Also tagged in: Aged, Agricultural subsidies, Agriculture, Air force, Air pollution, Air pollution control, Airlines, Airports, Alternative energy sources, Ambulatory care, American Samoa, Animals, Aquatic ecology, Armed forces, Army, Army Corps of Engineers, Arrest, Asbestos, Automobile industry, Automobile parts, Automobiles, Aviation safety, Block grants, Border patrols, Bridges, Budgets, Business, Cattle, Census, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Charter schools, Child sexual abuse, Child support, Children, Clinics, Coast guard, Commodity exchanges, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Communicable diseases, Community policing, Computer crimes, Congress, Congressional oversight, Congressional reporting requirements, Construction costs, Consumer credit, Consumers, Corporate finance, Corporate governance, Criminal justice, Cultural property, Customs administration, Dams, Defense budgets, Defense economics, Demography, Department of Agriculture, Department of 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education, Federal aid to housing, Federal aid to Indians, Federal aid to law enforcement, Federal aid to research, Federal aid to transportation, Federal aid to water pollution control, Federal aid to water resources development, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Federal Emergency Management Agency, Federal employees, Federal installations, Federal office buildings, Federal-Indian relations, Federally-guaranteed loans, Feeds, Fees, Finance, Fines (Penalties), Fish culture, Floods, Florida, Food, Food relief, Food safety, Foreclosure, Fuel consumption, Futures trading, General Services Administration, Geology, Golden parachutes, Government and business, Government employees, Government lending, Government procurement, Government trust funds, Guerrilla warfare, Harbors, Hazardous substances, Health policy, Higher education, Highway finance, Homeless, Housing, Housing authorities, Housing subsidies, Humanities, Hydroelectric power, Ice breaking operations, Immigration, Income tax, 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Space activities, Space flight, Space shuttles, Special education, Sports, State and local government, State taxation, Storms, Student activities, Sugar, Supplemental appropriations, Surveys, Survivors' benefits, Tax deductions, Tax returns, Taxation, Technology, Telecommunication, Texas, Trade, Trails, Transportation, Unemployment insurance, Uranium enrichment, Vaccines, Veterans, Veterans' benefits, Veterans' pensions, Wage surveys, Waste reduction, Waste water treatment, Water conservation, Water pollution control, Water resources, Water supply, Water treatment plants, Weapons systems, Welfare, WIC program, Wildlife refuges, World War II, Youth employment
Latest Action: 11/19/2008 - Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S10607) Bill TextA bill making supplemental appropriations for job creation and preservation, infrastructure investment, and economic and energy assistance for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2009, and for other purposes. 11/17/2008--Introduced. Economic Recovery Act of 2008 - Makes supplemental appropriations for FY2009 for infrastructure, energy, and economic recovery for: (1) the Department of Agriculture; (2) the Department of Commerce; (3) the Department of Justice (DOJ); (4) the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA); (5) the Legal Services Corporation; (6) the Department of Defense (DOD) - Civil for the Department of the Army Corps of Engineer; (7) the Department of Energy (DOE); (8) the Department of the Treasury, including the Office of Inspector General; (9) the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC); (10) the General Services Administration (GSA); (11) the Small Business Administration (SBA); (12) the Department of Homeland Security (DHS); (13) the Department [...] show full description
Also tagged in: Air pollution, Air pollution control, Alternative energy sources, Budgets, Business, Carbon cycle, Electric power production, Electric power transmission, Energy, Energy efficiency, Environmental protection, Environmental technology, Executive departments, Executive reorganization, Federally-guaranteed loans, Finance, Fuel, Grants-in-aid, Small business, Small Business Administration, Technological innovations, Technology, Water pollution control
Latest Action: 10/02/2008 - Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S10489) Bill Text
A bill to provide incentives to small business concerns for innovative energy-efficient technologies and products, and for other purposes.
Also tagged in: Administrative procedure, Air pollution, Air pollution control, Alaska, Alternative energy sources, Animals, Arctic regions, Armed forces, Collective bargaining, Congress, Continental shelf, Defense economics, Defense procurement, Department of the Interior, Easements, Energy, Energy conservation, Energy efficiency, Energy research, Environmental assessment, Environmental protection, Executive departments, Fishing, Gas in submerged lands, Government trust funds, Gulf of Mexico, Habitat conservation, Hunting, Impact aid, Income tax, Indigenous peoples, Labor, Labor contracts, Land transfers, Law, Legislation, Marine resources, Minorities, Natural resources, Oil and gas leases, Oil and gas royalties, Oil pollution, Oil shales, Oil well drilling, Petroleum in submerged lands, Petroleum reserves, Pipelines, Prospecting, Public contracts, Public lands, Research and development, Right-of-way, Science policy, State and local government, State finance, Tax credits, Tax deductions, Taxation, Transportation, Trapping, Water pollution control, Water quality
Latest Action: 10/01/2008 - Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S10328-10330) Bill Text
A bill to reduce gas prices by promoting domestic energy production, alternative energy, and conservation, and for other purposes.
Latest Action: 09/26/2008 - Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S9685-9686) Bill Text
A bill to establish a grant program to promote the conservation of the Great Lakes and for other purposes.
Also tagged in: Agricultural pollution, Agriculture, Authorization, Bonds, Budgets, Congress, Congressional reporting requirements, Depressed areas, Economic policy, Environmental protection, Environmental technology, Federal aid to water pollution control, Federal aid to water resources development, Finance, Government lending, Governmental investigations, Infrastructure, Potable water, Public contracts, Reservoirs, Revolving funds, Sewage disposal, Sewerage, Storm drains, Technological innovations, Technology, Waste water treatment, Water conservation, Water pollution control, Water quality, Water resources, Water supply, Water treatment plants, Water use, Wetlands
Latest Action: 09/26/2008 - Committee on Environment and Public Works. Original measure reported to Senate by Senator Boxer. With written report No. 110-509. Additional views filed. Bill TextAn original bill to amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act and the Safe Drinking Water Act to improve water and wastewater infrastructure in the United States. 9/26/2008--Reported to Senate without amendment. (There is 1 other summary) (This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.)Water Infrastructure Financing Act - Title I: Water Pollution Infrastructure - (Sec. 101) Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (commonly known as the Clean Water Act) to authorize the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to make grants to qualified nonprofit technical assistance providers to: (1) assist owners and operators of small (serving not more than 10,000 individuals) and medium (serving more than 10,000 but fewer than 100,000 individuals) treatment works on wastewater and stormwater approaches to plan, develop, and obtain financing [...] show full description
Also tagged in: Environmental protection, Environmental Protection Agency, Executive departments, Executive reorganization, Federal-local relations, Federal-state relations, Foreign policy, Gulf of Mexico, International affairs, International environmental cooperation, Latin America, Marine ecology, Mexico, Restoration ecology, Solid wastes, State and local government, Waste disposal in the ocean, Water quality, Water resources, Watersheds
Latest Action: 09/24/2008 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. Bill Text
A bill to amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to expand and strengthen cooperative efforts to monitor, restore, and protect the resource productivity, water quality, and marine ecosystems of the Gulf of Mexico.
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Latest Action: 09/26/2008 - Introduced in the Senate, read twice. (text of measure as introduced in Senate: CR S9660-9668) Bill TextA bill making emergency supplemental appropriations for economic recovery for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2008, and for other purposes. 9/26/2008--Introduced. Economic Recovery Act, 2008 - Makes emergency supplemental appropriations for FY2008 for infrastructure, energy, and economic recovery to: (1) the Department of Agriculture; (2) the Department of Commerce; (3) the Department of Justice (DOJ); (4) the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA); (5) the Legal Services Corporation; (6) the Department of Defense (DOD) - Civil Corps of Engineers; (7) the Department of the Interior; (8) the Department of Energy (DOE); (9) the Department of the Treasury, including the Office of Inspector General; (10) the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC); (11) the General Services Administration (GSA); (12) the Small Business Administration (SBA); (13) the Department of Homeland Security (DHS); (14) the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA); (15) the Department [...] show full description
Also tagged in: Air conditioning, Air pollution, Airports, Alien labor, Alternative energy sources, Architecture and the disabled, Asbestos, Bicycles, Biomass energy, Block grants, Budgets, Building construction, Building laws, Business, Buy American, Charter schools, Civil engineering, Class size, Commuting, Congress, Congressional reporting requirements, Construction costs, Department of Defense, Department of Education, Department of Energy, Department of Housing and Urban Development, Department of Labor, Department of the Interior, Department of Transportation, Disabled, Economic assistance, Economic policy, Education, Educational technology, Electric batteries, Electric power distribution, Electric power transmission, Elementary and secondary education, Elementary education, Emergency management, Energy, Energy conservation, Energy efficiency, Energy supplies, Environmental protection, Environmental Protection Agency, Environmental technology, Executive departments, Federal aid to air pollution control, Federal aid to education, Federal aid to housing, Federal aid to transportation, Federal aid to water pollution control, Federal aid to water resources development, Federal budgets, Federal-state relations, Finance, Fire prevention, Flood control, Food relief, Food stamps, Foreclosure, Foreign aid, Foreign policy, Fungi, Geothermal resources, Government corporations, Government procurement, Green products, Hazardous substances, Health policy, Heating, Housing, Illegal aliens, Immigration, Indoor air pollution, Infrastructure, Infrastructure (Economics), Intergovernmental fiscal relations, Iron, Iron and steel industry, Job creation, Job training, Labor, Lead, Lighting, Maintenance and repair, Marshall Islands, Mass rapid transit, Medicaid, Medical care, Micronesia, Minorities, Minority business enterprises, Mississippi River, Motor buses, National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak), Natural resources, Oceania, Off-budget expenditures, Palau Islands, Pedestrians, Pension funds, Pensions, Polychlorinated biphenyls, Potable water, Public contracts, Public housing, Public schools, Railroad engineering, Railroad passenger traffic, Revolving funds, Road construction, Roads and highways, School buildings, Secondary education, Small business, Solar energy, State and local government, Steel, Supplemental appropriations, Technology, Trade, Transportation, Transportation engineering, Transportation rates, Unemployment, Unemployment insurance, Veterans, Veterans' employment, Water quality, Water resources, Water use, Welfare, Wind power, Women, Women in business, Wood
Latest Action: 11/18/2008 - Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 1124 under authority of the order of the Senate of 11/17/2008. Bill TextMaking supplemental appropriations for job creation and preservation, infrastructure investment, and economic and energy assistance for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2009, and for other purposes. 9/26/2008--Passed House without amendment. (There is 1 other summary) (This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.) Job Creation and Unemployment Relief Act of 2008 - Title I: Infrastructure Investments - Chapter I: Transportation - Makes supplemental appropriations for FY2009 for infrastructure investments to the Department of Transportation (DOT) for: (1) the Federal Aviation Administration, grants-in-aid for airports; (2) Federal Highway Administration, highway infrastructure investment; (3) Federal Railroad Administration, capital and debt service grants to the National Railroad Passenger Corporation (AMTRAK); (4) Federal Transit Administration,[...] show full description
Also tagged in: Air pollution, Budgets, Climate change, Coastal zone, Education, Environmental protection, Environmental research, Federal aid to education, Federal aid to research, Great Lakes, Higher education, Marine pollution, Marine resources, Oceanography, Research centers, Science policy, Water resources
Latest Action: 09/18/2008 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Bill Text
A bill to establish 4 regional institutes as centers of excellence for research, planning, and related efforts to assess and prepare for the impacts of climate change on ocean and coastal areas.
Also tagged in: Agricultural pollution, Agriculture, Authorization, Bonds, Budgets, Congress, Congressional reporting requirements, Depressed areas, Economic policy, Environmental protection, Environmental technology, Federal aid to water pollution control, Federal aid to water resources development, Finance, Government lending, Governmental investigations, Infrastructure, Potable water, Public contracts, Reservoirs, Revolving funds, Sewage disposal, Sewerage, Storm drains, Technological innovations, Technology, Waste water treatment, Water conservation, Water pollution control, Water quality, Water resources, Water supply, Water treatment plants, Water use, Wetlands
Latest Action: 09/16/2008 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. Bill TextA bill to amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act and the Safe Drinking Water Act to improve water and wastewater infrastructure in the United States. 9/16/2008--Introduced. Water Infrastructure Financing Act - Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (commonly known as the Clean Water Act) to: (1) authorize the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to establish a competitive grant program to provide technical assistance to small and medium treatment works on wastewater and stormwater approaches; (2) expand the list of projects eligible for state water pollution control revolving loan fund (commonly known as the Clean Water State Revolving Fund or CWSRF) assistance; (3) provide assistance, including loan forgiveness, for disadvantaged communities; (4) allow states to forgive repayment of a portion of a loan for alternative approaches to wastewater and stormwater controls; (5) establish a priority system for providing financial assistance from [...] show full description
Also tagged in: Administrative fees, Administrative procedure, Air cargo, Aircraft pilots, Airline passenger traffic, Airlines, Airports, Alien labor, Aliens, Animals, Appropriations, Armed forces, Armed forces reserves, Aviation safety, Biological warfare, Border patrols, Bridges, Budgets, Business, Canada, Chemical warfare, Child pornography, Child sexual abuse, Children, Coast guard, Computer security measures, Congress, Congressional oversight, Congressional reporting requirements, Construction industries, Construction workers, Counterfeiting, Criminal investigation, Criminal justice, Criminal justice information, Customs administration, Data banks, Defense policy, Delegation of powers, Department of Homeland Security, Deportation, Detention of persons, Disaster insurance, Disaster loans, Disaster relief, Drone aircraft, Drug abuse, Drug law enforcement, Drugs, Emergency communication systems, Emergency housing, Emergency management, Emergency medicine, Employee selection, Environmental protection, Executive departments, Explosives, Families, Federal Emergency Management Agency, Federal employees, Federal law enforcement officers, Federal-local relations, Federal-state relations, Fire fighters, Fire prevention, Flight training, Floods, Food, Food relief, Foreign policy, Government contractors, Government employees, Government information, Government lending, Government procurement, Government publicity, Government trust funds, Hazardous substances, Horses, Hours of labor, Housing, Identification of criminals, Illegal aliens, Immigration, Imports, Informers, Infrastructure, Inspectors general, Intelligence activities, International affairs, Ionizing radiation, Job training, Labor, Latin America, Maps, Marine pollution, Marine resources, Marine terminals, Marine transportation, Mass rapid transit, Medical care, Medicine, Metropolitan areas, Mexico, Midwest (U.S.), Military pensions, Military training, Minimum wages, Missing children, Motor buses, Navigational aids, Nuclear research, Nuclear terrorism, Off-budget expenditures, Oil pollution, Patrol aircraft, Patrol ships, Pensions, Police training, Politics and government, Prescription pricing, Presidents, Protection of animals, Public contracts, Railroad safety, Repatriation, Reprogramming of appropriated funds, Research and development, Risk, Salaries, Science policy, Secret service, Security measures, Smuggling, State and local government, Survivors' benefits, Technological innovations, Technology, Telecommunication, Telephone, Temporary employment, Terrorism, Tornadoes, Trade, Transportation, Transportation safety, Trucking, Urban affairs, Veterans, Wages, Weapons systems
Latest Action: 09/18/2008 - The House Committee on Appropriations reported an original measure, H. Rept. 110-862, by Mr. Price (NC). Bill TextMaking appropriations for the Department of Homeland Security for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2009, and for other purposes. 9/18/2008--Reported to House without amendment. (There is 1 other summary) Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2009 - Title I: Departmental Management and Operations - Makes appropriations for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for FY2009 for executive management, analysis and operations, and the Offices of the Secretary, the Under Secretary for Management, the Chief Financial Officer, the Chief Information Officer, the Federal Coordinator for Gulf Coast Rebuilding, and the Inspector General.Title II: Security, Enforcement, and Investigations - Makes appropriations for FY2009 for: (1) U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), including for automation modernization, customs and border protection fencing, infrastructure, and technology (with obligations subject to the DHS Secretary [...] show full description
Also tagged in: Academic performance, Access to health care, Aged, AIDS (Disease), Americans in foreign countries, Budgets, Charities, Child health, Children, Church and social problems, Citizen participation, Colleges, Communications, Community and school, Community organization, Compensatory education, Conferences, Congress, Congressional reporting requirements, Data banks, Depressed areas, Developing countries, Disaster relief, Dropouts, Economic policy, Education, Education of the disadvantaged, Educational accountability, Elementary and secondary education, Elementary education, Emergency management, Energy, Energy conservation, Energy efficiency, Entrepreneurs, Environmental protection, Executive departments, Families, Federal advisory bodies, Federal aid to education, Federal aid to Indians, Food, Foreign aid, Foreign policy, Government and business, Government information, Government paperwork, Government publicity, Governmental investigations, Grandparents, Grants-in-aid, Health education, Health policy, Higher education, Home repair and improvement, Housing, Human immunodeficiency viruses, Hunger, Indians, Information technology, International affairs, Job hunting, Job training, Labor, Low-income housing, Malaria, Malnutrition, Medical care, Medically uninsured, Medicine, Mentoring, Minorities, National parks, National service, Natural resources, Nonprofit organizations, Older workers, Parks, Personal budgets, Politics and government, Potable water, Poverty, Preventive medicine, Public lands, Public-private partnerships, Recycling of waste products, Refuse and refuse disposal, Religion, Rivers, Scholarships, Secondary education, Service learning, Social services, Solid wastes, Sports, State and local government, State parks, Sustainable development, Technical assistance, Technology, Telecommunication, Trails, Translating and interpreting, Tuberculosis, Veterans, Veterans' benefits, Veterans' employment, Volunteer workers, Wages, Water pollution control, Water resources, Welfare, Women, Women's education, Women's employment
Latest Action: 09/12/2008 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S8482-8498) Bill TextA bill to amend the National and Community Service Act of 1990 to expand and improve opportunities for service, and for other purposes. 9/12/2008--Introduced. Serve America Act - Amends the National and Community Service Act of 1990 to create two new service-learning programs: (1) a Youth Engagement Zones to Strengthen Communities program, providing competitive grants to partnerships between local educational agencies that serve high-need, low-income communities and certain community-based or state entities to engage students and out-of-school youth in service-learning addressing specific challenges faced by their communities; and (2) a Campus of Service program, which annually grants up to 30 institutions of higher education (IHEs) with exemplary service-learning programs the funds to assist their students' pursuit of public service careers, and the right to nominate additional individuals for ServeAmerica Fellowships. Directs the Corporation for National and Community [...] show full description
Also tagged in: Agriculture, Alaska, Alcohol as fuel, Alternative energy sources, Automobile engines, Biomass energy, Black lung, Budgets, Building construction, Business, Carbon cycle, Carbon dioxide, Cellulose, Coal, Cogeneration of electric power and heat, Continental shelf, Damages, Depreciation and amortization, Diesel motor, Disability retirement, Disabled, Education, Electric appliances, Electric power distribution, Electric power production, Electric vehicles, Elementary and secondary education, Energy, Energy conservation, Energy efficiency, Energy facilities, Environmental protection, Excise tax, Exports, Fuel cells, Gas in submerged lands, Gas industry, Geothermal resources, Government trust funds, Greenhouse gases, Gulf of Mexico, Heat pumps, Home repair and improvement, Housing, Hydroelectric power, Incineration, Income tax, Investment tax credit, Irrigation, Law, Liability for environmental damages, Marine resources, Natural gas, Natural resources, Ocean energy resources, Oil pollution, Oil shales, Oil well drilling, Pensions, Petroleum in submerged lands, Petroleum industry, Petroleum refineries, Public lands, Recycling of waste products, Refuse as fuel, Rural affairs, Rural education, Service stations, Solar energy, Solid wastes, Tankers, Tax credits, Tax deductions, Tax refunds, Taxation, Trade, Transportation, Trucks, Water resources, Wind power
Latest Action: 09/11/2008 - Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8392) Bill TextA bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide incentives for the production of energy, to provide transportation and domestic fuel security, and to provide incentives for energy conservation and energy efficiency, and for other purposes. 9/11/2008--Introduced. Energy Independence and Investment Act of 2008 - Amends and extends Internal Revenue Code provisions relating to energy production, transportation and domestic fuel security, energy conservation and efficiency, and nuclear power.Extends through 2011 the tax credit for production of electricity from specified renewable resources, including wind energy, biomass, geothermal energy, refined coal, and hydropower. Includes marine and hydrokinetic renewable energy as a renewable resource for purposes of such tax credit. Extends through 2016 the energy tax credit for solar, fuel cell, and microturbine property and the tax credit for residential energy efficient property. Allows a new investment tax [...] show full description
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