To suspend temporarily the duty on certain reusable grocery bags.
2007-11-09: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
Ovarian Cancer Biomarker Research Act of 2007
2007-11-08: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Genocide Accountability Act of 2007
2007-12-04: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 292.
To amend title 35, United States Code, relating to the funding of the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
2007-06-04: Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property.
Patent Reform Act of 2007
2007-09-11: Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 348.
Arts Require Timely Service (ARTS) Act
2008-04-02: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Iraq Benchmarks Act
2007-03-20: Committee Hearings Held.
American Dream Act
2007-06-05: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education, Lifelong Learning, and Competitiveness.
To amend chapter 35 of title 28, United States Code, to provide for a 120-day limit to the term of a United States attorney appointed on an interim basis by the Attorney General, and for other purposes.
2007-03-27: Received in the Senate. Read twice. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 92.
AgJOBS Act of 2007
2007-02-02: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
Social Security Fairness Act of 2007
2007-01-11: Referred to the Subcommittee on Social Security.
Providing for the disapproval of the Congress of the proposed agreement for cooperation between the United States and the Russian Federation pursuant to the Atomic Energy Act of 1954.
2008-06-24: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
Resolution calling on the Government of the People's Republic of China to immediately end abuses of the human rights of its citizens, to cease repression of Tibetan and Uighur people, and to end its support for the Governments of Sudan and Burma to ensure that the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games take place in an atmosphere that honors the Olympic traditions of freedom and openness.
2008-07-30: The title of the measure was amended. Agreed to without objection.
Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the United States should lead a high-level diplomatic effort to ensure that the Durban Review Conference serves as a forum to review implementation of commitments made at the 2001 Durban Conference to combat all forms of racism by defeating the campaign by some members of the Organization of the Islamic Conference to divert the United Nation's Durban Review Conference from a review of problems in their own and other countries by attacking Israel, promoting anti-Semitism, and undermining the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
2008-09-23: The title of the measure was amended. Agreed to without objection.
Providing for the concurrence by the House in the Senate amendments to H.R. 3890, with amendments.
2008-07-15: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
Joining the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in observance of World Refugee Day and calling on the United States Government, international organizations, and aid groups to take immediate steps to secure urgently needed humanitarian relief for the more than 2,000,000 people displaced by genocide in the Darfur region of Sudan.
2008-06-20: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
Reaffirming the support of the House of Representatives for the legitimate, democratically-elected Government of Lebanon under Prime Minister Fouad Siniora.
2008-05-22: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives concerning the United States-India nuclear cooperation agreement.
2007-10-04: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
Patent Quality Assistance Act of 2004
2004-11-05: Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property.
Preservation of Orphan Works Act
2004-11-05: Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property.