| SB18 | Intro
Sine Die | Small Business Paperwork Mandate Elimination Act - 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 payment...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-25
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB14 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Commission on Congressional Budgetary Accountability and Review of Federal Agencies. Directs the President to designate two Commission co-chairpersons. Requires the Commission to: (1) establish a systematic method for assessing the ef...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-25
To Senate Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs Committee |
| SB32 | Intro
Sine Die | Large Capacity Ammunition Feeding Device Act - Amends the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act to prohibit: (1) the transfer or possession of a large capacity ammunition feeding device, except for its lawful possession within the United States on or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-25
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB43 | Intro
Sine Die | Psychologists in the Service of the Public Act of 2011 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to establish a psychology postdoctoral program to make grants to and enter into contracts with e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-25
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| SB79 | Intro
Sine Die | Protecting Pregnant Women and Children From Hexavalent Chromium Act of 2011 - Amends the Safe Drinking Water Act to require the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to: (1) publish a health advisory for hexavalent chromium that ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-25
To Senate Environment And Public Works Committee |
| HB395 | Intro
Sine Die | Healthy Communities Water Supply Act of 2011 - Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (commonly known as the Clean Water Act) to authorize appropriations for the pilot program for alternative water source projects. Requires the Administrator ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-25
To House Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment |
| SB6 | Intro
Sine Die | Reform America's Broken Immigration System Act - Expresses the sense of the Senate that Congress should: strengthen our commitments to border security; pass legislation, such as the DREAM Act, supporting national and economic security; implement a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-25
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB57 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the Internal Revenue Code to modify the alternative tax on qualifying shipping activities to treat a corporation electing such tax as continuing to use a qualifying vessel in the U.S. foreign trade during any period of use in the U.S. domestic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-25
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB108 | Intro
Sine Die | Affordable Footwear Act of 2011 - Expresses the sense of Congress that the reduction or elimination of duties on certain imported footwear would provide significant benefits to U.S. consumers, particularly lower-income families. Amends the Harmonized...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-25
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB31 | Intro
Sine Die | Prescription Drug and Health Improvement Act of 2011 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act (SSA) with respect to prescription drug plans to repeal the prohibition against: (1) interference by the Secretary of Health and Human Ser...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-25
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB120 | Intro
Sine Die | Directs the Government Accountability Office (GAO), in coordination with the National Academy of Engineering, to conduct and submit to Congress a full audit of hurricane protection funding and cost estimates associated with post-Katrina hurricane pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-25
To Senate Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs Committee |
| SB137 | Intro
Sine Die | Health Insurance Rate Review Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to declare that federal provisions requiring the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to review unreasonable premium increases in health care coverage shall not be constr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-25
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| SB38 | Intro
Sine Die | Equity for Clinical Social Workers Act of 2011 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to provide for reimbursement of covered clinical social worker services according to a new reimbursement methodology similar to the one currentl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-25
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB60 | Intro
Sine Die | Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to pay a specified sum to the Pottawatomi Nation in Canada in settlement and full satisfaction of certain claims. Excludes such payment from the provisions of the Indian Tribal Judgment Funds Use or Distribution ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-25
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB405 | Intro
Sine Die | Airport Master Plan Customer Convenience Enhancement, Security, and Sustainability Act of 2011 or ACCESS Act 2011 - Directs the Secretary of Transportation (DOT) to encourage (including through Federal Aviation Administration [FAA] advisory circulars...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-25
To House Subcommittee on Aviation |
| SB146 | Intro
Sine Die | Veteran Employment Transition Act of 2011- Amends the Internal Revenue Code to revise the definition of "qualified veteran" for purposes of the work opportunity tax credit to mean recently discharged veterans and any veteran receiving specified benef...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-25
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB68 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes use of Department of Defense (DOD) commissary and exchange stores by former prisoners of war who have been honorably separated from service and have a service-connected disability rated at 30% or more.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-25
To Senate Armed Services Committee |
| SB33 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the National Wildlife Refuge System Administration Act of 1966 to designate a portion of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) in Alaska as a component of the National Wilderness Preservation System under the Wilderness Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-25
To Senate Environment And Public Works Committee |
| SB106 | Intro
Sine Die | Telephone Excise Tax Repeal Act of 2011- Amends the Internal Revenue Code to repeal the excise tax on communication services (i.e., local telephone service, toll telephone service, and teletypewriter exchange service).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-25
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB135 | Intro
Sine Die | Permanent Internet Tax Freedom Act of 2011- Amends the Internet Tax Freedom Act to make permanent the ban on state and local taxation of Internet access and on multiple or discriminatory taxes on electronic commerce.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-25
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB4 | Intro
Sine Die | Make America the World's Leader in Clean Energy Act - Expresses the sense of the Senate that Congress should: promote investment in clean energy jobs and industries; free the United States from dependence on oil, especially foreign oil; reduce costs...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-25
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB69 | Intro
Sine Die | Common Sense in Consumer Product Safety Act of 2011 - Amends the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008 to: (1) provide that neither any sale after the first retail sale of a children's product that exceeds the lead limit nor the repair of s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-25
To Senate Commerce, Science, And Transportation Committee |
| SB141 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow: (1) payment of home school expenses from Coverdell education savings accounts; and (2) an annual inflation adjustment after 2010 to the contribution limit amount for such accounts. Makes permanent provisions...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-25
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HCR10 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides for a joint session of Congress on January 25, 2011, to receive a message from the President.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-25
Message on Senate action sent to the House. |
| SB102 | Intro
Sine Die | Reduce Unnecessary Spending Act of 2011 - Amends the Impoundment Control Act of 1974 to require the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to transmit, within 45 calendar days after enactment of the funding in question, a message to Congress with spec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-25
To Senate Budget Committee |
| SB145 | Intro
Sine Die | Older Worker Opportunity Act of 2011 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow employers who maintain a tax-qualified pension or retirement plan and who provide health insurance coverage a business-related tax credit for 25% of the first $6,000 of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-25
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB142 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires conveyance of approximately 44 acres of federally owned land administered by the Agricultural Research Service which comprises part of the National Animal Disease Center in the city of Ames, Iowa, to the city of Ames and its assigns.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-25
To Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, And Forestry Committee |
| SB74 | Intro
Sine Die | Internet Freedom, Broadband Promotion, and Consumer Protection Act of 2011 - Amends title II (Common Carriers) of the Communications Act of 1934 to add the following provisions (commonly referred to as net neutrality provisions) prohibiting a broadba...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-25
To Senate Commerce, Science, And Transportation Committee |
| SB41 | Intro
Sine Die | National Office for Social Work Research Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to establish the Office of Social Work Research in the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to conduct, support, and disseminate targeted research concerning social wo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-25
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| SB101 | Intro
Sine Die | Employee Stock Ownership Plan Promotion and Improvement Act of 2011- Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) exempt certain distributions, including dividends, by S corporations to an employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) from the penalty tax for pre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-25
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB166 | Intro
Sine Die | Good Samaritan Hunger Relief Tax Incentive Extension Act of 2011- Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) modify the tax deduction for charitable contributions of food inventory by limiting the reduction in such deduction to the amount by which the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-25
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB63 | Intro
Sine Die | Directs the Secretary of the Army to issue a certificate of service to any Filipino national who the Secretary determines performed any military service in the Philippine Islands during World War II qualifying such person or such person's survivor to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-25
To Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee |
| HR38 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Chair of the House Committee on the Budget to include in the Congressional Record the contemplated allocation for the Committee on Appropriations for the remainder of FY2011 that assumes non-security spending at FY2008 levels or less.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-25
The title of the measure was amended. Agreed to without objection. |
| SB107 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the Internal Revenue Code to treat income earned by mutual funds from interests holding certain gold, silver, platinum, or palladium bullion that are regularly traded on an established U.S. securities market as qualifying income (i.e., passed ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-25
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB19 | Intro
Sine Die | American Liberty Restoration Act - Repeals provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act that require individuals to maintain minimum essential health care coverage. Applies the Internal Revenue Code as if such provisions had never bee...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-25
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB117 | Intro
Sine Die | Moving to Work Charter Program Act of 2011 - Directs the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to enter into charter contracts, beginning in FY2012, with up to 250 public housing agencies administering the public housing program or the section 8...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-25
To Senate Banking, Housing, And Urban Affairs Committee |
| SB28 | Intro
Sine Die | Public Safety Spectrum and Wireless Innovation Act - Directs the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to: (1) ensure the deployment of a nationwide public safety interoperable broadband network in the 700 MHz band which is deployed in both rural a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-25
To Senate Commerce, Science, And Transportation Committee |
| SB21 | Intro
Sine Die | Cyber Security and American Cyber Competitiveness Act of 2011 - Calls for the enactment of bipartisan legislation to secure the United States against cyber attack, enhance American competitiveness and create jobs in the information technology industr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-25
To Senate Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs Committee |
| SB136 | Intro
Sine Die | Ban Poisonous Additives Act of 2011 - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to deem to be adulterated: (1) food intended for children three years of age or younger if the container is composed of bisphenol A; (2) a baby bottle or cup that i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-25
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| SB70 | Intro
Sine Die | Restores the observance of Memorial Day from the last Monday in May to May 30th of each year.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-25
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB67 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the USA PATRIOT Improvement and Reauthorization Act of 2005 to extend through February 29, 2012, a provision granting roving electronic surveillance authority. Amends the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 to extend until...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-24
To House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security |
| HR50 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Architect of the Capitol to enclose the visitors' galleries of the House of Representatives with a clear and bomb-proof material and install audio equipment so that the House proceedings on the floor will be clearly audible in the galler...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-24
To House Administration Committee |
| HB74 | Intro
Sine Die | Private Prison Information Act of 2011 - Requires each nongovernmental entity or state or local governmental entity that has an agreement with any federal agency to incarcerate or detain federal prisoners in a non-federal prison or correctional facil...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-24
To House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security |
| HB82 | Intro
Sine Die | Drug Court Reauthorization Act - Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to authorize appropriations for the drug courts program for FY2012-FY2018 and to modify certain program requirements relating to grant authority, grant app...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-24
To House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security |
| HB83 | Intro
Sine Die | Bullying Prevention and Intervention Act of 2011 - Amends the Omnnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to: (1) allow the use of juvenile accountability block grants for bullying prevention and intervention programs; (2) require the Attorne...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-24
To House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security |
| HB84 | Intro
Sine Die | Contempt of the House of Representatives Subpoena Authority Act of 2011 - Grants the U.S. district court for the District of Columbia original jurisdiction over any civil action brought by the House of Representatives (or any authorized committee or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-24
To House Subcommittee on Courts, Commercial and Administrative Law |
| HB89 | Intro
Sine Die | American Child Support Enforcement Immigration Act of 2011 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to prohibit the Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS) from approving a family-based immigration petition or fiance/fiancee nonimmigrant petition by...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-24
To House Subcommittee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement |
| HB100 | Intro
Sine Die | Clear Law Enforcement for Criminal Alien Removal Act of 2011 or the CLEAR Act of 2011 - States that: (1) state and local law enforcement personnel, in the course of their routine duties, have the inherent authority to investigate, apprehend, or trans...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-24
To House Subcommittee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement |
| HB106 | Intro
Sine Die | Public Official Accountability Act - Amends the federal criminal code to provide for a two-year increase in the prison sentence of public officials convicted of any crime: (1) committed during the course of official duty and intended to enrich such o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-24
To House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security |
| HB107 | Intro
Sine Die | Caging Prohibition Act of 2011 - Amends the federal criminal code to prohibit state or local election officials from preventing an individual from registering or voting in any election for federal office, or from permitting a formal challenge under s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-24
To House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security |
