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“PUBLIC BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS” mentioning the U.S. Dept. of Commerce was published in the House of Representatives section on pages H6649-H6650 on July 26, 2005.
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PUBLIC BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS
Under clause 2 of rule XII, public bills and resolutions were introduced and severally referred, as follows:
By Mr. GUTIERREZ (for himself, Mr. Frank of
Massachusetts, Ms. Lee, and Mrs. McCarthy):
H.R. 3426. A bill to clarify the applicability of State law to national banks and Federal savings associations, and for other purposes; to the Committee on Financial Services.
By Mr. SMITH of New Jersey (for himself and Mrs.
Kelly):
H.R. 3427. A bill to provide for the expansion of Federal efforts concerning the prevention, education, treatment, and research activities related to Lyme and other tick-borne diseases, including the establishment of a Tick-Borne Diseases Advisory Committee; to the Committee on Energy and Commerce.
By Ms. HART (for herself and Mr. Ross):
H.R. 3428. A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the medicine and drugs limitation on the deduction for medical care; to the Committee on Ways and Means.
By Mr. MANZULLO (for himself and Mr. Ramstad):
H.R. 3429. A bill to amend the Small Business Investment Act of 1958 to establish a participating debenture program; to the Committee on Small Business.
By Mr. JONES of North Carolina (for himself and Ms.
Bordallo):
H.R. 3430. A bill to ensure by law the ability of the military service academies to include the offering of a voluntary, nondenominational prayer as an element of their activities; to the Committee on Armed Services.
By Mr. DENT (for himself, Mr. Ehlers, Mr. Pitts, Mr.
Rogers of Michigan, Mr. Akin, Mr. Platts, Mr. Wolf,
Mr. Gerlach, Mr. Schwarz of Michigan, and Mr.
Cantor):
H.R. 3431. A bill to amend the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act to limit casino expansion; to the Committee on Resources.
By Mr. ANDREWS:
H.R. 3432. A bill to create a system of background checks for certain workers who enter people's homes, and for other purposes; to the Committee on Energy and Commerce.
By Mr. ANDREWS:
H.R. 3433. A bill to amend the Federal Rules of Evidence to establish a parent-child privilege; to the Committee on the Judiciary.
By Mr. ANDREWS:
H.R. 3434. A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to establish a presumption of service-connection for certain veterans with Hepatitis C, and for other purposes; to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
By Mrs. BLACKBURN:
H.R. 3435. A bill to amend title II of the Social Security Act to establish a Social Security Surplus Protection Account in the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund to hold the Social Security surplus, to provide for suspension of investment of amounts held in the Account until enactment of legislation providing for investment of the Trust Fund in investment vehicles other than obligations of the United States, and to establish a Social Security Investment Commission to make recommendations for alternative forms of investment of the Social Security surplus in the Trust Fund; to the Committee on Ways and Means.
By Mr. BOUSTANY (for himself and Mr. Wilson of South
Carolina):
H.R. 3436. A bill to withhold funding from the United Nations if the United Nations abridges the rights provided by the Second Amendment to the Constitution, and for other purposes; to the Committee on International Relations.
By Mr. CAMP:
H.R. 3437. A bill to amend titles XVIII and XIX of the Social Security Act with respect to reform of Federal survey and certification process of nursing facilities under the Medicare and Medicaid Programs; to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
By Mr. CUMMINGS:
H.R. 3438. A bill to provide that the Secretary of Education may give preference, in the distribution of certain grants under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, to local educational agencies and certain public or private nonprofit organizations that provide training to regular education personnel to meet the needs of children with disabilities; to the Committee on Education and the Workforce.
By Mr. ETHERIDGE (for himself, Mr. Price of North
Carolina, Mr. McIntyre, Mr. Miller of North Carolina,
Mr. Butterfield, Mr. Watt, Mr. Jones of North
Carolina, Mr. Hayes, Ms. Foxx, Mr. Coble, Mr.
McHenry, Mrs. Myrick, and Mr. Taylor of North
Carolina):
H.R. 3439. A bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 201 North 3rd Street in Smithfield, North Carolina, as the ``Ava Gardner Post Office''; to the Committee on Government Reform.
By Mr. FORTUNO:
H.R. 3440. A bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 100 Avenida RL Rodriguez in Bayamon, Puerto Rico, as the ``Dr. Jose Celso Barbosa Post Office Building``; to the Committee on Government Reform.
By Mr. GARRETT of New Jersey (for himself, Mr. Paul,
Mr. Hostettler, Mr. Bachus, and Mr. Smith of New
Jersey):
H.R. 3441. A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to apply the child tax credit with respect to a taxable year to a child born within 9 months after the close of the taxable year and to a child who is stillborn or dies in utero during the taxable year; to the Committee on Ways and Means.
By Mrs. LOWEY (for herself, Mr. Shays, Mr. Van Hollen,
Mr. Farr, Mr. Moran of Virginia, Mr. Nadler, Mr.
Frank of Massachusetts, Mr. McDermott, Mr. Engel, Mr.
George Miller of California, Mr. Owens, Mr. Sabo, Mr.
Crowley, Mr. Udall of Colorado, Mr. Gallegly, Ms.
Bordallo, Mr. Kildee, Mr. Sherman, Mr. Holt, Mr.
Blumenauer, Ms. DeLauro, Mr. Lantos, Mr. Kucinich,
Mr. Larson of Connecticut, Mr. Honda, Mr. McNulty,
Mr. Evans, Ms. Norton, Mr. Costello, Mrs. Maloney,
Mrs. Tauscher, Ms. Schakowsky, Mr. Gutierrez, Mr.
Ackerman, Ms. Slaughter, Mr. DeFazio, and Mr.
Rothman):
H.R. 3442. A bill to end the use of conventional steel-jawed leghold traps on animals in the United States; to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, International Relations, and the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
By Mrs. MUSGRAVE (for herself and Mr. Udall of
Colorado):
H.R. 3443. A bill to direct the Secretary of the Interior to convey certain water distribution facilities to the Northern Colorado Water Conservancy District; to the Committee on Resources.
By Mr. PAUL:
H.R. 3444. A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide credits against income tax for qualified stem cell research, the storage of qualified stem cells, and the donation of umbilical cord blood; to the Committee on Ways and Means.
By Mr. PORTER:
H.R. 3445. A bill to direct the Attorney General of the United States, upon request of the chief executive officer of a State, to provide officers of local educational agencies and the State educational agency in that State with certain access to the national crime information databases, and for other purposes; to the Committee on the Judiciary.
By Mr. RAHALL (for himself and Mrs. Christensen):
H.R. 3446. A bill to amend the National Historic Preservation Act to provide appropriation authorization and improve the operations of the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation; to the Committee on Resources.
By Mr. UDALL of Colorado:
H.R. 3447. A bill to provide a means of resolving claims regarding the continued existence of rights-of-way under former section 2477 of the Revised Statutes, for the benefit of private landowners, State and local governments, and the public; to the Committee on Resources.
By Mr. UDALL of Colorado:
H.R. 3448. A bill to authorize and direct the Secretary of the Department of Commerce to acquire a professional services building and property adjacent to the Department of Commerce's Boulder research campus; to the Committee on Science.
By Mr. CASE (for himself, Mr. Abercrombie, Mr. Burton of Indiana, Mr. Filner, Mr. McCaul of Texas, Mr.
Serrano, Mr. Scott of Virginia, Mr. Schiff, Mr.
McDermott, Mrs. Napolitano, Mr. Smith of Washington,
Ms. Harman, Ms. Matsui, Mr. Pallone, Mr. Dicks, Ms.
Roybal-Allard, Mr. Crowley, Ms. Zoe Lofgren of
California, Mr. Grijalva, Mr. Farr, Ms. Bordallo, Mr.
Honda, Mr. George Miller of California, Mr. Becerra,
Mr. Berman, Mr. Al Green of Texas, Ms. Schakowsky,
Ms. Watson, Mr. Issa, and Mr. Faleomavaega):
H. Con. Res. 218. Concurrent resolution recognizing the centennial of sustained immigration from the Philippines to the United States and acknowledging the contributions of our Filipino-American community to our country over the last century; to the Committee on Government Reform.
By Ms. GRANGER (for herself, Ms. Ros-Lehtinen, Mrs.
Tauscher, and Mr. Osborne):
H. Res. 383. A resolution encouraging the Transitional National Assembly of Iraq to adopt a constitution that grants women equal rights under the law and to work to protect such rights; to the Committee on International Relations, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
By Mr. ISSA (for himself, Mr. Tom Davis of Virginia,
Mr. Hyde, Mr. Lantos, Ms. Ros-Lehtinen, Mr. Wexler,
Mr. Chabot, Mr. Dingell, Mr. Rahall, Mr. LaHood, Ms.
Ginny Brown-Waite of Florida, Mrs. Miller of
Michigan, Mr. Pearce, Mr. McCaul of Texas, Mr. Renzi,
Mr. Conaway, Mr. Flake, Mr. Frank of Massachusetts,
Mr. Waxman, Mr. Shays, Mr. Cunningham, Mr. Kolbe, Mr.
Daniel E. Lungren of California, Mr. Rohrabacher, Mr.
Boustany, Mr. Foley, Mr. Jindal, and Mr. Moran of
Virginia):
H. Res. 384. A resolution condemning in the strongest terms the terrorist attacks in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, on July 23, 2005, and for other purposes; to the Committee on International Relations.
By Mr. LINCOLN DIAZ-BALART of Florida (for himself, Ms.
Ros-Lehtinen, Mr. Menendez, Ms. Wasserman Schultz,
Mr. Mario Diaz-Balart of Florida, Mr. Engel, Mr.
Burton of Indiana, Mr. Mack, Mr. McHenry, Mr. Feeney, and Mr. Cuellar):
H. Res. 388. A resolution expressing the sense of the House of Representatives regarding the July, 2005, measures of extreme repression on the part of the Cuban Government against members of Cuba's prodemocracy movement, calling for the immediate release of all political prisoners, the legalization of political parties and free elections in Cuba, urging the European Union to reexamine its policy toward Cuba, and calling on the representative of the United States to the 62d session of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights to ensure a resolution calling upon the Cuban regime to end its human rights violations, and for other purposes; to the Committee on International Relations.
By Ms. SLAUGHTER (for herself and Mr. Shays):
H. Res. 389. A resolution supporting the goals and ideals of The Year of the Museum; to the Committee on Government Reform.
By Mr. SMITH of Texas (for himself, Mr. Doggett, Mr.
Carter, and Mr. McCaul of Texas):
H. Res. 390. A resolution congratulating Lance Armstrong on his seventh Tour de France victory and his retirement and recognizing his dedication to helping others; to the Committee on Government Reform.
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