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  <title>Open Congress : Major Bill Actions in Economic performance and conditions</title>
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  <updated>2009-10-08T00:00:00Z</updated>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.3770 To make technical corrections to subtitle A of title VII of the Consolidated Natural Resources Act of 2008, and for other purposes.</title>
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    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-10-08:/action/210980</id>
    <updated>2009-10-08T00:00:00Z</updated>
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To make technical corrections to subtitle A of title VII of the Consolidated Natural Resources Act of 2008, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.3732 Protecting Resort Cities from Discrimination Act of 2009</title>
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    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-10-06:/action/210553</id>
    <updated>2009-10-06T00:00:00Z</updated>
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To prohibit an agency or department of the United States from establishing or implementing an internal policy that discourages or prohibits the selection of a resort or vacation destination as the location for a conference or event, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: S.1593 Social Investment and Economic Development for the Americas Act of 2010</title>
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    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-08-06:/action/206629</id>
    <updated>2009-08-06T00:00:00Z</updated>
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A bill to authorize the establishment of a Social Investment and Economic Development for the Americas Fund to reduce poverty, expand the middle class, and foster increased economic opportunity in that region, to promote engagement on the use of renewable fuel sources and on climate change in the Americas, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.Con.Res.173 Expressing the sense of the Congress that the Federal Government should not levy any additional taxes on firearms or firearm ammunition during the current economic hardship.</title>
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    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-07-30:/action/205630</id>
    <updated>2009-07-30T00:00:00Z</updated>
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Expressing the sense of the Congress that the Federal Government should not levy any additional taxes on firearms or firearm ammunition during the current economic hardship.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: S.1530 Protecting Resort Cities from Discrimination Act of 2009</title>
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    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-07-29:/action/205183</id>
    <updated>2009-07-29T00:00:00Z</updated>
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A bill to prohibit an agency or department of the United States from establishing or implementing an internal policy that discourages or prohibits the selection of a resort or vacation destination as the location for a conference or event, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.3390 Retirement Account Freedom Act of 2009</title>
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    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-07-29:/action/205257</id>
    <updated>2009-07-29T00:00:00Z</updated>
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To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to waive the 10 percent penalty on distributions from certain retirement plans during periods of high unemployment.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.3396 Congressional Responsibility and Accountability Act</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h3396/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-07-29:/action/205272</id>
    <updated>2009-07-29T00:00:00Z</updated>
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To amend title 5, United States Code, to prohibit agencies from enforcing rules that result in a specified economic impact until the requirements of those rules are enacted into law by an Act of Congress, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: S.1377 A bill to provide for an automatic increase in the federal matching rate for the Medicaid program during periods of national economic downturn to help States cope with increases in Medicaid costs.</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-s1377/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-06-25:/action/201160</id>
    <updated>2009-06-25T00:00:00Z</updated>
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A bill to provide for an automatic increase in the federal matching rate for the Medicaid program during periods of national economic downturn to help States cope with increases in Medicaid costs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: S.1335 WHTI Implementation Monitoring Plan to Assure Continued Travel and Trade Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-s1335/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-06-24:/action/201083</id>
    <updated>2009-06-24T00:00:00Z</updated>
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A bill to require reports on the effectiveness and impacts of the implementation of the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: S.Con.Res.30 A concurrent resolution commending the Bureau of Labor Statistics on the occasion of its 125th anniversary.</title>
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    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-06-23:/action/200656</id>
    <updated>2009-06-23T00:00:00Z</updated>
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A concurrent resolution commending the Bureau of Labor Statistics on the occasion of its 125th anniversary.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.2924 Presidential Commission to Study the Culture and Glorification of Violence in America Act</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h2924/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-06-17:/action/199688</id>
    <updated>2009-06-17T00:00:00Z</updated>
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To establish a commission to study the culture and glorification of violence in America.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.2847 Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2010</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h2847/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-06-12:/action/199161</id>
    <updated>2009-06-12T00:00:00Z</updated>
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Making appropriations for the Departments of Commerce and Justice, and Science, and Related Agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2010, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.Con.Res.152 Commending the Bureau of Labor Statistics on the occasion of its 125th anniversary.</title>
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    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-06-12:/action/199080</id>
    <updated>2009-06-12T00:00:00Z</updated>
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Commending the Bureau of Labor Statistics on the occasion of its 125th anniversary.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: S.1229 Entrepreneurial Development Act of 2009</title>
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    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-06-10:/action/198573</id>
    <updated>2009-06-10T00:00:00Z</updated>
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A bill to reauthorize and improve the entrepreneurial development programs of the Small Business Administration, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: S.1198 Auto Stock for Every Taxpayer Act</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-s1198/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-06-08:/action/198045</id>
    <updated>2009-06-08T00:00:00Z</updated>
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A bill to limit disbursement of additional funds under the Troubled Asset Relief Program to certain automobile manufacturers, to impose fiduciary duties on the Secretary of the Treasury with respect to shareholders of such automobile manufacturers, to require the issuance of shares of common stock to eligible taxpayers which represent the common stock holdings of the United States Government in such automobile manufacturers, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.2670 WHTI Implementation Monitoring Plan to Assure Continued Travel and Trade Act of 2009</title>
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    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-06-02:/action/197051</id>
    <updated>2009-06-02T00:00:00Z</updated>
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To require reports on the effectiveness and impacts of the implementation of the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: S.1064 Enhanced Oversight of State and Local Economic Recovery Act</title>
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    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-05-18:/action/195586</id>
    <updated>2009-05-18T00:00:00Z</updated>
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A bill to amend the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 to provide for enhanced State and local oversight of activities conducted under such Act, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: S.1056 Securing America's Future Economy Commission Act</title>
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    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-05-14:/action/195372</id>
    <updated>2009-05-14T00:00:00Z</updated>
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A bill to establish a commission to develop legislation designed to reform tax policy and entitlement benefit programs and ensure a sound fiscal future for the United States, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.2182 Enhanced Oversight of State and Local Economic Recovery Act</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h2182/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-04-29:/action/193104</id>
    <updated>2009-04-29T00:00:00Z</updated>
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To amend the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 to provide for enhanced State and local oversight of activities conducted pursuant to such Act, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.2147 Global Warming Economic Oversight Act of 2009</title>
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    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-04-28:/action/192793</id>
    <updated>2009-04-28T00:00:00Z</updated>
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To establish the Global Warming Economic Oversight Commission to study and report on the use by the Federal Government of funds from any auction or sale of greenhouse gas emissions allowances, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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