| HB364 | Intro
Sine Die | Preserving Jobs in the Oilfield Act of 2017 7 This bill directs the Department of Transportation to ensure that, with respect to maximum hours of service for drivers, on-duty time does not include waiting time at a natural gas or oil well site for op...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-09
To House Subcommittee on Highways and Transit |
| HB379 | Intro
Sine Die | Justice for Yazidis Act This bill states that Syrian and Iraqi nationals who are members of a religious minority in their country of origin: (1) shall be classified as refugees of special humanitarian concern, (2) shall be eligible for priority-2 ref...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-09
To House Subcommittee on Immigration And Border Security |
| HB373 | Intro
Sine Die | Refusing to Assist Paying for United Nations Actions Against Israel Act This bill prohibits funds from being made available for U.S. contributions to the United Nations (U.N.) or to any affiliated body of the U.N. until Security Council Resolution 23...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-09
To House Foreign Affairs Committee |
| SB67 | Intro
Sine Die | IRGC Terrorist Designation Act This bill expresses the sense of Congress that Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) meets the criteria for designation as a foreign terrorist organization and should be so designated by the Department of State. State...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-09
To Senate Foreign Relations Committee |
| SB68 | Intro
Sine Die | Muslim Brotherhood Terrorist Designation Act of 2017 This bill requires the Department of State to report to specified congressional committees within 60 days indicating: (1) whether the Muslim Brotherhood meets the criteria for designation as a fore...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-09
To Senate Foreign Relations Committee |
| SB62 | Intro
Sine Die | January 8th National Memorial Act This bill directs the Department of the Interior to establish the January 8th National Memorial in Tucson, Arizona, as an affiliated area of the National Park System in commemoration of the shooting of Congresswoman ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-09
To Senate Energy And Natural Resources Committee |
| SB69 | Intro
Sine Die | Regulatory Responsibility for our Economy Act of 2017 This bill sets forth general requirements for the federal regulatory system, including the protection of public health, welfare, safety, and the environment, the promotion of predictability in the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-09
To Senate Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs Committee |
| SB73 | Intro
Sine Die | Housing Accountability Act of 2017 This bill amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 to provide statutory authority for the requirement for an entity receiving low-income housing assistance payments for existing public housing units to maintain ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-09
To Senate Banking, Housing, And Urban Affairs Committee |
| SB71 | Intro
Sine Die | Emergency Citrus Disease Response Act This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a full deduction in the current taxable year of the cost of replanting lost or damaged citrus plants. The taxpayer must own an equity interest of at least 50% i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-09
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB72 | Intro
Sine Die | Counterterror Alert Act of 2017 This bill requires the Department of Justice (DOJ) to include in the national instant criminal background check system (i.e., the NICS database) information about an individual who is or has been under a federal terror...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-09
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB384 | Intro
Sine Die | End the Congressional Revolving Door Act This bill prohibits a former Member of Congress or former senior congressional employee who is a registered lobbyist, and entitled to compensation as such, from being eligible for any benefits beginning after ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-09
To House Administration Committee |
| SB64 | Intro
Sine Die | Safe and Affordable Drugs from Canada Act of 2017 This bill amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA) to require the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to promulgate regulations within 180 days permitting individuals to impor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-09
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| HB385 | Intro
Sine Die | To amend the Expedited Funds Availability Act to clarify the application of that Act to American Samoa and the Northern Mariana Islands. This bill amends the Expedited Funds Availability Act to apply the Act, which governs bank deposit holds, to Amer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-09
To House Financial Services Committee |
| HB386 | Intro
Sine Die | Working Parents Tax Relief Act This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) increase from $5,000 to $7,500 (adjusted for inflation after 2017) the amount of employer-provided dependent care assistance that an employee may exclude from gross inc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-09
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| SB59 | Intro
Sine Die | Hearing Protection Act of 2017 This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) eliminate the $200 transfer tax on firearm silencers, and (2) treat any person who acquires or possesses a firearm silencer as meeting any registration or licensing req...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-09
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB60 | Intro
Sine Die | A bill to designate the Federal building and United States courthouse located at 719 Church Street in Nashville, Tennessee, as the "Fred D. Thompson Federal Building and United States Courthouse". This bill designates the federal building and U.S. co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-09
To Senate Environment And Public Works Committee |
| SB74 | Intro
Sine Die | Marine Oil Spill Prevention Act This bill address issues related to preventing and responding to oil spills. This bill amends the Gulf of Mexico Energy Security Act of 2006 to extend the moratorium on oil and gas leasing in certain areas in the Gulf ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-09
To Senate Commerce, Science, And Transportation Committee |
| SB70 | Intro
Sine Die | A bill to designate the mountain at the Devils Tower National Monument, Wyoming, as Devils Tower, and for other purposes. This bill declares that the mountain at the Devils Tower National Monument in Wyoming shall be known and designated as "Devils T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-09
To Senate Energy And Natural Resources Committee |
| SB65 | Intro
Sine Die | Presidential Conflicts of Interest Act of 2017 This bill requires the President and Vice President to submit to Congress and the Office of Government Ethics a disclosure of financial interests. Among the contents of such disclosure, the President and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-09
To Senate Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs Committee |
| SB66 | Intro
Sine Die | Retired Pay Restoration Act This bill allows the receipt of both military retired pay and veterans' disability compensation with respect to any service-connected disability (under current law, such a disability must be rated as not less than 50% disa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-09
To Senate Armed Services Committee |
| HB376 | Intro
Sine Die | Shareholder Protection Act of 2017 This bill amends the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to require shareholder authorization with respect to certain political expenditures by an issuer. A violation of this requirement shall be considered a breach of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-09
To House Financial Services Committee |
| SB58 | Intro
Sine Die | Middle Class Health Benefits Tax Repeal Act of 2017 This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to repeal, beginning with taxable years beginning after December 31, 2017, the excise tax on employer-sponsored health care coverage for which there is an ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-09
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HR34 | Intro
Sine Die | Electing Members to Certain Standing Committees of the House of Representatives. Elects a specified Member to the House Committee on Armed Services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-09
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection. |
| HB357 | Intro
Sine Die | Overseas Outsourcing Accountability Act This bill requires the President to develop a comprehensive national strategy to prevent U.S. employers from overseas outsourcing and offshoring practices that impact the U.S. workforce. The strategy shall: del...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-06
To House Education And The Workforce Committee |
| HB365 | Intro
Sine Die | Primary Care Enhancement Act of 2017 This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) permit an individual to pay primary care service arrangement costs from a health savings account; and (2) allow an eligible taxpayer enrolled in a high-deductible...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-06
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HB359 | Intro
Sine Die | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for waivers of user fees imposed with respect to applications for reinstatement of tax-exempt status of small, subsidiary tax-exempt organizations. This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-06
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HB363 | Intro
Sine Die | Child Tax Credit Integrity Preservation Act of 2017 This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to expand the identification requirement for the child tax credit to require taxpayers to provide a valid identification number (i.e., a Social Security ac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-06
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HR31 | Intro
Sine Die | Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the United States Postal Service should take all appropriate measures to restore service standards in effect as of July 1, 2012. Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the U....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-06
To House Oversight And Government Reform Committee |
| HB355 | Intro
Sine Die | Protecting American Families' Retirement Advice Act This bill delays for two years the effective date of the Department of Labor rule published on April 8, 2016, relating to the definition of the term "fiduciary" and the conflict of interest rule wit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-06
To House Education And The Workforce Committee |
| HCR8 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing for a joint session of Congress to receive a presentation from the Comptroller General of the United States regarding the audited financial statement of the executive branch. Requires both chambers of Congress to assemble annually in the Ha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-06
To House Administration Committee |
| HR29 | Intro
Sine Die | Electing Members to certain standing committees of the House of Representatives. Elects specified Members to the following House Committees: (1) Appropriations, (2) Energy and Commerce, (3) Financial Services, and (4) Ways and Means.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-06
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection. |
| SB46 | Intro
Sine Die | Strengthening Medicare Intensive Cardiac Rehabilitation Programs Act of 2017 This bill amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to revise requirements related the approval of intensive cardiac rehabilitation programs by the Centers fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-05
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB311 | Intro
Sine Die | Refusing to Assist Paying for United Nations Actions Against Israel Act This bill prohibits funds from being made available for U.S. contributions to the United Nations (U.N.) or to any affiliated body of the U.N. until Security Council Resolution 23...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-05
To House Foreign Affairs Committee |
| SB47 | Intro
Sine Die | Protect Family Farms and Businesses Act This bill prohibits proposed Internal Revenue Service regulations published on August 4, 2016, relating to restrictions on liquidation of an interest with respect to estate, gift, and generation-skipping transf...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-05
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB49 | Intro
Sine Die | Alaska Oil and Gas Production Act This bill authorizes the exploration, leasing, development, production, and transportation of oil and gas to and from the Coastal Plain of Alaska. The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) must establish a competitive oil ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-05
To Senate Energy And Natural Resources Committee |
| HB332 | Intro
Sine Die | Peace Corps Stamp Act This bill directs the U.S. Postal Service to issue a Peace Corps Semipostal Stamp for 10 years to afford the public with a convenient way to help fund the Peace Corps' Global Fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-05
To House Oversight And Government Reform Committee |
| HB340 | Intro
Sine Die | Next Generation American Manufacturing Act of 2017 This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a tax credit for the purchase (during a specified period of between 5 and 10 years based on the incentive needed with respect to each product) of n...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-05
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HB323 | Intro
Sine Die | To amend the Black Lung Benefits Act to provide equity for certain eligible survivors, and for other purposes. This bill amends the Black Lung Benefits Act to preserve specified amendments made by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-05
To House Education And The Workforce Committee |
| SB54 | Intro
Sine Die | Protect American Families Act Protect American Families from Unnecessary Registration and Deportation Act of 2017 This bill prohibits: (1) the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Justice, or any other federal department from creating o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-05
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB77 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing Accountability Through Transparency Act of 2017 This bill requires the general notice of proposed rule making by a federal agency to include the Internet address of a plain-language summary, not exceeding 100 words, of the proposed rule, wh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-05
To House Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform, Commercial And Antitrust Law |
| SB41 | Intro
Sine Die | Medicare Prescription Drug Price Negotiation Act of 2017 This bill amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to require the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to negotiate with pharmaceutical companies regarding prices for ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-05
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB56 | Intro
Sine Die | RED Tape Act of 2017 Regulations Endanger Democracy Act of 2017 This bill prohibits a federal agency from issuing a rule that causes a new financial or administrative burden on businesses or people in the United States unless the agency has repealed ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-05
To Senate Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs Committee |
| HR23 | Intro
Sine Die | Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives and reaffirming long-standing United States policy in support of a negotiated two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Declares that a viable and sustainable two-state solution to re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-05
To House Foreign Affairs Committee |
| SB43 | Intro
Sine Die | Native American Health Savings Improvement Act This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to specify that receiving hospital care or medical services under a medical care program of the Indian Health Service or a tribal organization does not disquali...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-05
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SR7 | Intro
Sine Die | A resolution to constitute the majority party's membership on certain committees for the One Hundred Fifteenth Congress, or until their successors are chosen. Designates the majority party membership on specified Senate committees for the 115th Congr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-05
Submitted in the Senate, considered, and agreed to without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S106; text as passed Senate: CR S117) |
| HB45 | Intro
Sine Die | Regulatory Accountability Act of 2017 This bill amends the Administrative Procedure Act to revise and expand the requirements for federal agency rulemaking by requiring agencies, in making a rule, to base all preliminary and final factual determinati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-05
To House Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform, Commercial And Antitrust Law |
| HR25 | Intro
Sine Die | Electing a Member to a certain standing committee of the House of Representatives. Elects a specified Member to the House Committee on Ethics.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-05
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection. |
| HR26 | Intro
Sine Die | Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act that restored the original black lung benefits eligibility requirements should not be reduced but should be preserved and prote...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-05
To House Education And The Workforce Committee |
| HB320 | Intro
Sine Die | To amend title 5, United States Code, to give members of the United States Capitol Police the option to delay mandatory retirement until age 60. This bill revises mandatory retirement requirements for members of the U.S. Capitol Police under the Civi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-05
To House Administration Committee |
| HB341 | Intro
Sine Die | Support Our Startups Act of 2017 This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase the amount of the tax deduction for business start-up expenses for taxable years beginning in 2017 or 2018. Under current law, start-up expenses are paid or incur...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-05
To House Ways And Means Committee |
