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.
All laws
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 designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 9727 Antioch Road in Overland Park, Kansas, as the “Congresswoman Jan Meyers Post Office Building”.
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 designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1210 West Main Street in Riverhead, New York, as the “Private First Class Garfield M. Langhorn Post Office Building”.
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 provide for the International Organizations Immunities Act to be extended to the Office of the High Representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the International Civilian Office in Kosovo.
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 extend the statutory license for secondary transmissions under title 17, United States Code, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo provide improvements for the operations of the Federal courts, and for other purposes.
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 support stabilization and lasting peace in northern Uganda and areas affected by the Lord's Resistance Army through development of a regional strategy to support multilateral efforts to successfully protect civilians and eliminate the threat posed by the Lord's Resistance Army and to authorize funds for humanitarian relief and reconstruction, reconciliation, and transitional justice, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo extend the Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act, to provide customs support services to Haiti, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo amend title 39, United States Code, to clarify the instances in which the term “census” may appear on mailable matter.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo provide for an extension of the legislative authority of the Adams Memorial Foundation to establish a commemorative work in honor of former President John Adams and his legacy, and for other purposes.
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 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 amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend the funding and expenditure authority of the Airport and Airway Trust Fund, to amend title 49, United States Code, to extend authorizations for the airport improvement program, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedGranting the consent and approval of Congress to amendments made by the State of Maryland, the Commonwealth of Virginia, and the District of Columbia to the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Regulation Compact.
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 urge the Secretary of the Treasury to instruct the United States Executive Directors at the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, and other multilateral development institutions to use the voice, vote, and influence of the United States to cancel immediately and completely Haiti's debts to such institutions, and for other purposes.
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 amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend the funding and expenditure authority of the Airport and Airway Trust Fund, to amend title 49, United States Code, to extend authorizations for the airport improvement program, 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 startedTo reauthorize the Satellite Home Viewer Extension and Reauthorization Act of 2004 through April 30, 2010, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo permit the use of previously appropriated funds to extend the Small Business Loan Guarantee Program, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo amend the North American Wetlands Conservation Act to establish requirements regarding payment of the non-Federal share of the costs of wetlands conservation projects in Canada that are funded under that Act, and for other purposes.
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 certain technical and conforming amendments to the Lanham Act.
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 extend the pilot program for volunteer groups to obtain criminal history background checks.
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 that claims of the United States to certain documents relating to Franklin Delano Roosevelt shall be treated as waived and relinquished in certain circumstances.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo amend title 38, United States Code, to expand veteran eligibility for reimbursement by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs for emergency treatment furnished in a non-Department facility, and for other purposes.
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 started