
Income tax credits
Iraq
Middle East
Military operations and strategy
Pakistan

Summary:
action_date: 2010-05-20
text: 
War is Making You Poor Act - Limits amounts made available to the Department of Defense (DOD) in any appropriations Act for fiscal year 2011 that may be available for the base budget or for overseas contingency operations in Iraq, Afghanistan, or Pakistan.
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow individual taxpayers whose modified adjusted gross income is $35,000 or less ($70,000 for married couples) a tax credit (designated as the War is Making You Poor Tax Credit) equal to their net income tax liability for the first taxable year beginning in 2011.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-05-24
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H3729-3730)
action_date: 2010-05-20
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2010-05-20
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2010-05-20
text: Referred to House Armed Services
action_date: 2010-05-20
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H3689)
action_date: 2010-05-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-05-20
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 to repeal the limitation of liability of a responsible party for a discharge or substantial threat of a discharge of oil from an offshore oil facility.

Bill: 111-hr-5355
Sponsor: Rep. Grijalva, Raúl M. [D-AZ-7]
Introduced: 2010-05-20 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Accidents
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Marine pollution
Oil and gas
Pollution liability
Water quality

Summary:
action_date: 2010-05-20
text: 
Amends the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 to repeal the limitation on the liability (currently, the total of all removal costs plus $75 million) of the party responsible for an offshore facility, except a deepwater port, from which oil is discharged (or which poses a substantial threat of discharge) into or upon navigable waters or adjoining shorelines or the exclusive economic zone.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-05-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation.
action_date: 2010-05-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
action_date: 2010-05-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2010-05-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-05-20
text: Introduced in House
Oil Spill Response and Assistance Act

Bill: 111-hr-5356
Sponsor: Rep. Blunt, Roy [R-MO-7]
Introduced: 2010-05-20 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Accidents
Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Coast guard
Congressional oversight
Department of Homeland Security
Environmental technology
Government studies and investigations
Gulf of Mexico
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Marine pollution
Oil and gas
Pollution liability
Water quality

Summary:
action_date: 2010-05-20
text: 
Oil Spill Response and Assistance Act - Amends the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 to direct the Secretary of Energy, within two years, to require the development and deployment of certain technology for use in the event of a breach or explosion at, or a significant discharge of oil from, a deepwater port, offshore facility, or tank vessel (covered event), including: (1) technology for use in capping underwater oil wells that is effective at water depths at least 2,000 feet deeper than the limits of oil and gas production on the outer continental shelf as of the date of enactment of this Act; (2) flameproof booms capable of functioning in the open ocean with six-foot waves; and (3) remote operated vehicles for use in the open ocean that are capable of welding and cutting or torching below 15,000 feet of water. Requires the purchase and deployment of such technologies in such locations throughout the United States as would permit their use within 24 hours of a covered event.
 
Doubles the limits on the total of the liability of, and the removal costs incurred by or on behalf of, the party responsible for a vessel or a facility from which oil is discharged into or upon navigable waters, adjoining shorelines, or the exclusive economic zone. Increases such a limit to the amount of a party's aggregate net after-tax profits generated during the four full financial reporting quarters preceding the date of an incident if that amount exceeds the limit otherwise applicable.
 
Makes this Act effective on April 15, 2010.
 
Requires the head of a federal agency that has carried out an activity with respect to the oil spill that occurred in the Gulf of Mexico in April 2010 to study and report to Congress on the effectiveness of the coordination of, and the success of, federal government actions relating to the spill.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-05-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
action_date: 2010-05-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation.
action_date: 2010-05-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2010-05-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-05-20
text: Introduced in House
To provide for the deployment of additional National Guard troops along the international border between the United States and Mexico in support of the border control activities of the United States Customs and Border Protection of the Department of Homeland Security.

Bill: 111-hr-5357
Sponsor: Rep. Mitchell, Harry E. [D-AZ-5]
Introduced: 2010-05-20 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Arizona
Border security and unlawful immigration
California
Latin America
Mexico
Military civil functions
National Guard and reserves
New Mexico
Texas

Summary:
action_date: 2010-05-20
text: 
Directs the Secretary of Defense (DOD) to: (1) increase the number of National Guard personnel deployed along the U.S.-Mexico border in support of border control activities by at least 3,000 above the number so deployed as of May 1, 2010; and (2) maintain the increased number through 2011. Permits specified decreases in the number of National Guard personnel so deployed if the number of Border Patrol agents serving along such border is more than 20,163.
 
Excludes National Guard personnel so deployed from National Guard end strength limits or active-duty operational support limits.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-05-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2010-05-20
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E906)
action_date: 2010-05-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-05-20
text: Introduced in House
Florida Coastal Protection Act

Bill: 111-hr-5358
Sponsor: Rep. Castor, Kathy [D-FL-11]
Introduced: 2010-05-20 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Atlantic Ocean
Florida
Gulf of Mexico
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Oil and gas

Summary:
action_date: 2010-05-20
text: 
Florida Coastal Protection Act - Amends the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to prohibit the Secretary of the Interior from offering for oil and gas leasing or preleasing (including any related activity) any tract located in: (1) a specified area of the Eastern Gulf of Mexico; (2) the South Atlantic Planning Area; or (3) the Straits of Florida Planning Area.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-05-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
action_date: 2010-05-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2010-05-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-05-20
text: Introduced in House
Lena Horne Recognition Act

Bill: 111-hr-5359
Sponsor: Rep. Hastings, Alcee L. [D-FL-23]
Introduced: 2010-05-20 in the House
Policy area: Arts, Culture, Religion
Subjects: Art, artists, authorship
Congressional tributes
Music
Performing arts
Racial and ethnic relations

Summary:
action_date: 2010-05-20
text: 
Lena Horne Recognition Act - Directs the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President pro tempore of the Senate to make appropriate arrangements for the posthumous presentation, on behalf of Congress, of a gold medal of appropriate design in commemoration of Lena Horne in recognition of her achievements and contributions to American culture and the civil rights movement.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-05-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2010-05-20
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E906)
action_date: 2010-05-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-05-20
text: Introduced in House
Responsible GSE Affordable Housing Investment Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5361
Sponsor: Rep. Maloney, Carolyn B. [D-NY-14]
Introduced: 2010-05-20 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Federal Housing Finance Agency
Housing finance and home ownership
Housing supply and affordability
Low- and moderate-income housing

Summary:
action_date: 2010-05-20
text: 
Responsible GSE Affordable Housing Investment Act of 2010 - Amends the Federal Housing Enterprises Financial Safety and Soundness Act of 1992 to revise requirements for determination of compliance with the multifamily special affordable housing goal.
 
Requires the Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency to establish standards for the multifamily special affordable housing goal that proportionately reduce the number of units receiving credit for any mortgage purchase by the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac) or the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) (government-sponsored enterprises or GSEs) that facilitates the conversion of dwelling units available at rental rates affordable to low-income families to dwelling units such families could not afford.
 
Requires such standards to provide no credit toward achievement of the goal for any mortgage purchase for multifamily housing that involves an aggregate amount of project debt that is not reasonable. Requires the Director to require the GSE to apply this same standard to any mortgages backing any GSE-purchased security to determine whether the units financed by such mortgages are eligible for credit toward achievement of the housing goal.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-05-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2010-05-20
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E908)
action_date: 2010-05-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-05-20
text: Introduced in House
To provide for the release of water from the marketable yield pool of water stored in the Ruedi Reservoir for the benefit of endangered fish habitat in the Colorado River, and for other purposes.

Bill: 111-hr-5362
Sponsor: Rep. Salazar, John T. [D-CO-3]
Introduced: 2010-05-20 in the House
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Colorado
Endangered and threatened species
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Fishes
Lakes and rivers
Water storage
Wildlife conservation and habitat protection

Summary:
action_date: 2010-05-20
text: 
Requires the release of 5,412.5 acre-feet of water from the marketable yield pool (the portion of the regulatory capacity that is dedicated to marketing purposes) of water stored in the Ruedi Reservoir (a component of the Fryingpan-Arkansas Project of the Bureau of Reclamation in western Colorado) for the benefit of endangered fish habitat in the Colorado River for 2013 and each year thereafter at the request of the Director of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service. Requires such release during the late summer months to enhance low water flows in areas that comprise the endangered fish habitat in the Colorado River, unless otherwise requested by the Director. 
 
Provides that the release shall satisfy 50% of the commitment by certain water users to provide 10,825 acre-feet of water per year, as described in Appendix C of the document entitled &quot;Final Programmatic Biological Opinion for Bureau of Reclamation's Operations and Depletions, Other Depletions, and Funding and Implementation of Recovery Program Actions in the Upper Colorado River above the Confluence with the Gunnison River.&quot;
 
Makes this Act effective when: (1) the Secretary of the Interior issues a finding of no significant impact or a record of decision under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 regarding such release; and (2) an additional 5,412.5 acre-feet of water has been made available by means acceptable to water users to satisfy their remaining obligations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-05-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water and Power.
action_date: 2010-05-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2010-05-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-05-20
text: Introduced in House
Preventing Waste, Fraud, and Abuse Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5363
Sponsor: Rep. Schrader, Kurt [D-OR-5]
Introduced: 2010-05-20 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Child health
Department of Health and Human Services
Department of Justice
Department of Labor
Department of the Treasury
Executive agency funding and structure
Fraud offenses and financial crimes
Government ethics and transparency, public corruption
Government information and archives
Health programs administration and funding
Medicaid
Medicare
Performance measurement
Poverty and welfare assistance
Social Security Administration
Social security and elderly assistance
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers
Unemployment

Summary:
action_date: 2010-05-20
text: 
Preventing Waste, Fraud, and Abuse Act of 2010 - Requires the Attorney General, the Commissioner of Social Security, and the Secretaries of Health and Human Services (HHS), Labor, and the Treasury (agency head), in consultation with the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), to: (1) identify existing federal laws and regulations that may impede the ability to decrease waste, fraud, and abuse of funds appropriated to their agencies; and (2) develop appropriate performance metrics to measure success in decreasing waste, fraud, and abuse.
 
Directs each agency head, in developing performance metrics, to: (1) ensure that such metrics accurately demonstrate the effectiveness of specified programs and activities in decreasing waste, fraud, and abuse; (2) provide estimates for points of diminishing returns on the funds provided under this Act to increase program integrity efforts; (3) identify optimal baselines for each of the metrics developed and appropriate methods to measure variations from such baselines; and (4) set performance targets for each of FY2012-FY2020.
 
Requires each agency head to make appropriate accommodations for innovation and development to address the program integrity efforts for programs and activities identified by this Act. 
 
Requires: (1) each agency head to submit an interim and final report to Congress at specified intervals and to publish in the Federal Register and make available on the agency website the performance metrics set forth in the final report; and (2) the Director of OMB to report annually measuring success in decreasing waste, fraud, and abuse of funds appropriated to an agency.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-06-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2010-05-20
text: Referred to House Education and Labor
action_date: 2010-05-20
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2010-05-20
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, and Education and Labor, 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: 2010-05-20
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2010-05-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-05-20
text: Introduced in House
Special Care Dentistry Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5364
Sponsor: Rep. Stupak, Bart [D-MI-1]
Introduced: 2010-05-20 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Dental care
Disability and paralysis
Medicaid

Summary:
action_date: 2010-05-20
text: 
Special Care Dentistry Act of 2010 - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act, as amended by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, to require a state to provide oral health coverage for aged, blind, or disabled individuals through a separate state adult dental program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-05-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2010-05-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-05-20
text: Introduced in House