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Expressing disapproval of the withdrawal by the Secretary of the Interior of approximately 225,504 acres of National Forest System lands in Cook, Lake, and Saint Louis Counties, Minnesota, from disposition under the United States mineral and geothermal leasing laws.

Bill: 118-hconres-34
Sponsor: Rep. Stauber, Pete [R-MN-8]
Introduced: 2023-04-25 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of the Interior
Forests, forestry, trees
Land transfers
Mining
Minnesota
Watersheds
Wilderness and natural areas, wildlife refuges, wild rivers, habitats

Summary:
action_date: 2023-04-25
text: 
This concurrent resolution expresses congressional disapproval of the Department of the Interior's withdrawal of approximately 225,504 acres in the Superior National Forest from disposition under the United States mineral and geothermal leasing laws. On January 26, 2023, Interior removed the land from being available for new mineral leasing, sale of mineral materials, and geothermal leasing for a 20-year period, subject to valid existing rights. The land is located in Cook, Lake, and Saint Louis Counties, Minnesota and the Rainy River watershed, which includes the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness and the 1854 Ceded Territory of the Chippewa Bands.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2024-12-18
text: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 758.
action_date: 2024-12-18
text: Reported by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 118-928.
action_date: 2024-12-18
text: Reported by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 118-928.
action_date: 2023-05-17
text: Ordered to be Reported by the Yeas and Nays: 17 - 15.
action_date: 2023-05-17
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2023-05-17
text: Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources Discharged.
action_date: 2023-05-11
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2023-05-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
action_date: 2023-04-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2023-04-25
text: Submitted in House
action_date: 2023-04-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-04-25
text: Introduced in House
Authorizing the use of Emancipation Hall in the Capitol Visitor Center for an event to celebrate a King Kamehameha Day Lei Draping Ceremony.

Bill: 118-hconres-35
Sponsor: Rep. Tokuda, Jill N. [D-HI-2]
Introduced: 2023-04-25 in the House
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Commemorative events and holidays
Congressional tributes
Hawaii
U.S. Capitol

Summary:
action_date: 2023-04-25
text: 
This concurrent resolution authorizes the use of Emancipation Hall in the Capitol Visitor Center on June 11, 2023, for an event to celebrate a King Kamehameha Day Lei Draping Ceremony.

action_date: 2023-04-26
text: 
This concurrent resolution authorizes the use of Emancipation Hall in the Capitol Visitor Center on June 11, 2023, for an event to celebrate a King Kamehameha Day Lei Draping Ceremony.

action_date: 2023-05-11
text: 
This concurrent resolution authorizes the use of Emancipation Hall in the Capitol Visitor Center on June 11, 2023, for an event to celebrate a King Kamehameha Day Lei Draping Ceremony.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-05-15
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2023-05-11
text: Resolution agreed to in Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S1632)
action_date: 2023-05-11
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Resolution agreed to in Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S1632)
action_date: 2023-05-01
text: Received in the Senate.
action_date: 2023-04-26
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2023-04-26
text: On agreeing to the resolution Agreed to without objection. (text: CR H2039)
action_date: 2023-04-26
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On agreeing to the resolution Agreed to without objection. (text: CR H2039)
action_date: 2023-04-26
text: Considered by unanimous consent. (consideration: CR H2039)
action_date: 2023-04-26
text: Committee on House Administration discharged.
action_date: 2023-04-26
text: Committee on House Administration discharged.
action_date: 2023-04-26
text: Mr. Steil asked unanimous consent to discharge from committee and consider.
action_date: 2023-04-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.
action_date: 2023-04-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-04-25
text: Introduced in House
Calling for the end of impunity of unpunished Serbian sexual war crimes during the 1999 Kosovo war in the case of United States citizen and sexual war crime survivor Vasfije Krasniqi Goodman and other survivors of sexual and gender-based violence.

Bill: 118-hconres-36
Sponsor: Rep. Allred, Colin Z. [D-TX-32]
Introduced: 2023-04-27 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs

Summary:
action_date: 2023-04-27
text: 
This concurrent resolution calls upon Serbia to bring individuals who are responsible for the sexual war crimes against Vasfije Krasniqi Goodman in Kosovo during the 1999 war to justice and to cease the glorification and protection of individuals involved. 
 
The concurrent resolution also
 
 
condemns the use of rape and other gender-based violence in war, 
 
calls upon Kosovo to prioritize and expedite prosecution of rape and sexual assault cases from the 1999 war, and 
 
calls on the United States to uphold and strengthen commitments to counter and prevent the practice of gender-based violence. 



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-04-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2023-04-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-04-27
text: Introduced in House
Expressing the sense of Congress that there is a climate emergency which demands a massive-scale mobilization to halt, reverse, and address its consequences and causes.

Bill: 118-hconres-37
Sponsor: Rep. Blumenauer, Earl [D-OR-3]
Introduced: 2023-05-02 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Air quality
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Economic performance and conditions
Emergency planning and evacuation
Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents

Summary:
action_date: 2023-05-02
text: 
This concurrent resolution expresses the sense of Congress that climate change caused by human activities constitutes a climate emergency, which demands the President use existing authorities and emergency powers to mitigate and prepare for the consequences of the emergency.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-05-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment, Manufacturing, and Critical Materials.
action_date: 2023-05-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2023-05-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-05-02
text: Introduced in House
Expressing the sense of Congress regarding the execution-style murders of United States citizens Ylli, Agron, and Mehmet Bytyqi in the Republic of Serbia in July 1999.

Bill: 118-hconres-38
Sponsor: Rep. LaLota, Nick [R-NY-1]
Introduced: 2023-05-02 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs

Summary:
action_date: 2023-05-02
text: 
This concurrent resolution expresses the sense of Congress that the individuals responsible for the July 1999 murders of U.S. citizens Ylli, Agron, and Mehmet Bytyqi in Serbia should be brought to justice and that the United States should devote sufficient resources to fully assist and monitor Serbia's efforts to investigate and prosecute such individuals.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-05-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2023-05-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-05-02
text: Introduced in House
Expressing the sense of Congress to support the case of Beatriz, a young woman from a rural area of El Salvador, living in extreme poverty and with lupus, who fought for her life against the state to allow her to terminate a pregnancy that put her at risk, which exposed the serious consequences of the absolute criminalization of abortion in El Salvador, and urging the Salvadoran state to assume its international obligations in the field of human rights.

Bill: 118-hconres-39
Sponsor: Rep. Williams, Nikema [D-GA-5]
Introduced: 2023-05-02 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Abortion
El Salvador
Health care coverage and access
Human rights
Latin America
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2023-05-02
text: 
This concurrent resolution condemns the absolute criminalization of abortion in El Salvador and anywhere in the world. It also calls upon the Inter-American Court of Human Rights to recognize that total criminalization of abortion violates human rights.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-05-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2023-05-02
text: Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, 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: 2023-05-02
text: Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, 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: 2023-05-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-05-02
text: Introduced in House
Expressing support for the work of open water lifeguards as first responders and emergency response providers.

Bill: 118-hconres-41
Sponsor: Rep. Smith, Christopher H. [R-NJ-4]
Introduced: 2023-05-10 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Congressional tributes
First responders and emergency personnel

Summary:
action_date: 2023-05-10
text: 
This concurrent resolution expresses support for the work of open water lifeguards as first responders and emergency response providers.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-05-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management.
action_date: 2023-05-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2023-05-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-05-10
text: Introduced in House
Honoring Mary Eliza Mahoney, America's first professionally trained Black nurse.

Bill: 118-hconres-42
Sponsor: Rep. Bush, Cori [D-MO-1]
Introduced: 2023-05-11 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Congressional tributes
Nursing
Racial and ethnic relations
U.S. history

Summary:
action_date: 2023-05-11
text: 
This concurrent resolution honors Mary Eliza Mahoney, the first professionally trained Black nurse in the United States, for her contributions to the nursing profession. It also supports the goals and activities of National Nurses Week.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-05-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2023-05-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2023-05-11
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H2257)
action_date: 2023-05-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-05-11
text: Introduced in House
Authorizing the use of the Capitol Grounds for the Greater Washington Soap Box Derby.

Bill: 118-hconres-43
Sponsor: Rep. Hoyer, Steny H. [D-MD-5]
Introduced: 2023-05-17 in the House
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Outdoor recreation
U.S. Capitol

Summary:
action_date: 2023-05-17
text: 
This concurrent resolution permits the Greater Washington Soap Box Derby Association to sponsor soap box derby races on the Capitol grounds on June 17, 2023.

action_date: 2023-05-31
text: 
This concurrent resolution permits the Greater Washington Soap Box Derby Association to sponsor soap box derby races on the Capitol grounds on June 17, 2023.

action_date: 2023-06-05
text: 
This concurrent resolution permits the Greater Washington Soap Box Derby Association to sponsor soap box derby races on the Capitol grounds on June 17, 2023.

action_date: 2023-06-14
text: 
This concurrent resolution permits the Greater Washington Soap Box Derby Association to sponsor soap box derby races on the Capitol grounds on June 17, 2023.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-06-15
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2023-06-14
text: Resolution agreed to in Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S2103)
action_date: 2023-06-14
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Resolution agreed to in Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S2103)
action_date: 2023-06-06
text: Received in the Senate.
action_date: 2023-06-05
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2023-06-05
text: On motion to suspend the rules and agree to the resolution Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H2726-2727)
action_date: 2023-06-05
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and agree to the resolution Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H2726-2727)
action_date: 2023-06-05
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H. Con. Res. 43.
action_date: 2023-06-05
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H2726-2727)
action_date: 2023-06-05
text: Mr. Edwards moved to suspend the rules and agree to the resolution.
action_date: 2023-05-31
text: Placed on the House Calendar, Calendar No. 22.
action_date: 2023-05-31
text: Reported by the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. H. Rept. 118-82.
action_date: 2023-05-31
text: Reported by the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. H. Rept. 118-82.
action_date: 2023-05-23
text: Ordered to be Reported by Voice Vote.
action_date: 2023-05-23
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2023-05-23
text: Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management Discharged.
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management.
action_date: 2023-05-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2023-05-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-05-17
text: Introduced in House
Urging the establishment of a United States Commission on Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation.

Bill: 118-hconres-44
Sponsor: Rep. Lee, Barbara [D-CA-12]
Introduced: 2023-05-17 in the House
Policy area: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Commemorative events and holidays
Executive agency funding and structure
Monuments and memorials
Racial and ethnic relations
U.S. history

Summary:
action_date: 2023-05-17
text: 
This concurrent resolution affirms, more than 400 years after the arrival of the first slave ship, that the United States owes a debt of remembrance to those who lived through slavery or other historical injustices against people of color, as well as to their descendants. It also urges the establishment of a U.S. Commission on Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-05-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2023-05-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-05-17
text: Introduced in House
The Hands Off Our Election Resolution of 2023

Bill: 118-hconres-45
Sponsor: Rep. Santos, George [R-NY-3]
Introduced: 2023-05-18 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics

Summary:
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: 

Hands Off Our Election Resolution of 2023

 
This concurrent resolution expresses the sense of Congress that federal overreach into election law violates the states' constitutional right to govern aspects of election law under Article I, Section 4 of the U.S. Constitution (which includes clause 1, known as the Elections Clause, that provides states with the initial and principal authority to administer elections within their jurisdictions).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Introduced in House
Fiscal State of the Nation Resolution

Bill: 118-hconres-46
Sponsor: Rep. Barr, Andy [R-KY-6]
Introduced: 2023-05-18 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance

Summary:
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: 

Fiscal State of the Nation Resolution

 
This concurrent resolution requires the congressional budget committees to conduct an annual joint hearing to receive a presentation from the Comptroller General regarding (1) the Government Accountability Office's audit of the financial statement of the executive branch, and (2) the financial position and condition of the federal government. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Rules.
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Introduced in House
Expressing the need for the Senate to provide advice and consent to ratification of the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity.

Bill: 118-hconres-47
Sponsor: Rep. Stansbury, Melanie Ann [D-NM-1]
Introduced: 2023-05-22 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs

Summary:
action_date: 2023-05-22
text: 
This concurrent resolution expresses the sense that the Senate should provide its advice and consent to ratification of the Convention on Biological Diversity.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-05-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2023-05-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-05-22
text: Introduced in House
Condemning the Chinese Communist Party for the Wuhan Lab "leak" causing the deadly COVID-19 pandemic.

Bill: 118-hconres-48
Sponsor: Rep. Santos, George [R-NY-3]
Introduced: 2023-05-23 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs

Summary:
action_date: 2023-05-23
text: 
This concurrent resolution condemns the Chinese Communist Party for the Wuhan lab leak causing the COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting death of over 1,000,000 Americans.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-06-15
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H2953-2955)
action_date: 2023-05-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2023-05-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-05-23
text: Introduced in House
Congressional Evidence-Based Policymaking Resolution

Bill: 118-hconres-49
Sponsor: Rep. Kilmer, Derek [D-WA-6]
Introduced: 2023-05-24 in the House
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Legislative rules and procedure
Members of Congress

Summary:
action_date: 2023-05-24
text: 

Congressional Evidence-Based Policymaking Resolution

 
This concurrent resolution establishes the Commission on Evidence-Based Policymaking in the legislative branch to review, analyze, and make recommendations for promoting the use of federal data for evidence-building and evidence-based policymaking. Current Members of Congress may not serve on the commission.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-09-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Modernization.
action_date: 2023-05-24
text: Referred to the Committee on House Administration, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Accountability, 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: 2023-05-24
text: Referred to the Committee on House Administration, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Accountability, 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: 2023-05-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-05-24
text: Introduced in House
Expressing congressional disapproval of the actions taken by Dictator President Guillermo Lasso of Ecuador for dissolving the National Assembly and silencing the voice of his opposition in an effort to evade impeachment.

Bill: 118-hconres-50
Sponsor: Rep. Santos, George [R-NY-3]
Introduced: 2023-05-25 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs

Summary:
action_date: 2023-05-25
text: 
This concurrent resolution disapproves of the actions taken by President Guillermo Lasso of Ecuador for dissolving the National Assembly and silencing the voice of opposition in an effort to evade impeachment.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-05-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2023-05-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-05-25
text: Introduced in House
Agreeing that the Chinese Communist Party is the greatest threat to freedom and to the free world.

Bill: 118-hconres-51
Sponsor: Rep. Santos, George [R-NY-3]
Introduced: 2023-06-12 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs

Summary:
action_date: 2023-06-12
text: 
This concurrent resolution expresses the sense of Congress that the Chinese Communist Party is the greatest threat to freedom and to the free world.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-06-15
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H2953-2955)
action_date: 2023-06-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2023-06-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-06-12
text: Introduced in House
Condemning Cuba and the Chinese Communist Party for discussing and implementing an agreement to build a Chinese Communist Party spy base on the island of Cuba, 90 miles from the United States.

Bill: 118-hconres-52
Sponsor: Rep. Santos, George [R-NY-3]
Introduced: 2023-06-13 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs

Summary:
action_date: 2023-06-13
text: 
This concurrent resolution condemns Cuba and China for discussing and implementing an agreement to build a Chinese intelligence base on the island of Cuba, 90 miles from the United States.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-06-15
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H2953-2955)
action_date: 2023-06-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2023-06-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-06-13
text: Introduced in House