| HB6658 | Intro
Sine Die | Urban Competitiveness Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from gross income any capital gain from the sale or exchange of a stock, partnership, or business property interest invested in an enterprise zone area which had an average unemp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-13
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| SR614 | Intro
Sine Die | Commends the World Peace Corps Mission for advancing peace, justice, and inter-religious collaborations. Celebrates the World Peace Award and its recipients.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-12
Submitted in the Senate, considered, and agreed to without amendment and with a preamble by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S7989; text as passed Senate: CR S7989; text of measure as introduced: CR S7982) |
| HB6650 | Intro
Sine Die | Expands the enumerated powers of the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) to include the authority to provide nonpostal services. Removes existing conditions that limit nonpostal services to certain services offered as of January 1, 2006. Prohibits the USPS fr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-12
To House Oversight And Government Reform Committee |
| SB3673 | Intro
Sine Die | Dollar for Dollar Act of 2012 - Amends title XI of the Social Security Act (SSA) to authorize a five-year renewable comprehensive Medicaid waiver to allow a state to elect to provide medical assistance under SSA title XIX (Medicaid), directly or by c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-12
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB6652 | Intro
Sine Die | Making United States Independents Competitive Act or MUSIC Act - Directs the Secretary of Commerce to provide assistance to U.S. independent music label companies to facilitate exports of recorded music by those companies. Requires the Secretary to g...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-12
To House Foreign Affairs Committee |
| HB6653 | Intro
Sine Die | Independent Contractor Tax Fairness and Simplification Act of 2012 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to set forth criteria for classifying a worker as an employee or an independent contractor. Prohibits: (1) any retroactive assessment of employment ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-12
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HR827 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes it in order at any time through the legislative day of December 28, 2012, for the Speaker of the House of Representatives to entertain motions that the House suspend the rules.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-12
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection. |
| SB3670 | Intro
Sine Die | Conditioning United States-Egypt Military Exercises Act of 2012 - Prohibits FY2013 funds from being used for U.S. participation in joint military exercises with Egypt if, during FY2013, Egypt abrogates, terminates, or withdraws from the 1979 Egypt-Is...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-12
To Senate Armed Services Committee |
| SB3671 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to treat each North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) member nation as a nation with which there is in effect a free trade agreement and thus eligible for expedited application and approval for the importat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-12
To Senate Banking, Housing, And Urban Affairs Committee |
| SB3674 | Intro
Sine Die | Farmers Protection Act of 2012 - Amends the Migratory Bird Treaty Act to permit the taking of any migratory game bird, including waterfowl, coots, and cranes, on or over land that: (1) is not a baited area; and (2) contains a standing crop (including...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-12
To Senate Environment And Public Works Committee |
| SB3675 | Intro
Sine Die | HUBZone Expansion Act of 2012 - Amends the Small Business Act to include as a base closure area for purposes of the HUBZONE (historically underutilized business zone) program of the Small Business Administration (SBA) a military installation's munici...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-12
To Senate Small Business And Entrepreneurship Committee |
| SB3676 | Intro
Sine Die | Reducing Duplication Overseas Act of 2012 - Requires a federal agency that performs any foreign affairs functions and operates overseas to participate in the International Cooperative Administrative Support Services system for purposes of obtaining h...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-12
To Senate Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs Committee |
| HR829 | Intro
Sine Die | Returns to the Senate S. 3254 (National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2013), including the Senate amendment to H.B. 4310 (National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2013), because, in the opinion of the House of Representatives, t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-12
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection. |
| HR830 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that Mr. Michael Michaud shall rank above Ms. Corrine Brown on the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-12
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection. |
| HB6190 | Intro
Sine Die | Asthma Inhalers Relief Act of 2012 - Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to: (1) permit the distribution, sale, and consumption in the United States of remaining inventories of CFC epinephrine inhalers manufactured ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-12
On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Failed by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 229 - 182 (Roll no. 623). |
| SB3254 | Engross
Sine Die | National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2013 - Division A: Department of Defense Authorizations - Title I: Procurement - Subtitle A: Authorization of Appropriations - (Sec. 101) Authorizes appropriations for FY2013 for the Department of De...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-12
Pursuant to the provisions of H. Res. 829, papers are returned to the Senate. |
| SR615 | Intro
Sine Die | Congratulates the recipients of the 2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry (Robert J. Lefkowitz, M.D. and Brian K. Kobilka, M.D.). Recognizes the Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina, and the Stanford University School of Medicine in Stan...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-12
Submitted in the Senate, considered, and agreed to without amendment and with a preamble by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S7989; text as passed Senate: CR S7989; text of measure as introduced: CR S7982) |
| HB6648 | Intro
Sine Die | Post Office Consumer Action Group Act or the POCAG Act - Establishes as a nonprofit corporation the Post Office Consumer Action Group (POCAG) to represent and promote the interests of individual residential postal users. Grants POCAG the authority to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-11
To House Oversight And Government Reform Committee |
| SB3546 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the Native American Programs Act of 1974 to reauthorize appropriations, for FY2013-FY2017, for a grant program to ensure the survival and continuing vitality of Native American languages.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-11
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 562. |
| SB3548 | Intro
Sine Die | Native American Veterans' Memorial Amendments Act of 2012 - Amends the Native American Veterans' Memorial Establishment Act of 1994 to authorize the construction of the National Native American Veterans' Memorial on the property of the National Museu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-11
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 563. |
| SB3669 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides assistance, from Treasury funds not otherwise appropriated, for watersheds adversely affected by qualifying natural disasters.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-11
To Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, And Forestry Committee |
| HB6646 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits any funds made available after FY2012 to any federal department or agency from being used to provide assistance to Egypt.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-11
To House Foreign Affairs Committee |
| HB6647 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the Internal Revenue Code to rename the section heading of Internal Revenue Code provisions relating to the individual retirement accounts (IRAs) of married individuals as the Kay Bailey Hutchison Spousal IRA.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-11
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HR828 | Intro
Sine Die | Calls upon Iran to release Nasrin Sotoudeh and all prisoners of conscience. Encourages the President: (1) to utilize bilateral and multilateral diplomacy with Iran to support human rights; and (2) in coordination with the Secretary of State, to supp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-11
To House Foreign Affairs Committee |
| SB2024 | Intro
Sine Die | Sandia Pueblo Settlement Technical Amendment Act - Amends the T'uf Shur Bien Preservation Trust Area Act to require the Secretary of Agriculture, upon the receipt of certain consideration and at the request of the Sandia Pueblo of New Mexico and the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-11
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 561. |
| HB6644 | Intro
Sine Die | Global Partnerships Act of 2012 - Sets forth provisions regarding global poverty and related matters, including: (1) reduction of global poverty; (2) acceleration of economic growth; (3) micro enterprise and small and medium enterprise assistance; (4...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-11
To House Rules Committee |
| SB76 | Intro
Sine Die | Strengthening Protections for Children and Communities From Disease Clusters Act - Requires the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to: (1) develop, publish, and update guidelines on an approach to investigate suspected or pote...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-11
Star Print ordered on on the report (112-213). |
| HB6640 | Intro
Sine Die | Directs the Secretary of the Interior to convey to River Bottom Farms of La Paz County, Arizona, specified Bureau of Land Management (BLM) land in Riverside County, California, in exchange for two specified parcels of non-federal land in the county f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-11
To House Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands |
| SB3664 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes an increase in the public debt limit by an Executive order of the President. (Currently, a public debt increase is limited to the congressional budget process, a presidential modification of the debt ceiling procedures subject to a joint r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-10
Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 560. |
| SR612 | Intro
Sine Die | Declares that the Senate: (1) expresses profound sorrow at the death of the Honorable Arlen Specter, a former U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania; and (2) conveys its condolences to his family. Declares that when the Senate adjourns December 10, 2012, it...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-10
Submitted in the Senate, considered, and agreed to without amendment and with a preamble by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S7706-7707; text as passed Senate: CR S7706-7707; text of measure as introduced: CR S7704) |
| SB3668 | Intro
Sine Die | Bradley Fighting Vehicle Sustainment Act of 2012 - Requires the Secretary of the Army to conduct a study on the quantitative and qualitative impacts of a production break for the Bradley Fighting Vehicle.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-10
To Senate Armed Services Committee |
| HB6617 | Intro
Sine Die | Indian Trust Asset Reform Act - Reaffirms the federal government's fiduciary responsibilities to Indians. States that: (1) the most exacting common law fiduciary standards governing private trustees also govern the federal government when it manages...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-10
To House Subcommittee Indian and Alaska Native Affairs |
| HB6619 | Intro
Sine Die | Anchorage Land Conveyance Act of 2012 - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to convey, without consideration, to the city of Anchorage, Alaska, the reversionary interests of the United States in specified parcels of non-federal land in order to une...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-10
To House Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands |
| HB6638 | Intro
Sine Die | Supporting Access to Formulated and Effective Compounded Drugs Act of 2012 or S.A.F.E. Compounded Drugs Act of 2012 - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA) with respect to the regulation of compounded drugs. Eliminates authority for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-07
To House Subcommittee on Health |
| HB6626 | Intro
Sine Die | Health Care Innovation and Marketplace Technologies Act of 2012 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a medical care provider to deduct from gross income the amount paid or incurred for qualified health information technology placed in service ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-07
To House Subcommittee on Health |
| HB6625 | Intro
Sine Die | Violence Against Indian Women Act of 2012 - Amends the Indian Civil Rights Act of 1968 to give Indian tribes criminal jurisdiction over domestic violence, dating violence, and violations of protective orders that occur on their lands. Makes that juri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-07
To House Subcommittee on Courts, Commercial and Administrative Law |
| HB6606 | Intro
Sine Die | Respect States' and Citizens' Rights Act of 2012 - Amends the Controlled Substances Act to provide that, in the case of any state law that pertains to marihuana, no provision of such Act shall be construed as indicating congressional intent to: (1) o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-07
To House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security |
| HB6605 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to repeal a reporting requirement under the DNA identification grant program that requires each state or local government that receives a grant to submit to the Attorney General, for each ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-07
Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security. |
| HB6628 | Intro
Sine Die | Sexual Assault Forensic Evidence Registry Act of 2012 or the SAFER Act of 2012 - 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 co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-07
To House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security |
| HB6629 | Intro
Sine Die | National Child Protection Training Act - Directs the Attorney General, through the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, to establish a program to sustain at least four university, college, or community college affiliated regional tr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-07
To House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security |
| HB6063 | Pass | Child Protection Act of 2012 - Amends the federal criminal code to impose a fine and/or prison term of up to 20 years for transporting, receiving, distributing, selling, or possessing pornographic images of a child under the age of 12. Requires a U.S...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-07
Became Public Law No: 112-206. |
| HB6634 | Pass | Postpones until April 15, 2013, the effective date of the requirement under the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act of 2012 (STOCK Act) that the Secretary of the Senate, the Sergeant at Arms of the Senate, and the Clerk of the House of Repres...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-07
Became Public Law No: 112-207. |
| HB915 | Pass | Jaime Zapata Border Enforcement Security Task Force Act - Amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to establish within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) the Border Enforcement Security Task Force (BEST), which shall establish units to enhance...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-07
Became Public Law No: 112-205. |
| SB1947 | Engross
Sine Die | Animal Fighting Spectator Prohibition Act of 2011 - Amends the Animal Welfare Act to prohibit any person from knowingly attending an animal fighting venture or knowingly causing a minor (a person under the age of 18) to attend such a venture. Subjec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-07
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB6590 | Intro
Sine Die | Fair, Accurate, Secure, and Timely Voting Act of 2012 or FAST Voting Act of 2012 - Directs the Attorney General to award grants, on a competitive basis, to enable states to: (1) invest in practices and technology designed to expedite voting at the po...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-07
To House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security |
| HB6618 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of Justice Global Advisory Committee Authorization Act of 2012 - Authorizes the Attorney General to provide technical and financial assistance and support to the Global Justice Information Sharing Initiative Advisory Committee. Requires th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-07
To House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security |
| HB6622 | Intro
Sine Die | Officer Safety Act of 2012 - Amends the federal judicial code to deem a law enforcement officer who is the defendant in a criminal prosecution to have been acting under the color of his office, solely for purposes of determining the propriety of remo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-07
To House Subcommittee on Courts, Commercial and Administrative Law |
| HB6623 | Intro
Sine Die | Human Cloning Prohibition Act of 2012 - Amends the federal criminal code to prohibit any public or private person or entity, in or affecting interstate commerce, from: (1) performing or attempting to perform human cloning; (2) participating in an att...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-07
To House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security |
| HCR144 | Intro
Sine Die | Express the sense of Congress that a carbon tax would be detrimental to American families and businesses and is not in the interest of the United States.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-07
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HB6643 | Intro
Sine Die | Ending Fiscal Cliffs Act of 2012 - Authorizes an increase or decrease in the public debt limit, as necessary, by the amount determined by the Secretary of the Treasury to be required to meet existing commitments after enactment of any Act of Congress...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-07
To House Ways And Means Committee |
