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Shelley Moore Capito


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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.

4/8/2008--Introduced.

Border Fence Trust Fund Act of 2008 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to establish in the Treasury the Border Improvement Trust Fund and allow individual taxpayers (other than nonresident aliens) to designate that $5.00 ($10.00 in the case of joint returns) of their income taxes be paid over to such Fund to install additional barriers and roads at the U.S. border.

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  • 04/28/2008 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Border, Maritime, and Global Counterterrorism.
  • 04/08/2008 - Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Homeland Security, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
  • 04/08/2008 - Referred to House Ways and Means
  • 04/08/2008 - Referred to House Homeland Security
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H.R.5728 Introduced in House04/12/2008