Affirming that private equity plays an important role in growing and strengthening United States businesses throughout all sectors of the economy and in every State and congressional district and that it has fostered significant investment in the United States economy.
2014-07-31: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
Condemning and disapproving of the failure of the Obama administration to comply with the lawful statutory requirement to notify Congress before transferring individuals detained at United States Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and expressing concern about the national security risks over the transfer of five Taliban leaders and the repercussions of negotiating with terrorists.
2014-09-09: The title of the measure was amended. Agreed to without objection.
Strongly supporting the quality and value of diversity and innovation in the Nation's higher education institutions, and strongly disagreeing with the President's proposal to create and administer a Postsecondary Institution Ratings System.
2014-06-10: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
Expressing concern over persistent and credible reports of systematic, state-sanctioned organ harvesting from non-consenting prisoners of conscience, in the People's Republic of China, including from large numbers of Falun Gong practitioners imprisoned for their religious beliefs, and members of other religious and ethnic minority groups.
2014-07-30: Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Unanimous Consent.
Amending the Rules of the House of Representatives to establish the Committee on the Elimination of Nonessential Federal Programs.
2013-03-15: Referred to the House Committee on Rules.
Establishing a select committee to investigate and report on the attack on the United States consulate in Benghazi, Libya.
2013-01-23: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H253-256)
Expressing the sense of Congress that a carbon tax would be detrimental to the United States economy.
2013-03-14: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
Supporting the Local Radio Freedom Act.
2013-02-28: Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, And The Internet.
Medicare DMEPOS Market Pricing Program Act of 2012
2012-09-21: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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.
Repeal of Obamacare Act
2012-07-16: Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 451.
Forest Products Fairness Act of 2012
2012-06-27: Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Energy, and Forestry.
To preserve existing rights and responsibilities with respect to waters of the United States, and for other purposes.
2012-09-20: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 492.
RAISE Act
2012-09-26: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.
To amend the Electronic Fund Transfer Act to limit the fee disclosure requirement for an automatic teller machine to the screen of that machine.
2012-12-20: Became Public Law No: 112-216.
Consumer Mortgage Choice Act
2012-04-26: Referred to the Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit.
To amend chapter 44 of title 18, United States Code, to more comprehensively address the interstate transportation of firearms or ammunition.
2012-04-16: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
Preserving America's Family Farms Act
2012-07-25: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to clarify that any person who, for a commercial purpose, makes available for consumer use a machine capable of producing tobacco products, is a manufacturer of tobacco products.
2012-03-05: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
United States-Israel Enhanced Security Cooperation Act of 2012
2012-05-10: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
Real Unemployment Calculation Act
2012-03-29: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.