Saved history · 2001 and 2002

Laws of the 107th Congress

The 377 public laws in our saved record for the Congress that met from January 3, 2001 to January 3, 2003, with the House and Senate tallies from the official vote files.

377 laws
130 with a recorded vote · 247 passed with no recorded voteConfirmed from the official record

56,676 individual votes saved for this Congress.

Plain-language accounts for laws before January 3, 2025: Not started. A law's page shows the official title, the member votes we have saved and our saved files.

H.R. 3093 · Became law Public Law 107-177

To designate the Federal building and United States courthouse located at 501 Bell Street in Alton, Illinois, as the “William L. Beatty Federal Building and United States Courthouse”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: without objectionSenate: without objection
H.R. 819 · Became law Public Law 107-176

To designate the Federal building located at 143 West Liberty Street, Medina, Ohio, as the “Donald J. Pease Federal Building”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
H.R. 495 · Became law Public Law 107-175

To designate the Federal building located in Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas, United States Virgin Islands, as the “Ron de Lugo Federal Building”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
Public Law 107-174 · Became law Notification and Federal Employee Antidiscrimination and Retaliation Act of 2002

To require that Federal agencies be accountable for violations of antidiscrimination and whistleblower protection laws; to require that each Federal agency post quarterly on its public Web site, certain statistical data relating to Federal sector equal employment opportunity complaints filed with such agency; and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 412–0Senate: without objection
Public Law 107-173 · Became law Enhanced Border Security and Visa Entry Reform Act of 2002

To enhance the border security of the United States, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 411–0Senate 97–0
Public Law 107-172 · Became law Hematological Cancer Research Investment and Education Act of 2002

To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for research, information, and education with respect to blood cancer.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
Public Law 107-171 · Became law Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002

To provide for the continuation of agricultural programs through fiscal year 2007, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 280–141Senate 64–35
H.R. 4167 · Became law Public Law 107-170

To extend for 8 additional months the period for which chapter 12 of title 11 of the United States Code is reenacted.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 407–3Senate: without objection
H.R. 861 · Became law Public Law 107-169

To make technical amendments to section 10 of title 9, United States Code.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 413–0Senate: without objection
S. 2248 · Became law Public Law 107-168

To extend the authority of the Export-Import Bank until May 31, 2002.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 318–92Senate: without objection
H.R. 3379 · Became law Public Law 107-167

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 375 Carlls Path in Deer Park, New York, as the “Raymond M. Downey Post Office Building”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 393–0Senate: without objection
H.R. 3072 · Became law Public Law 107-166

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 125 Main Street in Forest City, North Carolina, as the “Vernon Tarlton Post Office Building”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
H.R. 2910 · Became law Public Law 107-165

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 3131 South Crater Road in Petersburg, Virginia, as the “Norman Sisisky Post Office Building”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 405–0Senate: without objection
H.R. 2876 · Became law Public Law 107-164

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located in Harlem, Montana, as the “Francis Bardanouve United States Post Office Building”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
H.R. 2577 · Became law Public Law 107-163

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 310 South State Street in St. Ignace, Michigan, as the “Bob Davis Post Office Building”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
H.R. 1749 · Became law Public Law 107-162

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 685 Turnberry Road in Newport News, Virginia, as the “Herbert H. Bateman Post Office Building”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
H.R. 1748 · Became law Public Law 107-161

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 805 Glen Burnie Road in Richmond, Virginia, as the “Tom Bliley Post Office Building”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
H.R. 1432 · Became law Public Law 107-160

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 3698 Inner Perimeter Road in Valdosta, Georgia, as the “Major Lyn McIntosh Post Office Building”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
H.R. 3985 · Became law Public Law 107-159

To amend the Act entitled "An Act to authorize the leasing of restricted Indian lands for public, religious, educational, recreational, residential, business, and other purposes requiring the grant of long-term leases", approved August 9, 1955, to provide for binding arbitration clauses in leases and contracts related to reservation lands of the Gila River Indian Community.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
H.R. 2739 · Became law Public Law 107-158

To amend Public Law 107-10 to require a United States plan to endorse and obtain observer status for Taiwan at the annual summit of the World Health Assembly in May 2002 in Geneva, Switzerland, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
Public Law 107-157 · Became law District of Columbia College Access Improvement Act of 2002

To amend the District of Columbia College Access Act of 1999 to permit individuals who enroll in an institution of higher education more than 3 years after graduating from a secondary school and individuals who attend private historically black colleges and universities nationwide to participate in the tuition assistance programs under such Act, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
S. 2019 · Became law Public Law 107-156

To extend the authority of the Export-Import Bank until April 30, 2002.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
Public Law 107-155 · Became law Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002

To amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide bipartisan campaign reform.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 240–189Senate 60–40
H.R. 3986 · Became law Public Law 107-154

To extend the period of availability of unemployment assistance under the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act in the case of victims of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
S. 1857 · Became law Public Law 107-153

To encourage the negotiated settlement of tribal claims.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
S.J.Res. 32 · Became law Public Law 107-152

Congratulating the United States Military Academy at West Point on its bicentennial anniversary, and commending its outstanding contributions to the Nation.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 407–1Senate: without objection
H.R. 3699 · Became law Public Law 107-151

To revise certain grants for continuum of care assistance for homeless individual and families.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 421–0Senate: without objection
Public Law 107-150 · Became law Family Sponsor Immigration Act of 2002

To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide for the acceptance of an affidavit of support from another eligible sponsor if the original sponsor has died and the Attorney General has determined for humanitarian reasons that the original sponsor's classification petition should not be revoked.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 404–3Senate: without objection
Public Law 107-149 · Became law Appalachian Regional Development Act Amendments of 2002

To reauthorize the Appalachian Regional Development Act of 1965, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
Public Law 107-148 · Became law Radio Free Afghanistan Act

To authorize the establishment of Radio Free Afghanistan.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 421–2Senate: without objection
Public Law 107-147 · Became law Job Creation and Worker Assistance Act of 2002

To provide tax incentives for economic recovery.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 417–3Senate 85–9
S. 1026 · Became law Public Law 107-146

To designate the United States Post Office located at 60 Third Avenue in Long Branch, New Jersey, as the “Pat King Post Office Building”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: without objectionSenate: without objection
S. 970 · Became law Public Law 107-145

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 39 Tremont Street, Paris Hill, Maine, as the “Horatio King Post Office Building”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 394–0Senate: without objection
S. 737 · Became law Public Law 107-144

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 811 South Main Street in Yerington, Nevada, as the “Joseph E. Dini, Jr. Post Office”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
H.J.Res. 82 · Became law Public Law 107-143

Recognizing the 91st birthday of Ronald Reagan.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 408–0Senate: without objection
Public Law 107-142 · Became law Pacific Northwest Feasibility Studies Act of 2002

To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to engage in certain feasibility studies of water resource projects in the State of Washington.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
Public Law 107-141 · Became law Asian Elephant Conservation Reauthorization Act of 2001

To reauthorize the Asian Elephant Conservation Act of 1997.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 349–23Senate: without objection
S. 1888 · Became law Public Law 107-140

To amend title 18 of the United States Code to correct a technical error in the codification of title 36 of the United States Code.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 413–0Senate: without objection
S. 1762 · Became law Public Law 107-139

To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to establish fixed interest rates for student and parent borrowers, to extend current law with respect to special allowances for lenders, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 372–3Senate: without objection
H.R. 1913 · Became law Public Law 107-138

To require the valuation of nontribal interest ownership of subsurface rights within the boundaries of the Acoma Indian Reservation, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
H.R. 400 · Became law Public Law 107-137

To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to establish the Ronald Reagan Boyhood Home National Historic Site, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: voice vote
H.R. 3392 · Became law Public Law 107-136

To name the national cemetery in Saratoga, New York, as the Gerald B.H. Solomon Saratoga National Cemetery, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
Public Law 107-135 · Became law Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Programs Enhancement Act of 2001

To amend title 38, United States Code, to enhance the authority of the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to recruit and retain qualified nurses for the Veterans Health Administration, to provide an additional basis for establishing the inability of veterans to defray expenses of necessary medical care, to enhance certain health care programs of the Department of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
Public Law 107-134 · Became law Victims of Terrorism Tax Relief Act of 2001

To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide tax relief for victims of the terrorist attacks against the United States, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: without objectionSenate: without objection
Public Law 107-133 · Became law Promoting Safe and Stable Families Amendments of 2001

To extend and amend the program entitled Promoting Safe and Stable Families under title IV-B, subpart 2 of the Social Security Act, and to provide new authority to support programs for mentoring children of incarcerated parents; to amend the Foster Care Independent Living program under title IV-E of that Act to provide for educational and training vouchers for youths aging out of foster care, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
H.R. 3348 · Became law Public Law 107-132

To designate the National Foreign Affairs Training Center as the George P. Shultz National Foreign Affairs Training Center.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 407–0Senate: without objection
H.R. 3346 · Became law Public Law 107-131

To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to simplify the reporting requirements relating to higher education tuition and related expenses.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
H.R. 3334 · Became law Public Law 107-130

To designate the Richard J. Guadagno Headquarters and Visitors Center at Humboldt Bay National Wildlife Refuge, California.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
H.R. 3248 · Became law Public Law 107-129

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 65 North Main Street in Cranbury, New Jersey, as the “Todd Beamer Post Office Building”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
Public Law 107-128 · Became law Basic Pilot Extension Act of 2001

To extend the basic pilot program for employment eligibility verification, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
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