To require the Secretary of Homeland Security to establish at least one Border Patrol unit for the Virgin Islands of the United States.
2005-02-18: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Security, infrastructure Protection, and Cybersecurity.
Health Empowerment Zone Act of 2005
2005-02-04: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States regarding presidential election voting rights for residents of all United States territories and commonwealths.
2005-03-02: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution.
Expressing the sense of the Congress that the United States Fish and Wildlife Service should incorporate consideration of global warming and sea-level rise into the comprehensive conservation plans for coastal national wildlife refuges, and for other purposes.
2006-05-08: Executive Comment Requested from Interior.
Supporting the observance of a Campaign to End AIDS Advocacy Day, and for other purposes.
2005-11-22: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Expressing the sense of the Congress that schools in the United States should honor the contributions of individuals from the commonwealths, territories, and possessions of the United States by including such contributions in the teaching of United States history.
2005-02-09: Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.
To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to authorize the shipment of prescription drugs between the States and the Virgin Islands.
2007-12-19: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Virgin Islands Improvement Act of 2007
2007-08-03: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
To amend the joint resolution that approved the covenant establishing the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and for other purposes.
2008-06-11: Indefinitely postponed by Senate by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S5530)
To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a study to determine the suitability and feasibility of designating the Virgin Islands Military and Veterans Memorial, to be located in Fredericksted, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands, as a unit of the National Park System.
2007-07-05: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
To convey certain submerged lands to the Government of the Virgin Islands, and for other purposes.
2007-07-05: Referred to the Subcommittee on Insular Affairs.
Compacts of Free Association Amendments Act of 2007
2007-11-14: Received in the Senate. Read twice. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 489.
To create the Office of Chief Financial Officer of the Government of the Virgin Islands, and for other purposes.
2007-08-03: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to lease certain lands in Virgin Islands National Park, and for other purposes.
2008-06-17: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Senate Subcommittee on National Parks. Hearings held.
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.
2007-01-04: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
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.
2007-02-02: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Virgin Islands National Park School Lease Act
2008-04-23: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Senate Subcommittee on National Parks. Hearings held.
Teacher Recruitment Act of 2007
2007-05-09: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education, Lifelong Learning, and Competitiveness.
Judicial District of the Virgin Islands Act of 2007
2007-01-04: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
To extend the supplemental security income benefits program to Guam and the United States Virgin Islands.
2007-01-11: Referred to the Subcommittee on Income Security and Family Support.