Open Congress : Major Bill Actions in Corporate finance

Bill Introduced: H.R.7321 Auto Industry Financing and Restructuring Act

2008-12-10T00:00:00Z

To authorize financial assistance to eligible automobile manufacturers, and for other purposes.

Bill Introduced: S.3689 Economic Recovery Act of 2008

2008-11-17T00:00:00Z

A bill making supplemental appropriations for job creation and preservation, infrastructure investment, and economic and energy assistance for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2009, and for other purposes.

Bill Introduced: S.3688 Unemployment Compensation Extension Act of 2008

2008-11-17T00:00:00Z

A bill to provide for additional emergency unemployment compensation, to amend the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 to authorize loans to automobile manufacturers and component suppliers, and for other purposes.

Bill Introduced: H.R.6003 Passenger Rail Investment and Improvement Act of 2008

2008-05-08T00:00:00Z

To reauthorize Amtrak, and for other purposes.

Bill Introduced: H.R.3504 Transparency in Corporate Filings Act

2007-09-07T00:00:00Z

To authorize the Securities and Exchange Commission to permit or require persons filing or furnishing information under the securities laws to make such information available on internet websites, in addition to or instead of including such information in filings with or submissions to the Commission, under such conditions as the Commission may specify by rule.

Bill Introduced: H.R.2727 Small Business SOX Compliance Extension Act

2007-06-14T00:00:00Z

To extend the current moratorium for small businesses complying with section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 by 1 year.

Bill Introduced: H.Res.449 Encouraging the Federal Government and State and municipal governments, universities, companies, and other institutions in the United States, and all Americans to divest from companies that do business with Sudan.

2007-05-24T00:00:00Z

Encouraging the Federal Government and State and municipal governments, universities, companies, and other institutions in the United States, and all Americans to divest from companies that do business with Sudan.

Bill Introduced: H.R.2345 Abusive Tax Shelter Shutdown and Taxpayer Accountability Act of 2007

2007-05-16T00:00:00Z

To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to curb tax abuses by disallowing tax benefits claimed to arise from transactions without substantial economic substance, and for other purposes.

Bill Introduced: S.1019 Health Care Choice Act of 2007

2007-03-28T00:00:00Z

A bill to provide comprehensive reform of the health care system of the United States, and for other purposes.

Bill Introduced: S.869 Competitive and Open Markets That Protect and Enhance the Treatment of Entrepreneurs Act of 2007

2007-03-14T00:00:00Z

A bill to reform certain provisions of section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, to make compliance with that section more efficient, with the goal of maintaining United States capital market global competitiveness.

Bill Introduced: S.864 Access to Competitive Power Act of 2007

2007-03-13T00:00:00Z

A bill to amend the Federal Power Act to clarify the jurisdiction of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, and for other purposes.

Bill Introduced: H.R.1508 Compete Act of 2007

2007-03-13T00:00:00Z

To reform certain provisions of section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 to make compliance with that section more efficient, with the goal of maintaining United States capital market global competitiveness.

Bill Introduced: S.834 Promoting Transparency in Financial Reporting Act of 2007

2007-03-09T00:00:00Z

A bill to require annual testimony before Congress by the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Financial Accounting Standards Board, and the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, relating to efforts to promote transparency in financial reporting.

Bill Introduced: H.R.1341 Honest Income Disclosure Act

2007-03-06T00:00:00Z

To require corporate income reported to the Internal Revenue Service to be included in annual reports to the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Bill Introduced: H.R.1127 American Manufacturing competitiveness Act

2007-02-16T00:00:00Z

To amend the Tariff Act of 1930 to allow United States manufacturers that use products subject to countervailing or antidumping duty proceedings or use domestic like products to participate in those proceedings as interested parties, and for other purposes.

Bill Introduced: H.Res.164 Encouraging the Federal Government and State and municipal governments, universities, companies, and other institutions in the United States, and all Americans to divest from companies that do business with Sudan.

2007-02-14T00:00:00Z

Bill Introduced: H.R.755 Promoting Transparency in Financial Reporting Act of 2007

2007-01-31T00:00:00Z

To require annual oral testimony before the Financial Services Committee of the Chairperson or a designee of the Chairperson of the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Financial Accounting Standards Board, and the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, relating to their efforts to promote transparency in financial reporting.

Bill Introduced: H.R.698 Industrial Bank Holding Company Act of 2007

2007-01-29T00:00:00Z

To amend the Federal Deposit Insurance Act to establish industrial bank holding company regulation, and for other purposes.

Bill Introduced: S.294 Passenger Rail Investment and Improvement Act of 2008

2007-01-16T00:00:00Z

A bill to reauthorize Amtrak, and for other purposes.

Bill Introduced: H.R.5746 Industrial Bank Holding Company Act of 2006

2006-07-10T00:00:00Z

To amend the Federal Deposit Insurance Act to establish industrial bank holding company regulation, and for other purposes.