A bill to remove preferential treatment for sleeping bags under the Generalized System of Preferences, and for other purposes.
2010-09-22: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
A bill to provide for the adjustment of status for certain long-term conditional residents.
2010-08-04: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Common Sense Budgeting Act
2009-12-18: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Budget.
A bill to extend temporarily the reduction of duty on polyethylene HE1878.
2009-11-02: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
A bill to extend the temporary suspension of duty on butanedioic acid, dimethyl ester, polymer with 4-hydroxy-2,2,6,6,-tetramethyl-1-piperidineethanol.
2009-11-02: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
A bill to suspend temporarily the duty on certain unwoven polypropylene zippered sleeping bag carry cases, not under 77.5 cm in circumference and not exceeding 106.7 cm in circumference.
2009-11-02: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
A bill to suspend temporarily the duty on man-made shells used in the manufacture of sleeping bags.
2009-11-02: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
A bill to extend the temporary suspension of duty on N,N-Hexane-1,6,diylbis(3-(3,5-di-tert-butyl-4-hydroxyphenylpropionamide)).
2009-11-02: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
A bill to extend the temporary suspension of duty on 1,3,5-Triazine-2,4,6-triamine,N,N'"-[1,2-ethane-diyl-bis-[[[4,6-bis[butyl (1,2,2,6,6-pentamethyl-4-piperidinyl)amino]-1,3,5-triazine-2-yl]imino]-3,1-propanediyl]]bis[N',N"-dibutyl-N',N"-bis(1,2,2,6,6,-pentamethyl-4-piperidinyl)-and Butanedioic acid, dimethylester polymer with 4-hydroxy-2,2,6,6-tetramethyl-1-piperdine ethanol.
2009-11-02: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
USA PATRIOT Reauthorization Act of 2009
2009-10-29: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S10934)
A bill to require that funding for Federal departments and agencies and programs that remain available at the end of a fiscal year shall be used to pay down the Federal debt.
2009-04-20: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
A resolution commemorating the 50th anniversary of the publication of "To Kill a Mockingbird".
2010-08-05: Submitted in the Senate, considered, and agreed to without amendment and with a preamble by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S6981; text as passed Senate: CR S6981; text of measure as introduced: CR S6908)
A resolution designating September 2010 as "National Prostate Cancer Awareness Month".
2010-09-14: Resolution agreed to in Senate without amendment and with a preamble by Unanimous Consent. (text: CR S7094-7095)
A resolution designating September 2009 as "National Prostate Cancer Awareness Month".
2009-09-21: Submitted in the Senate, considered, and agreed to without amendment and with a preamble by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S9615-9516; text as passed Senate: CR S9615-9616; text of measure as introduced: CR S9591)
A concurrent resolution providing for the acceptance of a statue of Helen Keller, presented by the people of Alabama.
2009-10-06: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
A concurrent resolution providing for the acceptance of a statue of Helen Keller, presented by the people of Alabama.
2009-10-01: Message on House action received in Senate and at desk: House amendments to Senate bill.