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| H R 1 | American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 | |
| H R 2 | Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2009 (Also known as SCHIP) | |
| H R 3 | Reserved for the Speaker.
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| H R 4 | Reserved for the Speaker.
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| H R 5 | Reserved for the Speaker.
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| H R 6 | Reserved for the Speaker.
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| H R 7 | Reserved for the Speaker.
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| H R 8 | Reserved for the Speaker.
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| H R 9 | Reserved for the Speaker.
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| H R 10 | Reserved for the Speaker.
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| H R 11 | Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009 | |
| H R 12 | Paycheck Fairness Act | |
| H R 13 | To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to expand teacher loan forgiveness.
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| H R 14 | To provide for ocean acidification research and monitoring, and for other purposes.
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| H R 15 | To provide a program of national health insurance, and for other purposes.
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| H R 16 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to make permanent the deduction of State and local general sales taxes.
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| H R 17 | To protect the right to obtain firearms for security, and to use firearms in defense of self, family, or home, and to provide for the enforcement of such right.
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| H R 18 | To amend the Controlled Substances Act and the Controlled Substances Import and Export Act with respect to penalties for powder cocaine and crack cocaine offenses.
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| H R 19 | To require employers to conduct employment eligibility verification.
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| H R 20 | To provide for research on, and services for individuals with, postpartum depression and psychosis.
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| H R 21 | To establish a national policy for our oceans, to strengthen the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, to establish a national and regional ocean governance structure, and for other purposes.
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| H R 22 | To amend chapter 89 of title 5, United States Code, to allow the United States Postal Service to pay its share of contributions for annuitants' health benefits out of the Postal Service Retiree Health Benefits Fund.
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| H R 23 | To amend title 38, United States Code, to direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to establish the Merchant Mariner Equity Compensation Fund to provide benefits to certain individuals who served in the United States merchant marine (including the Army Transport Service and the Naval Transport Service) during World War II.
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| H R 24 | To redesignate the Department of the Navy as the Department of the Navy and Marine Corps.
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| H R 25 | To promote freedom, fairness, and economic opportunity by repealing the income tax and other taxes, abolishing the Internal Revenue Service, and enacting a national sales tax to be administered primarily by the States.
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| H R 26 | To amend title V of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to raise awareness of eating disorders and to create educational programs concerning the same, and for other purposes.
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| H R 27 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to establish additional provisions to combat waste, fraud, and abuse within the Medicare Program, and for other purposes.
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| H R 28 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to increase the deduction for certain expenses of elementary and secondary school teachers to $500 and to extend it through 2011.
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| H R 29 | To amend the definition of "homeless person" under the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act to include certain homeless children and youth.
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| H R 30 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to improve and expand education savings accounts.
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| H R 31 | To provide for the recognition of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina, and for other purposes.
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| H R 32 | To amend title 38, United States Code, to improve the outreach activities of the Department of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes.
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| H R 33 | To amend title II of the Social Security Act to eliminate the 5-month waiting period for entitlement to disability benefits and to eliminate reconsideration as an intervening step between initial benefit entitlement decisions and subsequent hearings on the record on such decisions.
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| H R 34 | To delay the implementation of agency rules adopted within the final 90 days of the final term a President serves.
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| H R 35 | Presidential Records Act Amendments of 2009 | |
| H R 36 | Presidential Library Donation Reform Act of 2009 | |
| H R 37 | To establish a systematic mortgage modification program at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and for other purposes.
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| H R 38 | To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to plan, design and construct facilities to provide water for irrigation, municipal, domestic, and other uses from the Bunker Hill Groundwater Basin, Santa Ana River, California, and for other purposes.
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| H R 39 | To preserve the Arctic coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska, as wilderness in recognition of its extraordinary natural ecosystems and for the permanent good of present and future generations of Americans.
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| H R 40 | To acknowledge the fundamental injustice, cruelty, brutality, and inhumanity of slavery in the United States and the 13 American colonies between 1619 and 1865 and to establish a commission to examine the institution of slavery, subsequently de jure and de facto racial and economic discrimination against African-Americans, and the impact of these forces on living African-Americans, to make recommendations to the Congress on appropriate remedies, and for other purposes.
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| H R 41 | To provide for Federal research, development, demonstration, and commercial application activities to enable the development of farms that are net producers of both food and energy, and for other purposes.
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| H R 42 | To establish a fact-finding Commission to extend the study of a prior Commission to investigate and determine facts and circumstances surrounding the relocation, internment, and deportation to Axis countries of Latin Americans of Japanese descent from December 1941 through February 1948, and the impact of those actions by the United States, and to recommend appropriate remedies, and for other purposes.
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| H R 43 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to repeal the Medicare outpatient rehabilitation therapy caps.
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| H R 44 | To implement the recommendations of the Guam War Claims Review Commission.
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| H R 45 | To provide for the implementation of a system of licensing for purchasers of certain firearms and for a record of sale system for those firearms, and for other purposes.
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| H R 46 | To provide for payment of an administrative fee to public housing agencies to cover the costs of administering family self-sufficiency programs in connection with the housing choice voucher program of the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
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| H R 47 | To establish an Office of Housing Counseling to carry out and coordinate the responsibilities of the Department of Housing and Urban Development regarding counseling on homeownership and rental housing issues, to make grants to entities for providing such counseling, to launch a national housing counseling advertising campaign, and for other purposes.
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| H R 48 | To amend section 42 of title 18, United States Code, popularly known as the Lacey Act, to add certain species of carp to the list of injurious species that are prohibited from being imported or shipped.
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| H R 49 | To direct the Secretary of the Interior to establish and implement a competitive oil and gas leasing program that will result in an environmentally sound program for the exploration, development, and production of the oil and gas resources of the Coastal Plain of Alaska, and for other purposes.
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| H R 50 | To protect seniors from identity theft and strengthen our national security by providing for the issuance of a secure Social Security card.
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| H R 51 | To direct the Director of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service to conduct a study of the feasibility of a variety of approaches to eradicating Asian carp from the Great Lakes and their tributary and connecting waters.
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| H R 52 | To amend the Tropical Forest Conservation Act of 1998 to provide debt relief to developing countries that take action to protect tropical forests and coral reefs and associated coastal marine ecosystems, to reauthorize such Act through fiscal year 2011, and for other purposes.
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| H R 53 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to deny refinery expensing to owners of refineries that are permitted to increase the discharge of pollutants into the Great Lakes.
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| H R 54 | To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to establish a deadline for restricting sewage dumping into the Great Lakes and to fund programs and activities for improving wastewater discharges into the Great Lakes.
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| H R 55 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow employers a refundable credit against income tax for 50 percent of the employer's cost of providing tax-free transit passes to employees.
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| H R 56 | To permit certain school districts in Illinois to be reconstituted for purposes of determining assistance under the Impact Aid program.
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| H R 57 | To amend the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956 to permit eligibility in certain circumstances for an officer or employee of a foreign government to receive a reward under the Department of State Rewards Program.
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| H R 58 | To promote green schools.
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| H R 59 | To secure the Federal voting rights of certain qualified ex-offenders who have served their sentences.
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| H R 60 | To require the Secretary of Education to conduct a study and submit to Congress a report on methods for identifying and treating children with dyslexia in kindergarten through third grade.
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| H R 61 | To amend title 18, United States Code, to provide an alternate release date for certain nonviolent offenders, and for other purposes.
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| H R 62 | To provide for the establishment of an independent, Presidentially-appointed Commission to assess the circumstances related to the damage caused by Hurricane Katrina on or between Friday, August 26, 2005, and Tuesday, August 30, 2005.
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| H R 63 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to require hospitals reimbursed under the Medicare system to establish and implement security procedures to reduce the likelihood of infant patient abduction and baby switching, including procedures for identifying all infant patients in the hospital in a manner that ensures that it will be evident if infants are missing from the hospital.
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| H R 64 | To amend title 28, United States Code, to repeal the restriction on the jurisdiction of courts, justices, and judges to hear or consider applications for writs of habeas corpus filed by or on behalf of certain aliens detained by the United States.
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| H R 65 | To recognize the extraordinary performance of the Armed Forces in achieving the military objectives of the United States in Iraq, to encourage the President to issue a proclamation calling upon the people of the United States to observe a national day of celebration commemorating military success in Iraq, and for other purposes.
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| H R 66 | To recognize the extraordinary performance of the Armed Forces in achieving the military objectives of the United States in Iraq, to terminate the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002 (Public Law 107-243), to require congressional reauthorization to continue deployment of the Armed Forces to Iraq, and for other purposes.
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| H R 67 | To amend and to strengthen accountability features introduced by the Notification and Federal Employee Antidiscrimination and Retaliation Act of 2002, and for other purposes.
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| H R 68 | To increase the evidentiary standard required to convict a person for a drug offense, to require screening of law enforcement officers or others acting under color of law participating in drug task forces, and for other purposes.
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| H R 69 | To reform the provisions requiring "one-strike" eviction from public and federally assisted housing.
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| H R 70 | To amend title 18, United States Code, to provide penalties for displaying nooses in public with intent to harass or intimidate a person because of that person's race, color, religion, or national origin.
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| H R 71 | To amend the Federal Power Act to provide for enforcement, including criminal penalties, by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission of electric reliability standards, and for other purposes.
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| H R 72 | To increase global stability and security for the United States and the international community by reducing the number of individuals who are de jure or de facto stateless and at risk of being trafficked.
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| H R 73 | To provide for the collection of data on traffic stops.
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| H R 74 | To establish the Financial Oversight Commission, and for other purposes.
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| H R 75 | To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to construct facilities to provide water for irrigation, municipal, domestic, military, and other uses from the Santa Margarita River, California, and for other purposes.
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| H R 76 | To amend the Reclamation Wastewater and Groundwater Study and Facilities Act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to participate in the Elsinore Valley Municipal Water District Wildomar Service Area Recycled Water Distribution Facilities and Alberhill Wastewater Treatment and Reclamation Facility Projects.
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| H R 77 | To provide for a credit for certain health care benefits in determining the minimum wage.
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| H R 78 | To authorize additional appropriations for the Federal Bureau of Investigation to enhance its ability to more effectively stop mortgage fraud, and for other purposes.
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| H R 79 | To amend subtitle IV of title 40, United States Code, regarding county additions to the Appalachian region.
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| H R 80 | Captive Primate Safety Act | |
| H R 81 | To amend the High Seas Driftnet Fishing Moratorium Protection Act and the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act to improve the conservation of sharks.
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| H R 82 | To expand retroactive eligibility of the Army Combat Action Badge to include members of the Army who participated in combat during which they personally engaged, or were personally engaged by, the enemy at any time on or after December 7, 1941.
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| H R 83 | To establish a program to provide reinsurance for State natural catastrophe insurance programs to help the United States better prepare for and protect its citizens against the ravages of natural catastrophes, to encourage and promote mitigation and prevention for, and recovery and rebuilding from such catastrophes, and to better assist in the financial recovery from such catastrophes.
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| H R 84 | To amend title 38, United States Code, to establish standards of access to care for veterans seeking health care from the Department of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes.
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| H R 85 | To provide permanent relief from the marriage penalty under the Internal Revenue Code of 1986.
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| H R 86 | To eliminate an unused lighthouse reservation, provide management consistency by bringing the rocks and small islands along the coast of Orange County, California, and meet the original Congressional intent of preserving Orange County's rocks and small islands, and for other purposes.
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| H R 87 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow taxpayers to make contributions to the Federal Government on their income tax returns.
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| H R 88 | To amend the Reclamation Wastewater and Groundwater Study and Facilities Act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to participate in the design, planning, and construction of permanent facilities for the GREAT project to reclaim, reuse, and treat impaired waters in the area of Oxnard, California.
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| H R 89 | To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to convey a water distribution system to the Goleta Water District, and for other purposes.
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| H R 90 | To amend title 18, United States Code, to provide increased imprisonment for certain offenses by public officials.
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| H R 91 | To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to authorize the shipment of prescription drugs between the States and the Virgin Islands.
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| H R 92 | To amend titles XI and XIX of the Social Security Act to remove the cap on Medicaid payments for Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, and American Samoa and to adjust the Medicaid statutory matching rate for those territories.
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| H R 93 | To extend the supplemental security income benefits program to Guam and the United States Virgin Islands.
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| H R 94 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the cap on the cover over of tax on distilled spirits to Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.
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| H R 95 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to assist in the recovery and development of the Virgin Islands by providing for a reduction in the tax imposed on distributions from certain retirement plans' assets which are invested for at least 30 years, subject to defined withdrawals, under a Virgin Islands investment program.
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| H R 96 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to increase the maximum reduction in estate tax value for farmland and other special use property, to restore and increase the estate tax deduction for family-owned business interests, and for other purposes.
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| H R 97 | To amend title 18, United States Code, to prohibit certain deceptive practices in Federal elections, and for other purposes.
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| H R 98 | To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to enforce restrictions on employment in the United States of unauthorized aliens through the use of improved Social Security cards and an Employment Eligibility Database, and for other purposes.
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| H R 99 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to reduce taxes by providing an alternative determination of income tax liability for individuals, repealing the estate and gift taxes, reducing corporate income tax rates, reducing the maximum tax for individuals on capital gains and dividends to 10 percent, indexing the basis of assets for purposes of determining capital gain or loss, creating tax-free accounts for retirement savings, lifetime savings, and life skills, repealing the adjusted gross income threshold in the medical care deduction for individuals under age 65 who have no employer health coverage, and for other purposes.
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| H R 100 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a credit for the State and local sales taxes paid on the purchase of an automobile.
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| H R 101 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow all individuals, whether or not first-time homebuyers, a refundable income tax credit for the purchase of a residence during 2009 or 2010.
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| H R 102 | To authorize appropriations for the San Gabriel Basin Restoration Fund.
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| H R 103 | To amend title 18, United States Code, to prevent the election practice known as caging, and for other purposes.
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| H R 104 | To establish a national commission on presidential war powers and civil liberties.
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| H R 105 | To protect voting rights and to improve the administration of Federal elections, and for other purposes.
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| H R 106 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow individuals a refundable credit for higher education expenses.
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| H R 107 | To reform Social Security retirement and Medicare by establishing a Personal Social Security Savings Program to create a safer, healthier, more secure, and more prosperous retirement for all Americans and to reduce the burden on young Americans.
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| H R 108 | To amend title 10, United States Code, to extend military commissary and exchange store privileges to veterans with a compensable service-connected disability and to their dependents.
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| H R 109 | To provide for the offering of Health Benefit Plans to individuals, to increase funding for State high risk health insurance pools, and to promote best practice protocols for State high risk pools.
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| H R 110 | To amend title 18, United States Code, to prohibit human cloning.
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| H R 111 | To amend the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956 and the Revised Statutes of the United States to prohibit financial holding companies and national banks from engaging, directly or indirectly, in real estate brokerage or real estate management activities, and for other purposes.
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| H R 112 | To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to expand the boundary of the Homestead National Monument of America, in the State of Nebraska, and for other purposes.
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| H R 113 | To provide for audits of programs, projects, and activities funded through earmarks.
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| H R 114 | To allow veterans to elect to use, with the approval of the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, certain financial educational assistance to establish and operate certain business, and for other purposes.
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| H R 115 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for tax exempt qualified small issue bonds to finance agricultural processing property.
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| H R 116 | To direct the Federal Trade Commission to revise the regulations regarding the Do-not-call registry to prohibit politically-oriented recorded message telephone calls to telephone numbers listed on that registry.
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| H R 117 | To prohibit a State from imposing a discriminatory commuter tax on nonresidents, and for other purposes.
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| H R 118 | To authorize the addition of 100 acres to Morristown National Historical Park.
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| H R 119 | To direct the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency to designate New Jersey Task Force 1 as part of the National Urban Search and Rescue System.
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| H R 120 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow the alternative motor vehicle personal credit against the alternative minimum tax.
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| H R 121 | To authorize the Secretary of Homeland Security to make grants to first responders, and for other purposes.
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| H R 122 | To amend title 18, United States Code, and the Social Security Act to limit the misuse of Social Security numbers, to establish criminal penalties for such misuse, and for other purposes.
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| H R 123 | To amend the Fair Credit Reporting Act to establish additional reporting requirements to enhance the detection of identity theft, and for other purposes.
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| H R 124 | To prohibit offices of the legislative branch from entering into a contract for the provision of goods or services within the Capitol Complex with any contractor who does not participate in the basic pilot program for employment eligibility verification, and for other purposes.
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| H R 125 | To eliminate the exceptions to the prohibition on adjustment of status of aliens who are unlawfully present in the United States or who accept unauthorized employment.
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| H R 126 | To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to limit citizenship at birth, merely by virtue of birth in the United States, to persons with citizen or legal resident mothers.
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| H R 127 | To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to change certain requirements relating to a sponsor's affidavit of support for an alien.
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| H R 128 | To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to strengthen the criminal consequences for certain violations, and for other purposes.
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| H R 129 | To authorize the conveyance of certain National Forest System lands in the Los Padres National Forest in California.
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| H R 130 | To provide for an exchange of lands between the Secretary of Agriculture and the United Water Conservation District of California to eliminate certain private inholdings in the Los Padres National Forest, and for other purposes.
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| H R 131 | To establish the Ronald Reagan Centennial Commission.
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| H R 132 | To amend title II of the Social Security Act to restrict totalization agreements between the United States and other countries to providing for appropriate exchange of Social Security taxes or contributions between the parties to such agreements, and to prohibit crediting of individuals under such title with earnings from employment or self-employment in the United States performed while such individuals are not citizens, nationals, or lawful permanent residents of the United States and are not authorized by law to be employed in the United States.
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| H R 133 | To amend title II of the Social Security Act to provide that individuals and appropriate authorities are notified by the Commissioner of Social Security of evidence of misuse of the Social Security account numbers of such individuals.
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| H R 134 | To amend the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act of 2000 to extend and increase the authority for the ombudsman under the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program.
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| H R 135 | To establish the Twenty-First Century Water Commission to study and develop recommendations for a comprehensive water strategy to address future water needs.
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| H R 136 | To better provide for compensation for certain persons injured in the course of employment at the Santa Susana Field Laboratory in California.
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| H R 137 | To require an employer to take action after receiving official notice that an individual's Social Security account number does not match the individual's name, and for other purposes.
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| H R 138 | To require Federal contractors to participate in the basic pilot program for employment eligibility verification.
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| H R 139 | To prohibit a Federal agency from accepting a form of individual identification issued by a foreign government, except a passport that is accepted on the date of enactment.
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| H R 140 | To withhold certain highway funds if a State does not comply with certain requirements in issuing a driver's license or identification card, and for other purposes.
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| H R 141 | To require those applying for, and renewing, SCHIP, TAA, and ATAA benefits to present documentation proving both citizenship and identity in order to receive those benefits.
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| H R 142 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to require the Secretary of the Treasury to notify the Secretary of Homeland Security of employer returns showing the employment of individuals not authorized to be employed in the United States, to notify the employers that they must terminate the employment of those employees, to provide an opportunity for those employees to contest the information, and to establish a procedure for determining whether individuals who are not authorized to be employed in the United States are so employed.
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| H R 143 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for a two-month suspension of employment and income taxes, and for other purposes.
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| H R 144 | To designate Haiti under section 244 of the Immigration and Nationality Act in order to render nationals of Haiti eligible for temporary protected status under such section.
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| H R 145 | To amend the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 to include workforce investment programs on the Internet.
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| H R 146 | Revolutionary War and War of 1812 Battlefield Protection Act | |
| H R 147 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow taxpayers to designate a portion of their income tax payment to provide assistance to homeless veterans, and for other purposes.
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| H R 148 | To prohibit the use of funds to transfer enemy combatants detained by the United States at Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to the United States Disciplinary Barracks, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.
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| H R 149 | To promote congressional and public awareness, understanding, and political accountability of presidential signing statements.
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| H R 150 | To make payments by the Department of Homeland Security to a State contingent on a State providing the Federal Bureau of Investigation with certain statistics, to require Federal agencies, departments, and courts to provide such statistics to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and to require the Federal Bureau of Investigation to publish such statistics.
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| H R 151 | To establish the Daniel Webster Congressional Clerkship Program.
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| H R 152 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code to provide for a refundable tax credit for heating fuels and to create a grant program for States to provide individuals with loans to weatherize their homes.
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| H R 153 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for tax-favored unemployment savings accounts, and for other purposes.
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| H R 154 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code to exclude certain amounts of severance payments from gross income.
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| H R 155 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to suspend the taxation of unemployment compensation for 2 years.
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| H R 156 | To prevent Members of Congress from receiving any automatic pay adjustment in 2010.
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| H R 157 | To provide for the treatment of the District of Columbia as a Congressional district for purposes of representation in the House of Representatives, and for other purposes.
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| H R 158 | To amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide for expenditure limitations and public financing for House of Representatives general elections, and for other purposes.
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| H R 159 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow an above-the-line deduction against individual income tax for interest on indebtedness and for State and local sales and excise taxes with respect to the purchase of certain motor vehicles.
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| H R 160 | To amend title II of the Social Security Act and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide prospectively that wages earned, and self-employment income derived, by individuals who are not citizens or nationals of the United States shall not be credited for coverage under the old-age, survivors, and disability insurance program under such title, and to provide the President with authority to enter into agreements with other nations taking into account such limitation on crediting of wages and self-employment income.
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| H R 161 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the 1993 increase in taxes on Social Security benefits.
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| H R 162 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the inclusion in gross income of Social Security benefits.
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| H R 163 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 with respect to the purchase of prescription drugs by individuals who have attained retirement age, and to amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act with respect to the importation of prescription drugs and the sale of such drugs through Internet sites.
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| H R 164 | To provide greater health care freedom for seniors.
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| H R 165 | To establish the Thomas Edison National Historical Park in the State of New Jersey as the successor to the Edison National Historic Site.
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| H R 166 | To authorize the expansion of the Fort Davis National Historic Site in Fort Davis, Texas, and for other purposes.
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| H R 167 | To amend the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to modify the boundary of the Rio Grande Wild and Scenic River.
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| H R 168 | To authorize 150,000 incremental vouchers for tenant-based rental assistance under section 8 of the United States Housing Act of 1937 to help meet the housing needs of low-income families.
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| H R 169 | To amend the Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve Act of 2000 to explain the purpose and provide for the administration of the Baca National Wildlife Refuge.
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| H R 170 | To establish the Dominguez-Escalante National Conservation Area and the Dominguez Canyon Wilderness Area.
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| H R 171 | To establish the Sangre de Cristo National Heritage Area in the State of Colorado, and for other purposes.
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| H R 172 | To provide for the construction of the Arkansas Valley Conduit in the State of Colorado.
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| H R 173 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exempt certain farmland from the estate tax.
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| H R 174 | To direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to establish a national cemetery for veterans in the southern Colorado region.
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| H R 175 | To amend title 40, United States Code, to provide additional authority and definitions relating to public utility contracts.
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| H R 176 | To amend the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to provide greater access to the supplemental nutrition assistance program by reducing duplicative and burdensome administrative requirements, authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to award grants to certain community-based nonprofit feeding and anti-hunger groups for the purpose of establishing and implementing a Beyond the Soup Kitchen Pilot Program for certain socially and economically disadvantaged populations, and for other purposes.
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| H R 177 | To provide for identification of members of the Armed Forces exposed during military service to depleted uranium, to provide for health testing of such members, and for other purposes.
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| H R 178 | To authorize the appropriation of funds to be used to recruit, hire, and train 100,000 new classroom paraprofessionals in order to improve educational achievement for children.
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| H R 179 | To permit the use of Federal funds for syringe exchange programs for purposes of reducing the transmission of bloodborne pathogens, including HIV and viral hepatitis.
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| H R 180 | To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to waive the requirement for proof of citizenship during first year of life for children born in the United States to a Medicaid-eligible mother.
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| H R 181 | To permit members of the House of Representatives to donate used computer equipment to public elementary and secondary schools designated by the members.
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| H R 182 | 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, deported, or excluded from the United States.
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| H R 183 | To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to study the suitability and feasibility of designating Oak Point and North Brother Island in the Bronx in the State of New York as a unit of the National Park System.
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| H R 184 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a business credit relating to the use of clean-fuel and fuel efficient vehicles by businesses within areas designated as nonattainment areas under the Clean Air Act.
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| H R 185 | To amend the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act and the egg, meat, and poultry inspection laws to ensure that consumers receive notification regarding food products produced from crops, livestock, or poultry raised on land on which sewage sludge was applied.
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| H R 186 | To establish a grant program to provide screenings for glaucoma to individuals determined to be at high risk for glaucoma, and for other purposes.
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| H R 187 | To waive certain prohibitions with respect to nationals of Cuba coming to the United States to play organized professional baseball.
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| H R 188 | To lift the trade embargo on Cuba, and for other purposes.
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| H R 189 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow taxpayers to designate income tax overpayments as contributions to the United States Library Trust Fund.
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| H R 190 | To amend title 38, United States Code, to ensure that veterans in each of the 48 contiguous States are able to receive services in at least one full-service hospital of the Veterans Health Administration in the State or receive comparable services provided by contract in the State.
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| H R 191 | To amend title 28, United States Code, to provide for the appointment of additional Federal circuit judges, to divide the Ninth Judicial Circuit of the United States into two circuits, and for other purposes.
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| H R 192 | To authorize various land conveyances involving National Forest System lands and Bureau of Land Management lands in central Idaho to promote economic development and recreational activities in the area, to add certain National Forest System lands and Bureau of Land Management lands in central Idaho to the National Wilderness Preservation System, to provide special management requirements for certain National Forest System lands and Bureau of Land Management lands in central Idaho, and for other purposes.
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| H R 193 | To amend the Social Security Act and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for an AmeriCare that assures the provision of health insurance coverage to all residents, and for other purposes.
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| H R 194 | To amend the Social Security Act to guarantee comprehensive health care coverage for all children born after 2009, and for other purposes.
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| H R 195 | To authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make grants to nonprofit tax-exempt organizations for the purchase of ultrasound equipment to provide free examinations to pregnant women needing such services, and for other purposes.
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| H R 196 | To provide that no Federal funds may be used for the design, renovation, construction, or rental of any headquarters for the United Nations in any location in the United States unless the President transmits to Congress a certification that the United Nations has adopted internationally-recognized best practices in contracting and procurement.
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| H R 197 | To amend title 18, United States Code, to provide a national standard in accordance with which nonresidents of a State may carry concealed firearms in the State.
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| H R 198 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow a deduction for amounts paid for health insurance and prescription drug costs of individuals.
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| H R 199 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exclude from gross income certain interest amounts received by individuals.
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| H R 200 | To amend title 11 of the United States Code with respect to modification of certain mortgages on principal residences, and for other purposes.
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| H R 201 | To provide that no automatic pay adjustment for Members of Congress shall be made in the year following a fiscal year in which there is a Federal budget deficit.
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| H R 202 | To create a commission to develop a plan for establishing a Museum of Ideas.
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| H R 203 | To amend titles XI and XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide increased civil and criminal penalties for acts involving fraud and abuse under the Medicare Program and to increase the amount of the surety bond required for suppliers of durable medical equipment.
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| H R 204 | To permanently prohibit oil and gas leasing off the coast of Mendocino, Humboldt, and Del Norte Counties in the State of California, and for other purposes.
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| H R 205 | To repeal the Federal estate and gift taxes.
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| H R 206 | To amend title 32, United States Code, to improve the readiness of State defense forces and to increase military coordination for homeland security between the States and the Department of Defense.
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| H R 207 | To amend the National Guard Youth Challenge Program under title 32, United States Code, to exclude nondefense funds made available by other Federal agencies for the Program from the matching requirements of the Program.
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| H R 208 | To amend title 10, United States Code, to ensure that members of the reserve components of the Armed Forces who have served on active duty or performed active service since September 11, 2001, in support of a contingency operation or in other emergency situations receive credit for such service in determining eligibility for early receipt of non-regular service retired pay, and for other purposes.
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| H R 209 | To expand the teacher loan forgiveness provisions of the Higher Education Act of 1965 to include speech-language pathologists.
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| H R 210 | To direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to conduct a study on the acquisition of a parcel of land adjacent to Beaufort National Cemetery, Beaufort, South Carolina.
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| H R 211 | To facilitate nationwide availability of 2-1-1 telephone service for information and referral on health and human services, including volunteer services, and for other purposes.
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| H R 212 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend bonus depreciation for 2 years.
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| H R 213 | To repeal the sunset of the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 with respect to the expansion of the adoption credit and adoption assistance programs.
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| H R 214 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a Federal income tax credit for certain home purchases.
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| H R 215 | To provide that rates of pay for Members of Congress shall not be subject to automatic adjustment; and to provide that any bill or resolution, and any amendment to any bill or resolution, which would increase Members' pay may be adopted only by a recorded vote.
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| H R 216 | To prevent abuse of Government credit cards.
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| H R 217 | To direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to acquire a parcel of land adjacent to Beaufort National Cemetery, Beaufort, South Carolina.
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| H R 218 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a nonrefundable personal credit to individuals who donate certain life-saving organs.
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| H R 219 | To amend title II of the Social Security Act to ensure the integrity of the Social Security trust funds by requiring the Managing Trustee to invest the annual surplus of such trust funds in marketable interest-bearing obligations of the United States and certificates of deposit in depository institutions insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and to protect such trust funds from the public debt limit.
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| H R 220 | To amend title II of the Social Security Act and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to protect the integrity and confidentiality of Social Security account numbers issued under such title, to prohibit the establishment in the Federal Government of any uniform national identifying number, and to prohibit Federal agencies from imposing standards for identification of individuals on other agencies or persons.
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| H R 221 | To require assurances that certain family planning service projects and programs will provide pamphlets containing the contact information of adoption centers.
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| H R 222 | To direct the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a study of the suitability and feasibility of establishing the Northern Neck National Heritage Area in Virginia, and for other purposes.
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| H R 223 | To expand the boundaries of the Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary and the Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuary, and for other purposes.
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| H R 224 | To provide for the liquidation or reliquidation of certain entries of newspaper printing presses and components thereof.
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| H R 225 | To amend title 11 of the United States Code with respect to modification of certain mortgages on principal residences, and for other purposes.
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| H R 226 | To prevent the Federal Communications Commission from repromulgating the fairness doctrine.
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| H R 227 | To provide that human life shall be deemed to begin with fertilization.
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| H R 228 | To direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to establish a scholarship program for students seeking a degree or certificate in the areas of visual impairment and orientation and mobility.
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| H R 229 | To provide for the retention of the name of Mount McKinley.
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| H R 230 | To prevent foreclosure of home mortgages and increase the availability of affordable new mortgages.
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| H R 231 | To require certain warning labels to be placed on video games that are given certain ratings due to violent content.
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| H R 232 | To provide for the creation of a Federal greenhouse gas registry, and for other purposes.
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| H R 233 | To amend the Federal antitrust laws to provide expanded coverage and to eliminate exemptions from such laws that are contrary to the public interest with respect to railroads.
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| H R 234 | To provide for the conveyance of the Alta-Hualapai Site to the Nevada Cancer Institute, and for other purposes.
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| H R 235 | To amend title II of the Social Security Act to repeal the Government pension offset and windfall elimination provisions.
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| H R 236 | To amend the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to protect Social Security beneficiaries against any reduction in benefits.
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| H R 237 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow a refundable credit to military retirees for premiums paid for coverage under Medicare Part B.
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| H R 238 | To amend title II of the Social Security Act to provide for an improved benefit computation formula for workers affected by the changes in benefit computation rules enacted in the Social Security Amendments of 1977 who attain age 65 during the 10-year period after 1981 and before 1992 (and related beneficiaries) and to provide prospectively for increases in their benefits accordingly.
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| H R 239 | To impose requirements with regard to border searches of digital electronic devices and digital storage media, and for other purposes.
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| H R 240 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the alternative minimum tax on individuals.
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| H R 241 | To amend title 10, United States Code, to require the amounts reimbursed to institutional providers of health care services under the TRICARE program to be the same as amounts reimbursed under Medicare, and to require the Secretary of Defense to contract for health care services with at least one teaching hospital in urban areas.
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| H R 242 | To direct the Secretary of Labor to revise regulations concerning the recording and reporting of occupational injuries and illnesses under the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970.
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| H R 243 | To amend the National Labor Relations Act to require the arbitration of initial contract negotiation disputes, and for other purposes.
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| H R 244 | To provide for the security of critical energy infrastructure.
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| H R 245 | To preserve local radio broadcast emergency and other services and to require the Federal Communications Commission to conduct a rulemaking for that purpose.
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| H R 246 | To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to exempt elementary and secondary schools from the fee imposed on employers filing petitions with respect to non-immigration workers under the H-1B program.
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| H R 247 | To amend section 1369 of title 18, United States Code, to extend Federal jurisdiction over destruction of veterans' memorials on State or local government property.
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| H R 248 | To provide Capitol-flown flags to the families of deceased law enforcement officers.
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| H R 249 | To direct the head of a Federal department or agency that is carrying out a project involving the construction of a culvert or other enclosed flood or drainage system to ensure that certain child safety measures are included in the project.
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| H R 250 | To require the Surface Transportation Board to consider certain issues when deciding whether to authorize the construction of a railroad line.
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| H R 251 | To prevent the nondisclosure of employer-owned life insurance coverage of employees as an unfair trade practice under the Federal Trade Commission Act, and for other purposes.
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| H R 252 | To provide that no more than 50 percent of funding made available under the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Act of 1981 for any fiscal year be provided for home heating purposes.
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| H R 253 | To direct the Election Assistance Commission to make grants to States to carry out election administration improvement plans.
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| H R 254 | To change the date for regularly scheduled Federal elections and establish polling place hours.
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| H R 255 | To require the Secretary of the Treasury to mint coins in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the establishment of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
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| H R 256 | To enhance Federal enforcement of hate crimes, and for other purposes.
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| H R 257 | To prevent children's access to firearms.
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| H R 258 | To prevent the President from encroaching upon the Congressional prerogative to make laws, and for other purposes.
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| H R 259 | To amend title 23, United States Code, to establish national standards for State safety inspections of motor vehicles, and for other purposes.
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| H R 260 | To authorize the Secretary of Energy to make loan guarantees for cellulosic ethanol production technology development.
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| H R 261 | To provide that no Federal funds may be used by the Secretary of Homeland Security to approve a site security plan for a chemical facility, unless the facility meets or exceeds security standards and requirements to protect the facility against acts of terrorism established for such a facility by the State or local government for the area where the facility is located, and for other purposes.
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| H R 262 | To prevent hate crimes, to provide support services for victims of hate crimes, and for other purposes.
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| H R 263 | To amend title 28, United States Code, to grant to the House of Representatives the authority to bring a civil action to enforce, secure a declaratory judgment concerning the validity of, or prevent a threatened refusal or failure to comply with any subpoena or order issued by the House or any committee or subcommittee of the House to secure the production of documents, the answering of any deposition or interrogatory, or the securing of testimony, and for other purposes.
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| H R 264 | To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to comprehensively reform immigration law, and for other purposes.
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| H R 265 | To target cocaine kingpins and address sentencing disparity between crack and powder cocaine.
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| H R 266 | To authorize the Secretary of Homeland Security to establish a program to award grants to institutions of higher education for the establishment or expansion of cybersecurity professional development programs, and for other purposes.
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| H R 267 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to expand the availability of the Internal Revenue Service's Taxpayer Assistance Centers.
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| H R 268 | To amend title 10, United States Code, to ensure that every military chaplain has the prerogative to close a prayer outside of a religious service according to the dictates of the chaplain's own conscience.
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| H R 269 | To require the Department of Defense to grant access to accredited members of the media when the remains of members of the Armed Forces arrive at military installations in the United States.
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| H R 270 | To amend title 10, United States Code, to provide for continuity of TRICARE Standard coverage for certain members of the Retired Reserve.
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| H R 271 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to increase the standard charitable mileage rate for delivery of meals to elderly, disabled, frail and at risk individuals.
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| H R 272 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide incentives to encourage investment in the expansion of freight rail infrastructure capacity and to enhance modal tax equity.
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| H R 273 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify the treatment of qualified restaurant property as 15-year property for purposes of the depreciation deduction.
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| H R 274 | To impose certain limitations on the receipt of out-of-State municipal solid waste, and for other purposes.
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| H R 275 | To repeal the imposition of 3 percent withholding on certain payments made to vendors by government entities.
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| H R 276 | To direct the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to convene a task force to develop recommendations on the proper disposal of unused pharmaceuticals, and for other purposes.
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| H R 277 | To provide an alternate procedure for the prosecution of certain criminal contempts referred for prosecution by the House of Representatives, and for other purposes.
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| H R 278 | To ensure that Congress is notified when the Department of Justice determines that the Executive Branch is not bound by a statute.
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| H R 279 | To amend the Palo Alto Battlefield National Historic Site Act of 1991 to designate the historic site as the Palo Alto Battlefield National Historical Park, to expand the boundaries of the park, and for other purposes.
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| H R 280 | To establish the Paterson Great Falls National Historical Park, and for other purposes.
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| H R 281 | To authorize the Securities and Exchange Commission to permit or require persons filing or furnishing information under the securities laws to make such information available on internet websites, in addition to or instead of including such information in filings with or submissions to the Commission, under such conditions as the Commission may specify by rule.
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| H R 282 | To prevent Members of Congress from receiving any automatic pay adjustment in 2010.
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| H R 283 | To modify the boundary of the Hopewell Culture National Historical Park in the State of Ohio, and for other purposes.
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| H R 284 | To direct the Secretary of the Interior to complete a special resource study of the site of the Battle of Camden, and for other purposes.
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| H R 285 | To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to create a Bureau of Reclamation partnership with the North Bay Water Reuse Authority and other regional partners to achieve objectives relating to water supply, water quality, and environmental restoration.
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| H R 286 | To amend the Dayton Aviation Heritage Preservation Act of 1992 to add sites to the Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park, and for other purposes.
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| H R 287 | For relief of Enrique Soriano and Areli Soriano.
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| H R 288 | To create a separate DNA database for violent predators against children, and for other purposes.
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| H R 289 | To authorize the President to posthumously award a gold medal on behalf of the Congress to the seven members of the crew of the space shuttle Columbia in recognition of their outstanding and enduring contributions to the Nation.
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| H R 290 | To provide for special transfers of funds to States to promote certain improvements in State unemployment compensation laws.
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| H R 291 | To provide for certain temporary additional unemployment benefits.
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| H R 292 | To improve energy and water efficiencies and conservation throughout the Department of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes.
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| H R 293 | To amend title 38, United States Code, to direct the Secretary of Labor to carry out a grant program to provide reintegration services through programs and facilities that emphasize services for homeless women veterans and homeless veterans with children.
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| H R 294 | To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide for the reauthorization of the Department of Veterans Affairs small business loan program, and for other purposes.
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| H R 295 | To authorize appropriations for the veterans' workforce investment programs.
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| H R 296 | To amend title 10, United States Code, to revise the process by which a member of the Armed Forces is retired for disability and becomes eligible for retirement pay, and for other purposes.
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| H R 297 | To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide for an increase in the amount of subsistence allowance payable by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to veterans participating in vocational rehabilitation programs, and for other purposes.
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| H R 298 | To amend title XXI of the Social Security Act to require SCHIP annual reports to include information on the HEDIS measure relating to access to primary care practitioners by individuals eligible for child health assistance under such plans and on State efforts to avoid certain displacement of private health coverage, and to express the sense of Congress that such States should utilize Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems consumer satisfaction surveys to measure access by such idividuals to physicians.
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| H R 299 | To provide American consumers information about the broadcast television transition from an analog to a digital format, and to provide additional funds for the converter box coupon program under the Digital Television Transition and Public Safety Act of 2005.
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| H R 300 | To provide for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and for other purposes.
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| H R 301 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to prevent pending tax increases and to provide additional tax reductions to stimulate economic growth.
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| H R 302 | To require the Securities and Exchange Commission to reinstate the uptick rule on short sales of securities.
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| H R 303 | To amend title 10, United States Code, to permit additional retired members of the Armed Forces who have a service-connected disability to receive both disability compensation from the Department of Veterans Affairs for their disability and either retired pay by reason of their years of military service or Combat-Related Special Compensation and to eliminate the phase-in period under current law with respect to such concurrent receipt.
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| H R 304 | To award a congressional gold medal to Joseph Barnett Kirsner, M.D., Ph.D., in recognition of his many outstanding contributions to the Nation.
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| H R 305 | To amend title 49, United States Code, to prohibit the transportation of horses in interstate transportation in a motor vehicle containing 2 or more levels stacked on top of one another.
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| H R 306 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide coverage for kidney disease education services under the Medicare Program, and for other purposes.
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| H R 307 | To enhance and further research into paralysis and to improve rehabilitation and the quality of life for persons living with paralysis and other physical disabilities, and for other purposes.
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| H R 308 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a credit against tax for hurricane and tornado mitigation expenditures.
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| H R 309 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow certain current and former service members to receive a refundable credit for the purchase of a principal residence.
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| H R 310 | To provide for the conveyance of approximately 140 acres of land in the Ouachita National Forest in Oklahoma to the Indian Nations Council, Inc., of the Boy Scouts of America, and for other purposes.
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| H R 311 | To cap discretionary spending, eliminate wasteful and duplicative agencies, reform entitlement programs, and reform the congressional earmark process.
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| H R 312 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend the credit for electricity produced from certain renewable resources.
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| H R 313 | To amend title 11, United States Code, to establish a priority for the payment of claims for duties paid to the United States by licensed customs brokers and sureties on behalf of a debtor.
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| H R 314 | To increase the number of Federal judgeships in certain judicial districts with heavy caseloads of criminal immigration cases.
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| H R 315 | To require the establishment of customer service standards for Federal agencies.
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| H R 316 | To amend the Omnibus Parks and Public Lands Management Act of 1996 to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to enter into cooperative agreements with any of the management partners of the Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area, and for other purposes.
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| H R 317 | To amend the Adams National Historical Park Act of 1998 to include the Quincy Homestead within the boundary of the Adams National Historical Park, and for other purposes.
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| H R 318 | To extend the authority for the Cape Cod National Seashore Advisory Commission.
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| H R 319 | To amend titles XIX and XXI of the Social Security Act to permit States the option of coverage of legal immigrants under the Medicaid Program and the State children's health insurance program (SCHIP).
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| H R 320 | To amend the National Manufactured Housing Construction and Safety Standards Act of 1974 to require that weather radios be installed in all manufactured homes manufactured or sold in the United States.
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| H R 321 | To amend title XXI of the Social Security Act to expand coverage options under the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) through premium assistance.
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| H R 322 | To amend title II of the Social Security Act to remove the limitation upon the amount of outside income which an individual may earn while receiving benefits under such title, and for other purposes.
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| H R 323 | To amend title XXVII of the Public Health Service Act and title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to require that group and individual health insurance coverage and group health plans provide comprehensive coverage for childhood immunization.
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| H R 324 | To establish the Santa Cruz Valley National Heritage Area, and for other purposes.
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| H R 325 | To amend the Reclamation Wastewater and Groundwater Study and Facilities Act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to participate in the Avra/Black Wash Reclamation and Riparian Restoration Project.
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| H R 326 | To direct the Secretary of the Interior to take lands in Yuma County, Arizona, into trust as part of the reservation of the Cocopah Tribe of Arizona, and for other purposes.
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| H R 327 | To establish the National Hurricane Research Initiative to improve hurricane preparedness, and for other purposes.
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| H R 328 | To amend the National Trails System Act to designate the Washington-Rochambeau Revolutionary Route National Historic Trail.
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| H R 329 | To amend the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 to repeal the denial of food stamp eligibility of ex-offenders.
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| H R 330 | To establish grant programs to encourage energy-efficient economic development and green job training and creation, and to establish the Metro Area Green Institute to produce and disseminate best practice information to economic and workforce development initiatives undertaken by metropolitan communities nationally.
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| H R 331 | To establish the Independent Commission on the 2004 Coup d'Etat in the Republic of Haiti.
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| H R 332 | To provide that no funds made available to the Department of the Treasury may be used to implement, administer, or enforce regulations to require specific licenses for travel-related transactions directly related to educational activities in Cuba.
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| H R 333 | To amend title 10, United States Code, to permit retired members of the Armed Forces who have a service-connected disability rated less than 50 percent to receive concurrent payment of both retired pay and veterans' disability compensation, to eliminate the phase-in period for concurrent receipt, to extend eligibility for concurrent receipt to chapter 61 disability retirees with less than 20 years of service, and for other purposes.
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| H R 334 | To provide for the appointment of a high-level United States representative or special envoy for Iran for the purpose of easing tensions and normalizing relations between the United States and Iran.
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| H R 335 | To ensure that any agreement with Iraq containing a security commitment or arrangement is concluded as a treaty or is approved by Congress.
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| H R 336 | To provide for the issuance of a semipostal to benefit the Peace Corps.
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| H R 337 | To provide for the sale of approximately 25 acres of public land to the Turnabout Ranch, Escalante, Utah, at fair market value.
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| H R 338 | To authorize the Boy Scouts of America to exchange certain land in the State of Utah acquired under the Recreation and Public Purposes Act.
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| H R 339 | To extend the expiration date of coupons issued under the digital television converter box program.
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| H R 340 | To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to study the suitability and feasibility of designating Camp Security, located in Springettsbury, York County, Pennsylvania, as a unit of the National Park System.
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| H R 341 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to suspend the running of periods of limitation for credit or refund of overpayment of Federal income tax by veterans while their service-connected compensation determinations are pending with the Secretary of Veterans Affairs.
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| H R 342 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for an enhanced deduction for qualified residence interest on acquisition indebtedness for heritage homes.
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| H R 343 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow volunteer firefighters a deduction for personal safety clothing.
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| H R 344 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow a full deduction for meals and lodging in connection with medical care.
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| H R 345 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to increase the standard mileage rate for charitable purposes to the standard mileage rate established by the Secretary of the Treasury for business purposes.
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| H R 346 | To repeal the provision of law that provides for automatic pay adjustments for Members of Congress.
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| H R 347 | To grant the congressional gold medal, collectively, to the 100th Infantry Battalion and the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, United States Army, in recognition of their dedicated service during World War II.
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| H R 348 | To direct the Secretary of the Interior to complete a special resource study to determine the suitability and feasibility of adding the birthplace site to the Harry S Truman National Historic Site or designating the site as a separate unit of the National Park System, and for other purposes.
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| H R 349 | To authorize an additional district judgeship for the district of Nebraska.
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| H R 350 | To amend the Rules of the House of Representatives to require committee reports to include domestic energy impact statements, and for other purposes.
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| H R 351 | To expand the boundary of the Minute Man National Historical Park in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to include Barrett's Farm, and for other purposes.
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| H R 352 | To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to assist in the planning, design, and construction of the Tumalo Irrigation District Water Conservation Project in Deschutes County, Oregon.
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| H R 353 | For the relief of Simeon Simeonov, Stela Simeonova, Stoyan Simeonov, and Vania Simeonova.
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| H R 354 | For the relief of Gloria Ayala Cuyuch.
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| H R 355 | For the relief of Francisca Lino.
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| H R 356 | For the relief of Rebeca Rojas de Guzman.
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| H R 357 | For the relief of Jose de Jesus Ibarra, Monica Ibarra Rodriguez, and Cristina Gamez.
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| H R 358 | For the relief of Alemseghed Mussie Tesfamical.
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| H R 359 | For the relief of Geert Botzen.
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| H R 360 | To authorize the Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating to issue a certificate of documentation for operation in the coastwise trade for the vessel ZIPPER.
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| H R 361 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a 1-year extension of the increased expensing of certain depreciable business assets and the special depreciation allowance for certain business property.
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| H R 362 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for temporary improvements to the Medicare inpatient hospital payment adjustment for low-volume hospitals and to provide for the use of the non-wage adjusted PPS rate under the Medicare-dependent hospital (MDH) program, and for other purposes.
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| H R 363 | To amend the United States International Broadcasting Act of 1994 to reorganize United States international broadcasting, and for other purposes.
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| H R 364 | To restrict nuclear cooperation with the United Arab Emirates, and for other purposes.
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| H R 365 | To direct the President to establish a program to develop a coordinated and comprehensive Federal ocean and coastal mapping plan for the Great Lakes and coastal state waters, the territorial sea, the exclusive economic zone, and the continental shelf of the United States, and for other purposes.
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| H R 366 | To establish the national ocean exploration program and the national undersea research program within the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, to direct the Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to establish and maintain an undersea research program, and for other purposes.
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| H R 367 | To establish a national integrated system of ocean, coastal, and Great Lakes observing systems, and for other purposes.
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| H R 368 | To authorize the acquisition of land and interests in land from willing sellers to improve the conservation of, and to enhance the ecological values and functions of, coastal and estuarine areas to benefit both the environment and the economies of coastal communities, and for other purposes.
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| H R 369 | To designate certain Federal lands in Riverside County, California, as wilderness, to designate certain river segments in Riverside County as a wild, scenic, or recreational river, to adjust the boundary of the Santa Rosa and San Jacinto Mountains National Monument, and for other purposes.
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| H R 370 | To amend the Foreign Service Act of 1980 to extend comparability pay adjustments to members of the Foreign Service assigned to posts abroad, and to amend the provision relating to the death gratuity payable to surviving dependents of Foreign Service employees who die as a result of injuries sustained in the performance of duty abroad.
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| H R 371 | To amend the Reclamation Wastewater and Groundwater Study and Facilities Act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to participate in the Rancho California Water District Southern Riverside County Recycled/Non-Potable Distribution Facilities and Demineralization/Desalination Recycled Water Treatment and Reclamation Facility Project.
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| H R 372 | To authorize implementation of the San Joaquin River Restoration Settlement, and for other purposes.
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| H R 373 | To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to render inadmissible and deportable certain aliens convicted of drunk driving, and for other purposes.
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| H R 374 | To require the closure of the detention facility at Guatanamo Bay, Cuba, to limit the use of certain interrogation techniques, to prohibit interrogation by contractors, to require notification of the International Committee of the Red Cross of detainees, and for other purposes.
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| H R 375 | To enhance the security of the Western Hemisphere and bolster regional capacity and cooperation to counter current and emerging threats, to promote cooperation in the Western Hemisphere to prevent the proliferation of nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons, to secure universal adherence to agreements regarding nuclear nonproliferation, and for other purposes.
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| H R 376 | To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to convey to the McGee Creek Authority certain facilities of the McGee Creek Project, Oklahoma, and for other purposes.
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| H R 377 | To make 2 percent across-the-board rescissions in non-defense, non-homeland-security discretionary spending for fiscal year 2009.
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| H R 378 | To make 1 percent across-the-board rescissions in non-defense, non-homeland-security discretionary spending for fiscal year 2009.
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| H R 379 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to ensure that all taxpayers have the ability to deduct State and local general sales taxes.
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| H R 380 | To provide for the establishment of a task force within the Bureau of Justice Statistics to gather information about, study, and report to the Congress regarding, incidents of abandonment of infant children.
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| H R 381 | To make 5 percent across-the-board rescissions in non-defense, non-homeland-security discretionary spending for fiscal year 2009.
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| H R 382 | To create a separate DNA database for predators against children, and for other purposes.
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| H R 383 | To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to participate in additional phases of the project to reclaim and reuse water within the service area of the Orange County Water District in California.
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| H R 384 | TARP Reform and Accountability Act of 2009 | |
| H R 385 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide tax incentives to consumers and lenders for the purchase of a passenger vehicle during 2009.
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| H R 386 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to simplify and improve the current education tax incentives.
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| H R 387 | To amend the Federal Deposit Insurance Act to require each insured depository institution which receives an investment or other assistance under the Troubled Assets Relief Program to include in the quarterly call report the amount of any increase in new lending that is attributable to such investment or assistance, and for other purposes.
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| H R 388 | To assist in the conservation of cranes by supporting and providing, through projects of persons and organizations with expertise in crane conservation, financial resources for the conservation programs of countries the activities of which directly or indirectly affect cranes and the ecosystems of cranes.
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| H R 389 | To amend the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 to eliminate an hours of service requirement for benefits under that Act.
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| H R 390 | To prohibit, as an unfair and deceptive act or practice, the promotion, marketing, and advertising of any post-season NCAA Division I football game as a national championship game unless such game is the culmination of a fair and equitable playoff system.
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| H R 391 | To amend the Clean Air Act to provide that greenhouse gases are not subject to the Act, and for other purposes.
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| H R 392 | To amend the Clean Air Act to provide for a reduction in the number of boutique fuels, and for other purposes.
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| H R 393 | To provide for the periodic review of the efficiency and public need for Federal agencies, to establish a Commission for the purpose of reviewing the efficiency and public need of such agencies, and to provide for the abolishment of agencies for which a public need does not exist.
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| H R 394 | To amend title 38, United States Code, to authorize the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to increase the amount of the Medal of Honor special pension provided under that title by up to $1,000.
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| H R 395 | To prevent Members of Congress from receiving any automatic pay adjustment in 2010.
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| H R 396 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide that certain net capital gain of individuals who have attained age 65 shall not be subject to tax.
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| H R 397 | To extend the authorization of the Quinebaug and Shetucket Rivers Valley National Heritage Corridor Act of 1994, and for other purposes.
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| H R 398 | To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to restore and protect access to Medicaid discount drug prices for university-based and safety-net clinics.
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| H R 399 | To direct the Secretary of Labor to make a grant to a public university to establish the Center for the Study of Women and Workplace Policy.
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| H R 400 | To amend the Communications Act of 1934 to prevent the granting of regulatory forbearance by default.
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| H R 401 | To provide for the designation of certain sites in Monroe County and Wayne County, Michigan, relating to the Battles of the River Raisin during the War of 1812 as a unit of the National Park System.
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| H R 402 | To designate the Department of Veterans Affairs Outpatient Clinic in Knoxville, Tennessee, as the "William C. Tallent Department of Veterans Affairs Outpatient Clinic".
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| H R 403 | To provide housing assistance for very low-income veterans.
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| H R 404 | To establish the National Landscape Conservation System, and for other purposes.
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| H R 405 | To authorize appropriations for the Bureau of Reclamation to carry out the Lower Colorado River Multi-Species Conservation Program in the States of Arizona, California, and Nevada, and for other purposes.
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| H R 406 | To award a Congressional Gold Medal in recognition of Alice Paul's role in the women's suffrage movement and in advancing equal rights for women.
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| H R 407 | To provide for the release of any reversionary interest of the United States in and to certain lands in Reno, Nevada.
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| H R 408 | To direct the Secretary of the Interior to convey to the City of Henderson, Nevada, certain Federal land located in the City, and for other purposes.
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| H R 409 | To provide for the conveyance of certain Bureau of Land Management land in the State of Nevada to the Las Vegas Motor Speedway, and for other purposes.
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| H R 410 | To provide for the establishment of a memorial within Kalaupapa National Historical Park located on the island of Molokai, in the State of Hawaii, to honor and perpetuate the memory of those individuals who were forcibly relocated to the Kalaupapa Peninsula from 1866 to 1969, and for other purposes.
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| H R 411 | To assist in the conservation of rare felids and rare canids by supporting and providing financial resources for the conservation programs of nations within the range of rare felid and rare canid populations and projects of persons with demonstrated expertise in the conservation of rare felid and rare canid populations.
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| H R 412 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow the deduction for property taxes in determining the amount of the alternative minimum taxable income of any taxpayer (other than a corporation).
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| H R 413 | To provide collective bargaining rights for public safety officers employed by States or their political subdivisions.
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| H R 414 | To require mobile phones containing digital cameras to make a sound when a photograph is taken.
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| H R 415 | To provide Capitol-flown flags to the immediate family of fire fighters, law enforcement officers, emergency medical technicians, and other rescue workers who are killed in the line of duty.
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| H R 416 | To authorize the establishment of educational exchange and development programs for member countries of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM).
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| H R 417 | To provide for professional exchanges with Haiti, and for other purposes.
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| H R 418 | To confirm the jurisdiction of the Consumer Product Safety Commission with respect to releasing systems on residential window bars and to establish a consumer product safety standard ensuring that all such bars include a quick-release mechanism.
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| H R 419 | To designate as wilderness certain land within the Rocky Mountain National Park and to adjust the boundaries of the Indian Peaks Wilderness and the Arapaho National Recreation Area of the Arapaho National Forest in the State of Colorado.
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| H R 420 | To prohibit the use of Federal funds for a project or program named for an individual then serving as a Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, or Senator of the United States Congress.
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| H R 421 | To amend the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 to restrict which assets banks can write off as loss for purposes of the Troubled Assets Relief Program, and for other purposes.
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| H R 422 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend the research credit through 2010 and to increase and make permanent the alternative simplified research credit.
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| H R 423 | To provide compensation for certain World War II veterans who survived the Bataan Death March and were held as prisoners of war by the Japanese.
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| H R 424 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend the temporary waiver of the required minimum distribution rules for certain retirement plans and accounts for an additional year.
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| H R 425 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to prevent the alternative minimum tax from effectively repealing the Federal tax exemption for interest on State and local private activity bonds.
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| H R 426 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to reduce the depreciation recovery period for certain roof systems.
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| H R 427 | To prohibit the transfer of personal information to any person or business outside the United States, without notice.
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| H R 428 | To amend title 18, United States Code, to prohibit certain disclosures of cell phone numbers.
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| H R 429 | To permit the televising of Supreme Court proceedings.
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| H R 430 | To amend title 18, United States Code, to provide criminal penalties for the destruction of memorials, headstones, markers, and graves commemorating persons serving in the Armed Forces on private property.
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| H R 431 | To provide Federal assistance to assist an eligible State to purchase and install transfer switches and generators at designated emergency service stations in hurricane zones within such State.
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| H R 432 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow parents of murdered children to continue to claim the deduction for the personal exemption with respect to such child.
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| H R 433 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow employers a credit against income tax equal to 50 percent of the compensation paid to employees while they are performing active duty service as members of the Ready Reserve or the National Guard and of the compensation paid to temporary replacement employees.
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| H R 434 | To amend title 5, United States Code, to permit access to databases maintained by the Federal Emergency Management Agency for purposes of complying with sex offender registry and notification laws, and for other purposes.
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| H R 435 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a 5-year extension of the credit for electricity produced from certain renewable resources.
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| H R 436 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the new carryover basis rules in order to prevent tax increases and the imposition of compliance burdens on many more estates than would benefit from repeal, to retain the estate tax with a $3,500,000 exemption, and for other purposes.
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| H R 437 | To authorize the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Bureau of Reclamation to enter into a cooperative agreement with the Madera Irrigation District for purposes of supporting the Madera Water Supply Enhancement Project.
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| H R 438 | To transfer administrative jurisdiction of certain Federal lands from the Bureau of Land Management to the Bureau of Indian Affairs, to take such lands into trust for Tuolumne Band of Me-Wuk Indians of the Tuolumne Rancheria, and for other purposes.
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| H R 439 | To amend the Public Health Service Act regarding residential treatment programs for pregnant and parenting women, a program to reduce substance abuse among nonviolent offenders, and for other purposes.
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| H R 440 | To provide small businesses certain protections from litigation excesses.
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| H R 441 | To grant immunity from civil liability to any person who voluntarily notifies appropriate security personnel of suspicious activity believed to threaten transportation safety or security or takes reasonable action to mitigate such activity.
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| H R 442 | To provide an amnesty period during which veterans and their family members can register certain firearms in the National Firearms Registration and Transfer Record, and for other purposes.
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| H R 443 | To create a national commission, modeled after the successful Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission, to establish a timely, independent, and fair process for realigning or closing outdated, ineffective, or inefficient executive agencies.
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| H R 444 | To amend section 340B of the Public Health Service Act to revise and expand the drug discount program under that section to improve the provision of discounts on drug purchases for certain safety net providers.
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| H R 445 | To establish a research, development, demonstration, and commercial application program to promote research of appropriate technologies for heavy duty plug-in hybrid vehicles, and for other purposes.
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| H R 446 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal certain limitations on the expensing of section 179 property, to allow taxpayers to elect shorter recovery periods for purposes of determining the deduction for depreciation, and for other purposes.
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| H R 447 | To amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to expand the definition of firefighter to include apprentices and trainees, regardless of age or duty limitations.
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| H R 448 | Elder Abuse Victims Act of 2009 | |
| H R 449 | To amend title 38, United States Code, to expand the availability of health care provided by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs by adjusting the income level for certain priority veterans.
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| H R 450 | To require Congress to specify the source of authority under the United States Constitution for the enactment of laws, and for other purposes.
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| H R 451 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a 2-year extension of the credit for electricity produced from certain renewable resources.
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| H R 452 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to make the child credit refundable for 5 years.
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| H R 453 | To direct the Secretary of the Interior to study the suitability and feasibility of designating Green McAdoo School in Clinton, Tennessee as a unit of the National Park System, and for other purposes.
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| H R 454 | To amend the National Trails System Act to provide for the inclusion of new trail segments, land components, and campgrounds associated with the Trail of Tears National Historic Trail, and for other purposes.
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| H R 455 | To amend the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to designate a segment of the Missisquoi and Trout Rivers in the State of Vermont for study for potential addition to the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System.
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| H R 456 | To amend the Small Business Act to make service-disabled veterans eligible under the 8(a) business development program.
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| H R 457 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to restore the obligation of the Secretary of the Treasury to invest the balance of the Highway Trust Fund in interest-bearing obligations of the United States.
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| H R 458 | For the relief of Alejandro E. Gonzales.
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| H R 459 | For the relief of Alfredo Ramirez Vasquez.
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| H R 460 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to increase the credit for employers establishing workplace child care facilities, to increase the child care credit to encourage greater use of quality child care services, to provide incentives for students to earn child care-related degrees and to work in child care facilities, and to increase the exclusion for employer-provided dependent care assistance.
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| H R 461 | To authorize the National Science Foundation to award grants to institutions of higher education to develop and offer education and training programs.
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| H R 462 | To amend titles XIX and XXI of the Social Security Act to improve dental benefits under Medicaid and the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), and for other purposes.
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| H R 463 | To expand access to preventive health care services that help reduce unintended pregnancy, reduce abortions, and improve access to women's health care.
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| H R 464 | To provide for a 5-year SCHIP reauthorization for coverage of low-income children, an expansion of child health care insurance coverage through tax fairness, and a health care Federalism initiative, and for other purposes.
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| H R 465 | To amend titles XIX and XXI of the Social Security Act to permit States to ensure coverage without a 5-year delay of certain children and pregnant women under the Medicaid program and SCHIP.
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| H R 466 | To amend title 38, United States Code, to prohibit discrimination and acts of reprisal against persons who receive treatment for illnesses, injuries, and disabilities incurred in or aggravated by service in the uniformed services.
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| H R 467 | To put State and local governments and other public entity or instrumentality established under State law in the same position they would have been in had the Secretary of the Treasury and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System provided emergency financial assistance to Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. by requiring the Secretary of the Treasury to purchase bonds issued by such financial institution, and for other purposes.
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| H R 468 | To expand, train, and support all sectors of the health care workforce to care for the growing population of older individuals in the United States.
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| H R 469 | To encourage research, development, and demonstration of technologies to facilitate the utilization of water produced in connection with the development of domestic energy resources, and for other purposes.
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| H R 470 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for permanent tax incentives for economic growth.
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| H R 471 | To amend the Trade Act of 1974 to provide for a limitation on presidential discretion with respect to actions to address market disruption.
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| H R 472 | To reform the Troubled Assets Relief Program of the Secretary of the Treasury by establishing the Family Foreclosure Rescue Corporation modeled on the successful Home Owner's Loan Corporation, and to purchase and insure home mortgage loans for the purposes of providing relief to homeowners, restoring stability to the financial system, preventing further harm to the economy, and protecting taxpayers.
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| H R 473 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend eligibility under the new markets tax credit for community development entities created or organized in American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands.
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| H R 474 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to permanently extend the Indian employment credit and the depreciation rules for poverty used predominantly within an Indian reservation.
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| H R 475 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code to qualify formerly homeless youth who are students for purposes of low income housing tax credit.
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| H R 476 | To authorize funds to prevent housing discrimination through the use of nationwide testing, to increase funds for the Fair Housing Initiatives Program, and for other purposes.
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| H R 477 | To require the submission by the President of recommendations and proposed legislation to modernize, consolidate, reprioritize, and where necessary, terminate Federal programs, agencies, and activities.
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| H R 478 | To amend the Inspector General Act of 1978 to require annual reviews by Inspectors General of the operations, efficiency, and effectiveness of Federal programs.
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| H R 479 | To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide a means for continued improvement in emergency medical services for children.
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| H R 480 | To establish the St. Augustine 450th Commemoration Commission, and for other purposes.
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| H R 481 | To revise the authorized route of the North Country National Scenic Trail in northeastern Minnesota to include existing hiking trails along Lake Superior's north shore and in Superior National Forest and Chippewa National Forest, and for other purposes.
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| H R 482 | To authorize the rededication of the District of Columbia War Memorial as a National and District of Columbia World War I Memorial to honor the sacrifices made by American veterans of World War I.
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| H R 483 | To safeguard the Crime Victims Fund.
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| H R 484 | To require the Secretary of Defense to develop and implement a plan to provide chiropractic health care services and benefits for certain new beneficiaries as part of the TRICARE program.
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| H R 485 | To strengthen existing legislation sanctioning persons aiding and facilitating nonproliferation activities by the Governments of Iran, North Korea, and Syria, and for other purposes.
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| H R 486 | To amend title 28, United States Code, to provide an Inspector General for the judicial branch, and for other purposes.
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| H R 487 | To waive the 35-mile requirement for designation of a critical access hospital under the Medicare program.
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| H R 488 | To decrease the matching funds requirement and authorize additional appropriations for Keweenaw National Historical Park in the State of Michigan.
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| H R 489 | To improve the conduct of strategic communication by the Federal Government.
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| H R 490 | To require a quadrennial review of the diplomatic strategy and structure of the Department of State and its related agencies to determine how the Department can best fulfill its mission in the 21st century and meet the challenges of a changing world.
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| H R 491 | To direct the Secretary of Transportation to waive non-Federal share requirements for certain transportation programs and activities through September 30, 2009.
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| H R 492 | For the relief of Esther Karinge.
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| H R 493 | To direct the Secretary of the Interior to promulgate regulations concerning the storage and disposal of matter referred to as "other wastes" in the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977, and for other purposes.
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| H R 494 | To amend the Trade Act of 1974 to require the Secretary of Labor to certify a group of workers in a subdivision of a firm as eligible to apply for assistance under the trade adjustment assistance program if the subdivision is a seller of articles of the firm that employed a group of workers who received a certification of eligibility under such program and such sales are related to the article that was the basis for such certification.
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| H R 495 | To authorize additional resources to identify and eliminate illicit sources of firearms smuggled into Mexico for use by violent drug trafficking organizations, and for other purposes.
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| H R 496 | To amend United States trade laws to eliminate foreign barriers to exports of United States goods and services, to restore rights under trade remedy laws, to strengthen enforcement of United States intellectual property rights and health and safety laws at United States borders, and for other purposes.
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| H R 497 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide incentives for improving mine safety.
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| H R 498 | To make permanent the individual income tax rates for capital gains, and for other purposes.
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| H R 499 | To amend title VII of the Tariff Act of 1930 to provide that the provisions relating to countervailing duties apply to nonmarket economy countries, and for other purposes.
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| H R 500 | To establish a collaborative program to protect the Great Lakes, and for other purposes.
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| H R 501 | To require that the poverty line determined for the State of Alaska be used for all the States and the District of Columbia, during a 6-month period for the purpose of carrying out the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 and the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act.
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| H R 502 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to improve health care choice by providing for the tax deductibility of medical expenses by individuals.
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| H R 503 | To amend title 18, United States Code, to prohibit certain conduct relating to the use of horses for human consumption.
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| H R 504 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to cover hearing aids and auditory rehabilitation services under the Medicare Program.
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| H R 505 | To amend section 119 of title 17, United States Code, to allow the secondary transmission to any subscriber in the State of Oklahoma of primary transmissions of local network stations in that State.
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| H R 506 | To provide immediate fiscal relief to cities experiencing serious budget deficits by providing funds for payments to qualified local governments.
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| H R 507 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow a temporary dividends received deduction for taxable years beginning in 2008 or 2009.
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| H R 508 | To allow a refundable credit against Federal income tax for the purchase of digital-to-analog converter boxes for taxpayers who did not use coupons.
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| H R 509 | To reauthorize the Marine Turtle Conservation Act of 2004.
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| H R 510 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to require that the payment of the manufacturers' excise tax on recreational equipment be paid quarterly.
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| H R 511 | To authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to terminate certain easements held by the Secretary on land owned by the Village of Caseyville, Illinois, and to terminate associated contractual arrangements with the Village.
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| H R 512 | To amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to prohibit certain State election administration officials from actively participating in electoral campaigns.
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| H R 513 | To ensure the energy independence of the United States by promoting research, development, demonstration, and commercial application of technologies through a system of grants and prizes on the scale of the original Manhattan Project.
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| H R 514 | To provide that certain amendments made by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System to Regulation Z to prohibit certain unfair, abusive or deceptive home mortgage lending practices and restricts certain other mortgage practice shall take effect as a matter of law and a new effective date, and for other purposes.
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| H R 515 | To prohibit the importation of certain low-level radioactive waste into the United States.
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| H R 516 | To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 2105 East Cook Street in Springfield, Illinois, as the "Colonel John H. Wilson, Jr. Post Office Building".
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| H R 517 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify the dependent care credit to take into account expenses for care of parents and grandparents who do not live with the taxpayer.
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| H R 518 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to consolidate the current education tax incentives as one credit against income tax for qualified tuition and related expenses.
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| H R 519 | To authorize additional appropriations for the family caregiver support program under the Older Americans Act of 1965, and for the National Clearinghouse for Long-Term Care Information, for fiscal years 2010, 2011, and 2012.
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| H R 520 | To accelerate motor fuel savings nationwide and provide incentives to registered owners of high fuel consumption automobiles to replace such automobiles with fuel efficient automobiles or public transportation, and for other purposes.
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| H R 521 | To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for the national collection of data on stillbirths in a standardized manner, and for other purposes.
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| H R 522 | To amend the Telemarketing and Consumer Fraud and Abuse Prevention Act to authorize the Federal Trade Commission to issue new rules to prohibit any telemarketing calls during the hours of 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.
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| H R 523 | To establish a United States Boxing Commission to administer the Professional Boxing Safety Act of 1996, and for other purposes.
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| H R 524 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow the Secretary of the Treasury to establish the standard mileage rate for use of a passenger automobile for purposes of the charitable contributions deduction and to exclude charitable mileage reimbursements from gross income.
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| H R 525 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the recapture rule of the first-time homebuyer credit and to extend the application of the credit through 2009.
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| H R 526 | To establish the Ocmulgee National Heritage Corridor in the State of Georgia, and for other purposes.
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| H R 527 | To amend the Truth in Lending Act to permit deferrals on certain home mortgage foreclosures for a limited period to allow homeowners to take remedial action, to require home mortgage servicers to provide advance notice of any upcoming reset of the mortgage interest rate, and for other purposes.
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| H R 528 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exempt certain shipping from the harbor maintenance tax.
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| H R 529 | To establish in the Department of Justice the Nationwide Mortgage Fraud Task Force to address mortgage fraud in the United States, and for other purposes.
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| H R 530 | To amend the Reclamation Wastewater and Groundwater Study and Facilities Act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to participate in the Prado Basin Natural Treatment System Project, to authorize the Secretary to carry out a program to assist agencies in projects to construct regional brine lines in California, to authorize the Secretary to participate in the Lower Chino Dairy Area desalination demonstration and reclamation project, and for other purposes.
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| H R 531 | To amend title II of the Social Security Act to require that the Commissioner of Social Security notify individuals of improper use of their Social Security account numbers.
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| H R 532 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify the annual contribution limit for Coverdell education savings accounts.
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| H R 533 | To make full estate tax repeal, small business expensing, and SECA tax deduction for health insurance permanent.
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| H R 534 | To improve the ability of Congress to set spending priorities and enforce spending limits.
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| H R 535 | To amend title 44 of the United States Code to provide for the suspension of fines under certain circumstances for first-time paperwork violations by small business concerns.
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| H R 536 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to strengthen the earned income tax credit.
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| H R 537 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide that the volume cap for private activity bonds shall not apply to bonds for facilities for the furnishing of water and sewage facilities.
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| H R 538 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to reduce the earned income threshold applicable to the refundable portion of the child tax credit and to increase the age limit for such credit.
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| H R 539 | To limit the jurisdiction of the Federal courts, and for other purposes.
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| H R 540 | To amend the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to make permanent the summer food service pilot project for rural areas of Pennsylvania and apply it to rural areas of every State.
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| H R 541 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for an inflation adjustment of the base amounts used to determine the amount of Social Security benefits included in gross income.
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| H R 542 | To amend titles XIX and XXI of the Social Security Act to permit States to rely on findings from an express plan agency to conduct simplified eligibility determinations under Medicaid and the State Children's Health Insurance Program.
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| H R 543 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to reduce the rate of the tentative minimum tax for noncorporate taxpayers to 24 percent.
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| H R 544 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow amounts in a health flexible spending arrangement that are unused during a plan year to be carried over to subsequent plan years or deposited into certain health or retirement plans.
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| H R 545 | To rename the Snake River Birds of Prey National Conservation Area in the State of Idaho as the Morley Nelson Snake River Birds of Prey National Conservation Area in honor of the late Morley Nelson, an international authority on birds of prey, who was instrumental in the establishment of this National Conservation Area, and for other purposes.
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| H R 546 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to treat certain solar energy credits as refundable credits, to allow a new refundable credit for equipment used to manufacture solar energy property, to waive the application of the subsidized financing rules to such property, and for other purposes.
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| H R 547 | To amend the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 to require congressional approval of agreements for peaceful nuclear cooperation with foreign countries, and for other purposes.
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| H R 548 | Civil War Battlefield Preservation Act of 2009 | |
| H R 549 | To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to establish the Office for Bombing Prevention, to address terrorist explosive threats, and for other purposes.
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| H R 550 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow individuals and businesses a temporary credit against income tax for the purchase of certain vehicles.
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| H R 551 | To authorize the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Commissioner of Reclamation, to conduct a feasibility study of water augmentation alternatives in the Sierra Vista Subwatershed.
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| H R 552 | To amend the National Trails System Act to designate the Arizona National Scenic Trail.
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| H R 553 | To require the Secretary of Homeland Security to develop a strategy to prevent the over-classification of homeland security and other information and to promote the sharing of unclassified homeland security and other information, and for other purposes.
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| H R 554 | To authorize activities for support of nanotechnology research and development, and for other purposes.
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| H R 555 | To assist States in establishing a universal prekindergarten program to ensure that all children 3, 4, and 5 years old have access to a high-quality full-day, full-calendar-year prekindergarten education.
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| H R 556 | To establish a program of research, recovery, and other activities to provide for the recovery of the southern sea otter.
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| H R 557 | To promote transparency, accountability, and reform within the United Nations system, and for other purposes.
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| H R 558 | To reauthorize part D of title II of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965.
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| H R 559 | FAST Redress Act of 2009 | |
| H R 560 | To amend the Communications Act of 1934 to permit targeted interference with mobile radio services within prison facilities.
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| H R 561 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow a 5 year carryback of certain net operating losses, and for other purposes.
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| H R 562 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to restore the deduction for the travel expenses of a taxpayer's spouse who accompanies the taxpayer on business travel.
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| H R 563 | To amend title XXI of the Social Security Act to require States to provide priority under the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) to children in families with gross income below 200 percent of the Federal poverty level.
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| H R 564 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend the financing of the Superfund.
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| H R 565 | To prohibit the use of funds to transfer individuals detained by the United States at Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to Naval Consolidated Brig, Charleston, South Carolina.
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| H R 566 | To provide that rates of pay for Members of Congress shall not be adjusted under section 601(a)(2) of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 in the year following any fiscal year in which outlays of the United States exceeded receipts of the United States.
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| H R 567 | To amend the Reclamation Wastewater and Groundwater Study and Facilities Act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to participate in certain water projects in California.
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| H R 568 | To amend title 38, United States Code, to improve the quality of care provided to veterans in Department of Veterans Affairs medical facilities, to encourage highly qualified doctors to serve in hard-to-fill positions in such medical facilities, and for other purposes.
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| H R 569 | To amend titles 28 and 10, United States Code, to allow for certiorari review of certain cases denied relief or review by the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces.
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| H R 570 | To make certain regulations have no force or effect.
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| H R 571 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to promote charitable donations of qualified vehicles.
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| H R 572 | To prohibit the awarding of a contract or grant in excess of the simplified acquisition threshold unless the prospective contractor or grantee certifies in writing to the agency awarding the contract or grant that the contractor or grantee has no seriously delinquent tax debts, and for other purposes.
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| H R 573 | To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to prohibit the marketing of authorized generic drugs.
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| H R 574 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for the coverage of home infusion therapy under the Medicare Program.
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| H R 575 | To increase the level of participation of the Small Business Administration in certain guaranteed loans for a period of one year, and for other purposes.
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| H R 576 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow a refundable investment credit, and 5-year depreciation, for property used to manufacture solar energy property.
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| H R 577 | To establish a grant program to provide vision care to children, and for other purposes.
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| H R 578 | To address the impending humanitarian crisis and potential security breakdown as a result of the mass influx of Iraqi refugees into neighboring countries, and the growing internally displaced population in Iraq, by increasing directed accountable assistance to these populations and their host countries, facilitating the resettlement of Iraqis at risk, and for other purposes.
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| H R 579 | To provide for grants from the Secretary of Education to State and local educational agencies for EnergySmart schools and Energy Star programs.
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| H R 580 | To amend the Energy Policy Act of 1992 to require the Federal Government to acquire not fewer than 100,000 plug-in hybrid vehicles.
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| H R 581 | To eliminate automatic pay adjustments for Members of Congress, and for other purposes.
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| H R 582 | To reauthorize the public and assisted housing drug elimination program of the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
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| H R 583 | To assist teachers and public safety officers in obtaining affordable housing.
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| H R 584 | To provide for coverage of hormone replacement therapy for treatment of menopausal symptoms, and for coverage of an alternative therapy for hormone replacement therapy for such symptoms, under the Medicare and Medicaid Programs, group health plans and individual health insurance coverage, and other Federal health insurance programs.
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| H R 585 | To direct the President to enter into an arrangement with the National Academy of Sciences to evaluate certain Federal rules and regulations for potentially harmful impacts on public health, air quality, water quality, plant and animal wildlife, global climate, or the environment; and to direct Federal departments and agencies to create plans to reverse those impacts that are determined to be harmful by the National Academy of Sciences.
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| H R 586 | To direct the Librarian of Congress and the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution to carry out a joint project at the Library of Congress and the National Museum of African American History and Culture to collect video and audio recordings of personal histories and testimonials of individuals who participated in the Civil Rights movement, and for other purposes.
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| H R 587 | To increase the loan limits for the FHA single family housing mortgage insurance programs and reverse mortgage program and for the conforming loan limits for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac during 2009.
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| H R 588 | To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to increase penalties for employing illegal aliens.
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| H R 589 | To establish procedures for the issuance by the Commissioner of Social Security of "no match" letters to employers, and for the notification of the Secretary of Homeland Security regarding such letters.
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| H R 590 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide that reimbursements for costs of using passenger automobiles for charitable and other organizations are excluded from gross income.
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| H R 591 | To improve United States capabilities for gathering human intelligence through the effective interrogation and detention of terrorist suspects and for bringing terrorists to justice through effective prosecution in accordance with the principles and values set forth in the Constitution and other laws.
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| H R 592 | To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to encourage the use of certified health information technology by providers in the Medicaid Program and the Children's Health Insurance Program, and for other purposes.
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| H R 593 | To amend title 10, United States Code, to expand the authorized concurrent receipt of disability severance pay from the Department of Defense and compensation for the same disability under any law administered by the Department of Veterans Affairs to cover all veterans who have a combat-related disability, as defined under section 1413a of such title.
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| H R 594 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide by imposing a tax on primary fossil fuels based on their carbon content.
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| H R 595 | To require certain Federal agencies to use iron and steel produced in the United States in carrying out projects for the construction, alteration, or repair of a public building or public work, and for other purposes.
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| H R 596 | To amend the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to reduce hunger, and for other purposes.
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| H R 597 | To amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to provide grants for core curriculum development.
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| H R 598 | To provide for a portion of the economic recovery package relating to revenue measures, unemployment, and health.
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| H R 599 | To prohibit the receipt of Federal funds by any institution of higher education with a football team that participates in the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision, unless the national championship game of such Subdivision is the culmination of a playoff system.
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| H R 600 | To revise the requirements for seller-financed downpayments for mortgages for single-family housing insured by the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under title II of the National Housing Act.
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| H R 601 | To provide for the conveyance of parcels of land to Mantua, Box Elder County, Utah.
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| H R 602 | To provide for the conveyance of the Bureau of Land Management parcels known as the White Acre and Gambel Oak properties and related real property to Park City, Utah, and for other purposes.
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| H R 603 | To require the conveyance of certain public land within the boundaries of Camp Williams, Utah, to support the training and readiness of the Utah National Guard.
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| H R 604 | To provide for a land exchange with the City of Bountiful, Utah, involving National Forest System land in the Wasatch-Cache National Forest and to further land ownership consolidation in that national forest, and for other purposes.
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| H R 605 | To provide for programs that reduce the need for abortion, help women bear healthy children, and support new parents.
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| H R 606 | To express United States foreign policy with respect to, and to strengthen United States advocacy on behalf of, individuals persecuted and denied their rights in foreign countries on account of gender, and for other purposes.
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| H R 607 | To direct the Securities and Exchange Commission to issue guidance on the interpretation of fair value accounting.
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| H R 608 | To authorize the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution to carry out certain construction projects, and for other purposes.
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| H R 609 | To permit California and other States to effectively control greenhouse gas emissions from motor vehicles, and for other purposes.
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| H R 610 | To amend title 18, United States Code, to strengthen enforcement of spousal court-ordered property distributions, and for other purposes.
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| H R 611 | To provide for marginal well production preservation and enhancement.
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| H R 612 | To amend section 1922A of title 38, United States Code, to increase the amount of supplemental insurance available for totally disabled veterans.
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| H R 613 | To amend title 10, United States Code, to provide for forgiveness of certain overpayments of retired pay paid to deceased retired members of the Armed Forces following their death.
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| H R 614 | To amend title X of the Public Health Service Act to prohibit family planning grants from being awarded to any entity that performs abortions, and for other purposes.
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| H R 615 | To amend the Federal Hazardous Substances Act to require engine coolant and antifreeze to contain a bittering agent so as to render it unpalatable.
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| H R 616 | To amend part B of title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for an exemption of pharmacies and pharmacists from certain Medicare accreditation requirements in the same manner as such exemption applies to certain professionals.
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| H R 617 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to eliminate the taxable income limit on percentage depletion for oil and natural gas produced from marginal properties.
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| H R 618 | To require the President to call a White House Conference on Children and Youth in 2010.
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| H R 619 | To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to remove the exclusion from medical assistance under the Medicaid Program of items and services for patients in an institution for mental diseases.
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| H R 620 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow an increased work opportunity credit with respect to recent veterans.
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| H R 621 | To require the Secretary of the Treasury to mint coins in commemoration of the centennial of the establishment of the Girl Scouts of the United States of America.
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| H R 622 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to expand the credit for renewable electricity production to include electricity produced from biomass for on-site use.
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| H R 623 | To provide for greater judicial discretion in sentencing for certain firearms offenses committed in exceptional circumstances.
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| H R 624 | To amend title 49, United States Code, to ensure air passengers have access to necessary services while on a grounded air carrier, and for other purposes.
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| H R 625 | To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to direct the Secretary of Homeland Security to require, as a condition of receiving a homeland security grant, that a grant recipient submit reports on each expenditure made using grant funds.
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| H R 626 | To provide that 4 of the 12 weeks of parental leave made available to a Federal employee shall be paid leave, and for other purposes.
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| H R 627 | Credit Card Accountability Responsibility and Disclosure Act of 2009 or the Credit CARD Act of 2009 | |
| H R 628 | To establish a pilot program in certain United States district courts to encourage enhancement of expertise in patent cases among district judges.
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| H R 629 | To provide energy and commerce provisions of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
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| H R 630 | To provide for habeas corpus review for terror suspects held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and for other purposes.
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| H R 631 | To increase research, development, education, and technology transfer activities related to water use efficiency and conservation technologies and practices at the Environmental Protection Agency.
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| H R 632 | To encourage, enhance, and integrate Silver Alert plans throughout the United States, to authorize grants for the assistance of organizations to find missing adults, and for other purposes.
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| H R 633 | To prohibit the use of funds to transfer enemy combatants detained by the United States at Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to the Naval Consolidated Brig, Miramar, California, or the Camp Pendleton Base Brig, Camp Pendleton, California, or to construct facilities for such enemy combatants at such locations.
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| H R 634 | To amend title 18, United States Code, to prohibit taking minors across State lines in circumvention of laws requiring the involvement of parents in abortion decisions.
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| H R 635 | To establish the National Commission on State Workers' Compensation Laws.
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| H R 636 | To amend part A of title IV of the Social Security Act to allow funds provided under the program of block grants to States for temporary assistance for needy families to be used for alternative-to-abortion services.
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| H R 637 | South Orange County Recycled Water Enhancement Act | |
| H R 638 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exempt from the harbor maintenance tax certain commercial cargo loaded or unloaded at United States ports.
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| H R 639 | To amend the National Security Act of 1947 to revise reporting requirements related to security clearances.
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| H R 640 | To require the President to transmit to Congress a report on every program of the Federal Government that authorizes or requires the gathering of information on United States persons in the United States, established whether in whole or in part pursuant to the "all necessary and appropriate force" clause contained in the Authorization for Use of Military Force (Public Law 107-40).
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| H R 641 | To limit the authority of the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior to acquire land located in a State in which 25 percent or more of all land in the State is already owned by the United States, and for other purposes.
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| H R 642 | To provide opportunities for continued recreational shooting on certain Federal public land.
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| H R 643 | To encourage and assist women to carry their children to live birth by providing services, during and after pregnancy, that will alleviate the financial, social, emotional, and other difficulties that may otherwise lead to abortion.
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| H R 644 | To withdraw the Tusayan Ranger District and Federal land managed by the Bureau of Land Management in the vicinity of Kanab Creek and in House Rock Valley from location, entry, and patent under the mining laws, and for other purposes.
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| H R 645 | To direct the Secretary of Homeland Security to establish national emergency centers on military installations.
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| H R 646 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for coverage of qualified acupuncturist services under part B of the Medicare Program, and to amend title 5, United States Code, to provide for coverage of such services under the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program.
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| H R 647 | To authorize the International Boundary and Water Commission to reimburse State and local governments of the States of Arizona, California, New Mexico, and Texas for expenses incurred by such a government in designing, constructing, and rehabilitating water projects under the jurisdiction of such Commission.
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| H R 648 | To establish the Commission on Women's Business Ownership.
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| H R 649 | To ensure that women seeking an abortion receive an ultrasound and the opportunity to review the ultrasound before giving informed consent to receive an abortion.
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| H R 650 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to increase the credit amount for new qualified alternative fuel motor vehicles weighing more than 26,000 pounds and to increase the credit for certain alternative fuel vehicle refueling properties, and for other purposes.
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| H R 651 | To provide for certain tunnel life safety and rehabilitation projects for Amtrak.
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| H R 652 | To amend the Public Health Service Act to establish a comprehensive national system for skilled construction workers to assist first responders in disasters.
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| H R 653 | To amend title IV of the Public Health Service Act to create a National Childhood Brain Tumor Prevention Network to provide grants and coordinate research with respect to the causes of and risk factors associated with childhood brain tumors, and for other purposes.
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| H R 654 | To require poverty impact statements for certain legislation.
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| H R 655 | To increase assessment accuracy to better measure student achievement and provide States with greater flexibility on assessment design.
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| H R 656 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow certain individuals who have attained age 50 and who are unemployed to receive distributions from qualified retirement plans without incurring a 10 percent additional tax.
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| H R 657 | To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 369 Martin Luther King Jr. Drive in Jersey City, New Jersey, as the "Bishop Ralph E. Brower Post Office Building".
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| H R 658 | To amend title 39, United States Code, to modify the procedures governing the closure or consolidation of postal facilities.
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| H R 659 | For the relief of certain aliens who were aboard the Golden Venture.
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| H R 660 | For the relief of Carlos Espinal Castillo-Reynolds.
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| H R 661 | To provide additional coupons for the digital-to-analog converter box program and to expedite delivery of coupons under such program.
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| H R 662 | To evaluate and extend the basic pilot program for employment eligibility confirmation and to ensure the protection of Social Security beneficiaries.
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| H R 663 | To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 12877 Broad Street in Sparta, Georgia, as the "Yvonne Ingram-Ephraim Post Office Building".
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| H R 664 | To make the 2001 and 2003 tax relief permanent law.
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| H R 665 | To restore the Federal electoral rights of the residents of the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.
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| H R 666 | To amend title 10, United States Code, to require the establishment of a searchable database containing the names and citations of members of the Armed Forces, members of the United States merchant marine, and civilians affiliated with the Armed Forces who have been awarded the medal of honor or any other medal authorized by Congress for the Armed Forces, the United States merchant marine, or affiliated civilians.
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| H R 667 | To improve the diagnosis and treatment of traumatic brain injury in members and former members of the Armed Forces, to review and expand telehealth and telemental health programs of the Department of Defense and the Department of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes.
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| H R 668 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide flexibility in the manner in which beds are counted for purposes of determining whether a hospital may be designated as a critical access hospital under the Medicare Program and to exempt from the critical access hospital inpatient bed limitation the number of beds provided for certain veterans.
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| H R 669 | To prevent the introduction and establishment of nonnative wildlife species that negatively impact the economy, environment, or other animal species' or human health, and for other purposes.
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| H R 670 | To authorize Federal payment to first responders for costs associated with providing emergency services at the international borders of the United States, and for other purposes.
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| H R 671 | To direct the Secretary of Defense to issue a medal to certain veterans who died after their service in the Vietnam War as a direct result of that service.
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| H R 672 | To amend title 10, United States Code, to require the Department of Defense and all other defense-related agencies of the United States to fully comply with Federal and State environmental laws, including certain laws relating to public health and worker safety, that are designed to protect the environment and the health and safety of the public, particularly those persons most vulnerable to the hazards incident to military operations and installations, such as children, members of the Armed Forces, civilian employees, and persons living in the vicinity of military operations and installations.
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| H R 673 | To amend the definition of a law enforcement officer under subchapter III of chapter 83 and chapter 84 of title 5, United States Code, respectively, to ensure the inclusion of certain positions.
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| H R 674 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a one-time increase in the amount excludable from the sale of a principal residence by taxpayers who have attained age 50.
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| H R 675 | To amend title 10, United States Code, to provide police officers, criminal investigators, and game law enforcement officers of the Department of Defense with authority to execute warrants, make arrests, and carry firearms.
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| H R 676 | To provide for comprehensive health insurance coverage for all United States residents, improved health care delivery, and for other purposes.
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| H R 677 | To amend the Clean Air Act to delay the effect of reclassifying certain nonattainment areas adjacent to an international border, and for other purposes.
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| H R 678 | To require the Commissioner of Social Security to revise the medical criteria for evaluating disability in a person diagnosed with Huntington's Disease and to waive the 24-month waiting period for Medicare eligibility for individuals disabled by Huntington's Disease.
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| H R 679 | Making supplemental appropriations for job preservation and creation, infrastructure investment, energy efficiency and science, assistance to the unemployed, and State and local fiscal stabilization, for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2009, and for other purposes.
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| H R 680 | To require that the aircraft used as Air Force One by the President be an aircraft that is made in America by an American-owned company.
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| H R 681 | To amend the Digital Television Transition and Public Safety Act of 2005 and the Communications Act of 1934 to establish a new digital television transition date, to improve the digital-to-analog converter box program, and for other purposes.
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| H R 682 | To prohibit securities and commodities 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.
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| H R 683 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 with respect to the proper tax treatment of certain indebtedness discharged in 2009 or 2010, and for other purposes.
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| H R 684 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to deliver a meaningful benefit and lower prescription drug prices under the Medicare Program.
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| H R 685 | To require a study of the feasibility of establishing the United States Civil Rights Trail System, and for other purposes.
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| H R 686 | To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to permit local public agencies to act as Medicaid enrollment brokers.
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| H R 687 | To amend titles 23 and 49, United States Code, to repeal wage requirements applicable to laborers and mechanics employed on Federal-aid highway and public transportation construction projects.
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| H R 688 | To amend title XXI of the Social Security Act to reauthorize the State Children's Health Insurance Program through fiscal year 2013, and for other purposes.
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| H R 689 | To interchange the administrative jurisdiction of certain Federal lands between the Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management, and for other purposes.
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| H R 690 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to remove cell phones from listed property under section 280F.
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| H R 691 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a credit against income tax for businesses furnishing broadband services to underserved and rural areas.
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| H R 692 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exclude from gross income compensation received by employees consisting of qualified distributions of employer stock.
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| H R 693 | To designate a rail right-of-way as a corridor for inter-suburban commuter rail, and for other purposes.
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| H R 694 | To extend temporarily the 18-month period of continuation coverage under group health plans required under COBRA continuation coverage provisions so as to provide for a total period of continuation coverage of up to 24 months.
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| H R 695 | To provide for a green building certification program as part of the Energy Star program.
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| H R 696 | To prohibit United States military assistance for Egypt and to express the sense of Congress that the amount of military assistance that would have been provided for Egypt for a fiscal year should be provided in the form of economic support fund assistance.
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| H R 697 | To amend the Public Health Service Act, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, and chapter 89 of title 5, United States Code, to require coverage for the treatment of infertility.
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| H R 698 | For the relief of Shigeru Yamada.
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| H R 699 | To modify the requirements applicable to locatable minerals on public domain lands, consistent with the principles of self-initiation of mining claims, and for other purposes.
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| H R 700 | To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to extend the pilot program for alternative water source projects.
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| H R 701 | To prohibit the use of funds to transfer enemy combatants detained by the United States at Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to any facility in Oklahoma, or to construct any facility for such enemy combatants in Oklahoma.
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| H R 702 | To amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to improve early education.
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| H R 703 | To promote bank liquidity and lending through deposit insurance, the HOPE for Homeowners Program, and other enhancements.
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| H R 704 | To provide for free mailing privileges for personal correspondence and parcels sent to members of the Armed Forces serving on active duty in Iraq or Afghanistan.
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| H R 705 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to encourage teachers to pursue teaching science, technology, engineering, and math subjects at elementary and secondary schools.
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| H R 706 | To amend the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to direct the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency to continue to administer the National Urban Search and Rescue Response System, and for other purposes.
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| H R 707 | To provide monthly vouchers to members of the Armed Forces serving in overseas operations, or hospitalized due to a disease or injury incurred as a result of service in such operations, that a member may transfer to another person to permit the person to mail, without charge, correspondence and small parcels to members of the Armed Forces.
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| H R 708 | To restrict assistance to foreign organizations that perform or actively promote abortions.
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| H R 709 | To reauthorize the programs of the Department of Housing and Urban Development for housing assistance for Native Hawaiians.
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| H R 710 | To secure additional Tier I capital for the United States banking system from parties other than the Federal Government by providing authority to the Secretary of the Treasury to guaranty certain new preferred stock investments made by public pensions acting in a collective fashion, and for other purposes.
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| H R 711 | To amend the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 to remove the registration exception for certain investment advisors with less than 15 clients.
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| H R 712 | To amend title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to require in the annual report of each defined benefit pension plan disclosure of plan investments in hedge funds.
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| H R 713 | To require the President's Working Group on Financial Markets to conduct a study on the hedge fund industry.
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| H R 714 | To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to lease certain lands in Virgin Islands National Park, and for other purposes.
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| H R 715 | To expand the boundary of Saguaro National Park, to study additional land for future adjustments to the boundary of the Park, and for other purposes.
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| H R 716 | To amend the Public Health Service Act, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to require group and individual health insurance coverage and group health plans to provide coverage for individuals participating in approved cancer clinical trials.
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| H R 717 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide incentives to improve America's research competitiveness, and for other purposes.
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| H R 718 | To reinstate the Interim Management Strategy governing off-road vehicle use in the Cape Hatteras National Seashore, North Carolina, pending the issuance of a final rule for off-road vehicle use by the National Park Service.
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| H R 719 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend relief from the alternative minimum tax.
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| H R 720 | To allow seniors to file their Federal income tax on a new Form 1040S.
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| H R 721 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify the exception from the 10 percent penalty for early withdrawals from governmental plans for qualified public safety employees.
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| H R 722 | To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to provide an option of States to cover a children's program of all-inclusive coordinated care (ChiPACC) under the Medicaid Program.
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| H R 723 | To amend the Social Security Act to eliminate the 5-month waiting period for Social Security disability and the 24-month waiting period for Medicare benefits in the cases of individuals with disabling burn injuries.
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| H R 724 | To amend the Public Health Service Act to authorize grants to increase the number of qualified nursing faculty, and for other purposes.
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| H R 725 | To protect Indian arts and crafts through the improvement of applicable criminal proceedings, and for other purposes.
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| H R 726 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a credit and a deduction for small political contributions.
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| H R 727 | To provide for the issuance of bonds to provide funding for the construction of schools of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, and for other purposes.
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| H R 728 | To allow seniors to file their Federal income tax on a new Form 1040S.
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| H R 729 | To help keep students safe on school-run, overnight, off-premises field trips.
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| H R 730 | To strengthen efforts in the Department of Homeland Security to develop nuclear forensics capabilities to permit attribution of the source of nuclear material, and for other purposes.
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| H R 731 | To amend title 38, United States Code, to exclude individuals who have been convicted of committing certain sex offenses from receiving certain burial-related benefits and funeral honors which are otherwise available to certain veterans, members of the Armed Forces, and related individuals, and for other purposes.
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| H R 732 | To authorize the grant program under which the Secretary of Homeland Security makes discretionary grants for use in high-threat, high-density urban areas, and for other purposes.
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| H R 733 | For the relief of Jayantibhai Desai and Indiraben Patel.
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| H R 734 | To direct the Secretary of Transportation to study and establish a motor vehicle safety standard that provides for a means of alerting blind and other pedestrians of motor vehicle operation.
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| H R 735 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide that penalties and interest will not be imposed on individuals who are citizens of the United States.
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| H R 736 | For the relief of Aluisa Zace and Ledia Zace.
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| H R 737 | To authorize a State to transfer or consolidate funds made available to such State under certain transportation, education, and job training programs after the United States experiences economic growth at an annual rate of less than 1 percent for 2 calendar quarters.
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| H R 738 | Death in Custody Reporting Act of 2009 | |
| H R 739 | To promote the economic security and safety of victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking, and for other purposes.
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| H R 740 | To amend title 10, United States Code, to take reasonable steps to prevent avoidable disasters related to seismic activity in connection with the lease and development of non-excess property of military departments, and for other purposes.
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| H R 741 | To amend section 8 of the United States Housing Act of 1937 to provide for rental assistance payments to assist certain owners of manufactured homes who rent the lots on which their homes are located.
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| H R 742 | For the relief of Flavia Maboloc Cahoon.
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| H R 743 | To prohibit the President or any other executive branch official from knowingly and willfully misleading the Congress or the people of the United States, for the purpose of gaining support for the use of the Armed Forces of the United States.
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| H R 744 | To provide for the treatment of service as a member of the Alaska Territorial Guard during World War II as active service for purposes of retired pay for members of the Armed Forces.
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| H R 745 | To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for a Pancreatic Cancer Initiative, and for other purposes.
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| H R 746 | To provide for economic recovery payments to recipients of Social Security, railroad retirement, and veterans disability benefits.
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| H R 747 | To amend the Social Security Act to provide health insurance coverage for children and pregnant women throughout the United States by combining the children and pregnant woman health coverage under Medicaid and SCHIP into a new All Healthy Children Program, and for other purposes.
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| H R 748 | To establish and operate a National Center for Campus Public Safety.
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| H R 749 | To amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to permit candidates for election for Federal office to designate an individual who will be authorized to disburse funds of the authorized campaign committees of the candidate in the event of the death of the candidate.
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| H R 750 | To allow postal patrons to contribute to funding for gang prevention programs through the voluntary purchase of certain specially issued postage stamps.
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| H R 751 | To eliminate automatic pay adjustments for Members of Congress.
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| H R 752 | To require the Secretary of Homeland Security to conduct a program in the maritime environment for the mobile biometric identification of suspected individuals, including terrorists, to enhance border security.
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| H R 753 | To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to ensure that publicly owned treatment works monitor for and report sewer overflows, and for other purposes.
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| H R 754 | To provide for the issuance of a commemorative postage stamp in honor of George Henry White.
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| H R 755 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exclude from gross income the gain from the sale or exchange of certain residences acquired before 2013.
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| H R 756 | To amend the Public Health Service Act with respect to pain care.
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| H R 757 | To redesignate the Federal building and United States Courthouse located at 200 East Wall Street in Midland, Texas, as the "George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush United States Courthouse and George Mahon Federal Building".
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| H R 758 | To amend title IV of the Public Health Service Act to provide for the establishment of pediatric research consortia.
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| H R 759 | To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to improve the safety of food, drugs, devices, and cosmetics in the global market, and for other purposes.
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| H R 760 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide an income tax credit to holders of bonds financing new advanced broadband infrastructure, and for other purposes.
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| H R 761 | To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide for the eligibility of parents of certain deceased veterans for interment in national cemeteries.
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| H R 762 | To validate final patent number 27-2005-0081, and for other purposes.
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| H R 763 | To promote conservation and provide for sensible development in Carson City, Nevada, and for other purposes.
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| H R 764 | To require that ballots used in Federal elections be generally printed only in English and to amend the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to modify the requirement that certain jurisdictions provide ballots and other voting materials in languages other than English, and for other purposes.
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| H R 765 | To establish the Nellis Dunes National Off-Highway Vehicle Recreation Area, and for other purposes.
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| H R 766 | To encourage States and units of general local government to use amounts received under the community development block grant program and the community mental health services and substance abuse block grant programs to provide housing counseling and financial counseling for individuals before their release from inpatient or residential institutions for individuals with mental illness and periodic evaluation of the appropriateness of such counseling after such release.
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| H R 767 | To provide incentives to encourage financial institutions and small businesses to provide continuing financial education to customers, borrowers, and employees, and for other purposes.
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| H R 768 | To establish a commission on the tax and fiscal implications of the regulation of financial products and arrangements and to study the current financial crisis, its causes and impact on the Federal deficit and tax revenues.
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| H R 769 | To amend title II of the Social Security Act to credit prospectively individuals serving as caregivers of dependent relatives with deemed wages for up to five years of such service.
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| H R 770 | To amend title II of the Social Security Act to repeal the 7-year restriction on eligibility for widow's and widower's insurance benefits based on disability.
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| H R 771 | To amend title II of the Social Security Act to eliminate the two-year waiting period for divorced spouse's benefits following the divorce.
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| H R 772 | To amend title II of the Social Security Act to provide for full benefits for disabled widows and widowers without regard to age.
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| H R 773 | To amend title II of the Social Security Act to provide for increases in widow's and widower's insurance benefits by reason of delayed retirement.
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| H R 774 | To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 46-02 21st Street in Long Island City, New York, as the "Geraldine Ferraro Post Office Building".
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| H R 775 | To repeal the requirement for reduction of survivor annuities under the Survivor Benefit Plan to offset the receipt of veterans dependency and indemnity compensation.
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| H R 776 | To amend the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act of 1986 to strike a provision relating to modifications in reporting frequency.
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| H R 777 | To prohibit the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency from updating flood maps until the Administrator submits to Congress a community outreach plan, and for other purposes.
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| H R 778 | To authorize the interstate traffic of unpasteurized milk and milk products that are packaged for direct human consumption.
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| H R 779 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide that tips shall not be subject to income or employment taxes.
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| H R 780 | To amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to promote the safe use of the Internet by students, and for other purposes.
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| H R 781 | To develop a national system of oversight of States for sexual misconduct in the elementary and secondary school system.
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| H R 782 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the alternative minimum tax on individuals and replace it with an alternative tax individuals may choose.
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| H R 783 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code to make permanent the credit for increasing research activities.
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| H R 784 | To amend title 38, United States Code, to direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to submit to Congress quarterly reports on vacancies in mental health professional positions in Department of Veterans Affairs medical facilities.
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| H R 785 | To direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to carry out a pilot program to provide outreach and training to certain college and university mental health centers relating to the mental health of veterans of Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom, and for other purposes.
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| H R 786 | To make permanent the temporary increase in deposit insurance coverage, and for other purposes.
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| H R 787 | To make improvements in the Hope for Homeowners Program, and for other purposes.
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| H R 788 | To provide a safe harbor for mortgage servicers who engage in specified mortgage loan modifications, and for other purposes.
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| H R 789 | To reduce and prevent teen dating violence, and for other purposes.
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| H R 790 | To prohibit issuance of any lease or other authorization by the Federal Government that authorizes exploration, development, or production of oil or natural gas in any marine national monument or national marine sanctuary or in the fishing grounds known as Georges Bank in the waters of the United States.
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| H R 791 | To prohibit the Department of Homeland Security from limiting the amount of Urban Area Security Initiative or State Homeland Security Grant Program grant funds that may be used to pay salaries or overtime pay of law enforcement officials engaged in antiterrorism activities, and for other purposes.
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| H R 792 | To prohibit assistance to Saudi Arabia.
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| H R 793 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to make permanent the child tax credit and to allow for adjustments for inflation with respect to the child tax credit.
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| H R 794 | To prohibit the use of funds to transfer enemy combatants detained by the United States at Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to the Florence Federal Correctional Complex in Colorado, or to construct facilities for such enemy combatants at such location.
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| H R 795 | To establish the Social Work Reinvestment Commission to advise Congress and the Secretary of Health and Human Services on policy issues associated with the profession of social work, to authorize the Secretary to make grants to support recruitment, retention, research, and reinvestment in the profession, and for other purposes.
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| H R 796 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the authority of the Secretary of the Treasury to enter into private debt collection contracts.
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| H R 797 | To greatly enhance the Nation's environmental, energy, economic, and national security by terminating long-standing Federal prohibitions on the domestic production of abundant offshore supplies of oil and natural gas, and for other purposes.
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| H R 798 | For the relief of Adrian Rodriguez.
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| H R 799 | For the relief of Francisco Rivera and Alfonso Calderon.
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| H R 800 | To amend the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 to authorize producers on a farm to produce fruits and vegetables for processing on the base acres of the farm.
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| H R 801 | To amend title 17, United States Code, with respect to works connected to certain funding agreements.
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| H R 802 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend and modify the first-time homebuyer credit.
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| H R 803 | To amend titles 23 and 49, United States Code, to require metropolitan planning organizations to consider greenhouse gas emissions in long-range transportation plans and transportation improvement programs.
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| H R 804 | To amend the Public Health Service Act to require the expansion, intensification, and coordination of research and other activities of the National Institutes of Health with respect to primary lateral sclerosis.
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| H R 805 | To amend the Public Health Service Act to improve the Nation's surveillance and reporting for diseases and conditions, and for other purposes.
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| H R 806 | To establish a mail-order pharmacy pilot program for TRICARE beneficiaries.
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| H R 807 | To amend the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 to require a public database of the executive compensation of the institutions receiving assistance under the Troubled Assets Relief Program.
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| H R 808 | To establish a Department of Peace.
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| H R 809 | To amend title 38, United States Code, to reduce from age 57 to age 55 the age after which the remarriage of the surviving spouse of a deceased veteran shall not result in termination of dependency and indemnity compensation otherwise payable to that surviving spouse.
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| H R 810 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a tax credit to employers for the value of the service not performed during the period employees are performing service as members of the Ready Reserve or the National Guard.
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| H R 811 | To amend title 10, United States Code, to permit certain retired members of the uniformed services who have a service-connected disability to receive both disability compensation from the Department of Veterans Affairs for their disability and either retired pay by reason of their years of military service or Combat-Related Special Compensation.
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| H R 812 | To prevent legislative and regulatory functions from being usurped by civil liability actions brought or continued against food manufacturers, marketers, distributors, advertisers, sellers, and trade associations for claims of injury relating to a person's weight gain, obesity, or any health condition associated with weight gain or obesity.
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| H R 813 | To designate the Federal building and United States courthouse located at 306 East Main Street in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, as the "J. Herbert W. Small Federal Building and United States Courthouse".
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| H R 814 | To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, the Federal Meat Inspection Act, the Poultry Products Inspection Act, and the Egg Products Inspection Act to improve the safety of food, meat, and poultry products through enhanced traceability, and for other purposes.
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| H R 815 | To amend the Federal Meat Inspection Act, the Poultry Products Inspection Act, and the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to provide for improved public health and food safety through enhanced enforcement, and for other purposes.
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| H R 816 | To amend title 10, United States Code, to prohibit certain increases in fees for military health care.
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| H R 817 | To prohibit the use of funds to transfer individuals detained at Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to facilities in Georgia or to house such individuals at such facilities.
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| H R 818 | To require advertising for any automobile model to display information regarding the fuel consumption and fuel cost for that model, and for other purposes.
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| H R 819 | To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide for the payment of dependency and indemnity compensation to the survivors of former prisoners of war who died on or before September 30, 1999, under the same eligibility conditions as apply to payment of dependency and indemnity compensation to the survivors of former prisoners of war who die after that date.
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| H R 820 | To ensure the development and responsible stewardship of nanotechnology.
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| H R 821 | To amend the Clean Air Act to require that mercury emissions from electric utility steam generating units be subject to the MACT standard for hazardous air pollutants, and for other purposes.
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| H R 822 | To provide for an awareness program, and a study, on a rare form of breast cancer.
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| H R 823 | To amend the Hate Crime Statistics Act to require the Attorney General to acquire data about crimes that manifest evidence of prejudice based on gender.
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| H R 824 | To amend the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 and title 5, United States Code, to allow employees to take, as additional leave, parental involvement leave to participate in or attend their children's and grandchildren's educational and extracurricular activities, and to clarify that leave may be taken for routine family medical needs and to assist elderly relatives, and for other purposes.
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| H R 825 | To direct the Secretary of Education to extend the same level of increased flexibility to all rural local educational agencies under part A of title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965.
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| H R 826 | To establish a grant program to support cluster-based economic development efforts.
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| H R 827 | To authorize funds to the Local Initiatives Support Corporation to carry out its Community Safety Initiative.
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| H R 828 | To amend chapter 84 of title 5, United States Code, to allow individuals who return to Government service after receiving a refund of retirement contributions to recapture credit for the service covered by that refund by repaying the amount that was so received, with interest.
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| H R 829 | To prohibit the use of funds to transfer individuals detained at Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to facilities in North Carolina or to house such individuals at such facilities.
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| H R 830 | To amend the District of Columbia Home Rule Act to eliminate Congressional review of newly-passed District laws.
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| H R 831 | To direct the Comptroller General to conduct a study of the legal requirements and policies followed by the Department of Transportation in deciding whether to approve international alliances between air carriers and foreign air carriers and grant exemptions from the antitrust laws in connection with such international alliances, and for other purposes.
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| H R 832 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend the financing of the Superfund.
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| H R 833 | To abolish the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and the Federal reserve banks, to repeal the Federal Reserve Act, and for other purposes.
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| H R 834 | To amend chapter 44 of title 18, United States Code, to exempt certain peace officers from certain minimum sentencing requirements for using a firearm to commit a crime of violence during or in relation to their employment.
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| H R 835 | To stimulate the economy and provide for a sound United States dollar by defining a value for the dollar, and for other purposes.
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| H R 836 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to reduce the tax on beer to its pre-1991 level, and for other purposes.
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| H R 837 | To designate the Federal building located at 799 United Nations Plaza in New York, New York, as the "Ronald H. Brown United States Mission to the United Nations Building".
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| H R 838 | To provide for the conveyance of a parcel of land held by the Bureau of Prisons of the Department of Justice in Miami Dade County, Florida, to facilitate the construction of a new educational facility that includes a secure parking area for the Bureau of Prisons, and for other purposes.
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| H R 839 | To provide for the consideration of a petition for Federal Recognition of the Lumbee Indians of Robeson and adjoining counties and other Indian groups in North Carolina, and for other purposes.
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| H R 840 | To reduce sexual assault and domestic violence involving members of the Armed Forces and their family members and partners through enhanced programs of prevention and deterrence, enhanced programs of victims services, and strengthened provisions for prosecution of assailants, and for other purposes.
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| H R 841 | To authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services to order a mandatory recall of any product that is regulated by the Food and Drug Administration, and for other purposes.
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| H R 842 | To designate the United States Courthouse to be constructed in Jackson, Mississippi, as the "R. Jess Brown United States Courthouse".
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| H R 843 | To amend the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972 to repeal the long-term goal for reducing to zero the incidental mortality and serious injury of marine mammals in commercial fishing operations, and to modify the goal of take reduction plans for reducing such takings.
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| H R 844 | To amend the provisions of law relating to the John H. Prescott Marine Mammal Rescue Assistance Grant Program, and for other purposes.
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| H R 845 | To authorize the Crow Tribe of Indians water rights settlement, and for other purposes.
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| H R 846 | To require institutions receiving assistance under the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 to report certain corporate data, and for other purposes.
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| H R 847 | To amend the Public Health Service Act to extend and improve protections and services to individuals directly impacted by the terrorist attack in New York City on September 11, 2001, and for other purposes.
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| H R 848 | To provide parity in radio performance rights under title 17, United States Code, and for other purposes.
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| H R 849 | To require the Secretary of Labor to issue interim and final occupational safety and health standards regarding worker exposure to combustible dust, and for other purposes.
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| H R 850 | To encourage the development of small business cooperatives for healthcare options to improve coverage for employees (CHOICE) including through a small business CHOICE tax credit.
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| H R 851 | To establish executive compensation and corporate governance requirements for institutions receiving assistance under the Troubled Assets Relief Program.
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| H R 852 | To authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to issue Re-Build America Bonds to finance essential infrastructure projects.
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| H R 853 | To amend title 18, United States Code, to prohibit the use of interstate commerce for suicide promotion.
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| H R 854 | To require the Archivist of the United States to promulgate regulations to prevent the over-classification of information, and for other purposes.
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| H R 855 | To amend the Public Health Service Act to authorize medical simulation enhancement programs, and for other purposes.
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| H R 856 | To provide flexibility for the operation of the Bureau of Reclamation C.W. "Bill" Jones Pumping Plant and the Harvey O. Banks Pumping Plant of the State of California in times of drought emergency, to support the establishment of a fish hatchery program to preserve and restore the Delta Smelt in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, and for other purposes.
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| H R 857 | To limit compensation to officers and directors of entities receiving emergency economic assistance from the Government, and for other purposes.
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| H R 858 | To prohibit the manufacture, marketing, sale, or shipment in interstate commerce of products designed to assist in defrauding a drug test.
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| H R 859 | To encourage the development of small business cooperatives for healthcare options to improve coverage for employees (CHOICE) including through a small business CHOICE tax credit.
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| H R 860 | To reauthorize the Coral Reef Conservation Act of 2000, and for other purposes.
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| H R 861 | Making supplemental appropriations for job creation, school repair and modernization, and tax reduction for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2009, and for other stimulative purposes.
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| H R 862 | To express the policy of the United States regarding the United States relationship with Native Hawaiians, to provide a process for the reorganization of a Native Hawaiian government and the recognition by the United States of the Native Hawaiian government, and for other purposes.
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| H R 863 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow employees to receive transportation fringe benefits for the same month both in the form of transit passes and reimbursement of bicycle commuting expenses.
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| H R 864 | To amend the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to provide loan guarantees for projects to construct renewable fuel pipelines, and for other purposes.
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| H R 865 | To convey the New River State Park campground located in the Mount Rogers National Recreation Area in the Jefferson National Forest in Carroll County, Virginia, to the Commonwealth of Virginia, and for other purposes.
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| H R 866 | To provide an exception to certain mandatory minimum sentence requirements for a law enforcement officer who uses, carries, or possesses a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence committed while pursuing or apprehending a suspect.
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| H R 867 | To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a study to assess the suitability and feasibility of designating certain lands as the Chattahoochee Trace National Heritage Corridor, and for other purposes.
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| H R 868 | To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to provide funds to States to enable them to increase the wages paid to targeted direct support professionals in providing services to individuals with disabilities under the Medicaid Program.
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| H R 869 | To designate the Federal building and United States courthouse located at 101 Barr Street in Lexington, Kentucky, as the "Scott Reed Federal Building and United States Courthouse".
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| H R 870 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for coverage under part B for medically necessary dental procedures.
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| H R 871 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide that the taxable income limit on the allowance for depletion shall not apply in 2008 to domestic marginal oil or gas wells.
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| H R 872 | To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for human embryonic stem cell research, to direct the National Institutes of Health to issue guidelines for such stem cell research, and for other purposes.
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| H R 873 | To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for human embryonic stem cell research.
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| H R 874 | To allow travel between the United States and Cuba.
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| H R 875 | To establish the Food Safety Administration within the Department of Health and Human Services to protect the public health by preventing food-borne illness, ensuring the safety of food, improving research on contaminants leading to food-borne illness, and improving security of food from intentional contamination, and for other purposes.
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| H R 876 | To authorize the extension of nondiscriminatory treatment (normal trade relations treatment) to the products of Kazakhstan.
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| H R 877 | To intensify stem cell research showing evidence of substantial clinical benefit to patients, and for other purposes.
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| H R 878 | To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to make changes related to family-sponsored immigrants and to reduce the number of such immigrants.
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| H R 879 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow individuals a refundable credit against income tax for the purchase of private health insurance.
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| H R 880 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow tax-exempt bond financing for fixed-wing emergency medical aircraft.
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| H R 881 | To implement equal protection under the 14th article of amendment to the Constitution for the right to life of each born and preborn human person.
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| H R 882 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to increase the age at which distributions from qualified retirement plans are required to begin from 70 1/2 to 75, and for other purposes.
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| H R 883 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the 1993 increase in income taxes on Social Security benefits.
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| H R 884 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to increase the limitation on the capital loss carryovers of individuals to $20,000.
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| H R 885 | To elevate the Inspector General of certain Federal entities to an Inspector General appointed pursuant to section 3 of the Inspector General Act of 1978.
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| H R 886 | To amend title II of the Social Security Act to apply an earnings test in determining the amount of monthly insurance benefits for individuals entitled to disability insurance benefits based on blindness.
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| H R 887 | To designate the United States courthouse located at 131 East 4th Street in Davenport, Iowa, as the "James A. Leach United States Courthouse".
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| H R 888 | To amend the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to reauthorize the temporary mortgage and rental payments program.
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| H R 889 | To amend title VI of the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 to establish a Federal energy efficiency resource standard for retail electricity and natural gas distributors, and for other purposes.
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| H R 890 | To amend title VI of the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 to establish a Federal renewable electricity standard for certain electric utilities, and for other purposes.
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| H R 891 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to equalize the exclusion from gross income of parking and transportation fringe benefits and to provide for a common cost-of-living adjustment, and for other purposes.
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| H R 892 | To deny certain Federal funds to any institution of higher education that admits as students aliens who are unlawfully present in the United States.
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| H R 893 | To modify certain provisions of law relating to torture.
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| H R 894 | To ensure the safety of expeditionary facilities, infrastructure, and equipment supporting United States military operations overseas.
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| H R 895 | To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to reauthorize the sewer overflow control grants program.
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| H R 896 | To expedite the construction of new refining capacity on closed military installations in the United States, and for other purposes.
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| H R 897 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow individuals a deduction for qualified long-term care insurance premiums, use of such insurance under cafeteria plans and flexible spending arrangements, and a credit for individuals with long-term care needs.
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| H R 898 | To authorize grants to establish and improve criminal forensic laboratories.
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| H R 899 | To require States to hold special elections in the event of a vacancy in the office of a Senator representing the State, and for other purposes.
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| H R 900 | To establish procedures for causes and claims relating to the leasing of Federal lands (including submerged lands) for the exploration, development, production, processing, or transmission of oil, natural gas, or any other source or form of energy, and for other purposes.
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| H R 901 | To amend title 11 of the United States Code to provide protection for medical debt homeowners, to restore bankruptcy protections for individuals experiencing economic distress as caregivers to ill or disabled family members, and to exempt from means testing debtors whose financial problems were caused by serious medical problems.
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| H R 902 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to improve the provision of items and services provided to Medicare beneficiaries residing in rural areas.
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| H R 903 | To amend the Public Health Service Act to enhance the roles of dentists and allied dental personnel in the Nation's disaster response framework, and for other purposes.
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| H R 904 | To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to reduce the costs of prescription drugs for enrollees of Medicaid managed care organizations by extending the discounts offered under fee-for-service Medicaid to such organizations.
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| H R 905 | To expand the boundaries of the Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary and Underwater Preserve, and for other purposes.
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| H R 906 | To provide incentives for affordable housing.
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| H R 907 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for a livestock energy investment credit.
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| H R 908 | To amend the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 to reauthorize the Missing Alzheimer's Disease Patient Alert Program.
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| H R 909 | To amend the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956 to provide for the establishment and maintenance of existing libraries and resource centers at United States diplomatic and consular missions to provide information about United States culture, society, and history, and for other purposes.
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| H R 910 | For the relief of Judge John S. Unpingco.
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| H R 911 | To require certain standards and enforcement provisions to prevent child abuse and neglect in residential programs, and for other purposes.
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| H R 912 | To amend the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 to clarify the eligibility requirements with respect to airline flight crews.
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| H R 913 | To amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to strengthen mentoring programs, and for other purposes.
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| H R 914 | To amend title VII of the Public Health Service Act to establish a loan program for eligible hospitals to establish residency training programs.
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| H R 915 | To amend title 49, United States Code, to authorize appropriations for the Federal Aviation Administration for fiscal years 2009 through 2012, to improve aviation safety and capacity, to provide stable funding for the national aviation system, and for other purposes.
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| H R 916 | To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide grants for the training of graduate medical residents in preventive medicine and public health.
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| H R 917 | To increase the health benefits of dependents of members of the Armed Forces who die because of a combat-related injury.
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| H R 918 | To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 300 East 3rd Street in Jamestown, New York, as the "Stan Lundine Post Office Building".
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| H R 919 | To amend title 38, United States Code, to enhance the capacity of the Department of Veterans Affairs to recruit and retain nurses and other critical health-care professionals, and for other purposes.
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| H R 920 | To amend the Delaware and Lehigh National Heritage Corridor Act of 1988 regarding the local coordinating entity of the Delaware and Lehigh National Heritage Corridor, and for other purposes.
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| H R 921 | To establish the Sabinoso Wilderness Area in San Miguel County, New Mexico, and for other purposes.
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| H R 922 | To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to provide financial assistance to the Eastern New Mexico Rural Water Authority for the planning, design, and construction of the Eastern New Mexico Rural Water System, and for other purposes.
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| H R 923 | To direct the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a study of water resources in the State of New Mexico.
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| H R 924 | To direct the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Commissioner of Reclamation, to assess the irrigation infrastructure of the Rio Grande Pueblos in the State of New Mexico and provide grants to, and enter into cooperative agreements with, the Rio Grande Pueblos to repair, rehabilitate, or reconstruct existing infrastructure, and for other purposes.
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| H R 925 | To amend the Colorado River Storage Project Act and Public Law 87-483 to authorize the construction and rehabilitation of water infrastructure in Northwestern New Mexico, to authorize the use of the reclamation fund to fund the Reclamation Water Settlements Fund, to authorize the conveyance of certain Reclamation land and infrastructure, to authorize the Commissioner of Reclamation to provide for the delivery of water, and for other purposes.
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| H R 926 | To establish the Cache La Poudre River National Heritage Area, and for other purposes.
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| H R 927 | To amend the Communications Act of 1934 to expand satellite carriage of local television signals, and for other purposes.
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| H R 928 | To establish the Mississippi Delta National Heritage Area and the Mississippi Hills National Heritage Area, and for other purposes.
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| H R 929 | To amend title 38, United States Code, to require the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to carry out a program of training to provide eligible veterans with skills relevant to the job market, and for other purposes.
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| H R 930 | To strengthen the Nation's research efforts to identify the causes and cure of psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis, expand psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis data collection, and study access to and quality of care for people with psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis, and for other purposes.
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| H R 931 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow the work opportunity credit with respect to certain unemployed veterans.
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| H R 932 | To authorize the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to make grants and offer technical assistance to local governments and others to design and implement innovative policies, programs, and projects that address widespread property vacancy and abandonment, and for other purposes.
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| H R 933 | To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to provide compensatory time for employees in the private sector.
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| H R 934 | To convey certain submerged lands to the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands in order to give that territory the same benefits in its submerged lands as Guam, the Virgin Islands, and American Samoa have in their submerged lands.
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| H R 935 | To amend title 10, United States Code, to increase the number of persons appointed to the military service academies from the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands and American Samoa from nominations made by the Delegates in Congress from the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands and American Samoa.
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| H R 936 | To ensure the continued and future availability of lifesaving trauma health care in the United States and to prevent further trauma center closures and downgrades by assisting trauma centers with uncompensated care costs, core mission services, emergency needs, and information technology.
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| H R 937 | To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to permit certain Mexican children, and accompanying adults, to obtain a waiver of the documentation requirements otherwise required to enter the United States as a temporary visitor.
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| H R 938 | To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to restore certain provisions relating to the definition of aggravated felony and other provisions as they were before the enactment of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996.
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| H R 939 | To permit 2008 required minimum distributions from certain retirement plans to be repaid.
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| H R 940 | To provide for the conveyance of National Forest System land in the State of Louisiana.
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| H R 941 | To amend the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to provide for disaster assistance for electric utility companies serving low-income households, and for other purposes.
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| H R 942 | To direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to conduct a pilot project on the use of educational assistance under programs of the Department of Veterans Affairs to defray training costs associated with the purchase of certain franchise enterprises.
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| H R 943 | To amend title 31, United States Code, to require certain additional calculations to be included in the annual financial statement submitted under section 331(e) of that title, and for other purposes.
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| H R 944 | To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide improved benefits for veterans who are former prisoners of war.
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| H R 945 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow additional expenses for purposes of determining the Hope Scholarship Credit, and for other purposes.
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| H R 946 | To enhance citizen access to Government information and services by establishing that Government documents issued to the public must be written clearly, and for other purposes.
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| H R 947 | To direct the Secretary of Transportation to establish and collect a fee based on the fair market value of articles imported into the United States and articles exported from the United States in commerce and to use amounts collected from the fee to make grants to carry out certain transportation projects in the transportation trade corridors for which the fee is collected, and for other purposes.
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| H R 948 | To amend chapter 81 of title 5, United States Code, to create a presumption that a disability or death of a Federal employee in fire protection activities caused by any of certain diseases is the result of the performance of such employee's duty.
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| H R 949 | To amend title 38, United States Code, to improve the collective bargaining rights and procedures for review of adverse actions of certain employees of the Department of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes.
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| H R 950 | To amend chapter 33 of title 38, United States Code, to increase educational assistance for certain veterans pursuing a program of education offered through distance learning.
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| H R 951 | To prohibit the use of funds to transfer enemy combatants detained at Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to facilities in Arizona or to build, modify, or enhance any facility in Arizona to house such enemy combatants.
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| H R 952 | To amend title 38, United States Code, to clarify the meaning of "combat with the enemy" for purposes of service-connection of disabilities.
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| H R 953 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for a deduction for travel expenses to medical centers of the Department of Veterans Affairs in connection with examinations or treatments relating to service-connected disabilities.
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| H R 954 | To amend title II of the Social Security Act to provide that a monthly insurance benefit thereunder shall be paid for the month in which the recipient dies, subject to a reduction of 50 percent if the recipient dies during the first 15 days of such month, and for other purposes.
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| H R 955 | To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 10355 Northeast Valley Road in Rollingbay, Washington, as the "John 'Bud' Hawk Post Office".
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| H R 956 | To expand the number of individuals and families with health insurance coverage, and for other purposes.
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| H R 957 | To authorize higher education curriculum development and graduate training in advanced energy and green building technologies.
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| H R 958 | To amend title 5, United States Code, to make unused sick leave creditable, for purposes of the Federal Employees' Retirement System, in the same manner as provided for under the Civil Service Retirement System.
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| H R 959 | To increase Federal Pell Grants for the children of fallen public safety officers, and for other purposes.
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| H R 960 | To amend the District of Columbia Home Rule Act to eliminate Congressional review of newly-passed District laws.
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| H R 961 | To suspend temporarily the duty on phosphoric acid, lanthanum salt, cerium terbium-doped.
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| H R 962 | To suspend temporarily the duty on lutetium oxide.
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| H R 963 | To enhance transparency and accountability within the intelligence community for activities performed under Federal contracts, and for other purposes.
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| H R 964 | To amend the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 to exempt any solar energy project on lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management from an environmental impact statement requirement.
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| H R 965 | To amend the Chesapeake Bay Initiative Act of 1998 to provide for the continuing authorization of the Chesapeake Bay Gateways and Watertrails Network.
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| H R 966 | To require certain air carriers of foreign air transportation to disclose the nature and source of delays and cancellations experienced by air travelers.
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| H R 967 | To enhance airline passenger protection when the Secretary of Transportation issues a rule to require airline emergency contingency plans.
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| H R 968 | To amend the Consumer Product Safety Act to provide regulatory relief to small and family-owned businesses.
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| H R 969 | To permit commercial vehicles at weights up to 129,000 pounds to use certain highways of the Interstate System in the State of Idaho which would provide significant savings in the transportation of goods throughout the United States, and for other purposes.
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| H R 970 | To encourage the entry of felony warrants into the NCIC database by States and to provide additional resources for extradition.
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| H R 971 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide commuter flexible spending arrangements.
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| H R 972 | To amend title 10, United States Code, to eliminate the requirement that certain former members of the reserve components of the Armed Forces be at least 60 years of age in order to be eligible to receive health care benefits.
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| H R 973 | To establish pilot programs that provide for emergency crisis response teams to combat elder abuse.
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| H R 974 | For the relief of Alejandro Gomez and Juan Sebastian Gomez.
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| H R 975 | For the relief of Terence George.
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| H R 976 | For the relief of Ibrahim Parlak.
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| H R 977 | To amend the Commodity Exchange Act to bring greater transparency and accountability to commodity markets, and for other purposes.
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| H R 978 | To recognize and clarify the authority of the States to regulate intrastate helicopter medical services pursuant to their authority over public health planning and protection, patient safety and protection, emergency medical services, the quality and coordination of medical care, and the practice of medicine within their jurisdictions.
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| H R 979 | To limit excessive and luxury expenses by recipients of assistance under the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, and for other purposes.
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| H R 980 | To designate certain National Forest System lands and public lands under the jurisdiction of the Secretary of the Interior in the States of Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, and Wyoming as wilderness, wild and scenic rivers, wildland recovery areas, and biological connecting corridors, and for other purposes.
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| H R 981 | To limit the use of cluster munitions.
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| H R 982 | To terminate the Internal Revenue Code of 1986.
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| H R 983 | To preserve open competition and Federal Government neutrality towards the labor relations of Federal Government contractors on Federal and federally funded construction projects.
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| H R 984 | To provide safe, fair, and responsible procedures and standards for resolving claims of state secret privilege.
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| H R 985 | To maintain the free flow of information to the public by providing conditions for the federally compelled disclosure of information by certain persons connected with the news media.
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| H R 986 | To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 28 Washington Street in Mount Holly, New Jersey, as the "Jim Saxton Post Office Building".
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| H R 987 | To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 601 8th Street in Freedom, Pennsylvania, as the "John Scott Challis, Jr. Post Office".
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| H R 988 | To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for the participation of physical therapists in the National Health Service Corps Loan Repayment Program, and for other purposes.
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| H R 989 | To provide a Federal income tax credit for Eagle employers, and for other purposes.
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| H R 990 | To amend title 49, United States Code, to establish additional goals for airport master plans.
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| H R 991 | To treat arbitration clauses which are unilaterally imposed on consumers as an unfair and deceptive trade practice and prohibit their use in consumer transactions, and for other purposes.
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| H R 992 | To establish the James Madison Memorial Commission to develop a plan of action for the establishment and maintenance of a James Madison memorial in Washington, DC, and for other purposes.
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| H R 993 | To establish a Presidential commission to determine and evaluate the validity of certain land claims arising out of the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo of 1848 involving the descendants of persons who were Mexican citizens at the time of the Treaty.
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| H R 994 | To remove the incentives and loopholes that encourage illegal aliens to come to the United States to live and work, provide additional resources to local law enforcement and Federal border and immigration officers, and for other purposes.
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| H R 995 | To amend the Public Health Service Act and Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to require that group and individual health insurance coverage and group health plans provide coverage for annual screening mammography for women 40 years of age or older and for such screening and annual magnetic resonance imaging for women at high risk for breast cancer if the coverage or plans include coverage for diagnostic mammography for women 40 years of age or older.
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| H R 996 | To temporarily exempt certain public and private development projects from any requirement for a review, statement, or analysis under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.), and for other purposes.
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| H R 997 | To declare English as the official language of the United States, to establish a uniform English language rule for naturalization, and to avoid misconstructions of the English language texts of the laws of the United States, pursuant to Congress' powers to provide for the general welfare of the United States and to establish a uniform rule of naturalization under article I, section 8, of the Constitution.
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| H R 998 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for the creation of disaster protection funds by property and casualty insurance companies for the payment of policyholders' claims arising from future catastrophic events.
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| H R 999 | To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to improve food safety.
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| H R 1000 | To provide environmental assistance to non-Federal interests in the State of Colorado.
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| H R 1001 | To create a new nonimmigrant visa category for registered nurses, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1002 | To adjust the boundaries of Pisgah National Forest in McDowell County, North Carolina.
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| H R 1003 | To prohibit the closure of Fort Monmouth, New Jersey, notwithstanding the recommendations of the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission.
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| H R 1004 | To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide an enhanced funding process to ensure an adequate level of funding for veterans health care programs of the Department of Veterans Affairs, to establish standards of access to care for veterans seeking health care from the Department of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1005 | To amend the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 to improve public notification and community relations concerning actions for the removal of environmental hazards.
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| H R 1006 | To require secondary metal recycling agents to keep records of their transactions in order to deter individuals and enterprises engaged in the theft and interstate sale of stolen secondary metal, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1007 | To establish the Mississippi Delta National Heritage Area and the Mississippi Hills National Heritage Area, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1008 | To reaffirm and clarify the authority of the Comptroller General to audit and evaluate the programs, activities, and financial transactions of the intelligence community, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1009 | For the relief of Corina de Chalup Turcinovic.
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| H R 1010 | To amend the Black Lung Benefits Act to provide equity to certain survivors with regards to claims under that Act.
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| H R 1011 | To amend the Public Health Service Act with respect to mental health services.
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| H R 1012 | To prohibit the use of funds available to the Department of Defense to transfer enemy combatants detained by the United States at Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to the United States, or to construct facilities for such enemy combatants at such locations.
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| H R 1013 | To direct the Secretary of Transportation to establish and carry out a hazardous materials cooperative research program.
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| H R 1014 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to tax bona fide residents of the District of Columbia in the same manner as bona fide residents of possessions of the United States.
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| H R 1015 | To provide for the retrocession of the District of Columbia to Maryland, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1016 | To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide advance appropriations authority for certain medical care accounts of the Department of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1017 | To amend the Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Programs Enhancement Act of 2001 and title 38, United States Code, to require the provision of chiropractic care and services to veterans at all Department of Veterans Affairs medical centers and to expand access to such care and services.
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| H R 1018 | To amend the Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act to improve the management and long-term health of wild free-roaming horses and burros, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1019 | To prohibit discrimination in State taxation of multichannel video programming distribution services.
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| H R 1020 | To amend chapter 1 of title 9 of United States Code with respect to arbitration.
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| H R 1021 | To improve research, diagnosis, and treatment of musculoskeletal diseases, conditions, and injuries, to conduct a longitudinal study on aging, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1022 | To increase and enhance law enforcement resources committed to investigation and prosecution of violent gangs, to deter and punish violent gang crime, to protect law-abiding citizens and communities from violent criminals, to revise and enhance criminal penalties for violent crimes, to expand and improve gang prevention programs, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1023 | To establish a commission to recommend the elimination or realignment of Federal agencies that are duplicative or perform functions that would be more efficient on a non-Federal level, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1024 | To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to eliminate discrimination in the immigration laws by permitting permanent partners of United States citizens and lawful permanent residents to obtain lawful permanent resident status in the same manner as spouses of citizens and lawful permanent residents and to penalize immigration fraud in connection with permanent partnerships.
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| H R 1025 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for residents of Puerto Rico who participate in cafeteria plans under the Puerto Rican tax laws an exclusion from employment taxes which is comparable to the exclusion that applies to cafeteria plans under such Code.
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| H R 1026 | To amend the procedures regarding military recruiter access to secondary school student recruiting information.
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| H R 1027 | To exempt second-hand sellers of certain products from the lead content and certification requirements of the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008.
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| H R 1028 | To provide additional support for the efforts of community coalitions, health care providers, parents, and others to prevent and reduce underage drinking, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1029 | To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act and title 18, United States Code, to combat the crime of alien smuggling and related activities, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1030 | To direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to encourage research and carry out an educational campaign with respect to pulmonary hypertension, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1031 | To promote a better health information system.
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| H R 1032 | To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act and the Public Health Service Act to improve the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of heart disease, stroke, and other cardiovascular diseases in women.
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| H R 1033 | To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act with respect to temporary admission of nonimmigrant aliens to the United States for the purpose of receiving medical treatment, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1034 | To amend title 36, United States Code, to designate the Honor and Remember Flag created by Honor and Remember, Inc., as an official symbol to recognize and honor members of the Armed Forces who died in the line of duty, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1035 | To amend the Morris K. Udall Scholarship and Excellence in National Environmental and Native American Public Policy Act of 1992 to honor the legacy of Stewart L. Udall, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1036 | To amend title 38, United States Code, to establish the position of Director of Physical Therapy Service within the Veterans Health Administration and to establish a fellowship program for physical therapists in the areas of geriatrics, amputee rehabilitation, polytrauma care, and rehabilitation research.
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| H R 1037 | To direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to conduct a five-year pilot project to test the feasibility and advisability of expanding the scope of certain qualifying work-study activities under title 38, United States Code.
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| H R 1038 | To amend part B of title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide coverage for the shingles vaccine under the Medicare Program.
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| H R 1039 | To encourage and enhance the adoption of interoperable health information technology to improve health care quality, reduce medical errors, and increase the efficiency of care.
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| H R 1040 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide taxpayers a flat tax alternative to the current income tax system.
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| H R 1041 | To direct the Secretary of the Interior to study the suitability and feasibility of designating sites in the Lower Mississippi River Area in the State of Louisiana as a unit of the National Park System, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1042 | To prohibit the provision of medical treatment to enemy combatants detained by the United States at Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in the same facility as a member of the Armed Forces or Department of Veterans Affairs medical facility.
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| H R 1043 | To provide for a land exchange involving certain National Forest System lands in the Mendocino National Forest in the State of California, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1044 | To provide for the administration of Port Chicago Naval Magazine National Memorial as a unit of the National Park System, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1045 | To amend the District of Columbia Home Rule Act to eliminate all Federally-imposed mandates over the local budget process and financial management of the District of Columbia and the borrowing of money by the District of Columbia.
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| H R 1046 | To ensure the effective implementation of children's product safety standards under the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008.
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| H R 1047 | To amend the National and Community Service Act of 1990 to establish the Silver Scholarship program to encourage increased volunteer work by seniors.
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| H R 1048 | To improve the Operating Fund for public housing of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1049 | To prohibit the sale of kitchen ranges or ovens which do not include a design, bracket, or other device which complies with an applicable consensus product safety standard intended to prevent the product from tipping.
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| H R 1050 | To amend title 18, United States Code, to prohibit human cloning.
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| H R 1051 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to extend and improve protections for sole community hospitals under the Medicare Program.
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| H R 1052 | To mandate minimum periods of rest and recuperation for units and members of the regular and reserve components of the Armed Forces between deployments for Operation Iraqi Freedom or Operation Enduring Freedom.
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| H R 1053 | To require the Office of Management and Budget to prepare a crosscut budget for restoration activities in the Chesapeake Bay watershed, to require the Environmental Protection Agency to develop and implement an adaptive management plan, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1054 | To amend the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972 to allow importation of polar bear trophies taken in sport hunts in Canada before the date the polar bear was determined to be a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act of 1973.
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| H R 1055 | To amend the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972 to allow the importation of polar bear trophies taken in sport hunts in Canada.
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| H R 1056 | For the relief of Rosa Isela Figueroa Rincon, Miguel Angel Figueroa Rincon, Blanca Azucena Figueroa Rincon, and Nancy Araceli Figueroa Rincon.
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| H R 1057 | To authorize the Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating to issue a certificate of documentation for operation in the coastwise trade for the vessel MAYA.
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| H R 1058 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the inclusion in gross income of Social Security benefits and tier 1 railroad retirement benefits.
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| H R 1059 | To amend the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to provide eligibility for an heir of a deceased homeowner to receive certain housing-related disaster assistance.
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| H R 1060 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to clarify that a NADBank guarantee is not considered a Federal guarantee for purposes of determining the tax-exempt status of bonds.
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| H R 1061 | To transfer certain land to the United States to be held in trust for the Hoh Indian Tribe, to place land into trust for the Hoh Indian Tribe, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1062 | To amend the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to provide for the establishment and implementation of a system to verify that persons who receive United States foreign assistance funds are not affiliated with or do not support foreign terrorist organizations or do not otherwise commit or support acts of international terrorism, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1063 | To repeal a requirement with respect to the procurement and acquisition of alternative fuels.
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| H R 1064 | To provide for evidence-based and promising practices related to juvenile delinquency and criminal street gang activity prevention and intervention to help build individual, family, and community strength and resiliency to ensure that youth lead productive, safe, healthy, gang-free, and law-abiding lives.
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| H R 1065 | To resolve water rights claims of the White Mountain Apache Tribe in the State of Arizona, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1066 | To amend the Peace Corps Act to provide continued funding for the Peace Corps, to increase the readjustment allowances for Peace Corps volunteers and volunteer leaders, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1067 | To amend title II of the Social Security Act to allow workers who attain age 65 after 1981 and before 1992 to choose either lump sum payments over four years totalling $5,000 or an improved benefit computation formula under a new 10-year rule governing the transition to the changes in benefit computation rules enacted in the Social Security Amendments of 1977, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1068 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to impose a tax on certain securities transactions to the extent required to recoup the net cost of the Troubled Asset Relief Program.
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| H R 1069 | To provide for certain requirements related to the closing of the Guantanamo Bay detention facility.
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| H R 1070 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to increase the limitation on the capital loss carryovers of individuals to $10,000.
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| H R 1071 | To prohibit the imposition and collection of tolls on certain highways constructed using Federal funds.
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| H R 1072 | To prohibit United States contributions to the United Nations for the purpose of paying or reimbursing the legal expenses of United Nations officers or employees charged with malfeasance, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1073 | To prohibit the use of funds to transfer individuals detained at Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to facilities in Florida or to house such individuals at such facilities.
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| H R 1074 | To amend chapter 44 of title 18, United States Code, to update certain procedures applicable to commerce in firearms and remove certain Federal restrictions on interstate firearms transactions.
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| H R 1075 | To amend title 38, United States Code, to expand access to hospital care for veterans in major disaster areas, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1076 | To amend title 18, United States Code, to protect youth from exploitation by adults using the Internet, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1077 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for Medicare coverage of services of qualified respiratory therapists performed under the general supervision of a physician.
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| H R 1078 | To establish the Harriet Tubman National Historical Park in Auburn, New York, and the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National Historical Park in Caroline, Dorchester, and Talbot Counties, Maryland, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1079 | To expand the research, prevention, and awareness activities of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institutes of Health with respect to pulmonary fibrosis, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1080 | To strengthen enforcement mechanisms to stop illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1081 | To amend the Post-Katrina Emergency Management Reform Act of 2006 to extend the public assistance pilot program through December 31, 2009.
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| H R 1082 | To prohibit the importation for sale of foreign-made flags of the United States of America.
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| H R 1083 | To regulate certain State taxation of interstate commerce, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1084 | To require the Federal Communications Commission to prescribe a standard to preclude commercials from being broadcast at louder volumes than the program material they accompany.
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| H R 1085 | To impose a limitation on lifetime aggregate limits imposed by health plans.
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| H R 1086 | To improve patient access to health care services and provide improved medical care by reducing the excessive burden the liability system places on the health care delivery system.
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| H R 1087 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to increase the deduction under section 179 for the purchase of qualified health care information technology by medical care providers, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1088 | To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide for a one-year period for the training of new disabled veterans' outreach program specialists and local veterans' employment representatives by National Veterans' Employment and Training Services Institute.
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| H R 1089 | To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide for the enforcement through the Office of Special Counsel of the employment and reemployment rights of veterans and members of the Armed Forces employed by Federal executive agencies, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1090 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow a credit for care packages provided for soldiers in combat zones and a credit for providing volunteer service to military families through the America Supports You program of the Department of Defense.
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| H R 1091 | To amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to direct local educational agencies to release secondary school student information to military recruiters if the student's parent provides written consent for the release, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1092 | To amend the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, Public Health Service Act, and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to prohibit discrimination in group health coverage and individual health insurance coverage.
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| H R 1093 | To amend title II of the Social Security Act to provide for an increase in the maximum level of fees authorized to be charged by representatives with respect to claims of entitlement to past-due benefits and to require cost-of-living adjustments to such level of authorized fees.
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| H R 1094 | To ensure that home health agencies can assign the most appropriate skilled service to make the initial assessment visit for home health services for Medicare beneficiaries requiring rehabilitation therapy under a home health plan of care, based upon physician referral.
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| H R 1095 | To prohibit any recipient of emergency Federal economic assistance from using such funds for lobbying expenditures or political contributions, to improve transparency, enhance accountability, encourage responsible corporate governance, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1096 | To create an electronic employment eligibility verification system to ensure that all workers in the United States are legally able to work, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1097 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide tax relief for obtaining transportation worker identification credentials.
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| H R 1098 | To amend title 38, United States Code, to increase the amount of educational assistance payable by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to certain individuals pursuing internships or on-job training.
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| H R 1099 | To provide for extension of existing and expiring agreements under the Moving-to-Work program of the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
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| H R 1100 | To authorize the Commandant of the Coast Guard to issue regulations that require certain pilots on vessels operating in designated waters to carry and utilize a portable electronic device equipped for navigational purposes, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1101 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for reimbursement of certified midwife services and to provide for more equitable reimbursement rates for certified nurse-midwife services.
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| H R 1102 | To require full funding of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.
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| H R 1103 | To modify the prohibition on recognition by United States courts of certain rights relating to certain marks, trade names, or commercial names.
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| H R 1104 | For the relief of Mikael Adrian Christopher Figueroa Alvarez.
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| H R 1105 | Omnibus Appropriations Act, 2009 | |
| H R 1106 | To prevent mortgage foreclosures and enhance mortgage credit availability.
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| H R 1107 | To enact certain laws relating to public contracts as title 41, United States Code, "Public Contracts".
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| H R 1108 | To provide for State enhanced authority for coastal and ocean resources, expansion of America's supply of natural gas and oil, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1109 | To designate as wilderness additional National Forest System lands in the Monongahela National Forest in the State of West Virginia, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1110 | To amend title 18, United States Code, to prevent caller ID spoofing, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1111 | To promote as a renewable energy source the use of biomass removed from forest lands in connection with hazardous fuel reduction projects on certain Federal land, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1112 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to increase the incentives for E-85 fuel vehicle refueling property.
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| H R 1113 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a 15-year recovery period for property used in the transmission or distribution of electricity for sale.
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| H R 1114 | To direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to establish a process for determining whether a geographic area is sufficiently served by the national cemeteries located in that geographic area.
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| H R 1115 | To repeal a requirement to reduce by 2 percent the amount payable to each State in fiscal year 2008.
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| H R 1116 | To improve the process through which loan originators participate in FHA mortgage programs,and for other purposes.
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| H R 1117 | To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to establish a State plan option under Medicaid to provide an all-inclusive program of care for children who are medically fragile or have one or more chronic conditions that impede their ability to function.
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| H R 1118 | To amend the Social Security Act to improve choices available to Medicare eligible seniors by permitting them to elect (instead of regular Medicare benefits) to receive a voucher for a health savings account, for premiums for a high deductible health insurance plan, or both and by suspending Medicare late enrollment penalties between ages 65 and 70.
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| H R 1119 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to expand the application of the homebuyer credit, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1120 | To amend the Reclamation Wastewater and Groundwater Study and Facilities Act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to participate in the Central Texas Water Recycling and Reuse Project, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1121 | To authorize a land exchange to acquire lands for the Blue Ridge Parkway from the Town of Blowing Rock, North Carolina, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1122 | To require the Secretary of the Interior to plan, design, and construct a new school at Third Mesa, Arizona, on the Hopi Indian Reservation.
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| H R 1123 | To require the filing of certain information regarding a residential mortgage in any proceeding for foreclosure of the mortgage.
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| H R 1124 | To provide for the issuance of a semipostal in order to afford a convenient means by which members of the public may contribute towards the acquisition of works of art to honor female pioneers in Government service.
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| H R 1125 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to improve the quality of care in skilled nursing facilities under the Medicare Program through requiring the reporting of expenditures for nursing.
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| H R 1126 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide that a deduction equal to fair market value shall be allowed for charitable contributions of literary, musical, artistic, or scholarly compositions created by the donor.
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| H R 1127 | To extend certain immigration programs.
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| H R 1128 | To establish the National Center on Liver Disease Research, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1129 | To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to provide an annual grant to facilitate an iron working training program for Native Americans.
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| H R 1130 | To amend the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to modify the terms of the community disaster loan program, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1131 | To amend the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to improve Federal response efforts after a terrorist strike or other major disaster affecting homeland security, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1132 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend and modify the railroad track maintenance credit.
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| H R 1133 | To amend the Communications Act of 1934 to require the Federal Communications Commission to prescribe rules regulating inmate telephone service rates.
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| H R 1134 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow the credit for nonbusiness energy property for 2008.
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| H R 1135 | To amend title 49, United States Code, to provide for enhanced motorcoach safety, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1136 | To extend the termination date for the exemption of returning workers from the numerical limitations for temporary workers.
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| H R 1137 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide improved access to physical medicine and rehabilitation services under part B of the Medicare Program, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1138 | To require the Federal Government to reimburse a State or local government for financial losses incurred when an employee of the State or local government who performs public safety or first responder duties and who is also a member of a reserve component of the uniformed services is called or ordered to active duty for a period of more than 30 days.
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| H R 1139 | To amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to enhance the COPS ON THE BEAT grant program, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1140 | To amend the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Act of 1981 to extend energy assistance to households headed by certain senior citizens.
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| H R 1141 | For the relief of Zdenko Lisak.
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| H R 1142 | To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to require States to provide hair prostheses under the Medicaid Program for individuals diagnosed with alopecia areata.
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| H R 1143 | To achieve greater national energy independence by limiting presidential withdrawals of offshore lands from disposition for exploration, development, or production of oil and gas, to authorize States to petition for authorization to conduct offshore oil and natural gas exploration and extraction in any area that is within 50 miles of the coastline of the State and within the seaward lateral boundaries of the State extended, to share offshore oil and gas revenues with States, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1144 | To increase awareness of the existence of and to overcome gender bias in academic science and engineering through research and training, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1145 | To implement a National Water Research and Development Initiative, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1146 | To end membership of the United States in the United Nations.
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| H R 1147 | To imlpement the recommendations of the Federal Communications Commission report to the Congress regarding low-power FM service.
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| H R 1148 | To require the Secretary of Homeland Security to conduct a program in the maritime environment for the mobile biometric identification of suspected individuals, including terrorists, to enhance border security.
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| H R 1149 | To reauthorize the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1150 | To authorize the Secretary of Homeland Security to award grants on a competitive basis to regional biocontainment laboratories for maintaining surge capacity that can be used to respond to acts of bioterrorism or outbreaks of infectious diseases, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1151 | To amend the National and Community Service Act of 1990 to establish Encore Service Programs, Encore Fellowship Programs, and Silver Scholarship Programs, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1152 | To amend the National and Community Service Act of 1990 to establish a Semester of Service grant program, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1153 | To amend the National and Community Service Act of 1990 to establish a Summer of Service State grant program, a Summer of Service national direct grant program, and related national activities, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1154 | To amend the National and Community Service Act of 1990 to improve the educational awards provided for national service, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1155 | To mandate satellite carriage of qualified noncommercial educational television stations.
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| H R 1156 | To amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to require local educational agencies to provide to parents, on request, information regarding the professional qualifications of their child's pupil services instructors.
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| H R 1157 | To amend title 5, United States Code, to establish certain protections for preference eligibles selected for involuntary geographic reassignment.
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| H R 1158 | To promote biogas production, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1159 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide special rules for investments lost in a fraudulent Ponzi-type scheme.
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| H R 1160 | To direct the Securities and Exchange Commission to revise rules to provide for the comparable treatment and expanded use of qualified money market funds for broker-dealer financing.
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| H R 1161 | To amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to provide grants for innovative teacher retention programs.
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| H R 1162 | To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to permit certain E-2 nonimmigrant investors to adjust status to lawful permanent resident status.
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| H R 1163 | To direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to establish a national cemetery in the Sarpy County region to serve veterans in eastern Nebraska, western Iowa, and northwest Missouri.
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| H R 1164 | To amend title 5, United States Code, to exempt certain repayments under the Civil Service Retirement System from the requirement that they be made with interest.
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| H R 1165 | To develop capacity and infrastructure for mentoring programs.
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| H R 1166 | To amend title 18, United States Code, to provide for more effective enforcement of the Federal prohibition on the interstate shipment of stolen property, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1167 | To direct the Secretary of Transportation to conduct a program to demonstrate the use of asphalt produced with an asphalt binder made from biomass in highway construction projects.
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| H R 1168 | To amend chapter 42 of title 38, United States Code, to provide certain veterans with employment training assistance.
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| H R 1169 | To amend title 38, United States Code, to increase the amount of assistance provided by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to disabled veterans for specially adapted housing and automobiles and adapted equipment.
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| H R 1170 | To amend chapter 21 of title 38, United States Code, to establish a grant program to encourage the development of new assistive technologies for specially adapted housing.
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| H R 1171 | A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to reauthorize the Homeless Veterans Reintegration Program for fiscal years 2010 through 2014, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1172 | To direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to include on the Internet website of the Department of Veterans Affairs a list of organizations that provide scholarships to veterans and their survivors.
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| H R 1173 | To amend title 18, United States Code, to combat, deter, and punish individuals and enterprises engaged nationally and internationally in organized crime involving theft and interstate fencing of stolen retail merchandise, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1174 | To establish the Federal Emergency Management Agency as a cabinet-level independent agency in the executive branch, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1175 | To amend title 10, United States Code, to authorize taxpayers to designate a portion of their income tax payments to a National Military Family Relief Fund to be used by the Secretary of Defense to assist the families of members of the Armed Forces who are serving in, or have served in, Iraq or Afghanistan.
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| H R 1176 | To amend the National Labor Relations Act to ensure the right of employees to a secret-ballot election conducted by the National Labor Relations Board.
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| H R 1177 | To require the Secretary of the Treasury to mint coins in recognition of 5 United States Army 5-Star Generals, George Marshall, Douglas MacArthur, Dwight Eisenhower, Henry "Hap" Arnold, and Omar Bradley, alumni of the United States Army Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, to coincide with the celebration of the 132nd Anniversary of the founding of the United States Army Command and General Staff College.
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| H R 1178 | To direct the Comptroller General of the United States to conduct a study on the use of Civil Air Patrol personnel and resources to support homeland security missions, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1179 | 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.
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| H R 1180 | To amend the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 to prohibit the Secretary of the Treasury from receiving common stock or certain other voting stock under the Troubled Asset Relief Program, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1181 | To direct the Securities and Exchange Commission to establish both a process by which asset-backed instruments can be deemed eligible for NRSRO ratings and an initial list of such eligible asset-backed instruments.
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| H R 1182 | To amend the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act to guarantee the equity of spouses of military personnel with regard to matters of residency, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1183 | To suspend temporarily the duty on glyoxylic acid.
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| H R 1184 | To suspend temporarily the duty on cyclopentanone.
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| H R 1185 | To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for a competitive loan repayment program for primary care physicians who commit to volunteering part-time at community health centers.
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| H R 1186 | To prohibit the use of funds to transfer individuals detained at Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to facilities in Virginia or to house such individuals at such facilities.
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| H R 1187 | To authorize the Secretary of Homeland Security to make grants to first responders, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1188 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to improve access to emergency medical services and the quality and efficiency of care furnished in emergency departments of hospitals and critical access hospitals by establishing a bipartisan commission to examine factors that affect the effective delivery of such services, by providing for additional payments for certain physician services furnished in such emergency departments, and by establishing a Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Working Group, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1189 | To amend the Public Health Service Act to establish a national screening program at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and to amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to provide States the option to provide medical assistance for men and women screened and found to have colorectal cancer or colorectal polyps.
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| H R 1190 | To promote the use of certain materials harvested from public lands in the production of renewable fuel, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1191 | To amend the Controlled Substances Act to provide for disposal of controlled substances by ultimate users and care takers through State take-back disposal programs, to amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to prohibit recommendations on drug labels for disposal by flushing, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1192 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide more help to Alzheimer's disease caregivers.
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| H R 1193 | To amend the Public Health Service Act with respect to eating disorders, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1194 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to classify automatic fire sprinkler systems as 5-year property for purposes of depreciation.
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| H R 1195 | To require the Secretary of the Treasury to mint coins in commemoration of Mark Twain.
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| H R 1196 | To authorize the Chief Administrative Officer of the House of Representatives to carry out a series of demonstration projects to promote the use of innovative technologies in reducing energy consumption and promoting energy efficiency and cost savings in the House of Representatives.
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| H R 1197 | To assign a higher priority status for hospital care and medical services provided through the Department of Veterans Affairs to certain veterans who are recipients of the medal of honor.
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| H R 1198 | To amend section 8339(p) of title 5, United States Code, to clarify the method for computing certain annuities under the Civil Service Retirement System which are based on part-time service, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1199 | To improve sharing of immigration information among Federal, State, and local law enforcement officials, to improve State and local enforcement of immigration laws, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1200 | To provide for health care for every American and to control the cost and enhance the quality of the health care system.
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| H R 1201 | To increase the safety for crew and passengers on an aircraft providing emergency medical services.
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| H R 1202 | To require a report on business and investment climates in foreign countries, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1203 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow Federal civilian and military retirees to pay health insurance premiums on a pretax basis and to allow a deduction for TRICARE supplemental premiums.
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| H R 1204 | To ensure and foster continued patient safety and quality of care by making the antitrust laws apply to negotiations between groups of independent pharmacies and health plans and health insurance issuers (including health plans under parts C and D of the Medicare Program) in the same manner as such laws apply to protected activities under the National Labor Relations Act.
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| H R 1205 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for the establishment of ABLE accounts for the care of family members with disabilities, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1206 | To strengthen sanctions against the Government of Syria, to enhance multilateral commitment to address the Government of Syria's threatening policies, to establish a program to support a transition to a democratically-elected government in Syria, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1207 | To amend title 31, United States Code, to reform the manner in which the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System is audited by the Comptroller General of the United States and the manner in which such audits are reported, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1208 | To strengthen existing legislation sanctioning persons aiding and facilitating nonproliferation activities by the Government of Iran, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1209 | To require the Secretary of the Treasury to mint coins in recognition and celebration of the establishment of the Medal of Honor in 1861, America's highest award for valor in action against an enemy force which can be bestowed upon an individual serving in the Armed Services of the United States, to honor the American military men and women who have been recipients of the Medal of Honor, and to promote awareness of what the Medal of Honor represents and how ordinary Americans, through courage, sacrifice, selfless service and patriotism, can challenge fate and change the course of history.
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| H R 1210 | To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for arthritis research and public health, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1211 | To amend title 38, United States Code, to expand and improve health care services available to women veterans, especially those serving in Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom, from the Department of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1212 | To amend the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 to provide oversight of auditors of brokers and dealers by the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1213 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide that the Medicare initial preventive physical examination not be required for a referral with respect to ultrasound screening for abdominal aortic aneurysms and to provide for such screening with respect to at-risk Medicare beneficiaries between the ages of 65 and 75.
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| H R 1214 | To amend the Truth in Lending Act to establish additional payday loan disclosure requirements and other protections for consumers, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1215 | To reform immigration detention procedures, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1216 | To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1100 Town and Country Commons in Chesterfield, Missouri, as the "Lance Corporal Matthew P. Pathenos Post Office Building".
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| H R 1217 | To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 15455 Manchester Road in Ballwin, Missouri, as the "Specialist Peter J. Navarro Post Office Building".
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| H R 1218 | To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 112 South 5th Street in Saint Charles, Missouri, as the "Lance Corporal Drew W. Weaver Post Office Building".
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| H R 1219 | To make amendments to the Reclamation Projects Authorization and Adjustment Act of 1992.
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| H R 1220 | To amend title 49, United States Code, to provide certain exemptions to drivers of intrastate commercial motor vehicles engaged in agricultural purposes, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1221 | To amend title II of the Social Security Act to repeal the windfall elimination provision and protect the retirement of public servants.
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| H R 1222 | To provide benefits under the Post-Deployment/Mobilization Respite Absence program for certain periods before the implementation of the program.
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| H R 1223 | To require the Secretary of the Army to expand the First Sergeants Barracks Initiative (FSBI) throughout the Army in order to improve the quality of life and living environments for single soldiers.
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| H R 1224 | To improve the literacy and English skills of limited English proficient individuals, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1225 | To reauthorize the Select Agent Program by amending the Public Health Service Act and the Agricultural Bioterrorism Protection Act of 2002 and to improve oversight of high containment laboratories.
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| H R 1226 | To prohibit the importation of ruminants and swine, and fresh and frozen meat and products of ruminants and swine, from Argentina until the Secretary of Agriculture certifies to Congress that every region of Argentina is free of foot and mouth disease without vaccination.
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| H R 1227 | To waive the time limitations specified by law for the award of certain military decorations in order to allow the posthumous award of the Medal of Honor to Doris Miller for actions while a member of the Navy during World War II.
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| H R 1228 | To provide that Executive Order 13166 shall have no force or effect, and to prohibit the use of funds for certain purposes.
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| H R 1229 | To amend title 4, United States Code, to declare English as the official language of the Government of the United States, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1230 | To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for the establishment of a National Acquired Bone Marrow Failure Disease Registry, to authorize research on acquired bone marrow failure diseases, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1231 | To protect the property and security of homeowners who are subject to foreclosure proceedings, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1232 | To authorize the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to construct a full service hospital in Far South Texas.
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| H R 1233 | To prohibit any Federal official from expending any Federal funds for any population control or population planning program or any family planning activity.
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| H R 1234 | To establish and provide for the treatment of Individual Development Accounts, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1235 | To award a Congressional Gold Medal to Ray Charles in recognition of his many contributions to the Nation.
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| H R 1236 | To provide for the provision by hospitals receiving Federal funds through the Medicare Program or Medicaid Program of emergency contraceptives to women who are survivors of sexual assault.
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| H R 1237 | To amend chapter 1 of title 9 of United States Code with respect to arbitration.
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| H R 1238 | To prohibit the presence in the United States of any alien formerly detained at the Department of Defense detention facility at Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
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| H R 1239 | To establish a homeowner mitigation loan program within the Federal Emergency Management Agency to promote pre-disaster property mitigation measures.
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| H R 1240 | To improve and expand geographic literacy among kindergarten through grade 12 students in the United States by improving professional development programs for kindergarten through grade 12 teachers offered through institutions of higher education.
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| H R 1241 | To increase the penalty for failure to file a partnership or S corporation return.
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| H R 1242 | To amend the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 to provide for additional monitoring and accountability of the Troubled Assets Relief Program.
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| H R 1243 | To provide for the award of a gold medal on behalf of Congress to Arnold Palmer in recognition of his service to the Nation in promoting excellence and good sportsmanship in golf.
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| H R 1244 | To provide for the award of a gold medal on behalf of the Congress to Tiger Woods, in recognition of his service to the Nation in promoting excellence and good sportsmanship, and in breaking barriers with grace and dignity by showing that golf is a sport for all people.
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| H R 1245 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a Federal income tax credit for certain home purchases.
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| H R 1246 | To amend the Public Health Service Act regarding early detection, diagnosis, and treatment of hearing loss.
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| H R 1247 | To protect the interests of bona fide tenants in the case of any foreclosure on any dwelling or residential real property, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1248 | To establish the National Commission on the Anthrax Attacks Upon the United States to examine and report upon the facts and causes relating to the anthrax letter attacks of September and October 2001, and investigate and report to the President and Congress on its findings, conclusions, and recommendations for corrective measures that can be taken to prevent and respond to acts of bioterrorism.
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| H R 1249 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide special rules for charitable contributions of alternative energy property for educational purposes.
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| H R 1250 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to expand tax-free distributions from individual retirement accounts for charitable purposes.
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| H R 1251 | To amend title 39, United States Code, to provide that the United States Postal Service may not carry out a change-of-address request unless it first receives a signed confirmation that the request was in fact made by or on behalf of the addressee.
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| H R 1252 | For the relief of Wahab Munir and Hunain Munir.
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| H R 1253 | To require that limitations and restrictions on coverage under group health plans be timely disclosed to group health plan sponsors and timely communicated to participants and beneficiaries under such plans in a form that is easily understandable.
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| H R 1254 | To make the Census Bureau an independent establishment.
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| H R 1255 | To protect the interests of each resident of intermediate care facilities for the mentally retarded in class action lawsuits on behalf of such resident.
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| H R 1256 | Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act | |
| H R 1257 | To amend title 49, United States Code, to direct the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to require the disclosure of information relating to the fair market value and safety of damaged motor vehicles.
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| H R 1258 | To amend the Communications Act of 1934 to prohibit manipulation of caller identification information, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1259 | To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act with respect to the distribution of the drug dextromethorphan, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1260 | To amend title 35, United States Code, to provide for patent reform.
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| H R 1261 | To protect the public health by establishing the Tobacco Harm Reduction Center within the Department of Health and Human Services with certain authority to regulate tobacco products, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1262 | To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to authorize appropriations for State water pollution control revolving funds, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1263 | To amend title 5, United States Code, to provide for the automatic enrollment of new participants in the Thrift Savings Plan, and to clarify the method for computing certain annuities based on part-time service; to allow certain employees of the District of Columbia to have certain periods of service credited for purposes relating to retirement eligibility; and for other purposes.
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| H R 1264 | To amend the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 to provide for the national flood insurance program to make available multiperil coverage for damage resulting from windstorms or floods, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1265 | To restrict the use of offshore tax havens and abusive tax shelters to inappropriately avoid Federal taxation, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1266 | To provide for retirement equity for Federal employees in nonforeign areas outside the 48 contiguous States and the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1267 | To provide for the transfer of certain property and personnel of the Department of Defense to the Department of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1268 | To amend the Truth in Lending Act to prohibit issuance of residential mortgages to any individual who lacks a Social Security account number.
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| H R 1269 | To amend title 28, United States Code, to limit Federal court jurisdiction over questions under the Defense of Marriage Act.
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| H R 1270 | To reauthorize community development block grants, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1271 | To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 2351 West Atlantic Boulevard in Pompano Beach, Florida, as the "Elijah Pat Larkins Post Office Building".
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| H R 1272 | To provide for the conversion of a temporary judgeship for the district of Hawaii to a permanent judgeship.
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| H R 1273 | To honor Susan B. Anthony by celebrating her legacy on the third Monday in February.
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| H R 1274 | To permit employees to request, and to ensure employers consider requests for, flexible work terms and conditions, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1275 | To direct the exchange of certain land in Grand, San Juan, and Uintah Counties, Utah, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1276 | To amend title II of the Social Security Act to ensure that the receipts and disbursements of the Social Security trust funds are not included in a unified Federal budget and to provide that Social Security contributions are used to protect Social Security solvency by mandating that Trust Fund monies cannot be diverted to create private accounts.
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| H R 1277 | To repeal the emergency fund for the TANF program.
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| H R 1278 | To posthumously award a Congressional gold medal to Shirley Chisholm.
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| H R 1279 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to increase the contribution limits to dependent care flexible spending accounts and to provide for a carryover of unused dependent care benefits.
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| H R 1280 | To modify a land grant patent issued by the Secretary of the Interior.
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| H R 1281 | To provide for the return of the Fresnel Lens to the lantern room atop Presque Isle Light Station Lighthouse, Michigan, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1282 | To authorize the Commandant of the Coast Guard to convey to the City of Marquette, Michigan, certain real property under the administrative control of the Coast Guard, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1283 | To amend title 10, United States Code, to enhance the readiness of the Armed Forces by replacing the current policy concerning homosexuality in the Armed Forces, referred to as "Don't Ask, Don't Tell", with a policy of nondiscrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.
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| H R 1284 | To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 103 West Main Street in McLain, Mississippi, as the "Major Ed W. Freeman Post Office".
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| H R 1285 | To establish the Commission on the Foreclosure and Mortgage Lending Crisis.
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| H R 1286 | To amend the Act titled "An Act to provide for the establishment of the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, and for other purposes" to clarify the authority of the Secretary of the Interior to accept donations of lands that are contiguous to the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1287 | To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to enter into a partnership with the Porter County Convention, Recreation and Visitor Commission regarding the use of the Dorothy Buell Memorial Visitor Center as a visitor center for the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1288 | To halt Saudi support for institutions that fund, train, incite, encourage, or in any other way aid and abet terrorism, to secure full Saudi cooperation in the investigation of terrorist incidents, to halt the issuance of visas to citizens of Saudi Arabia until the President certifies that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia does not discriminate in the issuance of visas on the basis of religious affiliation or heritage, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1289 | To amend title II of the Social Security Act to eliminate the five-month waiting period in the disability insurance program, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1290 | For the relief of Kumi Iizuka-Barcena.
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| H R 1291 | To direct the Commandant of the Coast Guard to convey to the Cornerstone Christian Academy, located in Cheboygan, Michigan, certain real property under the administrative jurisdiction of the Coast Guard, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1292 | To amend title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to establish a National White Collar Crime Center grants program for purposes of improving the identification, investigation, and prosecution of certain criminal conspiracies and activities and terrorist conspiracies and activities.
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| H R 1293 | To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide for an increase in the amount payable by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to veterans for improvements and structural alterations furnished as part of home health services.
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| H R 1294 | To amend the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 to provide for the expedited consideration of certain proposed rescissions of budget authority.
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| H R 1295 | To mitigate mortgage foreclosures, facilitate and include fairness in housing recovery, and combat mortgage fraud, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1296 | To achieve access to comprehensive primary health care services for all Americans and to reform the organization of primary care delivery through an expansion of the Community Health Center and National Health Service Corps programs.
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| H R 1297 | To establish the Hawai'i Capital National Heritage Area, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1298 | To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act with respect to the importation of prescription drugs, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1299 | To make technical corrections to the laws affecting certain administrative authorities of the United States Capitol Police, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1300 | To amend the Revised Statutes of the United States to prevent the use of the legal system in a manner that extorts money from State and local governments, and the Federal Government, and inhibits such governments' constitutional actions under the first, tenth, and fourteenth amendments.
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| H R 1301 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to suspend the 180-day period for completion of a like-kind exchange in the case of the bankruptcy of a qualified intermediary or an exchange accommodation titleholder.
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| H R 1302 | To amend title 38, United States Code, to establish the position of Director of Physician Assistant Services within the office of the Under Secretary of Veterans Affairs for Health.
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| H R 1303 | To require the Attorney General, through the Office of Justice Programs of the Department of Justice, to establish a 5-year competitive grant program to establish pilot programs to reduce the rate of occurrence of gun-related crimes in high-crime communities.
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| H R 1304 | To create a Federal cause of action to determine whether defamation exists under United States law in cases in which defamation actions have been brought in foreign courts against United States persons on the basis of publications or speech in the United States.
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| H R 1305 | To provide for the issuance of a forever stamp to honor the sacrifices of the brave men and women of the armed forces who have been awarded the Purple Heart.
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| H R 1306 | To amend title 28, United States Code, to provide for reassignment of certain Federal cases upon request of a party.
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| H R 1307 | To authorize improvements to flood damage reduction facilities adjacent to the American and Sacramento Rivers near Sacramento, California, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1308 | To direct the Secretary of Defense to adopt a program of professional and confidential screenings to detect mental health injuries acquired during deployment in support of a contingency operation and ultimately to reduce the incidence of suicide among veterans.
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| H R 1309 | To codify the definition of terms used in subheading 1604.14 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States, relating to tuna products.
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| H R 1310 | To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to clarify that fill material cannot be comprised of waste.
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| H R 1311 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exclude from gross income amounts distributed from tax-favored accounts during a period of unemployment.
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| H R 1312 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exclude from Federal tax certain payments made in connection with reductions in force.
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| H R 1313 | To amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 so that any local educational agency receiving funding under part A of title I of such Act or public charter school is eligible for a Troops to Teachers participant.
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| H R 1314 | To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide for compensation to States incarcerating undocumented aliens charged with a felony or two or more misdemeanors.
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| H R 1315 | To prohibit the detention of enemy combatants at Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to provide for de novo combatant status reviews by military judges, to repeal the Military Commissions Act of 2006, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1316 | To provide for appropriate notification of communities and homeowners of establishment of flood elevations for purposes of the National Flood Insurance Program.
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| H R 1317 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a tax credit to individuals who pay their mortgages on time.
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| H R 1318 | To provide duty-free treatment for certain goods from designated Reconstruction Opportunity Zones in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1319 | To prevent the inadvertent disclosure of information on a computer through the use of certain "peer-to-peer" file sharing software without first providing notice and obtaining consent from the owner or authorized user of the computer.
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| H R 1320 | To amend the Federal Advisory Committee Act to increase the transparency and accountability of Federal advisory committees, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1321 | To provide affordable, guaranteed private health coverage that will make Americans healthier and can never be taken away.
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| H R 1322 | To amend title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to provide emergency protection for retiree health benefits.
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| H R 1323 | To require the Archivist of the United States to promulgate regulations regarding the use of information control designations, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1324 | To amend the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 to improve the nutrition and health of schoolchildren and protect the Federal investment in the national school lunch and breakfast programs by updating the national school nutrition standards for foods and beverages sold outside of school meals to conform to current nutrition science.
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| H R 1325 | To require financial literacy counseling for borrowers, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1326 | To prohibit the conducting of invasive research on great apes, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1327 | To authorize State and local governments to direct divestiture from, and prevent investment in, companies with investments of $20,000,000 or more in Iran's energy sector, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1328 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow an unlimited exclusion from transfer taxes for certain farmland and land of conservation value, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1329 | To amend title 49, United States Code, to support efforts by States and eligible local and regional entities to develop and implement plans to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the transportation sector, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1330 | To amend the Public Health Service Act, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, and title 5, United States Code, to require that group and individual health insurance coverage and group health plans and Federal employees health benefit plans provide coverage of colorectal cancer screening.
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| H R 1331 | To replace the HOPE for Homeowners Program with a new program developed and implemented by the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.
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| H R 1332 | To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act with respect to the safety of the food supply.
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| H R 1333 | To amend chapter 40 of title 18, United States Code, to exempt the transportation, shipment, receipt, or importation of explosive materials for delivery to a federally recognized Indian tribe or an agency of such a tribe from various Federal criminal prohibitions relating to explosives.
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| H R 1334 | To provide for livable wages for Federal Government workers and workers hired under Federal contracts.
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| H R 1335 | To amend title 38, United States Code, to prohibit the Secretary of Veterans Affairs from collecting certain copayments from veterans who are catastrophically disabled.
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| H R 1336 | To amend title 38, United States Code, to make certain improvements in the basic educational assistance program administered by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1337 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to reduce carbon dioxide emissions in the United States domestic energy supply.
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| H R 1338 | To amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to direct the Secretary of Education to make grants to States for assistance in hiring additional school-based mental health and student service providers.
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| H R 1339 | To amend the Public Health Service Act, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to require that group and individual health insurance coverage and group health plans provide coverage for treatment of a minor child's congenital or developmental deformity or disorder due to trauma, infection, tumor, or disease.
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| H R 1340 | To provide for the admission to the United States of certain Tibetans.
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| H R 1341 | To amend the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 to provide the Special Inspector General with additional authorities and responsibilities, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1342 | To amend the Solid Waste Disposal Act to provide for the reduction of greenhouse gases, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1343 | To provide immunity from civil liability to first responders engaged in lawful efforts to prevent acts of terrorism, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1344 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend and modify the homebuyer tax credit.
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| H R 1345 | To amend title 5, United States Code, to eliminate the discriminatory treatment of the District of Columbia under the provisions of law commonly referred to as the "Hatch Act".
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| H R 1346 | To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act with respect to liability under State and local requirements respecting devices.
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| H R 1347 | To amend title III of the Public Health Service Act to provide for the establishment and implementation of concussion management guidelines with respect to school-aged children, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1348 | To require the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System to publish information on financial assistance provided to various entities, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1349 | To establish the Federal Accounting Oversight Board to approve and oversee accounting principles and standards for the purposes of the Federal financial regulatory agencies, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1350 | To provide for research on, and services for individuals with, post-abortion depression and psychosis.
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| H R 1351 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to treat computer technology and equipment as eligible higher education expenses for 529 plans, to allow certain individuals a credit against income tax for contributions to 529 plans, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1352 | To amend title XVI of the Social Security Act to clarify that the value of certain funeral and burial arrangements are not to be considered available resources under the supplemental security income program.
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| H R 1353 | To extend the registration and reporting requirements of the Federal securities laws to certain housing-related Government-sponsored enterprises, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1354 | To make the National Parks and Federal Recreational Lands Pass available at a discount to certain veterans.
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| H R 1355 | To amend the National Labor Relations Act to require employers to provide labor organizations with equal access to employees prior to an election regarding representation, to prevent delays in initial collective bargaining, and to strengthen enforcement against intimidation of employees by employers.
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| H R 1356 | To reduce foreclosures of residential mortgages.
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| H R 1357 | To authorize the Secretary of the Navy to convey the former Navy Extremely Low Frequency communications project site in Republic, Michigan, to Humboldt Township in Marquette County, Michigan.
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| H R 1358 | To reaffirm and clarify the Federal relationship of the Burt Lake Band as a distinct federally recognized Indian Tribe, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1359 | To amend the Controlled Substances Act to provide for take-back disposal of controlled substances in certain instances, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1360 | To require an annual report on contract oversight by Federal departments and agencies.
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| H R 1361 | To increase the recruitment and retention of school counselors, school social workers, and school psychologists by low-income local educational agencies.
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| H R 1362 | To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for the establishment of permanent national surveillance systems for multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's disease, and other neurological diseases and disorders.
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| H R 1363 | To establish the GothamCorps program.
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| H R 1364 | To amend the Social Security Act and the Public Health Service Act to provide for sex education, substance abuse treatment and prevention, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1365 | To amend the Truth in Lending Act to require a store in which a consumer may apply to open a credit or charge card account to display a sign, at each location where the application may be made, containing the same information required by such Act to be prominently placed in a tabular format on the application.
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| H R 1366 | To protect innocent parties from certain fees imposed by depository institutions for dishonored checks, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1367 | To strengthen the liability of parent companies for violations of sanctions by foreign entities, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1368 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to require the Secretary of the Treasury to establish an Auto File Program which provides certain individuals with income tax forms containing pre-filled information.
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| H R 1369 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to expand and improve the dependent care tax credit.
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| H R 1370 | To improve the protections afforded under Federal law to consumers from contaminated seafood by directing the Secretary of Commerce to establish a program, in coordination with other appropriate Federal agencies, to strengthen activities for ensuring that seafood sold or offered for sale to the public in or affecting interstate commerce is fit for human consumption.
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| H R 1371 | To require the establishment of regional consumer price indices to compute cost-of-living increases under the programs for Social Security and Medicare and other medical benefits under titles II and XVIII of the Social Security Act.
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| H R 1372 | For the relief of Vicente Beltran Luna.
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| H R 1373 | To direct the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a resource study along the "Ox-Bow Route" of the Butterfield Overland Trail in the States of Missouri, Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1374 | To prevent the abuse and exploitation of older individuals.
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| H R 1375 | To ensure that sex offenders and sexually violent predators are not eligible for parole.
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| H R 1376 | To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to establish the Waco Mammoth National Monument in the State of Texas.
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| H R 1377 | To amend title 38, United States Code, to expand veteran eligibility for reimbursement by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs for emergency treatment furnished in a non-Department facility, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1378 | To direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services, in consultation with the Secretary of Education, to develop guidelines to be used on a voluntary basis to develop plans to manage the risk of food allergy and anaphylaxis in schools and early childhood education programs, to establish school-based food allergy management grants, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1379 | To prohibit the commercial harvesting of Atlantic striped bass in the coastal waters and the exclusive economic zone.
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| H R 1380 | To establish a grant program for automated external defibrillators in elementary and secondary schools.
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| H R 1381 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to permanently extend existing elective tax treatment for Alaska Native Settlement Trusts.
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| H R 1382 | To provide assistance for ultra efficient vehicles under the advanced technology vehicles manufacturing incentive program.
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| H R 1383 | To provide that, for purposes of certain Government facilities, the rate at which a Federal employee earns compensatory time for irregular or occasional overtime work shall be increased so as to permit greater parity with rates of overtime pay.
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| H R 1384 | To amend part B of title XVIII of the Social Security Act to remove limiting charges under the Medicare Program for non-participating physicians with beneficiary notice and to preempt State laws that prohibit balance billing.
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| H R 1385 | To extend Federal recognition to the Chickahominy Indian Tribe, the Chickahominy Indian Tribe-Eastern Division, the Upper Mattaponi Tribe, the Rappahannock Tribe, Inc., the Monacan Indian Nation, and the Nansemond Indian Tribe.
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| H R 1386 | To amend section 1011 of the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 (Public Law 108-173) to make permanent the program of Federal reimbursement of emergency health services furnished to undocumented aliens.
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| H R 1387 | To amend title 44, United States Code, to require preservation of certain electronic records by Federal agencies, to require a certification and reports relating to Presidential records, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1388 | Generations Invigorating Volunteerism and Education Act or the GIVE Act | |
| H R 1389 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow a refundable credit for taxes paid on earnings reinvested and lost in a fraudulent investment scheme.
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| H R 1390 | To amend the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 to provide for the expedited consideration of certain proposed rescissions of budget authority, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1391 | To direct the Federal Trade Commission to revise the Telemarketing Sales Rule to explicitly prohibit the sending of a text message containing an unsolicited advertisement to a cellular telephone number listed on the national do-not-call registry.
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| H R 1392 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to ensure more appropriate payment amounts for drugs and biologicals under part B of the Medicare Program by excluding customary prompt pay discounts extended to wholesalers from the manufacturer's average sales price.
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| H R 1393 | To amend the Lower Rio Grande Valley Water Resources Conservation and Improvement Act of 2000 to authorize additional projects and activities under that Act, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1394 | To amend the National and Community Service Act of 1990 to establish the Clean Energy Corps to mobilize young people to promote energy conservation and mitigate threats to the environment.
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| H R 1395 | To clarify the rights of Indians and Indian tribes on Indian lands under the National Labor Relations Act.
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| H R 1396 | To improve the safety of motorcoaches, to allow a credit against income tax for the cost of motorcoaches complying with Federal safety requirements, for other purposes.
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| H R 1397 | To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 41 Purdy Avenue in Rye, New York, as the "Caroline O'Day Post Office Building".
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| H R 1398 | To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act with respect to nutrition labeling of food offered for sale in food service establishments.
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| H R 1399 | To amend the Food Security Act of 1985 to support State and tribal government efforts to encourage owners and operators of privately held farm, ranch, and forest land containing maple trees to make their land available for access by the public for maple-tapping activities under programs administered by States and tribal governments.
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| H R 1400 | To amend title 39, United States Code, to make cigarettes and certain other tobacco products nonmailable, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1401 | To create a service corps of veterans called Veterans Engaged for Tomorrow (VET) Corps focused on promoting and improving the service opportunities for veterans and retired members of the military by engaging such veterans and retired members in projects designed to meet identifiable public needs with a specific emphasis on projects to support veterans, including disabled and older veterans and retired members of the military.
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| H R 1402 | To catalyze change in the care and treatment of diabetes in the United States.
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| H R 1403 | To amend the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to require schools participating in the school lunch program under such Act to donate any excess food to local food banks.
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| H R 1404 | To authorize a supplemental funding source for catastrophic emergency wildland fire suppression activities on Department of the Interior and National Forest System lands, to require the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture to develop a cohesive wildland fire management strategy, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1405 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow Head Start teachers the same above-the-line deduction for supplies as is allowed to elementary and secondary school teachers.
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| H R 1406 | To direct the Securities and Exchange Commission to reinstate the "uptick rule" on short sales of securities and to suspend the application of mark-to-market accounting principles.
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| H R 1407 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to reduce cost-sharing under part D of such title for certain non-institutionalized full-benefit dual eligible individuals.
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| H R 1408 | To require all newly constructed, federally assisted, single-family houses and town houses to meet minimum standards of visitability for persons with disabilities.
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| H R 1409 | To amend the National Labor Relations Act to establish an efficient system to enable employees to form, join, or assist labor organizations, to provide for mandatory injunctions for unfair labor practices during organizing efforts, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1410 | To provide assistance to improve the health of newborns, children, and mothers in developing countries, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1411 | To amend the Public Health Service Act to establish a Primary and Public Health Scholarship Program.
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| H R 1412 | To increase public confidence in the justice system and address any unwarranted racial and ethnic disparities in the criminal process.
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| H R 1413 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow certain public employees a deduction for distributions from governmental plans for health and long-term care insurance, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1414 | To amend title 31, United States Code, to end speculation on the current cost of multilingual services provided by the Government, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1415 | To provide for a demonstration project regarding Medicaid reimbursements for stabilization of emergency medical conditions by non-publicly owned or operated institutions for mental diseases.
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| H R 1416 | To direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to expand the capability of the Department of Veterans Affairs to provide for the medical-care needs of veterans in southern New Jersey.
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| H R 1417 | To protect public health and safety, should the testing of nuclear weapons by the United States be resumed.
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| H R 1418 | To eliminate the exemption from State regulation for certain securities designated by national securities exchanges.
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| H R 1419 | To sunset Federal laws and regulations which treat the American people like children by denying them the opportunity to make their own decision regarding control of their bank accounts and what type of information they wish to receive from their banks, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1420 | To amend title 5, United States Code, to provide for the establishment of a precious metals investment option in the Thrift Savings Fund.
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| H R 1421 | To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to provide Medicaid coverage of drugs prescribed for certain research study child participants.
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| H R 1422 | To reauthorize through 2014 certain programs under the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006.
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| H R 1423 | To restore and make permanent the exclusion from gross income for amounts received under qualified group legal services plans and to increase the maximum amount of the exclusion.
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| H R 1424 | To name the front circle drive in front of the Oscar G. Johnson Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Facility in Iron Mountain, Michigan, as "Sergeant First Class James D. Priestap Drive".
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| H R 1425 | To establish commissions to review the facts and circumstances surrounding injustices suffered by European Americans, European Latin Americans, and Jewish refugees during World War II.
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| H R 1426 | To amend the Clean Air Act to prohibit the issuance of permits under title V of that Act for certain emissions from agricultural production.
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| H R 1427 | To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for the licensing of biosimilar and biogeneric biological products, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1428 | To amend title 38, United States Code, to direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to provide wartime disability compensation for certain veterans with Parkinson's disease.
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| H R 1429 | To provide for an effective HIV/AIDS program in Federal prisons.
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| H R 1430 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to permit physical therapy services to be furnished under the Medicare Program to individuals under the care of a dentist.
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| H R 1431 | To stimulate the economy and create jobs at no cost to the taxpayers, and without borrowing money from foreign governments for which our children and grandchildren will be responsible, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1432 | To reduce youth usage of tobacco products, to enhance State efforts to eliminate retail sales of tobacco products to minors, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1433 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow a credit against tax for volunteer firefighters.
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| H R 1434 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow a deduction for certain travel expenses of qualified emergency volunteers.
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| H R 1435 | To amend the National Trails System Act to clarify Federal authority relating to land acquisition from willing sellers for the majority of the trails in the System, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1436 | To provide for the evaluation of Government programs for efficiency, effectiveness, and accountability.
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| H R 1437 | To establish a Southern Border Security Task Force to coordinate the efforts of Federal, State, and local border and law enforcement officials and task forces to protect United States border cities and communities from violence associated with drug trafficking, gunrunning, illegal alien smuggling, violence, and kidnapping along and across the international border between the United States and Mexico.
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| H R 1438 | To prohibit any Federal agency or official, in carrying out any Act or program to reduce the effects of greenhouse gas emissions on climate change, from imposing a fee or tax on gaseous emissions emitted directly by livestock.
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| H R 1439 | To hold the surviving Nazi war criminals accountable for the war crimes, genocide, and crimes against humanity they committed during World War II, by encouraging foreign governments to more efficiently prosecute and extradite wanted criminals.
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| H R 1440 | To amend title 46, United States Code, to improve maritime law enforcement.
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| H R 1441 | To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to allow States to permit certain Medicaid eligible individuals who have extremely high annual lifelong orphan drug costs to continue on Medicaid notwithstanding increased income.
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| H R 1442 | To provide for the sale of the Federal Government's reversionary interest in approximately 60 acres of land in Salt Lake City, Utah, originally conveyed to the Mount Olivet Cemetery Association under the Act of January 23, 1909.
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| H R 1443 | To ensure that all users of the transportation system, including pedestrians, bicyclists, transit users, children, older individuals, and individuals with disabilities, are able to travel safely and conveniently on and across federally funded streets and highways.
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| H R 1444 | To establish the Congressional Commission on Civic Service to study methods of improving and promoting volunteerism and national service, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1445 | To amend the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to require nationally registered statistical rating organizations to provide additional disclosures with respect to the rating of certain structured securities, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1446 | To amend title 40, United States Code, to authorize the National Capital Planning Commission to designate and modify the boundaries of the National Mall area in the District of Columbia reserved for the location of commemorative works of preeminent historical and lasting significance to the United States and other activities, to require the Secretary of the Interior and the Administrator of General Services to make recommendations for the termination of the authority of a person to establish a commemorative work in the District of Columbia and its environs, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1447 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exclude from gross income gain on the sale or exchange of farmland development rights.
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| H R 1448 | To authorize the Secretary of Homeland Security and the Attorney General to increase resources to identify and eliminate illicit sources of firearms smuggled into Mexico for use by violent drug trafficking organizations and for other unlawful activities by providing for border security grants to local law enforcement agencies and reinforcing Federal resources on the border, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1449 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the qualification standard for exterior windows, doors, and skylights.
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| H R 1450 | To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act with respect to counterfeit drugs, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1451 | To amend title 23, United States Code, to allow an exception for the weight limits for certain towing trucks.
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| H R 1452 | To require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to enter into negotiated rulemaking to modernize the Medicare part B fee schedule for clinical diagnostic laboratory tests and to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to adjust the fee for collecting specimens for clinical diagnostic laboratory tests under the Medicare Program.
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| H R 1453 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend and expand the homebuyer tax credit.
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| H R 1454 | To provide for the issuance of a Multinational Species Conservation Funds Semipostal Stamp.
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| H R 1455 | To amend the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council Act to require the Council to establish a single telephone number that consumers with complaints or inquiries could call and be routed to the appropriate Federal banking agency or State bank supervisor, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1456 | To extend the protections of the Truth in Lending Act to overdraft protection programs and services provided by depository institutions, to require customer consent before a depository institution may initiate overdraft protection services and fees, to enhance the information made available to consumers relating to overdraft protection services and fees, to prohibit systematic manipulation in the posting of checks and other debits to a depository account for the purpose of generating overdraft protection fees, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1457 | To amend the Public Health Service Act to deem certain geriatric health training to be obligated service for purposes of the National Health Service Corps Loan Repayment Program, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1458 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide continued entitlement to coverage for immunosuppressive drugs furnished to beneficiaries under the Medicare Program that have received a kidney transplant and whose entitlement to coverage would otherwise expire, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1459 | To amend the Controlled Substances Act and the Controlled Substances Import and Export Act regarding penalties for cocaine offenses, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1460 | To amend the Public Health Service Act to establish a graduate degree loan repayment program for nurses who become nursing school faculty members.
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| H R 1461 | To amend the National Labor Relations Act to apply the protections of the Act to teaching and research assistants.
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| H R 1462 | To provide for a study by the National Academy of Engineering regarding improving the accuracy of collection of royalties on production of oil, condensate, and natural gas under leases of Federal lands and Indian lands, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1463 | To restrict United States military assistance to the Government of Pakistan.
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| H R 1464 | To require Federal agencies to collaborate in the development of freely-available open source educational materials in college-level physics, chemistry, and math, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1465 | To amend the Consumer Product Safety Act to provide regulatory relief to small and family-owned businesses.
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| H R 1466 | To concentrate Federal resources aimed at the prosecution of drug offenses on those offenses that are major.
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| H R 1467 | To extend certain provisions of the USA PATRIOT Act and the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 for 10 years.
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| H R 1468 | To provide health care liability reform, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1469 | To amend the National Child Protection Act of 1993 to establish a permanent background check system.
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| H R 1470 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide that the deduction for the health insurance costs of self-employed individuals be allowed in determining self-employment tax.
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| H R 1471 | To expand the boundary of the Jimmy Carter National Historic Site in the State of Georgia, to redesignate the unit as a National Historical Park, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1472 | To establish reporting requirements each time funds from Troubled Assets Relief Program or the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 are received or redistributed, and to establish a waste, fraud, and abuse hotline for such funds, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1473 | To authorize the Secretary of the Army to establish, modify, charge, and collect recreation fees at lands and waters administered by the Corps of Engineers.
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| H R 1474 | To amend title 38, United States Code, to improve the enforcement of the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act of 1994, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1475 | To amend title 18, United States Code, to restore the former system of good time allowances toward service of Federal prison terms, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1476 | To require automobile manufacturers to ensure that not less than 80 percent of the automobiles manufactured or sold in the United States by each such manufacturer to operate on fuel mixtures containing 85 percent ethanol, 85 percent methanol, or biodiesel.
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| H R 1477 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide an exclusion from gross income for long-term capital gain on property acquired or disposed of during 2009 or 2010.
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| H R 1478 | To amend chapter 171 of title 28, United States Code, to allow members of the Armed Forces to sue the United States for damages for certain injuries caused by improper medical care, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1479 | To enhance the availability of capital, credit, and other banking and financial services for all citizens and communities, to ensure that community reinvestment requirements are updated to account for changes in the financial industry and that reinvestment requirements keep pace as banks, securities firms, and other financial service providers become affiliates as a result of the enactment of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1480 | To amend the Tariff Act of 1930 to require that certain laminated woven bags be marked with the country of origin.
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| H R 1481 | To authorize certain States to prohibit the importation of solid waste from other States, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1482 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to impose a windfall profit tax on oil and natural gas (and products thereof) and to appropriate the proceeds for the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program.
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| H R 1483 | To direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to implement a National Neurotechnology Initiative, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1484 | To award a Congressional Gold Medal to Rabbi Arthur Schneier in recognition of his pioneering role in promoting religious freedom and human rights throughout the world, for close to half a century.
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| H R 1485 | To amend title 46, United States Code, to establish requirements to ensure the security and safety of passengers and crew on cruise vessels, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1486 | To amend the Fair Credit Reporting Act with respect to requirements relating to information contained in consumer reports, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1487 | To amend the Electronic Fund Transfer Act to require notice to the consumer before any fee may be imposed by a financial institution in connection with any transaction for any overdraft protection service provided with respect to such transaction, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1488 | To establish a fair order of posting checks and deposits to prevent unjust enrichment of financial institutions from fees that accrue only by virtue of the order used by the institution for posting checks and deposits, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1489 | To extend Corridor O of the Appalachian Development Highway System from its current southern terminus at I-68 near Cumberland to Corridor H, which stretches from Weston, West Virginia, to Strasburg, Virginia.
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| H R 1490 | To establish a grant program to assist in the provision of safety measures to protect social workers and other professionals who work with at-risk populations.
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| H R 1491 | To amend the Small Business Investment Act of 1958 to reauthorize and expand the New Markets Venture Capital Program, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1492 | To establish a pilot program to provide assistance for partnerships supporting applied sciences in renewable energy.
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| H R 1493 | To ensure and foster continued patient safety and quality of care by exempting health care professionals from the Federal antitrust laws in their negotiations with health plans and health insurance issuers.
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| H R 1494 | To ensure that a private for-profit nursing home affected by a major disaster receives the same reimbursement as a public nursing home affected by a major disaster.
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| H R 1495 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to make health care coverage more accessible and affordable.
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| H R 1496 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow individuals a credit against income tax for medical expenses for dependents.
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| H R 1497 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow medical care providers a credit against income tax for uncompensated emergency medical care and to allow hospitals a deduction for such care.
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| H R 1498 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow individuals a credit against income tax for the cost of insurance against negative outcomes from surgery, including against malpractice of a physician.
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| H R 1499 | To direct the Secretary of Homeland Security to conduct a survey to determine the level of compliance with national voluntary consensus standards and any barriers to achieving compliance with such standards, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1500 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to increase and make refundable the dependent care credit.
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| H R 1501 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to increase inpatient hospital payments under the Medicare Program to Puerto Rico hospitals.
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| H R 1502 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for equity in the calculation of Medicare disproportionate share hospital payments for hospitals in Puerto Rico.
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| H R 1503 | To amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to require the principal campaign committee of a candidate for election to the office of President to include with the committee's statement of organization a copy of the candidate's birth certificate, together with such other documentation as may be necessary to establish that the candidate meets the qualifications for eligibility to the Office of President under the Constitution.
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| H R 1504 | To require that, in the questionnaires used in the taking of any decennial census of population, a checkbox or other similar option be included so that respondents may indicate Dominican extraction or descent.
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| H R 1505 | To authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services to provide services for birth parents who have placed a child for adoption, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1506 | To provide that claims of the United States to certain documents relating to Franklin Delano Roosevelt shall be treated as waived and relinquished in certain circumstances.
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| H R 1507 | To amend chapter 23 of title 5, United States Code, relating to disclosures of information protected from prohibited personnel practices, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1508 | To amend chapter 111 of title 28, United States Code, relating to protective orders, sealing of cases, disclosures of discovery information in civil actions, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1509 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a standard home office deduction.
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| H R 1510 | To amend the lead prohibition provisions of the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008 to provide an exemption for certain all-terrain vehicles, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1511 | To amend the Torture Victims Relief Act of 1998 to authorize appropriations to provide assistance for domestic and foreign programs and centers for the treatment of victims of torture, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1512 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend the funding and expenditure authority of the Airport and Airway Trust Fund, to amend title 49, United States Code, to extend authorizations for the airport improvement program, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1513 | To increase, effective as of December 1, 2009, the rates of disability compensation for veterans with service-connected disabilities and the rates of dependency and indemnity compensation for survivors of certain service-connected disabled veterans, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1514 | To amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to reauthorize the juvenile accountability block grants program through fiscal year 2014.
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| H R 1515 | To assist courts in the States and territories with improving the administration of justice.
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| H R 1516 | To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 37926 Church Street in Dade City, Florida, as the "Sergeant Marcus Mathes Post Office".
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| H R 1517 | To allow certain U.S. Customs and Border Protection employees who serve under an overseas limited appointment for at least 2 years, and whose service is rated fully successful or higher throughout that time, to be converted to a permanent appointment in the competitive service.
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| H R 1518 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to impose a higher rate of tax on bonuses paid by businesses receiving TARP funds.
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| H R 1519 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the 1993 income tax increase on Social Security benefits.
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| H R 1520 | To improve Federal land management, resource conservation, environmental protection, and use of Federal real property, by requiring the Secretary of the Interior to develop a multipurpose cadastre of Federal real property and identifying inaccurate, duplicate, and out-of-date Federal land inventories, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1521 | To restrict any State or local jurisdiction from imposing a new discriminatory tax on cell phone services, providers, or property.
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| H R 1522 | To provide that service of the members of the organization known as the United States Cadet Nurse Corps during World War II constituted active military service for purposes of laws administered by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs.
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| H R 1523 | To ban the use of bisphenol A in food containers, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1524 | To allow flood insurance coverage under the national flood insurance program for new structures designed to protect public safety that are located in special flood hazard zones.
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| H R 1525 | To amend the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 to require the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency to consider reconstruction and improvement of flood protection systems when establishing flood insurance rates.
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| H R 1526 | To aid and support pediatric involvement in reading and education.
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| H R 1527 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to impose a higher rate of tax on bonuses paid by certain businesses owned by the Federal Government.
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| H R 1528 | To allow travel between the United States and Cuba.
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| H R 1529 | To permit expungement of records of certain nonviolent criminal offenses.
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| H R 1530 | To lift the trade embargo on Cuba, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1531 | To facilitate the export of United States agricultural products to Cuba as authorized by the Trade Sanctions Reform and Export Enhancement Act of 2000, to remove impediments to the export to Cuba of medical devices and medicines, to allow travel to Cuba by United States legal residents, to establish an agricultural export promotion program with respect to Cuba, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1532 | To amend title 10, United States Code, to eliminate the statute of limitations on the award of the congressional medal of honor.
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| H R 1533 | To amend title 10, United States Code, to specify the minimum rank requirement for officer serving as Chief of the Navy Dental Corps to correspond to Army and Air Force requirements for the heads of their dental corps.
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| H R 1534 | To direct the Secretary of Defense and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to jointly carry out a study on the use of thorium-liquid fueled nuclear reactors for naval power needs, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1535 | To direct the Secretary of Defense to conduct a study evaluating and comparing the effectiveness of programs designed to diagnose, treat, and prevent post-traumatic stress disorder.
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| H R 1536 | To authorize the Secretary of Defense to establish a fellowship program regarding neuroscience.
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| H R 1537 | To direct the Secretary of Defense to conduct studies regarding alternative models for acquisition and funding of technologies supporting network-centric operations.
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| H R 1538 | To repeal the small business competitiveness demonstration program.
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| H R 1539 | To amend title 40, United States Code, to add certain Armed Forces organizations that are exempt from taxation under section 501(c)(19) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to the list of organizations eligible for donations of personal property through State agencies.
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| H R 1540 | For the relief of Kadiatou Diallo, Sankerala Diallo, Ibrahima Diallo, Abdoul Diallo, Mamadou Bobo Diallo, and Mamadou Pathe Diallo.
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| H R 1541 | To provide for an additional temporary extension of programs under the Small Business Act and the Small Business Investment Act of 1958, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1542 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to impose a 100 percent tax on bonuses paid by businesses that receive TARP assistance and are majority owned by the Federal Government.
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| H R 1543 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to impose a tax on bonuses received from companies receiving TARP funds.
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| H R 1544 | To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide for unlimited eligibility for health care for mental illnesses for veterans of combat service during certain periods of hostilities and war.
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| H R 1545 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to make the credit for research activities permanent and to provide an increase in such credit for taxpayers whose gross receipts are predominantly from domestic production activities.
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| H R 1546 | To amend title 38, United States Code, to direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to establish the Committee on Care of Veterans with Traumatic Brain Injury.
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| H R 1547 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for collegiate housing and infrastructure grants.
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| H R 1548 | To amend the Public Health Service Act to establish a pathway for the licensure of biosimilar biological products, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1549 | To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to preserve the effectiveness of medically important antibiotics used in the treatment of human and animal diseases.
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| H R 1550 | To accelerate motor fuel savings nationwide and provide incentives to registered owners of high polluting automobiles to replace such automobiles with new fuel efficient and less polluting automobiles or public transportation.
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| H R 1551 | To provide for the reduction of adolescent pregnancy, HIV rates, and other sexually transmitted diseases, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1552 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to increase the amount allowed as a deduction for start-up expenditures.
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| H R 1553 | To amend the Home Owners' Loan Act to provide equitable remedies to mutual savings institutions to defend against individuals acting as a de facto corporation attempting to implement a hostile takeover of the institution, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1554 | To take certain property in McIntosh County, Oklahoma, into trust for the benefit of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1555 | To debar or suspend contractors from Federal contracting for unlawful employment of aliens, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1556 | To authorize appropriations for the National Historical Publications and Records Commission through fiscal year 2014.
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| H R 1557 | To establish a commission to develop legislation designed to reform tax policy and entitlement benefit programs and ensure a sound fiscal future for the United States, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1558 | To amend title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, title XXVII of the Public Health Service Act, and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to prohibit preexisting condition exclusions in group health plans and health insurance coverage in the group and individual markets.
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| H R 1559 | To provide for the resolution of several land ownership and related issues with respect to parcels of land located within the Everglades National Park.
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| H R 1560 | To make the moratorium on Internet access taxes and multiple and discriminatory taxes on electronic commerce permanent.
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| H R 1561 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a standard deduction for the business use of a home.
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| H R 1562 | To provide compensation to the Lower Brule and Crow Creek Sioux Tribes of South Dakota for damage to tribal land caused by Pick-Sloan projects along the Missouri River.
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| H R 1563 | To authorize the conveyance of a portion of the campus of the Illiana Health Care System of the Department of Veterans Affairs to Danville Area Community College of Vermilion County, Illinois.
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| H R 1564 | To designate the headquarters building of the Embassy of the United States in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, as the "Mickey Leland United States Embassy Building".
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| H R 1565 | To provide for the issuance of a semipostal in order to afford a convenient means by which members of the public may contribute towards the acquisition of works of art to honor female pioneers in Government service.
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| H R 1566 | To prohibit the use of funds to transfer individuals detained at Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to facilities in Minnesota or to house such individuals at such facilities.
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| H R 1567 | To amend the Haitian Refugee Immigration Fairness Act of 1998.
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| H R 1568 | To reauthorize the Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) program, to reauthorize and rename the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974 (JJDPA) as the KIDS Act, to provide for funding parity between COPS and the KIDS Act, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1569 | To improve the calculation of, the reporting of, and the accountability for, secondary school graduation rates.
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| H R 1570 | To amend the Public Health Service Act to coordinate Federal congenital heart disease research efforts and to improve public education and awareness of congenital heart disease, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1571 | To amend title 49, United States Code, to permit certain revenues of private providers of public transportation by vanpool received from providing public transportation to be used for the purpose of acquiring rolling stock, and to permit certain expenditures of private vanpool contractors to be credited toward the local matching share of the costs of public transportation projects.
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| H R 1572 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to impose a 90 percent tax on bonuses paid by business that receive TARP assistance.
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| H R 1573 | To establish the National Home Energy Savings Revolving Fund within the Department of Energy to provide amounts to units of general local government to make loans to homeowners for qualified home energy audits and certified energy savings improvements, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1574 | To amend the Act titled "An Act to provide for the establishment of the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, and for other purposes" to allow the acquisition of lands by payment of delinquent taxes.
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| H R 1575 | To authorize the Attorney General to limit or recover excessive compensation paid or payable by entities that have received Federal financial assistance on or after September 1, 2008.
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| H R 1576 | For the relief of Daniel Wachira.
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| H R 1577 | To require the Secretary of the Treasury to pursue every legal means to stay or recoup certain incentive bonus payments and retention payments made by American International Group, Inc. to its executives and employees, and to require the Secretary's approval of such payments by any financial institution who receives.
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| H R 1578 | To authorize the Secretary of Education to make grants to support early college high schools and other dual enrollment programs.
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| H R 1579 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow a credit against income tax for contributions to a trust used to provide need-based college scholarships.
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| H R 1580 | To authorize the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to award grants for electronic device recycling research, development, and demonstration projects, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1581 | To optimize the delivery of critical care medicine and expand the critical care workforce.
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| H R 1582 | To amend the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 to strike a provision included in a recent amendment of such Act.
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| H R 1583 | To further competition in the insurance industry.
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| H R 1584 | To amend the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act to extend the authorized time period for rebuilding of certain overfished fisheries, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1585 | To amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to improve standards for physical education.
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| H R 1586 | To impose an additional tax on bonuses received from certain TARP recipients.
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| H R 1587 | To amend the lead prohibition provisions of the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008 to provide an exemption for certain off-highway vehicles, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1588 | To ensure that an employer has the freedom to implement English in the workplace policies.
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| H R 1589 | To amend the Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act to authorize the use of grant funds for gang prevention, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1590 | To provide assistance for the Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw, Poland.
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| H R 1591 | To amend title 38, United States Code, to clarify that the United States may not recover or collect any charges from a third party for hospital care or medical services provided by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to a veteran for a service-connected disability.
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| H R 1592 | To amend title 37, United States Code, to guarantee a pay increase for members of the uniformed services for fiscal years 2011 through 2014 of one-half of one percentage point higher than the Employment Cost Index.
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| H R 1593 | To amend the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to designate a segment of Illabot Creek in Skagit County, Washington, as a component of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System.
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| H R 1594 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to limit the deductibility of excessive rates of executive compensation.
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| H R 1595 | To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 3245 Latta Road in Rochester, New York, as the "Brian K. Schramm Post Office Building".
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| H R 1596 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide an exclusion from gross income for AmeriCorps educational awards.
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| H R 1597 | To repeal the provision of law that provides automatic pay adjustments for Members of Congress.
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| H R 1598 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to impose a higher rate of tax on bonuses paid by businesses receiving TARP funds.
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| H R 1599 | To require survivor annuity payments made to disabled dependents to be disregarded in eligibility and benefit determinations under the supplemental security income (SSI) and Medicaid Programs.
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| H R 1600 | To amend title 10, United States Code, to provide for the treatment of autism under TRICARE.
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| H R 1601 | To require the Secretary of Defense to require members of the Armed Forces, before being deployed, to be trained in management of contracts and contractors.
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| H R 1602 | To authorize the Secretary of the Navy to convey, without consideration, to Piasecki Aircraft Corporation the right, title, and interest of the United States in and to Navy aircraft N40VT, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1603 | To require institutions receiving large amounts of assistance under TARP to restrict compensation increases for officers, directors, and employees to the Federal civil service pay increase.
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| H R 1604 | To amend the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to allow all eligible voters to vote by mail in Federal elections.
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| H R 1605 | To seek the establishment of and contributions to an International Fund for Israeli-Palestinian Peace, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1606 | To establish a new automobile voucher program.
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| H R 1607 | To provide for and promote the economic development of Indian tribes by furnishing the necessary capital, financial services, and technical assistance to Indian-owned business enterprises, to stimulate the development of the private sector of Indian tribal economies, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1608 | To amend the Truth in Lending Act to establish a national usury rate for consumer credit transactions, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1609 | To amend the Food Security Act of 1985 to require the Administrator of the Internal Revenue Service to verify income for purposes of determining the eligibility of persons for certain Department of Agriculture payments and benefits, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1610 | To amend the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 to limit the annual percentage rate of interest that may be charged by recipients of financial assistance under such Act with respect to consumer credit card accounts, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1611 | To amend the Omnibus Appropriations Act, 2009 to repeal a provision prohibiting the use of funds for a cross-border motor carrier demonstration program to allow Mexican-domiciled motor carriers to operate beyond the commercial zones along the international border between the United States and Mexico.
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| H R 1612 | To amend the Public Lands Corps Act of 1993 to expand the authorization of the Secretaries of Agriculture, Commerce, and the Interior to provide service-learning opportunities on public lands, help restore the nation's natural, cultural, historic, archaeological, recreational, and scenic resources, train a new generation of public land managers and enthusiasts, and promote the value of public service.
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| H R 1613 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to make the research credit permanent, increase expensing for small businesses, reduce corporate tax rates, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1614 | To authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make grants to community health coalitions to assist in the development of integrated health care delivery, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1615 | To amend section 435(o) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 regarding the definition of economic hardship.
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| H R 1616 | To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to permit States the option to provide Medicaid coverage for low-income individuals infected with HIV.
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| H R 1617 | To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to provide for a privacy official within each component of the Department of Homeland Security, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1618 | To amend titles 23 and 49, United States Code, concerning length and weight limitations for vehicles operating on Federal-aid highways, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1619 | To amend title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, title XXVII of the Public Health Service Act, and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to prohibit preexisting condition exclusions for children in group health plans and health insurance coverage in the group and individual markets.
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| H R 1620 | To amend chapter 44 of title 18, United States Code, to provide for reciprocity in regard to the manner in which nonresidents of a State may carry certain concealed firearms in that State.
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| H R 1621 | To withhold Federal funds from schools that permit or require the recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance or the national anthem in a language other than English.
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| H R 1622 | To provide for a program of research, development, and demonstration on natural gas vehicles.
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| H R 1623 | To protect children from sexual exploitation by mandating reporting requirements for convicted sex traffickers and other sex offenders against minors intending to engage in international travel, providing advance notice of intended travel by high risk sex offenders outside the United States to the government of the country of destination, preventing entry into the United States by any foreign sex offender against a minor, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1624 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exclude from the gross income of members of the uniformed services of the United States certain amounts of military basic pay.
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| H R 1625 | To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to cover physician services delivered by podiatric physicians to ensure access by Medicaid beneficiaries to appropriate quality foot and ankle care.
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| H R 1626 | To make technical amendments to laws containing time periods affecting judicial proceedings.
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| H R 1627 | To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to direct the Secretary to enter into an agreement with the Secretary of the Air Force to use Civil Air Patrol personnel and resources to support homeland security missions.
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| H R 1628 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to permit hardship loans from certain individual retirement plans.
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| H R 1629 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide penalty free distributions and loans from certain retirement plans for the purchase and refinancing of principal residences.
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| H R 1630 | To amend the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act to include the Territory of Guam in the list of affected areas with respect to which claims relating to atmospheric nuclear testing shall be allowed, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1631 | To amend title 38, United States Code, to include participation in clean-up operations at Eniwetok Atoll as a radiation-risk activity for purposes of laws administered by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs.
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| H R 1632 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide an exclusion from gross income of long-term capital gains on property purchased before the end of 2009.
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| H R 1633 | To amend title 10, United States Code, to authorize a member of the Armed Forces to designate anyone as the person authorized to direct disposition of the remains of the member if the member dies while on active duty.
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| H R 1634 | To amend title 23, United States Code, to extend the period during which States may allow low emission and energy-efficient vehicles to use high occupancy vehicle facilities.
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| H R 1635 | To authorize alternatives analysis and preliminary engineering for new Metrorail capital projects in Northern Virginia and surrounding areas.
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| H R 1636 | To amend titles XVIII and XIX of the Social Security Act with respect to the qualification of the director of food services of a Medicare skilled nursing facility or a Medicaid nursing facility.
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| H R 1637 | To amend the Truth in Lending Act to prohibit universal defaults on credit card accounts, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1638 | To prohibit the use of funds to transfer individuals detained at Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to facilities or locations in Virginia or to house such individuals at such facilities or locations.
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| H R 1639 | To amend the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 to extend Federal reimbursement of emergency health services furnished to undocumented aliens.
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| H R 1640 | To amend the Truth in Lending Act to protect consumers from usury, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1641 | To amend the National Trails System Act to provide for a study of the Cascadia Marine Trail.
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| H R 1642 | To provide loans and grants for fire sprinkler retrofitting in nursing facilities.
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| H R 1643 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to establish a prospective payment system instead of the reasonable cost-based reimbursement method for Medicare-covered services provided by Federally qualified health centers and to expand the scope of such covered services to account for expansions in the scope of services provided by Federally qualified health centers since the inclusion of such services for coverage under the Medicare Program.
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| H R 1644 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for a tax credit for qualified donations of employee services.
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| H R 1645 | To provide grants to promote financial and economic literacy.
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| H R 1646 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow a credit against income tax for the purchase of hearing aids.
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| H R 1647 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow employers a credit against income tax for hiring veterans.
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| H R 1648 | To amend the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 to require that concurrent resolutions on the budget limit the growth of Federal spending to the mean of annual percentage growth of wages and gross domestic product (GDP) in the United States, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1649 | To authorize the Secretary of Education to make grants to reduce the size of core curriculum classes in public elementary and secondary schools, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1650 | To enhance the oversight authority of the Comptroller General of the United States with respect to expenditures under the Troubled Asset Relief Program.
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| H R 1651 | To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to establish a right for an alien to file a motion to reopen a case in removal proceedings if the alien can demonstrate that counsel or a certified representative provided deficient performance.
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| H R 1652 | To require institutions receiving certain assistance from the Troubled Asset Relief Program or the Federal Reserve to have employee bonus payment plans approved in advance of the payments being made.
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| H R 1653 | To provide for nuclear disarmament and economic conversion in accordance with District of Columbia Initiative Measure Number 37 of 1992.
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| H R 1654 | 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.
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| H R 1655 | To enhance the safety of ports of entry in the United States, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1656 | To require TARP payments to be conditioned on the top 10 highest wage earners at a company having repaid any bonuses received during the previous 5 fiscal years.
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| H R 1657 | To direct the Secretary of Defense to notify members of the Armed Forces and State military departments of exposure to potentially harmful materials and contaminants.
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| H R 1658 | To amend title 38, United States Code, to prohibit the recovery by the United States of charges from a third party for hospital care or medical services furnished to a veteran for a service-connected disability.
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| H R 1659 | To amend the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act to require the Presidential designee responsible for carrying out Federal functions under the Act to have experience in election administration and be approved by the Senate, to establish the Overseas Voting Advisory Board to oversee the administration of the Act so that American citizens who live overseas or serve in the military can participate in elections for public office, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1660 | To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide a special rule for the period of admission of H-2A nonimmigrants employed as dairy workers and sheepherders, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1661 | To establish a health registry to ensure that certain individuals who may have been exposed to formaldehyde in a travel trailer have an opportunity to register for such registry and receive medical treatment for such exposure, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1662 | To amend the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 1990 to require child care providers to provide to parents information regarding whether such providers carry current liability insurance.
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| H R 1663 | To require State and local law enforcement agencies to determine the immigration status of all individuals arrested by such agencies for a felony, to require such agencies to report to the Secretary of Homeland Security when they have arrested for a felony an alien unlawfully present in the United States, to require mandatory Federal detention of such individuals pending removal in cases where they are not otherwise detained, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1664 | To amend the executive compensation provisions of the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 to prohibit unreasonable and excessive compensation and compensation not based on performance standards.
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| H R 1665 | To structure Coast Guard acquisition processes and policies, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1666 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to establish an auction and revenue collection mechanism for a carbon market that ensures price stability with environmental integrity.
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| H R 1667 | To prohibit profiteering and fraud relating to military action, relief, and reconstruction efforts, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1668 | To debar or suspend contractors from Federal contracting for unlawful employment of aliens, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1669 | To require the Secretary of the Treasury to establish a market for municipal securities, to require cooperation between the Secretary and the Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System in addressing the municipal securities market situation including through the establishment of municipal securities funding facilities, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1670 | To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to provide individuals with disabilities and older Americans with equal access to community-based attendant services and supports, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1671 | To understand and comprehensively address the oral health problems associated with methamphetamine use.
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| H R 1672 | To reauthorize the Northwest Straits Marine Conservation Initiative Act to promote the protection of the resources of the Northwest Straits, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1673 | To amend the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 with respect to bonus payments.
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| H R 1674 | To amend the National Consumer Cooperative Bank Act to allow for the treatment of the nonprofit corporation affiliate of the Bank as a community development financial institution for purposes of the Community Development Banking and Financial Institutions Act of 1994.
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| H R 1675 | To amend section 811 of the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act to improve the program under such section for supportive housing for persons with disabilities.
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| H R 1676 | To prevent tobacco smuggling, to ensure the collection of all tobacco taxes, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1677 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend and expand the benefits for businesses operating in empowerment zones, enterprise communities, or renewal communities, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1678 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow a bad debt deduction to doctors to partially offset the cost of providing uncompensated care required to be provided under amendments made by the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act.
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| H R 1679 | To provide for the replacement of lost income for employees of the House of Representatives who are members of a reserve component of the armed forces who are on active duty for a period of more than 30 days, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1680 | To authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make grants to promote professional retrofit installation of fire alarm detection systems and other fire detection and prevention technologies in nursing homes, hospice facilities, and other appropriate facilities.
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| H R 1681 | To improve the coordination between the Department of Defense and the Department of Veterans Affairs to better provide care to members and the Armed Forces and veterans.
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| H R 1682 | To amend title 23, United States Code, to require States to develop and implement highway bridge management systems.
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| H R 1683 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by requiring a Federal emission permit for the sale or use of greenhouse gas emission substances, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1684 | To preserve the rights granted under second amendment to the Constitution in national parks and national wildlife refuge areas.
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| H R 1685 | To provide for the acquisition, construction, and improvement of child care facilities, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1686 | To provide for the protection and integrity of the United States mail.
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| H R 1687 | To designate the Federal building and United States courthouse located at McKinley Avenue and Third Street, SW., Canton, Ohio, as the "Ralph Regula Federal Building and United States Courthouse".
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| H R 1688 | To amend title 10, United States Code, to ensure that commissioned officers who serve in a reserve component of the Armed Forces are able to retire in the highest grade in which they have successfully served.
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| H R 1689 | To accelerate the development and early deployment of systems for the capture and storage of carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel electric generation facilities, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1690 | To amend the Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972 to authorize the Secretary of Commerce to make grants to coastal states to support voluntary State efforts to initiate and complete surveys of coastal waters to identify potential areas suitable for the exploration, development, and production of renewable energy, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1691 | To require that health plans provide coverage for a minimum hospital stay for mastectomies, lumpectomies, and lymph node dissection for the treatment of breast cancer and coverage for secondary consultations.
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| H R 1692 | To amend the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act to exempt ordinary books from the lead limit in such Act.
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| H R 1693 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for the coverage of marriage and family therapist services and mental health counselor services under part B of the Medicare Program, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1694 | A bill to authorize the acquisition and protection of nationally significant battlefields and associated sites of the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812 under the American Battlefield Protection Program.
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| H R 1695 | To amend title 10, United States Code, to reduce the minimum age for receipt of military retired pay for non-regular service from 60 to 55.
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| H R 1696 | To amend the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to permanently prohibit the conduct of offshore drilling on the outer Continental Shelf in the Mid-Atlantic and North Atlantic planning areas.
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| H R 1697 | To ensure the coordination and integration of Indian tribes in the National Homeland Security strategy and to establish an Office of Tribal Government Homeland Security within the Department of Homeland Security, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1698 | To establish the Green Bank to assist in the financing of qualified clean energy projects and qualified energy efficiency projects.
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| H R 1699 | To require that certain complex diagnostic laboratory tests performed by an independent laboratory after a hospital outpatient encounter or inpatient stay during which the specimen involved was collected shall be treated as services for which payment may be made directly to the laboratory under part B of title XVIII of the Social Security Act.
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| H R 1700 | To authorize the Administrator of General Services to convey a parcel of real property in the District of Columbia to provide for the establishment of a National Women's History Museum.
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| H R 1701 | To amend title 10, United States Code, to direct the Secretary of Defense to establish a special review board for certain former members of the Armed Forces with post-traumatic stress disorder or a traumatic brain injury, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1702 | To authorize assistance for affordable housing and sustainable urban development in developing countries, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1703 | To require a study and comprehensive analytical report on transforming America by reforming the Federal tax code through elimination of all Federal taxes on individuals and corporations and replacing the Federal tax code with a transaction fee-based system.
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| H R 1704 | To amend the Public Health Service Act to improve mental and behavioral health services on college campuses.
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| H R 1705 | To create a Financial Product Safety Commission, to provide consumers with stronger protections and better information in connection with consumer financial products, and to give providers of consumer financial products more regulatory certainty.
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| H R 1706 | To prohibit brand name drug companies from compensating generic drug companies to delay the entry of a generic drug into the market, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1707 | To increase housing, awareness, and navigation demonstration services (HANDS) for individuals with autism spectrum disorders.
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| H R 1708 | To amend title II of the Social Security Act to phase out the 24-month waiting period for disabled individuals to become eligible for Medicare benefits, to eliminate the waiting period for individuals with life-threatening conditions, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1709 | To establish a committee under the National Science and Technology Council with the responsibility to coordinate science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education activities and programs of all Federal agencies, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1710 | To include family therapists on the list of professionals recognized to provide public school mental health services under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965.
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| H R 1711 | To express the policy of the United States regarding the United States relationship with Native Hawaiians, to provide a process for the reorganization of a Native Hawaiian government and the recognition by the United States of the Native Hawaiian government, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1712 | 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.
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| H R 1713 | To name the South Central Agricultural Research Laboratory of the Department of Agriculture in Lane, Oklahoma, and the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 310 North Perry Street in Bennington, Oklahoma, in honor of former Congressman Wesley "Wes" Watkins.
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| H R 1714 | To require that the Board Compensation Committees required for financial institutions receiving assistance under the Troubled Assets Relief Program include the representation of the financial institution's lowest paid employees.
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| H R 1715 | To amend the Public Health Service Act with respect to the protection of human subjects in research.
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| H R 1716 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow the deduction for real property taxes on the principal residences to all individuals whether or not they itemize other deductions.
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| H R 1717 | To allow a State to submit a declaration of intent to the Secretary of Education to combine certain funds to improve the academic achievement of students.
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| H R 1718 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to treat amounts paid for umbilical cord blood banking services as medical care expenses.
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| H R 1719 | To amend the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 and the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to promote the use of the Internet by State and local election officials in carrying out voter registration activities, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1720 | To permit statues honoring citizens of the District of Columbia to be placed in Statuary Hall in the same manner as statues honoring citizens of the States are placed in Statuary Hall, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1721 | To amend the Public Health Service Act to help individuals with functional impairments and their families pay for services and supports that they need to maximize their functionality and independence and have choices about community participation, education, and employment, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1722 | To improve teleworking in executive agencies by developing a telework program that allows employees to telework at least 20 percent of the hours worked in every 2 administrative workweeks, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1723 | To provide for a paid family and medical leave insurance program, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1724 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide tax incentives for the remediation of contaminated sites.
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| H R 1725 | To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to require, at the option of a State, drug manufacturers to pay rebates to State prescription drug discount programs as a condition of participation in a rebate agreement for outpatient prescription drugs under the Medicaid Program.
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| H R 1726 | To require the Secretary of Homeland Security to issue a rule with respect to border security searches of electronic devices, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1727 | To establish guidelines and incentives for States to establish criminal arsonist and criminal bomber registries and to require the Attorney General to establish a national criminal arsonist and criminal bomber registry program, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1728 | To amend the Truth in Lending Act to reform consumer mortgage practices and provide accountability for such practices, to provide certain minimum standards for consumer mortgage loans, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1729 | To amend the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 to provide for the treatment of institutions of higher education as voter registration agencies.
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| H R 1730 | To amend the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 with respect to electric vehicle infrastructure.
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| H R 1731 | To amend the Truth in Lending Act to require any creditor who transfers, sells, or conveys certain residential mortgage loans to third parties to retain an economic interest in a material portion of the credit risk for any such loan, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1732 | To amend the Energy Policy and Conservation Act to provide for standards for energy efficient outdoor lighting.
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| H R 1733 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow a refundable credit against income tax for the cost of passports and other enhanced identification documents required to comply with the June 1, 2009, implementation of the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative.
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| H R 1734 | To require the Secretary of State to establish passport issuance agencies within 50 miles of all major international border crossings.
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| H R 1735 | To amend title 28, United States Code, to provide for the direct payment of attorney fees to the attorney representing a prevailing party in certain Social Security Disability Insurance and Supplemental Security Income claims, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1736 | To provide for the establishment of a committee to identify and coordinate international science and technology cooperation that can strengthen the domestic science and technology enterprise and support United States foreign policy goals.
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| H R 1737 | To facilitate the sale of United States agricultural products to Cuba, as authorized by the Trade Sanctions Reform and Export Enhancement Act of 2000.
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| H R 1738 | To amend the Reclamation Wastewater and Groundwater Study and Facilities Act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to participate in the city of Downey, California, regional wastewater treatment and reclamation facility projects.
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| H R 1739 | To amend the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act to prohibit States from refusing to accept balloting materials solely because the materials are generated through the use of a computer program, are not printed on a specific type of paper, or do not otherwise meet similar extraneous requirements which are not clearly necessary to prevent fraud in the conduct of elections, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1740 | To amend the Public Health Service Act to increase awareness of the risks of breast cancer in young women and provide support for young women diagnosed with breast cancer.
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| H R 1741 | To require the Attorney General to make competitive grants to eligible State, tribal, and local prosecutors to establish and maintain certain protection and witness assistance programs.
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| H R 1742 | To establish a program to deploy and integrate plug-in electric drive vehicles in multiple regions.
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| H R 1743 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend the renewable energy credit, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1744 | To amend the Consumer Credit Protection Act to assure meaningful disclosures of the terms of rental-purchase agreements, including disclosures of all costs to consumers under such agreements, to provide certain substantive rights to consumers under such agreements, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1745 | To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide liability protections for volunteer practitioners at health centers under section 330 of such Act.
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| H R 1746 | To amend the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to reauthorize the pre-disaster mitigation program of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
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| H R 1747 | To authorize appropriations for the design, acquisition, and construction of a combined buoy tender-icebreaker to replace icebreaking capacity on the Great Lakes.
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| H R 1748 | To amend title 18, United States Code, to enhance the investigation and prosecution of mortgage fraud and financial institution fraud, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1749 | To provide assistance to owners of manufactured homes constructed prior to 1976 to purchase Energy Star qualified manufactured homes.
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| H R 1750 | To provide for the use of information in the National Directory of New Hires in enforcing sex offender registration laws.
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| H R 1751 | To amend the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 to permit States to determine State residency for higher education purposes and to authorize the cancellation of removal and adjustment of status of certain alien students who are long-term United States residents and who entered the United States as children, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1752 | To provide that the usual day for paying salaries in or under the House of Representatives may be established by regulations of the Committee on House Administration.
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| H R 1753 | To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to include in the definition of the term "aggravated felony" a criminal violation committed by an alien who unlawfully entered the United States.
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| H R 1754 | To create a systemic risk monitor for the financial system of the United States, to oversee financial regulatory activities of the Federal Government, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1755 | To award grants to States to establish, enhance, or expand high-quality preschool programs for children ages 3 through 5 in rural areas.
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| H R 1756 | To amend the Small Business Act to improve the Microloan program, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1757 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to encourage increased access to alternative fuels.
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| H R 1758 | To provide for the establishment of a commission to stimulate and engage in an informed, national, and public dialogue about how to ensure that each student in the United States receives an equitable education that enables the student to achieve his or her maximum academic potential.
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| H R 1759 | To distribute emission allowances under a domestic cap-and-trade program to facilities in certain domestic energy-intensive industrial sectors and subsectors to prevent an increase in greenhouse gas emissions by manufacturing facilities located in countries without commensurate greenhouse gas regulation, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1760 | To mitigate the effects of black carbon emissions in the United States and throughout the world.
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| H R 1761 | To amend the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 to restrict the use of TARP funds for domestic purposes.
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| H R 1762 | To repeal section 10(f) of Public Law 93-531, commonly known as the "Bennett Freeze".
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| H R 1763 | To provide tax relief for small businesses, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1764 | To require that amounts of assistance provided to financial institutions under the Troubled Asset Relief Program of the Secretary of the Treasury that are returned be used only for assistance for homeowners in accordance with the Making Home Affordable Program of the Secretary.
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| H R 1765 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act with respect to payment for the furnishing of intravenous immune globulin (IVIG) in a patient's home for the treatment of primary immune deficiency diseases and to cover certain disposable pumps as durable medical equipment in place of non-disposable pumps under the Medicare Program.
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| H R 1766 | To amend title 40, United States Code, to authorize the use of Federal supply schedules for the acquisition of environmentally preferable "green" commodities and services and certain other related items by State and local governments.
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| H R 1767 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to make the first-time homebuyer credit retroactive to the beginning of 2008 and to permanently extend the credit.
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| H R 1768 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide tax incentives for replacing an automobile with a more fuel-efficient automobile.
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| H R 1769 | To expand the Alpine Lakes Wilderness in the State of Washington, to designate the Middle Fork Snoqualmie River and Pratt River as wild and scenic rivers, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1770 | To amend the National Dam Safety Program Act to establish a program to provide grant assistance to States for the rehabilitation and repair of deficient dams.
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| H R 1771 | To reauthorize the Chesapeake Bay Office of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1772 | To modernize, shorten, and simplify the Federal criminal code.
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| H R 1773 | For the relief of Valerie Plame Wilson.
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| H R 1774 | To incorporate smart grid capability into the Energy Star Program, to reduce peak electric demand, to reauthorize energy efficiency public information program to include Smart Grid information, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1775 | To provide support to develop career and technical education programs of study and facilities in the areas of renewable energy.
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| H R 1776 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to expand the development of quality measures for inpatient hospital services, to implement a performance-based payment methodology for the provision of such services under the Medicare Program, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1777 | To make technical corrections to the Higher Education Act of 1965, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1778 | To provide for the establishment of national energy and environmental building retrofit policies for both residential and commercial buildings, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1779 | To provide for resources for the investigation and prosecution of financial crimes, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1780 | To amend the Clean Air Act to achieve greenhouse gas emissions reductions through transportation efficiency.
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| H R 1781 | To direct the Secretary of Labor to carry out a sustainability workforce training and education program.
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| H R 1782 | To amend the Truth in Lending Act to protect consumers from certain practices in connection with the origination of consumer credit transactions secured by the consumer's principal dwelling, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1783 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to encourage investment in certain industries by providing an exclusion from tax on certain gains.
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| H R 1784 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to encourage the purchase of residential property by providing an exclusion from tax on certain gains.
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| H R 1785 | To expedite adjudication of employer petitions for aliens of extraordinary artistic ability.
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| H R 1786 | To establish a Best-in-Class Appliances Deployment Program.
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| H R 1787 | To amend the Clean Air Act regarding transportation fuels and establishment of a low carbon fuel standard.
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| H R 1788 | To amend the provisions of title 31, United States Code, relating to false claims to clarify and make technical amendments to those provisions, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1789 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide incentives to encourage investment in the expansion of freight rail infrastructure capacity and to enhance modal tax equity.
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| H R 1790 | To reduce global greenhouse gas emissions resulting from land conversion and deforestation in developing countries, to provide incentives for developing countries to increase forest carbon stocks, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1791 | To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to authorize certain aliens who have earned a Ph.D. degree from a United States institution of higher education in a field of science, technology, engineering, or mathematics to be admitted for permanent residence and to be exempted from the numerical limitations on H-1B nonimmigrants.
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| H R 1792 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide recruitment and retention incentives for volunteer emergency service workers.
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| H R 1793 | To amend title 18, United States Code, with respect to money laundering.
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| H R 1794 | To provide incentives to reduce dependence on foreign oil.
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| H R 1795 | To provide for the establishment of an Offsets Integrity Advisory Board, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1796 | To amend the Consumer Product Safety Act to require residential carbon monoxide detectors to meet the applicable ANSI/UL standard by treating that standard as a consumer product safety rule, to encourage States to require the installation of such detectors in homes, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1797 | To reform certain provisions of section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 to make compliance with that section more efficient, with the goal of maintaining United States capital market global competitiveness.
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| H R 1798 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to eliminate the limitation on the foreign earned income exclusion, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1799 | To amend title 23, United States Code, with respect to vehicle weight limitations applicable to the Interstate System, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1800 | To establish reasonable procedural protections for the use of national security letters, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1801 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to impose a 70 percent tax on certain compensation received from certain companies receiving Federal bailout funds.
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| H R 1802 | To establish a commission to conduct a comprehensive review of Federal agencies and programs and to recommend the elimination or realignment of duplicative, wasteful, or outdated functions, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1803 | To amend the Small Business Act to establish a Veterans Business Center program, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1804 | To amend title 5, United States Code, to make certain modifications in the Thrift Savings Plan, the Civil Service Retirement System, and the Federal Employees' Retirement System, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1805 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to make permanent the deduction for State and local sales tax, the deduction for qualified tuition and related expenses, and the deduction for mortgage interest premiums, and to modify to the homebuyer credit.
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| H R 1806 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide incentives to encourage investment in the expansion of freight rail infrastructure capacity and to enhance modal tax equity.
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| H R 1807 | To provide distance learning to potential and existing entrepreneurs, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1808 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for consumer rebates for purchases of certain new passenger motor vehicles.
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| H R 1809 | To amend title 10, United States Code, to expand the geographical coverage of TRICARE Prime to include Puerto Rico and Guam.
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| H R 1810 | To open Federal Bureau of Land Management and National Forest lands to leasing for exploration, development, and production of oil shale resources, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1811 | To authorize the President to review and approve oil and gas exploration, development, and production projects under existing Federal oil and gas leases, both onshore and offshore, and to limit administrative and judicial proceedings with respect to such projects, upon finding that such a project complies with all applicable Federal laws, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1812 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to reduce the recovery periods for certain energy production and distribution facilities.
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| H R 1813 | To terminate or provide for suspension of the application of Federal laws that restrict exploration, development, or production of oil, gas, or oil shale, to facilitate the construction of new crude oil refineries, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1814 | To amend the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 to extend the discretionary spending limits through fiscal year 2014, to extend paygo for direct spending, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1815 | To clarify the applicability of certain provisions in the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1816 | To amend the Public Health Service Act to authorize the Director of the National Cancer Institute to make grants for the discovery and validation of biomarkers for use in risk stratification for, and the early detection and screening of, ovarian cancer.
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| H R 1817 | To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 116 North West Street in Somerville, Tennessee, as the "John S. Wilder Post Office Building".
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| H R 1818 | To amend title 10, United States Code, to extend military commissary and exchange store privileges to veterans with a compensable service-connected disability and to their dependents.
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| H R 1819 | To amend the Digital Television Transition and Public Safety Act of 2005 to extend the interoperable emergency communications grant program through fiscal year 2012.
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| H R 1820 | To redesignate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 2777 Logan Avenue in San Diego, California, as the "Cesar E. Chavez Post Office".
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| H R 1821 | To amend chapter 31 of title 38, United States Code, to increase vocational rehabilitation and employment assistance, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1822 | To prohibit discrimination against the unborn on the basis of sex or race, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1823 | To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to improve communication between the Secretary of Homeland Security and State and local law enforcement officials regarding the treatment of aliens who have been ordered removed and also charged with an aggravated felony under State law.
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| H R 1824 | To provide assistance to Best Buddies to support the expansion and development of mentoring programs, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1825 | To amend title 18, United States Code, to deter public corruption.
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| H R 1826 | To reform the financing of House elections, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1827 | To amend title 49, United States Code, to provide for the establishment of a flexibility incentive grant program.
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| H R 1828 | To amend the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act of 2000 to expand the category of individuals eligible for compensation, to improve the procedures for providing compensation, and to improve transparency, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1829 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to authorize physical therapists to evaluate and treat Medicare beneficiaries without a requirement for a physician referral, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1830 | To improve the organization and procedures of the Department of Defense for the acquisition of major weapon systems, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1831 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to make permanent the special rule for contributions of qualified conservation contributions.
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| H R 1832 | To amend part D of title XVIII of the Social Security Act to limit the increase in premium costs for beneficiaries under the Medicare prescription drug program to no more than the Social Security cost-of-living adjustment, and to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to negotiate lower prescription drug prices on behalf of Medicare beneficiaries.
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| H R 1833 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for a credit which is dependent on enactment of State qualified scholarship tax credits and which is allowed against the Federal income tax for charitable contributions to education investment organizations that provide assistance for elementary and secondary education.
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| H R 1834 | To amend the Small Business Act to expand and improve the assistance provided to Indian tribe members, Alaska Natives, and Native Hawaiians, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1835 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to encourage alternative energy investments and job creation.
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| H R 1836 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a payroll tax holiday for small businesses.
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| H R 1837 | To amend the Andean Trade Preference Act to add Paraguay to the list of countries that are eligible to be designated as beneficiary countries and ATPDEA beneficiary countries.
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| H R 1838 | To amend the Small Business Act to modify certain provisions relating to women's business centers, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1839 | To amend the Small Business Act to improve SCORE, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1840 | To ensure States receive adoption incentive payments for fiscal year 2008 in accordance with the Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act of 2008.
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| H R 1841 | To amend the Clean Air Act to reduce sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxide, and mercury emissions, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1842 | To amend the Small Business Act to improve the Small Business Administration's entrepreneurial development programs, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1843 | To provide a mechanism for a determination on the merits of the claims brought by survivors and descendants of the victims of the Tulsa, Oklahoma, Race Riot of 1921 but who were denied that determination.
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| H R 1844 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for coverage of comprehensive cancer care planning under the Medicare Program and to improve the care furnished to individuals diagnosed with cancer by establishing a Medicare hospice care demonstration program and grants programs for cancer palliative care and symptom management programs, provider education, and related research.
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| H R 1845 | To amend the Small Business Act to modernize Small Business Development Centers, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1846 | To amend the Truth in Lending Act to establish additional payday loan disclosure requirements and preempt certain State laws, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1847 | To require the inclusion of coal-derived fuel at certain volumes in aviation fuel, motor vehicle fuel, home heating oil, and boiler fuel.
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| H R 1848 | To provide funding for the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation for mortgage foreclosure mitigation activities.
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| H R 1849 | To designate the Liberty Memorial at the National World War I Museum in Kansas City, Missouri, as the National World War I Memorial, to establish the World War I centennial commission to ensure a suitable observance of the centennial of World War I, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1850 | To amend titles V, XVIII, and XIX of the Social Security Act to promote tobacco use cessation under the Medicare Program, the Medicaid Program, and the maternal and child health program.
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| H R 1851 | To amend title 10, United States Code, to require that certain members of the Armed Forces receive employment assistance, job training assistance, and other transitional services provided by the Secretary of Labor before separating from active duty service.
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| H R 1852 | To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 4282 Beach Street in Akron, Ohio, as the "Akron Veterans Memorial Post Office".
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| H R 1853 | To clarify the jurisdiction of the Secretary of the Interior with respect to the C.C. Cragin Dam and Reservoir, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1854 | To amend the Water Resources Development Act of 1992 to modify an environmental infrastructure project for Big Bear Lake, California.
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| H R 1855 | To promote industry growth and competitiveness and to improve worker training, retention, and advancement, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1856 | To reauthorize the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network.
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| H R 1857 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to increase the limitation on the allowance of capital losses of taxpayers other than corporations.
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| H R 1858 | To provide for a boundary adjustment and land conveyances involving Roosevelt National Forest, Colorado, to correct the effects of an erroneous land survey that resulted in approximately 7 acres of the Crystal Lakes Subdivision, Ninth Filing, encroaching on National Forest System land, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1859 | To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide grants or contracts for prescription drug education and outreach for healthcare providers and their patients.
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| H R 1860 | To provide certain counties with the ability to receive television broadcast signals of their choice.
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| H R 1861 | To highlight and promote freedom of the press worldwide.
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| H R 1862 | To cap the emissions of greenhouse gases through a requirement to purchase carbon permits, to distribute the proceeds of such purchases to eligible individuals, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1863 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to impose a tax on the amount of wages in excess of the contribution and benefit base, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1864 | To provide a pay increase of 3.4 percent for members of the uniformed services for fiscal year 2010.
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| H R 1865 | To eliminate the requirement that States collect Social Security numbers from applicants for recreational licenses.
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| H R 1866 | To amend the Controlled Substances Act to exclude industrial hemp from the definition of marihuana, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1867 | To authorize additional resources for the Department of Homeland Security to enhance security activities along the international border with Mexico, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1868 | To amend section 301 of the Immigration and Nationality Act to clarify those classes of individuals born in the United States who are nationals and citizens of the United States at birth.
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| H R 1869 | To require the President to call a White House Conference on Food and Nutrition.
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| H R 1870 | To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide for relief to surviving spouses and children.
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| H R 1871 | To designate certain counties in the State of Arizona as high-intensity drug trafficking areas.
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| H R 1872 | To require the Secretary of Defense, in consultation with the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, to develop and implement a secure electronic method of forwarding the Certificate of Release or Discharge from Active Duty (DD Form 214) to the appropriate office of the Department of Veterans Affairs for the State or other locality in which a member of the Armed Forces will first reside after the discharge or release of the member from active duty.
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| H R 1873 | To amend the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974 with respect to juveniles who have committed offenses, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1874 | To provide Federal contracting preferences for, and a reduction in the rate of income tax imposed on, Patriot corporations, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1875 | To establish an Emergency Commission To End the Trade Deficit.
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| H R 1876 | To amend title 10, United States Code, to require the incorporation of Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) principles in military construction projects carried out in the United States or overseas, to require a specific goal regarding the use of renewable energy sources on all military installations, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1877 | To amend the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act to reauthorize the Act, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1878 | To establish a health and education grant program related to autism spectrum disorders, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1879 | To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide for employment and reemployment rights for certain individuals ordered to full-time National Guard duty.
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| H R 1880 | To establish a system of regulation and supervision for insurers, insurance agencies, and insurance producers chartered or licensed under Federal law that ensures the stability and financial integrity of those insurers, agencies, and producers and that protects policyholders and other consumers served by such insurers, agencies, or producers.
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| H R 1881 | To enhance the transportation security functions of the Department of Homeland Security by providing for an enhanced personnel system for employees of the Transportation Security Administration, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1882 | To amend the Truth in Lending Act to provide safeguards for credit card holders whose accounts were, or are about to be, terminated for inactivity, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1883 | To require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to carry out a demonstration grants program to provide for certain patient coordination, outreach, and assistance services to reduce barriers to receiving health care and improve health care outcomes.
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| H R 1884 | To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for the participation of optometrists in the National Health Service Corps scholarship and loan repayment programs, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1885 | To protect private property rights.
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| H R 1886 | Pakistan Enduring Assistance and Cooperation Enhancement Act of 2009 or the PEACE Act of 2009 | |
| H R 1887 | To establish a Presidential Commission on Women, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1888 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow a credit against income tax to vehicle fleet operators for purchasing tires made from recycled rubber.
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| H R 1889 | To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to reserve funding for American Samoa, the Northern Marianas Islands, Guam, and the Virgin Islands.
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| H R 1890 | To amend the Safe Drinking Water Act to increase the percentage of State revolving loan funds reserved for American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, and the Virgin Islands.
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| H R 1891 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow an above-the-line deduction for half of an individual's long-term care insurance premiums.
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| H R 1892 | To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 102 North Main Street in Cedarville, Ohio, as the "William 'Brent" Turner Post Office'.
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| H R 1893 | To prohibit any person which sells to or otherwise disposes of any asset through a public-private investment program, including the Public-Private Investment Program for Legacy Assets, from purchasing or otherwise acquiring any other asset from or through such programs, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1894 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to improve access to, and increase utilization of, bone mass measurement benefits under the Medicare part B program.
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| H R 1895 | To provide driver safety grants to States with graduated driver licensing laws that meet certain minimum requirements.
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| H R 1896 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to clarify that installment sales treatment shall not fail to apply to property acquired for conservation purposes by a State or local government or certain tax-exempt organizations merely because purchase funds are held in a sinking or similar fund pursuant to State law.
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| H R 1897 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a tax credit to employers for the costs of implementing wellness programs, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1898 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for coverage under the Medicare Program for consultations regarding orders for life sustaining treatment and to provide grants for the development and expansion of programs for such orders.
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| H R 1899 | To extend Federal recognition to the Muscogee Nation of Florida.
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| H R 1900 | To provide for emergency deployments of United States Border Patrol agents and to increase the number of DEA and ATF agents along the international border of the United States to increase resources to identify and eliminate illicit sources of firearms into Mexico for use by violent drug trafficking organizations and for other lawful activities and for other purposes.
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| H R 1901 | To provide for a comprehensive study by the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences to assess the water management, needs, and conservation of the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River System.
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| H R 1902 | To provide veterans with individualized notice about available benefits, to streamline application processes for the benefits, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1903 | To provide incentives for the residential housing market.
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| H R 1904 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow individual taxpayers to designate a portion of income taxes to fund the improvement of barriers at the United States border, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1905 | To amend the Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972 to require the Secretary of Commerce to establish a coastal climate change adaptation planning and response program, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1906 | To permanently prohibit oil and gas leasing off the coast of the State of California, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1907 | To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to use consumer information maintained by retailers to improve recalls of food, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1908 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a credit for property certified by the Environmental Protection Agency under the WaterSense program.
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| H R 1909 | To direct the Securities and Exchange Commission to suspend the application of mark-to-market accounting.
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| H R 1910 | To create the Office of the Chief Technology Officer within the Executive Office of the President.
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| H R 1911 | To amend the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 to require funding to help award recipients defray the costs of data collection requirements initiated pursuant to such Act, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1912 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow a credit against income tax for qualified conservation contributions which include National Scenic Trails.
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| H R 1913 | To provide Federal assistance to States, local jurisdictions, and Indian tribes to prosecute hate crimes, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1914 | To amend the Endangered Species Act of 1973 to provide for the suspension of each provision of the Act during periods of drought with respect to Federal and State agencies that manage Federal river basins that are located in each region affected by the drought.
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| H R 1915 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for expanded coverage of paramedic intercept services under the Medicare Program.
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| H R 1916 | To amend the Migratory Bird Hunting and Conservation Stamp Act to provide for a revised schedule of price increases for the Migratory Bird Hunting and Conservation Stamp, popularly known as the "Duck Stamp", and for other purposes.
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| H R 1917 | To establish the Centennial Historic District in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1918 | To permit United States companies to participate in the exploration for and the extraction of hydrocarbon resources from any portion of a foreign maritime exclusive economic zone that is contiguous to the exclusive economic zone of the United States, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1919 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the withholding of income and social security taxes.
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| H R 1920 | To prohibit United States funding for the 2009 United Nations Durban Review Conference ("Durban II Conference") or any other activity relating to the planning, preparation, or implementation of a follow-up meeting to the 2001 United Nations World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance ('Durban I Conference') in Durban, South Africa.
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| H R 1921 | To establish an Office of Public Advocate within the Department of Justice to provide services and guidance to citizens in dealing with concerns involving the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1922 | To require the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to hold at least 1 public hearing before issuance of a permit affecting public or private land use in a locality.
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| H R 1923 | To require the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives to make video recordings of the examination and testing of firearms and ammunition, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1924 | To amend the Indian Law Enforcement Reform Act, the Indian Tribal Justice Act, the Indian Tribal Justice Technical and Legal Assistance Act of 2000, and the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to improve the prosecution of, and response to, crimes in Indian country, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1925 | To designate as wilderness certain Federal portions of the red rock canyons of the Colorado Plateau and the Great Basin Deserts in Utah for the benefit of present and future generations of Americans.
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| H R 1926 | To authorize the National Science Foundation to establish a Global Warming Education Program.
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| H R 1927 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide comprehensive cancer patient treatment education under the Medicare Program and to provide for research to improve cancer symptom management.
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| H R 1928 | To increase home healthcare services, particularly for underserved and at-risk populations, by assisting visiting nurse associations and other non-profit home health agencies to improve training and workforce development for home healthcare nurses, promoting and facilitating academic-practice collaborations, and enhancing recruitment and retention of home healthcare nurses.
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| H R 1929 | To establish the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Investigative Commission to investigate the policies and practices engaged in by officers and directors at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac responsible for making the decisions that led to the enterprises' financial instability and the subsequent Federal conservatorship of such enterprises.
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| H R 1930 | To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for a loan repayment program for faculty members at programs of general dentistry or pediatric dentistry to alleviate faculty shortages.
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| H R 1931 | To improve the treatment of juveniles with mental health or substance abuse disorders by establishing new grant programs for increased training, technical assistance, and coordination of service providers, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1932 | To increase the number of well-trained mental health service professionals (including those based in schools) providing clinical mental health care to children and adolescents, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1933 | To direct the Attorney General to make an annual grant to the A Child Is Missing Alert and Recovery Center to assist law enforcement agencies in the rapid recovery of missing children, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1934 | To apply in fiscal year 2009 the exemption of returning workers from the numerical limitations for seasonal nonimmigrant workers in order to provide short-term immediate relief to small and seasonal businesses.
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| H R 1935 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for the treatment of partnership interests held by partners providing services.
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| H R 1936 | To provide certain requirements for the licensing of commercial nuclear facilities.
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| H R 1937 | To require the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to retain and redistribute certain amounts collected as fines.
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| H R 1938 | To amend the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and the Public Health Service Act to set standards for medical diagnostic equipment and to establish a program for promoting good health, disease prevention, and wellness and for the prevention of secondary conditions for individuals with disabilities, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1939 | To direct the Attorney General to establish a system of background checks for employers and employees of the electronic life safety and security system installation and monitoring industry, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1940 | To amend the Public Health Service Act to establish a Wellness Trust.
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| H R 1941 | To allow for additional flights beyond the perimeter restriction applicable to Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.
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| H R 1942 | To amend title 11 and for other purposes.
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| H R 1943 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for adjustments in the individual income tax rates to reflect regional differences in the cost-of-living.
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| H R 1944 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to permanently extend the subpart F exemption for active financing income.
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| H R 1945 | To require the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a study on the feasibility and suitability of constructing a storage reservoir, outlet works, and a delivery system for the Tule River Indian Tribe of the Tule River Reservation in the State of California to provide a water supply for domestic, municipal, industrial, and agricultural purposes, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1946 | To amend the Public Health Service Act to address health workforce shortages.
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| H R 1947 | To regulate certain deferred prosecution agreements and nonprosecution agreements in Federal criminal cases.
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| H R 1948 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow reimbursement from flexible spending accounts for certain dental products.
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| H R 1949 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a tax credit for elementary and secondary school teachers.
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| H R 1950 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a tax credit for professional school personnel in prekindergarten, kindergarten, and grades 1 through 12.
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| H R 1951 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow individuals a credit against income tax for tuition and related expenses for public and nonpublic elementary and secondary education.
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| H R 1952 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow a credit against income tax for amounts contributed to charitable organizations which provide elementary or secondary school scholarships and for contributions of, and for, instructional materials and materials for extracurricular activities.
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| H R 1953 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow the Hope Scholarship Credit to be used for elementary and secondary education expenses.
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| H R 1954 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to make higher education more affordable by providing a full tax deduction for higher education expenses and interest on student loans.
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| H R 1955 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exclude from gross income amounts received on the sale of animals which are raised and sold as part of an educational program.
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| H R 1956 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow an offset against income tax refunds to pay for State judicial debts that are past-due.
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| H R 1957 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a higher education tuition credit in place of existing education tax incentives.
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| H R 1958 | To amend the Military Construction Authorization Act, 1974 to repeal the limitation on the authorized uses of the former bombardment area on the island of Culebra and the prohibition on Federal Government responsibility for decontamination of the area.
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| H R 1959 | To direct the Department of Defense to utilize no-cost economic development conveyances as the preferred method of disposal of excess property generated through the base closure process, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1960 | To make the repeal of the estate tax permanent.
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| H R 1961 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to expand the availability of the saver's credit, to make the credit refundable, and to make Federal matching contributions into the retirement savings of the taxpayer.
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| H R 1962 | To authorize the Space Shuttle to be flown from 2010 through 2015, and to authorize appropriations for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for this purpose.
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| H R 1963 | To amend title 10, United States Code, to ensure that members of the Armed Forces who are being separated from active duty receive comprehensive employment assistance, job training assistance, and other transitional services, to require that such members receive a psychological evaluation in addition to the physical examination they receive as part of their separation from active duty, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1964 | To address HIV/AIDS in the African-American community, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1965 | To require the Secretary of Transportation and the Secretary of Commerce to submit to Congress reports on the commercial and passenger vehicle traffic at certain points of entry, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1966 | To amend title 18, United States Code, with respect to cyberbullying.
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| H R 1967 | To prohibit funding organizations that support or participate in coercive abortion or involuntary sterilization.
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| H R 1968 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to increase the limitation on capital losses to $10,500 and to index such limitation to inflation.
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| H R 1969 | To promote freedom and democracy in Vietnam.
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| H R 1970 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to exempt unsanctioned State-licensed retail pharmacies from the surety bond requirement under the Medicare Program for suppliers of durable medical equipment, prosthetics, orthotics, and supplies (DMEPOS).
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| H R 1971 | To provide for the elimination of duties on certain comforter shells.
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| H R 1972 | To amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to provide standards and procedures to guide State and local law enforcement agencies and law enforcement officers during internal investigations, interrogation of law enforcement officers, and administrative disciplinary hearings, to ensure accountability of law enforcement officers, to guarantee the due process rights of law enforcement officers, and to require States to enact law enforcement discipline, accountability, and due process laws.
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| H R 1973 | To amend title 39, United States Code, to require post offices to have running water and sanitation facilities, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1974 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to make permanent the depreciation classification of motorsports entertainment complexes.
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| H R 1975 | To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 100 West Percy Street in Indianola, Mississippi, as the "Minnie Cox Post Office Building".
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| H R 1976 | To authorize grants for nongovernmental organizations that use independently produced documentary films to promote better understanding of the United States abroad and better understanding of global perspectives and other countries in the United States.
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| H R 1977 | To require the Consumer Product Safety Commission to study drywall imported from China in 2004 through 2007, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1978 | To authorize the Attorney General to make grants to improve the ability of State and local governments to prevent the abduction of children by family members, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1979 | For the relief of Mary Cole, Decontee Cole, Emmanuel Cole, Anna Cole, Yon Deh Cole, and Emmanuel Cole, Jr.
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| H R 1980 | To continue restrictions against and prohibit diplomatic recognition of the Government of North Korea, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1981 | To require States to report information on Medicaid payments to abortion providers.
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| H R 1982 | To direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to acknowledge the receipt of medical, disability, and pension claims and other communications submitted by veterans.
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| H R 1983 | To enact certain laws relating to small business as title 53, United States Code, "Small Business".
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| H R 1984 | To amend title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to provide special reporting and disclosure rules for individual account plans and to provide a minimum investment option requirement for such plans.
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| H R 1985 | To amend the Iran Sanctions Act of 1996 to enhance United States diplomatic efforts with respect to Iran by expanding economic sanctions against Iran to include refined petroleum, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1986 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 to restore the estate tax, increase the estate tax unified credit to an exclusion equivalent of $4,000,000, reduce the maximum estate tax rate to 40 percent, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1987 | To amend the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to provide funding for capacity-building to microfinance service providers.
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| H R 1988 | To amend title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to provide for independent investment advice for participants and beneficiaries under individual account plans.
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| H R 1989 | To provide for subsidies for interest on loans for rural multifamily housing guaranteed by the Rural Housing Service of the Department of Agriculture.
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| H R 1990 | To establish an Oleoresin Capsicum Spray Pilot Program in the Bureau of Prisons, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1991 | To establish the District Court of the Virgin Islands as a court under article III of the United States Constitution.
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| H R 1992 | To amend title 18, United States Code, to provide penalties for individuals who engage in schemes to defraud aliens and for other purposes.
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| H R 1993 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify the first-time homebuyer credit.
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| H R 1994 | To amend title 10, United States Code, to provide equity between active and reserve component members of the Armed Forces in the computation of disability retired pay for members wounded in action.
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| H R 1995 | To amend the Public Health Service Act to prevent and treat diabetes, to promote and improve the care of individuals with diabetes, and to reduce health disparities, relating to diabetes, within racial and ethnic minority groups, including the African-American, Hispanic American, Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander, and American Indian and Alaskan Native communities.
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| H R 1996 | To prohibit the inclusion of earmarks in the Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2010.
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| H R 1997 | To direct the Secretary of Transportation to update a research report and issue guidance to the States with respect to reducing lighting on the Federal-aid system during periods of low traffic density, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1998 | To improve access to emergency medical services, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1999 | To require the Secretary of Education to award grants to local governments that have experienced at least a 15 percent decrease in property tax revenues to fund certain elementary and secondary school education programs.
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| H R 2000 | To award a congressional gold medal to Dr. Muhammad Yunus, in recognition of his contributions to the fight against global poverty.
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| H R 2001 | To direct the Secretary of the Treasury to mint coins in commemoration of the battlefields of the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2002 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to improve access of Medicare beneficiaries to intravenous immune globulins (IVIG).
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| H R 2003 | To amend the Public Health Service Act to include certain children's psychiatric hospitals under the program of payments to children's hospitals that operate graduate medical education programs.
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| H R 2004 | To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 4282 Beach Street in Akron, Michigan, as the "Akron Veterans Memorial Post Office".
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| H R 2005 | To amend the Cuban Liberty and Democratic Solidarity (LIBERTAD) Act of 1996 to require that, in order to determine that a democratically elected government in Cuba exists, the government extradite to the United States convicted felon William Morales and all other individuals who are living in Cuba in order to escape prosecution or confinement for criminal offenses committed in the United States.
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| H R 2006 | To amend the Social Security Act to enhance the social security of the Nation by ensuring adequate public-private infrastructure and to resolve to prevent, detect, treat, intervene in, and prosecute elder abuse, neglect, and exploitation, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2007 | To amend the Truth in Lending Act to prevent certain unfair practices by credit card issuers, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2008 | To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to facilitate the development of hydroelectric power on the Diamond Fork System of the Central Utah Project.
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| H R 2009 | To amend the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 to permit immediate repayment of direct capital investments received under the Troubled Asset Relief Program.
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| H R 2010 | To amend title 49, United States Code, to allow States to regulate tow truck operations.
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| H R 2011 | To authorize the Secretary of Education to establish a competitive demonstration grant program to provide funds for local educational agencies in order to increase the effectiveness of substitute teaching, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2012 | To promote youth financial education.
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| H R 2013 | To award posthumously a congressional gold medal to Thurgood Marshall.
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| H R 2014 | To award a congressional gold medal to the Women Airforce Service Pilots ("WASP").
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| H R 2015 | To instruct the Secretary of Energy to carry out a study on the use of thorium-fueled nuclear reactors.
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| H R 2016 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide that qualified energy efficiency property is eligible for the energy credit.
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| H R 2017 | To amend title 36, United States Code, to grant a Federal charter to the Military Officers Association of America, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2018 | To provide for the recognition of certain Native communities and the settlement of certain claims under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2019 | For the relief of Charmaine Bieda.
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| H R 2020 | To amend the High-Performance Computing Act of 1991 to authorize activities for support of networking and information technology research, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2021 | To help rebuild retirement, college, and personal savings.
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| H R 2022 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for tax preferred savings accounts for individuals under age 26, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2023 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to reform the estate and gift tax.
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| H R 2024 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a credit against income tax to facilitate the accelerated development and deployment of advanced safety systems for commercial motor vehicles.
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| H R 2025 | To ensure public access to Federal land and to the airspace over Federal land.
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| H R 2026 | To amend the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 to make non-union training programs eligible for Federal funding under the "Green Jobs" program.
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| H R 2027 | To amend title 49, United States Code, to establish limitations on the use of whole-body imaging technology for aircraft passenger screening, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2028 | To amend the Social Security Act to prevent unauthorized earnings from being credited toward benefits under title II of such Act and to make improvements in provisions governing totalization agreements, to amend the Social Security Act and the Immigration and Nationality Act to prevent unauthorized employment, and to improve coordination of the provisions of such Acts, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2029 | To authorize the Marine Mammal Commission to establish a national research program to fund basic and applied research on marine mammals, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2030 | To provide 100,000,000 people with first-time access to safe drinking water and sanitation on a sustainable basis by 2015 by improving the capacity of the United States Government to fully implement the Senator Paul Simon Water for the Poor Act of 2005.
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| H R 2031 | To amend Public Law 106-206 to direct the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture to require annual permits and assess annual fees for commercial filming activities on Federal land for film crews of 5 persons or fewer.
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| H R 2032 | To amend title 11 of the United States Code to make nondischargeable debts for personal injuries that result in permanent disability.
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| H R 2033 | To apply an alternative payment amount under the Medicare Program for certain graduate medical education programs established to train residents displaced by natural disasters.
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| H R 2034 | To permit refinancing of certain loans under the Rural Housing Service program for guaranteed loans for rural housing, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2035 | To provide for programs that reduce abortions, help women bear healthy children, and support new parents.
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| H R 2036 | To amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to expand grant programs for gifted and talented students.
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| H R 2037 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide an exception to the reduction of renewable energy credit for certain authority under the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002.
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| H R 2038 | To amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to prohibit an authorized committee of a candidate who is a Member of Congress from accepting contributions from any entity for which the candidate sought a Congressional earmark.
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| H R 2039 | To clarify the applicability of the Buy American Act to products purchased for the use of the legislative branch, to prohibit the application of any of the exceptions to the requirements of such Act to products bearing a Congressional seal, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2040 | To authorize a process by which the Secretary of the Interior shall process acquisitions of certain real property of the Samish Indian Nation into trust, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2041 | To establish a program to provide child care through public-private partnerships.
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| H R 2042 | To authorize additional appropriations to the National Institutes of Health for research on the early detection of and the reduction of mortality rates attributed to breast cancer.
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| H R 2043 | To amend the Public Health Service Act to authorize capitation grants to increase the number of nursing faculty and students, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2044 | To reduce childhood obesity, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2045 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow a deduction for expenses paid for household and dependent care services necessary for gainful employment and to increase, and make refundable, the credit for such expenses.
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| H R 2046 | To amend the Solid Waste Disposal Act to require a refund value for certain beverage containers, and to provide resources for State pollution prevention and recycling programs, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2047 | To authorize appropriations for Operation Stonegarden of the Department of Homeland Security.
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| H R 2048 | To authorize appropriations for the Office of Detention and Removal of United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
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| H R 2049 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to modernize payments for ambulatory surgical centers under the Medicare Program.
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| H R 2050 | To prohibit the introduction or delivery for introduction into interstate commerce of novelty lighters, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2051 | To amend title 10, United States Code, to authorize extended benefits for certain autistic dependents of certain retirees.
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| H R 2052 | To provide for special rules relating to assistance concerning the Greensburg, Kansas tornado.
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| H R 2053 | To designate the United States courthouse located at 525 Magoffin Avenue in El Paso, Texas, as the "Albert Armendariz, Sr., United States Courthouse".
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| H R 2054 | To amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 regarding environmental education, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2055 | To establish a Salmon Stronghold Partnership program to protect wild Pacific salmon, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2056 | To reform the financing of House elections, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2057 | To protect the rights of consumers to diagnose, service, maintain, and repair their motor vehicles, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2058 | To require mental health screenings for members of the Armed Forces who are deployed in connection with a contingency operation, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2059 | To amend title 10, United States Code, to provide for the payment of monthly annuities under the Survivor Benefit Plan to a supplemental or special needs trust established for the sole benefit of a disabled dependent child of a participant in the Survivor Benefit Plan.
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| H R 2060 | To provide grants to community colleges to improve the accessibility of computer labs and to provide information technology training for both students and members of the public seeking to improve their computer literacy and information technology skills.
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| H R 2061 | To provide for parental notification and intervention in the case of a minor seeking an abortion.
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| H R 2062 | To amend the Migratory Bird Treaty Act to provide for penalties and enforcement for intentionally taking protected avian species, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2063 | To amend the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 to use repaid Troubled Asset Relief Program funds to pay down the public debt, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2064 | To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to provide immunity for reports of suspected terrorist activity or suspicious behavior and response.
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| H R 2065 | To amend the Toxic Substances Control Act to phase out the use of mercury in the manufacture of chlorine and caustic soda, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2066 | To amend the Public Health Service Act to promote mental and behavioral health services for underserved populations.
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| H R 2067 | To amend the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 to expand coverage under the Act, to increase protections for whistleblowers, to increase penalties for certain violators, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2068 | To improve the provision of telehealth services under the Medicare Program, to provide grants for the development of telehealth networks, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2069 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a credit for the purchase of new motor vehicles.
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| H R 2070 | To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to secure domestic sources of radiological materials that could be used to make a radiological dispersion device against access by terrorists, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2071 | To require that, in the questionnaires used in the taking of any decennial census of population, a checkbox or other similar option be included so that respondents may indicate Caribbean extraction or descent.
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| H R 2072 | To authorize States to use funds provided for the Chafee Foster Care Independence Program to provide vouchers to cover tuition costs at private schools, and transportation costs to and from public schools, of foster children of all ages.
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| H R 2073 | To amend title 23, United States Code, to permit the State of West Virginia to allow the operation of certain vehicles for the hauling of coal and coal by-products on Interstate Route 77 in Kanawha County, West Virginia.
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| H R 2074 | To provide effective employment, training, and career and technical education programs and to address barriers that result from family responsibilities, and to encourage and support individuals to enter nontraditional occupational fields.
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| H R 2075 | To amend title 13, United States Code, to require that, for purposes of any decennial census, any individual who is incarcerated as of the date on which such census is taken shall be attributed to the place that was such individual's last usual place of residence before such individual's incarceration began.
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| H R 2076 | To provide for the establishment of a border protection strategy for the international land borders of the United States, to address the ecological and environmental impacts of border security infrastructure, measures, and activities along the international land borders of the United States, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2077 | To amend the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act to require notifications under that Act for mass layoffs that occur at more than one site of an employer and to increase penalties for violation of the Act.
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| H R 2078 | To establish a commission to study employment and economic insecurity in the United States workforce.
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| H R 2079 | To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a special resources study of the Honouliuli Internment Camp site in the State of Hawaii, to determine the suitability and feasibility of establishing a unit of the National Park System.
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| H R 2080 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend the credit for nonbusiness energy property and to include biomass heating appliances in energy-efficient building property.
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| H R 2081 | To amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to establish a partnership between the Department of Education and the National Park Service to provide educational opportunities for students and teachers.
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| H R 2082 | To amend the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act to require States to accept absentee ballots of overseas military and civilian voters which are submitted by the voter to a provider of express mail services not later than the day before the date of the election involved for transmission to the appropriate State election official, to require the Secretary of Defense to reimburse overseas military voters for the costs of using a provider of express mail services to transmit the ballot to the official, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2083 | To secure smuggling routes on the U.S.-Mexico border, better prevent the smuggling of narcotics and weapons across the border, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2084 | To increase awareness of and research on autoimmune diseases, which are a major women's health problem, affect as many as 23.5 million Americans, and encompass more than 100 interrelated diseases, such as lupus, multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, Sjogren's syndrome, polymyositis, pemphigus, myasthenia gravis, Wegener's granulomatosis, psoriasis, celiac disease, autoimmune platelet disorders, scleroderma, alopecia areata, vitiligo, autoimmune thyroid disease, and sarcoidosis, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2085 | To affirm the religious freedom of taxpayers who are conscientiously opposed to participation in war, to provide that the income, estate, or gift tax payments of such taxpayers be used for nonmilitary purposes, to create the Religious Freedom Peace Tax Fund to receive such tax payments, to improve revenue collection, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2086 | To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to require that foods containing spices, flavoring, or coloring derived from meat, poultry, or other animal products (including insects) bear labeling stating that fact and their names.
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| H R 2087 | To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act relating to freshness dates on food.
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| H R 2088 | To require the Food and Drug Administration to finalize a standard for broad-spectrum protection in sunscreen products, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2089 | To authorize the Secretary of Education to award grants to educational organizations to carry out educational programs about the Holocaust.
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| H R 2090 | To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 431 State Street in Ogdensburg, New York, as the "Frederic Remington Post Office Building".
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| H R 2091 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to impose a retail tax on single-use carryout bags, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2092 | To amend the National Children's Island Act of 1995 to expand allowable uses for Kingman and Heritage Islands by the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2093 | To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act relating to beach monitoring, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2094 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to increase the per resident payment floor for direct graduate medical education payments under the Medicare Program.
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| H R 2095 | To authorize grants for programs that provide support services to exonerees.
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| H R 2096 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow long-term care insurance to be offered under cafeteria plans and flexible spending arrangements and to provide additional consumer protections for long-term care insurance.
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| H R 2097 | To require the Secretary of the Treasury to mint coins in commemoration of the bicentennial of the writing of the Star-Spangled Banner, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2098 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend the look-through treatment of payments between related controlled foreign corporations.
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| H R 2099 | To provide for the settlement of certain claims under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2100 | To provide for the conveyance of certain public land in Mohave Valley, Mohave County, Arizona, administered by the Bureau of Land Management to the Arizona Game and Fish Department, for use as a public shooting range.
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| H R 2101 | To promote reform and independence in the oversight of weapons system acquisition by the Department of Defense.
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| H R 2102 | To establish the United States Public Service Academy.
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| H R 2103 | To protect girls in developing countries through the prevention of child marriage, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2104 | To require public employees to perform the inspection of State and local surface transportation projects, and related essential public functions, to ensure public safety, the cost-effective use of transportation funding, and timely project delivery.
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| H R 2105 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to treat certain amounts paid for physical activity, fitness, and exercise as amounts paid for medical care.
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| H R 2106 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to expand workplace health incentives by equalizing the tax consequences of employee athletic facility use.
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| H R 2107 | To direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to conduct a public education campaign on umbilical cord blood stem cells, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2108 | To protect home buyers from predatory lending practices.
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| H R 2109 | To improve and enhance research and programs on childhood cancer survivorship, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2110 | To limit the authority of States to tax certain income of employees for employment duties performed in other States.
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| H R 2111 | To establish the Congressional Commission on Financial Accountability and Preparedness to examine and report upon the facts and causes relating to the breakdown in the financial and credit markets in 2008, and investigate and report to the Congress on its findings, conclusions, and recommendations for prosecution of criminal behavior.
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| H R 2112 | To establish a comprehensive interagency response to reduce lung cancer mortality in a timely manner.
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| H R 2113 | To require the Secretary of Labor to prescribe regulations requiring employers with more than one establishment and not fewer than 500 employees to report work-related deaths, injuries, and illnesses.
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| H R 2114 | To amend the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act of 2000 to include certain former nuclear weapons program workers in the Special Exposure Cohort under the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2115 | To amend the Public Health Service Act to establish an Office of Men's Health.
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| H R 2116 | To amend the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 and the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to extend the discretionary spending caps and the pay-as-you-go requirement, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2117 | To amend title II of the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 to establish financial literacy education programs for newly naturalized citizens of the United States.
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| H R 2118 | To amend the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 to provide for more detailed repayment procedures for assistance received under the Troubled Asset Relief Program.
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| H R 2119 | To amend the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 to require that repayments of assistance from the Troubled Asset Relief Program funds go to paying down the public debt.
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| H R 2120 | To provide for exploration, development, and production activities for mineral resources on the outer Continental Shelf, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2121 | To provide for the transfer of certain Federal Property to the Galveston Historical Foundation.
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| H R 2122 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a special rule for allocating the cover over of distilled spirits taxes between Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.
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| H R 2123 | To require the Secretary of the Treasury to mint coins in recognition of and to commemorate the 1863 invasion of Pennsylvania, the Battle of Gettysburg and President Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address.
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| H R 2124 | To extend subsections (c) and (d) of section 114 of the Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP Extension Act of 2007 (Public Law 110-173) to provide for regulatory stability during the development of facility and patient criteria for long-term care hospitals under the Medicare Program, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2125 | To direct the Secretary of Transportation to carry out programs and activities to improve highway safety.
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| H R 2126 | To provide for free mailing privileges for personal correspondence and parcels sent to members of the Armed Forces serving on active duty in Iraq or Afghanistan.
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| H R 2127 | To amend title 38, United States Code, to eliminate the income eligibility and service-connected disability rating requirements for the veterans beneficiary travel program administered by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs.
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| H R 2128 | To amend the Ethics in Government Act of 1978 to require information on the value of any personal residence and on the balance, interest rate, and remaining number of years of any mortgage secured by real property to be included in the annual financial disclosure reports required to be filed under such Act.
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| H R 2129 | To protect consumers from price-gouging of gasoline and other fuels, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2130 | To establish programs to provide counseling to homebuyers regarding voluntary home inspections and to train counselors to provide such counseling, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2131 | To amend the Foreign Affairs Reform and Restructuring Act of 1998 to reauthorize the United States Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy.
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| H R 2132 | To amend the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 to permit leave to care for a same-sex spouse, domestic partner, parent-in-law, adult child, sibling, or grandparent who has a serious health condition.
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| H R 2133 | To amend the Act of August 21, 1957, to allocate funds from certain electric power sales from the Niagara Power Project in New York to capital needs of Western New York, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2134 | To establish the Western Hemisphere Drug Policy Commission.
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| H R 2135 | To amend section 254 of the Communications Act of 1934 to provide that funds received as universal service contributions and the universal service support programs established pursuant to that section are not subject to certain provisions of title 31, United States Code, commonly known as the Antideficiency Act.
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| H R 2136 | To establish the Honorable Stephanie Tubbs Jones Fire Suppression Demonstration Incentive Program within the Department of Education to promote installation of fire sprinkler systems, or other fire suppression or prevention technologies, in qualified student housing and dormitories, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2137 | To amend the Public Health Service Act, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, and title 5, United States Code, to require individual and group health insurance coverage and group health plans and Federal employees health benefit plans to provide coverage for routine HIV screening.
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| H R 2138 | To provide grants to establish veteran's treatment courts.
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| H R 2139 | To direct the President to develop and implement a comprehensive national strategy to further the United States foreign policy objective of promoting global development, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2140 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify the withholding requirement with respect to proceeds from certain pari-mutuel wagers.
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| H R 2141 | To reform the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness.
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| H R 2142 | To require the review of Government programs at least once every 5 years for purposes of assessing their performance and improving their operations, and to establish the Performance Improvement Council.
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| H R 2143 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow the Secretary of the Treasury to not impose a penalty for failure to disclose reportable transactions when there is reasonable cause for such failure, to modify such penalty, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2144 | To permit a State to elect to receive the State's contributions to the Highway Trust Fund in lieu of its Federal-aid Highway program apportionment for the next fiscal year, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2145 | To amend title II of the Social Security Act to restrict the application of the windfall elimination provision to individuals whose combined monthly income from benefits under such title and other monthly periodic payments exceeds a minimum COLA-adjusted amount of $2,500 and to provide for a graduated implementation of such provision on amounts above such minimum amount.
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| H R 2146 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend the additional standard deduction for State and local real property taxes.
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| H R 2147 | To establish the Global Warming Economic Oversight Commission to study and report on the use by the Federal Government of funds from any auction or sale of greenhouse gas emissions allowances, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2148 | To promote the development and use of marine renewable energy technologies, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2149 | To authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services to conduct activities to rapidly advance treatments for spinal muscular atrophy, neuromuscular disease, and other pediatric diseases, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2150 | To increase the amount of direct loans that may be provided by the Secretary of Energy to improve facilities for advanced technology vehicles manufacturing.
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| H R 2151 | To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to prohibit discrimination in the payment of wages on account of sex, race, or national origin, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2152 | To authorize certain private rights of action under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977 for violations by foreign concerns that damage domestic businesses.
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| H R 2153 | To amend chapter 44 of title 18, United States Code, to increase the extent to which State law is used in determining whether a criminal conviction under State law is sufficient to deny a person the right to ship, transport, possess, or receive a firearm.
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| H R 2154 | To amend chapter 15 of title 5, United States Code, to provide for an additional, limited exception to the provision prohibiting a State or local officer or employee from being a candidate for elective office.
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| H R 2155 | To provide for the limitation on entry of steel, drywall, and cement products that fail to meet industry standards.
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| H R 2156 | To implement a pilot program to establish truck parking facilities.
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| H R 2157 | To provide increased funding for and improvement of the Debbie Smith DNA backlog grant program, to provide for DNA technology enhancement grants, to reauthorize certain DNA-related grant programs under the Justice For All Act of 2004, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2158 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a Federal income tax credit for the purchase of certain nonroad equipment with alternative power sources.
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| H R 2159 | To increase public safety by permitting the Attorney General to deny the transfer of a firearm or the issuance of firearms or explosives licenses to a known or suspected dangerous terrorist.
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| H R 2160 | To promote and encourage the valuable public service, disaster relief, and emergency communications provided on a volunteer basis by licensees of the Federal Communications Commission in the Amateur Radio Service, by undertaking a study of the uses of amateur radio for emergency and disaster relief communications, by identifying unnecessary or unreasonable impediments to the deployment of Amateur Radio emergency and disaster relief communications, and by making recommendations for relief of such unreasonable restrictions so as to expand the uses of amateur radio communications in Homeland Security planning and response.
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| H R 2161 | To nullify certain regulations promulgated under the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 and restore prior regulations and to direct the Secretary of Labor to revise certain additional regulations under that Act.
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| H R 2162 | To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 123 11th Avenue South in Nampa, Idaho, as the "Herbert A Littleton Postal Station".
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| H R 2163 | To authorize the Secretary of Transportation to make grants for certain streetcar projects, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2164 | To amend title 49, United States Code, to modify the authority of the Secretary of Transportation to make grants for new fixed guideway capital projects, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2165 | To amend Part II of the Federal Power Act to address known cybersecurity threats to the reliability of the bulk power system, and to provide emergency authority to address future cybersecurity threats to the reliability of the bulk power system, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2166 | To amend the Communications Act of 1934 to provide universal service support to head start programs, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2167 | To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a study to assess the suitability and feasibility of designating certain lands as the Los Caminos del Rio Los Caminos del Rio National Heritage Corridor, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2168 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to suspend the penalty on underpayments of Federal income tax for unemployed individuals.
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| H R 2169 | To limit Federal spending to a percentage of GDP.
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| H R 2170 | To direct the Secretary of Agriculture to establish a program to provide covered institutions loans for conversion to use of biomass for energy generation.
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| H R 2171 | To authorize the Archivist of the United States to make grants to States for the preservation and dissemination of historical records.
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| H R 2172 | To promote secure ferry transportation and for other purposes.
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| H R 2173 | To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1009 Crystal Road in Island Falls, Maine, as the "Carl B. Smith Post Office".
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| H R 2174 | To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 18 Main Street in Howland, Maine, as the "Clyde Hichborn Post Office".
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| H R 2175 | To prohibit as indecent the broadcasting of any advertisement for a medication for the treatment of erectile dysfunction, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2176 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to continue the ability of hospitals to supply a needed workforce of nurses and allied health professionals by preserving funding for hospital operated nursing and allied health education programs.
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| H R 2177 | To require accountability for personnel performing private security functions under Federal contracts, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2178 | To amend the Controlled Substances Act and the Controlled Substances Import and Export Act to eliminate certain mandatory minimum penalties relating to crack cocaine offenses.
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| H R 2179 | To permit commercial vehicles at weights up to 129,000 pounds to use certain highways of the Interstate System in the State of Idaho, which would provide significant savings in the transportation of goods throughout the United States, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2180 | To amend title 38, United States Code, to waive housing loan fees for certain veterans with service-connected disabilities called to active service.
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| H R 2181 | To require servicers of mortgages on single family homes to provide notice to mortgagors of possible eligibility for Federal mortgage assistance.
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| H R 2182 | To amend the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 to provide for enhanced State and local oversight of activities conducted pursuant to such Act, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2183 | To improve public participation and overall decision-making at the Federal Communications Commission, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2184 | To assist States in making voluntary high quality universal prekindergarten programs available to 3- to 5-year olds for at least 1 year preceding kindergarten.
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| H R 2185 | To provide for the joint appointment of the Architect of the Capitol by the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the Majority Leader of the Senate, the Minority Leaders of the House of Representatives and Senate, and the chairs and ranking minority members of the committees of Congress with jurisdiction over the Office of the Architect of the Capitol, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2186 | To extend the supplemental security income program to American Samoa.
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| H R 2187 | 21st Century Green High-Performing Public School Facilities Act | |
| H R 2188 | To authorize the Secretary of the Interior, through the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, to conduct a Joint Venture Program to protect, restore, enhance, and manage migratory bird populations, their habitats, and the ecosystems they rely on, through voluntary actions on public and private lands, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2189 | To prevent abuse of Government charge cards.
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| H R 2190 | To amend the Toxic Substances Control Act to phase out the use of mercury in the manufacture of chlorine and caustic soda, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2191 | To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 34 A Street NE. in Miami, Oklahoma, as the "Steve Owens Post Office Building".
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| H R 2192 | To establish an integrated Federal program to protect, restore, and conserve the Nation's natural resources in response to the threats of climate change and ocean acidification.
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| H R 2193 | To prohibit the Secretary of Defense from implementing any policy to prevent or place undue restriction on the sale of intact spent military small arms ammunition casings to domestic manufacturers of small arms ammunition that are approved under trade security controls.
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| H R 2194 | To amend the Iran Sanctions Act of 1996 to enhance United States diplomatic efforts with respect to Iran by expanding economic sanctions against Iran.
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| H R 2195 | To amend the Federal Power Act to provide additional authorities to adequately protect the critical electric infrastructure against cyber attack, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2196 | To amend title 17, United States Code, to extend protection to fashion design, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2197 | To assist the Administrator of the Small Business Administration to determine whether a franchisee is affiliated with a franchisor in the temporary employee services industry, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2198 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a shorter recovery period for the depreciation of certain systems installed in nonresidential real property or residential rental property.
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| H R 2199 | To amend the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 to authorize the Secretary of Labor to prevent employee exposure to imminent dangers.
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| H R 2200 | To authorize the Transportation Security Administration's programs relating to the provision of transportation security, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2201 | To amend part B of title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide a floor of 1.0 for the practice expense and for the work expense geographic practice cost indices (GPCI) under the Medicare Program.
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| H R 2202 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for a nonrefundable tax credit against income tax for individuals who purchase a residential safe storage device for the safe storage of firearms.
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| H R 2203 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the excise tax on telephone and other communications services.
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| H R 2204 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide payment under part A of the Medicare Program on a reasonable cost basis for anesthesia services furnished by an anesthesiologist in certain rural hospitals in the same manner as payments are provided for anesthesia services furnished by anesthesiologist assistants and certified registered nurse anesthetists in such hospitals.
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| H R 2205 | To expand quality programs of early childhood home visitation that increase school readiness, child abuse and neglect prevention, and early identification of developmental and health delays, including potential mental health concerns, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2206 | To amend the Safe Drinking Water Act to reauthorize the technical assistance to small public water systems, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2207 | To establish a Commission to examine the long-term global challenges facing the United States and develop legislative and administrative proposals to improve interagency cooperation.
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| H R 2208 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exclude from income and employment taxes real property tax abatements for seniors and disabled individuals in exchange for services.
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| H R 2209 | To amend titles XVI, XVIII, XIX, and XXI of the Social Security Act to remove limitations on Medicaid, Medicare, SSI, and SCHIP benefits for persons in custody pending disposition of charges.
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| H R 2210 | To direct the Secretary of the Interior to convey to the Nevada System of Higher Education certain Federal land located in Clark and Nye counties, Nevada, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2211 | To facilitate planning, construction, and operation of a secure national clean energy grid.
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| H R 2212 | To improve the loan guarantee program of the Department of Energy under title XVII of the Energy Policy Act of 2005, to provide additional options for deploying energy technologies, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2213 | To reauthorize the Neotropical Migratory Bird Conservation Act.
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| H R 2214 | To empower women in Afghanistan, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2215 | To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 140 Merriman Road in Garden City, Michigan, as the "John J. Shivnen Post Office Building".
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| H R 2216 | To amend title 49, United States Code, to direct the Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security (Transportation Security Administration) to transfer unclaimed money recovered at airport security checkpoints to United Service Organizations, Incorporated, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2217 | To amend the Truth in Lending Act to require creditors to report the terms and conditions of all business, marketing, promotional agreements and college affinity card agreements with institutions of higher education and alumni organizations, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2218 | To prohibit the use of Federal funds for any universal or mandatory mental health screening program.
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| H R 2219 | To amend the Law Enforcement Pay Equity Act of 2000 to permit certain annuitants of the retirement programs of the United States Park Police and United States Secret Service Uniformed Division to receive the adjustments in pension benefits to which such annuitants would otherwise be entitled as a result of the conversion of members of the United States Park Police and United States Secret Service Uniformed Division to a new salary schedule under the amendments made by such Act.
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| H R 2220 | To amend titles V and XIX of the Social Security Act to improve essential oral health care for lower-income individuals under the Maternal and Child Health Program and the Medicaid Program.
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| H R 2221 | To protect consumers by requiring reasonable security policies and procedures to protect computerized data containing personal information, and to provide for nationwide notice in the event of a security breach.
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| H R 2222 | To direct the Secretary of Commerce to make grants for programs promoting community greening initiatives, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2223 | To provide for nationwide expansion of the pilot program for national and State background checks on direct patient access employees of long-term care facilities or providers.
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| H R 2224 | To amend section 7(a) of the Small Business Act to provide assistance to motor vehicle dealers, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2225 | For the relief of Roberto Luis Dunoyer Mejia, Consuelo Cardona Molina, Camilo Dunoyer Cardona, and Pablo Dunoyer Cardona.
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| H R 2226 | To rescind certain funds.
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| H R 2227 | To greatly enhance America's path toward energy independence and economic and national security, to conserve energy use, to promote innovation, to achieve lower emissions, cleaner air, cleaner water, and cleaner land, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2228 | To amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to allow States to count certain students formerly identified as limited English proficient as being within the limited English proficient subgroup, and certain students formerly identified as students with disabilities as being within the students with disabilities subgroup.
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| H R 2229 | To amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to allow States to adopt alternate and modified standards for students with disabilities.
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| H R 2230 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a tax credit for teachers and principals who work in certain low income schools.
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| H R 2231 | To amend the Public Health Service Act to ensure that victims of public health emergencies have meaningful and immediate access to medically necessary health care services.
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| H R 2232 | To amend title 23, United States Code, to direct the Secretary of Transportation to establish national tunnel inspection standards for the proper safety inspection and evaluation of all highway tunnels, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2233 | To authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services to designate health empowerment zones, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2234 | To enhance the energy security of the United States, reduce dependence on imported oil, improve the energy efficiency of the transportation sector, and reduce emissions through the expansion of grid supported transportation.
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| H R 2235 | To amend part B of title XVIII of the Social Security Act to limit the penalty for late enrollment under part B of the Medicare Program to 10 percent and twice the period of no enrollment, and to exclude periods of COBRA and retiree coverage from such late enrollment penalty.
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| H R 2236 | To prohibit health insurance companies from denying individual health insurance coverage or from discriminating in benefits under such coverage because of the receipt of grief counseling.
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| H R 2237 | To amend title 10, United States Code, to direct the Secretary of Defense to carry out a pilot program to determine the feasibility and desirability of equipping turbojet aircraft in the Civil Reserve Air Fleet with a missile defense system.
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| H R 2238 | To direct the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration to issue an order regarding secondary cockpit barriers.
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| H R 2239 | To award competitive grants to eligible partnerships to enable the partnerships to implement innovative strategies at the secondary school level to improve student achievement and prepare at-risk students for postsecondary education and the workforce.
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| H R 2240 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow a nonrefundable credit for mentoring and housing young adults.
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| H R 2241 | To provide for the settlement of certain claims against Iraq by victims of torture and terrorism.
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| H R 2242 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to permanently extend certain expiring provisions relating to education.
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| H R 2243 | To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide for an increase in the amount of monthly dependency and indemnity compensation payable to surviving spouses by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs.
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| H R 2244 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow an individual who is entitled to receive child support a refundable credit equal to the amount of unpaid child support and to increase the tax liability of the individual required to pay such support by the amount of the unpaid child support.
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| H R 2245 | To authorize the President, in conjunction with the 40th anniversary of the historic and first lunar landing by humans in 1969, to award gold medals on behalf of the United States Congress to Neil A. Armstrong, the first human to walk on the moon; Edwin E. "Buzz" Aldrin, Jr., the pilot of the lunar module and second person to walk on the moon; Michael Collins, the pilot of their Apollo 11 mission's command module; and, the first American to orbit the Earth, John Herschel Glenn, Jr.
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| H R 2246 | To promote and enhance the operation of local building code enforcement administration across the country by establishing a competitive Federal matching grant program.
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| H R 2247 | To amend title 5, United States Code, to make technical amendments to certain provisions of title 5, United States Code, enacted by the Congressional Review Act.
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| H R 2248 | To establish a grant program to assist States in inspecting hotel rooms for bed bugs, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2249 | To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to provide for increased price transparency of hospital information and to provide for additional research on consumer information on charges and out-of-pocket costs.
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| H R 2250 | To immediately provide for domestic energy production and jobs and to pursue alternatives in renewable energy.
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| H R 2251 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for the distribution of additional residency positions, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2252 | To improve the Federal infrastructure for health care quality improvement in the United States.
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| H R 2253 | To establish a Financial Markets Commission, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2254 | To amend title 38, United States Code, to clarify presumptions relating to the exposure of certain veterans who served in the vicinity of the Republic of Vietnam.
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| H R 2255 | To amend the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act of 1995 to ensure that actions taken by regulatory agencies are subject to that Act, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2256 | To authorize the Archivist of the United States to make grants to States for the preservation and dissemination of historical records.
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| H R 2257 | To amend title 38, United States Code, to improve the outreach activities of the Department of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2258 | To adjust the immigration status of certain Liberian nationals who were provided refuge in the United States.
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| H R 2259 | To amend title 18, United States Code, to strengthen the post-employment restrictions for Members of Congress.
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| H R 2260 | To provide the Secretary of Health and Human Services and the Secretary of Education with increased authority with respect to asthma programs, and to provide for increased funding for such programs.
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| H R 2261 | To designate Greece as a program country for purposes of the visa waiver program established under section 217 of the Immigration and Nationality Act.
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| H R 2262 | To amend the Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act to include bullying and harassment prevention programs.
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| H R 2263 | To amend title II of the Social Security Act to eliminate the waiting periods for people with disabilities for entitlement to disability benefits and Medicare, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2264 | For the relief of Maria Carlota Tribaldo, Jose Vladimir Orellana-Hernandez, Bernardo Tribaldo, Yulieth Tribaldo, and Yedssi Aceneth Moreno Forero.
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| H R 2265 | To amend the Reclamation Wastewater and Groundwater Study and Facilities Act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to participate in the Magna Water District water reuse and groundwater recharge project, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2266 | To delay for 1 year the date for compliance with certain regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System under subchapter IV of chapter 53 of title 31, United States Code.
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| H R 2267 | To amend title 31, United States Code, to provide for the licensing of Internet gambling activities by the Secretary of the Treasury, to provide for consumer protections on the Internet, to enforce the tax code, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2268 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to regulate and tax Internet gambling.
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| H R 2269 | To establish the Gulf Coast Civic Works Commission within the Department of Homeland Security Office of Federal Coordinator of Gulf Coast Rebuilding to administer the Gulf Coast Civic Works Project to provide job-training opportunities and increase employment to aid in the recovery of the Gulf Coast region.
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| H R 2270 | To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide for the establishment of a compensation fund to make payments to qualified World War II veterans on the basis of certain qualifying service.
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| H R 2271 | To prevent United States businesses from cooperating with repressive governments in transforming the Internet into a tool of censorship and surveillance, to fulfill the responsibility of the United States Government to promote freedom of expression on the Internet, to restore public confidence in the integrity of United States businesses, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2272 | To lift the trade embargo on Cuba, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2273 | To amend the Public Health Service Act to establish direct care registered nurse-to-patient staffing ratio requirements in hospitals, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2274 | To repeal ineffective or unneccesary education programs in order to restore the focus of Federal programs on quality preschool, elementary, secondary, and postsecondary education programs for disadvantaged students and students with disabilities.
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| H R 2275 | To support research and public awareness activities with respect to inflammatory bowel disease, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2276 | To establish grants to provide health services for improved nutrition, increased physical activity, obesity and eating disorder prevention, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2277 | To establish and provide for the treatment of Individual Development Accounts, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2278 | To direct the President to transmit to Congress a report on anti-American incitement to violence in the Middle East, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2279 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to eliminate contributing factors to disparities in breast cancer treatment through the development of a uniform set of consensus-based breast cancer treatment performance measures for a 6-year quality reporting system and value-based purchasing system under the Medicare Program.
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| H R 2280 | To reauthorize the impact aid program under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965.
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| H R 2281 | To establish a temporary program in the Small Business Administration to assist small business concerns by decreasing interest payments for certain loans, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2282 | To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to reauthorize the State Criminal Alien Assistance Program.
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| H R 2283 | To amend the Clean Air Act to permit the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to waive the lifecycle greenhouse gas emission reduction requirements for renewable fuel production, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2284 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow individuals to defer tax on income reinvested in a partnership or S corporation.
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| H R 2285 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow a business credit for the acquisition of fleet vehicles.
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| H R 2286 | To amend title II of the Social Security Act and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide that an employee whose employment for an employer is not otherwise covered for social security benefit purposes may irrevocably elect to have his or her employment with such employer treated as so covered and subject to social security taxes.
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| H R 2287 | To amend title II of the Social Security Act to exclude from creditable wages and self-employment income wages earned for services by aliens illegally performed in the United States and self-employment income derived from a trade or business illegally conducted in the United States.
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| H R 2288 | To amend Public Law 106-392 to maintain annual base funding for the Upper Colorado and San Juan fish recovery programs through fiscal year 2023.
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| H R 2289 | To establish a meaningful opportunity for parole or similar release for child offenders sentenced to life in prison, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2290 | To provide for the application of measures to foreign persons who transfer to Iran, Syria, or North Korea certain goods, services, or technology that could assist Iran, Syria, or North Korea to extract or mill their domestic sources of uranium ore.
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| H R 2291 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to eliminate coinsurance for screening mammography and colorectal cancer screening tests in order to promote the early detection of cancer.
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| H R 2292 | To amend the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, the Public Health Service Act, and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to require coverage of preventive care for children.
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| H R 2293 | To amend the Trade Act of 1974 to require a Public Health Advisory Committee on Trade to be included in the trade advisory committee system, to require public health organizations to be included on the Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations and other relevant sectoral or functional advisory committees, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2294 | To require the approval of the relevant State governor and legislature and the President's notification and certification before the transfer or release of an individual currently detained at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to a location in the United States, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2295 | To assist local communities with closed and active military bases, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2296 | To reform the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, modernize firearms laws and regulations, protect the community from criminals, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2297 | To require the President to call a White House Conference on Food and Nutrition.
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| H R 2298 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to increase the exclusion for employer-provided dependent care assistance.
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| H R 2299 | To amend the Small Business Act to enhance services to small business concerns that are disadvantaged, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2300 | To provide the United States with a comprehensive energy package to place Americans on a path to a secure economic future through increased energy innovation, conservation, and production.
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| H R 2301 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act with respect to treatment of didactic and scholarly activities and training in outpatient settings for purposes of payment for graduate medical education under the Medicare Program.
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| H R 2302 | To amend title 10, United States Code, to limit recoupments of separation pay, special separation benefits, and voluntary separation incentive from members of the Armed Forces subsequently receiving retired or retainer pay.
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| H R 2303 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to eliminate the restriction on reducing Federal income tax refunds for past-due State income tax obligations of out-of-state residents in the case of States with reciprocal agreements with the Federal Government to reduce State income tax refunds for Federal income tax obligations.
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| H R 2304 | To amend title 10, United States Code, to direct the Secretary of Defense to prohibit the unauthorized use of names and images of members of the Armed Forces.
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| H R 2305 | To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to eliminate the diversity immigrant program.
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| H R 2306 | To provide for the establishment of a National Climate Service, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2307 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide Medicare beneficiaries with access to geriatric assessments and chronic care management and coordination services, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2308 | To amend title 18, United States Code, to prohibit certain interstate conduct relating to exotic animals and certain computer-assisted remote hunting, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2309 | To provide authority to the Federal Trade Commission to expedite rulemakings concerning consumer credit or debt and to direct the Commission to examine and promulgate rules with regard to debt settlement and automobile sales, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2310 | To authorize assistance to small- and medium-sized businesses to promote exports to the People's Republic of China, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2311 | To provide for increased funding and support for diplomatic engagement with the People's Republic of China.
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| H R 2312 | To authorize the Secretary of Energy to make grants to encourage cooperation between the United States and China on joint research, development, or commercialization of carbon capture and sequestration technology, improved energy efficiency, or renewable energy sources.
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| H R 2313 | To support programs that offer instruction in Chinese language and culture, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2314 | To express the policy of the United States regarding the United States relationship with Native Hawaiians and to provide a process for the recognition by the United States of the Native Hawaiian governing entity.
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| H R 2315 | To prohibit the use of funds to transfer enemy combatants detained at Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to facilities in Ohio or to construct facilities in Ohio for such enemy combatants.
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| H R 2316 | To direct the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a study of water resources in the State of California, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2317 | To authorize the President to posthumously award a gold medal on behalf of the Congress to Robert M. La Follette, Sr., in recognition of his important contributions to the Progressive movement, the State of Wisconsin, and the United States.
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| H R 2318 | To require the Secretary of the Treasury to mint coins in commemoration of Robert M. La Follette, Sr., in recognition of his important contributions to the Progressive movement, the State of Wisconsin, and the United States.
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| H R 2319 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to make all veterans eligible for home loans under the veterans mortgage revenue bond program.
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| H R 2320 | To authorize the Secretary of the Army to retain funds collected from recreation fees at Lake Texoma to repair flood-damaged recreation facilities.
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| H R 2321 | To continue the application of certain procedures in the House of Representatives applicable to medicare funding legislation, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2322 | To amend section 18 of the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to establish a pilot program that requires schools to post nutritional content information regarding foods served at schools and to teach students how to make healthy food selections, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2323 | To direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to develop a national strategic action plan to assist health professionals in preparing for and responding to the public health effects of climate change, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2324 | To require criminal background checks on all firearms transactions occurring at gun shows.
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| H R 2325 | To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1300 Matamoros Street in Laredo, Texas, as the "Laredo Veterans Post Office".
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| H R 2326 | To promote the national security and stability of the United States economy by reducing the dependence of the United States on foreign oil, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2327 | To preserve consumer choice and access to credit and enhance consumer disclosures.
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| H R 2328 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow a credit against income tax for the installation of residential micro-combined heat and power property.
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| H R 2329 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend the deduction for certain expenses of elementary and secondary school teachers.
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| H R 2330 | To direct the Secretary of the Interior to carry out a study to determine the suitability and feasibility of establishing Camp Hale as a unit of the National Park System.
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| H R 2331 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to waive the 10 percent penalty on distributions from qualified retirement plans for mortgage payments on qualified residences and in respect of unemployment and to increase the age at which distributions from qualified retirement plans are required to begin from 70 1/2 to 75.
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| H R 2332 | To amend the Peace Corps Act and the National and Community Service Trust Act to increase the affordability of medical education.
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| H R 2333 | To establish a District of Columbia National Guard Educational Assistance Program to encourage the enlistment and retention of persons in the District of Columbia National Guard by providing financial assistance to enable members of the National Guard of the District of Columbia to attend undergraduate, vocational, or technical courses.
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| H R 2334 | To extend to the Mayor of the District of Columbia the same authority over the National Guard of the District of Columbia as the Governors of the several States exercise over the National Guard of those States with respect to administration of the National Guard and its use to respond to natural disasters and other civil disturbances, while ensuring that the President retains control of the National Guard of the District of Columbia to respond to homeland defense emergencies.
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| H R 2335 | To amend title 49, United States Code, to direct the Secretary of Homeland Security to carry out a program to ensure fair treatment in the security screening of individuals with metal implants traveling in air transportation.
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| H R 2336 | To encourage energy efficiency and conservation and development of renewable energy sources for housing, commercial structures, and other buildings, and to create sustainable communities.
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| H R 2337 | To direct the Secretary of Transportation to make grants for certain transportation feasibility studies for southern New Mexico and west Texas.
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| H R 2338 | To prohibit any alien formerly detained at the Department of Defense detention facility at Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and brought into the United States from receiving any Federal, State, or local public benefit.
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| H R 2339 | To establish a program that supports the efforts of States to provide partial or full wage replacement to new parents, so that the new parents are able to spend time with a new infant or newly adopted child, and to other employees, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2340 | To resolve the claims of the Bering Straits Native Corporation and the State of Alaska to land adjacent to Salmon Lake in the State of Alaska and to provide for the conveyance to the Bering Straits Native Corporation of certain other public land in partial satisfaction of the land entitlement of the Corporation under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act.
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| H R 2341 | For the relief of Paul Green.
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| H R 2342 | To amend title 38, United States Code, to direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to establish a family caregiver program to furnish support services to family members certified as family caregivers who provide personal care services for certain disabled veterans, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2343 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the partial payment requirement on submissions of offers-in-compromise.
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| H R 2344 | To amend section 114 of title 17, United States Code, to provide for agreements for the reproduction and performance of sound recordings by webcasters.
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| H R 2345 | To amend the Fair Credit Reporting Act to provide for an exclusion from Red Flag Guidelines for health care practices with 20 or fewer employees.
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| H R 2346 | Making supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2009, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2347 | To encourage the manufacture and use of efficient and advanced electric transmission cables, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2348 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to encourage investment in electric transmission technologies that improve the efficiency of power delivery.
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| H R 2349 | To provide in personam jurisdiction in civil actions against contractors of the United States Government performing contracts abroad with respect to serious bodily injuries of members of the Armed Forces, civilian employees of the United States Government, and United States citizen employees of companies performing work for the United States Government in connection with contractor activities, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2350 | To amend the Public Health Service Act and the Social Security Act to increase the number of primary care physicians and primary care providers and to improve patient access to primary care services, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2351 | To amend the Federal Credit Union Act to increase the borrowing authority of the National Credit Union Administration, establish a National Credit Union Share Insurance Fund restoration plan period, assess insured credit unions for the costs associated with the corporate credit union stabilization effort on an anti-cyclical basis, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2352 | To amend the Small Business Act, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2353 | To require electric utilities to notify electric consumers of the cost of emission allowances associated with the electricity delivered to such consumers, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2354 | To provide for increased research, coordination, and expansion of health promotion programs through the Department of Health and Human Services.
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| H R 2355 | To establish a National Goods Movement Improvement Fund to provide funding for infrastructure projects that will improve the movement of goods, mitigate environmental damage caused by the movement of goods, and enhance the security of transported goods.
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| H R 2356 | To amend section 1119 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to require each State educational agency receiving assistance under part A of title I of such Act to consider a teacher highly qualified if the teacher is (or was) highly qualified in at least 1 other State and has at least 5 years of teaching experience.
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| H R 2357 | To amend the Communications Act of 1934 to facilitate number portability in order to increase consumer choice of voice service provider.
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| H R 2358 | To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to require coverage under the Medicaid Program for freestanding birth center services.
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| H R 2359 | To ensure parity between the temporary duty imposed on ethanol and tax credits provided on ethanol.
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| H R 2360 | To amend the Public Health Service Act to establish a nationwide health insurance purchasing pool for small businesses and the self-employed that would offer a choice of private health plans and make health coverage more affordable, predictable, and accessible.
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| H R 2361 | To require the accreditation of English language training programs, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2362 | To amend the Energy and Policy Act of 2005 to reauthorize a provision relating to geothermal lease revenue, to direct the Secretary of the Interior to establish a pilot project to streamline certain Federal renewable energy permitting processes, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2363 | To require the Secretary of Homeland Security to provide for ceremonies on or near Independence Day for administering oaths of allegiance to legal immigrants whose applications for naturalization have been approved.
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| H R 2364 | To amend section 211(o) of the Clean Air Act to change the definition of renewable biomass in the renewable fuel program, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2365 | To require the establishment of a Consumer Price Index for Elderly Consumers to compute cost-of-living increases for Social Security and Medicare benefits under titles II and XVIII of the Social Security Act.
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| H R 2366 | To amend the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, the Public Health Service Act, and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to require group and individual health insurance coverage and group health plans to provide for coverage of oral cancer drugs on terms no less favorable than the coverage provided for intravenously administered anticancer medications.
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| H R 2367 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow a credit to employers for reimbursing the expenses of employees who provide carpooling.
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| H R 2368 | To encourage water efficiency.
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| H R 2369 | To improve mental and substance use health care.
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| H R 2370 | To amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to require the disclosure of certain information by persons conducting phone banks during campaigns for election for Federal office, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2371 | To use tradable greenhouse gas emission allowances under the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 to provide assistance to residential and commercial consumers of home heating oil and propane in reducing the effective costs of such fuels through State programs to deliver cost-effective efficiency programs and other consumer assistance.
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| H R 2372 | To amend the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 to require the President to certify that the Yucca Mountain site remains the designated site for the development of a repository for the disposal of high-level radioactive waste, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2373 | To amend part B of title XVIII of the Social Security Act to restore payments for home oxygen therapy through the beneficiary's period of medical need.
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| H R 2374 | To amend the Fair Credit Reporting Act to make credit scores available to consumers once each year free of charge and to allow consumers to see the credit score used in connection with any particular lending or credit decision, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2375 | To require the application of sanctions against affiliates of the Iran Revolutionary Guard Corps, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2376 | To withhold United States funding from the United Nations Human Rights Council.
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| H R 2377 | To direct the Secretary of Education to establish and administer an awards program recognizing excellence exhibited by public school system employees providing services to students in pre-kindergarten through higher education.
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| H R 2378 | To amend title VII of the Tariff Act of 1930 to clarify that fundamental exchange-rate misalignment by any foreign nation is actionable under United States countervailing and antidumping duty laws, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2379 | To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide certain veterans an opportunity to increase the amount of Veterans' Group Life Insurance.
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| H R 2380 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to reduce social security payroll taxes and to reduce the reliance of the United States economy on carbon-based energy sources.
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| H R 2381 | To direct the Secretary of Labor to issue an occupational safety and health standard to reduce injuries to patients, direct-care registered nurses, and all other health care workers by establishing a safe patient handling and injury prevention standard, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2382 | To amend the Truth in Lending Act to prohibit unfair practices in electronic payment system networks, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2383 | To reauthorize the Cane River National Heritage Area Commission and expand the boundaries of the Cane River National Heritage Area in the State of Louisiana.
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| H R 2384 | To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to enter into an agreement with Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, Louisiana, to construct a curatorial center for the use of Cane River Creole National Historical Park, the National Center for Preservation Technology and Training, and the University, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2385 | To require the Secretary of Energy to assemble a team of technical, policy, and financial experts to address the energy needs of the insular areas of the United States and the Freely Associated States through the development of action plans aimed at reducing reliance on imported fossil fuels and increasing use of indigenous clean-energy resources, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2386 | To amend the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to include American Samoa, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands in certain efforts to reduce diesel emissions.
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| H R 2387 | To require the use of long-term strategies for United States national security, diplomacy, and foreign assistance and the full use of performance-based budgeting for foreign assistance programs, projects, and activities, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2388 | To assure that the services of a nonemergency department physician are available to hospital patients 24 hours a day, seven days a week in all non-Federal hospitals with at least 100 licensed beds.
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| H R 2389 | To require the Secretary of Defense to establish registries of members and former members of the Armed Forces exposed in the line of duty to occupational and environmental health chemical hazards, to amend title 38, United States Code, to provide health care to veterans exposed to such hazards, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2390 | To provide for a Medicare prescription drug outreach demonstration program for individuals who are eligible for benefits under the Medicare Program and for medical assistance under Medicaid and who have mental disabilities.
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| H R 2391 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to increase the amounts available in the Highway Trust Fund.
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| H R 2392 | To improve the effectiveness of the Government's collection, analysis, and dissemination of business information by using modern interactive data technologies.
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| H R 2393 | To amend the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act to improve procedures for the collection and delivery of marked absentee ballots of absent overseas uniformed services voters, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2394 | To establish the Family Foreclosure Rescue Corporation to provide emergency relief to refinance home mortgages of homeowners in foreclosure or default.
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| H R 2395 | To enable state and local promotion of natural gas, flexible fuel, and high-efficiency motor vehicle fleets.
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| H R 2396 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for an extension of the employer wage credit for employees who are active duty members of the Uniformed Services.
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| H R 2397 | To amend title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 to require a plaintiff to provide a defendant with an opportunity to correct a violation of such title voluntarily before the plaintiff may commence a civil action, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2398 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to waive recapture of the first-time homebuyer credit for a member of the Armed Forces who sells the residence for which the member receives the credit during the 36-month period after the purchase of the residence because the member is transferred to a new duty station, is deployed overseas, or is required to reside in Government quarters during such period.
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| H R 2399 | To amend the Social Security Act and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to assure comprehensive, affordable health insurance coverage for all Americans through an American Health Benefits Program.
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| H R 2400 | To amend the Public Health Service Act to enhance efforts to address antimicrobial resistance.
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| H R 2401 | No Fly, No Buy Act of 2009 | |
| H R 2402 | To amend the Public Health Service Act to ensure fairness in the coverage of women in the individual health insurance market.
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| H R 2403 | To provide loan forgiveness to teachers of integrated career and technical education coursework at rural secondary schools.
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| H R 2404 | To require the Secretary of Defense to submit a report to Congress outlining the United States exit strategy for United States military forces in Afghanistan participating in Operation Enduring Freedom.
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| H R 2405 | To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide veterans enrolled in the health system of the Department of Veterans Affairs the option of receiving covered health services through facilities other than those of the Department.
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| H R 2406 | To provide for enhanced Federal, State, and local assistance in the enforcement of the immigration laws, to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act, to authorize appropriations to carry out the State Criminal Alien Assistance Program, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2407 | To establish a National Climate Service at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
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| H R 2408 | To expand the research and awareness activities of the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention with respect to scleroderma, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2409 | To amend section 211(o) of the Clean Air Act, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2410 | To authorize appropriations for the Department of State and the Peace Corps for fiscal years 2010 and 2011, to modernize the Foreign Service, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2411 | To direct the Architect of the Capitol to fly the flag of a State over the Capitol each year on the anniversary of the date of the State's admission to the Union.
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| H R 2412 | To exempt children of certain Filipino World War II veterans from the numerical limitations on immigrant visas.
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| H R 2413 | To provide for enhanced treatment, support, services, and research for individuals with autism spectrum disorders and their families.
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| H R 2414 | To improve agricultural job opportunities, benefits, and security for aliens in the United States, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2415 | To require the Federal Government to use purchases of goods or services through the Federal supply schedules for the purpose of meeting certain contracting goals for participation by small business concerns owned and controlled by service-disabled veterans.
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| H R 2416 | To require the Department of Veterans Affairs to use purchases of goods or services through the Federal supply schedules for the purpose of meeting certain contracting goals for participation by small business concerns owned and controlled by veterans, including veterans with service-connected disabilities.
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| H R 2417 | To amend title II of the Social Security Act to preclude use of the social security account number on Government-issued identification cards issued in connection with benefits under Medicare, Medicaid, and CHIP, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2418 | To provide Federal coordination and assistance in preventing gang violence.
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| H R 2419 | To require the Secretary of Defense to establish a medical surveillance system to identify members of the Armed Forces exposed to chemical hazards resulting from the disposal of waste in Iraq and Afghanistan, to prohibit the disposal of waste by the Armed Forces in a manner that would produce dangerous levels of toxins, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2420 | To amend the Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976 to ensure a uniform Federal scheme of regulation of restrictions in the use of certain substances in electrical products and equipment in interstate and foreign commerce, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2421 | To require the Secretary of the Treasury to mint coins in commemoration of the centennial of the establishment of Mother's Day.
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| H R 2422 | To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 702 East University Avenue in Georgetown, Texas, as the "Kyle G. West Post Office Building".
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| H R 2423 | To designate the Federal building and United States courthouse located at 1300 Victoria Street in Laredo, Texas, as the "George P. Kazen Federal Building and United States Courthouse", and to designate the jury room in that Federal building and United States courthouse as the "Marcel C. Notzon II Jury Room".
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| H R 2424 | To amend title 31, United States Code, to authorize reviews by the Comptroller General of the United States of any credit facility established by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System or any Federal reserve bank during the current financial crisis, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2425 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to improve access to diabetes self-management training by designating certain certified diabetes educators as certified providers for purposes of outpatient diabetes self-management training services under part B of the Medicare Program.
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| H R 2426 | To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to extend the food labeling requirements of the Nutrition Labeling and Education Act of 1990 to enable customers to make informed choices about the nutritional content of standard menu items in large chain restaurants.
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| H R 2427 | To amend title XXVII of the Public Health Service Act to establish Federal standards for health insurance forms, quality, fair marketing, and honesty in out-of-network coverage in the group and individual health insurance markets, to improve transparency and accountability in those markets, and to establish a Federal Office of Health Insurance Oversight to monitor performance in those markets, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2428 | To amend title 23, United States Code, to direct the Secretary of Transportation to require that broadband conduit be installed as part of certain highway construction projects, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2429 | To require the establishment of a Consumer Price Index for Elderly Consumers to compute cost-of-living increases for Social Security benefits under title II of the Social Security Act.
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| H R 2430 | To direct the Secretary of the Interior to continue stocking fish in certain lakes in the North Cascades National Park, Ross Lake National Recreation Area, and Lake Chelan National Recreation Area.
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| H R 2431 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend and increase the deduction for certain expenses of elementary and secondary school teachers.
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| H R 2432 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend the deduction for State and local sales taxes.
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| H R 2433 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend the deduction for State and local sales taxes.
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| H R 2434 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend the deduction for qualified tuition and related expenses.
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| H R 2435 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend the tax-free treatment for distributions from individual retirement plans for charitable purposes.
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| H R 2436 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend the charitable contributions deduction for food inventory, book inventory, and computer technology and equipment.
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| H R 2437 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend the employer wage credit for employees who are active duty members of the uniformed services.
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| H R 2438 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a temporary bonus research credit for energy-related research.
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| H R 2439 | To prohibit the Secretary of the Interior from issuing oil and gas leases on portions of the Outer Continental Shelf located off the coast of New Jersey.
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| H R 2440 | To amend title XI of the Social Security Act to provide that annual Social Security account statements indicate, in estimating the level of projected benefits of eligible individuals, the effect on such benefits levels of benefit reductions which may be necessary, in the absence of future legislative remedies, by reason of anticipated insolvency of the Social Security Trust Funds.
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| H R 2441 | To amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to provide adequate benefits for public safety officers injured or killed in the line of duty, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2442 | To amend the Reclamation Wastewater and Groundwater Study and Facilities Act to expand the Bay Area Regional Water Recycling Program, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2443 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to preserve access to ambulance services under the Medicare Program.
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| H R 2444 | To amend title 23, United States Code, to make the funding available for carrying out section 140 of title 23 mandatory instead of discretionary.
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| H R 2445 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exclude from gross income discharges of personal indebtedness outside of bankruptcy.
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| H R 2446 | To amend the small rural school achievement program and the rural and low-income school program under part B of title VI of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965.
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| H R 2447 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to clarify the employment tax treatment and reporting of wages paid by professional employer organizations.
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| H R 2448 | To provide for regulation of futures transactions involving energy commodities, to regulate credit default swaps, to strengthen the enforcement authorities of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission under the Natural Gas Act,Natural Gas Policy Act of 1978, and the Federal Power Act, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2449 | To amend title 18, United States Code, to prohibit fraud and related activity in connection with purchases of certain wireless prepaid access devices.
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| H R 2450 | To require non-Federal prisons and correctional facilities holding Federal prisoners under a contract with the Federal Government to make the same information available to the public that Federal prisons and correctional facilities are required to make available.
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| H R 2451 | To provide for adequate and equitable educational opportunities for students in State public school systems, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2452 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow a 5-year carryback of operating losses, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2453 | To provide for a national biological data center, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2454 | American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 | |
| H R 2455 | To amend the Whale Conservation and Protection Study Act to promote international whale conservation, protection, and research, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2456 | To amend section 484B of Higher Education Act of 1965 to provide for tuition reimbursement and loan forgiveness to students who withdraw from an institution of higher education to serve in the uniformed services, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2457 | To amend the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, the Public Health Service Act, and the Internal Revenue Code to require that group health plans and issuers of health insurance coverage provide coverage for second opinions.
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| H R 2458 | To amend the General Education Provisions Act to prohibit Federal education funding for elementary or secondary schools that provide access to emergency postcoital contraception.
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| H R 2459 | To amend the Public Health Service Act with respect to the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program.
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| H R 2460 | To allow Americans to earn paid sick time so that they can address their own health needs and the health needs of their families.
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| H R 2461 | To amend title 38, United States Code, to clarify the responsibility of the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to verify the veteran status of the owners of small business concerns listed in the database maintained by the Secretary.
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| H R 2462 | To eliminate the backlog in performing DNA analyses of DNA samples collected from convicted child sex offenders, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2463 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to establish and provide a checkoff for a Breast and Prostate Cancer Research Fund, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2464 | To amend title 49, United States Code, to prohibit advance notice to certain individuals, including security screeners, of covert testing of security screening procedures for the purpose of enhancing transportation security at airports, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2465 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to reward those Americans who provide volunteer services in times of national need.
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| H R 2466 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to protect the financial stability of activated members of the Ready-Reserve and National Guard while serving abroad.
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| H R 2467 | To provide for semiannual actuarial studies of the FHA mortgage insurance program of the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.
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| H R 2468 | To establish a United States-India interparliamentary exchange group.
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| H R 2469 | To amend the Controlled Substances Act to enhance criminal penalties for drug trafficking offenses relating to distribution of heroin, marihuana, and methamphetamine and distribution to and use of children, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2470 | To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 19190 Cochran Boulevard FRNT in Port Charlotte, Florida, as the "Lieutenant Commander Roy H. Boehm Post Office Building".
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| H R 2471 | To reauthorize the Uranium Enrichment Decontamination and Decommissioning Fund, to authorize the Secretary of Energy to pay affected participants under a pension plan referred to in the USEC Privatization Act for benefit increases not received, to direct the Secretary of Energy to provide a plan for the re-enrichment of certain uranium tailings, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2472 | To prevent the fraudulent use of social security account numbers by allowing the sharing of social security data among agencies of the United States for identity theft prevention and immigration enforcement purposes, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2473 | To improve Department of Defense policies relating to body armor.
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| H R 2474 | To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide that in the case of an individual entitled to educational assistance under the Post-9/11 Educational Assistance program who is enrolled at an institution of higher education in a State in which the public institutions charge only fees in lieu of tuition, the Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall allow the individual to use all or any portion of the amounts payable for the established charges for the program of education to pay any amount of the individual's tuition or fees for that program of education.
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| H R 2475 | To authorize appropriations for the Department of State for fiscal years 2010 and 2011, to modernize the Foreign Service, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2476 | To amend the National Forest Ski Area Permit Act of 1986 to clarify the authority of the Secretary of Agriculture regarding additional recreational uses of National Forest System land that are subject to ski area permits, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2477 | To provide for an extension of the authority of the Secretary of Homeland Security to regulate the security of chemical facilities.
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| H R 2478 | To support stabilization and lasting peace in northern Uganda and areas affected by the Lord's Resistance Army through development of a regional strategy to support multilateral efforts to successfully protect civilians and eliminate the threat posed by the Lord's Resistance Army and to authorize funds for humanitarian relief and reconstruction, reconciliation, and transitional justice, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2479 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to modify the designation of accreditation organizations for prosthetic devices and orthotics and prosthetics, to apply accreditation and licensure requirements to such devices and items for purposes of payment under the Medicare Program, and to modify the payment rules for such devices and items under such program to account for practitioner qualifications and complexity of care.
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| H R 2480 | To improve the accuracy of fur product labeling, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2481 | To require the President to develop a comprehensive interagency strategy and implementation plan for long-term security and stability in Pakistan, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2482 | To require the President to develop a comprehensive interagency strategy and implementation plan for long-term security and stability in Afghanistan, and for other purpose.
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| H R 2483 | To permanently increase the conforming loan limits for the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation and the Federal National Mortgage Association and the FHA maximum mortgage amount limitations.
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| H R 2484 | To provide for disaster assistance for power transmission and distribution facilities, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2485 | To amend title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to include nongovernmental and volunteer firefighters, ground and air ambulance crew members, and first responders for certain benefits.
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| H R 2486 | To amend title 10, United States Code, to provide for support of funeral ceremonies for veterans provided by details that consist solely of members of veterans organizations and other organizations, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2487 | To direct the Secretary of Defense to conduct a study on the feasibility of using military identification numbers instead of social security numbers to identify members of the Armed Forces.
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| H R 2488 | To require the Secretary of Defense to modify the Certificate of Release or Discharge from Active Duty (DD Form 214) in order to permit a member of the Armed Forces, upon discharge or release from active duty in the Armed Forces, to include an email address on the form.
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| H R 2489 | To authorize a comprehensive national cooperative geospatial imagery mapping program through the United States Geological Survey, to promote use of the program for education, workforce training and development, and applied research, and to support Federal, State, tribal, and local government programs.
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| H R 2490 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow certain small businesses to defer payment of tax.
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| H R 2491 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exclude from gross income any enlistment, accession, reenlistment, retention, or incentive bonus paid to a member of the Armed Forces.
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| H R 2492 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exclude from gross income discharges of student loans the repayment of which is income contingent or income based.
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| H R 2493 | To prevent wealthy and middle-income foreign states that do business, issue securities, or borrow money in the United States, and then fail to satisfy United States court judgments totaling $100,000,000 or more based on such activities, from inflicting further economic injuries in the United States, from undermining the integrity of United States courts, and from discouraging responsible lending to poor and developing nations by undermining the secondary and primary markets for sovereign debt.
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| H R 2494 | To designate 4 counties in the State of New York as high-intensity drug trafficking areas, and to authorize funding for drug control activities in those areas.
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| H R 2495 | To amend title 40, United States Code, to enhance authorities with regard to real property that has yet to be reported excess, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2496 | To amend title XXI of the Social Security Act to improve access to the children's health insurance program (CHIP) by providing exemptions to CHIP eligibility waiting period requirements.
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| H R 2497 | To amend title 49, United States Code, to expand and improve transit training programs.
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| H R 2498 | To designate the Federal building located at 844 North Rush Street in Chicago, Illinois, as the "William O. Lipinski Federal Building".
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| H R 2499 | To provide for a federally sanctioned self-determination process for the people of Puerto Rico.
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| H R 2500 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow nontaxable employer matching contributions to section 529 college savings plans.
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| H R 2501 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to extend reasonable cost contracts under Medicare.
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| H R 2502 | To amend title XI of the Social Security Act to provide for the conduct of comparative effectiveness research and to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to establish a Comparative Effectiveness Research Trust Fund, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2503 | To amend title 49, United States Code, to require inclusion on the no fly list certain detainees housed at the Naval Air Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
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| H R 2504 | To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide for an increase in the annual amount authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to carry out comprehensive service programs for homeless veterans.
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| H R 2505 | To direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to carry out a pilot program to utilize tele-health platforms to assist in the treatment of veterans living in rural areas who suffer from post traumatic stress disorder or traumatic brain injury.
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| H R 2506 | To direct the Secretary of Defense to ensure the members of the Armed Forces receive mandatory hearing screenings before and after deployments and to direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to mandate that tinnitus be listed as a mandatory condition for treatment by the Department of Veterans Affairs Auditory Centers of Excellence and that research on the preventing, treating, and curing of tinnitus be conducted.
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| H R 2507 | To direct the Secretary of Commerce to establish a demonstration program to adapt the lessons of providing foreign aid to underdeveloped economies to the provision of Federal economic development assistance to certain similarly situated individuals, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2508 | To extend patent numbered 5,180,715 for a period of 2 years.
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| H R 2509 | To secure Federal ownership and management of significant natural, scenic, and recreational resources, to provide for the protection of cultural resources, to facilitate the efficient extraction of mineral resources by authorizing and directing an exchange of Federal and non-Federal land, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2510 | To amend the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to reimburse States for the costs incurred in establishing a program to track and confirm the receipt of voted absentee ballots in elections for Federal office and make information on the receipt of such ballots available by means of online access, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2511 | To amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to require the use of science assessments in the calculation of adequate yearly progress, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2512 | To amend the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to prohibit the consideration in the House of Representatives or the Senate of measures that appropriate funds for earmarks to private, for-profit entities.
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| H R 2513 | To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to establish a Food Protection Training Institute, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2514 | To restore the jurisdiction of the Consumer Product Safety Commission over amusement park rides which are at a fixed site, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2515 | To amend the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 to allow leave to address domestic violence, sexual assault, or stalking and their effects, and to include domestic partners under the Act, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2516 | To guarantee the rights of patients and doctors against Federal restrictions or delay in the provision of privately-funded health care.
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| H R 2517 | To provide certain benefits to domestic partners of Federal employees.
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| H R 2518 | To prevent undue disruption of interstate commerce by limiting civil actions brought against persons whose only role with regard to a product in the stream of commerce is as a lawful seller of the product.
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| H R 2519 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow the deduction of attorney-advanced expenses and court costs in contingency fee cases.
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| H R 2520 | To provide comprehensive solutions for the health care system of the United States, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2521 | To facilitate efficient investments and financing of infrastructure projects and new job creation through the establishment of a National Infrastructure Development Bank, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2522 | To raise the ceiling on the Federal share of the cost of the Calleguas Municipal Water District Recycling Project, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2523 | To amend the Act titled "An Act to authorize the leasing of restricted Indian lands for public, religious, educational, recreational, residential, business, and other purposes requiring the grant of long-term leases", approved August 9, 1955, to provide for Indian tribes to enter into certain leases without prior express approval from the Secretary of the Interior.
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| H R 2524 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow penalty-free withdrawals from individual retirement plans for adoption expenses.
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| H R 2525 | To require application of budget neutrality on a national basis in the calculation of the Medicare hospital wage index floor for each all-urban and rural State.
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| H R 2526 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to increase participation in medical flexible spending arrangements.
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| H R 2527 | To provide authority for certain debt refinancing with respect to financings approved under title V of the Small Business Investment Act of 1958, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2528 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend the credit period for certain open-loop biomass facilities.
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| H R 2529 | To amend the Federal Deposit Insurance Act to authorize depository institutions and depository institution holding companies to lease foreclosed property held by such institutions and companies for up to 5 years, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2530 | To authorize the Secretary of Transportation to make capital grants for certain freight rail economic development projects.
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| H R 2531 | To amend the Public Health Service Act to revise and extend projects relating to children and violence to provide access to school-based comprehensive mental health programs.
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| H R 2532 | To amend the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 to increase the limitation on the amount of community development block grant assistance that may be used to provide public services.
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| H R 2533 | To provide that human life shall be deemed to exist from conception, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2534 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for the treatment of certain physician pathology services under the Medicare Program.
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| H R 2535 | To establish a Blueprint for Health in order to create a comprehensive system of care incorporating medical homes to improve the delivery and affordability of health care through disease prevention, health promotion, and education about and better management of chronic conditions.
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| H R 2536 | To provide relief for the shortage of nurses in the United States, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2537 | To amend section 1951 of title 18, United States Code (commonly known as the Hobbs Act), and for other purposes.
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| H R 2538 | To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for the establishment and maintenance of an undiagnosed diseases registry.
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| H R 2539 | To secure unrestricted reliable energy for American consumption and transmission.
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| H R 2540 | To set clear rules for the development of United States oil shale resources, to promote shale technology research and development, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2541 | To provide funding for multi-jurisdictional anti-gang task forces.
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| H R 2542 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the shipping investment withdrawal rules in section 955 and to provide an incentive to reinvest foreign shipping earnings in the United States.
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| H R 2543 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to make permanent the reduction in the rate of tax on qualified timber gain of corporations, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2544 | To require the intelligence community to use only methods of interrogation authorized by the United States Army Field Manual on Human Intelligence Collector Operations.
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| H R 2545 | To provide a civil penalty for certain misrepresentations made to Congress, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2546 | To ensure that the right of an individual to display the Service flag on residential property not be abridged.
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| H R 2547 | To amend title 38, United States Code, to clarify the conditions under which certain persons may be treated as adjudicated mentally incompetent for certain purposes.
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| H R 2548 | To amend the Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972 to require establishment of a Working Waterfront Grant Program, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2549 | To ensure uniform and accurate credit rating of municipal bonds and provide for a review of the municipal bond insurance industry.
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| H R 2550 | To amend the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to require the registration of municipal financial advisers.
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| H R 2551 | To amend the Federal Reserve Act to provide for lending authority for certain securities purchases, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2552 | To amend the Solid Waste Disposal Act to require the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to promulgate regulations on the management of medical waste.
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| H R 2553 | To authorize the award of a military service medal to members of the Armed Forces who were exposed to ionizing radiation as a result of participation in the testing of nuclear weapons or under other circumstances.
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| H R 2554 | To reform the National Association of Registered Agents and Brokers, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2555 | To ensure the availability and affordability of homeowners' insurance coverage for catastrophic events.
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| H R 2556 | To provide low-income parents residing in the District of Columbia with expanded opportunities for enrolling their children in high quality schools in the District of Columbia.
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| H R 2557 | To name the Department of Veterans Affairs medical center in Portland, Oregon, as the "Barry L. Bell Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center".
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| H R 2558 | To amend part A of title IV of the Social Security Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to conduct research on indicators of child well-being.
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| H R 2559 | To direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to carry out a national media campaign directed at homeless veterans and veterans at risk for becoming homeless.
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| H R 2560 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide certain high cost Medicare beneficiaries suffering from multiple chronic conditions with access to coordinated, primary care medical services in lower cost treatment settings, such as their residences, under a plan of care developed by a team of qualified and experienced health care professionals.
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| H R 2561 | To amend section 484B of the Higher Education Act of 1965 to forgive certain loans for servicemembers who withdraw from an institution of higher education as a result of service in the uniformed services, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2562 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend the first-time homebuyer credit for one year for members of the Armed Services of the United States serving outside the United States in 2009.
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| H R 2563 | To amend the Truth in Lending Act to establish additional protections for consumers with regard to payday loans, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2564 | To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act to require that employers provide a minimum of 1 week of paid annual leave to employees.
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| H R 2565 | To conserve fish and aquatic communities in the United States through partnerships that foster fish habitat conservation, to improve the quality of life for the people of the United States, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2566 | To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for the public disclosure of charges for certain hospital and ambulatory surgical center services and drugs.
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| H R 2567 | To suspend the authority for the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (the successor institution to the United States Army School of the Americas) in the Department of Defense, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2568 | To amend the Small Business Act to ensure fairness and transparency in contracting with small business concerns.
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| H R 2569 | To reauthorize surface transportation research, development, and technology transfer activities, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2570 | To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to establish a base minimum wage for tipped employees.
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| H R 2571 | To streamline the regulation of nonadmitted insurance and reinsurance, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2572 | To strengthen the Notification and Federal Employee Antidiscrimination and Retaliation Act of 2002, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2573 | To amend title 38, United States Code, to revise the eligibility criteria for presumption of service-connection of certain diseases and disabilities for veterans exposed to ionizing radiation during military service, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2574 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to preserve access to urban Medicare-dependent hospitals.
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| H R 2575 | To provide parity under group health plans and group health insurance coverage in the provision of benefits for prosthetic devices and orthotics devices, components and benefits for other medical and surgical services.
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| H R 2576 | To restore Federal recognition to the Chinook Nation, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2577 | To require the Director of National Intelligence to submit a report to Congress on retirement benefits for former employees of Air America, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2578 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide an increased payment for chest radiography (x-ray) services that use Computer Aided Detection technology for the purpose of early detection of lung cancer.
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| H R 2579 | To authorize the Secretary of Education to award grants to local educational agencies to improve college access.
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| H R 2580 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for the establishment of shared decision making standards and requirements and to establish a pilot program for the implementation of shared decision making under the Medicare Program.
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| H R 2581 | To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for a health survey regarding Native Hawaiians and other Pacific Islanders.
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| H R 2582 | To extend the supplemental security income program to Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, Guam, and American Samoa, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2583 | To direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to improve health care for women veterans, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2584 | To amend title 35, United States Code, to limit the patentability of tax planning methods.
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| H R 2585 | To delay any presumption of death in connection with the kidnapping in Iraq or Afghanistan of a retired member of the Armed Forces to ensure the continued payment of the member's retired pay.
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| H R 2586 | To prohibit the Secretary of Veterans Affairs from authorizing honor guards to participate in funerals of veterans interred in national cemeteries unless the honor guards may offer veterans' families the option of having the honor guard perform a 13-fold flag recitation, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2587 | To limit the reinvestment by States and localities of profits under the Neighborhood Stabilization Program of the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
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| H R 2588 | To prevent foreclosure of home mortgages and increase the availability of affordable new mortgages and affordable refinancing of mortgages held by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
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| H R 2589 | To establish the Office of Public Finance in the Department of the Treasury to make available Federal reinsurance for insurers of tax-exempt municipal bonds.
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| H R 2590 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to reduce the occurrence of diabetes in Medicare beneficiaries by extending coverage under Medicare for medical nutrition therapy services to such beneficiaries with pre-diabetes or with risk factors for developing type 2 diabetes.
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| H R 2591 | To amend the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to direct the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency to modernize the integrated public alert and warning system of the United States, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2592 | To amend the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to enhance existing programs providing mitigation assistance by encouraging States to adopt and actively enforce State building codes, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2593 | To amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to establish a discretionary grant program for school construction for local educational agencies affected by base closures and realignments, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2594 | To amend title 38, United States Code, to direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to provide a plot allowance for spouses and children of certain veterans who are buried in State cemeteries.
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| H R 2595 | To restrict certain exports of electronic waste.
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| H R 2596 | To authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services to carry out a demonstration program to test the feasibility of using the Nation's elementary and secondary schools as influenza vaccination centers.
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| H R 2597 | To amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to allow State educational agencies, local educational agencies, and schools to increase implementation of school-wide positive behavior supports.
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| H R 2598 | To grant a congressional gold medal to American military personnel who fought in defense of Bataan/Corregidor/Luzon between December 7, 1941 and May 6, 1942.
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| H R 2599 | To provide for the establishment of the Rural Health Quality Advisory Commission, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2600 | To amend title 4 of the United States Code to limit the extent to which States may tax the compensation earned by nonresident telecommuters.
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| H R 2601 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow a $1,000 refundable credit for individuals who are bona fide volunteer members of volunteer firefighting and emergency medical service organizations.
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| H R 2602 | To direct the Secretary of the Interior to study the suitability and feasibility of designating the Ka'u Coast on the island of Hawaii as a unit of the National Park System.
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| H R 2603 | To direct the Secretary of the Interior to study the suitability and feasibility of designating certain lands along the northern coast of Maui, Hawaii, as a unit of the National Park System.
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| H R 2604 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to make permanent the additional standard deduction for real property taxes for nonitemizers.
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| H R 2605 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow individuals with children attending an elementary or secondary school a deduction for each child attending a public school equal to 25 percent of the State's average per pupil public education spending and, for each child attending a private or home school, a deduction equal to 100 percent of such average.
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| H R 2606 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to expand and extend the first-time homebuyer credit.
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| H R 2607 | To amend title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to improve access and choice for entrepreneurs with small businesses with respect to medical care for their employees.
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| H R 2608 | To define marriage for all legal purposes in the District of Columbia to consist of the union of one man and one woman.
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| H R 2609 | To establish an Office of Insurance Information in the Department of the Treasury.
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| H R 2610 | To amend section 1886 of the Social Security Act to continue sole community hospital treatment for certain hospitals.
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| H R 2611 | To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to authorize the Securing the Cities Initiative of the Department of Homeland Security, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2612 | To direct the Attorney General to provide grants and access to information and resources for the implementation of the Sex Offender Registration Tips and Crime Victims Center Programs.
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| H R 2613 | To amend the Federal Law Enforcement Pay Reform Act of 1990 to adjust the percentage differentials payable to Federal law enforcement officers in certain high-cost areas, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2614 | To amend title 38, United States Code, to reauthorize the Veterans' Advisory Committee on Education.
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| H R 2615 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide incentives for energy efficient commercial building roofs.
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| H R 2616 | To authorize the Attorney General to award grants to eligible entities to prevent or alleviate community violence by providing education, mentoring, and counseling services to children, adolescents, teachers, families, and community leaders on the principles and practice of nonviolence.
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| H R 2617 | To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to reduce human exposure to mercury through vaccines.
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| H R 2618 | To improve vaccine safety research, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2619 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to temporarily expand the credit for first-time homebuyers to all homebuyers and to allow individuals a temporary refundable credit against income tax for the costs of refinancing acquisition indebtedness secured by their principal residence.
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| H R 2620 | To amend the Public Health Service Act to establish various programs for the recruitment and retention of public health workers and to eliminate critical public health workforce shortages in Federal, State, local, and tribal public health agencies and health centers.
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| H R 2621 | To amend title 10, United States Code, to use a time requirement for determining eligibility for the reimbursement of certain travel expenses.
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| H R 2622 | To amend the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to establish rules and procedures for the delegation of compliance and inspections authority to the operating divisions of the Securities and Exchange Commission, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2623 | To amend the Federal securities laws to clarify and expand the definition of certain persons under those laws.
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| H R 2624 | To amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to establish a Volunteer Teacher Advisory Committee.
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| H R 2625 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend the exclusion from gross income for employer-provided health coverage for employees' spouses and dependent children to coverage provided to other eligible designated beneficiaries of employees.
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| H R 2626 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide tax credit parity for electricity produced from renewable resources.
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| H R 2627 | To reauthorize the National Windstorm Impact Reduction Program, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2628 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend the new markets tax credit through 2013, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2629 | To protect the American people's ability to make their own health care decisions by ensuring the Federal Government shall not force any American to purchase health insurance.
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| H R 2630 | To protect the privacy of patients and physicians.
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| H R 2631 | To reduce the price of gasoline by allowing for offshore drilling, eliminating Federal obstacles to constructing refineries and providing incentives for investment in refineries, suspending Federal fuel taxes when gasoline prices reach a benchmark amount, and promoting free trade.
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| H R 2632 | To amend title 4, United States Code, to encourage the display of the flag of the United States on National Korean War Veterans Armistice Day.
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| H R 2633 | To amend the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 to prohibit automobile manufacturers receiving assistance under the Troubled Asset Relief Program from opening a new foreign subsidiary or expanding their current foreign subsidiaries.
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| H R 2634 | To amend the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 to prohibit automobile manufacturers receiving assistance under the Troubled Asset Relief Program from opening a new foreign subsidiary or expanding their current foreign subsidiaries.
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| H R 2635 | To amend title XXVII of the Public Health Service Act to prohibit gender rating in the group and individual markets for health insurance coverage, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2636 | To amend title 10, United States Code, to authorize the establishment of a nonprofit corporation to support the athletic program of the Air Force Academy.
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| H R 2637 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to increase the age at which distributions from qualified retirement plans are required to begin and to extend the waiver of required minimum distribution rules for certain retirement plans and accounts through 2010.
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| H R 2638 | To provide for the issuance of a veterans health care stamp.
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| H R 2639 | To require the President to develop and implement a comprehensive strategy to further the United States foreign policy objective of promoting the reduction of global poverty, the elimination of extreme global poverty, and the achievement of the United Nations Millennium Development Goal of reducing by one-half the proportion of people worldwide, between 1990 and 2015, who live on less than $1 per day.
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| H R 2640 | To accelerate motor fuel savings nationwide and provide incentives to registered owners of high polluting automobiles to replace such automobiles with new fuel efficient and less polluting automobiles.
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| H R 2641 | To amend section 1862 of the Social Security Act with respect to the application of Medicare secondary payer rules to workers' compensation settlement agreements and Medicare set-asides under such agreements.
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| H R 2642 | To direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to assist in the identification of unclaimed and abandoned human remains to determine if any such remains are eligible for burial in a national cemetery, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2643 | To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to provide assistance in implementing cultural heritage, conservation, and recreational activities in the Connecticut River watershed of the States of New Hampshire and Vermont.
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| H R 2644 | To waive the 35-mile rule to permit recognition of Gadsden Community Hospital as a critical access hospital under the Medicare Program.
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| H R 2645 | For the relief of Elvira Arellano, Juan Carlos Arreguin, Maria I. Benitez, Francisco J. Castro, Jaime Cruz, Martha Davalos, Maria A. Martin, Juan Jose Mesa, Domenico Papaianni, Juan Manuel Castellanos, Juan Jose Rangel Sr, Dayron S. Rios Arenas, Araceli Contreras-Del Toro, Doris Oneida Ulloa, Bladimir I. Caballero, Arnulfo Alfaro, Consuelo Castellanos, Eliseo Pulido, Gilberto Romero, Maria Liliana Rua-Saenz, Aurelia Martinez-Garcia, Tomas F. Martinez-Garcia, Flor Crisostomo, Gloria M. Alcantara, Roberto Barrera - lopez, Toribio Barrera-Vieyra, Carolina Carrillo de Uribe, Adan Rosales Del Valle, Marie Teresa Herenandez, Consualo Constella, Lucia Larios Arreola, Maria Guadalupe Lopez, Jose Martinez de la Cerde, Ruben Mendoza Lagunas, Jesus de Parafox, German Raminez, Josefina Santoyo, Noelia Corona, Teresa Figueroa-Villasenoe, and Fatima Karuma.
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| H R 2646 | To amend title 31, United States Code, to enhance the oversight authorities of the Comptroller General, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2647 | To authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2010 for military activities of the Department of Defense, to prescribe military personnel strengths for fiscal year 2010, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2648 | To authorize the President to award a gold medal on behalf of Congress to Muhammad Ali in recognition of his contributions to the Nation.
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| H R 2649 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify the new energy efficient home credit and to provide a credit against tax for the purchase of certain energy efficient homes.
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| H R 2650 | To amend title 14, United States Code, to modernize the leadership of the Coast Guard, to modernize the administration of marine safety by the Coast Guard, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2651 | To amend title 46, United States Code, to direct the Secretary of Transportation to establish a maritime career training loan program, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2652 | To amend title 46, United States Code, to improve vessel safety, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2653 | To amend the Tom Osborne Federal Youth Coordination Act to create the White House Office of National Youth Policy to ensure the coordination and effectiveness of services to youth, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2654 | To extend temporarily the suspension of duty on polyethylene HE1878.
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| H R 2655 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to expand and extend the first-time homebuyer credit.
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| H R 2656 | To require amounts remaining in Members' representational allowances at the end of a fiscal year to be used for deficit reduction or to reduce the Federal debt, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2657 | To amend the Federal Deposit Insurance Act to limit the authority of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation to engage in activities relating to systemic risk without a congressional declaration of a financial emergency, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2658 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to increase the estate and gift tax unified credit to an exclusion equivalent of $5,000,000, to adjust such amount for inflation, to repeal the 1-year termination of the estate tax, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2659 | To convey certain submerged lands to the Government of the Virgin Islands, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2660 | To amend the Federal Deposit Insurance Act to require the appropriate Federal banking agencies to prescribe capital standards for certain special purpose entities.
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| H R 2661 | To amend title 18, United States Code, to increase the penalty for violations of section 119 (relating to protection of individuals performing certain official duties), and for other purposes.
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| H R 2662 | To dedicate a portion of the rental fees from wind and solar energy projects on Federal land under the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Land Management for the administrative costs of processing applications for new wind and solar projects, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2663 | To amend title 23, United States Code, to increase certain infrastructure finance provisions, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2664 | To 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.
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| H R 2665 | To establish national centers of excellence for regional smart growth planning, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2666 | To require the Federal Trade Commission to conduct a rulemaking proceeding with respect to mortgage foreclosure rescue and loan modification services, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2667 | To amend part B of title IV of the Social Security Act to provide grants to States to establish or expand quality programs providing home visitation for families with young children and families expecting children.
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| H R 2668 | To provide for the offering of an American Trust Health Plan to provide choice in health insurance options so as to ensure quality, affordable health coverage for all Americans.
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| H R 2669 | To direct the Federal Trade Commission to prescribe rules to protect consumers from unfair and deceptive acts and practices in connection with primary and secondary ticket sales.
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| H R 2670 | To require reports on the effectiveness and impacts of the implementation of the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2671 | To authorize the Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating to issue a certificate of documentation with a coastwise endorsement for the vessel M/V GEYSIR.
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| H R 2672 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow credits for the establishment of franchises with veterans.
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| H R 2673 | To amend title 38, United States Code, to match the pension amount paid to surviving spouses of veterans who served during a period of war to the pension amount paid to such veterans.
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| H R 2674 | To protect children from sex offenders.
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| H R 2675 | To amend title II of the Antitrust Criminal Penalty Enhancement and Reform Act of 2004 to extend the operation of such title for a 1-year period ending June 22, 2010.
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| H R 2676 | To amend chapter 3 of title 31, United States Code, to provide for an Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Community Financial Institutions and an Office of Ombudsman for Community Financial Institutions, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2677 | To amend title 18, United States Code, to provide penalties for hate crimes against members of the Armed Forces, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2678 | To extend Federal recognition to the Duwamish Tribe, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2679 | To extend certain immigration programs, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2680 | To amend the Social Security Act to provide for payment parity for Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, and American Samoa under the Medicaid Program, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2681 | To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide for naturalization for certain high school graduates.
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| H R 2682 | To require that the Federal Government procure from the private sector the goods and services necessary for the operations and management of certain Government agencies, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2683 | To establish the American Veterans Congressional Internship Program.
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| H R 2684 | To establish grant programs to provide for the establishment of a national hate crime hotline and a hate crime information and assistance website, to provide training and education to local law enforcement to prevent hate crimes, and to provide assistance to victims of hate crimes.
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| H R 2685 | To establish a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and a National Climate Enterprise, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2686 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for a Medicare Advantage benchmark adjustment for certain local areas with VA medical centers and for certain contiguous areas.
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| H R 2687 | To withhold United States assessed and voluntary contributions to the Organization of American States (OAS) if Cuba is allowed full membership or participation in the OAS unless the President certifies that Cuba has satisfied certain conditions, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2688 | To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to improve the State plan amendment option for providing home and community-based services under the Medicaid Program, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2689 | To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to study the suitability and feasibility of designating the National D-Day Memorial in Bedford, Virginia, as a unit of the National Park System.
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| H R 2690 | To create a universal, paperless school meal program that is nationally available.
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| H R 2691 | To provide assistance to adolescents and young adults with serious mental health disorders as they transition to adulthood.
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| H R 2692 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to restore State authority to waive the 35-mile rule for designating critical access hospitals under the Medicare Program.
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| H R 2693 | To amend title VII of the Oil Pollution Act of 1990, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2694 | To authorize the Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating to issue a certificate of documentation with a coastwise endorsement for the vessel GULF DIVER IV.
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| H R 2695 | To amend the antitrust laws to ensure competitive market-based rates and terms for merchants' access to electronic payment systems.
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| H R 2696 | To amend the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act to provide for the enforcement of rights afforded under that Act.
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| H R 2697 | To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to require Medicaid coverage of professional services of optometrists that are otherwise covered when furnished by a physician.
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| H R 2698 | To improve and enhance the mental health care benefits available to veterans, to enhance counseling and other benefits available to survivors of veterans, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2699 | To improve the mental health care benefits available to members of the Armed Forces, to enhance counseling available to family members of members of the Armed Forces, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2700 | To amend part D of title XVIII of the Social Security Act to assist low-income individuals in obtaining subsidized prescription drug coverage under the Medicare prescription drug program by expediting the application and qualification process and by revising the resource standards used to determine eligibility for such subsidies, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2701 | To authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2010 for intelligence and intelligence-related activities of the United States Government, the Community Management Account, and the Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability System, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2702 | To suspend the application of Generalized System of Preferences for Brazil until such time as Brazil complies with its obligations toward the United States under the Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction.
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| H R 2703 | To prohibit the Secretary of Homeland Security from obligating or expending funds for the National Applications Office of the Department of Homeland Security.
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| H R 2704 | To direct the Secretary of Homeland Security to close the National Applications Office of the Department of Homeland Security.
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| H R 2705 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow a refundable credit for advance directives.
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| H R 2706 | To amend title II of the Social Security Act to provide for the reissuance of Social Security account numbers to young children in cases in which the confidentiality of the number has been compromised by reason of theft.
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| H R 2707 | To establish a program to improve freight mobility in the United States, to establish the National Freight Mobility Infrastructure Fund, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2708 | To amend the Indian Health Care Improvement Act to revise and extend that Act, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2709 | To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to promote family unity, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2710 | To stimulate collaboration with respect to, and provide for coordination and coherence of, the Nation's science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education initiatives.
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| H R 2711 | To amend title 5, United States Code, to provide for the transportation of the dependents, remains, and effects of certain Federal employees who die while performing official duties or as a result of the performance of official duties.
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| H R 2712 | To provide that certain photographic records relating to the treatment of any individual engaged, captured, or detained after September 11, 2001, by the Armed Forces of the United States in operations outside the United States shall not be subject to disclosure under section 552 of title 5, United States Code (commonly referred to as the Freedom of Information Act).
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| H R 2713 | To amend title 38, United States Code, to make certain improvements in the service disabled veterans' insurance program of the Department of Veterans Affairs.
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| H R 2714 | To ensure pay parity for Federal employees serving at Joint Base McGuire/Dix/Lakehurst.
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| H R 2715 | To prohibit the Department of Housing and Urban Development from providing any assistance to any organization that has been indicted for a violation under Federal or State law relating to an election for Federal or State office.
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| H R 2716 | To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to provide financial stability for seniors and people with disabilities through improvements in the Medicare Savings Program.
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| H R 2717 | To exempt guides for hire and other operators of uninspected vessels on Lake Texoma from Coast Guard and other regulations, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2718 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to create a sensible infrastructure for delivery system reform by renaming the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, making the Commission an executive branch agency, and providing the Commission new resources and authority to implement Medicare payment policy.
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| H R 2719 | To extend the temporary suspension of duty on certain ceiling fans.
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| H R 2720 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to make permanent the election to treat the cost of qualified film and television productions as an expense which is not chargeable to capital account.
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| H R 2721 | To provide for greater diversity within, and to improve policy direction and oversight of, the Senior Executive Service.
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| H R 2722 | To amend title 38, United States Code, to modify and update provisions of law relating to nonprofit research and education corporations, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2723 | To amend the Social Security Act to provide for an exemption to allow an individual otherwise ineligible to travel outside the United States to do so for employment purposes to pay child support arrearages, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2724 | To amend title 49, United States Code, to establish national transportation objectives and performance targets for the purpose of assessing progress toward meeting national transportation objectives.
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| H R 2725 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a 5-year extension for the real property standard deduction and to adjust such deduction for inflation.
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| H R 2726 | To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to increase criminal penalties for the sale or trade of prescription drugs knowingly caused to be adulterated or misbranded, to modify requirements for maintaining records of the chain-of-custody of prescription drugs, to establish recall authority regarding drugs, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2727 | To provide for the implementation of a system under which each financial institution will report on the financial condition of the institution to the public, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2728 | To provide financial support for the operation of the law library of the Library of Congress, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2729 | To authorize the designation of National Environmental Research Parks by the Secretary of Energy, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2730 | To amend the Public Health Service Act to authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make grants to eligible States for the purpose of reducing the student-to-school nurse ratio in public secondary schools, elementary schools, and kindergarten.
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| H R 2731 | To fund comprehensive programs to ensure an adequate supply of nurses.
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| H R 2732 | To amend the National Labor Relations Act to permit employers to pay higher wages to their employees.
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| H R 2733 | To clarify the exemption for certain annuity contracts and insurance policies from Federal regulation under the Securities Act of 1933.
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| H R 2734 | To amend section 1781 of title 38, United States Code, to provide medical care to family members of disabled veterans who serve as caregivers to such veterans.
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| H R 2735 | To amend title 38, United States Code, to make certain improvements to the comprehensive service programs for homeless veterans.
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| H R 2736 | To ensure efficient performance of agency functions.
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| H R 2737 | To provide United States assistance for the purpose of eradicating trafficking in children in eligible countries through the implementation of Child Protection Compacts, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2738 | To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide travel expenses for family caregivers accompanying veterans to medical treatment facilities.
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| H R 2739 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to treat trees and vines producing fruit, nuts, or other crops as placed in service in the year in which it is planted for purposes of special allowance for depreciation.
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| H R 2740 | To amend the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act to permit a prevailing party in an action or proceeding brought to enforce the Act to be awarded expert witness fees and certain other expenses.
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| H R 2741 | To amend the Reclamation Wastewater and Groundwater Study and Facilities Act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to participate in the City of Hermiston, Oregon, water recycling and reuse project, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2742 | To authorize the extension of nondiscriminatory treatment (normal trade relations treatment) to the products of Azerbaijan.
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| H R 2743 | To restore the economic rights of automobile dealers, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2744 | To prohibit discrimination in Federal assisted health care services and research programs on the basis of sex, race, color, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability status.
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| H R 2745 | To amend the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 to provide repayment procedures for certain assistance received under the Troubled Asset Relief Program.
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| H R 2746 | To amend title 49, United States Code, to allow for additional transportation assistance grants.
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| H R 2747 | To amend the Small Business Act to improve outreach and support activities and to increase award recipients from rural areas with respect to the Small Business Innovation Research Program and the Small Business Technology Transfer Program, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2748 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to encourage guaranteed lifetime income payments by excluding from income a portion of such payments.
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| H R 2749 | To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to improve the safety of food in the global market, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2750 | To restore the economic rights of automobile dealers, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2751 | To accelerate motor fuel savings nationwide and provide incentives to registered owners of high polluting automobiles to replace such automobiles with new fuel efficient and less polluting automobiles.
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| H R 2752 | To establish certain requirements relating to the provision of services to minors by family planning projects under title X of the Public Health Service Act.
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| H R 2753 | To delay the implementation of new Medicare hospital geographic wage reclassification criteria until the Secretary of Health and Human Services issues a proposal to revise the hospital wage index classification system that addresses certain considerations.
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| H R 2754 | To amend the Public Health Service Act to establish the Nurse-Managed Health Clinic Investment program, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2755 | To amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to assist underperforming schools to recruit, support, and retain highly qualified and effective teachers by providing grants for participation in the Targeted High Need Initiative program of the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards.
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| H R 2756 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow eligible veterans to use qualified veterans mortgage bonds to refinance home loans, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2757 | To require the return to the American people of all proceeds raised under any Federal climate change legislation.
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| H R 2758 | To amend part C of title XVIII of the Social Security Act with respect to Medicare special needs plans and the alignment of Medicare and Medicaid for dually eligible individuals, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2759 | Waiving the cost-share requirement under the Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response grant program for grants awarded during fiscal year 2008.
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| H R 2760 | To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1615 North Wilcox Avenue in Los Angeles, California, as the "Johnny Grant Hollywood Post Office Building".
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| H R 2761 | To sever United States' government relations with the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma until such time as the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma restores full tribal citizenship to the Cherokee Freedmen disenfranchised in the March 3, 2007, Cherokee Nation vote and fulfills all its treaty obligations with the Government of the United States, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2762 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide that the exception from the treatment of publicly traded partnerships as corporations for partnerships with passive-type income shall not apply to partnerships directly or indirectly deriving income from providing investment adviser and related asset management services.
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| H R 2763 | For the relief of Llesh Miraj, Enkeleda Miraj, Michaela Miraj, Vanessa Miraj, and Sabrina Miraj.
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| H R 2764 | For the relief of Lilly M. Ledbetter.
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| H R 2765 | To amend title 28, United States Code, to prohibit recognition and enforcement of foreign defamation judgments and certain foreign judgments against the providers of interactive computer services.
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| H R 2766 | To repeal the exemption for hydraulic fracturing in the Safe Drinking Water Act, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2767 | To amend the Small Business Act to extend and improve the Small Business Innovation Research Program and the Small Business Technology Transfer Program, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2768 | To declare nuclear energy to be clean energy, for purposes of Federal law.
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| H R 2769 | To amend the Small Business Act to promote the commercialization of certain small business research and development projects, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2770 | To amend title 38, United States Code, to modify and update provisions of law relating to nonprofit research and education corporations, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2771 | To amend titles 10 and 37, United States Code, to provide a more equitable process by which the military departments may recover overpayments of military pay and allowances erroneously paid to a member of the Armed Forces when the overpayment is due to no fault of the member, to expand Department discretion regarding remission or cancellation of indebtedness, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2772 | To amend the Small Business Act to enhance the Small Business Innovation Research Program and the Small Business Technology Transfer Program, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2773 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to cover transitional care services to improve the quality and cost effectiveness of care under the Medicare Program.
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| H R 2774 | To amend title 38, United States Code, to make permanent the extension of the duration of Servicemembers' Group Life Insurance coverage for totally disabled veterans.
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| H R 2775 | To prohibit, as a banned hazardous substance, certain household dishwashing detergent containing phosphorus.
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| H R 2776 | To amend the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 and title 5, United States Code, to allow leave for individuals who provide living organ donations.
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| H R 2777 | To include costs incurred by the Indian Health Service, a federally qualified health center, an AIDS drug assistance program, certain hospitals, or a pharmaceutical manufacturer patient assistance program in providing prescription drugs toward the annual out of pocket threshold under part D of title XVIII of the Social Security Act and to provide a safe harbor for assistance provided under a pharmaceutical manufacturer patient assistance program.
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| H R 2778 | To amend the Public Health Service Act to redesignate the National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities as the National Institute for Minority Health and Health Disparities, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2779 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide transparency with respect to fees and expenses charged to participant-directed defined contribution plans, and to improve participant communication.
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| H R 2780 | To correct and simplify the drafting of section 1752 (relating to restricted buildings or grounds) of title 18, United States Code.
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| H R 2781 | To amend the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to designate segments of the Molalla River in Oregon, as components of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2782 | To amend title 23, United States Code, to incorporate regional transportation planning organizations into statewide transportation planning, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2783 | To amend part D of title IV of the Social Security Act to repeal a fee imposed by States on certain child support collections.
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| H R 2784 | To establish a loan repayment program for qualifying physicians and nurse practitioners participating in the Medicare Program.
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| H R 2785 | To reduce the amount of paperwork and improve payment policies for health care services, to prevent fraud and abuse through health care provider education, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2786 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to improve the ability of medical professionals to practice medicine and provide quality care to patients by providing a tax deduction for patient bad debt.
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| H R 2787 | To provide grants to States for health care tribunals, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2788 | To designate a Distinguished Flying Cross National Memorial at the March Field Air Museum in Riverside, California.
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| H R 2789 | To confer certain Federal jurisdiction on the High Court of American Samoa, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2790 | To create or adopt, and implement, rigorous and voluntary American education content standards in mathematics and science covering kindergarten through grade 12, to provide for the assessment of student proficiency benchmarked against such standards, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2791 | To permit each of the territories of the United States to provide and furnish a statue honoring a citizen of the territory to be placed in Statuary Hall in the same manner as statues honoring citizens of the States are placed in Statuary Hall.
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| H R 2792 | To amend title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to require individual account plans which permit participants and beneficiaries to direct the investment of assets in their individual accounts to include in pension benefit statements appropriate points of comparison to demonstrate relative performance of investment options under such plans.
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| H R 2793 | To require a report to the Congress from the Presidential Task Force on the Auto Industry regarding closings of vehicle dealerships in connection with the bankruptcies of Chrysler Corporation and General Motors Corporation, and to suspend imposition of withdrawal liability to multiemployer plans in connection with the closing of such dealerships (and to suspend the requirement for payment of existing withdrawal liability in connection with such closings) until 60 days after submission of such report.
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| H R 2794 | To amend the Truth in Lending Act to prohibit prepayment penalties, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2795 | To address global hunger and improve food security through the development and implementation of a comprehensive governmentwide global hunger reduction strategy, the establishment of the White House Office on Global Hunger and Food Security, and the creation of the Permanent Joint Select Committee on Hunger, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2796 | To restore the economic rights of automobile dealers, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2797 | To strengthen the United States commitment to transatlantic security by implementing the principles outlined in the Declaration on Alliance Security signed by the heads of state and governments of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in Strasbourg and Kehl on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the Alliance.
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| H R 2798 | To increase securities protection coverage in the event of stolen or missing assets, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2799 | To require the Secretary of the Treasury to mint coins in commemoration of the 225th anniversary of the establishment of the Nation's first law enforcement agency, the United States Marshals Service.
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| H R 2800 | To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to improve the safety of imported food, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2801 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to expand and extend the first-time homebuyer credit.
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| H R 2802 | To provide for an extension of the legislative authority of the Adams Memorial Foundation to establish a commemorative work in honor of former President John Adams and his legacy, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2803 | To amend the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to improve paperless enrollment and efficiency for the national school lunch and school breakfast programs, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2804 | To amend title XXI of the Social Security Act to require 12-month continuous coverage under the State Children's Health Insurance Program.
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| H R 2805 | To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to require 12-month continuous coverage for children under Medicaid.
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| H R 2806 | To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to adjust the boundary of the Stephen Mather Wilderness and the North Cascades National Park in order to allow the rebuilding of a road outside of the floodplain while ensuring that there is no net loss of acreage to the Park or the Wilderness, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2807 | To sustain fish, plants, and wildlife on America's public lands.
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| H R 2808 | To amend the National Labor Relations Act to protect employer rights.
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| H R 2809 | To amend the Wilderness Act to allow recreation organizations consisting of hikers or horseback riders to cross wilderness areas on established trails, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2810 | To amend the Public Health Service Act to establish various programs for the recruitment and retention of public health workers and to eliminate critical public health workforce shortages in Federal, State, local, and tribal public health agencies and health centers.
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| H R 2811 | To amend title 18, United States Code, to include constrictor snakes of the species Python genera as an injurious animal.
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| H R 2812 | To establish certain standards for the adjudication of United States passport applications, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2813 | To establish a national knee and hip replacement registry.
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| H R 2814 | To immediately repeal the income limitation on conversions to Roth IRAs.
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| H R 2815 | To increase and enhance law enforcement resources committed to investigation and prosecution of violent gangs, to deter and punish violent gang crime, to reform and facilitate prosecution of juvenile gang members who commit violent crimes, to expand and improve gang prevention programs, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2816 | To amend the Social Security Act to provide grants and flexibility through demonstration projects for States to provide universal, comprehensive, cost-effective systems of health care coverage, with simplified administration.
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| H R 2817 | To address global hunger and improve food security through the development and implementation of a comprehensive governmentwide global hunger reduction strategy, the establishment of the White House Office on Global Hunger and Food Security, and the creation of the Permanent Joint Select Committee on Hunger, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2818 | To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for the establishment of a drug-free workplace information clearinghouse, to support residential methamphetamine treatment programs for pregnant and parenting women, to improve the prevention and treatment of methamphetamine addiction, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2819 | To amend the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to protect breastfeeding by new mothers; to provide for a performance standard for breast pumps; and to provide tax incentives to encourage breastfeeding.
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| H R 2820 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to transition to the use of metropolitan statistical areas as fee schedule areas for the physician fee schedule in California under the Medicare Program.
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| H R 2821 | To direct the Secretary of the Army to assist entities adversely affected by a Corps of Engineers rehabilitation project relating to the Wolf Creek Dam, Kentucky, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2822 | To help Federal prosecutors and investigators combat public corruption by strengthening and clarifying the law.
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| H R 2823 | To amend the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act to enhance and improve certain procedures relating to voting by absent members of the uniformed services, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2824 | To enhance the conduct and support of federally funded comparative effectiveness research relating to health care, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2825 | To require the Secretary of Defense to debar from contracting with the Department of Defense any company found to have jeopardized the health or safety of Government personnel or found guilty of contract fraud, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2826 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow employers a credit against income tax for the cost of teleworking equipment and expenses.
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| H R 2827 | To amend the Digital Television Transition and Public Safety Act of 2005 to provide for a coupon program for television antennas.
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| H R 2828 | To provide the United States with a comprehensive energy package to place Americans on a path to a secure economic future through increased energy innovation, conservation, and production.
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| H R 2829 | To ensure prompt access to supplemental security income, social security disability, and medicaid benefits for persons released from certain public institutions.
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| H R 2830 | To amend title 38, United States Code, to direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to give priority to unemployed veterans in furnishing hospital care, medical services, and nursing home care to certain veterans assigned to priority level 8.
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| H R 2831 | To amend the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 and the Public Health Service Act to require the option of extension of dependent coverage for unmarried, uninsured children under 30 years of age under group health plans and under group and individual health insurance coverage.
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| H R 2832 | To require the Secretary of the Treasury to develop a strategy and timeline for the repayment of assistance received by financial institutions under the Troubled Asset Relief Program, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2833 | To require a minimum loss ratio for 90 percent for health insurance coverage offered through an insurance exchange.
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| H R 2834 | To direct the Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to conduct a technological capability assessment, survey, and economic feasibility study regarding recovery of minerals, other than oil and natural gas, from the shallow and deep seabed of the United States.
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| H R 2835 | To provide for the medical use of marijuana in accordance with the laws of the various States.
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| H R 2836 | To amend the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008 to improve and expand suicide prevention and community healing and response training under the Yellow Ribbon Reintegration Program.
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| H R 2837 | To amend section 276 of the Immigration and Nationality Act to impose mandatory sentencing ranges with respect to aliens who reenter the United States after having been removed, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2838 | To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to enter into a long-term ground lease for the operation and maintenance of Rock Creek, Langston, and East Potomac as golf courses, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2839 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to make residents of Puerto Rico eligible for the earned income tax credit.
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| H R 2840 | To amend titles XIX and XXI of the Social Security Act to ensure payment under Medicaid and the State Children's Health Insurance Program for covered items and services furnished by school-based health clinics.
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| H R 2841 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to make permanent the enhanced charitable deduction for contributions of food inventory.
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| H R 2842 | To rescind all stimulus funds that remain unobligated.
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| H R 2843 | To provide for the joint appointment of the Architect of the Capitol by the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the President pro tempore of the Senate, the Majority and Minority Leaders of the House of Representatives and Senate, and the chairs and ranking minority members of the committees of Congress with jurisdiction over the Office of the Architect of the Capitol, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2844 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to create a value indexing mechanism for the physician work component of the Medicare physician fee schedule.
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| H R 2845 | To direct the Secretary of Defense to deploy ground-based interceptors as part of the missile defense system, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2846 | To increase energy independence and job creation by increasing safe American energy production, encouraging the development of alternative and renewable energy, and promoting greater efficiencies and conservation for a cleaner environment.
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| H R 2847 | Making appropriations for the Departments of Commerce and Justice, and Science, and Related Agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2010, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2848 | To amend the Controlled Substances Act with regard to penalties for trafficking in high potency marihuana, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2849 | To require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to enter into agreements with States to resolve outstanding claims for reimbursement under the Medicare Program relating to the Special Disability Workload project.
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| H R 2850 | To provide for enhanced retirement benefits for administrative law judges.
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| H R 2851 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exclude certain gains on single-family residential rental property from gross income.
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| H R 2852 | To amend the Social Security Act to build on the aging network to establish long-term services and supports through single-entry point systems, evidence-based disease prevention and health promotion programs, and enhanced nursing home diversion programs.
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| H R 2853 | To require the purchase of domestically made flags of the United States of America for use by the Federal Government.
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| H R 2854 | To require the Secretary of the Treasury to redesign $1 Federal reserve notes so as to incorporate the preamble to the Constitution of the United States, a list describing the Articles of the Constitution, and a list describing the Amendments to the Constitution, on the reverse side of such notes.
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| H R 2855 | To reduce deaths occurring from drug overdoses.
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| H R 2856 | To amend title 10, United States Code, to require that military decorations, ribbons, badges, medals, insignia, and other uniform accouterments used by the Armed Forces be produced in the United States.
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| H R 2857 | To amend title 18, United States Code, to reduce violent gang crime and protect law-abiding citizens and communities from violent criminals, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2858 | To amend titles XI and XVIII of the Social Security Act to modernize the quality improvement organization (QIO) program.
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| H R 2859 | To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to provide for application of an enhanced Federal matching rate for children under the Medicaid Program if certain conditions are met.
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| H R 2860 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for a Medicare operated prescription drug plan option to deliver a meaningful drug benefit and lower prescription drug prices under the Medicare Program.
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| H R 2861 | To amend the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to provide for rules and standards relating to the election of boards of directors and certain requirements relating to compensation of executives.
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| H R 2862 | To direct the Administrator of the Small Business Administration to provide education and resources to small business concerns that assist such concerns to protect themselves from phishing, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2863 | To amend title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to provide for treatment of certain deferred executive compensation arrangements which is comparable to certain funding-based limits on benefits and benefit accruals imposed on defined benefit pension plans under the Pension Protection Act of 2006.
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| H R 2864 | To amend the Hydrographic Services Improvement Act of 1998 to authorize funds to acquire hydrographic data and provide hydrographic services specific to the Arctic for safe navigation, delineating the United States extended continental shelf, and the monitoring and description of coastal changes.
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| H R 2865 | To ensure safe, secure, and reliable marine shipping in the Arctic including the availability of aids to navigation, vessel escorts, spill response capability, and maritime search and rescue in the Arctic, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2866 | To provide for a disregard under the Supplemental Security Income program of compensation for participation in clinical trials for rare diseases or conditions.
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| H R 2867 | To ensure access to basic broadcast television after the Digital Television Transition, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2868 | To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to extend, modify, and recodify the authority of the Secretary of Homeland Security to enhance security and protect against acts of terrorism against chemical facilities, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2869 | To require the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to take certain actions to prevent the manipulation of energy markets, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2870 | To standardize and clarify the dimensions of carry-on baggage and personal items on air carriers.
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| H R 2871 | To amend title 18, United States Code, to provide for punishment for killing a member of the Armed Forces of the United States.
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| H R 2872 | To improve the quality and cost effectiveness of cancer care to Medicare beneficiaries by establishing a national demonstration project.
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| H R 2873 | To provide enhanced enforcement authority to the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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| H R 2874 | To amend the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act to improve the equitable relief available for servicemembers called to active duty, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2875 | To provide that certain photographic records relating to the treatment of any individual engaged, captured, or detained after September 11, 2001, by the Armed Forces of the United States in operations outside the United States shall not be subject to disclosure under section 552 of title 5, United States Code (commonly referred to as the Freedom of Information Act).
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| H R 2876 | To establish a program to preserve rural multifamily housing assisted under the Housing Act of 1949.
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| H R 2877 | To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 76 Brookside Avenue in Chester, New York, as the "1st Lieutenant Louis Allen Post Office".
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| H R 2878 | To authorize microenterprise assistance for renewable energy projects in developing countries.
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| H R 2879 | To amend title 38, United States Code, to improve health care for veterans who live in rural areas, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2880 | To require the Secretary of Agriculture to establish a carbon incentives program to achieve supplemental greenhouse gas emissions reductions on private agricultural and forestland of the United States, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2881 | To amend titles II and XVIII of the Social Security Act to waive certain waiting periods for Social Security disability and Medicare benefits in the case of a terminally ill, disabled individual.
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| H R 2882 | To amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to direct certain coeducational elementary and secondary schools to make available information on equality in school athletic programs, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2883 | To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to provide for security at wastewater treatment works, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2884 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to clarify that electricity produced in certain possessions of the United States and other areas is eligible for the credit for electricity produced from certain renewable resources.
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| H R 2885 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to expand the credit for electricity produced from certain renewable resources and the investment energy credit to include ocean thermal energy conversion projects.
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| H R 2886 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide the nonbusiness energy property and residential energy efficient property tax incentives to residents of certain possessions of the Unites States and other areas.
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| H R 2887 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide an incentive to preserve affordable housing in multifamily housing units which are sold or exchanged.
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| H R 2888 | To provide for the designation of the Devil's Staircase Wilderness Area in the State of Oregon, to designate segments of Wasson and Franklin Creeks in the State of Oregon as wild or recreation rivers, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2889 | To modify the boundary of the Oregon Caves National Monument, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2890 | To amend the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to designate certain river segments in Oregon as wild or scenic rivers, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2891 | To amend the Public Health Service Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish a Frontline Providers Loan Repayment Program.
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| H R 2892 | Making appropriations for the Department of Homeland Security for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2010, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2893 | To amend section 5318 of title 31, United States Code, to eliminate regulatory burdens imposed on insured depository institutions and money services businesses and enhance the availability of transaction accounts at depository institutions for such business, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2894 | To amend the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to require a voter-verified permanent paper ballot under title III of such Act, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2895 | To amend the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 to promote energy independence and self-sufficiency by providing for the use of net metering by certain small electric energy generation systems, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2896 | To amend the Federal Deposit Insurance Act to provide the same treatment for covered bonds as for other qualified financial contracts to which a depository institution is a party when such institution is in receivership or conservatorship, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2897 | To amend the Federal Deposit Insurance Act to return a sense of fairness and accountability to the deposit insurance premium assessment process, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2898 | To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide support services for family caregivers of disabled veterans, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2899 | To address the public health and safety threat presented by the risk of catastrophic wildfire on Federal forestlands of the State of California by requiring the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior to expedite forest management projects relating to hazardous fuels reduction, forest restoration, and forest health.
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| H R 2900 | To repeal the wage rate requirements commonly known as the Davis-Bacon Act.
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| H R 2901 | To amend title 14, United States Code, to improve benefits for members of the Coast Guard, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2902 | To authorize the Federal Trade Commission, in consultation with the Federal Communications Commission, to review volume usage service plans of major broadband Internet service providers to ensure that such plans are fairly based on cost.
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| H R 2903 | To establish an assistance program for the construction of digital TV translators to fill coverage gaps that are created from the transition from analog to digital signals.
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| H R 2904 | To prohibit the Federal Government from holding ownership interests, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2905 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend the first-time homebuyer tax credit and to modify the credit by repealing the first-time homebuyer requirement and waiving recapture.
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| H R 2906 | To amend the Public Health Service Act to specifically include problem and pathological gambling in programs of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration and to establish a national program to address the harmful consequences of problem gambling.
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| H R 2907 | To amend the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 to ensure that recipients of assistance under the Troubled Asset Relief Program repay such assistance only if they would remain well capitalized after such repayment.
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| H R 2908 | To provide for the sale of light grade petroleum from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve and its replacement with heavy grade petroleum.
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| H R 2909 | To amend title XI of the Social Security Act to provide for an improved method to measure poverty so as to enable a better assessment of the effects of programs under the Social Security Act, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2910 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for S corporation reform, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2911 | To improve end-of-life care.
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| H R 2912 | To authorize and request the President to award the Congressional Medal of Honor posthumously to Captain Felix Sosa-Camejo for his gallant and heroic actions during the Vietnam War, ending with his death in combat on February 13, 1968.
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| H R 2913 | To designate the United States courthouse located at 301 Simonton Street in Key West, Florida, as the "Sidney M. Aronovitz United States Courthouse".
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| H R 2914 | To amend the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 to terminate marketing assistance loans and loan deficiency payments for mohair producers.
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| H R 2915 | To prohibit United States contributions to the International Fund for Ireland.
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| H R 2916 | To provide that no recreation grants made using funds from the Land and Water Conservation Fund may be used to acquire land or make improvements in State or local parks.
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| H R 2917 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to deny any deduction for advertising prescription drugs.
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| H R 2918 | Making appropriations for the Legislative Branch for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2010, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2919 | To amend part B of title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide Medicare physician incentive payments for efficient areas.
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| H R 2920 | To reinstitute and update the Pay-As-You-Go requirement of budget neutrality on new tax and mandatory spending legislation, enforced by the threat of annual, automatic sequestration.
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| H R 2921 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for an annual review by the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission on geographic access to services.
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| H R 2922 | To establish a downpayment requirement for Rural Housing Service direct and guaranteed single-family home loan programs, to repeal the downpayment assistance initiative under subtitle E of title II of the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act, and to prohibit use of amounts provided under certain other programs for downpayment assistance.
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| H R 2923 | To enhance the ability to combat methamphetamine.
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| H R 2924 | To establish a commission to study the culture and glorification of violence in America.
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| H R 2925 | To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for community projects that will reduce the number of individuals who are uninsured with respect to health care, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2926 | To amend title 38, United States Code, to direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to provide, without expiration, hospital care, medical services, and nursing home care for certain Vietnam-era veterans exposed to herbicide and veterans of the Persian Gulf War.
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| H R 2927 | To authorize the imposition of a tax on imports from any country that employs indirect taxes and grants rebates of the same upon export and to authorize compensatory payments to eligible United States exporters to neutralize the discriminatory effect of such taxes paid by such exporters if United States trade negotiating objectives regarding border tax treatment in World Trade Organization negotiations are not met.
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| H R 2928 | To amend title 38, United State Code, to provide for an apprenticeship and on-job training program under the Post-9/11 Veterans Educational Assistance Program.
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| H R 2929 | To enhance the primary care workforce through the establishment of a National Health Workforce Advisory Board and the provision of workforce data and analysis.
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| H R 2930 | To enhance the primary care workforce through modifications to the medical residency training programs and use of qualified teaching health centers and through State primary care scholarship and loan repayment programs.
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| H R 2931 | To direct the Secretary of Defense to adopt a program of professional and confidential screenings for members of the armed forces on active duty to detect mental health conditions for the purpose of reducing the incidence of suicide among such members and veterans, and to detect traumatic brain injuries, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2932 | To prevent speculation and profiteering in the defaulted debt of certain poor countries, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2933 | To amend chapter 44 of title 18, United States Code, to clarify the circumstances under which the enhanced penalty provisions for subsequent convictions apply.
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| H R 2934 | To amend title 18, United States Code, to prevent unjust and irrational criminal punishments.
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| H R 2935 | To establish a non-profit corporation to communicate United States entry policies and otherwise promote tourist, business, and scholarly travel to the United States.
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| H R 2936 | To create a program to guarantee loans made to manufacturing companies in order to promote increased domestic lending to the United States manufacturing industry.
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| H R 2937 | To prevent health care facility-acquired infections.
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| H R 2938 | To extend the deadline for commencement of construction of a hydroelectric project.
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| H R 2939 | To provide for a pilot program to improve the quality of oncology care under Medicare.
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| H R 2940 | To amend the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, the Public Health Service Act, and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to require that group and individual health insurance coverage and group health plans permit enrollees direct access to services of obstetrical and gynecological physician services directly and without a referral.
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| H R 2941 | To reauthorize and enhance Johanna's Law to increase public awareness and knowledge with respect to gynecologic cancers.
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| H R 2942 | To appropriate to the Highway Trust Fund the unobligated balances of funds made available by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
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| H R 2943 | To eliminate most Federal penalties for possession of marijuana for personal use, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2944 | To withdraw certain Federal lands and interests located in Pima and Santa Cruz counties, Arizona, from the mining and mineral leasing laws of the United States, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2945 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to permit a Medicare beneficiary to elect to take ownership, or to decline ownership, of a certain item of complex durable medical equipment after the 13-month capped rental period ends.
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| H R 2946 | To amend the Public Health Service Act to authorize a grant to a qualified youth-serving organization for recruiting and preparing students for careers and volunteer opportunities as future health care professionals, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2947 | To amend the Federal securities laws to make technical corrections and to make conforming amendments related to the repeal of the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935.
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| H R 2948 | To amend title IX of the Public Health Service Act to provide for the implementation of best practices in the delivery of health care in the United States, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2949 | To amend the Public Health Service Act to extend preventive-health and research programs with respect to prostate cancer.
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| H R 2950 | To direct the Secretary of the Interior to allow for prepayment of repayment contracts between the United States and the Uintah Water Conservancy District.
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| H R 2951 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to include vision restoration therapy devices and associated software used in the patient's home to treat impaired visual function due to acquired brain injury within the definition of durable medical equipment under the Medicare Program.
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| H R 2952 | To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to provide medical assistance for certain men screened and found to have prostate cancer under a federally funded screening program.
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| H R 2953 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow individuals either a credit against income tax or a deduction for expenses paid or incurred by reason of a voluntary or mandatory evacuation.
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| H R 2954 | To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to extend the authority of the Secretary of Homeland Security to waive certain requirements under the visa waiver program for an additional 2 years.
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| H R 2955 | To amend the Whaling Convention Act of 1949 to require that the United States Commissioner to the International Whaling Commission must be a Federal employee.
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| H R 2956 | To remove the additional tariff on ethanol.
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| H R 2957 | To amend the Public Health Service Act to reauthorize the National Health Service Corps Scholarship and Loan Repayment Programs.
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| H R 2958 | To amend the accountability provisions of part A of title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2959 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to establish an accountable care organization pilot program to reduce the growth of expenditures and improve health outcomes under the Medicare Program.
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| H R 2960 | To authorize the Secretary of Defense to pay an additional amount of assignment special pay to members of the Armed Forces who agree to serve in Afghanistan for up to six years or the duration of the United States mission in that country.
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| H R 2961 | To create additional permanent and temporary judgeships for the eastern district of California, to provide for an additional place of holding court in the eastern district of California, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2962 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to exclude certain advanced diagnostic imaging services from the in-office ancillary services exception to the prohibition on physician self-referral.
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| H R 2963 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide incentives for improving small manufacturers' computer technology.
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| H R 2964 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow refunds of Federal motor fuel excise taxes on fuels used in mobile mammography vehicles.
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| H R 2965 | To amend the Small Business Act with respect to the Small Business Innovation Research Program and the Small Business Technology Transfer Program, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2966 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to deny any deduction for direct-to-consumer advertisements of prescription drugs.
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| H R 2967 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to deny the alternative fuel and alternative fuel mixture credits for black liquor.
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| H R 2968 | To amend title 38, United States Code, to eliminate the required reduction in the amount of the accelerated death benefit payable to certain terminally-ill persons insured under Servicemembers' Group Life Insurance or Veterans' Group Life Insurance.
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| H R 2969 | To authorize the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to establish water system adaptation partnerships.
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| H R 2970 | To amend title 5, United States Code, to increase the maximum age limit for an original appointment to a position as a Federal law enforcement officer in the case of any individual who has been discharged or released from active duty in the Armed Forces under honorable conditions, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2971 | To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 630 Northeast Killingsworth Avenue in Portland, Oregon, as the "Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Post Office".
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| H R 2972 | To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 115 West Edward Street in Erath, Louisiana, as the "Conrad DeRouen, Jr. Post Office".
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| H R 2973 | To require the Secretary of the Interior to notify units of local government when a Native American group files a petition to become a federally recognized Indian tribe and before the decision on the petition is made, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2974 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow individuals eligible for veterans health benefits to contribute to health savings accounts.
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| H R 2975 | To improve the medical care by reducing the excessive burden imposed by the civil liability system on the health care delivery system.
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| H R 2976 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for coverage, as supplies associated with the injection of insulin, of containment, removal, decontamination and disposal of home-generated needles, syringes, and other sharps through a sharps container, decontamination/destruction device, or sharps-by-mail program or similar program under part D of the Medicare Program.
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| H R 2977 | To direct the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Bureau of Reclamation, to enter into an agreement with the National Academy of Sciences to conduct a comprehensive study of sustainable water and environmental management in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, California, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2978 | To amend title 5, United States Code, to increase the maximum age to qualify for coverage as a "child" under the health benefits program for Federal employees.
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| H R 2979 | To amend title IV of the Social Security Act to ensure funding for grants to promote responsible fatherhood and strengthen low-income families, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2980 | To amend title 38, United States Code, to reduce the period of time for which a veteran must be totally disabled before the veteran's survivors are eligible for the benefits provided by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs for survivors of certain veterans rated totally disabled at time of death.
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| H R 2981 | To prohibit employment discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity.
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| H R 2982 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow Indian tribes to transfer the credit for electricity produced from renewable resources.
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| H R 2983 | To require the videotaping or electronic recording of strategic intelligence interrogations of persons in the custody of or under the effective control of the Department of Defense, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2984 | To amend title 46, United States Code, to assist in the defense of United States mariners and vessels against piracy, to ensure the traditional right of self-defense of those vessels against piracy, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2985 | To establish a public diplomacy international exchange program to be known as the Ambassador's Fund for Strategic Exchanges, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2986 | To amend the Act of May 29, 1930 (Chapter 354; 46 Stat. 482; commonly known as the Capper-Cramton Act), to authorize a grant program to preserve resources in the National Capital region, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2987 | To amend the Public Health Service Act to ensure sufficient resources and increase efforts for research at the National Institutes of Health relating to Alzheimer's disease, to authorize an education and outreach program to promote public awareness and risk reduction with respect to Alzheimer's disease (with particular emphasis on education and outreach in Hispanic populations), and for other purposes.
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| H R 2988 | For the relief of Fernando Javier Cervantes.
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| H R 2989 | To amend the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to provide special reporting and disclosure rules for individual account plans and to provide a minimum investment option requirement for such plans, to amend such Act to provide for independent investment advice for participants and beneficiaries under individual account plans, and to amend such Act and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide transitional relief under certain pension funding rules added by the Pension Protection Act of 2006.
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| H R 2990 | To provide special pays and allowances to certain members of the Armed Forces, expand concurrent receipt of military retirement and VA disabi |