Saved history · 2011 and 2012

Laws of the 112th Congress

The 283 public laws in our saved record for the Congress that met from January 3, 2011 to January 3, 2013, with the House and Senate tallies from the official vote files.

283 laws
118 with a recorded vote · 165 passed with no recorded voteConfirmed from the official record

53,201 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.

Public Law 112-27 · Became law Airport and Airway Extension Act of 2011, Part IV

To 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 the airport improvement program, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 243–177Senate: without objection
Public Law 112-26 · Became law Restoring GI Bill Fairness Act of 2011

To temporarily preserve higher rates for tuition and fees for programs of education at non-public institutions of higher learning pursued by individuals enrolled in the Post-9/11 Educational Assistance Program of the Department of Veterans Affairs before the enactment of the Post-9/11 Veterans Educational Assistance Improvements Act of 2010, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 424–0Senate: without objection
Public Law 112-25 · Became law Budget Control Act of 2011

To provide for budget control.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 269–161Senate 74–26
S. 349 · Became law Public Law 112-22

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 4865 Tallmadge Road in Rootstown, Ohio, as the “Marine Sgt. Jeremy E. Murray Post Office”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 397–0Senate: without objection
Public Law 112-18 · Became law Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2011

To authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2011 for intelligence and intelligence-related activities of the United States Government, the Community Management Account, and the Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability System, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 392–15Senate: voice vote
Public Law 112-17 · Became law Small Business Additional Temporary Extension Act of 2011

To 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 started
House 387–33Senate: without objection
H.R. 793 · Became law Public Law 112-15

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 12781 Sir Francis Drake Boulevard in Inverness, California, as the “Specialist Jake Robert Velloza Post Office”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 394–0Senate: without objection
Public Law 112-14 · Became law PATRIOT Sunsets Extension Act of 2011

To 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 started
House 250–153Senate 72–23
H.R. 1308 · Became law Public Law 112-13

To amend the Ronald Reagan Centennial Commission Act to extend the termination date for the Commission, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 394–18Senate: without objection
S. 307 · Became law Public Law 112-11

To designate the Federal building and United States courthouse located at 217 West King Street, Martinsburg, West Virginia, as the “W. Craig Broadwater Federal Building and United States Courthouse”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 408–3Senate: without objection
Public Law 112-10 · Became law Department of Defense and Full-Year Continuing Appropriations Act, 2011

Making appropriations for the Department of Defense and the other departments and agencies of the Government for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2011, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 260–167Senate 81–19
Public Law 112-9 · Became law Comprehensive 1099 Taxpayer Protection and Repayment of Exchange Subsidy Overpayments Act of 2011

To repeal the expansion of information reporting requirements for payments of $600 or more to corporations, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 314–112Senate 87–12
Public Law 112-8 · Became law Further Additional Continuing Appropriations Amendments, 2011

Making appropriations for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2011, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 348–70Senate: voice vote
Public Law 112-6 · Became law Additional Continuing Appropriations Amendments, 2011

Making further continuing appropriations for fiscal year 2011, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 271–158Senate 87–13
Public Law 112-5 · Became law Surface Transportation Extension Act of 2011

To provide an extension of Federal-aid highway, highway safety, motor carrier safety, transit, and other programs funded out of the Highway Trust Fund pending enactment of a multiyear law reauthorizing such programs.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 421–4Senate: voice vote
Public Law 112-4 · Became law Further Continuing Appropriations Amendments, 2011

Making further continuing appropriations for fiscal year 2011, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 335–91Senate 91–9
Public Law 112-3 · Became law FISA Sunsets Extension Act of 2011

To extend expiring provisions of the USA PATRIOT Improvement and Reauthorization Act of 2005 and Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 relating to access to business records, individual terrorists as agents of foreign powers, and roving wiretaps until December 8, 2011.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 279–143Senate 86–12
S. 188 · Became law Public Law 112-2

To designate the United States courthouse under construction at 98 West First Street, Yuma, Arizona, as the “John M. Roll United States Courthouse”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 429–0Senate: without objection
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