Laws of the 108th Congress
The 498 public laws in our saved record for the Congress that met from January 3, 2003 to January 3, 2005, with the House and Senate tallies from the official vote files.
1 passage vote is not checked yet.
64,456 individual votes saved for this Congress.
Laws with a recorded vote
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.
To promote the development of the emerging commercial human space flight industry, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo designate the Federal building located at 324 Twenty-Fifth Street in Ogden, Utah, as the “James V. Hansen Federal Building”.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo reform the intelligence community and the intelligence and intelligence-related activities of the United States Government, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedMaking appropriations for foreign operations, export financing, and related programs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2005, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo reauthorize the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo improve access to physicians in medically underserved areas.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo make permanent the moratorium on taxes on Internet access and multiple and discriminatory taxes on electronic commerce imposed by the Internet Tax Freedom Act.
Plain-language account: Not startedRecognizing the 60th anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge during World War II.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo expand research information regarding multidisciplinary research projects and epidemiological studies.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo amend title 17, United States Code, to replace copyright arbitration royalty panels with Copyright Royalty Judges, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo amend title 31 of the United States Code to increase the public debt limit.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo reduce certain special allowance payments and provide additional teacher loan forgiveness on Federal student loans.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo protect crime victims' rights, to eliminate the substantial backlog of DNA samples collected from crime scenes and convicted offenders, to improve and expand the DNA testing capacity of Federal, State, and local crime laboratories, to increase research and development of new DNA testing technologies, to develop new training programs regarding the collection and use of DNA evidence, to provide post-conviction testing of DNA evidence to exonerate the innocent, to improve the performance of counsel in State capital cases, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1115 South Clinton Avenue in Dunn, North Carolina, as the “General William Carey Lee Post Office Building”.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 2811 Springdale Avenue in Springdale, Arkansas, as the “Harvey and Bernice Jones Post Office Building”.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2005 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe personnel strengths for such fiscal year for the Armed Forces, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo reauthorize and improve the program authorized by the Public Works and Economic Development Act of 1965.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to remove impediments in such Code and make our manufacturing, service, and high-technology businesses and workers more competitive and productive both at home and abroad.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo amend the Public Health Service Act to support the planning, implementation, and evaluation of organized activities involving statewide youth suicide early intervention and prevention strategies, to authorize grants to institutions of higher education to reduce student mental and behavioral health problems, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo revise and extend the Boys and Girls Clubs of America.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo transfer Federal lands between the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior.
Plain-language account: Not startedMaking appropriations for the government of the District of Columbia and other activities chargeable in whole or in part against revenues of said District for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2005, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedMaking appropriations for the Department of Homeland Security for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2005, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo amend the Fish and Wildlife Act of 1956 to reauthorize volunteer programs and community partnerships for national wildlife refuges, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedMaking appropriations for military construction, family housing, and base realignment and closure for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2005, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo amend the Stevenson-Wydler Technology Innovation Act of 1980 to permit Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Awards to be made to nonprofit organizations.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide tax relief for working families, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo provide an extension of highway, highway safety, motor carrier safety, transit, and other programs funded out of the Highway Trust Fund pending enactment of a law reauthorizing the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century.
Plain-language account: Not startedMaking continuing appropriations for the fiscal year 2005, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo reauthorize the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families block grant program through March 31, 2005, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo implement the United States-Morocco Free Trade Agreement.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo authorize appropriations for the Coast Guard for fiscal year 2004, to amend various laws administered by the Coast Guard, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedMaking appropriations for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2005, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo implement the United States-Australia Free Trade Agreement.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo facilitate self-help housing homeownership opportunities.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo require a report on the conflict in Uganda, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo amend the Public Health Service Act to provide protections and countermeasures against chemical, radiological, or nuclear agents that may be used in a terrorist attack against the United States by giving the National Institutes of Health contracting flexibility, infrastructure improvements, and expediting the scientific peer review process, and streamlining the Food and Drug Administration approval process of countermeasures.
Plain-language account: Not startedApproving the renewal of import restrictions contained in the Burmese Freedom and Democracy Act of 2003.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo provide new human capital flexibilities with respect to the GAO, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo provide an extension of highway, highway safety, motor carrier safety, transit, and other programs funded out of the Highway Trust Fund pending enactment of a law reauthorizing the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 410 South Jackson Road in Edinburg, Texas, as the “Dr. Miguel A. Nevarez Post Office Building”.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 122 West Elwood Avenue in Raeford, North Carolina, as the “Bobby Marshall Gentry Post Office Building”.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 475 Kell Farm Drive in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, as the “Richard G. Wilson Processing and Distribution Facility”.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo redesignate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 7 Commercial Boulevard in Middletown, Rhode Island, as the “Rhode Island Veterans Post Office Building”.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 607 Pershing Drive in Laclede, Missouri, as the “General John J. Pershing Post Office”.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 137 East Young High Pike in Knoxville, Tennessee, as the “Ben Atchley Post Office Building”.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 223 South Main Street in Roxboro, North Carolina, as the “Oscar Scott Woody Post Office Building”.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 410 Huston Street in Altamont, Kansas, as the “Myron V. George Post Office”.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 15500 Pearl Road in Strongsville, Ohio, as the “Walter F. Ehrnfelt, Jr. Post Office Building”.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 304 West Michigan Street in Stuttgart, Arkansas, as the “Lloyd L. Burke Post Office”.
Plain-language account: Not started