| SR44 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes expenditures by the Senate Committee on Armed Services for the 111th Congress.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-02-12
To Senate Rules And Administration Committee |
| SR45 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes expenditures by the Senate Special Committee on Aging for the 111th Congress.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-02-12
To Senate Rules And Administration Committee |
| SR46 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes expenditures by the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration for the 111th Congress.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-02-12
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 22. (text of measure as introduced: CR S2251-2252) |
| SR47 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes expenditures by the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation for the 111th Congress.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-02-12
To Senate Rules And Administration Committee |
| SR48 | Intro
Sine Die | Expresses the sense of the Senate that: (1) the people of the United States should celebrate the sesquicentennial of Oregon's admission as the 33rd state on February 14, 2009; and (2) Oregonians should be honored for their pioneering spirit and innov...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-02-12
Submitted in the Senate, considered, and agreed to without amendment and with a preamble by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S2254-2255; text as passed Senate: CR S2255; text of measure as introduced: CR S2252) |
| SJR10 | Intro
Sine Die | Declares that it is U.S. policy to commit a minimum of 4% of the nation's gross domestic product to the base defense budget in order to meet the fundamental U.S. national security requirements.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-02-12
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services. |
| SB410 | Intro
Sine Die | Resource Family Recruitment and Retention Act of 2009 - Amends part E (Foster Care and Adoption Assistance) of title IV of the Social Security Act (SSA) with respect to the requirement that state foster care and adoption assistance plans require deve...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-02-11
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. |
| SB411 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the Secretary of Transportation, subject to certain conditions, to release restrictions on the use of certain property conveyed to the city of St. George, Utah, for airport purposes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-02-11
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. |
| SB412 | Intro
Sine Die | Federal Emergency Management Advancement Act of 2009 or the FEMA Act - Reestablishes the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) as an independent establishment in the executive branch. Requires FEMA to be headed by a Director appointed by the Pre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-02-11
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. |
| SB413 | Intro
Sine Die | Graduate for a Better Future Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Education to award competitive grants to states, educational nonprofit organizations, or partnerships of such entities for their use in providing competitive subgrants to local educationa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-02-11
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. |
| SB415 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for the relief of Maha Dakar.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-02-11
Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. |
| SB416 | Intro
Sine Die | Cluster Munitions Civilian Protection Act of 2009 - Places specified restrictions on the use of cluster munitions. Directs the President, within 90 days after the use of such munitions, to submit to the congressional defense, appropriations, and fore...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-02-11
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. (text of measure as introduced: CR S2154) |
| SB417 | Intro
Sine Die | State Secrets Protection Act - Amends the federal judicial code to: (1) require a federal court to determine which filings, motions, and affidavits (or portions) submitted under this Act shall be submitted ex parte; (2) allow a federal court to order...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-02-11
Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S2155-2157) |
| SB418 | Intro
Sine Die | Secondary Metal Theft Prevention Act of 2009 - Expresses the sense of Congress that government agencies should work with representatives of the secondary metal recycling industry to combat the theft and sale of stolen secondary metal. Defines "s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-02-11
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. |
| SR31 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes expenditures by the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources for the 111th Congress.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-02-11
To Senate Rules And Administration Committee |
| SR32 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes expenditures by the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs for the 111th Congress.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-02-11
To Senate Rules And Administration Committee |
| SR33 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes expenditures by the Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs for the 111th Congress.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-02-11
To Senate Rules And Administration Committee |
| SR34 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes expenditures by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence for the 111th Congress.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-02-11
To Senate Rules And Administration Committee |
| SR35 | Intro
Sine Die | Congratulates Miami University, in Ohio, on its 200th anniversary. Expresses the Senate's best wishes for its continued success.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-02-11
Submitted in the Senate, considered, and agreed to without amendment and with a preamble by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S2166; text as passed Senate: CR S2166; text of measure as introduced: CR S2163) |
| SR36 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes expenditures by the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions for the 111th Congress.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-02-11
To Senate Rules And Administration Committee |
| SCR6 | Intro
Sine Die | Declares that Congress commits to passing, within 18 months, legislation that guarantees health care for women and all individuals and that establishes coverage that enables women to attain good health that they can maintain during their reproductive...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-02-11
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| SB352 | Pass | DTV Delay Act - Amends the Digital Television Transition and Public Safety Act of 2005 to delay the transition of television broadcasting from analog to digital to June 13, 2009. Requires the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to extend for a 11...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-02-11
Became Public Law No: 111-4. |
| SB402 | Intro
Sine Die | Keeping Our Promise to America's Military Veterans Act - Expresses the sense of Congress that, in order to express the gratitude of the American people for the sacrifices of America's veterans and their families, legislation should be enacted that: (...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-02-10
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. |
| SB403 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for the relief of Ibrahim Parlak.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-02-10
Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. |
| SB404 | Intro
Sine Die | Veterans' Emergency Care Fairness Act of 2009 - Revises provisions concerning the authority of the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to reimburse a veteran for the cost of emergency care provided in a non-Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) facility to p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-02-10
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S2081) |
| SB405 | Intro
Sine Die | Artist-Museum Partnership Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow taxpayers who create literary, musical, artistic, or scholarly compositions or similar property a fair market value (determined at the time of contribution) tax deduction for c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-02-10
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S2082) |
| SB406 | Intro
Sine Die | Nino's Act - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to provide for mandatory Medicaid coverage of drugs prescribed for certain research study child participants, regardless of Medicaid eligibility otherwise, if the state provides drug...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-02-10
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. |
| SB408 | Intro
Sine Die | Wakefield Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to: (1) extend by one year the length of time for which a grant may be awarded under the emergency medical services for children grant program, which allows the Secretary of Health and Human Servic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-02-10
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S2084) |
| SB378 | Intro
Sine Die | Money Laundering Control Enhancement Act of 2009 - Amends the federal criminal code relating to laundering of monetary instruments to expand the concept of monetary proceeds to include gross receipts. Directs the U.S. Sentencing Commission to amend i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-02-10
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2072-2073) |
| SB394 | Intro
Sine Die | Art and Collectibles Capital Gains Tax Treatment Parity Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) eliminate the 28% capital gains tax rate for collectibles, thus allowing gain from the sale of collectibles (including art works) to be taxed at th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-02-09
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. |
| SB395 | Intro
Sine Die | Civil Rights History Project Act of 2009 - Requires the Librarian of Congress and the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution (acting through the Director of the National Museum of African American History and Culture) to establish an oral history p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-02-09
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Rules and Administration. (text of measure as introduced: CR S2028-2029) |
| SB396 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for the relief of Marcos Antonio Sanchez-Diaz.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-02-09
Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. |
| SB397 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for the relief of Anton Dodaj, Gjyljana Dodaj, Franc Dodaj, and Kristjan Dodaj.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-02-09
Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. |
| SB398 | Intro
Sine Die | Idaho Efficient Vehicle Demonstration Act of 2009 - Prohibits any reduction of the apportionment of federal-aid highway funds to Idaho if: (1) it permits a commercial combination vehicle weighing up to 129,000 pounds to operate on specified routes of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-02-09
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. |
| SB399 | Intro
Sine Die | Universal Default Prohibition Act of 2009 - Amends the Truth in Lending Act to prohibit a creditor from: (1) using any adverse information concerning any consumer, including any in a consumer report or any change in the consumer's credit score, as th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-02-09
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. |
| SB400 | Intro
Sine Die | Financial Crisis Investigation Act of 2009 - Amends the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 (EESA) to direct the Oversight Panel of the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) to: (1) investigate all causes, domestic and global, of the current ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-02-09
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. |
| SB401 | Intro
Sine Die | Defined Contribution Fee Disclosure Act of 2009 - Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to prohibit an administrator of an individual account plan that includes a qualified cash or deferred arrangement from contracting fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-02-09
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. |
| SB60 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends the federal criminal code to make it unlawful to knowingly and willfully sell or forge a ticket to a presidential inaugural ceremony or to use, unlawfully possess, or exhibit a forged ticket with the intent to defraud. Exempts the sale of tick...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-02-09
To House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security |
| SB392 | Intro
Sine Die | Credit Card Reform Act of 2009 - Amends the Fair Credit Reporting Act to permit a consumer reporting agency to furnish a consumer report in connection with any credit or insurance transaction that is not initiated by the consumer only if the report i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-02-06
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. |
| SB393 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for the relief of Sopuruchi Chukwueke.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-02-06
Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. |
| SCR5 | Intro
Sine Die | Recognizes the 150th anniversary of the arrival of the Sisters of the Sacred Hearts in Hawai`i. Praises the Sisters of the Sacred Hearts Pacific Province for its good works educating the youth of this country, serving the people of Hawai`i, Californ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-02-06
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB385 | Intro
Sine Die | Intelligence Community Audit Act of 2009 - Reaffirms the authority of the Comptroller General to audit and evaluate financial transactions, programs, and activities of elements of the intelligence community (those elements identified in the National ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-02-05
Read twice and referred to the Select Committee on Intelligence. (text of measure as introduced: CR S1681) |
| SB388 | Intro
Sine Die | Save Our Small and Seasonal Businesses Act of 2009 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to extend for three years after the date of enactment of this Act the annual cap exemption for returning H-2B aliens (temporary nonagricultural worker). ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-02-05
Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S1685) |
| SB389 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008 to revise the effective dates relating to the allowable limits on lead in children's products so as to link such dates to the publication of related final regulations and stays of enforcement...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-02-05
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. |
| SB390 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2009 to include Idaho and Nevada among specified states to which the Secretary of the Air Force may convey certain relocatable military housing units to Indian tribes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-02-05
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services. |
| SB391 | Intro
Sine Die | Healthy Americans Act - Requires each adult individual to have the opportunity to purchase a Healthy Americans Private Insurance Plan (HAPI), which is: (1) a plan offered by a state; or (2) an employer-sponsored health coverage plan. Makes individual...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-02-05
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. |
| SR28 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes expenditures by the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs for the 111th Congress.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-02-05
To Senate Rules And Administration Committee |
| SR29 | Intro
Sine Die | Declares that: (1) time on a budget resolution may only be yielded back by consent; (2) no first degree amendment may be proposed after the 10th hour of debate on such legislation unless it has been submitted to the Journal Clerk before the expiratio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-02-05
To Senate Budget Committee |
| SR30 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes expenditures by the Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs for the 111th Congress.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-02-05
To Senate Rules And Administration Committee |
| SR27 | Intro
Sine Die | Congratulates: (1) the Pittsburgh Steelers for winning Super Bowl XLIII; and (2) the Arizona Cardinals on an outstanding season.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-02-04
Submitted in the Senate, considered, and agreed to without amendment and with a preamble by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S1612-1613; text as passed Senate: CR S1613; text of measure as introduced: CR S1550) |
