Congressional Daily Digest for 3/28/06
Senate: Introduced Seven bills, Six resolutions, and One concurrent Resolution
House of Representatives: Introduced 23 bills, 7 resolutions, and Two Concurrent Resolution
H. R. 5017 To ensure the implementation of the recommendations of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States. This is interesting, bc the committee on Social Security Reform report was not used.
H. Res. 739 Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the President should declare lung cancer a public health priority and should implement a comprehensive inter-agency program that will reduce lung cancer mortality by at least 50 percent by 2015 Uh, you got to love that magic wand from the inter-agency programs. Just like that in 9 yrs, reduce death by 50%. It would be great if they could do that, but there is no magic cure for death by anything.
H. Res., 740 Calling on the Government of the United Kingdom to immediately establish a full, independent, public judicial inquiry into the murder of Northern Ireland defense attorney Pat Finucane, as recommended by international Judge Peter Cory as part of the Weston Park agreement and way forward for the Northern Ireland Peace Process. I love this House Resolutions, that have the effect of my wiping my ass after I took a shit and pulled up my pants. Sometimes what countries do are none of our business. This isn’t the first bill dealing with a lawyer from another country, introduced today.
H. R. 5014 To provide for fairness for the Federal Judiciary. uh this is stupid bill of the day.
H. R. 5015 To prohibit securities trading based on nonpublic information relating to Congress, and to require additional reporting by Members and employees of Congress of securities transaction, and for other purposes. I am guessing this bill will relate to congressional representatives.
H. R. 5017 To ensure the implementation of the recommendations of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States. This would be great, the administration got a d- on the last review.
H. R. 5024 o require annual oral testimony before the Financial Services Committee of the Chairperson or a designee of the Chairperson of the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Financial Accounting Standards Board, and the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, relating to their efforts to promote transparency in financial reporting. Good move on the part of Congress.
H. R. 5025 To protect for future generations the recreational opportunities, forests, timber, clean water, wilderness and scenic values, and diverse habitat of Mount Hood National Forest, Oregon, and for other purposes. Good environmental bill
H. R. 5027 To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a credit against tax proportional to the number of million British thermal units of natural gas produced by a high Btu fuel facility. That sounds like a free ride to the producers of natural gas producers. I hope it dies.
H. R. 5028 To amend the Public Health Service Act to improve and expedite the assessment and determination of chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear material threats by the Secretary of Homeland Security under the Project BioShield program. It is a good bill, please don’t die.
H. R. 5029 To establish in the Department of Homeland Security a Domestic Nuclear Detection Office to improve the ability of the United States to detect and prevent acts of nuclear and radiological terrorism and to enhance coordination of such efforts across Federal agencies, and for other purposes.
H. R. 5030 To amend the Non-indigenous Aquatic Nuisance Prevention and Control Act of 1990 to establish vessel ballast water management requirements, and for other purposes. This bill seems weird to be coming up, I read about the ballast issue in Michigan. The reason we need control on ballast water is because of invasive species.
H. R. 5032 To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to expand the income tax forgiveness for members of the Armed Forces who die as a result of wounds, disease, or injury incurred while serving in a combat zone to include forgiveness for the last taxable year ending before the wounds, disease, or injury are incurred. They shouldn’t be paying taxes anyways.
H. R. 5033 To permit access to certain information in the Firearms Trace System database. Who wants access and why?
H. R. 5035 To provide discretionary authority to an immigration judge to determine that an alien parent of a United States citizen child should not be ordered removed from the United States. Another immigration bill, we know what it takes to be a citizen. This is a iffy bill, I think it should not pass though.
H. R. 4057 has passed the House, it now goes to the Senate.
S. 2268 A bill to amend title 5, United States Code, to deny Federal retirement benefits to individuals convicted of certain offenses, and for other purposes. Lee Terry introduced a similar bill in the House of Representatives
There is a bill in congress to remove RU486 from the market. It has been stuck in subcommittee for over a year now. Sad to hear about their deats, but 486 should not be pulled from the market.