A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to allow physician assistants, nurse practitioners, and clinical nurse specialists to supervise cardiac, intensive cardiac, and pulmonary rehabilitation programs.
2012-02-01: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
STOP Act
2012-02-01: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
Small Business Tax Extenders Act of 2012
2012-01-31: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S211-212)
A bill to require the Under Secretary for Science and Technology in the Department of Homeland Security to contract with an independent laboratory to study the health effects of backscatter x-ray machines used at airline checkpoints operated by the Transportation Security Administration and provide improved notice to airline passengers.
2012-01-31: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
A bill to approve the Keystone XL pipeline project and provide for environmental protection and government oversight.
2012-02-07: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S366-367)
National Baseball Hall of Fame Commemorative Coin Act
2012-01-26: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
A bill to amend title 32, United States Code, the body of laws of the United States dealing with the National Guard, to recognize the City of Salem, Massachusetts, as the Birthplace of the National Guard of the United States.
2011-12-16: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
Social Security Fairness Act of 2011
2011-12-16: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
A bill to amend the African Growth and Opportunity Act to extend the third-country fabric rule, to add South Sudan to the list of countries eligible for designation under that Act, and for other purposes.
2011-12-15: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
A bill to require the Transportation Security Administration to comply with the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act.
2011-12-14: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. (text of measure as introduced: CR S8604)
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to make permanent the minimum low-income housing tax credit rate for unsubsidized buildings and to provide a minimum 4 percent credit rate for existing buildings.
2011-12-14: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
LIHEAP Protection Act
2011-12-07: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations. (text of measure as introduced: CR S8417)
Animal Fighting Spectator Prohibition Act of 2011
2012-12-07: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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.
March of Dimes Commemorative Coin Act of 2011
2011-12-01: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
Earmark Elimination Act of 2011
2011-12-01: Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 243.
Mark Twain Commemorative Coin Act
2011-11-30: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
VAWA bill
2012-04-26: Passed Senate with an amendment by Yea-Nay Vote. 68 - 31. Record Vote Number: 87.
Responsible Unemployment Extension Act
2011-11-17: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
School Access to Emergency Epinephrine Act
2011-11-17: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S7704-7705)
ABLE Act of 2011
2011-11-15: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.