| SB140 | Intro
Sine Die | Combat Human Trafficking Act of 2015 Amends the federal criminal code, with respect to sex trafficking of children, to: (1) subject to criminal prosecution buyers, as well as sellers, of commercial sex involving sex trafficking victims; (2) provide t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-08
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB123 | Intro
Sine Die | Obamacare Taxpayer Bailout Prevention Act Repeals the provision of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act that directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish and administer a program of risk corridors for calendar years 2014,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-08
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| SB141 | Intro
Sine Die | Protecting Seniors' Access to Medicare Act of 2015 Repeals sections of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (and restores provisions of law amended by those sections) related to the establishment of an Independent Payment Advisory Board to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-08
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB120 | Intro
Sine Die | A bill to amend the Water Resources Development Act of 2000 to authorize the Central Everglades Planning Project, Florida. Amends the Water Resources Development Act of 2000 to authorize the Secretary of the Army to carry out the project for environm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-08
To Senate Environment And Public Works Committee |
| HR17 | Intro
Sine Die | Stay on Schedule (S.O.S.) Resolution Amends Rule XXI (Restrictions on Certain Bills) of the Rules of the House of Representatives to make it out of order for the House to consider a concurrent resolution for its adjournment during any day in August o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-08
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H141) |
| HR23 | Intro
Sine Die | Congratulating the San Antonio Spurs for winning the 2014 National Basketball Association (NBA) League Championship. Congratulates the San Antonio Spurs for winning the 2014 National Basketball Association League Championship.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-08
To House Oversight And Government Reform Committee |
| SB133 | Intro
Sine Die | Klamath Basin Water Recovery and Economic Restoration Act of 2015 Authorizes, ratifies, and confirms the Hydroelectric Settlement (Settlement), the Klamath River Basin Restoration Agreement for the Sustainability of Public and Trust Resources and Aff...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-08
To Senate Energy And Natural Resources Committee |
| SB126 | Intro
Sine Die | A bill to provide a permanent deduction for State and local general sales taxes. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make permanent the taxpayer election to deduct state and local general sales taxes in lieu of state and local income taxes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-08
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB131 | Intro
Sine Die | FAIR Generics Act Fair And Immediate Release of Generic Drugs Act This bill amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA) to disqualify from being a “first applicant” an applicant submitting an abbreviated new drug application (...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-08
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| SR23 | Intro
Sine Die | A resolution making majority party appointments for the 114th Congress. Designates the majority party membership on specified Senate committees for the 114th Congress.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-08
Submitted in the Senate, considered, and agreed to without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S117-118; text as passed Senate: CR S117-118; text of measure as introduced: CR S108) |
| HB199 | Intro
Sine Die | Bicycle and Pedestrian Infrastructure Improvement Act of 2015 Authorizes the Secretary of Transportation to establish a pilot program to make loans and loan guarantees to eligible entities to carry out bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure projects. ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-08
To House Subcommittee on Highways and Transit |
| SB128 | Intro
Sine Die | Energy Efficiency Improvement Act of 2015 Better Buildings Act of 2015 This bill requires the General Services Administration (GSA) to: (1) develop and publish model leasing provisions to encourage building owners and tenants to use greater cost-effe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-08
To Senate Energy And Natural Resources Committee |
| SB129 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeal Executive Amnesty Act of 2015 This bill shifts from the Attorney General to the Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS) the authority to parole an alien temporarily into the United States, on a case-by-case basis, and in the Secretary's sole disc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-08
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB121 | Intro
Sine Die | Obamacare Opt-Out Act of 2015 Exempts from the minimum essential coverage requirements under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act individuals who request an exemption through a health care marketplace or on their federal income tax return.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-08
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SR25 | Intro
Sine Die | A resolution commemorating 50 years since the creation of the Medicare and Medicaid Programs. Expresses the sense of the Senate that: all efforts to improve Medicare and Medicaid under titles XVIII and XIX of the Social Security Act must support and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-08
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SR22 | Intro
Sine Die | A resolution to constitute the minority party's membership on certain committees for the One Hundred Fourteenth Congress, or until their successors are chosen. Designates the minority party membership on specified Senate committees for the 114th Cong...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-08
Star Print ordered on the resolution. |
| HB198 | Intro
Sine Die | MOVE Freight Act of 2015 Multimodal Opportunities Via Enhanced Freight Act of 2015 Defines the "national freight network" as a network composed of highways, railways, navigable waterways, seaports, airports, freight intermodal connectors, and aerotro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-08
To House Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment |
| SB137 | Intro
Sine Die | Taxpayer Protection and Preparer Proficiency Act of 2015 This bill gives the Secretary of the Treasury the authority to regulate the practice of tax return preparers and to sanction preparers for incompetency or misconduct.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-08
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB55 | Intro
Sine Die | Offshore Fairness Act This bill amends the Submerged Lands Act to change the seaward boundaries of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia from a distance of three geographic miles from the coas...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-07
To Senate Energy And Natural Resources Committee |
| SB65 | Intro
Sine Die | Moving to Work Charter Program Act of 2015 Directs the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to enter into charter contracts, beginning in FY2014, with up to 250 public housing agencies administering the public housing program or the secti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-07
To Senate Banking, Housing, And Urban Affairs Committee |
| SB62 | Intro
Sine Die | Freedom From Union Violence Act of 2015 Amends the Hobbs Act to exempt from provisions that prohibit obstructing, delaying, or affecting commerce or the movement of any article or commodity in commerce by robbery or extortion and threatening physical...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-07
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB45 | Intro
Sine Die | Birthright Citizenship Act of 2015 Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to consider a person born in the United States "subject to the jurisdiction" of the United States for citizenship at birth purposes if the person is born in the United Stat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-07
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB98 | Intro
Sine Die | STEM Jobs Act of 2015 Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to make up to 55,000 visas available in FY2016 and subsequent fiscal years to qualified immigrants who: (1) have a doctorate degree in a field of science, technology, engineering, or ma...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-07
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB54 | Intro
Sine Die | Regulatory Fairness Act of 2015 This bill amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (commonly known as the Clean Water Act) to define the period of time in which the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is authorized to restrict or deny a permi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-07
To Senate Environment And Public Works Committee |
| HB79 | Intro
Sine Die | No Missing Planes Act Directs the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to study the feasibility of technology to: (1) improve communications between commercial aircraft and air traffic control towers when an aircraft leaves its ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-07
To House Subcommittee on Aviation |
| SB82 | Intro
Sine Die | Strategic Petroleum Supplies Act Prohibits the Administration from authorizing sales of petroleum products from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve until the date all requisite permits under Executive Order 13337 for the Keystone XL pipeline project appl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-07
To Senate Energy And Natural Resources Committee |
| SB41 | Intro
Sine Die | Veterans Travel Tax Relief Act of 2015 Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow veterans a deduction from gross income, up to $400 a year, for their travel expenses, including those of a family member, to a Department of Veterans Affairs medical cen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-07
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HR18 | Intro
Sine Die | Expressing support for designation of January 7, 2015, as "National Be Active at Work Day". Supports the designation of National Be Active at Work Day.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-07
To House Oversight And Government Reform Committee |
| SB43 | Intro
Sine Die | Ethical Stem Cell Research Tax Credit Act of 2015 Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a tax credit for 30% of qualified stem cell research expenses paid or incurred in a taxable year. Defines "qualified stem cell research expenses" as expenses ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-07
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HCR1 | Engross
Sine Die | Regarding consent to assemble outside the seat of government. Authorizes the Speaker of the House and the Majority Leader of the Senate, or their respective designees, to notify the Members of the House and the Senate, respectively, to assemble at a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-07
Received in the Senate. |
| SB93 | Intro
Sine Die | A bill to withhold United States contributions to the United Nations until the United Nations formally retracts the final report of the "United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict". Expresses the sense of Congress that, now that evidenc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-07
To Senate Foreign Relations Committee |
| SB107 | Intro
Sine Die | Terminating the Expansion of Too-Big-To-Fail Act of 2015 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 Act...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-07
To Senate Banking, Housing, And Urban Affairs Committee |
| SB44 | Intro
Sine Die | A bill to provide for the expedited processing of unaccompanied alien children illegally entering the United States, and for other purposes. Amends the William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008 to declare that any...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-07
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB68 | Intro
Sine Die | Voter Integrity Protection Act Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to make voting in a federal election (unless otherwise provided for under the federal criminal code) by an alien who is unlawfully in the United States an aggravated felony and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-07
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HR20 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing the Speaker to administer the oath of office. Authorizes the Speaker of the House of Representatives to administer the oath of office to Representative-elect Alan Nunnelee at Tupelo, Mississippi.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-07
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection. |
| SB80 | Intro
Sine Die | A bill to prohibit appropriated funds from being used in contravention of section 642(a) of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996. Prohibits the use of community oriented policing services funds in contravention of p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-07
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB60 | Intro
Sine Die | A bill to prohibit aliens who are not lawfully present in the United States from being eligible for postsecondary education benefits that are not available to all citizens and nationals of the United States. Amends the Illegal Immigration Reform and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-07
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HR21 | Intro
Sine Die | Uphold the Oath Americans Trust and Honor (OATH) Resolution Directs the House of Representatives to bring a civil action in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia for declaratory or injunctive relief to challenge Department of Homeland Secu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-07
To House Administration Committee |
| SB110 | Intro
Sine Die | Environmental Protection Agency Accountability Act of 2015 This bill requires the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to satisfy within 30 days regulatory requirements concerning: improving planning and regulator review under Executive Order 13563,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-07
To Senate Environment And Public Works Committee |
| SB90 | Intro
Sine Die | Migratory Bird Treaty Amendment Act of 2015 This bill 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 occ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-07
To Senate Environment And Public Works Committee |
| SB116 | Intro
Sine Die | Telephone Excise Tax Elimination Act of 2015 Amends the Internal Revenue Code to repeal the excise tax on communication services (i.e., local telephone service, toll telephone service, and teletypewriter exchange service).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-07
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB192 | Intro
Sine Die | SHUT Act of 2015 Stop Handouts to Unauthorized Taxpayers Act of 2015 Amends the Internal Revenue Code to deny the refundable portion of the child tax credit to individuals unless they include their social security number on their tax return or otherw...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-07
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| SB117 | Intro
Sine Die | Jerusalem Embassy and Recognition Act of 2015 States that it is U.S. policy to recognize Jerusalem as the undivided capital of Israel. Amends the Jerusalem Embassy Act of 1995 to eliminate the President's authority to waive certain funding limitation...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-07
To Senate Foreign Relations Committee |
| HB84 | Intro
Sine Die | Minimum Staffing of Air Traffic Controllers Act of 2015 This bill directs the Department of Transportation to take necessary action to ensure that a commercial airport has at least two air traffic controllers on duty and physically situated within th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-07
To House Subcommittee on Aviation |
| SB92 | Intro
Sine Die | Community Bank Preservation Act of 2015 Amends the Federal Reserve Act to require that membership on the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve include at least one person with demonstrated experience working in or supervising community banks havi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-07
To Senate Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs Committee |
| SB104 | Intro
Sine Die | Natural Disaster Fairness in Contracting Act of 2015 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 t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-07
To Senate Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs Committee |
| SB118 | Intro
Sine Die | Stopping Illegal Obamacare Subsidies Act Prohibits American Health Benefit Exchanges from providing for automatic enrollment in health plans until the Inspector General (IG) of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) verifies that each stat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-07
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB115 | Intro
Sine Die | Transparency in Small Business Assistance Act Directs the Administrator of the Small Business Administration (SBA) to collect, for specified periods, information from small businesses that receive SBA assistance, including a loan, loan guarantee, gra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-07
To Senate Small Business And Entrepreneurship Committee |
| SB97 | Intro
Sine Die | No Obamacare Kickbacks Act of 2015 Applies prohibitions against, and criminal penalties for, false statements and kickbacks in part A (General Provisions) of title XI of the Social Security Act to plans and programs established or funded under the Pa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-07
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| SB84 | Intro
Sine Die | GEDI Act Gestational Diabetes Act Amends the Public Health Service Act to direct the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to develop a multisite gestational diabetes research project within the diabetes program of the CDC to expand and en...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-07
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
