| SR16 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends Rule XXII (Precedence of Motions) of the Standing Rules of the Senate to prescribe a procedure for a bipartisan cloture motion on a motion to proceed to a measure or matter. Requires the motion to be signed by 16 Senators, including the Majori...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-24
Resolution agreed to in Senate without amendment by Yea-Nay Vote. 86 - 9. Record Vote Number: 2. (text: CR S274) |
| SR17 | Intro
Sine Die | Designates the majority party membership on specified Senate committees for the 113th Congress.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-24
Submitted in the Senate, considered, and agreed to without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S296; text as passed Senate: CR S296; text of measure as introduced: CR S294) |
| SR18 | Intro
Sine Die | Designates the minority party membership on specified Senate committees for the 113th Congress.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-24
Submitted in the Senate, considered, and agreed to without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S296-297; text as passed Senate: CR S296-297; text of measure as introduced: CR S294) |
| SR5 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends Rule XXII (Precedence of Motions) of the Standing Rules of the Senate with respect to cloture votes to close debate (end a filibuster) on any measure, motion, or other matter pending before the Senate. Declares that if the Senate fails to invo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-24
Disagreed to in Senate by Voice Vote. |
| SB64 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to prohibit any authorized committee of a candidate or any other political committee established, maintained, or controlled by a candidate or person who holds a federal office from employing the spouse...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-23
To Senate Rules And Administration Committee |
| SB65 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 to eliminate automatic pay adjustments for Members of Congress.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-23
To Senate Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs Committee |
| SB66 | Intro
Sine Die | Corps of Engineers Project Delivery Flexibility Act of 2013 - Directs the Chief of Engineers to establish a pilot program to evaluate the cost-effectiveness and project delivery efficiency of non-federal sponsors as the lead project delivery team for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-23
To Senate Environment And Public Works Committee |
| SB67 | Intro
Sine Die | Secure Water Facilities Act - Secure Drinking Water Facilities Act - Amends the Safe Drinking Water Act to revise and expand requirements for assessment by covered water systems of their vulnerability to a range of intentional acts. Defines a "covere...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-23
To Senate Environment And Public Works Committee |
| SB68 | Intro
Sine Die | Secure Chemical Facilities Act - Amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to set forth provisions for the regulation of security practices at chemical facilities. Authorizes the Secretary of Homeland Security to designate: (1) any chemical substance...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-23
To Senate Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs Committee |
| SB69 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for the relief of Anton Dodaj, Gjyljana Dodaj, Franc Dodaj, Kristjan Dodaj, and Kanto Macotaj.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-23
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB70 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for the relief of Marcos Antonio Sanchez-Diaz.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-23
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB71 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for the relief of Josephina Valera Lopez.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-23
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB72 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for the relief of Luay Hadad.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-23
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB73 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for the relief of Miguel Santillan.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-23
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB74 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for the relief of Momo Krcic.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-23
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB75 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for the relief of Ibrahim Parlak.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-23
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB76 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for the relief of Guy Vang, Genevieve Chong Foung, Caroline Vang, and Melanie Vang.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-23
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB77 | Intro
Sine Die | Prescription Drug and Health Improvement Act of 2013 - 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] | 2013-01-23
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB78 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for the relief of Hussein Bazzi.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-23
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB79 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for the relief of Al-Housseynou Ba.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-23
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB80 | Intro
Sine Die | Sexual Assault Forensic Evidence Reporting Act of 2013 or the SAFER Act of 2013 - Amends the DNA Analysis Backlog Elimination Act of 2000 to authorize the Attorney General to make Debbie Smith grants under such Act to states or local governments to: ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-23
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB86 | 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 2012 to the contribution limit amount for such accounts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-23
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB87 | Intro
Sine Die | Home School Opportunities Make Education Sound Act of 2013 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow all taxpayers, including taxpayers who do not itemize their deductions, a tax deduction for expenses relating to the home schooling of their childr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-23
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB88 | Intro
Sine Die | 21st Century Charter School Act - Amends the Charter School program of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965. Makes public and private nonprofit entities eligible for program grants. (Currently, state educational entities are eligible f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-23
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| SB89 | Intro
Sine Die | Migratory Bird Treaty Amendment Act of 2013 - Amends the Migratory Bird Treaty Act to allow an agricultural producer, or a hunter with the producer's permission, to take migratory game birds by the aid of baiting, if: (1) the manipulation occurs on t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-23
To Senate Environment And Public Works Committee |
| SB90 | Intro
Sine Die | Notch Fairness Act of 2013 - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act to revise the formula for the computation of minimum Old Age Insurance benefits for individuals who reached age 65 in or aft...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-23
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB91 | Intro
Sine Die | Child Tax Credit Integrity Preservation Act of 2013 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to expand the identification requirements for the child tax credit to require taxpayers to provide valid identification numbers on their tax returns in addition to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-23
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB115 | Intro
Sine Die | Small Business Job Creation Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow an employer a credit against payroll tax liability equal to 10% of the increase of such employer's payroll in a calendar quarter over a corresponding quarter in the previous ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-23
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB92 | Intro
Sine Die | Declares that, in the event the debt of the federal government reaches the statutory limit, the authority of the Department of the Treasury to pay with legal tender the principal and interest on debt held by the public, and the authority of the Commi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-23
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB93 | Intro
Sine Die | Investment Savings Access After Catastrophes Act of 2013 - Defines "Hurricane Isaac disaster area" for purposes of this Act as any parish or county of Louisiana or Mississippi in an area in which a major disaster has been declared before September 10...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-23
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB116 | Intro
Sine Die | Garrett Lee Smith Memorial Act Reauthorization of 2013 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to reauthorize and revise a research, training, and technical assistance resource center to prevent suicides (the Suicide Prevention Resource Center). Expan...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-23
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| SB94 | Intro
Sine Die | Terminates the program for redesign and issuance of circulating $1 coins honoring each of the Presidents of the United States (Presidential $1 Coin Program).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-23
To Senate Banking, Housing, And Urban Affairs Committee |
| SB95 | Intro
Sine Die | Expresses the sense of Congress that now that evidence is available that nullifies the most controversial aspects of the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict (the Goldstone Report) the United Nations (U.N.) should formally retract...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-23
To Senate Foreign Relations Committee |
| SB117 | Intro
Sine Die | Medicare Prescription Drug Price Negotiation Act of 2013 - Amends part D (Voluntary Prescription Drug Benefit Program) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to negotiate with p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-23
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB96 | Intro
Sine Die | Rigs to Reefs Habitat Protection Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to assess each offshore oil and gas platform in the Gulf of Mexico that is no longer useful for operations, and has become critical for a marine fisheries habitat, to: (1) d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-23
To Senate Energy And Natural Resources Committee |
| SB97 | Intro
Sine Die | Small Business Paperwork Relief Act of 2013 - Amends the Paperwork Reduction Act to direct agency heads not to impose civil fines for first-time paperwork violations by small business concerns unless there is potential for serious harm to the public ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-23
To Senate Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs Committee |
| SB118 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the Internal Revenue Code to repeal provisions providing for the use of funds from the Presidential Election Campaign Fund for presidential nominating conventions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-23
To Senate Rules And Administration Committee |
| SB98 | Intro
Sine Die | Local Disaster Contracting Fairness Act of 2013 - Prohibits the head of an executive agency from entering into an agreement for debris removal or demolition services in connection with natural disaster reconstruction efforts unless the agreement spec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-23
To Senate Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs Committee |
| SB99 | Intro
Sine Die | Natural Disaster Fairness in Contracting Act of 2013 - Requires agencies, in entering into a contract to procure property or services in connection with natural disaster reconstruction efforts, to use specified competitive procedures. Allows agencies...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-23
To Senate Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs Committee |
| SB100 | Intro
Sine Die | Terminating the Expansion of Too-Big-To-Fail Act of 2013 - Amends the Financial Stability Act of 2010, title I of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Dodd-Frank), the Federal Deposit Insurance Act, and the Federal Reserve A...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-23
To Senate Banking, Housing, And Urban Affairs Committee |
| SB119 | Intro
Sine Die | Global Democracy Promotion Act - Declares that foreign nongovernmental organizations: (1) shall not be ineligible for assistance under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 solely on the basis of health or medical services (including counseling and refe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-23
To Senate Foreign Relations Committee |
| SB101 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the use of federal funds to purchase or guarantee obligations of, issue lines of credit to, or provide direct or indirect grants-and-aid to any state, municipal, local, or county government which, on or after January 26, 2011, has defaulted...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-23
To Senate Banking, Housing, And Urban Affairs Committee |
| SB102 | Intro
Sine Die | Directs the Secretary of State to: (1) annually estimate the number of illegal border crossings along the southern U.S. land border, and (2) reduce financial assistance to the government of Mexico by a total of $1,000 for each illegal border crossing...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-23
To Senate Foreign Relations Committee |
| SB103 | Intro
Sine Die | Thurgood Marshall's Elementary School Study Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a special resource study of P.S. 103, the public school located in West Baltimore, Maryland, which former Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall atten...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-23
To Senate Energy And Natural Resources Committee |
| SB104 | Intro
Sine Die | National Monuments Act of 2011- Requires the President to obtain congressional approval of proposed national monuments situated upon land owned or controlled by the federal government and certify compliance with the National Environmental Policy Act ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-23
To Senate Energy And Natural Resources Committee |
| SB121 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the United States Advisory Council on Human Trafficking, which shall provide advice and recommendations to the Senior Policy Operating Group and the President's Task Force to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons. Directs the Council ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-23
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB105 | 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] | 2013-01-23
To Senate Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs Committee |
| SB106 | Intro
Sine Die | Public Access to Historical Records Act - Directs the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to establish an official dataset on the historical temperature record. Requires NASA to use the raw data related to tempe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-23
To Senate Commerce, Science, And Transportation Committee |
| SB122 | Intro
Sine Die | Fair Tax Act of 2013 - Repeals the income tax, employment tax, and estate and gift tax. Redesignates the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 as the Internal Revenue Code of 2013. Imposes a national sales tax on the use or consumption in the United States o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-23
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB107 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) or the head of any other federal agency from regulating carbon dioxide emissions until the Secretary of Commerce certifies that China, India, and Russia have initiated measures ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-23
To Senate Environment And Public Works Committee |
