| HB598 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the Small Business Act to exclude from the definition of "Indian tribe" any Alaska Native Corporation (ANC) or Alaska Native Village (ANV). Amends the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act to provide that, for purposes of eligibility f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-14
To House Subcommittee Indian and Alaska Native Affairs |
| HB580 | Intro
Sine Die | Castle Nugent National Historic Site Establishment Act of 2011 - Establishes the Castle Nugent National Historic Site on the island of St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands, as a unit of the National Park System in order to preserve, protect, and interpret ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-14
To House Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands |
| HB496 | Intro
Sine Die | Securing Citizens' Protection at Federal Events Act - Amends the federal criminal code to prohibit any person from carrying a firearm at a place which the person knows is a restricted firearms zone. Defines "restricted firearms zone" to me...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-14
To House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security |
| HJR24 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional Amendment - Requires the concurrence of two-thirds of the Members of each house of Congress for final adoption of any legislation changing the internal revenue laws, unless such legislation is determined not to increase the internal re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-14
To House Subcommittee on the Constitution |
| HB689 | Intro
Sine Die | 21st Century Investment Act of 2011- Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) make permanent the tax credit for increasing research expenses, (2) increase such credit for amounts paid or incurred for research substantially all of which occurs in the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-14
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HB582 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends part A (General Provisions) of title XI of the Social Security Act (SSA) to make residents of Guam and the Virgin Islands eligible to participate in the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program for the Aged, Blind, and Disabled under SSA tit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-14
To House Subcommittee on Human Resources |
| HB619 | Intro
Sine Die | Surface Transportation Savings Act of 2011 - Rescinds specified amounts authorized for FY2010 and for October 1, 2010-March 4, 2011, under the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users (SAFETEA-LU) for: (1) ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-11
To House Subcommittee on Highways and Transit |
| HR89 | Intro
Sine Die | Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) should immediately update its collection policies and procedures to more adequately protect and assist taxpayers suffering an economic hardship.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-11
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HB680 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the President from making contributions on behalf of the United States to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-11
To House Foreign Affairs Committee |
| HR86 | Intro
Sine Die | Recognizes the importance of reduced trade barriers to the United States for promoting economic development, creating jobs, and solidifying relations with trading partners. Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the United States-Co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-11
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HB613 | Intro
Sine Die | Airports, Highways, High-Speed Rail, Trains, and Transit: Make it in America Act - Eliminates certain grounds for waiving Buy American requirements that the Secretary of Transportation (DOT) obligate federal funding for certain air navigation, highwa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-11
To House Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials |
| HB565 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for the relief of Angela Stefanova Boneva.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-11
To House Subcommittee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement |
| HR90 | Intro
Sine Die | Honors the legacy of the late Honorable Barbara Charline Jordan (American politician, leader of the Civil Rights movement, first African-American elected to the Texas Senate, first southern black woman elected to the House of Representatives, and rec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-11
To House Administration Committee |
| HB678 | Intro
Sine Die | Repaying the American Taxpayer Act of 2011 - Amends the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 (EESA) to require payment into the Treasury for reduction of the public debt of dividends on any share of preferred stock in a financial institution ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-11
To House Financial Services Committee |
| HB543 | Intro
Sine Die | Includes land that is owned by the U.S. government and administered by the Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS) and at which individuals or goods are examined for entry into the United States within the definition of "entitlement land" for ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-11
To House Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands |
| HB655 | Intro
Sine Die | Susan B. Anthony Birthday Act - Honors Susan B. Anthony by celebrating her legacy on the third Monday in February.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-11
To House Oversight And Government Reform Committee |
| HB564 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for the relief of Rigoberto Padilla.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-11
To House Subcommittee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement |
| HB632 | Intro
Sine Die | Highway Fairness and Reform Act of 2011 - Directs the Secretary of Transportation (DOT), beginning with FY2011, to carry out a direct federal-aid highway program to permit a state governor or chief executive officer, at least 90 days before the begin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-11
To House Subcommittee on Highways and Transit |
| HB193 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for the relief of Zdenko Lisak.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-11
To House Subcommittee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement |
| HB194 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for the relief of Martha Palmillas de Morales.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-11
To House Subcommittee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement |
| HB195 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for the relief of Nery Antonio Velasquez-Roblero.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-11
To House Subcommittee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement |
| HR72 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires each of the following House Committees to inventory and review existing, pending, and proposed regulations, orders, and other administrative actions or procedures by federal agencies within its jurisdiction: (1) Agriculture, (2) Education an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-11
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection. |
| HB211 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for the relief of Roberto Luis Dunoyer Mejia, Consuelo Cardona Molina, Camilo Dunoyer Cardona, and Pablo Dunoyer Cardona.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-11
To House Subcommittee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement |
| HB354 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for the relief of Lauli'i Matu'u.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-11
To House Subcommittee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement |
| HB355 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for the relief of Pablo Eduardo Perrone and Maria Cristina Lemos.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-11
To House Subcommittee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement |
| HB356 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for the relief of Flavia Maboloc Cahoon.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-11
To House Subcommittee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement |
| HB446 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for the relief of Rosa Isela Figueroa Rincon, Miguel Angel Figueroa Rincon, Blanca Azucena Figueroa Rincon, and Nancy Araceli Figueroa Rincon.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-11
To House Subcommittee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement |
| HB661 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow tax-free rollovers from tax-exempt retirement plans, annuities, and deferred compensation plans into a simple individual retirement account.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-11
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HB659 | Intro
Sine Die | Retirement Savings Access Act of 2011- Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow certain individuals who have received federal or state unemployment compensation for 26 consecutive weeks to take penalty-free distributions from tax-exempt retirement p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-11
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HB660 | Intro
Sine Die | Jumpstarting Our Business Sector Act of 2011 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) eliminate the corporate income tax and the tax on the capital gains of individuals and corporations; and (2) extend for one year the additional depreciation allow...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-11
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HB391 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for the relief of Emilio Maya.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-11
To House Subcommittee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement |
| HB392 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for the relief of Geert Botzen.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-11
To House Subcommittee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement |
| HB393 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for the relief of Maria Eva Duran, Jessica Duran Cortes, Daniel Ivan Duran Cortes, and Jose Antonio Duran Cortes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-11
To House Subcommittee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement |
| HB411 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for the relief of certain aliens who were aboard the Golden Venture.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-11
To House Subcommittee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement |
| HB682 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) allow a maximum annual benefit of $3,750 ($7,500 for married couples filing a joint tax return) for a dependent care flexible spending arrangement; and (2) allow a carryover of unused dependent care benefits i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-11
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HB634 | Intro
Sine Die | Debt Buy-Down Act of 2011 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow individual taxpayers to designate up to 10% of their adjusted income tax liability for the reduction of the public debt. Establishes in the Treasury the Public Debt Reduction Trust...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-10
To House Budget Committee |
| HB596 | Intro
Sine Die | Private Investment in Commuter Vanpooling Act of 2011 - Allows the local matching share provided by a public transportation capital project assistance recipient to include expenditures by a private commuter vanpooling service provider to acquire roll...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-10
To House Subcommittee on Highways and Transit |
| HB645 | Intro
Sine Die | Second Amendment Enforcement Act - Amends specified law prohibiting the killing of wild birds and wild animals in the District of Columbia to declare that nothing in it or any other provision of law shall authorize or be construed to permit the Counc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-10
To House Oversight And Government Reform Committee |
| HB651 | Intro
Sine Die | United States-Afghanistan Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) Act of 2011 - Directs the President to seek to enter into a bilateral status of forces agreement with the government of Afghanistan which shall: (1) prohibit the permanent basing or military...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-10
To House Foreign Affairs Committee |
| HB448 | Intro
Sine Die | Small Business Innovation Enhancement Act of 2011 - Amends the Small Business Act to increase from 2.5% to 5% the amount that each federal agency with an extramural research and development budget in excess of $100 million must spend specifically in ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-10
To House Subcommittee on Technology and Innovation |
| HB11 | Intro
Sine Die | Build America Bonds to Create Jobs Now Act of 2011 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to the Build America Bond program, to: (1) extend until December 31, 2012, the authority to issue such bonds and the authority for payments to issuers...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-10
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HB609 | Intro
Sine Die | American Competitiveness Act of 2011 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to reduce the maximum income tax rate on corporations to 25% of corporate taxable income exceeding $50,000. Provides a special rule for any taxable year beginning in 2011 by esta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-10
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HB615 | Intro
Sine Die | Collectible Firearms Protection Act - Amends the Arms Export Control Act to allow the importation of certain firearms listed as curios or relics into the United States by a licensed importer without the requirement of an authorization from or payment...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-10
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HB620 | Intro
Sine Die | Recovering Excessive Stimulus Expenditures for Taxpayers (RESET) Act - Rescinds all unobligated balances of the discretionary appropriations made available by division A of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (stimulus funds). Requires...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-10
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HR82 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends Rule X (Organization of Committees) of the Rules of the House of Representatives to establish the House Committee on Elimination of Nonessential Federal Programs to: (1) modify or eliminate underperforming or nonessential federal programs, and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-10
To House Rules Committee |
| HB616 | Intro
Sine Die | Federal Employees Paid Parental Leave Act of 2011 - Allows federal employees to substitute any available paid leave for any leave without pay available for either the: (1) birth of a child; or (2) placement of a child with the employee for either ado...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-10
To House Administration Committee |
| HB641 | Intro
Sine Die | District of Columbia District Attorney Establishment Act of 2011 - Amends the District of Columbia Home Rule Act to establish the Office of the District Attorney for the District of Columbia (DA). Specifies the qualifications for the DA, including re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-10
To House Oversight And Government Reform Committee |
| HB601 | Intro
Sine Die | End Big Oil Tax Subsidies Act of 2011- Amends the Internal Revenue Code to require seven-year amortization of the geological and geophysical expenditures of covered large oil companies. Defines "covered large oil company" as a taxpayer whic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-10
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HB447 | Intro
Sine Die | Small Business Innovation Research Enhancement Act of 2011 or SBIR Enhancement Act of 2011 - Amends the Small Business Act to increase from 2.5% to 5% the amount that each federal agency with an extramural research and development budget in excess of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-10
To House Subcommittee on Technology and Innovation |
| HR73 | Intro
Sine Die | Sets forth the rule for consideration of the resolution (H.Res. 72) directing certain standing committees to inventory and review existing, pending, and proposed regulations and orders from agencies of the Federal Government, particularly with respec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-10
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection. |
