| HB56 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes 1% across-the-board rescissions in non-defense, non-homeland-security, and non-veterans affairs discretionary spending for FY2013-FY2014.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-03
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HR1 | Intro
Sine Die | Elects the following officers of the House of Representatives: (1) Karen L. Haas as Clerk, (2) Wilson S. Livingood as Sergeant at Arms, (3) Daniel J. Strodel as Chief Administrative Officer, and (4) Father Daniel P. Coughlin as Chaplain.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-03
Subsequent to the adoption of the resolution, the Chair announced that, without objection, H. Res. 1 is amended by striking "Florida" in the second place it appears and inserting "Oregon". |
| HB54 | Intro
Sine Die | Eliminates automatic cost of living adjustments to the rate of pay for Members of Congress during the 113th Congress.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-03
To House Oversight And Government Reform Committee |
| HB52 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) and the Federal Employees' Retirement System (FERS) to exclude Members of Congress from further CSRS and FERS retirement coverage. Prohibits further government contributions or deductions from such Me...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-03
To House Oversight And Government Reform Committee |
| HR2 | Intro
Sine Die | Informs the Senate that John A. Boehner has been elected Speaker of the House and that Karen L. Haas has been elected Clerk.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-03
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection. |
| HB50 | Intro
Sine Die | Streamlined and Improved Methods at Polling Locations and Early (SIMPLE) Voting Act of 2013 - Amends the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (HAVA) to require each state to allow individuals to vote in a federal election on each day during the 15-day perio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-03
To House Administration Committee |
| HR3 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for appointment of a House of Representatives committee joined with a Senate committee to notify the President that a quorum of each House has assembled.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-03
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection. |
| HB48 | Intro
Sine Die | Open Space Preservation Promotion Act of 2013- Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow installment sales treatment for land sold to a governmental unit or tax-exempt charitable organization for conservation purposes even though the purchase funds f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-03
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HR4 | Intro
Sine Die | Instructs the Clerk of the House of Representatives to inform the President that John A. Boehner has been elected Speaker of the House and that Karen L. Haas has been elected Clerk.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-03
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection. |
| HB47 | Intro
Sine Die | Farmland Preservation and Land Conservation Act of 2013- Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow an estate and gift tax exclusion for real property located in the United States which at the time of a decedent's death was being used as a farm for fa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-03
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HR5 | Intro
Sine Die | (Sec. 2) Adopts the Rules of the House of Representatives for the 112th Congress as the Rules for the 113th Congress, with amendments. Reduces the frequency of committee activity reports from four times (semiannually) per Congress to two times (annua...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-03
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection. |
| HR6 | Intro
Sine Die | Elects specified Members to the House Committees on: (1) Agriculture; (2) Appropriations; (3) Armed Services; (4) the Budget; (5) Education and the Workforce; (6) Energy and Commerce; (7) Ethics; (8) Financial Services; (9) Foreign Affairs; (10) Home...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-03
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection. |
| HR7 | Intro
Sine Die | Elects specified named Members to the following House Committees: (1) Agriculture; (2) Appropriations; (3) Armed Services; (4) the Budget; (5) Education and the Workforce; (6) Energy and Commerce; (7) Ethics; (8) Financial Services; (9) Foreign Affai...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-03
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection. |
| HB38 | Intro
Sine Die | Seniors' Tax Simplification Act of 2013 - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to make available a new federal income tax Form 1040SR (similar to Form 1040EZ) to individuals who have turned 65 as of the close of the taxable year. Allows the form to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-03
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HR8 | Intro
Sine Die | Names individuals to fill six specified minority party employee positions authorized by the Legislative Pay Act of 1929. Authorizes the minority leader to appoint and set the annual rate of pay for up to three further minority employees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-03
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection. |
| HR9 | Intro
Sine Die | Fixes the daily hour of meeting for the House of Representatives for the first session of the 113th Congress.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-03
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection. |
| HB33 | Intro
Sine Die | Audit The Fed Act of 2013 - Repeals the authority of the Comptroller General (GAO) to carry out an onsite examination of an open insured bank or bank holding company only if the appropriate federal regulatory agency has consented in writing. (Retains...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-03
To House Oversight And Government Reform Committee |
| HR10 | Intro
Sine Die | Recognizes the centennial anniversary of the founding of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated. Honors the Sorority and its members for a century of fortitude and distinguished service to the people of this country and the global community.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-03
To House Education And The Workforce Committee |
| HR11 | Intro
Sine Die | Adds Rule XXX (Statutory Limit on Public Debt) to the Rules of the House of Representatives to reinstate the "Gephardt rule," repealed by H.Res. 5 (adopting the Rules of the House for the 112th Congress). (The Gephardt rule: (1) provided fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-03
To House Rules Committee |
| HB30 | Intro
Sine Die | Small Business Investment Enhancement and Tax Relief Act - Amends the Small Business Investment Act of 1958 to direct the Administrator of the Small Business Administration (SBA) to establish and carry out an early-stage investment program (program) ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-03
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HR12 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends Rule XXI (Restrictions on Certain Bills) of the Rules of the House of Representatives to make it out of order in the House to consider any bill or joint resolution extending the limit on the public debt if such measure contains any other matte...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-03
To House Rules Committee |
| HB28 | Intro
Sine Die | Working Families' Access to Health Innovations Act of 2013 - Amends the Small Business Act to authorize the Administrator of the Small Business Administration (SBA) to guarantee up to 90% of a loan made to a health care professional for the acquisiti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-03
To House Small Business Committee |
| HB26 | Intro
Sine Die | Deferred Benefits Adjustment Act of 2013 - Amends federal civil service law to provide for the indexation of deferred annuities, including survivor annuities, under the Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) and the Federal Employees' Retirement Syst...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-03
To House Administration Committee |
| HR13 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends Rule XXI (Restrictions on Certain Bills) of the Rules of the House of Representatives to make it out of order in the House to consider any legislation containing appropriations within the jurisdiction of the Subcommittee on Military Constructi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-03
To House Rules Committee |
| HB25 | 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 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-03
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HR14 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends Rule III (The Members, Delegates, and Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico) of the Rules of the House of Representatives to permit Delegates and the Resident Commissioner, in a Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union, the same p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-03
To House Rules Committee |
| HR15 | Intro
Sine Die | Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) should: (1) continue to enhance security against terrorist attack and other security threats to our nation's rail and mass transit systems and o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-03
To House Homeland Security Committee |
| HR16 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends Rule XXI (Restrictions on Certain Bills) of the Rules of the House of Representatives to make it out of order in the House to consider any bill or joint resolution that carries more than one subject.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-03
To House Rules Committee |
| SCR1 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides for the counting of the electoral votes for President and Vice President of the United States.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-03
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection. |
| SCR2 | Engross
Sine Die | Declares that: (1) the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies, created by S.Con.Res. 35 (112th Congress), to make the necessary arrangements for the inauguration of the President-elect and the Vice President-elect of the United States,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-03
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection. |
| SR4 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends Rule XXII (Precedence of Motions) of the Standing Rules of the Senate to limit, with exceptions, consideration of a motion to proceed to the consideration of any debatable matter to not more than two hours, equally divided between, and control...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-03
Submitted in the Senate. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Over, Under the Rule. (text of measure as introduced: CR S14) |
| HB19 | N/A
Sine Die | Reserved for the Minority Leader.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | No Action History Available |
| HB18 | N/A
Sine Die | Reserved for the Minority Leader.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | No Action History Available |
| HB17 | N/A
Sine Die | Reserved for the Minority Leader.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | No Action History Available |
| HB16 | N/A
Sine Die | Reserved for the Minority Leader.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | No Action History Available |
| HB14 | N/A
Sine Die | Reserved for the Minority Leader.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | No Action History Available |
| HB13 | N/A
Sine Die | Reserved for the Minority Leader.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | No Action History Available |
| HB9 | N/A
Sine Die | Reserved for the Speaker.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | No Action History Available |
| HB8 | N/A
Sine Die | Reserved for the Speaker.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | No Action History Available |
