Laws of the 109th Congress
The 482 public laws in our saved record for the Congress that met from January 3, 2005 to January 3, 2007, with the House and Senate tallies from the official vote files.
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54,607 individual votes saved for this Congress.
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To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend expiring provisions, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo study and promote the use of energy efficient computer servers in the United States.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo establish a National Integrated Drought Information System within the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to improve drought monitoring and forecasting capabilities.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo direct the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a special resource study to determine the suitability and feasibility of including in the National Park System certain sites in Monroe County, Michigan, relating to the Battles of the River Raisin during the War of 1812.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo amend the Wool Products Labeling Act of 1939 to revise the requirements for labeling of certain wool and cashmere products.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo direct the Joint Committee on the Library to accept the donation of a bust depicting Sojourner Truth and to display the bust in a suitable location in the Capitol.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo reauthorize permanently the use of penalty and franked mail in efforts relating to the location and recovery of missing children.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo provide that attorneys employed by the Department of Justice shall be eligible for compensatory time off for travel under section 5550b of title 5, United States Code.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo authorize and strengthen the tsunami detection, forecast, warning, and mitigation program of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, to be carried out by the National Weather Service, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo extend for 3 years changes to requirements for admission of nonimmigrant nurses in health professional shortage areas made by the Nursing Relief for Disadvantaged Areas Act of 1999.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo provide for programs and activities with respect to the prevention of underage drinking.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo provide for certain lands to be held in trust for the Utu Utu Gwaitu Paiute Tribe.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo establish an interagency aerospace revitalization task force to develop a national strategy for aerospace workforce recruitment, training, and cultivation.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo direct the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a boundary study to evaluate the significance of the Colonel James Barrett Farm in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the suitability and feasibility of its inclusion in the National Park System as part of the Minute Man National Historical Park, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo amend the National Trails System Act to designate the Captain John Smith Chesapeake National Historic Trail.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo amend the Public Health Service Act with respect to public health security and all-hazards preparedness and response, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo amend the Public Health Service Act to combat autism through research, screening, intervention and education.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo amend title XXVI of the Public Health Service Act to revise and extend the program for providing life-saving care for those with HIV/ AIDS.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo designate the outpatient clinic of the Department of Veterans Affairs located in Farmington, Missouri, as the “Robert Silvey Department of Veterans Affairs Outpatient Clinic”.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 103 East Thompson Street in Thomaston, Georgia, as the “Sergeant First Class Robert Lee `Bobby' Hollar, Jr. Post Office Building”.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo name the Armed Forces Readiness Center in Great Falls, Montana, in honor of Captain William Wylie Galt, a recipient of the Congressional Medal of Honor.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 6110 East 51st Place in Tulsa, Oklahoma, as the “Dewey F. Bartlett Post Office”.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo authorize certain tribes in the State of Montana to enter into a lease or other temporary conveyance of water rights to meet the water needs of the Dry Prairie Rural Water Association, Inc.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 216 Oak Street in Farmington, Minnesota, as the “Hamilton H. Judson Post Office”.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 200 Lawyers Road, NW in Vienna, Virginia, as the “Captain Christopher P. Petty and Major William F. Hecker, III Post Office Building”.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 307 West Wheat Street in Woodville, Texas, as the “Chuck Fortenberry Post Office Building”.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 415 South 5th Avenue in Maywood, Illinois, as the “Wallace W. Sykes Post Office Building”.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 10240 Roosevelt Road in Westchester, Illinois, as the “John J. Sinde Post Office Building”.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 29-50 Union Street in Flushing, New York, as the “Dr. Leonard Price Stavisky Post Office”.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1501 South Cherrybell Avenue in Tucson, Arizona, as the “Morris K. `Mo' Udall Post Office Building”.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 101 Palafox Place in Pensacola, Florida, as the “Vincent J. Whibbs, Sr. Post Office Building”.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo exempt from certain requirements of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 a proposed nuclear agreement for cooperation with India.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1213 East Houston Street in Cleveland, Texas, as the “Lance Corporal Robert A. Martinez Post Office Building”.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 200 Gateway Drive in Lincoln, California, as the “Beverly J. Wilson Post Office Building”.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 8135 Forest Lane in Dallas, Texas, as the “Dr. Robert E. Price Post Office Building”.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 167 East 124th Street in New York, New York, as the “Tito Puente Post Office Building”.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo provide for the sale, acquisition, conveyance, and exchange of certain real property in the District of Columbia to facilitate the utilization, development, and redevelopment of such property, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo award a congressional gold medal to Dr. Norman E. Borlaug.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo amend the Native American Programs Act of 1974 to provide for the revitalization of Native American languages through Native American language immersion programs; and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo extend the time required for construction of a hydroelectric project, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to reauthorize a program relating to the Lake Pontchartrain Basin, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo adjust the boundaries of the Ouachita National Forest in the States of Oklahoma and Arkansas.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo improve the netting process for financial contracts, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo provide for the conveyance of the former Konnarock Lutheran Girls School in Smyth County, Virginia, which is currently owned by the United States and administered by the Forest Service, to facilitate the restoration and reuse of the property, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo direct the Secretary of the Interior to convey Paint Bank National Fish Hatchery and Wytheville National Fish Hatchery to the State of Virginia.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo provide for the conveyance of certain National Forest System land to the towns of Laona and Wabeno, Wisconsin, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo authorize the Secretary of the Interior to revise certain repayment contracts with the Bostwick Irrigation District in Nebraska, the Kansas Bostwick Irrigation District No. 2, the Frenchman-Cambridge Irrigation District, and the Webster Irrigation District No. 4, all a part of the Pick-Sloan Missouri Basin Program, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo withdraw the Valle Vidal Unit of the Carson National Forest in New Mexico from location, entry, and patent under the mining laws, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo redesignate the facility of the Bureau of Reclamation located at 19550 Kelso Road in Byron, California, as the “C.W. `Bill' Jones Pumping Plant”.
Plain-language account: Not startedMaking further continuing appropriations for the fiscal year 2007, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not started