POPVOX Evening Update: September 11, 2012
From our Hill Sources: The House passed several bills under a suspension of the rules on Tuesday.
In addition, S. 3457, the Veterans Jobs Corps Act, cleared a procedural hurdle in the Senate.
The suspension bills approved in the House were:
- HR 1410 the Vietnam Human Rights Act
- HR 1464 the North Korean Refugee Adoption Act
- HR 2800 to amend the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 to reauthorize the Missing Alzheimer's Disease Patient Alert Program
- HR 4057 the Improving Transparency of Education Opportunities for Veterans Act
- HR 4264 the FHA Emergency Fiscal Solvency Act
- HR 4305 the Child and Elderly Missing Alert Program
- HR 5865 the American Manufacturing Competitiveness Act, which would set manufacturing goals for the country
- HR 6028 the No-Hassle Flying Act, easing some bag screening rules at airports
- HR 6080 to make improvements in the enactment of title 41, United States Code, into a positive law title and to improve the code
- HR 6131 to extend the Undertaking Spam, Spyware, And Fraud Enforcement With Enforcers beyond Borders Act of 2006
- HR 6185 the Local Courthouse Safety Act
- HR 6189 to eliminate unnecessary reporting requirements for unfunded programs under the Office of Justice Programs
- HR 6215 to amend the Trademark Act of 1946 to correct an error in the provisions relating to remedies for dilution
- S 710 the Hazardous Waste Electronic Manifest Establishment Act
- HRes 484 calling on the Government of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam to respect basic human rights and cease abusing vague national security provisions such as articles 79 and 88 of the Vietnamese penal code which are often the pretext to arrest and detain citizens who peacefully advocate for religious and political freedom
- SConRes17 a concurrent resolution expressing the sense of Congress that Taiwan should be accorded observer status in the International Civil Aviation Organization
