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  <title>Open Congress : Bills donnyshaw is Tracking</title>
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  <updated>2012-05-23T20:00:00Z</updated>
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  <entry>
    <title>S.1483 Incorporation Transparency and Law Enforcement Assistance Act</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/112-s1483/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2012-05-23:/action/331931</id>
    <updated>2012-05-23T20:00:00Z</updated>
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A bill to ensure that persons who form corporations in the United States disclose the beneficial owners of those corporations, in order to prevent wrongdoers from exploiting United States corporations in ways that threaten homeland security, to assist law enforcement in detecting, preventing, and punishing terrorism, money laundering, and other misconduct involving United States corporations, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;May 23, 2012: Committee on Foreign Relations. Hearings held.    </content>
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  <entry>
    <title>S.1483 Incorporation Transparency and Law Enforcement Assistance Act</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/112-s1483/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2012-05-23:/action/345286</id>
    <updated>2012-05-23T20:00:00Z</updated>
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A bill to ensure that persons who form corporations in the United States disclose the beneficial owners of those corporations, in order to prevent wrongdoers from exploiting United States corporations in ways that threaten homeland security, to assist law enforcement in detecting, preventing, and punishing terrorism, money laundering, and other misconduct involving United States corporations, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;May 23, 2012: Committee on Foreign Relations. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 112-602.    </content>
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  <entry>
    <title>S.1483 Incorporation Transparency and Law Enforcement Assistance Act</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/112-s1483/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2011-08-01:/action/307398</id>
    <updated>2011-08-01T20:00:00Z</updated>
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A bill to ensure that persons who form corporations in the United States disclose the beneficial owners of those corporations, in order to prevent wrongdoers from exploiting United States corporations in ways that threaten homeland security, to assist law enforcement in detecting, preventing, and punishing terrorism, money laundering, and other misconduct involving United States corporations, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;August 01, 2011: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S5255-5260)    </content>
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  <entry>
    <title>S.1483 Incorporation Transparency and Law Enforcement Assistance Act</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/112-s1483/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2011-08-01:/action/307330</id>
    <updated>2011-08-01T20:00:00Z</updated>
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A bill to ensure that persons who form corporations in the United States disclose the beneficial owners of those corporations, in order to prevent wrongdoers from exploiting United States corporations in ways that threaten homeland security, to assist law enforcement in detecting, preventing, and punishing terrorism, money laundering, and other misconduct involving United States corporations, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;August 01, 2011: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.    </content>
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  <entry>
    <title>Bill Introduced: S.1483 Incorporation Transparency and Law Enforcement Assistance Act</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/112-s1483/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2011-08-01:/action/307329</id>
    <updated>2011-08-01T20:00:00Z</updated>
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A bill to ensure that persons who form corporations in the United States disclose the beneficial owners of those corporations, in order to prevent wrongdoers from exploiting United States corporations in ways that threaten homeland security, to assist law enforcement in detecting, preventing, and punishing terrorism, money laundering, and other misconduct involving United States corporations, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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  <entry>
    <title>H.R.872 Reducing Regulatory Burdens Act of 2011</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/112-h872/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2011-03-02:/action/291266</id>
    <updated>2011-03-02T19:00:00Z</updated>
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To amend the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act and the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to clarify Congressional intent regarding the regulation of the use of pesticides in or near navigable waters, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;March 02, 2011: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>H.R.872 Reducing Regulatory Burdens Act of 2011</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/112-h872/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2011-03-01:/action/289825</id>
    <updated>2011-03-01T19:00:00Z</updated>
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To amend the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act and the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to clarify Congressional intent regarding the regulation of the use of pesticides in or near navigable waters, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;March 01, 2011: Referred to House Transportation and Infrastructure    </content>
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  <entry>
    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.872 Reducing Regulatory Burdens Act of 2011</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/112-h872/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2011-03-01:/action/289823</id>
    <updated>2011-03-01T19:00:00Z</updated>
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To amend the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act and the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to clarify Congressional intent regarding the regulation of the use of pesticides in or near navigable waters, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>H.R.872 Reducing Regulatory Burdens Act of 2011</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/112-h872/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2011-03-01:/action/289824</id>
    <updated>2011-03-01T19:00:00Z</updated>
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To amend the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act and the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to clarify Congressional intent regarding the regulation of the use of pesticides in or near navigable waters, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;March 01, 2011: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, 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.    </content>
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  <entry>
    <title>H.R.872 Reducing Regulatory Burdens Act of 2011</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/112-h872/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2011-03-01:/action/289826</id>
    <updated>2011-03-01T19:00:00Z</updated>
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To amend the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act and the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to clarify Congressional intent regarding the regulation of the use of pesticides in or near navigable waters, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;March 01, 2011: Referred to House Agriculture    </content>
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  <entry>
    <title>H.R.589 Emergency Unemployment Compensation Expansion Act of 2011</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/112-h589/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2011-02-13:/action/301771</id>
    <updated>2011-02-13T19:00:00Z</updated>
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To amend title IV of the Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2008 to provide for additional weeks of first-tier emergency unemployment compensation, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;February 13, 2011: Referred to the Subcommittee on Human Resources.    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.589 Emergency Unemployment Compensation Expansion Act of 2011</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/112-h589/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2011-02-08:/action/287077</id>
    <updated>2011-02-08T19:00:00Z</updated>
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To amend title IV of the Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2008 to provide for additional weeks of first-tier emergency unemployment compensation, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>H.R.589 Emergency Unemployment Compensation Expansion Act of 2011</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/112-h589/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2011-02-08:/action/287078</id>
    <updated>2011-02-08T19:00:00Z</updated>
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To amend title IV of the Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2008 to provide for additional weeks of first-tier emergency unemployment compensation, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;February 08, 2011: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.    </content>
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  <entry>
    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.2 Repealing the Job-Killing Health Care Law Act</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/112-h2/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2011-01-04:/action/284208</id>
    <updated>2011-01-04T19:00:00Z</updated>
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To repeal the job-killing health care law and health care-related provisions in the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>H.R.2 Repealing the Job-Killing Health Care Law Act</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/112-h2/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2011-01-04:/action/284217</id>
    <updated>2011-01-04T19:00:00Z</updated>
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To repeal the job-killing health care law and health care-related provisions in the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;January 04, 2011: Referred to House Appropriations    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>H.R.2 Repealing the Job-Killing Health Care Law Act</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/112-h2/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2011-01-04:/action/284211</id>
    <updated>2011-01-04T19:00:00Z</updated>
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To repeal the job-killing health care law and health care-related provisions in the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;January 04, 2011: Referred to House Education and the Workforce    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>H.R.2 Repealing the Job-Killing Health Care Law Act</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/112-h2/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2011-01-04:/action/284209</id>
    <updated>2011-01-04T19:00:00Z</updated>
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To repeal the job-killing health care law and health care-related provisions in the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;January 04, 2011: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Education and the Workforce, Ways and Means, the Judiciary, Natural Resources, Rules, House Administration, and Appropriations, 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.    </content>
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  <entry>
    <title>H.R.2 Repealing the Job-Killing Health Care Law Act</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/112-h2/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2011-01-04:/action/284210</id>
    <updated>2011-01-04T19:00:00Z</updated>
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To repeal the job-killing health care law and health care-related provisions in the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;January 04, 2011: Referred to House Energy and Commerce    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>S.3981 Unemployment Insurance Stabilization Act of 2010 </title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-s3981/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2010-11-30:/action/283680</id>
    <updated>2010-11-30T19:00:00Z</updated>
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A bill to provide for a temporary extension of unemployment insurance provisions. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;November 30, 2010: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8343)    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>S.3981 Unemployment Insurance Stabilization Act of 2010 </title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-s3981/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2010-11-30:/action/279211</id>
    <updated>2010-11-30T19:00:00Z</updated>
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A bill to provide for a temporary extension of unemployment insurance provisions. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;November 30, 2010: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3981)    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Bill Introduced: S.3981 Unemployment Insurance Stabilization Act of 2010 </title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-s3981/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2010-11-29:/action/278351</id>
    <updated>2010-11-29T07:12:00Z</updated>
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A bill to provide for a temporary extension of unemployment insurance provisions. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Bill Introduced: S.3981 Unemployment Insurance Stabilization Act of 2010 </title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-s3981/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2010-11-28:/action/278524</id>
    <updated>2010-11-28T19:00:00Z</updated>
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A bill to provide for a temporary extension of unemployment insurance provisions. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>S.3981 Unemployment Insurance Stabilization Act of 2010 </title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-s3981/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2010-11-28:/action/278525</id>
    <updated>2010-11-28T19:00:00Z</updated>
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A bill to provide for a temporary extension of unemployment insurance provisions. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;November 28, 2010: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>S.3520 Unemployment Insurance Extension Act of 2010</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-s3520/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2010-06-21:/action/267280</id>
    <updated>2010-06-21T20:00:00Z</updated>
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A bill to provide for an extension of unemployment insurance.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;June 21, 2010: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S5246-5247, S5248-5249, S5250, S5252, S5253, S5256)    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Bill Introduced: S.3520 Unemployment Insurance Extension Act of 2010</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-s3520/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2010-06-21:/action/266515</id>
    <updated>2010-06-21T20:00:00Z</updated>
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A bill to provide for an extension of unemployment insurance.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>S.3520 Unemployment Insurance Extension Act of 2010</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-s3520/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2010-06-21:/action/266516</id>
    <updated>2010-06-21T20:00:00Z</updated>
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A bill to provide for an extension of unemployment insurance.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;June 21, 2010: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.    </content>
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  <entry>
    <title>H.R.5297 Small Business Jobs and Credit Act of 2010</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h5297/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2010-05-27:/action/264556</id>
    <updated>2010-05-27T19:18:00Z</updated>
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To create the Small Business Lending Fund Program to direct the Secretary of the Treasury to make capital investments in eligible institutions in order to increase the availability of credit for small businesses, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;May 27, 2010: Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Financial Services. H. Rept. 111-499.    </content>
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  <entry>
    <title>H.R.5297 Small Business Jobs and Credit Act of 2010</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h5297/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2010-05-18:/action/263747</id>
    <updated>2010-05-18T20:00:00Z</updated>
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To create the Small Business Lending Fund Program to direct the Secretary of the Treasury to make capital investments in eligible institutions in order to increase the availability of credit for small businesses, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;May 18, 2010: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>H.R.5297 Small Business Jobs and Credit Act of 2010</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h5297/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2010-05-18:/action/263748</id>
    <updated>2010-05-18T20:00:00Z</updated>
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To create the Small Business Lending Fund Program to direct the Secretary of the Treasury to make capital investments in eligible institutions in order to increase the availability of credit for small businesses, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;May 18, 2010: Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 42 - 23.    </content>
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  <entry>
    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.5297 Small Business Jobs and Credit Act of 2010</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h5297/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2010-05-12:/action/262919</id>
    <updated>2010-05-12T20:00:00Z</updated>
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To create the Small Business Lending Fund Program to direct the Secretary of the Treasury to make capital investments in eligible institutions in order to increase the availability of credit for small businesses, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>H.R.5297 Small Business Jobs and Credit Act of 2010</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h5297/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2010-05-12:/action/262920</id>
    <updated>2010-05-12T20:00:00Z</updated>
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To create the Small Business Lending Fund Program to direct the Secretary of the Treasury to make capital investments in eligible institutions in order to increase the availability of credit for small businesses, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;May 12, 2010: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.    </content>
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  <entry>
    <title>H.R.4213 Unemployment Compensation Extension Act of 2010</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h4213/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-12-08:/action/220109</id>
    <updated>2009-12-08T14:25:00Z</updated>
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To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend certain expiring provisions, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;December 08, 2009: Rules Committee Resolution H. Res. 955 Reported to House. Rule provides for consideration of H.R. 4213 with 1 hour of general debate. Previous question shall be considered as ordered without intervening motions except motion to recommit with or without instructions. Measure will be considered read. Bill is closed to amendments. All points of order against consideration of the bill are waived except those arising under clause 9 or 10 of rule XXI.    </content>
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  <entry>
    <title>H.R.4213 Unemployment Compensation Extension Act of 2010</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h4213/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-12-06:/action/254431</id>
    <updated>2009-12-06T19:00:00Z</updated>
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To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend certain expiring provisions, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;December 06, 2009: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.    </content>
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  <entry>
    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.4213 Unemployment Compensation Extension Act of 2010</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h4213/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-12-06:/action/219848</id>
    <updated>2009-12-06T19:00:00Z</updated>
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To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend certain expiring provisions, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>H.R.4213 Unemployment Compensation Extension Act of 2010</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h4213/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-12-06:/action/219849</id>
    <updated>2009-12-06T19:00:00Z</updated>
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To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend certain expiring provisions, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;December 06, 2009: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>H.R.4173 Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h4173/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-12-01:/action/240189</id>
    <updated>2009-12-01T19:00:00Z</updated>
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To provide for financial regulatory reform, to protect consumers and investors, to enhance Federal understanding of insurance issues, to regulate the over-the-counter derivatives markets, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;December 01, 2009: Referred to House Oversight and Government Reform    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.4173 Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h4173/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-12-01:/action/219245</id>
    <updated>2009-12-01T19:00:00Z</updated>
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To provide for financial regulatory reform, to protect consumers and investors, to enhance Federal understanding of insurance issues, to regulate the over-the-counter derivatives markets, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>H.R.4173 Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h4173/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-12-01:/action/240186</id>
    <updated>2009-12-01T19:00:00Z</updated>
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To provide for financial regulatory reform, to protect consumers and investors, to enhance Federal understanding of insurance issues, to regulate the over-the-counter derivatives markets, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;December 01, 2009: Referred to House Judiciary    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>H.R.4173 Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h4173/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-12-01:/action/240183</id>
    <updated>2009-12-01T19:00:00Z</updated>
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To provide for financial regulatory reform, to protect consumers and investors, to enhance Federal understanding of insurance issues, to regulate the over-the-counter derivatives markets, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;December 01, 2009: Referred to House Financial Services    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>H.R.4173 Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h4173/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-12-01:/action/240187</id>
    <updated>2009-12-01T19:00:00Z</updated>
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To provide for financial regulatory reform, to protect consumers and investors, to enhance Federal understanding of insurance issues, to regulate the over-the-counter derivatives markets, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;December 01, 2009: Referred to House Rules    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>S.1796 America's Healthy Future Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-s1796/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-10-18:/action/237847</id>
    <updated>2009-10-18T20:00:00Z</updated>
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To provide affordable, quality health care for all Americans and reduce the growth in health care spending, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;October 18, 2009: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 184.    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Bill Introduced: S.1796 America's Healthy Future Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-s1796/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-10-18:/action/211735</id>
    <updated>2009-10-18T20:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To provide affordable, quality health care for all Americans and reduce the growth in health care spending, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>S.1796 America's Healthy Future Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-s1796/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-10-18:/action/237846</id>
    <updated>2009-10-18T20:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To provide affordable, quality health care for all Americans and reduce the growth in health care spending, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;October 18, 2009: Committee on Finance. Original measure reported to Senate by Senator Baucus. With written report No. 111-89. Additional and Minority views filed.    </content>
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  <entry>
    <title>S.1796 America's Healthy Future Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-s1796/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-10-18:/action/211737</id>
    <updated>2009-10-18T20:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To provide affordable, quality health care for all Americans and reduce the growth in health care spending, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;October 18, 2009: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 184.    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>S.1796 America's Healthy Future Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-s1796/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-10-18:/action/211736</id>
    <updated>2009-10-18T20:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To provide affordable, quality health care for all Americans and reduce the growth in health care spending, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;October 18, 2009: Committee on Finance. Original measure reported to Senate by Senator Baucus. With written report No. 111-89. Additional and Minority views filed.    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>H.Res.554 </title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-hr554/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-09-23:/action/226157</id>
    <updated>2009-09-23T06:23:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;September 23, 2009: Motion to Discharge Committee filed by Mr. Walden. Petition No: 111-6. (Discharge petition text with signatures.)    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>H.R.3200 America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h3200/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-07-13:/action/234038</id>
    <updated>2009-07-13T20:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
America&#8217;s Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;July 13, 2009: Referred to House Budget    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>H.R.3200 America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h3200/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-07-13:/action/234034</id>
    <updated>2009-07-13T20:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
America&#8217;s Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;July 13, 2009: Referred to House Energy and Commerce    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>H.R.3200 America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h3200/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-07-13:/action/234037</id>
    <updated>2009-07-13T20:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
America&#8217;s Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;July 13, 2009: Referred to House Oversight and Government Reform    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>H.R.3200 America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h3200/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-07-13:/action/234033</id>
    <updated>2009-07-13T20:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
America&#8217;s Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;July 13, 2009: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Education and Labor, Oversight and Government Reform, and the Budget, 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.    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.3200 America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h3200/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-07-13:/action/203012</id>
    <updated>2009-07-13T20:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
America&#8217;s Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.2943 Personal Use of Marijuana by Responsible Adults Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h2943/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-06-17:/action/200150</id>
    <updated>2009-06-17T20:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To eliminate most Federal penalties for possession of marijuana for personal use, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>H.R.2943 Personal Use of Marijuana by Responsible Adults Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h2943/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-06-17:/action/250559</id>
    <updated>2009-06-17T20:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To eliminate most Federal penalties for possession of marijuana for personal use, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;June 17, 2009: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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.    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>S.1285 Detainee Photographic Records Protection Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-s1285/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-06-17:/action/235677</id>
    <updated>2009-06-17T20:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
A bill to provide that certain photographic records relating to the treatment of any individual engaged, captured, or detained after September 11, 2001, by the Armed Forces of the United States in operations outside the United States shall not be subject to disclosure under section 552 of title 5, United States Code (commonly referred to as the Freedom of Information Act), to amend section 552(b)(3) of title 5, United States Code (commonly referred to as the Freedom of Information Act) to provide that statutory exemptions to disclosure requirements of that Act shall specifically cite to the provision of that Act authorizing exemptions, to ensure and open and deliberative process in Congress by providing for related legislative proposals to explicitly state such required citations, and for other purposes. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;June 17, 2009: Message on Senate action sent to the House.    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>H.R.2943 Personal Use of Marijuana by Responsible Adults Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h2943/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-06-17:/action/250561</id>
    <updated>2009-06-17T20:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To eliminate most Federal penalties for possession of marijuana for personal use, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;June 17, 2009: Referred to House Energy and Commerce    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>H.R.2943 Personal Use of Marijuana by Responsible Adults Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h2943/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-06-17:/action/250560</id>
    <updated>2009-06-17T20:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To eliminate most Federal penalties for possession of marijuana for personal use, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;June 17, 2009: Referred to House Judiciary    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>H.R.2943 Personal Use of Marijuana by Responsible Adults Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h2943/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-06-17:/action/200151</id>
    <updated>2009-06-17T20:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To eliminate most Federal penalties for possession of marijuana for personal use, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;June 17, 2009: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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.    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Bill Introduced: H.Res.554 </title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-hr554/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-06-17:/action/199625</id>
    <updated>2009-06-17T11:36:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Bill Introduced: S.1285 Detainee Photographic Records Protection Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-s1285/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-06-17:/action/199626</id>
    <updated>2009-06-17T07:55:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
A bill to provide that certain photographic records relating to the treatment of any individual engaged, captured, or detained after September 11, 2001, by the Armed Forces of the United States in operations outside the United States shall not be subject to disclosure under section 552 of title 5, United States Code (commonly referred to as the Freedom of Information Act), to amend section 552(b)(3) of title 5, United States Code (commonly referred to as the Freedom of Information Act) to provide that statutory exemptions to disclosure requirements of that Act shall specifically cite to the provision of that Act authorizing exemptions, to ensure and open and deliberative process in Congress by providing for related legislative proposals to explicitly state such required citations, and for other purposes. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>S.1285 Detainee Photographic Records Protection Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-s1285/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-06-16:/action/235676</id>
    <updated>2009-06-16T20:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
A bill to provide that certain photographic records relating to the treatment of any individual engaged, captured, or detained after September 11, 2001, by the Armed Forces of the United States in operations outside the United States shall not be subject to disclosure under section 552 of title 5, United States Code (commonly referred to as the Freedom of Information Act), to amend section 552(b)(3) of title 5, United States Code (commonly referred to as the Freedom of Information Act) to provide that statutory exemptions to disclosure requirements of that Act shall specifically cite to the provision of that Act authorizing exemptions, to ensure and open and deliberative process in Congress by providing for related legislative proposals to explicitly state such required citations, and for other purposes. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;June 16, 2009: Introduced in the Senate, read twice, considered, read the third time, and passed without amendment by Unanimous Consent.    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Bill Introduced: H.Res.554 </title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-hr554/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-06-16:/action/199860</id>
    <updated>2009-06-16T20:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>H.Res.554 </title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-hr554/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-06-16:/action/237608</id>
    <updated>2009-06-16T20:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;June 16, 2009: Referred to the House Committee on Rules.    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Bill Introduced: S.1285 Detainee Photographic Records Protection Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-s1285/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-06-16:/action/199741</id>
    <updated>2009-06-16T20:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
A bill to provide that certain photographic records relating to the treatment of any individual engaged, captured, or detained after September 11, 2001, by the Armed Forces of the United States in operations outside the United States shall not be subject to disclosure under section 552 of title 5, United States Code (commonly referred to as the Freedom of Information Act), to amend section 552(b)(3) of title 5, United States Code (commonly referred to as the Freedom of Information Act) to provide that statutory exemptions to disclosure requirements of that Act shall specifically cite to the provision of that Act authorizing exemptions, to ensure and open and deliberative process in Congress by providing for related legislative proposals to explicitly state such required citations, and for other purposes. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>H.Res.554 </title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-hr554/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-06-16:/action/199861</id>
    <updated>2009-06-16T20:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;June 16, 2009: Referred to the House Committee on Rules.    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>S.1285 Detainee Photographic Records Protection Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-s1285/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-06-16:/action/199742</id>
    <updated>2009-06-16T20:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
A bill to provide that certain photographic records relating to the treatment of any individual engaged, captured, or detained after September 11, 2001, by the Armed Forces of the United States in operations outside the United States shall not be subject to disclosure under section 552 of title 5, United States Code (commonly referred to as the Freedom of Information Act), to amend section 552(b)(3) of title 5, United States Code (commonly referred to as the Freedom of Information Act) to provide that statutory exemptions to disclosure requirements of that Act shall specifically cite to the provision of that Act authorizing exemptions, to ensure and open and deliberative process in Congress by providing for related legislative proposals to explicitly state such required citations, and for other purposes. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;June 16, 2009: Introduced in the Senate, read twice, considered, read the third time, and passed without amendment by Unanimous Consent.    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>H.R.2835 Medical Marijuana Patient Protection Act</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h2835/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-06-11:/action/276974</id>
    <updated>2009-06-11T20:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To provide for the medical use of marijuana in accordance with the laws of the various States.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;June 11, 2009: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>H.R.2835 Medical Marijuana Patient Protection Act</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h2835/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-06-10:/action/240168</id>
    <updated>2009-06-10T20:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To provide for the medical use of marijuana in accordance with the laws of the various States.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;June 10, 2009: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.2835 Medical Marijuana Patient Protection Act</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h2835/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-06-10:/action/198797</id>
    <updated>2009-06-10T20:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To provide for the medical use of marijuana in accordance with the laws of the various States.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>H.R.2835 Medical Marijuana Patient Protection Act</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h2835/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-06-10:/action/198798</id>
    <updated>2009-06-10T20:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To provide for the medical use of marijuana in accordance with the laws of the various States.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;June 10, 2009: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>H.R.2646 Government Accountability Office Improvement Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h2646/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-06-03:/action/248238</id>
    <updated>2009-06-03T20:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To amend title 31, United States Code, to enhance the oversight authorities of the Comptroller General, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;June 03, 2009: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>H.R.2646 Government Accountability Office Improvement Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h2646/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-06-03:/action/248239</id>
    <updated>2009-06-03T20:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To amend title 31, United States Code, to enhance the oversight authorities of the Comptroller General, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;June 03, 2009: Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Voice Vote.    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>H.R.2646 Government Accountability Office Improvement Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h2646/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-06-01:/action/248237</id>
    <updated>2009-06-01T20:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To amend title 31, United States Code, to enhance the oversight authorities of the Comptroller General, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;June 01, 2009: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.2646 Government Accountability Office Improvement Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h2646/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-06-01:/action/197026</id>
    <updated>2009-06-01T20:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To amend title 31, United States Code, to enhance the oversight authorities of the Comptroller General, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>H.R.2646 Government Accountability Office Improvement Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h2646/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-06-01:/action/197027</id>
    <updated>2009-06-01T20:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To amend title 31, United States Code, to enhance the oversight authorities of the Comptroller General, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;June 01, 2009: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>H.R.1868 Birthright Citizenship Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h1868/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-05-25:/action/234193</id>
    <updated>2009-05-25T20:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To amend section 301 of the Immigration and Nationality Act to clarify those classes of individuals born in the United States who are nationals and citizens of the United States at birth.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;May 25, 2009: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>H.R.1868 Birthright Citizenship Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h1868/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-05-25:/action/196956</id>
    <updated>2009-05-25T20:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To amend section 301 of the Immigration and Nationality Act to clarify those classes of individuals born in the United States who are nationals and citizens of the United States at birth.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;May 25, 2009: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>H.R.2639 Global Poverty Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h2639/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-05-20:/action/253408</id>
    <updated>2009-05-20T20:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To require the President to develop and implement a comprehensive strategy to further the United States foreign policy objective of promoting the reduction of global poverty, the elimination of extreme global poverty, and the achievement of the United Nations Millennium Development Goal of reducing by one-half the proportion of people worldwide, between 1990 and 2015, who live on less than $1 per day.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;May 20, 2009: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.2639 Global Poverty Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h2639/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-05-20:/action/196278</id>
    <updated>2009-05-20T20:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To require the President to develop and implement a comprehensive strategy to further the United States foreign policy objective of promoting the reduction of global poverty, the elimination of extreme global poverty, and the achievement of the United Nations Millennium Development Goal of reducing by one-half the proportion of people worldwide, between 1990 and 2015, who live on less than $1 per day.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>H.R.2639 Global Poverty Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h2639/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-05-20:/action/196279</id>
    <updated>2009-05-20T20:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To require the President to develop and implement a comprehensive strategy to further the United States foreign policy objective of promoting the reduction of global poverty, the elimination of extreme global poverty, and the achievement of the United Nations Millennium Development Goal of reducing by one-half the proportion of people worldwide, between 1990 and 2015, who live on less than $1 per day.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;May 20, 2009: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>S.1091 STORAGE Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-s1091/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-05-19:/action/241502</id>
    <updated>2009-05-19T20:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for an energy investment credit for energy storage property connected to the grid, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;May 19, 2009: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>S.1085 Reuniting Families Act</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-s1085/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-05-19:/action/248849</id>
    <updated>2009-05-19T20:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
A bill to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to promote family unity, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;May 19, 2009: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Bill Introduced: S.1085 Reuniting Families Act</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-s1085/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-05-19:/action/196203</id>
    <updated>2009-05-19T20:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
A bill to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to promote family unity, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>S.1091 STORAGE Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-s1091/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-05-19:/action/241501</id>
    <updated>2009-05-19T20:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for an energy investment credit for energy storage property connected to the grid, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;May 19, 2009: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S5704-5706)    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Bill Introduced: S.1091 STORAGE Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-s1091/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-05-19:/action/196117</id>
    <updated>2009-05-19T20:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for an energy investment credit for energy storage property connected to the grid, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>S.1091 STORAGE Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-s1091/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-05-19:/action/196118</id>
    <updated>2009-05-19T20:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for an energy investment credit for energy storage property connected to the grid, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;May 19, 2009: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S5704-5706)    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>S.1091 STORAGE Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-s1091/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-05-19:/action/196119</id>
    <updated>2009-05-19T20:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for an energy investment credit for energy storage property connected to the grid, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;May 19, 2009: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>S.1085 Reuniting Families Act</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-s1085/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-05-19:/action/196204</id>
    <updated>2009-05-19T20:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
A bill to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to promote family unity, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;May 19, 2009: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>H.R.2454  American Clean Energy And Security Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h2454/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-05-14:/action/233374</id>
    <updated>2009-05-14T20:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To create clean energy jobs, achieve energy independence, reduce global warming pollution and transition to a clean energy economy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;May 14, 2009: Referred to House Transportation and Infrastructure    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>H.R.2454  American Clean Energy And Security Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h2454/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-05-14:/action/233368</id>
    <updated>2009-05-14T20:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To create clean energy jobs, achieve energy independence, reduce global warming pollution and transition to a clean energy economy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;May 14, 2009: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Foreign Affairs, Financial Services, Education and Labor, Science and Technology, Transportation and Infrastructure, Natural Resources, Agriculture, and 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.    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>H.R.2454  American Clean Energy And Security Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h2454/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-05-14:/action/233373</id>
    <updated>2009-05-14T20:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To create clean energy jobs, achieve energy independence, reduce global warming pollution and transition to a clean energy economy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;May 14, 2009: Referred to House Science and Technology    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>H.R.2454  American Clean Energy And Security Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h2454/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-05-14:/action/233369</id>
    <updated>2009-05-14T20:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To create clean energy jobs, achieve energy independence, reduce global warming pollution and transition to a clean energy economy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;May 14, 2009: Referred to House Energy and Commerce    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>H.R.2454  American Clean Energy And Security Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h2454/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-05-14:/action/233375</id>
    <updated>2009-05-14T20:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To create clean energy jobs, achieve energy independence, reduce global warming pollution and transition to a clean energy economy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;May 14, 2009: Referred to House Natural Resources    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>H.R.2175 Families for ED Advertising Decency Act</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h2175/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-04-29:/action/278205</id>
    <updated>2009-04-29T20:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To prohibit as indecent the broadcasting of any advertisement for a medication for the treatment of erectile dysfunction, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;April 29, 2009: Referred to the Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, and the Internet.    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>H.R.2175 Families for ED Advertising Decency Act</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h2175/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-04-28:/action/252734</id>
    <updated>2009-04-28T20:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To prohibit as indecent the broadcasting of any advertisement for a medication for the treatment of erectile dysfunction, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;April 28, 2009: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Bill Introduced: S.928 TARP Accountability Act</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-s928/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-04-28:/action/192960</id>
    <updated>2009-04-28T20:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
A bill to enhance disclosures regarding the use of funds under the Troubled Asset Relief Program, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>H.R.1409 Employee Free Choice Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h1409/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-04-28:/action/233752</id>
    <updated>2009-04-28T20:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To amend the National Labor Relations Act to establish an efficient system to enable employees to form, join, or assist labor organizations, to provide for mandatory injunctions for unfair labor practices during organizing efforts, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;April 28, 2009: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>S.928 TARP Accountability Act</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-s928/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-04-28:/action/239430</id>
    <updated>2009-04-28T20:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
A bill to enhance disclosures regarding the use of funds under the Troubled Asset Relief Program, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;April 28, 2009: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.2175 Families for ED Advertising Decency Act</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h2175/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-04-28:/action/193096</id>
    <updated>2009-04-28T20:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To prohibit as indecent the broadcasting of any advertisement for a medication for the treatment of erectile dysfunction, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>H.R.2175 Families for ED Advertising Decency Act</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h2175/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-04-28:/action/193097</id>
    <updated>2009-04-28T20:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To prohibit as indecent the broadcasting of any advertisement for a medication for the treatment of erectile dysfunction, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;April 28, 2009: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>H.R.1409 Employee Free Choice Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h1409/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-04-28:/action/197933</id>
    <updated>2009-04-28T20:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To amend the National Labor Relations Act to establish an efficient system to enable employees to form, join, or assist labor organizations, to provide for mandatory injunctions for unfair labor practices during organizing efforts, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;April 28, 2009: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>S.928 TARP Accountability Act</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-s928/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-04-28:/action/192961</id>
    <updated>2009-04-28T20:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
A bill to enhance disclosures regarding the use of funds under the Troubled Asset Relief Program, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;April 28, 2009: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>H.R.2057 Motor Vehicle Owners Right to Repair Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h2057/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-04-22:/action/278131</id>
    <updated>2009-04-22T20:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To protect the rights of consumers to diagnose, service, maintain, and repair their motor vehicles, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;April 22, 2009: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection.    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.2057 Motor Vehicle Owners Right to Repair Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h2057/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-04-21:/action/192074</id>
    <updated>2009-04-21T20:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To protect the rights of consumers to diagnose, service, maintain, and repair their motor vehicles, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>H.R.2057 Motor Vehicle Owners Right to Repair Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h2057/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-04-21:/action/246942</id>
    <updated>2009-04-21T20:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To protect the rights of consumers to diagnose, service, maintain, and repair their motor vehicles, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;April 21, 2009: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>H.R.2057 Motor Vehicle Owners Right to Repair Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h2057/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-04-21:/action/192075</id>
    <updated>2009-04-21T20:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To protect the rights of consumers to diagnose, service, maintain, and repair their motor vehicles, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;April 21, 2009: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.1868 Birthright Citizenship Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h1868/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-04-01:/action/190552</id>
    <updated>2009-04-01T20:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To amend section 301 of the Immigration and Nationality Act to clarify those classes of individuals born in the United States who are nationals and citizens of the United States at birth.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>H.R.1868 Birthright Citizenship Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h1868/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-04-01:/action/234192</id>
    <updated>2009-04-01T20:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To amend section 301 of the Immigration and Nationality Act to clarify those classes of individuals born in the United States who are nationals and citizens of the United States at birth.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;April 01, 2009: Referred to the House Committee on Judiciary.    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>H.R.1868 Birthright Citizenship Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h1868/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-04-01:/action/190553</id>
    <updated>2009-04-01T20:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To amend section 301 of the Immigration and Nationality Act to clarify those classes of individuals born in the United States who are nationals and citizens of the United States at birth.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;April 01, 2009: Referred to the House Committee on Judiciary.    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>H.R.1722 Telework Improvements Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h1722/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-03-24:/action/237074</id>
    <updated>2009-03-24T20:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To improve teleworking in executive agencies by developing a telework program that allows employees to telework at least 20 percent of the hours worked in every 2 administrative workweeks, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;March 24, 2009: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E764-765)    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.1722 Telework Improvements Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h1722/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-03-24:/action/189216</id>
    <updated>2009-03-24T20:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To improve teleworking in executive agencies by developing a telework program that allows employees to telework at least 20 percent of the hours worked in every 2 administrative workweeks, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>H.R.1722 Telework Improvements Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h1722/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-03-24:/action/237075</id>
    <updated>2009-03-24T20:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To improve teleworking in executive agencies by developing a telework program that allows employees to telework at least 20 percent of the hours worked in every 2 administrative workweeks, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;March 24, 2009: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>H.R.1722 Telework Improvements Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h1722/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-03-24:/action/189217</id>
    <updated>2009-03-24T20:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To improve teleworking in executive agencies by developing a telework program that allows employees to telework at least 20 percent of the hours worked in every 2 administrative workweeks, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;March 24, 2009: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E764-765)    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>H.R.1722 Telework Improvements Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h1722/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-03-24:/action/189218</id>
    <updated>2009-03-24T20:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To improve teleworking in executive agencies by developing a telework program that allows employees to telework at least 20 percent of the hours worked in every 2 administrative workweeks, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;March 24, 2009: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.1479 Community Reinvestment Modernization Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h1479/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-03-11:/action/187442</id>
    <updated>2009-03-11T20:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To enhance the availability of capital, credit, and other banking and financial services for all citizens and communities, to ensure that community reinvestment requirements are updated to account for changes in the financial industry and that reinvestment requirements keep pace as banks, securities firms, and other financial service providers become affiliates as a result of the enactment of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>H.R.1479 Community Reinvestment Modernization Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h1479/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-03-11:/action/238802</id>
    <updated>2009-03-11T20:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To enhance the availability of capital, credit, and other banking and financial services for all citizens and communities, to ensure that community reinvestment requirements are updated to account for changes in the financial industry and that reinvestment requirements keep pace as banks, securities firms, and other financial service providers become affiliates as a result of the enactment of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;March 11, 2009: Referred to House Financial Services    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>H.R.1479 Community Reinvestment Modernization Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h1479/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-03-11:/action/238803</id>
    <updated>2009-03-11T20:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To enhance the availability of capital, credit, and other banking and financial services for all citizens and communities, to ensure that community reinvestment requirements are updated to account for changes in the financial industry and that reinvestment requirements keep pace as banks, securities firms, and other financial service providers become affiliates as a result of the enactment of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;March 11, 2009: Referred to House Rules    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>H.R.1479 Community Reinvestment Modernization Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h1479/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-03-11:/action/238801</id>
    <updated>2009-03-11T20:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To enhance the availability of capital, credit, and other banking and financial services for all citizens and communities, to ensure that community reinvestment requirements are updated to account for changes in the financial industry and that reinvestment requirements keep pace as banks, securities firms, and other financial service providers become affiliates as a result of the enactment of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;March 11, 2009: Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committee on Rules, 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.    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>H.R.1479 Community Reinvestment Modernization Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h1479/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-03-11:/action/187444</id>
    <updated>2009-03-11T20:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To enhance the availability of capital, credit, and other banking and financial services for all citizens and communities, to ensure that community reinvestment requirements are updated to account for changes in the financial industry and that reinvestment requirements keep pace as banks, securities firms, and other financial service providers become affiliates as a result of the enactment of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;March 11, 2009: Referred to House Financial Services    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Bill Introduced: S.560 Employee Free Choice Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-s560/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-03-09:/action/187263</id>
    <updated>2009-03-09T20:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
A bill to amend the National Labor Relations Act to establish an efficient system to enable employees to form, join, or assist labor organizations, to provide for mandatory injunctions for unfair labor practices during the organizing efforts, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>S.560 Employee Free Choice Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-s560/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-03-09:/action/241324</id>
    <updated>2009-03-09T20:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
A bill to amend the National Labor Relations Act to establish an efficient system to enable employees to form, join, or assist labor organizations, to provide for mandatory injunctions for unfair labor practices during the organizing efforts, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;March 09, 2009: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>H.R.1409 Employee Free Choice Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h1409/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-03-09:/action/233751</id>
    <updated>2009-03-09T20:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To amend the National Labor Relations Act to establish an efficient system to enable employees to form, join, or assist labor organizations, to provide for mandatory injunctions for unfair labor practices during organizing efforts, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;March 09, 2009: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.1409 Employee Free Choice Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h1409/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-03-09:/action/187110</id>
    <updated>2009-03-09T20:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To amend the National Labor Relations Act to establish an efficient system to enable employees to form, join, or assist labor organizations, to provide for mandatory injunctions for unfair labor practices during organizing efforts, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>S.560 Employee Free Choice Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-s560/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-03-09:/action/241323</id>
    <updated>2009-03-09T20:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
A bill to amend the National Labor Relations Act to establish an efficient system to enable employees to form, join, or assist labor organizations, to provide for mandatory injunctions for unfair labor practices during the organizing efforts, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;March 09, 2009: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2966-2967)    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>H.R.1409 Employee Free Choice Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h1409/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-03-09:/action/187111</id>
    <updated>2009-03-09T20:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To amend the National Labor Relations Act to establish an efficient system to enable employees to form, join, or assist labor organizations, to provide for mandatory injunctions for unfair labor practices during organizing efforts, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;March 09, 2009: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>S.560 Employee Free Choice Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-s560/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-03-09:/action/187264</id>
    <updated>2009-03-09T20:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
A bill to amend the National Labor Relations Act to establish an efficient system to enable employees to form, join, or assist labor organizations, to provide for mandatory injunctions for unfair labor practices during the organizing efforts, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;March 09, 2009: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2966-2967)    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>S.560 Employee Free Choice Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-s560/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-03-09:/action/187265</id>
    <updated>2009-03-09T20:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
A bill to amend the National Labor Relations Act to establish an efficient system to enable employees to form, join, or assist labor organizations, to provide for mandatory injunctions for unfair labor practices during the organizing efforts, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;March 09, 2009: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>H.R.1319 Informed P2P User Act</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h1319/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-03-05:/action/244221</id>
    <updated>2009-03-05T19:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To prevent the inadvertent disclosure of information on a computer through the use of certain &quot;peer-to-peer&quot; file sharing software without first providing notice and obtaining consent from the owner or authorized user of the computer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;March 05, 2009: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection.    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>H.R.1319 Informed P2P User Act</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h1319/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-03-05:/action/194564</id>
    <updated>2009-03-05T19:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To prevent the inadvertent disclosure of information on a computer through the use of certain &quot;peer-to-peer&quot; file sharing software without first providing notice and obtaining consent from the owner or authorized user of the computer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;March 05, 2009: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection.    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>H.R.1319 Informed P2P User Act</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h1319/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-03-04:/action/244220</id>
    <updated>2009-03-04T19:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To prevent the inadvertent disclosure of information on a computer through the use of certain &quot;peer-to-peer&quot; file sharing software without first providing notice and obtaining consent from the owner or authorized user of the computer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;March 04, 2009: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.1319 Informed P2P User Act</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h1319/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-03-04:/action/186592</id>
    <updated>2009-03-04T19:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To prevent the inadvertent disclosure of information on a computer through the use of certain &quot;peer-to-peer&quot; file sharing software without first providing notice and obtaining consent from the owner or authorized user of the computer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>H.R.1319 Informed P2P User Act</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h1319/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-03-04:/action/186593</id>
    <updated>2009-03-04T19:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To prevent the inadvertent disclosure of information on a computer through the use of certain &quot;peer-to-peer&quot; file sharing software without first providing notice and obtaining consent from the owner or authorized user of the computer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;March 04, 2009: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>H.R.1233 Taxpayers' Freedom of Conscience Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h1233/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-02-25:/action/244967</id>
    <updated>2009-02-25T19:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To prohibit any Federal official from expending any Federal funds for any population control or population planning program or any family planning activity.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;February 25, 2009: Referred to House Energy and Commerce    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>H.R.1233 Taxpayers' Freedom of Conscience Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h1233/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-02-25:/action/244964</id>
    <updated>2009-02-25T19:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To prohibit any Federal official from expending any Federal funds for any population control or population planning program or any family planning activity.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;February 25, 2009: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E493)    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.1233 Taxpayers' Freedom of Conscience Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h1233/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-02-25:/action/185722</id>
    <updated>2009-02-25T19:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To prohibit any Federal official from expending any Federal funds for any population control or population planning program or any family planning activity.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>H.R.1233 Taxpayers' Freedom of Conscience Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h1233/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-02-25:/action/244966</id>
    <updated>2009-02-25T19:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To prohibit any Federal official from expending any Federal funds for any population control or population planning program or any family planning activity.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;February 25, 2009: Referred to House Foreign Affairs    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>H.R.1233 Taxpayers' Freedom of Conscience Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h1233/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-02-25:/action/244965</id>
    <updated>2009-02-25T19:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To prohibit any Federal official from expending any Federal funds for any population control or population planning program or any family planning activity.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;February 25, 2009: Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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.    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>H.R.1147 Local Community Radio Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h1147/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-02-24:/action/242649</id>
    <updated>2009-02-24T19:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To imlpement the recommendations of the Federal Communications Commission report to the Congress regarding low-power FM service.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;February 24, 2009: Referred to the Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, and the Internet.    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Bill Introduced: S.482 Senate Campaign Disclosure Parity Act</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-s482/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-02-24:/action/185585</id>
    <updated>2009-02-24T19:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
A bill to require Senate candidates to file designations, statements, and reports in electronic form.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>S.482 Senate Campaign Disclosure Parity Act</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-s482/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-02-24:/action/250249</id>
    <updated>2009-02-24T19:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
A bill to require Senate candidates to file designations, statements, and reports in electronic form.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;February 24, 2009: Introduced in the Senate. Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time.    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>S.482 Senate Campaign Disclosure Parity Act</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-s482/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-02-24:/action/250248</id>
    <updated>2009-02-24T19:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
A bill to require Senate candidates to file designations, statements, and reports in electronic form.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;February 24, 2009: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2484-2485)    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>S.482 Senate Campaign Disclosure Parity Act</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-s482/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-02-24:/action/185971</id>
    <updated>2009-02-24T19:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
A bill to require Senate candidates to file designations, statements, and reports in electronic form.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;February 24, 2009: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2484-2485)    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>S.482 Senate Campaign Disclosure Parity Act</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-s482/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-02-24:/action/185586</id>
    <updated>2009-02-24T19:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
A bill to require Senate candidates to file designations, statements, and reports in electronic form.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;February 24, 2009: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2484)    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>H.R.1147 Local Community Radio Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h1147/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-02-24:/action/210911</id>
    <updated>2009-02-24T19:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To imlpement the recommendations of the Federal Communications Commission report to the Congress regarding low-power FM service.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;February 24, 2009: Referred to the Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, and the Internet.    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>H.R.1147 Local Community Radio Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h1147/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-02-23:/action/242648</id>
    <updated>2009-02-23T19:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To imlpement the recommendations of the Federal Communications Commission report to the Congress regarding low-power FM service.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;February 23, 2009: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.1147 Local Community Radio Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h1147/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-02-23:/action/186110</id>
    <updated>2009-02-23T19:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To imlpement the recommendations of the Federal Communications Commission report to the Congress regarding low-power FM service.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>H.R.1147 Local Community Radio Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h1147/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-02-23:/action/186111</id>
    <updated>2009-02-23T19:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To imlpement the recommendations of the Federal Communications Commission report to the Congress regarding low-power FM service.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;February 23, 2009: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>H.R.1123 Produce the Note Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h1123/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-02-22:/action/241289</id>
    <updated>2009-02-22T19:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To require the filing of certain information regarding a residential mortgage in any proceeding for foreclosure of the mortgage.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;February 22, 2009: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>H.R.1105 Omnibus Appropriations Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h1105/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-02-22:/action/239867</id>
    <updated>2009-02-22T19:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
Making omnibus appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2009, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;February 22, 2009: Referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and in addition to the Committee on the Budget, 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.    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.1105 Omnibus Appropriations Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h1105/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-02-22:/action/185162</id>
    <updated>2009-02-22T19:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
Making omnibus appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2009, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>H.R.1106 Helping Families Save Their Homes Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h1106/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-02-22:/action/236265</id>
    <updated>2009-02-22T19:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To prevent mortgage foreclosures and enhance mortgage credit availability.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;February 22, 2009: Referred to House Veterans' Affairs    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.1123 Produce the Note Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h1123/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-02-22:/action/185209</id>
    <updated>2009-02-22T19:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To require the filing of certain information regarding a residential mortgage in any proceeding for foreclosure of the mortgage.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.1106 Helping Families Save Their Homes Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h1106/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-02-22:/action/185166</id>
    <updated>2009-02-22T19:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To prevent mortgage foreclosures and enhance mortgage credit availability.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>H.R.1105 Omnibus Appropriations Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h1105/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-02-22:/action/239869</id>
    <updated>2009-02-22T19:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
Making omnibus appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2009, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;February 22, 2009: Referred to House Budget    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>H.R.1105 Omnibus Appropriations Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h1105/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-02-22:/action/239868</id>
    <updated>2009-02-22T19:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
Making omnibus appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2009, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;February 22, 2009: Referred to House Appropriations    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>H.R.1106 Helping Families Save Their Homes Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h1106/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-02-22:/action/236264</id>
    <updated>2009-02-22T19:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To prevent mortgage foreclosures and enhance mortgage credit availability.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;February 22, 2009: Referred to House Judiciary    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>H.R.1106 Helping Families Save Their Homes Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h1106/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-02-22:/action/236263</id>
    <updated>2009-02-22T19:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To prevent mortgage foreclosures and enhance mortgage credit availability.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;February 22, 2009: Referred to House Financial Services    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>H.R.1106 Helping Families Save Their Homes Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h1106/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-02-22:/action/236262</id>
    <updated>2009-02-22T19:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To prevent mortgage foreclosures and enhance mortgage credit availability.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;February 22, 2009: Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, and Veterans' Affairs, 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.    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>H.R.1123 Produce the Note Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h1123/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-02-22:/action/185210</id>
    <updated>2009-02-22T19:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To require the filing of certain information regarding a residential mortgage in any proceeding for foreclosure of the mortgage.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;February 22, 2009: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>H.R.1105 Omnibus Appropriations Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h1105/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-02-22:/action/185164</id>
    <updated>2009-02-22T19:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
Making omnibus appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2009, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;February 22, 2009: Referred to House Appropriations    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>H.R.1068 Let Wall Street Pay for Wall Street&#8217;s Bailout Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h1068/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-02-12:/action/237024</id>
    <updated>2009-02-12T19:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to impose a tax on certain securities transactions to the extent required to recoup the net cost of the Troubled Asset Relief Program.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;February 12, 2009: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>H.R.1095 Troubled Asset Relief Program Transparency Reporting Act</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h1095/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-02-12:/action/253413</id>
    <updated>2009-02-12T19:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To prohibit any recipient of emergency Federal economic assistance from using such funds for lobbying expenditures or political contributions, to improve transparency, enhance accountability, encourage responsible corporate governance, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;February 12, 2009: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.1095 Troubled Asset Relief Program Transparency Reporting Act</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h1095/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-02-12:/action/185003</id>
    <updated>2009-02-12T19:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To prohibit any recipient of emergency Federal economic assistance from using such funds for lobbying expenditures or political contributions, to improve transparency, enhance accountability, encourage responsible corporate governance, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.1068 Let Wall Street Pay for Wall Street&#8217;s Bailout Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h1068/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-02-12:/action/184936</id>
    <updated>2009-02-12T19:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to impose a tax on certain securities transactions to the extent required to recoup the net cost of the Troubled Asset Relief Program.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>H.R.1068 Let Wall Street Pay for Wall Street&#8217;s Bailout Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h1068/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-02-12:/action/184937</id>
    <updated>2009-02-12T19:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to impose a tax on certain securities transactions to the extent required to recoup the net cost of the Troubled Asset Relief Program.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;February 12, 2009: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>H.R.1095 Troubled Asset Relief Program Transparency Reporting Act</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h1095/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-02-12:/action/185004</id>
    <updated>2009-02-12T19:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To prohibit any recipient of emergency Federal economic assistance from using such funds for lobbying expenditures or political contributions, to improve transparency, enhance accountability, encourage responsible corporate governance, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;February 12, 2009: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>H.R.257 Child Gun Safety and Gun Access Prevention Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h257/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-02-08:/action/245226</id>
    <updated>2009-02-08T19:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To prevent children's access to firearms.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;February 08, 2009: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>H.R.45 Blair Holt's Firearm Licensing and Record of Sale Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h45/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-02-08:/action/253777</id>
    <updated>2009-02-08T19:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To provide for the implementation of a system of licensing for purchasers of certain firearms and for a record of sale system for those firearms, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;February 08, 2009: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>H.R.257 Child Gun Safety and Gun Access Prevention Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h257/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-02-08:/action/183716</id>
    <updated>2009-02-08T19:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To prevent children's access to firearms.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;February 08, 2009: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>H.R.45 Blair Holt's Firearm Licensing and Record of Sale Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h45/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-02-08:/action/183908</id>
    <updated>2009-02-08T19:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To provide for the implementation of a system of licensing for purchasers of certain firearms and for a record of sale system for those firearms, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;February 08, 2009: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>H.R.848 Performance Rights Act</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h848/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-02-03:/action/236612</id>
    <updated>2009-02-03T19:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To provide parity in radio performance rights under title 17, United States Code, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;February 03, 2009: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>H.R.848 Performance Rights Act</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h848/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-02-03:/action/236611</id>
    <updated>2009-02-03T19:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To provide parity in radio performance rights under title 17, United States Code, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;February 03, 2009: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E202-203)    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.848 Performance Rights Act</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h848/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-02-03:/action/183229</id>
    <updated>2009-02-03T19:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To provide parity in radio performance rights under title 17, United States Code, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>H.R.848 Performance Rights Act</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h848/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-02-03:/action/183230</id>
    <updated>2009-02-03T19:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To provide parity in radio performance rights under title 17, United States Code, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;February 03, 2009: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>H.R.848 Performance Rights Act</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h848/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-02-03:/action/184220</id>
    <updated>2009-02-03T19:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To provide parity in radio performance rights under title 17, United States Code, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;February 03, 2009: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E202-203)    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.814 TRACE Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h814/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-02-02:/action/183023</id>
    <updated>2009-02-02T19:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, the Federal Meat Inspection Act, the Poultry Products Inspection Act, and the Egg Products Inspection Act to improve the safety of food, meat, and poultry products through enhanced traceability, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>H.R.814 TRACE Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h814/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-02-02:/action/248673</id>
    <updated>2009-02-02T19:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, the Federal Meat Inspection Act, the Poultry Products Inspection Act, and the Egg Products Inspection Act to improve the safety of food, meat, and poultry products through enhanced traceability, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;February 02, 2009: Referred to House Energy and Commerce    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>H.R.814 TRACE Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h814/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-02-02:/action/248672</id>
    <updated>2009-02-02T19:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, the Federal Meat Inspection Act, the Poultry Products Inspection Act, and the Egg Products Inspection Act to improve the safety of food, meat, and poultry products through enhanced traceability, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;February 02, 2009: Referred to House Agriculture    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>H.R.814 TRACE Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h814/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-02-02:/action/248671</id>
    <updated>2009-02-02T19:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, the Federal Meat Inspection Act, the Poultry Products Inspection Act, and the Egg Products Inspection Act to improve the safety of food, meat, and poultry products through enhanced traceability, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;February 02, 2009: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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.    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>H.R.814 TRACE Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h814/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-02-02:/action/183024</id>
    <updated>2009-02-02T19:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, the Federal Meat Inspection Act, the Poultry Products Inspection Act, and the Egg Products Inspection Act to improve the safety of food, meat, and poultry products through enhanced traceability, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;February 02, 2009: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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.    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>H.R.778 To authorize the interstate traffic of unpasteurized milk and milk products that are packaged for direct human consumption.</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h778/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-01-27:/action/248867</id>
    <updated>2009-01-27T19:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To authorize the interstate traffic of unpasteurized milk and milk products that are packaged for direct human consumption.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;January 27, 2009: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>H.R.778 To authorize the interstate traffic of unpasteurized milk and milk products that are packaged for direct human consumption.</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h778/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-01-27:/action/248866</id>
    <updated>2009-01-27T19:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To authorize the interstate traffic of unpasteurized milk and milk products that are packaged for direct human consumption.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;January 27, 2009: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E160)    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.778 To authorize the interstate traffic of unpasteurized milk and milk products that are packaged for direct human consumption.</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h778/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-01-27:/action/182740</id>
    <updated>2009-01-27T19:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To authorize the interstate traffic of unpasteurized milk and milk products that are packaged for direct human consumption.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>H.R.778 To authorize the interstate traffic of unpasteurized milk and milk products that are packaged for direct human consumption.</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h778/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-01-27:/action/182741</id>
    <updated>2009-01-27T19:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To authorize the interstate traffic of unpasteurized milk and milk products that are packaged for direct human consumption.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;January 27, 2009: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E160)    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>H.R.778 To authorize the interstate traffic of unpasteurized milk and milk products that are packaged for direct human consumption.</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h778/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-01-27:/action/182742</id>
    <updated>2009-01-27T19:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To authorize the interstate traffic of unpasteurized milk and milk products that are packaged for direct human consumption.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;January 27, 2009: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>H.R.676 United States National Health Care Act or the Expanded and Improved Medicare for All Act</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h676/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-01-25:/action/242199</id>
    <updated>2009-01-25T19:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To provide for comprehensive health insurance coverage for all United States residents, improved health care delivery, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;January 25, 2009: Referred to House Ways and Means    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.676 United States National Health Care Act or the Expanded and Improved Medicare for All Act</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h676/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-01-25:/action/182244</id>
    <updated>2009-01-25T19:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To provide for comprehensive health insurance coverage for all United States residents, improved health care delivery, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>H.R.676 United States National Health Care Act or the Expanded and Improved Medicare for All Act</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h676/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-01-25:/action/242200</id>
    <updated>2009-01-25T19:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To provide for comprehensive health insurance coverage for all United States residents, improved health care delivery, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;January 25, 2009: Referred to House Natural Resources    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>H.R.1 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h1/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-01-25:/action/249499</id>
    <updated>2009-01-25T19:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
Making supplemental appropriations for job preservation and creation, infrastructure investment, energy efficiency and science, assistance to the unemployed, and State and local fiscal stabilization, for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2009, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;January 25, 2009: Referred to House Appropriations    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>H.R.676 United States National Health Care Act or the Expanded and Improved Medicare for All Act</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h676/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-01-25:/action/242198</id>
    <updated>2009-01-25T19:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To provide for comprehensive health insurance coverage for all United States residents, improved health care delivery, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;January 25, 2009: Referred to House Energy and Commerce    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>H.R.676 United States National Health Care Act or the Expanded and Improved Medicare for All Act</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h676/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-01-25:/action/242197</id>
    <updated>2009-01-25T19:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To provide for comprehensive health insurance coverage for all United States residents, improved health care delivery, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;January 25, 2009: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and Natural Resources, 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.    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>H.R.1 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h1/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-01-25:/action/249500</id>
    <updated>2009-01-25T19:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
Making supplemental appropriations for job preservation and creation, infrastructure investment, energy efficiency and science, assistance to the unemployed, and State and local fiscal stabilization, for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2009, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;January 25, 2009: Referred to House Budget    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.1 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h1/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-01-25:/action/182218</id>
    <updated>2009-01-25T19:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
Making supplemental appropriations for job preservation and creation, infrastructure investment, energy efficiency and science, assistance to the unemployed, and State and local fiscal stabilization, for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2009, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>H.R.1 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h1/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-01-25:/action/249498</id>
    <updated>2009-01-25T19:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
Making supplemental appropriations for job preservation and creation, infrastructure investment, energy efficiency and science, assistance to the unemployed, and State and local fiscal stabilization, for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2009, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;January 25, 2009: Referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and in addition to the Committee on the Budget, 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.    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>H.R.665 District of Columbia Voting Rights Restoration Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h665/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-01-22:/action/236747</id>
    <updated>2009-01-22T19:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To restore the Federal electoral rights of the residents of the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;January 22, 2009: Referred to House Judiciary    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>H.R.665 District of Columbia Voting Rights Restoration Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h665/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-01-22:/action/236746</id>
    <updated>2009-01-22T19:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To restore the Federal electoral rights of the residents of the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;January 22, 2009: Referred to House Oversight and Government Reform    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>H.R.665 District of Columbia Voting Rights Restoration Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h665/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-01-22:/action/236745</id>
    <updated>2009-01-22T19:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To restore the Federal electoral rights of the residents of the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;January 22, 2009: Referred to House House Administration    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>H.R.665 District of Columbia Voting Rights Restoration Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h665/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-01-22:/action/236744</id>
    <updated>2009-01-22T19:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To restore the Federal electoral rights of the residents of the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;January 22, 2009: Referred to the Committee on House Administration, and in addition to the Committees on Oversight and Government Reform, and the Judiciary, 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.    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.665 District of Columbia Voting Rights Restoration Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h665/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-01-22:/action/182192</id>
    <updated>2009-01-22T19:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To restore the Federal electoral rights of the residents of the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>H.R.226 Broadcaster Freedom Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h226/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-01-13:/action/277040</id>
    <updated>2009-01-13T19:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To prevent the Federal Communications Commission from repromulgating the fairness doctrine.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;January 13, 2009: Referred to the Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, and the Internet.    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>H.R.245 Local Emergency Radio Service Preservation Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h245/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-01-13:/action/277159</id>
    <updated>2009-01-13T19:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To preserve local radio broadcast emergency and other services and to require the Federal Communications Commission to conduct a rulemaking for that purpose.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;January 13, 2009: Referred to the Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, and the Internet.    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>H.R.414 Camera Phone Predator Alert Act</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h414/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-01-13:/action/277275</id>
    <updated>2009-01-13T19:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To require mobile phones containing digital cameras to make a sound when a photograph is taken.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;January 13, 2009: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection.    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>H.R.470 Economic Recovery and Middle-Class Tax Relief Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h470/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-01-12:/action/234377</id>
    <updated>2009-01-12T19:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for permanent tax incentives for economic growth.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;January 12, 2009: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Appropriations, 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.    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.470 Economic Recovery and Middle-Class Tax Relief Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h470/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-01-12:/action/180994</id>
    <updated>2009-01-12T19:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for permanent tax incentives for economic growth.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>H.R.470 Economic Recovery and Middle-Class Tax Relief Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h470/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-01-12:/action/234378</id>
    <updated>2009-01-12T19:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for permanent tax incentives for economic growth.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;January 12, 2009: Referred to House Ways and Means    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>H.R.470 Economic Recovery and Middle-Class Tax Relief Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h470/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-01-12:/action/234379</id>
    <updated>2009-01-12T19:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for permanent tax incentives for economic growth.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;January 12, 2009: Referred to House Appropriations    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>H.R.470 Economic Recovery and Middle-Class Tax Relief Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h470/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-01-12:/action/180997</id>
    <updated>2009-01-12T19:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for permanent tax incentives for economic growth.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;January 12, 2009: Referred to House Appropriations    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>H.R.450 Enumerated Powers Act</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h450/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-01-08:/action/240822</id>
    <updated>2009-01-08T19:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To require Congress to specify the source of authority under the United States Constitution for the enactment of laws, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;January 08, 2009: Referred to House Judiciary    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.450 Enumerated Powers Act</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h450/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-01-08:/action/180292</id>
    <updated>2009-01-08T19:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To require Congress to specify the source of authority under the United States Constitution for the enactment of laws, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>H.R.450 Enumerated Powers Act</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h450/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-01-08:/action/240823</id>
    <updated>2009-01-08T19:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To require Congress to specify the source of authority under the United States Constitution for the enactment of laws, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;January 08, 2009: Referred to House Rules    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>H.R.450 Enumerated Powers Act</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h450/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-01-08:/action/240821</id>
    <updated>2009-01-08T19:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To require Congress to specify the source of authority under the United States Constitution for the enactment of laws, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;January 08, 2009: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Rules, 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.    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Bill Introduced: S.195 Taxpayer Protection Act </title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-s195/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-01-08:/action/180359</id>
    <updated>2009-01-08T19:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
A bill to extend oversight, accountability, and transparency provisions of the Emergency Economic Assistance Act of 2008 to all Federal emergency economic assistance to private entities, to impose tough conditions for all recipients of such emergency economic assistance, to set up a Federal task force to investigate and prosecute criminal activities that contributed to our economic crisis, and to establish a bipartisan financial market investigation and reform commission, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>S.195 Taxpayer Protection Act </title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-s195/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-01-08:/action/238554</id>
    <updated>2009-01-08T19:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
A bill to extend oversight, accountability, and transparency provisions of the Emergency Economic Assistance Act of 2008 to all Federal emergency economic assistance to private entities, to impose tough conditions for all recipients of such emergency economic assistance, to set up a Federal task force to investigate and prosecute criminal activities that contributed to our economic crisis, and to establish a bipartisan financial market investigation and reform commission, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;January 08, 2009: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>S.195 Taxpayer Protection Act </title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-s195/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-01-08:/action/238553</id>
    <updated>2009-01-08T19:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
A bill to extend oversight, accountability, and transparency provisions of the Emergency Economic Assistance Act of 2008 to all Federal emergency economic assistance to private entities, to impose tough conditions for all recipients of such emergency economic assistance, to set up a Federal task force to investigate and prosecute criminal activities that contributed to our economic crisis, and to establish a bipartisan financial market investigation and reform commission, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;January 08, 2009: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S239-244)    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>H.R.384 TARP Reform and Accountability Act</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h384/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-01-08:/action/248421</id>
    <updated>2009-01-08T19:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To reform the Troubled Assets Relief Program of the Secretary of the Treasury and ensure accountability under such Program.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;January 08, 2009: Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and the Judiciary, 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.    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>H.R.384 TARP Reform and Accountability Act</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h384/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-01-08:/action/248424</id>
    <updated>2009-01-08T19:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To reform the Troubled Assets Relief Program of the Secretary of the Treasury and ensure accountability under such Program.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;January 08, 2009: Referred to House Judiciary    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>H.R.414 Camera Phone Predator Alert Act</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h414/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-01-08:/action/250500</id>
    <updated>2009-01-08T19:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To require mobile phones containing digital cameras to make a sound when a photograph is taken.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;January 08, 2009: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.414 Camera Phone Predator Alert Act</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h414/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-01-08:/action/180214</id>
    <updated>2009-01-08T19:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To require mobile phones containing digital cameras to make a sound when a photograph is taken.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.429 To permit the televising of Supreme Court proceedings.</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h429/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-01-08:/action/180246</id>
    <updated>2009-01-08T19:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To permit the televising of Supreme Court proceedings.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.384 TARP Reform and Accountability Act</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h384/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-01-08:/action/180144</id>
    <updated>2009-01-08T19:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To reform the Troubled Assets Relief Program of the Secretary of the Treasury and ensure accountability under such Program.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>H.R.384 TARP Reform and Accountability Act</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h384/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-01-08:/action/248423</id>
    <updated>2009-01-08T19:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To reform the Troubled Assets Relief Program of the Secretary of the Treasury and ensure accountability under such Program.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;January 08, 2009: Referred to House Ways and Means    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>H.R.384 TARP Reform and Accountability Act</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h384/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-01-08:/action/248422</id>
    <updated>2009-01-08T19:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To reform the Troubled Assets Relief Program of the Secretary of the Treasury and ensure accountability under such Program.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;January 08, 2009: Referred to House Financial Services    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>H.R.429 To permit the televising of Supreme Court proceedings.</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h429/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-01-08:/action/241393</id>
    <updated>2009-01-08T19:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To permit the televising of Supreme Court proceedings.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;January 08, 2009: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>S.195 Taxpayer Protection Act </title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-s195/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-01-08:/action/180509</id>
    <updated>2009-01-08T19:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
A bill to extend oversight, accountability, and transparency provisions of the Emergency Economic Assistance Act of 2008 to all Federal emergency economic assistance to private entities, to impose tough conditions for all recipients of such emergency economic assistance, to set up a Federal task force to investigate and prosecute criminal activities that contributed to our economic crisis, and to establish a bipartisan financial market investigation and reform commission, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;January 08, 2009: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S239-244)    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>H.R.450 Enumerated Powers Act</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h450/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-01-08:/action/180293</id>
    <updated>2009-01-08T19:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To require Congress to specify the source of authority under the United States Constitution for the enactment of laws, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;January 08, 2009: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Rules, 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.    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>S.195 Taxpayer Protection Act </title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-s195/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-01-08:/action/180360</id>
    <updated>2009-01-08T19:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
A bill to extend oversight, accountability, and transparency provisions of the Emergency Economic Assistance Act of 2008 to all Federal emergency economic assistance to private entities, to impose tough conditions for all recipients of such emergency economic assistance, to set up a Federal task force to investigate and prosecute criminal activities that contributed to our economic crisis, and to establish a bipartisan financial market investigation and reform commission, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;January 08, 2009: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>H.R.429 To permit the televising of Supreme Court proceedings.</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h429/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-01-08:/action/180247</id>
    <updated>2009-01-08T19:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To permit the televising of Supreme Court proceedings.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;January 08, 2009: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>H.R.414 Camera Phone Predator Alert Act</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h414/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-01-08:/action/180215</id>
    <updated>2009-01-08T19:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To require mobile phones containing digital cameras to make a sound when a photograph is taken.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;January 08, 2009: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>H.R.257 Child Gun Safety and Gun Access Prevention Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h257/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-01-06:/action/245225</id>
    <updated>2009-01-06T19:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To prevent children's access to firearms.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;January 06, 2009: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.257 Child Gun Safety and Gun Access Prevention Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h257/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-01-06:/action/179539</id>
    <updated>2009-01-06T19:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To prevent children's access to firearms.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.245 Local Emergency Radio Service Preservation Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h245/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-01-06:/action/179510</id>
    <updated>2009-01-06T19:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To preserve local radio broadcast emergency and other services and to require the Federal Communications Commission to conduct a rulemaking for that purpose.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>S.1 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-s1/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-01-06:/action/242842</id>
    <updated>2009-01-06T19:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
A bill to create jobs, restore economic growth, and strengthen America's middle class through measures that modernize the nation's infrastructure, enhance America's energy independence, expand educational opportunities, preserve and improve affordable health care, provide tax relief, and protect those in greatest need, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;January 06, 2009: Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 1.    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.226 Broadcaster Freedom Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h226/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-01-06:/action/179464</id>
    <updated>2009-01-06T19:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To prevent the Federal Communications Commission from repromulgating the fairness doctrine.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>H.R.226 Broadcaster Freedom Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h226/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-01-06:/action/245748</id>
    <updated>2009-01-06T19:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To prevent the Federal Communications Commission from repromulgating the fairness doctrine.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;January 06, 2009: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>H.R.245 Local Emergency Radio Service Preservation Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h245/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-01-06:/action/234723</id>
    <updated>2009-01-06T19:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To preserve local radio broadcast emergency and other services and to require the Federal Communications Commission to conduct a rulemaking for that purpose.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;January 06, 2009: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>H.R.226 Broadcaster Freedom Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h226/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-01-06:/action/179465</id>
    <updated>2009-01-06T19:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To prevent the Federal Communications Commission from repromulgating the fairness doctrine.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;January 06, 2009: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>S.1 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-s1/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-01-06:/action/180418</id>
    <updated>2009-01-06T19:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
A bill to create jobs, restore economic growth, and strengthen America's middle class through measures that modernize the nation's infrastructure, enhance America's energy independence, expand educational opportunities, preserve and improve affordable health care, provide tax relief, and protect those in greatest need, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;January 06, 2009: Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 1.    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>H.R.257 Child Gun Safety and Gun Access Prevention Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h257/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-01-06:/action/179540</id>
    <updated>2009-01-06T19:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To prevent children's access to firearms.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;January 06, 2009: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>H.R.245 Local Emergency Radio Service Preservation Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h245/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-01-06:/action/179511</id>
    <updated>2009-01-06T19:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To preserve local radio broadcast emergency and other services and to require the Federal Communications Commission to conduct a rulemaking for that purpose.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;January 06, 2009: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>H.R.12 Paycheck Fairness Act</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h12/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-01-06:/action/224030</id>
    <updated>2009-01-06T10:39:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to provide more effective remedies to victims of discrimination in the payment of wages on the basis of sex, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;January 06, 2009: Rules Committee Resolution passed by House. Rule provides for consideration of H.R. 11 and H.R. 12. Motion to recommit allowed. H. Res.5 provides one hour of debate each for H.R. 11 and H.R. 12. Both bills are to be considered in the House.    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>H.R.12 Paycheck Fairness Act</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h12/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-01-06:/action/179771</id>
    <updated>2009-01-06T10:39:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to provide more effective remedies to victims of discrimination in the payment of wages on the basis of sex, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;January 06, 2009: Rules Committee Resolution passed by House. Rule provides for consideration of H.R. 11 and H.R. 12. Motion to recommit allowed. H. Res.5 provides one hour of debate each for H.R. 11 and H.R. 12. Both bills are to be considered in the House.    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>H.Res.5 Adopting rules for the One Hundred Eleventh Congress.</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-hr5/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-01-06:/action/227462</id>
    <updated>2009-01-06T09:33:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
Adopting rules for the One Hundred Eleventh Congress.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;January 06, 2009: DEBATE - The House proceeded with one hour of debate on H. Res. 5.    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>H.Res.5 Adopting rules for the One Hundred Eleventh Congress.</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-hr5/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-01-06:/action/227461</id>
    <updated>2009-01-06T09:32:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
Adopting rules for the One Hundred Eleventh Congress.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;January 06, 2009: Considered as privileged matter.    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>H.Res.5 Adopting rules for the One Hundred Eleventh Congress.</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-hr5/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-01-06:/action/179086</id>
    <updated>2009-01-06T09:33:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
Adopting rules for the One Hundred Eleventh Congress.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;January 06, 2009: DEBATE - The House proceeded with one hour of debate on H. Res. 5.    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>H.Res.5 Adopting rules for the One Hundred Eleventh Congress.</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-hr5/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-01-06:/action/179085</id>
    <updated>2009-01-06T09:32:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
Adopting rules for the One Hundred Eleventh Congress.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;January 06, 2009: Considered as privileged matter.    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.1 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h1/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-01-05:/action/182207</id>
    <updated>2009-01-05T19:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
Making supplemental appropriations for job preservation and creation, infrastructure investment, energy efficiency and science, assistance to the unemployed, and State and local fiscal stabilization, for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2009, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>H.R.158 Let the People Decide Clean Campaign Act</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h158/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-01-05:/action/250620</id>
    <updated>2009-01-05T19:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide for expenditure limitations and public financing for House of Representatives general elections, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;January 05, 2009: Referred to House Rules    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>H.R.104 To establish a national commission on presidential war powers and civil liberties.</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h104/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-01-05:/action/237123</id>
    <updated>2009-01-05T19:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To establish a national commission on presidential war powers and civil liberties.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;January 05, 2009: Referred to House Intelligence (Permanent Select)    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>H.R.104 To establish a national commission on presidential war powers and civil liberties.</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h104/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-01-05:/action/237122</id>
    <updated>2009-01-05T19:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To establish a national commission on presidential war powers and civil liberties.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;January 05, 2009: Referred to House Armed Services    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.104 To establish a national commission on presidential war powers and civil liberties.</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h104/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-01-05:/action/180522</id>
    <updated>2009-01-05T19:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To establish a national commission on presidential war powers and civil liberties.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>H.R.104 To establish a national commission on presidential war powers and civil liberties.</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h104/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-01-05:/action/237124</id>
    <updated>2009-01-05T19:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To establish a national commission on presidential war powers and civil liberties.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;January 05, 2009: Referred to House Judiciary    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Bill Introduced: S.73 Systematic Foreclosure Prevention and Mortgage Modification Act</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-s73/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-01-05:/action/179323</id>
    <updated>2009-01-05T19:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
A bill to establish a systematic mortgage modification program at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.45 Blair Holt's Firearm Licensing and Record of Sale Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h45/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-01-05:/action/180960</id>
    <updated>2009-01-05T19:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To provide for the implementation of a system of licensing for purchasers of certain firearms and for a record of sale system for those firearms, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>S.73 Systematic Foreclosure Prevention and Mortgage Modification Act</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-s73/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-01-05:/action/239302</id>
    <updated>2009-01-05T19:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
A bill to establish a systematic mortgage modification program at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;January 05, 2009: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S72-73)    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>S.73 Systematic Foreclosure Prevention and Mortgage Modification Act</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-s73/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-01-05:/action/239303</id>
    <updated>2009-01-05T19:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
A bill to establish a systematic mortgage modification program at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;January 05, 2009: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Bill Introduced: S.116 TARP Assistance for Local Governments Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-s116/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-01-05:/action/179131</id>
    <updated>2009-01-05T19:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
A bill to require the Secretary of the Treasury to allocate $10,000,000,000 of Troubled Asset Relief Program funds to local governments that have suffered significant losses due to highly-rated investments in failed financial institutions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>H.R.45 Blair Holt's Firearm Licensing and Record of Sale Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h45/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-01-05:/action/253776</id>
    <updated>2009-01-05T19:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To provide for the implementation of a system of licensing for purchasers of certain firearms and for a record of sale system for those firearms, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;January 05, 2009: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>H.R.158 Let the People Decide Clean Campaign Act</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h158/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-01-05:/action/250617</id>
    <updated>2009-01-05T19:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide for expenditure limitations and public financing for House of Representatives general elections, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;January 05, 2009: Referred to the Committee on House Administration, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and Rules, 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.    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>H.R.104 To establish a national commission on presidential war powers and civil liberties.</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h104/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-01-05:/action/237121</id>
    <updated>2009-01-05T19:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To establish a national commission on presidential war powers and civil liberties.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;January 05, 2009: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committees on Intelligence (Permanent Select), the Judiciary, and Foreign Affairs, 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.    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>S.162 Fiscal Discipline, Earmark Reform and Accountability Act</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-s162/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-01-05:/action/254394</id>
    <updated>2009-01-05T19:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
A bill to provide greater accountability of taxpayers' dollars by curtailing congressional earmarking, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;January 05, 2009: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Rules and Administration.    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>S.162 Fiscal Discipline, Earmark Reform and Accountability Act</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-s162/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-01-05:/action/254393</id>
    <updated>2009-01-05T19:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
A bill to provide greater accountability of taxpayers' dollars by curtailing congressional earmarking, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;January 05, 2009: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S144-145)    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Bill Introduced: S.162 Fiscal Discipline, Earmark Reform and Accountability Act</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-s162/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-01-05:/action/179223</id>
    <updated>2009-01-05T19:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
A bill to provide greater accountability of taxpayers' dollars by curtailing congressional earmarking, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.37 Systematic Foreclosure Prevention and Mortgage Modification Act</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h37/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-01-05:/action/180936</id>
    <updated>2009-01-05T19:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To establish a systematic mortgage modification program at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>H.R.37 Systematic Foreclosure Prevention and Mortgage Modification Act</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h37/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-01-05:/action/242269</id>
    <updated>2009-01-05T19:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To establish a systematic mortgage modification program at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;January 05, 2009: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Bill Introduced: H.Res.5 Adopting rules for the One Hundred Eleventh Congress.</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-hr5/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-01-05:/action/179084</id>
    <updated>2009-01-05T19:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
Adopting rules for the One Hundred Eleventh Congress.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>S.1 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-s1/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-01-05:/action/242841</id>
    <updated>2009-01-05T19:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
A bill to create jobs, restore economic growth, and strengthen America's middle class through measures that modernize the nation's infrastructure, enhance America's energy independence, expand educational opportunities, preserve and improve affordable health care, provide tax relief, and protect those in greatest need, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;January 05, 2009: Introduced in the Senate. Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time.    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>H.R.158 Let the People Decide Clean Campaign Act</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h158/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-01-05:/action/250618</id>
    <updated>2009-01-05T19:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide for expenditure limitations and public financing for House of Representatives general elections, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;January 05, 2009: Referred to House House Administration    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>H.R.158 Let the People Decide Clean Campaign Act</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h158/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-01-05:/action/250619</id>
    <updated>2009-01-05T19:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide for expenditure limitations and public financing for House of Representatives general elections, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;January 05, 2009: Referred to House Ways and Means    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Bill Introduced: S.1 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-s1/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-01-05:/action/179095</id>
    <updated>2009-01-05T19:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
A bill to create jobs, restore economic growth, and strengthen America's middle class through measures that modernize the nation's infrastructure, enhance America's energy independence, expand educational opportunities, preserve and improve affordable health care, provide tax relief, and protect those in greatest need, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.12 Paycheck Fairness Act</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h12/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-01-05:/action/179460</id>
    <updated>2009-01-05T19:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to provide more effective remedies to victims of discrimination in the payment of wages on the basis of sex, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>H.R.12 Paycheck Fairness Act</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h12/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-01-05:/action/243462</id>
    <updated>2009-01-05T19:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to provide more effective remedies to victims of discrimination in the payment of wages on the basis of sex, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;January 05, 2009: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>S.116 TARP Assistance for Local Governments Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-s116/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-01-05:/action/250876</id>
    <updated>2009-01-05T19:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
A bill to require the Secretary of the Treasury to allocate $10,000,000,000 of Troubled Asset Relief Program funds to local governments that have suffered significant losses due to highly-rated investments in failed financial institutions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;January 05, 2009: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>S.116 TARP Assistance for Local Governments Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-s116/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-01-05:/action/250875</id>
    <updated>2009-01-05T19:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
A bill to require the Secretary of the Treasury to allocate $10,000,000,000 of Troubled Asset Relief Program funds to local governments that have suffered significant losses due to highly-rated investments in failed financial institutions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;January 05, 2009: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S88)    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>S.141 Protecting the Privacy of Social Security Numbers Act</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-s141/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-01-05:/action/244961</id>
    <updated>2009-01-05T19:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
A bill to amend title 18, United States Code, to limit the misuse of Social Security numbers, to establish criminal penalties for such misuse, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;January 05, 2009: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>S.141 Protecting the Privacy of Social Security Numbers Act</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-s141/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-01-05:/action/244960</id>
    <updated>2009-01-05T19:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
A bill to amend title 18, United States Code, to limit the misuse of Social Security numbers, to establish criminal penalties for such misuse, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;January 05, 2009: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S123-124)    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Bill Introduced: S.141 Protecting the Privacy of Social Security Numbers Act</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-s141/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-01-05:/action/179181</id>
    <updated>2009-01-05T19:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
A bill to amend title 18, United States Code, to limit the misuse of Social Security numbers, to establish criminal penalties for such misuse, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.158 Let the People Decide Clean Campaign Act</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h158/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-01-05:/action/180692</id>
    <updated>2009-01-05T19:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide for expenditure limitations and public financing for House of Representatives general elections, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>S.141 Protecting the Privacy of Social Security Numbers Act</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-s141/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-01-05:/action/180440</id>
    <updated>2009-01-05T19:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
A bill to amend title 18, United States Code, to limit the misuse of Social Security numbers, to establish criminal penalties for such misuse, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;January 05, 2009: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S123-124)    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>S.141 Protecting the Privacy of Social Security Numbers Act</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-s141/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-01-05:/action/179182</id>
    <updated>2009-01-05T19:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
A bill to amend title 18, United States Code, to limit the misuse of Social Security numbers, to establish criminal penalties for such misuse, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;January 05, 2009: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>H.R.12 Paycheck Fairness Act</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h12/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-01-05:/action/179461</id>
    <updated>2009-01-05T19:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to provide more effective remedies to victims of discrimination in the payment of wages on the basis of sex, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;January 05, 2009: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>H.R.37 Systematic Foreclosure Prevention and Mortgage Modification Act</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h37/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-01-05:/action/180937</id>
    <updated>2009-01-05T19:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To establish a systematic mortgage modification program at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;January 05, 2009: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>S.162 Fiscal Discipline, Earmark Reform and Accountability Act</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-s162/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-01-05:/action/183699</id>
    <updated>2009-01-05T19:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
A bill to provide greater accountability of taxpayers' dollars by curtailing congressional earmarking, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;January 05, 2009: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S144-145)    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>S.162 Fiscal Discipline, Earmark Reform and Accountability Act</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-s162/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-01-05:/action/179224</id>
    <updated>2009-01-05T19:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
A bill to provide greater accountability of taxpayers' dollars by curtailing congressional earmarking, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;January 05, 2009: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Rules and Administration.    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>S.116 TARP Assistance for Local Governments Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-s116/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-01-05:/action/179132</id>
    <updated>2009-01-05T19:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
A bill to require the Secretary of the Treasury to allocate $10,000,000,000 of Troubled Asset Relief Program funds to local governments that have suffered significant losses due to highly-rated investments in failed financial institutions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;January 05, 2009: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>S.73 Systematic Foreclosure Prevention and Mortgage Modification Act</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-s73/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-01-05:/action/179324</id>
    <updated>2009-01-05T19:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
A bill to establish a systematic mortgage modification program at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;January 05, 2009: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>S.73 Systematic Foreclosure Prevention and Mortgage Modification Act</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-s73/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-01-05:/action/179439</id>
    <updated>2009-01-05T19:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
A bill to establish a systematic mortgage modification program at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;January 05, 2009: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S72-73)    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>S.116 TARP Assistance for Local Governments Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-s116/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-01-05:/action/180420</id>
    <updated>2009-01-05T19:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
A bill to require the Secretary of the Treasury to allocate $10,000,000,000 of Troubled Asset Relief Program funds to local governments that have suffered significant losses due to highly-rated investments in failed financial institutions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;January 05, 2009: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S88)    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>S.1 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-s1/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-01-05:/action/179096</id>
    <updated>2009-01-05T19:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
A bill to create jobs, restore economic growth, and strengthen America's middle class through measures that modernize the nation's infrastructure, enhance America's energy independence, expand educational opportunities, preserve and improve affordable health care, provide tax relief, and protect those in greatest need, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;January 05, 2009: Introduced in the Senate. Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time.    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>H.R.45 Blair Holt's Firearm Licensing and Record of Sale Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h45/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-01-05:/action/180961</id>
    <updated>2009-01-05T19:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To provide for the implementation of a system of licensing for purchasers of certain firearms and for a record of sale system for those firearms, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;January 05, 2009: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>H.R.4213 Unemployment Compensation Extension Act of 2010</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h4213/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-12-06:/action/232427</id>
    <updated>2009-12-06T19:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend certain expiring provisions, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;December 06, 2009: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.    </content>
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