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Authorizing the use of Emancipation Hall in the Capitol Visitor Center for a ceremony to present the Congressional Gold Medal to the foot soldiers who participated in the 1965 Selma to Montgomery marches. [HCR-109]
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Authorizing the use of Emancipation Hall in the Capitol Visitor Center for a ceremony to present the Congressional Gold Medal to the foot soldiers who participated in the 1965 Selma to Montgomery marches. Authorizes the use of Emancipation Hall in the Capitol Visitor Center on February 24, 2016, for a ceremony to present the Congressional Gold Medal to the foot soldiers who participated in the 1965 Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, marches, which served as a catalyst for the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Sponsored by: Rep. Terri A. Sewell
Message On Senate Action Sent To The House. on 02/08/2016
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Red Snapper Regulatory Reform Act [HB-981]
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Red Snapper Regulatory Reform Act This bill amends the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act to revise requirements on fishing and fisheries in the Gulf of Mexico. The bill repeals a requirement that red snapper fishery management plans, plan amendments, or regulation submitted by the Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council contain catch limits. State jurisdiction over fisheries in the Gulf of Mexico is expanded to nine nautical miles. The Gulf States Marine Fisheries Commission must conduct all fishery stock assessments for
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Sponsored by: Rep. Steve Scalise
Referred To The Subcommittee On Water, Power And Oceans. on 03/16/2015
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Passenger Rail Reform and Investment Act of 2015 [HB-749]
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Passenger Rail Reform and Investment Act of 2015 TITLE I--AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS (Sec. 101) Authorizes appropriations for FY2016-FY2019 to the Secretary of Transportation for the National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak) for: the Northeast Corridor Improvement Fund account, the National Network account, the Office of the Inspector General, and national infrastructure investment capital grants. TITLE II--AMTRAK REFORM (Sec. 201) Directs Amtrak to establish internal controls to ensure its costs and revenues are allocated to either
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Sponsored by: Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton
Received In The Senate And Read Twice And Referred To The Committee On Commerce, Science, And Transportation. on 03/09/2015
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Deficit Reduction, Job Creation, and Energy Security Act [HB-70]
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Deficit Reduction, Job Creation, and Energy Security Act This bill requires the Department of the Interior to conduct oil and gas lease sales under the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act. The Deficit Reduction Acreage leased in those sales is in addition to the acreage proposed to be leased under the Proposed Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Program for 2012-2017. This bill establishes the Deficit Reduction Energy Security Fund with sums from the Deficit Reduction Acreage lease sales for 15 years. The sums are to be transferred to the
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Sponsored by: Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee
Referred To The Subcommittee On Water, Power And Oceans. on 03/02/2015
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Freedom Riders National Historical Park Act [HB-5882]
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Freedom Riders National Historical Park Act This bill establishes the Freedom Riders National Historical Park in Anniston, Alabama, for the purposes of: (1) arranging for an internationally significant place for public education focused on the Freedom Riders (civil rights activists who rode a Greyhound bus attacked and burned in Anniston on May 14, 1961), civil rights, and the burning of the Freedom Riders' bus; and (2) preserving such historical site for the heritage of that area and as a tourist destination. The park shall be located at 1031 Gurnee
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Sponsored by: Rep. Mike D. Rogers
Referred To The Subcommittee On Federal Lands. on 08/04/2016
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Temporary Judgeship Conversion Act of 2016 [HB-5675]
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Temporary Judgeship Conversion Act of 2016 This bill converts certain temporary U.S. district court judgeships to permanent judgeships in specified U.S. judicial districts in Alabama, Arizona, California, Florida, Kansas, Missouri, New Mexico, North Carolina, and Texas.
Sponsored by: Sen. Martha McSally
Referred To The Subcommittee On Courts, Intellectual Property, And The Internet. on 07/20/2016
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Creating Opportunities for America's Laid-off (COAL) Miners Act of 2016 [HB-5669]
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Creating Opportunities for America's Laid-off (COAL) Miners Act of 2016 This bill allows certain states in which the coal mining and related industries have been adversely impacted by regulations promulgated by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) or the Department of the Interior to enter into and participate in a specified agreement with the Department of Labor. These states shall include: Alabama; Illinois; Indiana; Kentucky; Ohio; Pennsylvania; Tennessee; Virginia; Wyoming; and any other state that has traditionally relied on coal mining
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Sponsored by: Rep. Evan H. Jenkins
Referred To The Subcommittee On Human Resources. on 07/15/2016
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Poarch Band of Creek Indians Land Reaffirmation Act [HB-5486]
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Poarch Band of Creek Indians Land Reaffirmation Act This bill reaffirms as trust land specified land taken into trust by the United States for the benefit of the Poarch Band of Creek Indians, including land in Escambia County, Florida, and Monroe, Escambia, and Montgomery Counties in Alabama.
Sponsored by: Rep. Tony Cardenas
Referred To The Subcommittee On Indian, Insular And Alaska Native Affairs. on 06/21/2016
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VA Construction and Lease Authorization, Health, and Benefits Enhancement Act [HB-5286]
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VA Construction and Lease Authorization, Health, and Benefits Enhancement Act This bill authorizes the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to enter into Veterans Care Agreements with certain providers to furnish hospital care, medical services, or extended care to eligible veterans if: (1) furnishing such care and services at VA facilities or under otherwise authorized contracts or sharing agreements with non-VA facilities is impracticable or inadvisable because of the veteran's medical condition, the travel involved, or the nature of the care or
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Sponsored by: Rep. Jeff Miller
Referred To The Subcommittee On Military Personnel. on 06/09/2016
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Birmingham Civil Rights National Historical Park [HB-4817]
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Birmingham Civil Rights National Historical Park This bill establishes the Birmingham Civil Rights National Historical Park in Birmingham, Alabama, to: (1) preserve and interpret its civil rights history; and (2) coordinate its preservation, catalyze economic revitalization, and facilitate interpretive efforts by government, private, or nonprofit entities. The Department of the Interior shall administer the park. Interior must also complete a general management plan in consultation with the city of Birmingham.
Sponsored by: Rep. Barbara Lee
Referred To The Subcommittee On Federal Lands. on 03/28/2016
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To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1301 Alabama Avenue in Selma, Alabama as the "Amelia Boynton Robinson Post Office Building". [HB-4777]
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To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1301 Alabama Avenue in Selma, Alabama as the "Amelia Boynton Robinson Post Office Building". Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1301 Alabama Avenue in Selma, Alabama, as the "Amelia Boynton Robinson Post Office Building."
Sponsored by: Rep. Terri A. Sewell
Became Public Law No: 114-208. (txt | Pdf) on 07/29/2016
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Fiscal Year 2016 Department of Veterans Affairs Seismic Safety and Construction Authorization Act [HB-4590]
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Fiscal Year 2016 Department of Veterans Affairs Seismic Safety and Construction Authorization Act (Sec. 2) This bill authorizes the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to carry out the following major medical facility projects (each with specified maximum authorized funds): seismic corrections to buildings, including retrofitting and replacement of high-risk buildings, in San Francisco, California; seismic corrections to facilities, including facilities to support homeless veterans, at the medical center in West Los Angeles, California; seismic
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Sponsored by: Rep. Jeff Miller
Received In The Senate And Read Twice And Referred To The Committee On Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs. on 06/22/2016
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To award a Congressional Gold Medal to the Foot Soldiers who participated in Bloody Sunday, Turnaround Tuesday, or the final Selma to Montgomery Voting Rights March in March of 1965, which served as a catalyst for the Voting Rights Act of 1965. [HB-431]
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To award a Congressional Gold Medal to the Foot Soldiers who participated in Bloody Sunday, Turnaround Tuesday, or the final Selma to Montgomery Voting Rights March in March of 1965, which served as a catalyst for the Voting Rights Act of 1965. (Sec. 2) This bill directs the Speaker of the House and the President Pro Tempore of the Senate to arrange for the presentation, on behalf of Congress, of a gold medal to the Foot Soldiers who participated in Bloody Sunday, Turnaround Tuesday, or the final Selma to Montgomery Voting Rights March during March
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Sponsored by: Rep. Steve Scalise
Signed By President. on 03/07/2015
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Gulf States Red Snapper Management Authority Act [HB-3094]
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Gulf States Red Snapper Management Authority Act This bill amends the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act to direct the Department of Commerce to establish a Gulf States Red Snapper Management Authority (GSRSMA) that consists of the principal fisheries manager of each of the five Gulf of Mexico coastal states: Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas. The GSRSMA must: establish a deadline for each Gulf coastal state to submit to the GSRSMA a fishery management plan for the long-term sustainability of Gulf of Mexico
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Sponsored by: Rep. Alexander Mooney
Reported (amended) By The Committee On Natural Resources. H. Rept. 114-851. on 12/08/2016
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Fort McClellan Health Registry Act [HB-2622]
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Fort McClellan Health Registry Act Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) to establish and maintain a special record to be known as the Fort McClellan Health Registry containing the name of each individual who, while serving in the Armed Forces, was stationed at Fort McClellan, Alabama, during the period beginning on January 1, 1935, and ending on May 20, 1999, and who: (1) applies for care or services from the VA; (2) files a claim for compensation on the basis of any disability which may be associated with such service; (3) dies and is
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Sponsored by: Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney
Referred To The Subcommittee On Health. on 06/05/2015
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To direct the Secretary of the Army to provide for modification of certain Federal water resources development projects on the Apalachicola, Chattahoochee, and Flint Rivers, and for other purposes. [HB-2492]
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To direct the Secretary of the Army to provide for modification of certain Federal water resources development projects on the Apalachicola, Chattahoochee, and Flint Rivers, and for other purposes. Directs the Department of the Army to operate the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint federal water resources projects on the Apalachicola, Chattahoochee, and Flint Rivers in Alabama, Florida, and Georgia in a manner that ensures the maintenance of freshwater flows. Defines "freshwater flows" to mean the quality, quantity, timing, and variability of freshwater
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Sponsored by: Rep. Kathy Castor
Referred To The Subcommittee On Water Resources And Environment. on 05/22/2015
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Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2016 [HB-2028]
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Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2016 (Sec. 3) Specifies that references to "this Act" included in division B of this bill refer only to the provisions of that division. (Sec. 4) Specifies the each amount in this bill designated by Congress as an emergency requirement is contingent on the President also designating all of the emergency amounts and transmitting the designations to Congress. Specifies that each amount in this bill designated by Congress for Overseas Contingency Operations/Global War on Terrorism
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Sponsored by: Rep. Michael K. Simpson
Presented To President. on 12/10/2016
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American Civil Rights Cities Act [HB-1161]
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American Civil Rights Cities Act Requires the National Park Service to designate at least one city in the United States each year as an "American Civil Rights City" based on the city's: (1) contributions to protect civil rights by preventing discrimination; and (2) efforts to highlight the struggle of the United States to secure civil rights and liberties through preservation and celebration, including the establishment of historical organizations or museums and recognition of civil rights leaders. Designates Greensboro, North Carolina, and Selma,
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Sponsored by: Rep. Raul M. Grijalva
Referred To The Subcommittee On Federal Lands. on 03/23/2015
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A resolution honoring former Senator and Rear Admiral Jeremiah Andrew Denton, Jr. [SR-407]
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Declares that the Senate: (1) has heard with profound sorrow and deep regret the announcement of the death of the Honorable Jeremiah Andrew Denton, Jr., former Member of the Senate; (2) honors the legacy and service of the former Senator and retired Rear Admiral for his life of loyalty, duty, integrity, and moral sincerity; (3) extends its deepest condolences and sympathy to his family and friends who have lost an inspiring leader and confidant; (4) honors the dauntless valor of Senator Denton, beloved son of Alabama, for his dedication and life
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Sponsored by: Sen. Robert P. Casey
Submitted In The Senate, Considered, And Agreed To Without Amendment And With A Preamble By Unanimous Consent. (consideration: Cr S1881; Text As Passed Senate: Cr S1874) on 03/31/2014
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A resolution congratulating the University of Alabama Crimson Tide for winning the 2012 Bowl Championship Series National Championship. [SR-19]
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Congratulates the University of Alabama Crimson Tide football team for winning the 2012 Bowl Championship Series National Championship.
Sponsored by: Sen. Richard C. Shelby
Submitted In The Senate, Considered, And Agreed To Without Amendment And With A Preamble By Unanimous Consent. (consideration: Cr S333; Text As Passed Senate: Cr S332-333) on 01/28/2013