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A bill to designate the Department of Veterans Affairs outpatient clinic in Alexandria, Minnesota, as the "Max J. Beilke Department of Veterans Affairs Outpatient Clinic". [S.1483]
[Veterans ]
[Healthcare ]
Designates the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) outpatient clinic in Alexandria, Minnesota, that is expected to open in September 2009, as the Max J. Beilke Department of Veterans Affairs Outpatient Clinic.
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A bill to provide for the treatment of certain hospitals. [S.1479]
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[Medicare and Medicaid ]
Amends the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 to permit the designation of a certain critical access hospital in Cass County, Minnesota, by exempting it from the requirement that it be certified by the state on or after January 1, 2006, as being a necessary provider of health care services to residents in the area. (Thus restores to Minnesota state authority to waive the application of the 35-mile rule.)
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Homeless Veterans and Other Veterans Health Care Authorities Act of 2010 [S.1237]
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[Veterans ]
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[Grants ]
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Homeless Veterans and Other Veterans Health Care Authorities Act of 2010 - Title I: Homeless Veterans Matters - (Sec. 101) Allows grants made by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) for comprehensive services programs for veterans to be used for the construction of new facilities. Prohibits the Secretary from denying an application for a grant under such programs solely on the basis that the grant entity proposes to use funding from other private or public sources, as long as such entity demonstrates that a private nonprofit organization will
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Congratulating Anthony Kevin "Tony" Dungy for his accomplishments as a coach, father, and exemplary member of his community. [HR-70]
[Sports ]
[Community Development ]
Congratulates Tony Dungy: (1) on his successful playing and coaching career and historic coaching accomplishments; and (2) for his compassion, integrity, and commitment to his faith, family, and community.
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Congratulating the University of St. Thomas Tommies baseball team for winning the 2009 National Collegiate Athletic Association Division III Men's Baseball National Championship. [HR-499]
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Commends the University of St. Thomas baseball team for winning the 2009 National Collegiate Athletic Association Division III Men's Baseball National Championship.
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Great Lakes Collaboration Implementation Act [HB-500]
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[Public Health ]
[Science ]
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Great Lakes Collaboration Implementation Act - Amends the Nonindigenous Aquatic Nuisance Prevention and Control Act of 1990 to: (1) require certain vessels operating in U.S. waters to have invasive species management plans; (2) direct the Secretary of Homeland Security to establish vessel performance requirements, including provisions for ballast water exchange, treatment, and discharge, and civil and criminal penalties for violations; (3) require federal agencies to restrict the importation of live aquatic organisms of species not in trade without
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To allow the Secretary of the Interior to clear a proposed project in the Lower St. Croix Wild and Scenic River, and for other purposes. [HB-4924]
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[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Infrastructure ]
[Environmental ]
[Water ]
Directs the Secretary of the Interior to find consistent with the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act the construction of a four-lane highway bridge over the Lower St. Croix River, Minnesota and Wisconsin, in accordance with the Section 7 Evaluation issued by the National Park Service in October 2005.
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To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 2168 7th Avenue in Anoka, Minnesota, as the "Richard K. Sorenson Post Office Building". [HB-4909]
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Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 2168 7th Avenue in Anoka, Minnesota, as the "Richard K. Sorenson Post Office Building."
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North Country National Scenic Trail Route Adjustment Act of 2009 [HB-481]
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[Energy ]
[Recreation ]
North Country National Scenic Trail Route Adjustment Act of 2009 - Amends the National Trails System Act to add certain existing hiking trails along Lake Superior's north shore and in Superior National Forest and Chippewa National Forest to the North Country National Scenic Trail in northeastern Minnesota. Prohibits the Secretaries of Agriculture and the Interior from acquiring land for the North Country National Scenic Trail that was obtained through condemnation by a state or local government. Prohibits anything in this Act from prohibiting
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To extend certain housing-related deadlines in the Heartland Disaster Tax Relief Act of 2008. [HB-4205]
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[Taxes ]
[Retirement ]
Amends the Heartland Disaster Tax Relief Act of 2008 to extend through 2010 provisions of such Act allowing residents of the Midwestern disaster area to: (1) use amounts from tax-exempt retirement accounts without a tax penalty to purchase a new principal residence or repair an existing one; (2) recontribute amounts withdrawn for such purposes to such accounts; and (3) exclude from gross income income resulting from a cancellation of mortgage indebtedness incurred in such disaster area.
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Keep Terrorists Out of the Midwest Act [HB-4120]
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[Crime ]
[Public Safety ]
Keep Terrorists Out of the Midwest Act - Prohibits an individual detained by the United States at Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, from being: (1) transferred to or housed in a facility in a Midwestern state; or (2) prosecuted or tried for any offense against the United States in any Midwestern state. Defines "Midwestern state" as Iowa, Illinois, Minnesota, Missouri, Arkansas, South Dakota, North Dakota, Wisconsin, Indiana, Nebraska, and Kansas.
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Upper Mississippi River Basin Protection Act [HB-3671]
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[Water ]
[Science ]
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Upper Mississippi River Basin Protection Act - (Sec. 3) Declares that it is the policy of Congress that federal investments in the Upper Mississippi River Basin must be guided by sound science. Title I: Sediment and Nutrient Monitoring Network - (Sec. 101) Directs the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the United States Geological Survey (USGS), to establish a nutrient and sediment monitoring network for the Upper Mississippi River Basin as part of the Upper Mississippi River Stewardship Initiative. (Sec. 102) Directs the Secretary to: (1)
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Federal Judgeship Act of 2009 [HB-3662]
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[Criminal Justice ]
Federal Judgeship Act of 2009 - Directs the President to appoint specified additional: (1) permanent circuit judges for the first, second, third, sixth, and ninth circuit courts of appeals and temporary circuit judges for the third, eighth, and ninth circuits; and (2) permanent district judges for various districts in Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Indiana, Minnesota, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, South Carolina, Texas, and Washington and temporary district judges for Alabama, Arizona, California, Florida, Idaho, Iowa, Minnesota,
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Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2010 [HB-3326]
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[National Security ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[International ]
[Trade ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Cybersecurity ]
[Science ]
[Veterans ]
[Small Business ]
[Healthcare ]
[Medicare and Medicaid ]
[Unemployment ]
[Human Rights ]
[Food ]
[Telecommunications ]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Construction ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Native American Affairs ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
[Disaster Relief ]
Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2010 - Division A: Department of Defense Appropriations - Title I: Military Personnel - Appropriates funds for FY2010 for active-duty and reserve personnel in the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force (the military departments), and for National Guard personnel in the Army and Air Force. Title II: Operation and Maintenance - Appropriates funds for FY2010 for operation and maintenance (O&M) for the military departments, the defense agencies, the reserve components, and the Army and Air National Guard. Appropriates
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To provide for a hospital in Cass County, Minnesota. [HB-3278]
[Healthcare ]
[Medicare and Medicaid ]
[Public Health ]
Amends the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 to permit the designation of a certain critical access hospital in Cass County, Minnesota, by exempting it from the requirement that it be certified by the state on or after January 1, 2006, as being a necessary provider of health care services to residents in the area. (Thus restores to Minnesota state authority to waive the application of the 35-mile rule.)
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Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2010 [HB-3183]
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[Water ]
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[Environmental ]
[Public Lands and National Parks ]
[Infrastructure ]
[Science ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Trade ]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Climate Change ]
[Grants ]
[Economic Development ]
Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2010 - Makes appropriations for energy and water development and related agencies for FY2010. Title I: Corps of Engineers-Civil - Makes appropriations for FY2010 to the Department of the Army, Corps of Engineers-Civil, for: (1) civil functions pertaining to rivers and harbors, flood and storm damage reduction, shore protection, and aquatic ecosystem restoration (including the Mississippi River alluvial valley below Cape Girardeau, Missouri); (2) the regulatory program pertaining
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To name the Department of Veterans Affairs outpatient clinic in Alexandria, Minnesota, as the "Max J. Beilke Department of Veterans Affairs Outpatient Clinic". [HB-3157]
[Veterans ]
Designates the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) outpatient clinic in Alexandria, Minnesota, that is expected to open in September 2009 as the "Max J. Beilke Department of Veterans Affairs Outpatient Clinic."
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Hurricane and Tornado Mitigation Investment Act of 2009 [HB-308]
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[Disaster Relief ]
[Housing ]
[Construction ]
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Hurricane and Tornado Mitigation Investment Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow individual and business taxpayers in certain states a tax credit for 25% of their qualified hurricane and tornado mitigation property expenditures up to $5,000 for any taxable year. Defines such expenditures as expenditures in a dwelling unit to improve the strength of a roof deck attachment, create a secondary water barrier, improve the durability of a roof covering, brace gable-end walls, reinforce the connections between a roof and supporting wall,
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To prohibit the use of funds to transfer individuals detained at Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to facilities in Minnesota or to house such individuals at such facilities. [HB-1566]
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[National Security ]
[Military ]
[Funding ]
Prohibits federal funds from being used to: (1) transfer any individual detained by the United States at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to any military installation or federal detention center in Minnesota; or (2) house any such individual at a Minnesota installation or detention center.
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A resolution honoring the life and legacy of Coya Knutson. [SR-687]
[Arts and Culture ]
A resolution honoring the life and legacy of Coya Knutson.