Rep. Stark, Fortney Pete [D-CA-13]

An amendment to specify exactly what constitutes an "educational organization" for the purposes of the Gunderson amendment.

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An amendment to express that it is the sense of Congress that the Speaker and his staff should not be paid with taxpayer funds for time spent in discussions with lobbiests regarding health care legislation.

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An amendment to repeal the supplemental premium and many provisions of the Medicare Catastrophic Coverage Act, while retaining the increase in the flat-rate premium along with the new benefits for prescriptions drugs, respite care, improved home health and hospice care, and mammogram coverage. The Medicaid provisions of the Act would be retained. Under the rule, a "king of the hill" procedure is in force, so that adoption of the Stark amendment would supercede the passage of the Donnelly amendment.

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An amendment to add an extension until midnight December 20 the application of certain tobacco excise taxes, trade adjustment assistance, certain Medicare reimbursement provisions, and borrowing authority under the railroad unemployment insurance program.

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Amendment reduces the appropriation for the U.S. Information Agency by $15.2 million.

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An amendment to add that it is the sense of Congress that, since the Task Force failed to develop a plan to ensure access of all Americans to affordable health care, the Congress should develop, pass and submit such a plan to the President prior to Augst 1. 1998.

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An amendment to strike language in the bill that permits the use of funds to remove persons from the list of those receiving minimum benefits of social security if they are not on the list as of October 1, 1981, and substitute language that states funds cannot be used for the "elimination of the so-called minimum benefit". This amendment would prohibit the cutting of minimum benefits regardless of when one comes onto the list.

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An amendment numbered 13 printed in Part B of House Report 110-351 to require written notification by first class mail to each property owner affecte d by a proposed change in flood elevations, prior to the 90-day appeal period. Notification would include an explanation of the appeal process and contact information for responsible officials.

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An amendment to prohibit the use of any funding by the Armed Forces to participate in any airshow or trade exhibition held outside the United States.

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An amendment to extend until midnight December 19 the application of certain tobacco excise taxes, trade adjustment assistance, certain Medicare reimbursement provisions, and borrowing authority under the railroad unemployment insurance program.

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An amendment to prohibit the State of California from restricting the use of any lane of a federal aid highway in the areas of Alameda County, California to high occupancy vehicles.

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An amendment in the nature of a substitute.

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An amendment to prohibit discrimination against single parents by the Army and Air National Guards and Reserves, and to require them to give the same treatment to single parents being recruited for the Guard or Reserves as to current members who are single parents.

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An amendment to reduce the funding for General Departmental Management of the Office of the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services by $84,500.

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An amendment printed in part A of House Report 108-484 and made in order pursuant to H. Res. 638 to allow participants in an FSA to roll over up to $500 in unused benefits from one year to the next; would not allow participants to transfer up to $500 in unused benefits froman FSA to a Health Savings Account (HSA); and is offset by including tax provisions designed to eliminate abusive transactions engaged in by Enron as recommended by the Joint Committee on Taxation and to prevent the avoidance of corporate tax by American corporations reincorporating overseas.

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SIMPLE Voting Act

United States · United States Congress · 15 November 2012

Streamlined and Improved Methods at Polling Locations and Early Voting Act or SIMPLE Voting Act - Amends the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to require each state to allow individuals to vote in a federal election on each day during the 15-day period ending two days before the election date in the same manner as voting is allowed on election day. Requires a state to ensure that each polling place which allows early voting in a federal election is located within reasonable walking distance of a stop on a public transportation route. Requires the Election Assistance Commission to issue standards for the administration of early voting in a federal election. Requires each state to provide a sufficient number of voting systems, poll workers, and other election resources (including physical resources) at a polling place used in a federal election to ensure: (1) a fair and equitable waiting time for all voters in the state, and (2) that no individual will be required to wait longer than one hour to cast a ballot at the polling place. Requires each state to develop, and implement to the greatest extent practicable, a contingency plan under which it shall provide any polling place on a federal election day whose waiting times exceed one hour with additional poll workers, machines, ballots, and other equipment and supplies, including a polling place at which individuals may cast ballots before the election date.

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 225 Simi Village Drive in Simi Valley, California, as the "Postal Inspector Terry Asbury Post Office Building".

United States · United States Congress · 13 November 2012

Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 225 Simi Village Drive in Simi Valley, California, as the "Postal Inspector Terry Asbury Post Office Building."

Stewart Lee Udall Congressional Gold Medal Act

United States · United States Congress · 21 September 2012

Stewart Lee Udall Congressional Gold Medal Act - Directs the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President pro tempore of the Senate to make appropriate arrangements for the posthumous presentation, on behalf of Congress, of a gold medal of appropriate design in commemoration of Stewart Lee Udall, in recognition of his contributions to the nation.

Internet Radio Fairness Act of 2012

United States · United States Congress · 21 September 2012

Internet Radio Fairness Act of 2012 - Amends federal copyright law to direct the President, with advice and consent of the Senate, to appoint the three Copyright Royalty Judges (CRJs) who serve on the Copyright Royalty Board. (Currently, the Librarian of Congress appoints CRJs after consultation with the Register of Copyrights.) Increases the years of legal experience and other qualifications necessary to serve as a CRJ. Amends the Digital Millennium Copyright Act with respect to the standards applied by CRJs to establish compulsory licensing royalty rates for the public performance of sound recordings by noninteractive digital audio services. Replaces the standard that CRJs apply to establish rates for eligible nonsubscription transmissions (including Internet radio, commonly referred to as webcasting) and new subscription services with the standard currently used to establish rates for subscription services (digital cable radio) and satellite digital audio radio services (satellite radio) existing on or before July 31, 1998. (Replaces a standard based on the rates and terms that would have been negotiated in the marketplace between a willing buyer and seller with a standard that requires CRJs to consider a broader set of objectives.) Authorizes a minimum annual administrative fee of up to $500 to be included in such rates. Sets forth a similar rate-setting methodology for compulsory licenses of ephemeral recordings (reproductions of sound recordings used by licensees to facilitate transmission) with authorization for a minimum annual fee (currently, a requirement for a fee of unspecified duration). Places the burden of proof on sound recording copyright owners to establish that the fees and terms they are seeking satisfy the requirements amended by this Act and do not exceed the fees to which most copyright owners and users would agree under competitive market circumstances. Defines "competitive market circumstances" as circumstances in which a licensee enters into a license for the noninteractive performance of sound recordings with a licensor that does not possess market power resulting from the aggregation of copyrights, either by a licensing collective or individual copyright owners. Directs CRJs to consider: (1) the public's interest in both the creation of new sound recordings of musical works and in fostering online and other digital performances of sound recordings; (2) the income necessary to provide a reasonable return on all relevant investments, including investments in prior periods for which returns have not been earned; (3) the value of any promotional benefit or other non-monetary benefit conferred on the copyright owner by the performance; and (4) the contributions made by the digital audio transmission service to the content and value of its programming. Requires CRJs to establish license fee structures that foster competition among the licensors of sound recording performances and between sound recording performances and other programming. Prohibits CRJs from: (1) disfavoring percentage of revenue-based fees, and (2) taking into account the rates and terms in licenses for interactive services or the determinations rendered by CRJs prior to the enactment of the this Act. Permits certain transmitting organizations entitled to transmit a performance to the public to make more than one (currently, no more than one) copy or phonorecord embodying a performance or display of a work for its own transmissions, archival preservation, or security. (Removes a requirement that such a copy or phonorecord be destroyed within six months from the first transmission to the public unless preserved exclusively for archival purposes.) Sets forth limitations on the antitrust exemptions for sound recording copyright owners acting jointly or through common agents or collectives. Specifies activities to be deemed a restraint of trade in violation of the Sherman Act. Requires common agents or collectives representing copyright owners of sound recordings, in order to obtain authority to negotiate certain statutory licenses for digital sound recordings, to make available via the Internet the list of sound recording copyright owners represented and sound recordings licensed by the organization. Revises evidentiary, procedural, and judicial review standards applicable to CRJs' proceedings and determinations. Requires, in proceedings to determine the terms and rates of royalty payments for digital performances of sound recordings, that participants in the voluntary negotiation period disclose: (1) previous license agreements entered into by the participant, its members, or participant-represented licensors or licensees during a specified preceding five-year period; or (2) other documents relied upon in their ratemaking proposals. Directs the Librarian of Congress to submit recommendations to Congress on how the federal government can facilitate, and possibly establish, a global music registry that is sustainably financed and consistent with World Intellectual Property Organization obligations. Sets forth transitional rules for proceedings pending and CRJs in office during the enactment of this Act.

Audit the Pentagon Act of 2012

United States · United States Congress · 21 September 2012

Audit the Pentagon Act of 2012 - Requires, on March 2 of FY2013 and each subsequent fiscal year, a 5% reduction in the discretionary budget authority of a federal agency that is identified by the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) as required to have an audited financial statement: (1) that has not submitted a financial statement for the previous fiscal year, or (2) whose statement has not received either an unqualified or a qualified audit opinion by an independent external auditor. Excludes from such reduction accounts for military, reserve and National Guard personnel and the Defense Health Program account of the Department of Defense (DOD). Authorizes the President to waive a reduction in discretionary budget authority if such reduction would harm national security or members of the Armed Forces who are in combat. Requires a report to Congress listing required DOD reports that would no longer be necessary if the financial statements of DOD were audited with an unqualified opinion or that interfere with DOD's capacity to achieve an audit of its financial statements with an unqualified opinion. Expresses the sense of Congress that: (1) congressional defense committees and DOD should not endanger the nation's troops by reducing wounded warrior accounts or vital protection for members of the Armed Forces in harm's way, (2) the valuation of legacy assets by DOD should be simplified without compromising essential controls or generally accepted government auditing standards, and (3) this Act should not be construed to require or permit the declassification of accounting details about classified defense programs and DOD should ensure financial accountability in such programs. .

Computers in Our Communities Act

United States · United States Congress · 21 September 2012

Computers in Our Communities Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend through 2013 the tax deduction allowed to corporate taxpayers for charitable contributions of computer inventory for educational purposes.

Recognizing National Emancipation Day, marking the 150th anniversary of the end of slavery in areas of rebellion, and the significance of the Emancipation Proclamation in the struggle for the equal rights and freedoms afforded to all United States citizens.

United States · United States Congress · 21 September 2012

Recognizes National Emancipation Day, marking the 150th anniversary of the beginning of the end of slavery in areas of rebellion, and the significance of the Emancipation Proclamation in the struggle for the equal rights and freedoms afforded to all U.S. citizens.

Medicare Secondary Payer and Late Enrollment Penalty Family Fairness Act of 2012

United States · United States Congress · 19 September 2012

Medicare Secondary Payer and Late Enrollment Penalty Family Fairness Act of 2012 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to apply the eligibility requirements of Medicare special enrollment periods, secondary payer rules, and late enrollment penalties in a way to take into consideration the current employment status of all family members of an employee (currently, only the employment status of the employee or of the employee's spouse).

Inclusive Prosperity Act

United States · United States Congress · 14 September 2012

Inclusive Prosperity Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) impose a tax on the transfer of ownership in certain securities, including any share of stock in a corporation, any partnership or beneficial interest in a partnership or trust, any note, bond, debenture, or other evidence of indebtedness (excluding tax-exempt municipal bonds), or derivative financial instruments; and (2) allow an individual taxpayer whose modified adjusted gross income does not exceed $50,000 a tax credit for the amount of tax paid on financial transactions under this Act.