| HR32 | Intro
Sine Die | Condemns in the strongest possible terms the horrific attack that occurred at the "Congress on your Corner" event hosted by Representative Gabrielle Giffords in Tucson, Arizona, on January 8, 2011. Offers heartfelt condolences to the famil...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-12
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection. |
| HR33 | Intro
Sine Die | Elects specified named Members to the following House Committees on: (1) Agriculture; (2) Armed Services; (3) Energy and Commerce; (4) Financial Services; (5) Rules; and (6) Transportation and Infrastructure.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-12
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection. |
| HR36 | Intro
Sine Die | Recognizes the significance of Black History Month as an important time to recognize the contributions of African-Americans in the nation's history. Encourages the continued celebration of this month to provide an opportunity for all peoples of the U...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-12
To House Oversight And Government Reform Committee |
| HB21 | Intro
Sine Die | Reclaiming Individual Liberty Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to repeal provisions added by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act requiring individuals to purchase and maintain minimum essential health care coverage.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-12
To House Subcommittee on Health |
| HB29 | Intro
Sine Die | Withdraws Congress's approval of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Directs the President to provide written notice of the withdrawal to the governments of Canada and Mexico.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-12
To House Subcommittee on Trade |
| HR31 | Intro
Sine Die | Elects specified named Members to the following House Committees: (1) Appropriations; (2) Energy and Commerce; (3) Ethics; and (4) Ways and Means.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-11
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection. |
| HB229 | Intro
Sine Die | Michael Jon Newkirk Transportation Safety Enhancement Act of 2011 - Directs the Secretary of Transportation (DOT) to withhold a graduated percentage of federal-aid highway funds of states for FY2014 and thereafter that do not enact or enforce a law t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-10
To House Subcommittee on Highways and Transit |
| HB238 | Intro
Sine Die | Military Retiree Health Care Relief Act of 2011 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a refundable tax credit for premiums paid to enroll military retirees and their spouses and surviving spouses for supplementary medical insurance under part B...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-07
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HB253 | Intro
Sine Die | Clean Vehicles for Cleaner Air Act of 2011 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow certain businesses located in areas designated as nonattainment areas under the Clean Air Act a general business tax credit for the cost of certain clean-fuel vehi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-07
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HB259 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for the relief of Alemseghed Mussie Tesfamical.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-07
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HCR8 | Intro
Sine Die | Declares that the U.S. government should pursue English-plus policies that: (1) encourage all residents of this country to become fully proficient in English by expanding educational opportunities and access to information technologies; (2) conserve ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-07
To House Education And The Workforce Committee |
| HR27 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires specified rollcall votes recorded for Representative-elect Sessions and Representative-elect Fitzpatrick be deleted and the vote-totals for each of those rollcalls be adjusted accordingly, both in the Journal and in the Congressional Record....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-07
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection. |
| HR28 | Intro
Sine Die | Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) should: (1) continue to enhance security against terrorist attack and other security threats to our nation's rail and mass transit systems and o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-07
To House Homeland Security Committee |
| HR26 | Intro
Sine Die | Sets forth the rule for consideration of the bill (H.B. 2) to repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and health care-related provisions in the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010. Provides for consideration of the reso...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-07
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection. |
| HR30 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends Rule XIII (Calendars and Committee Reports) of the Rules of the House of Representatives to make it out of order in the House to consider a bill or joint resolution reported by any committee unless a plain English section by section analysis o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-07
To House Rules Committee |
| HB101 | Intro
Sine Die | Adds the Tennessee counties of Hickman, Perry, and Wayne to the definition of "Appalachian region" for purposes of Appalachian regional development efforts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-06
To House Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management |
| HB206 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes permanent: (1) the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001; and (2) the reductions in tax rates for dividend and capital gain income enacted by the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003. Amends the Internal Re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-06
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HB209 | Intro
Sine Die | Reducing Information Control Designations Act - Requires each federal agency to reduce and minimize its use of information control designations on information that is not classified. Defines such designations to mean information dissemination control...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-06
To House Oversight And Government Reform Committee |
| HCR6 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes use of the rotunda of the Capitol on January 20, 2011, for a ceremony in honor of the 50th anniversary of the inaugural address of President John F. Kennedy.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-06
To House Administration Committee |
| HB30 | Intro
Sine Die | Taking Responsible Action for Community Safety Act - Revises requirements with respect to the consolidation, merger, or acquisition of control (transaction) involving rail carriers to require public hearings in the affected communities if public hear...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-06
To House Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials |
| HR14 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends Rule XI (Procedures of Committees and Unfinished Business) of the Rules of the House of Representatives to modify the current requirement that House standing committees make available the electronic record of record votes within 48 hours. Requ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-06
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H71-72) |
| HR22 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the amount of Members' Representational Allowances established in the House of Representatives Administrative Reform Technical Corrections Act for 2011 or 2012 from exceeding 95% of the amount established for 2010. Reduces the current amoun...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-06
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection. |
| HR23 | Intro
Sine Die | Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that: (1) the federal government should not bailout state and local government employee pension plans and other post-employment benefit plans, and (2) state and local governments should immediately ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-06
To House Education And The Workforce Committee |
| HR24 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends Rule III (The Members, Delegates, and Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico) of the Rules of the House of Representatives to restore to Delegates and the Resident Commissioner, in a Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union, the sa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-06
To House Rules Committee |
| HB54 | Intro
Sine Die | Stand by your Oil Pollution Act or the STOP Act - Amends the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 to: (1) extend liability to any corporation, partnership, or other person (other than an individual) having an ownership interest exceeding 25% in any responsible ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-06
To House Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation |
| HR25 | Intro
Sine Die | Expresses the sense of Congress that the current federal income tax deduction for mortgage interest paid on a first or second home should not be further restricted.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-06
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HB55 | Intro
Sine Die | Northern Virginia Metrorail Extension Act of 2011 - Authorizes alternatives analysis and preliminary engineering for specified Metrorail new fixed guideway capital projects in Virginia, Washington, D.C., and Maryland.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-06
To House Subcommittee on Highways and Transit |
| HB57 | Intro
Sine Die | Disaster Recovery Improvement Act - Directs the President to issue and begin to implement regulations required by the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (Stafford Act) regarding the repair, restoration, reconstruction, an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-06
To House Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management |
| HB65 | Intro
Sine Die | Candy Tobacco Tax Parity Act of 2011 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to impose an excise tax on smokeless tobacco products sold as discrete single-use units. Modifies the definition of "smokeless tobacco" for purposes of such tax to incl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-05
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HB66 | Intro
Sine Die | Waste-to-Energy Technology Act of 2011 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a 30% energy tax credit for investment in qualified waste-to-energy property. Defines "qualified waste-to-energy property" as property comprising a system th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-05
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HB70 | Intro
Sine Die | Disability Benefit Fairness Act of 2011 - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to eliminate: (1) the five-month waiting period for an individual (including a disabled widow or widower)...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-05
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HB80 | Intro
Sine Die | Global Water Access and Equity Act - Amends the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956 to establish within the Department of State a Coordinator of United States Government Diplomatic Initiatives to Provide Safe Water and Sanitation Globally....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-05
To House Foreign Affairs Committee |
| HB86 | Intro
Sine Die | End Tax Uncertainty Act of 2011 - Makes permanent: (1) the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001; (2) provisions of the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003 that reduce income tax rates on dividend and capital gai...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-05
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HB88 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the Internal Revenue Code to change the income tax filing deadline for calendar year taxpayers from April 15 to the first Monday in November.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-05
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HB93 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes 10% across-the-board rescissions in non-defense, non-homeland-security, and non-veterans affairs discretionary spending for FY2011-FY2012.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-05
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB94 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes 5% across-the-board rescissions in non-defense, non-homeland-security, and non-veterans affairs discretionary spending for FY2011-FY2012.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-05
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB95 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes 15% across-the-board rescissions in non-defense, non-homeland-security, and non-veterans affairs discretionary spending for FY2011-FY2012.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-05
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB99 | Intro
Sine Die | Fair and Simple Tax Act of 2011 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) establish an alternative income tax rate system with three tax brackets (10, 15, and 30%); (2) repeal the estate and gift tax; (3) adjust the increased alternative minimum tax...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-05
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HB110 | Intro
Sine Die | Manufacturing Reinvestment Account Act of 2011 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to establish tax-exempt manufacturing reinvestment accounts (MRAs) for taxpayers engaged in a manufacturing business. Allows such manufacturers to make tax deductible c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-05
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HB119 | Intro
Sine Die | Keep Out the IRS Act of 2011 - Prohibits the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) from filling any position, by transfer or any other appointment taking effect on or after the enactment of this Act, if the duties and responsibilities of such position inclu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-05
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HB121 | Intro
Sine Die | Congressional Budget Accountability Act - Requires any amounts remaining of House Members' Representational Allowances after all payments are made for the year to be deposited in the Treasury and used for deficit reduction or, in fiscal years for whi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-05
To House Administration Committee |
| HB123 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes permanent: (1) the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001; (2) provisions of the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003 that reduce income tax rates on dividend and capital gain income; and (3) the repeal of th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-05
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HB131 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) extend through 2014 the standard tax deduction for real property taxes; and (2) allow an annual inflation adjustment to the allowable amount of such deduction.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-05
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HB132 | Intro
Sine Die | Create Jobs by Expanding the R&D Tax Credit Act of 2011 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) increase the rate of the tax credit for increasing research activities in 2011 and 2012; (2) extend such tax credit through 2012; and (3) allow cer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-05
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HB133 | Intro
Sine Die | Creating Jobs From Innovative Small Businesses Act of 2011 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a general business tax credit of 20% of the amount paid to acquire an equity investment in a qualified high technology small business concern. Defi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-05
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HB134 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make the tax credit for increasing research activities permanent.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-05
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HB135 | Intro
Sine Die | National STEM Education Tax Incentive for Teachers Act of 2011 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow certain full-time elementary and secondary school teachers of math, science, engineering, or technology courses a refundable tax credit for 10%...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-05
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HB143 | Intro
Sine Die | Permanently Repeal the Estate Tax Act of 2011 - Repeals the federal estate tax, effective for estates of decedents dying after December 31, 2010.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-05
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HB144 | Intro
Sine Die | Small Business Paperwork Mandate Elimination Act of 2011 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to repeal a provision (added by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act) that extends to corporations that are not tax-exempt the requirement to report...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-05
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HB146 | Intro
Sine Die | War on Debt Act of 2011 - Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to establish and administer a new series of U.S. savings bonds to be known as "War on Debt Bonds," to be used first solely to reduce the amount of foreign-held public debt, an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-05
To House Ways And Means Committee |
