United States · United States Congress · 30 January 2024
This joint resolution nullifies the final rule issued by the Federal Communications Commission titled The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act: Prevention and Elimination of Digital Discrimination and published on January 22, 2024. The rule prohibits broadband providers from adopting policies or practices that differentially impact consumers' access to broadband service based on their income, race, ethnicity, religion, or national origin, provided such policies or practices are not justified by issues of technical or economic feasibility.
United States · United States Congress · 30 January 2024
Stop Basel Endgame Act This bill requires the withdrawal of the proposed rule titled Regulatory Capital Rule: Large Banking Organizations and Banking Organizations with Significant Trading Activity . The proposed rule revises bank capital requirements and calculations, including by requiring banks to replace their use of internal credit risk models with a standardized approach generally in line with international standards set by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision. The rule was proposed on September 18, 2023, by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.
United States · United States Congress · 29 January 2024
Equal Representation Act This bill requires any questionnaire used in the decennial census to include a checkbox or other similar option for respondents to indicate whether the respondent and each household member is (1) a U.S. citizen, (2) a U.S. national but not a citizen, (3) a non-U.S. national ( alien under federal law) lawfully residing in the United States, or (4) a non-U.S. national unlawfully residing in the United States. The Department of Commerce must make public the number of persons in each state, disaggregated by each of these four categories. The bill also requires that the statement sent by the President to Congress indicating the number of persons in each state (related to the reapportionment of U.S. Representatives) exclude noncitizens.
United States · United States Congress · 25 January 2024
Restricting Administration Zealots from Obliging Raiders Act or the RAZOR Act This bill prohibits the federal government from removing or altering a barrier, fence, barbed wire, or obstacle constructed by a state on the U.S. border for the purpose of preventing unlawful crossings.
United States · United States Congress · 18 January 2024
Congressional Budget Office Data Sharing Act This bill specifies that the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) is authorized to obtain data from executive branch agencies with or without a written agreement if CBO maintains the same level of confidentiality that is required of the agency that provides the data. The bill also requires CBO to submit a report to Congress regarding requests for information from executive branch agencies and any challenges it faced in accessing the information.
United States · United States Congress · 18 January 2024
Death Tax Repeal Act This bill repeals the estate and generation-skipping transfer taxes. It also sets forth conforming amendments related to the gift tax.
United States · United States Congress · 17 January 2024
Protect Medicaid Act This bill prohibits federal payment under Medicaid for the administrative costs of providing health benefits to noncitizens who are ineligible for Medicaid based on their immigration status. The Department of Health and Human Services must report on specified information regarding states that provide health benefits to such individuals.
United States · United States Congress · 16 January 2024
This resolution condemns acts of rape and sexual violence as weapons of war, including those acts committed by Hamas on and since October 7, 2023. The resolution also calls on all nations to criminalize rape and sexual assault and hold accountable all perpetrators of sexual violence, including state and non-state armed groups.
United States · United States Congress · 12 January 2024
This resolution expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the House should not adjourn until all of the annual appropriations bills for the current fiscal year have been enacted.
United States · United States Congress · 11 January 2024
Debt-to-GDP Transparency and Stabilization Act This bill requires the President's annual budget and congressional budget resolutions to include the ratio of the public debt to the estimated gross domestic product.
United States · United States Congress · 9 January 2024
This resolution requires the Clerk of the House of Representatives, after reading a bill's title, to read the estimated cost of the bill as determined by the Congressional Budget Office.
United States · United States Congress · 19 December 2023
This bill allows creditors to consider an applicant’s immigration status for certain purposes when assessing an application for an extension of credit. In particular, considering an applicant’s U.S. immigration status for the purpose of determining the creditor's rights and remedies applicable to the particular extension of credit does not constitute discrimination.
United States · United States Congress · 14 December 2023
Rectifying Undefined Descriptions of Abusive Acts and Practices Act or the Rectifying UDAAP Act This bill restricts the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB’s) authority to deem a financial practice abusive for purposes of enforcement activities. Currently, under the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, the CFPB may take enforcement action against a financial product or service provider in connection with any transaction with a consumer for a consumer financial product or service that is unfair, deceptive, or abusive. Specifically, the bill prohibits the CFPB from including discrimination as an abusive practice. Further, the bill revises what an abusive practice is, including by additionally requiring the act or practice to intentionally interfere with the ability of a consumer to understand a term or condition. The bill also establishes additional criteria for abusive actions. For example, conduct is considered abusive if (1) it causes or is likely to cause substantial injury to consumers which is not reasonably avoidable by consumers, (2) the substantial injury is not outweighed by countervailing benefits to consumers or to competition, or (3) the conduct is otherwise prohibited under federal consumer financial law. The bill also eliminates the CFPB’s ability to seek monetary relief for unfair, deceptive, or abusive acts or practices if the provider establishes a good faith effort to comply with requirements. The bill establishes rulemaking requirements, including requiring a cost-benefit analysis for a rule relating to unfair, deceptive, or abusive acts or practices. Finally, the bill establishes the right for providers to cure violations if they self-report and limits the CFPB’s use of alternative claims in court.
United States · United States Congress · 14 December 2023
Achieving Choice in Education Act or the ACE Act This bill modifies provisions of qualified tuition programs (i.e., 529 plans) and provides other tax incentives to promote education. Specifically, the bill expands the definition of qualified higher education expense to include tuition, books or instructional material, fees, and educational therapies for disabled students. It also increases to $20,000 the limitation on distributions from 529 plans for elementary and secondary school expenses. Further, the bill provides for an increased gift tax exclusion for contributions to 529 plans and limits tax-exempt bond financing to states that implement school choice laws.
United States · United States Congress · 12 December 2023
Eliminate Congressional Slush Funds Act This bill rescinds specified unobligated funds that were provided for the Department of Commerce Nonrecurring Expenses Fund by the Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023. The bill also prohibits the budgetary effects of this bill from being counted for the purposes of certain budget enforcement procedures and spending allocations for congressional committees.
United States · United States Congress · 11 December 2023
This resolution disapproves of the United Nations' recommendations to reduce meat consumption in their global food systems' road map and opposes the use of federal resources to reduce meat consumption.
United States · United States Congress · 7 December 2023
No Taxpayer Dollars for Communist China COVID Tests Act This bill prohibits the use of federal funds to procure at-home COVID-19 tests that are imported from or manufactured (in whole or in part) in China or that are manufactured by any subsidiary of a Chinese company.
United States · United States Congress · 6 December 2023
Chinese Spy Balloon Assessment Act This bill requires the Department of Defense to consult with the President and report on the effects on national security of surveillance conducted by China via the high-altitude surveillance balloon shot down in the United States in February 2023. The report must be submitted in an unclassified form, but may include a classified annex.
United States · United States Congress · 17 November 2023
This resolution condemns District of Columbia (DC) Mayor Muriel Bowser, Council Chairman Phil Mendelson, Councilmember Charles Allen, and the rest of the DC government for crime in DC.
United States · United States Congress · 13 November 2023
This bill prohibits federal funds from being used by the Department of Homeland Security to implement or enforce a policy requiring any non-U.S. national ( alien under federal law) to remain in Texas after the individual receives immigration parole or is released by immigration officials.
United States · United States Congress · 8 November 2023
Supporting Accurate Views of Emergency Services Act of 2023 or the 911 SAVES Act of 2023 This bill requires the Office of Management and Budget, by 30 days after the bill's enactment, to categorize public safety telecommunicators as a protective service occupation under the Standard Occupational Classification System.
United States · United States Congress · 2 November 2023
Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 420 Highway 17 North in Surfside Beach, South Carolina, as the "Nancy Yount Childs Post Office Building."
United States · United States Congress · 2 November 2023
Protect Funding for Women's Health Care Act This bill prohibits federal funding of Planned Parenthood Federation of America or its affiliates, subsidiaries, successors, or clinics.
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