| HJR22 | Intro
Sine Die | This joint resolution proposes a constitutional amendment prohibiting total outlays for a fiscal year from exceeding total receipts for that fiscal year unless Congress authorizes the excess by a three-fifths roll call vote of each chamber. The prohi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-08
To House Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties |
| HB329 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes new criminal offenses for the use by a federal officer or employee of his or her public office for private gain. A violator is subject to criminal penalties—a fine, a prison term, or both.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-08
To House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security |
| SB48 | Intro
Sine Die | Directs the Department of Agriculture, upon request by Yavapai County, Arizona, to convey to the county 80 acres of land within Coconino National Forest in exchange for 369 acres of county land.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-08
To Senate Energy And Natural Resources Committee |
| SB34 | Intro
Sine Die | Directs the President to report on Cambodia's classification under the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP), a U.S. trade preference program that provides duty-free access to imports on products from certain developing countries. (Currently, Cambo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-08
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB302 | Intro
Sine Die | Modifies the rules for the refundable portion of the child tax credit to (1) allow residents of Puerto Rico to claim the refundable portion of the child tax credit on the same basis as U.S. taxpayers, and (2) allow residents of Puerto Rico with one o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-08
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| SB38 | Intro
Sine Die | Extends through FY2023 the authority of the Department of the Interior to use power revenues collected pursuant to the Colorado River Storage Project Act for annual base funding of endangered fish recovery implementation programs for the Upper Colora...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-08
To Senate Energy And Natural Resources Committee |
| SB40 | Intro
Sine Die | Directs the Department of the Interior to publish, and update every two years, an Asset Management Report. The report must describe the Bureau of Reclamation's efforts to (1) maintain in a reliable manner its reserved works (e.g., buildings, structur...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-08
To Senate Energy And Natural Resources Committee |
| HB289 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a temporary commission within the legislative branch to address the solvency of the two Social Security trust funds. The commission shall issue a report to Congress with recommendations and proposed legislation to ensure the solvency of t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-08
To House Subcommittee on Social Security |
| HB273 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the President, the Vice President, and certain candidates for President and Vice President to disclose federal income tax returns for the ten most recent taxable years. The returns must be disclosed to the Federal Election Commission (FEC), ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-08
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| SB30 | Intro
Sine Die | Chiropractic Health Parity for Military Beneficiaries Act directs the Department of Defense to provide chiropractic health care services and benefits through the TRICARE program to uniformed service members who are not on active duty and to uniformed...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-08
To Senate Armed Services Committee |
| SB44 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), upon adoption by a chamber of Congress of a concurrent budget resolution for a fiscal year, to certify to the Speaker of the House of Representatives or the President pro tempore of the Senate wheth...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-08
To Senate Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs Committee |
| HB311 | Intro
Sine Die | Redesignates: (1) the Department of the Navy as the Department of the Navy and Marine Corps, and (2) the Secretary of the Navy as the Secretary of the Navy and Marine Corps. The bill makes similar redesignations with respect to the Department Under S...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-08
To House Armed Services Committee |
| SB57 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the National Park Service to study the Pike National Historic Trail for designation as a national scenic trail. The trail consists of a series of routes extending approximately 3,664 miles that follows the route taken by Lt. Zebulon Montgome...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-08
To Senate Energy And Natural Resources Committee |
| SB21 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides continuing appropriations to the U.S. Coast Guard for any period during which interim or full-year appropriations for the Coast Guard are not in effect. The appropriations are provided to the Coast Guard for pay and allowances for members of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-04
Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 2. (text: CR S27) |
| HB256 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the Department of the Treasury to accept gifts of money to plan, design, construct, or maintain a barrier along the U.S-Mexico border. Treasury shall establish the Border Wall Fund and website for that purpose. Treasury shall also provide ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-04
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| SB29 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes in the Executive Office of the President an Office of Critical Technology and Security, which, among other things, shall serve as a centralized focal point within the Executive Office of the President for coordinating policy and actions o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-04
To Senate Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs Committee |
| HB257 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals the limitation on individual tax deductions for certain state and local taxes. (For tax years 2018-2025, the deduction for certain state and local taxes is currently limited to $10,000 per year for individuals or $5,000 for married individual...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-04
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HR22 | Intro
Sine Die | This resolution authorizes the Speaker of the House of Representatives to administer the oath of office to Representative-elect Walter B. Jones at Farmville, North Carolina.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-04
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection. |
| HR23 | Intro
Sine Die | This resolution expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the U.S. Postal Service should continue door delivery for all customers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-04
To House Oversight and Reform Committee |
| HB250 | Intro
Sine Die | Directs the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to create an electronic employment eligibility confirmation system modeled after and to replace the E-Verify system, which allows employers and recruiters to verify the immigration status of individua...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-04
To House Subcommittee on Immigration and Citizenship |
| HR25 | Intro
Sine Die | This resolution elects specified Members to the following House Committees: (1) Agriculture; (2) Armed Services; (3) Education and Labor; (4) Foreign Affairs; (5) Homeland Security; (6) the Judiciary; (7) Natural Resources; (8) Oversight and Reform; ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-04
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection. |
| HR24 | Intro
Sine Die | This resolution elects specified Members to the following House Committees: (1) Agriculture; (2) Armed Services; (3) Education and Labor; (4) Foreign Affairs; (5) Homeland Security; (6) the Judiciary; (7) Natural Resources; (8) Oversight and Reform; ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-04
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection. |
| HB242 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010, which currently prohibits direct spending and revenue legislation from increasing the budget deficit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-04
To House Budget Committee |
| SJR3 | Intro
Sine Die | This joint resolution proposes a constitutional amendment prohibiting total outlays for a fiscal year from exceeding total receipts for that fiscal year unless Congress authorizes the excess by a two-thirds vote of each chamber. The prohibition exclu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-04
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HCR1 | Engross
Sine Die | This concurrent resolution authorizes the Speaker of the House and the Majority Leader of the Senate to assemble the House and the Senate outside the District of Columbia whenever the public interest warrants it.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-04
Received in the Senate. |
| HR9 | Intro
Sine Die | This resolution names individuals to fill six specified minority party employee positions authorized by the Legislative Pay Act of 1929. The minority leader is authorized to appoint and set the annual rate of pay for up to three further minority empl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-03
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection. |
| HB195 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides FY2019 appropriations to the Indian Health Service (IHS) if a joint resolution making continuing appropriations for FY2019 is not in effect. In the event of a partial government shutdown due to a lapse in appropriations, the bill provides co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-03
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB160 | Intro
Sine Die | (1) requires bills, orders, resolutions, or votes submitted by Congress to the President to include only one subject that is clearly and descriptively expressed in the measure's title; and (2) makes ineffective any provision of law that excludes its ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-03
To House Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties |
| HB218 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals the estate and generation-skipping transfer taxes. It also makes conforming amendments related to the gift tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-03
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HJR17 | Intro
Sine Die | This joint resolution proposes a constitutional amendment that establishes health care as a right for the people of the United States.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-03
To House Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties |
| SR3 | Intro
Sine Die | This resolution elects Senator Chuck Grassley from Iowa as the President pro tempore of the Senate.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-03
Submitted in the Senate, considered, and agreed to without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S6; text: CR S6) |
| SB22 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for Medicare coverage of dental and oral health services, including routine diagnostic and preventive services, basic and major dental services, and emergency care; dental prostheses are also covered. Currently, such services are excluded fr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-03
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB61 | Intro
Sine Die | Directs the Department of the Treasury to mint and issue $5 gold coins and $1 silver coins in commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the Carson City Mint in Carson City, Nevada. All surcharges from sales of such coins shall be paid to the Nevada S...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-03
To House Financial Services Committee |
| HB41 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes programs and requirements related to minority banks, black banks, community banks, women's banks, and low-income credit unions. The bill establishes the Office of Black and Community Banks in the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-03
To House Financial Services Committee |
| HB98 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes aliens associated with criminal gangs inadmissible for entry into the United States and deportable, and establishes procedures related to designating groups with criminal gang status. An alien shall be inadmissible if a consular officer, the De...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-03
To House Subcommittee on Immigration and Citizenship |
| HB62 | Intro
Sine Die | Replaces the existing Head Start program with block grants to states and Indian tribes for prekindergarten (pre-K) education. Instead of providing direct financial assistance to Head Start agencies, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-03
To House Education and Labor Committee |
| HB74 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Justice (DOJ) to detain any alien found to be unlawfully present in the United States and arrested for various crimes that would render the alien deportable or inadmissible. The bill transfers release authority from DOJ to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-03
To House Subcommittee on Immigration and Citizenship |
| HB33 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes stand-alone criminal offenses for trafficking in firearms and straw purchasing of firearms. The bill expands the categories of prohibited persons (i.e., persons barred from receiving or possessing a firearm or ammunition) to include perso...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-03
To House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security |
| HR7 | Intro
Sine Die | This resolution elects specified Members to the following House Committees: (1) Appropriations, (2) the Budget, (3) Energy and Commerce, (4) Financial Services, (5) Rules, and (6) Ways and Means.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-03
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection. |
| HB212 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the President, through the U.S. Agency for International Development, to provide assistance for renewable energy projects related to solar technologies in developing countries to increase the availability of credit, savings, and other serv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-03
To House Foreign Affairs Committee |
| HR4 | Intro
Sine Die | This resolution instructs the Clerk of the House of Representatives to inform the President that Nancy Pelosi has been elected Speaker of the House and that Karen L. Haas has been elected Clerk.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-03
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection. |
| HB67 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires federal employees and District of Columbia public employees furloughed due to a lapse in appropriations that begins on or about December 22, 2018, to be compensated at their standard rate of compensation for the period of such lapse as soon ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-03
To House Oversight and Reform Committee |
| HB232 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides protections to tenants of certain federally assisted housing and establishes a low-income housing maintenance tax credit for eligible landlords. Specifically, the bill prohibits discrimination, in the context of rental housing, against indiv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-03
To House Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties |
| HB26 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits Members of Congress from being paid during a government shutdown, beginning with the 117th Congress.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-03
To House Administration Committee |
| HB129 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits Members of Congress from being paid in a fiscal year until both chambers approve the budget resolution and pass all regular appropriations bills for that fiscal year. Retroactive pay is prohibited for such a period.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-03
To House Administration Committee |
| HB120 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Assistance to make grants to states, local governments, and Indian tribes to purchase or lease body-worn cameras for use by law enforcement officers and to implement body-worn camera programs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-03
To House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security |
| HB231 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes eligible for deferment and cancelation of student loan debt a recent graduate of a four-year institution of higher education (IHE) who works at certain small business start-ups in distressed areas. Specifically, it makes a student loan borrower...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-03
To House Education and Labor Committee |
| HB125 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the Department of Justice to award grants to states that do the following: (1) require law enforcement officers to be trained on diversity and sensitivity, and (2) require an independent prosecutor to be appointed to investigate and prosec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-03
To House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security |
| HJR11 | Intro
Sine Die | This joint resolution proposes a constitutional amendment prohibiting total outlays for a fiscal year from exceeding total receipts for that fiscal year unless Congress authorizes the excess by a two-thirds roll call vote of each chamber. The Preside...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-03
To House Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties |
| HB170 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the Black Lung Benefits Act to preserve specified amendments made by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) in the event those amendments are repealed. The amendments expanded the application of certain eligibility requirements...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-03
To House Education and Labor Committee |
