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Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the Federal Government should not bail out State and local government employee pension plans or other plans that provide post-employment benefits to State and local government retirees.

Bill: 115-hres-24
Sponsor: Rep. Chaffetz, Jason [R-UT-3]
Introduced: 2017-01-05 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Intergovernmental relations
State and local finance
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2017-01-05
text: 
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that: (1) the federal government should not bail out state and local government employee pension plans and other post-employment benefit plans; and (2) state and local governments should immediately institute reforms to their employee pension plans, including replacing defined benefit plans with defined contribution plans.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-01-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2017-01-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-01-05
text: Introduced in House
Electing a Member to a certain standing committee of the House of Representatives.

Bill: 115-hres-25
Sponsor: Rep. Crowley, Joseph [D-NY-14]
Introduced: 2017-01-05 in the House
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Congressional committees
House Committee on Ethics
House of Representatives
Members of Congress

Summary:
action_date: 2017-01-05
text: 
Elects a specified Member to the House Committee on Ethics.

action_date: 2017-01-05
text: 
(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)
 
Elects a specified Member to the House Committee on Ethics.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-01-05
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2017-01-05
text: On agreeing to the resolution Agreed to without objection. (text: CR H174)
action_date: 2017-01-05
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On agreeing to the resolution Agreed to without objection.(text: CR H174)
action_date: 2017-01-05
text: Considered as privileged matter. (consideration: CR H174)
action_date: 2017-01-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-01-05
text: Introduced in House
Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act that restored the original black lung benefits eligibility requirements should not be reduced but should be preserved and protected.

Bill: 115-hres-26
Sponsor: Rep. Jenkins, Evan H. [R-WV-3]
Introduced: 2017-01-05 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Cardiovascular and respiratory health
Coal
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Mining
Worker safety and health

Summary:
action_date: 2017-01-05
text: 
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that in the event Congress drafts provisions to amend or repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), the provisions of PPACA that restored the original eligibility requirements for black lung benefits should be preserved and protected.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-01-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2017-01-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-01-05
text: Introduced in House
Rejecting the "two-state solution" as the United States' diplomatic policy objective and calls for the Administration to advocate for a new approach that prioritizes the State of Israel's sovereignty, security, and borders.

Bill: 115-hres-27
Sponsor: Rep. King, Steve [R-IA-4]
Introduced: 2017-01-05 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Arab-Israeli relations
Diplomacy, foreign officials, Americans abroad
Israel
Palestinians
Sovereignty, recognition, national governance and status

Summary:
action_date: 2017-01-05
text: 
Rejects the &quot;two-state solution&quot; to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as the U.S. diplomatic policy objective and calls for the Administration to advocate for a new approach that prioritizes Israel's sovereignty, security, and borders.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-02-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Middle East and North Africa.
action_date: 2017-01-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2017-01-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-01-05
text: Introduced in House
Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the United States Postal Service should take all appropriate measures to ensure the continuation of door delivery for all business and residential customers.

Bill: 115-hres-28
Sponsor: Rep. Davis, Susan A. [D-CA-53]
Introduced: 2017-01-05 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Postal service
U.S. Postal Service

Summary:
action_date: 2017-01-05
text: 
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the U.S. Postal Service should take all appropriate measures to ensure the continuation of door delivery for all businesses and residential customers.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-01-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2017-01-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-01-05
text: Introduced in House
Electing Members to certain standing committees of the House of Representatives.

Bill: 115-hres-29
Sponsor: Rep. Smith, Jason [R-MO-8]
Introduced: 2017-01-06 in the House
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Congressional committees
House Committee on Appropriations
House Committee on Energy and Commerce
House Committee on Financial Services
House Committee on Ways and Means
House of Representatives
Members of Congress

Summary:
action_date: 2017-01-06
text: 
Elects specified Members to the following House Committees: (1) Appropriations, (2) Energy and Commerce, (3) Financial Services, and (4) Ways and Means.

action_date: 2017-01-06
text: 
(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)
 
Elects specified Members to the following House Committees: (1) Appropriations, (2) Energy and Commerce, (3) Financial Services, and (4) Ways and Means.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-01-06
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2017-01-06
text: On agreeing to the resolution Agreed to without objection. (text: CR H190)
action_date: 2017-01-06
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On agreeing to the resolution Agreed to without objection.(text: CR H190)
action_date: 2017-01-06
text: Considered as privileged matter. (consideration: CR H190)
action_date: 2017-01-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-01-06
text: Introduced in House
Condemning the Dog Meat Festival in Yulin, China, and urging China to end the dog meat trade.

Bill: 115-hres-30
Sponsor: Rep. Hastings, Alcee L. [D-FL-20]
Introduced: 2017-01-06 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Animal protection and human-animal relationships
Asia
China
Food supply, safety, and labeling
Meat
World health

Summary:
action_date: 2017-01-06
text: 
Condemns the Dog Meat Festival in Yulin, China, because it: (1) is a spectacle of extreme animal cruelty, (2) is a commercial activity not grounded in Chinese history, (3) is opposed by a majority of the Chinese people, and (4) threatens global public health. 
 
Urges: 
 
 
the government of China and the Yulin authorities to ban the killing and eating of dogs as part of Yulin's festival and to enforce China's food safety laws regulating the processing and sale of animal products and the 2011 Agriculture Ministry of China Regulation on the Quarantine of Dogs at the Place of Origin requiring one certificate for one dog on trans-provincial transport trucks, and 
the National People's Congress of China to enact an animal anticruelty law that bans the dog meat trade. 
 
 
Affirms the commitment of the United States to the protection of animals and to the progress of animal protection.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-02-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific.
action_date: 2017-01-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2017-01-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-01-06
text: Introduced in House
Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the United States Postal Service should take all appropriate measures to restore service standards in effect as of July 1, 2012.

Bill: 115-hres-31
Sponsor: Rep. McKinley, David B. [R-WV-1]
Introduced: 2017-01-06 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Postal service

Summary:
action_date: 2017-01-06
text: 
 Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the U.S. Postal Service should take all appropriate measures to restore mail delivery service standards in effect as of July 1, 2012.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-01-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2017-01-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-01-06
text: Introduced in House
Recognizing July 28, 2017, as "World Hepatitis Day".

Bill: 115-hres-32
Sponsor: Rep. Meng, Grace [D-NY-6]
Introduced: 2017-01-06 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Commemorative events and holidays
Digestive and metabolic diseases
Health care coverage and access
Health programs administration and funding
Health promotion and preventive care
Infectious and parasitic diseases
World health

Summary:
action_date: 2017-01-06
text: 
Recognizes World Hepatitis Day.
 
Expresses support for broad access to hepatitis treatments and for raising awareness of the risks and consequences of undiagnosed hepatitis infections.
 
Calls for a robust governmental and public health response to protect the health of the 5 million people in the United States and 400 million people worldwide who suffer from chronic viral hepatitis.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-01-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2017-01-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2017-01-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-01-06
text: Introduced in House
Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 5) to reform the process by which Federal agencies analyze and formulate new regulations and guidance documents, to clarify the nature of judicial review of agency interpretations, to ensure complete analysis of potential impacts on small entities of rules, and for other purposes, and providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 79) to clarify the definition of general solicitation under Federal securities law.

Bill: 115-hres-33
Sponsor: Rep. Collins, Doug [R-GA-9]
Introduced: 2017-01-09 in the House
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: House of Representatives
Legislative rules and procedure

Summary:
action_date: 2017-01-09
text: Sets forth the rule for consideration of the bill (H.R. 5) to reform the process by which Federal agencies analyze and formulate new regulations and guidance documents, to clarify the nature of judicial review of agency interpretations, to ensure complete analysis of potential impacts on small entities of rules, and for other purposes, and providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 79) to clarify the definition of general solicitation under Federal securities law.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-01-10
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2017-01-10
text: On agreeing to the resolution Agreed to by recorded vote: 233 - 183 (Roll no. 27). (text: CR H249-250)
action_date: 2017-01-10
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On agreeing to the resolution Agreed to by recorded vote: 233 - 183 (Roll no. 27).(text: CR H249-250)
action_date: 2017-01-10
text: On ordering the previous question Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: 234 - 179 (Roll no. 26). (consideration: CR H257)
action_date: 2017-01-10
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with one hour of debate on H. Res. 33.
action_date: 2017-01-10
text: Considered as privileged matter. (consideration: CR H249-258)
action_date: 2017-01-09
text: Placed on the House Calendar, Calendar No. 2.
action_date: 2017-01-09
text: The resolution provides for both bills to be considered under a structured rule for one hour of general debate. The resolution also provides one motion to recommit with or without instructions on both H.R. 5 and H.R. 79.
action_date: 2017-01-09
text: The House Committee on Rules reported an original measure, H. Rept. 115-2, by Mr. Collins (GA).
action_date: 2017-01-09
text: The House Committee on Rules reported an original measure, H. Rept. 115-2, by Mr. Collins (GA).
action_date: 2017-01-09
text: Introduced in House
Electing Members to Certain Standing Committees of the House of Representatives.

Bill: 115-hres-34
Sponsor: Rep. Crowley, Joseph [D-NY-14]
Introduced: 2017-01-09 in the House
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Congressional committees
House Committee on Armed Services
House of Representatives
Members of Congress

Summary:
action_date: 2017-01-09
text: 
Elects a specified Member to the House Committee on Armed Services.

action_date: 2017-01-09
text: 
(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)
 
Elects a specified Member to the House Committee on Armed Services.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-01-09
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2017-01-09
text: On agreeing to the resolution Agreed to without objection. (text: CR H227)
action_date: 2017-01-09
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On agreeing to the resolution Agreed to without objection.(text: CR H227)
action_date: 2017-01-09
text: Considered as privileged matter. (consideration: CR H227)
action_date: 2017-01-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-01-09
text: Introduced in House
Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives relating to automated external defibrillator (AED) education in the Nation's schools

Bill: 115-hres-35
Sponsor: Rep. Duncan, John J., Jr. [R-TN-2]
Introduced: 2017-01-09 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Cardiovascular and respiratory health
Child health
Elementary and secondary education
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Health technology, devices, supplies
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2017-01-09
text: 
Encourages public schools with automated external defibrillators (AEDs), during time allocated under state law for training personnel in emergency first aid and CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation), to train personnel in the use of AEDs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-12-12
text: The title of the measure was amended. Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2018-12-12
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2018-12-12
text: On agreeing to the resolution Agreed to without objection. (text: CR H10152)
action_date: 2018-12-12
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On agreeing to the resolution Agreed to without objection.(text: CR H10152)
action_date: 2018-12-12
text: Considered by unanimous consent. (consideration: CR H10152)
action_date: 2018-12-12
text: Committee on Energy and Commerce discharged.
action_date: 2018-12-12
text: Committee on Energy and Commerce discharged.
action_date: 2018-12-12
text: Committee on Education and the Workforce discharged.
action_date: 2018-12-12
text: Committee on Education and the Workforce discharged.
action_date: 2018-12-12
text: Mr. Lewis (MN) asked unanimous consent to discharge from committee and consider.
action_date: 2017-01-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2017-01-09
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, 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: 2017-01-09
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, 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: 2017-01-09
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, 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: 2017-01-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-01-09
text: Introduced in House
Electing Members to certain standing committees of the House of Representatives.

Bill: 115-hres-36
Sponsor: Rep. Collins, Doug [R-GA-9]
Introduced: 2017-01-10 in the House
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Congressional committees
House Committee on Armed Services
House Committee on the Budget
House of Representatives
Members of Congress

Summary:
action_date: 2017-01-10
text: 
Elects specified Members to the following House Committees: (1) Armed Services, and (2) the Budget.

action_date: 2017-01-10
text: 
(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)
 
Elects specified Members to the following House Committees: (1) Armed Services, and (2) the Budget.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-01-10
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2017-01-10
text: On agreeing to the resolution Agreed to without objection. (text: CR H249)
action_date: 2017-01-10
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On agreeing to the resolution Agreed to without objection.(text: CR H249)
action_date: 2017-01-10
text: Considered as privileged matter. (consideration: CR H249)
action_date: 2017-01-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-01-10
text: Introduced in House
Providing for the attendance of the House at the Inaugural Ceremonies of the President and Vice President of the United States.

Bill: 115-hres-37
Sponsor: Rep. Collins, Doug [R-GA-9]
Introduced: 2017-01-10 in the House
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Congressional operations and organization
House of Representatives
Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents

Summary:
action_date: 2017-01-10
text: 
Requires the House of Representatives to: (1) proceed to the West Front of the Capitol at 10:30 a.m. on Friday, January 20, 2017, to attend the inaugural ceremonies of the President and Vice President of the United States; and (2) adjourn upon the conclusion of the ceremonies until noon on Monday, January 23, 2017.

action_date: 2017-01-10
text: 
(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)
 
Requires the House of Representatives to: (1) proceed to the West Front of the Capitol at 10:30 a.m. on Friday, January 20, 2017, to attend the inaugural ceremonies of the President and Vice President of the United States; and (2) adjourn upon the conclusion of the ceremonies until noon on Monday, January 23, 2017.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-01-10
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2017-01-10
text: On agreeing to the resolution Agreed to without objection. (text: CR H249)
action_date: 2017-01-10
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On agreeing to the resolution Agreed to without objection.(text: CR H249)
action_date: 2017-01-10
text: Considered as privileged matter. (consideration: CR H249)
action_date: 2017-01-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-01-10
text: Introduced in House
Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that offices attached to the seat of Government should not be required to exercise their offices in the District of Columbia.

Bill: 115-hres-38
Sponsor: Rep. Chaffetz, Jason [R-UT-3]
Introduced: 2017-01-10 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Department of Defense
District of Columbia
Executive agency funding and structure
Government buildings, facilities, and property

Summary:
action_date: 2017-01-10
text: 
Recognizes that it is no longer necessary for all federal agencies to be located in the District of Columbia.
 
Determines that executive agencies and military departments should be relocated outside the District of Columbia.
 
Calls on each executive agency and military department to recommend appropriate alternate locations throughout the United States to which they can be relocated.
 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-03-10
text: Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 21 - 19.
action_date: 2017-03-10
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2017-02-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Readiness.
action_date: 2017-01-10
text: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committee on 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: 2017-01-10
text: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committee on 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: 2017-01-10
text: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committee on 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: 2017-01-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-01-10
text: Introduced in House
Electing a Member to a certain standing Committee of the House of Representatives.

Bill: 115-hres-39
Sponsor: Rep. Crowley, Joseph [D-NY-14]
Introduced: 2017-01-10 in the House
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Congressional committees
House Committee on House Administration
House of Representatives
Members of Congress

Summary:
action_date: 2017-01-10
text: 
Elects a specified Member to the House Committee on House Administration.

action_date: 2017-01-10
text: 
(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)
 
Elects a specified Member to the House Committee on House Administration.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-01-10
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2017-01-10
text: On agreeing to the resolution Agreed to without objection. (text: CR H259)
action_date: 2017-01-10
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On agreeing to the resolution Agreed to without objection.(text: CR H259)
action_date: 2017-01-10
text: Considered as privileged matter. (consideration: CR H259)
action_date: 2017-01-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-01-10
text: Introduced in House