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The American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 ( ACES) was an energy bill in the 111th United States Congress ( H.R. 2454) that would have established a variant of an emissions trading plan similar to the European Union Emission Trading Scheme. The bill was approved by the House of Representatives on June 26, 2009, by a vote of 219–212.
The Border Protection, Anti-terrorism, and Illegal Immigration Control Act of 2005 ( H.R. 4437) was a bill in the 109th United States Congress. It was passed by the United States House of Representatives on December 16, 2005, by a vote of 239 to 182 (with 92% of Republicans supporting, 82% of Democrats opposing), but did not pass the Senate.
Senator Amy Klobuchar speaks on the Act from inside the Capitol Building. The Freedom to Vote Act (formerly known as the For the People Act), [1] introduced as H.R. 1, [2] is a bill in the United States Congress [3] intended to expand voting rights, change campaign finance laws to reduce the influence of money in politics, ban partisan gerrymandering, and create new ethics rules for federal ...
The bills of the 117th United States Congress list includes proposed federal laws that were introduced in the 117th United States Congress. The United States Congress is the bicameral legislature of the federal government of the United States consisting of two houses: the lower house known as the House of Representatives and the upper house ...
Nita Sue Lowey ( / ˈloʊi / LOH-ee; née Melnikoff; born July 5, 1937) is an American politician who formerly served as a U.S. Representative from New York from 1989 until 2021. She is a member of the Democratic Party. Lowey also served as co-Dean of the New York Congressional Delegation, along with former U.S. Representative Eliot Engel.
The bill, first proposed in 1989 by Rep. John Conyers, Jr. (former U.S. Representative for Michigan) calling for the creation of Commission to study and submit a formal report to Congress and the American people with its findings and recommendations on remedies and reparation proposals for African-Americans, as a result of
The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act ( IIJA ), also known as the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law ( BIL ), ( H.R. 3684) is a United States federal statute enacted by the 117th United States Congress and signed into law by President Joe Biden on November 15, 2021. It was introduced in the House as the INVEST in America Act and nicknamed the ...
Committee consideration by House Judiciary. The U.S. Citizenship Act of 2021 was a legislative bill that was proposed by President Joe Biden on his first day in office. [ 1][ 2][ 3] It was formally introduced in the House by Representative Linda Sánchez. [ 4] It died with the ending of the 117th Congress.