Laws of the 111th Congress
The 383 public laws in our saved record for the Congress that met from January 3, 2009 to January 3, 2011, with the House and Senate tallies from the official vote files.
71,765 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.
Making supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2010, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo protect Indian arts and crafts through the improvement of applicable criminal proceedings, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedApproving the renewal of import restrictions contained in the Burmese Freedom and Democracy Act of 2003, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo amend the effective date of the gift card provisions of the Credit Card Accountability Responsibility and Disclosure Act of 2009.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend certain expiring provisions, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo amend the Improper Payments Information Act of 2002 (31 U.S.C. 3321 note) in order to prevent the loss of billions in taxpayer dollars.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo promote the financial stability of the United States by improving accountability and transparency in the financial system, to end “too big to fail”, to protect the American taxpayer by ending bailouts, to protect consumers from abusive financial services practices, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend the homebuyer tax credit for the purchase of a principal residence before October 1, 2010, in the case of a written binding contract entered into with respect to such principal residence before May 1, 2010, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo amend the Iran Sanctions Act of 1996 to enhance United States diplomatic efforts with respect to Iran by expanding economic sanctions against Iran.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 2000 Louisiana Avenue in New Orleans, Louisiana, as the “Roy Rondeno, Sr. Post Office Building”.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo provide a physician payment update, to provide pension funding relief, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo amend the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 to authorize advances from Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund for the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo amend the Antitrust Criminal Penalty Enhancement and Reform Act of 2004 to extend the operation of such Act, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 216 Westwood Avenue in Westwood, New Jersey, as the “Sergeant Christopher R. Hrbek Post Office Building”.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 2-116th Street in North Troy, New York, as the “Martin G. `Marty' Mahar Post Office”.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 930 39th Avenue in Greeley, Colorado, as the “W.D. Farr Post Office Building”.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 45300 Portola Avenue in Palm Desert, California, as the “Roy Wilson Post Office”.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 43 Maple Avenue in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, as the “Ann Marie Blute Post Office”.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 101 West Highway 64 Bypass in Roper, North Carolina, as the “E.V. Wilkins Post Office”.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 109 Main Street in Swifton, Arkansas, as the “George Kell Post Office”.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo amend title 5, United States Code, to provide for the transportation and moving expenses for the immediate family of certain Federal employees who die in the performance of their duties.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo designate the United States Department of the Interior Building in Washington, District of Columbia, as the “Stewart Lee Udall Department of the Interior Building”.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo clarify the health care provided by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs that constitutes minimum essential coverage.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo provide for the sale of the Federal Government's reversionary interest in approximately 60 acres of land in Salt Lake City, Utah, originally conveyed to the Mount Olivet Cemetery Association under the Act of January 23, 1909.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo authorize a land exchange to acquire lands for the Blue Ridge Parkway from the Town of Blowing Rock, North Carolina, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo amend the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to include in the Annual Country Reports on Human Rights Practices information about freedom of the press in foreign countries, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo provide that Members of Congress shall not receive a cost of living adjustment in pay during fiscal year 2011.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo designate the Department of Veterans Affairs blind rehabilitation center in Long Beach, California, as the “Major Charles Robert Soltes, Jr., O.D. Department of Veterans Affairs Blind Rehabilitation Center”.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo amend title 38, United States Code, to provide assistance to caregivers of veterans, to improve the provision of health care to veterans, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to ensure that health coverage provided by the Department of Defense is treated as minimal essential coverage.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo provide a temporary extension of certain programs, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedRecognizing and honoring the Blinded Veterans Association on its 65th anniversary of representing blinded veterans and their families.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo protect the integrity of the constitutionally mandated United States census and prohibit deceptive mail practices that attempt to exploit the decennial census.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo prevent tobacco smuggling, to ensure the collection of all tobacco taxes, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo provide for reconciliation pursuant to Title II of the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2010 (S. Con. Res. 13).
Plain-language account: Not startedEntitled The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
Plain-language account: Not startedMaking appropriations for the Departments of Commerce and Justice, and Science, and Related Agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2010, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo make technical corrections to the laws affecting certain administrative authorities of the United States Capitol Police, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo provide a temporary extension of certain programs, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo provide for permanent extension of the attorney fee withholding procedures under title II of the Social Security Act to title XVI of such Act, and to provide for permanent extension of such procedures under titles II and XVI of such Act to qualified non-attorney representatives.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo extend expiring provisions of the USA PATRIOT Improvement and Reauthorization Act of 2005 and Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 until February 28, 2011.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo strengthen efforts in the Department of Homeland Security to develop nuclear forensics capabilities to permit attribution of the source of nuclear material, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedIncreasing the statutory limit on the public debt.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo provide for an additional temporary extension of programs under the Small Business Act and the Small Business Investment Act of 1958, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 3900 Darrow Road in Stow, Ohio, as the “Corporal Joseph A. Tomci Post Office Building”.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 170 North Main Street in Smithfield, Utah, as the “W. Hazen Hillyard Post Office Building”.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 16555 Springs Street in White Springs, Florida, as the “Clyde L. Hillhouse Post Office Building”.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 427 Harrison Avenue in Harrison, New Jersey, as the “Patricia D. McGinty-Juhl Post Office Building”.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 440 South Gulling Street in Portola, California, as the “Army Specialist Jeremiah Paul McCleery Post Office Building”.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 116 North West Street in Somerville, Tennessee, as the “John S. Wilder Post Office Building”.
Plain-language account: Not started