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Senator Daniel Akaka (D-HI)
Upper Senator
| 994 points |
665 points |
87 points |
99.5% points |
.114 points |
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| Birthplace | Honolulu, HI |
| Residence | Honolulu, HI |
| Education | BEd, University of Hawaii, 1952; MEd, University of Hawaii, 1966 |
| In Office | 14 years (Next election in 2012) |
| Experience | U.S. Army; Teacher, Principal, Director and Special Assistant in Human Resources |
| Website | http://akaka.senate.gov/ |
Tuesday, September 23, 2008 | 2:09 AM CST
Monday, September 15, 2008 | 2:56 AM CST
Wednesday, July 30, 2008 | 2:29 PM CST
Tuesday, June 3, 2008 | 4:07 PM CST
Tuesday, June 3, 2008 | 8:55 AM CST
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S.3013
30 points
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A bill to provide for retirement equity for Federal employees in nonforeign areas outside the 48 contiguous States and the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.
Referred to House committee on Thursday, October 2, 2008
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S.3023
45 points
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A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to improve and enhance compensation and pension, housing, labor and education, and insurance benefits for veterans, and for other purposes.
Presented to President on Thursday, October 2, 2008
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S.2148
5 points
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A bill to provide for greater diversity within, and to improve policy direction and oversight of, the Senior Executive Service.
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders on Wednesday, October 1, 2008
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S.967
5 points
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A bill to amend chapter 41 of title 5, United States Code, to provide for the establishment and authorization of funding for certain training programs for supervisors of Federal employees.
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders on Wednesday, October 1, 2008
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S.3665
5 points
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A bill to amend chapter 63 of title 5, United States Code, to modify the rate of accrual of annual leave for administrative law judges, contract appeals board members, and immigration judges.
Referred to Senate committee on Wednesday, October 1, 2008
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S.2162
14 points
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A bill to improve the treatment and services provided by the Department of Veterans Affairs to veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder and substance use disorders, and for other purposes.
Presented to President on Tuesday, September 30, 2008
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S.2617
95 points
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A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to codify increases in the rates of compensation for veterans with service-connected disabilities and the rates of dependency and indemnity compensation for the survivors of certain disabled veterans that were effective as of December 1, 2007, to provide for an increase in the rates of such compensation effective December 1, 2008, and for other purposes.
Signed by President on Wednesday, September 24, 2008
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S.1315
16 points
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An act to amend title 38, United States Code, to enhance veterans' insurance and housing benefits, to improve benefits and services for transitioning servicemembers, and for other purposes.
Passed/agreed to in House on Monday, September 22, 2008
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S.3410
5 points
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A bill to authorize a grant program to provide for expanded access to mainstream financial institutions.
Referred to Senate committee on Thursday, July 31, 2008
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S.2291
5 points
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A bill to enhance citizen access to Government information and services by establishing plain language as the standard style of Government documents issued to the public, and for other purposes.
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders on Thursday, July 10, 2008
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S.2969
5 points
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A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to enhance the capacity of the Department of Veterans Affairs to recruit and retain nurses and other critical health-care professionals, and for other purposes.
Senate committee/subcommittee actions on Thursday, June 26, 2008
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S.3000
5 points
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A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to include Federally recognized tribal organizations in certain grant programs of the Department of Veterans Affairs for the several States and territories, and for other purposes.
Referred to Senate committee on Thursday, May 8, 2008
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S.2984
5 points
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A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to expand and enhance veterans' benefits, and for other purposes.
Referred to Senate committee on Tuesday, May 6, 2008
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S.2961
5 points
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A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to enhance the refinancing of home loans by veterans.
Referred to Senate committee on Thursday, May 1, 2008
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S.717
5 points
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A bill to repeal title II of the REAL ID Act of 2005, to restore section 7212 of the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004, which provides States additional regulatory flexibility and funding authorization to more rapidly produce tamper- and counterfeit-resistant driver's licenses, and to protect privacy and civil liberties by providing interested stakeholders on a negotiated rulemaking with guidance to achieve improved 21st century licenses to improve national security.
Senate committee/subcommittee actions on Tuesday, April 29, 2008
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S.2923
5 points
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A bill to provide for a three-year extension of the Senior Oversight Committee on wounded warrior matters, and for other purposes.
Referred to Senate committee on Monday, April 28, 2008
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S.2926
5 points
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A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to modify and update provisions of law relating to nonprofit research and education corporations, and for other purposes.
Referred to Senate committee on Monday, April 28, 2008
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S.RES.497
5 points
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A resolution expressing the sense of the Senate that public servants should be commended for their dedication and continued service to the Nation during Public Service Recognition Week, May 5 through 11, 2008.
Passed/agreed to in Senate on Monday, April 28, 2008
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S.2889
5 points
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A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to improve veterans' health care benefits, and for other purposes.
Referred to Senate committee on Thursday, April 17, 2008
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S.2864
5 points
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A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to include improvement in quality of life in the objectives of training and rehabilitation for veterans with service-connected disabilities, and for other purposes.
Referred to Senate committee on Tuesday, April 15, 2008
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S.2220
5 points
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A bill to amend the Outdoor Recreation Act of 1963 to authorize certain appropriations.
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders on Thursday, April 10, 2008
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S.2502
5 points
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A bill to provide for the establishment of a memorial within Kalaupapa National Historical Park located on the island of Molokai, in the State of Hawaii, to honor and perpetuate the memory of those individuals who were forcibly relocated to the Kalaupapa Peninsula from 1866 to 1969, and for other purposes.
Senate committee/subcommittee actions on Wednesday, April 9, 2008
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S.2796
5 points
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A bill to require a pilot program on the use of community-based organizations to ensure that veterans receive the care and benefits they need, and for other purposes.
Referred to Senate committee on Wednesday, April 2, 2008
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S.2797
5 points
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A bill to authorize major medical facility projects and major medical facility leases for the Department of Veterans Affairs for fiscal year 2009, and for other purposes.
Referred to Senate committee on Wednesday, April 2, 2008
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S.RES.495
5 points
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A resolution designating April 2008 as "Financial Literacy Month".
Passed/agreed to in Senate on Tuesday, April 1, 2008
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S.2768
5 points
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A bill to provide a temporary increase in the maximum loan guaranty amount for certain housing loans guaranteed by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs.
Referred to Senate committee on Thursday, March 13, 2008
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S.2737
5 points
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A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to grant jurisdiction to the United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims to review compliance of the schedule of ratings for disabilities under section 1151 of that title with statutory requirements applicable to entitlement to disability compensation under chapter 11 of that title, and for other purposes.
Referred to Senate committee on Monday, March 10, 2008
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S.2683
5 points
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A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to modify certain authorities relating to educational assistance benefits for veterans, and for other purposes.
Referred to Senate committee on Monday, March 3, 2008
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S.82
1 points
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A bill to reaffirm the authority of the Comptroller General to audit and evaluate the programs, activities, and financial transactions of the intelligence community, and for other purposes.
Senate committee/subcommittee actions on Friday, February 29, 2008
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S.2160
5 points
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A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to establish a pain care initiative in health care facilities of the Department of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes.
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders on Thursday, February 28, 2008
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S.310
5 points
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A bill to express the policy of the United States regarding the United States relationship with Native Hawaiians and to provide a process for the recognition by the United States of the Native Hawaiian governing entity.
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders on Tuesday, February 5, 2008
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S.1634
5 points
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A bill to implement further the Act approving the Covenant to Establish a Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands in Political Union with the United States of America, and for other purposes.
Senate committee/subcommittee actions on Wednesday, January 30, 2008
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S.CON.RES.59
1 points
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A concurrent resolution expressing the sense of the Congress that joint custody laws for fit parents should be passed by each State, so that more children are raised with the benefits of having a father and a mother in their lives.
Referred to Senate committee on Tuesday, December 18, 2007
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S.274
25 points
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A bill to amend chapter 23 of title 5, United States Code, to clarify the disclosures of information protected from prohibited personnel practices, require a statement in nondisclosure policies, forms, and agreements that such policies, forms, and agreements conform with certain disclosure protections, provide certain authority for the Special Counsel, and for other purposes.
Held at the desk on Monday, December 17, 2007
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S.2197
5 points
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A bill to establish the Federal Labor-Management Partnership Council.
Referred to Senate subcommittee on Wednesday, December 12, 2007
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S.2462
5 points
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A bill to provide that before the Secretary of Defense may furlough any employee of the Department of Defense on the basis of a lack of funds, the Secretary shall suspend any nonessential service contract entered into by the Department of Defense, and for other purposes.
Referred to Senate committee on Wednesday, December 12, 2007
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S.RES.395
5 points
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A resolution expressing the sense of the Senate regarding National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day.
Passed/agreed to in Senate on Friday, December 7, 2007
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S.2309
5 points
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A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to clarify the service treatable as service engaged in combat with the enemy for utilization of non-official evidence for proof of service-connection in a combat-related disease or injury.
Referred to Senate committee on Tuesday, November 6, 2007
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S.1163
8 points
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A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to improve compensation and specially adapted housing for veterans in certain cases of impairment of vision involving both eyes, and to provide for the use of the National Directory of New Hires for income verification purposes.
Senate floor actions on Friday, November 2, 2007
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S.2273
5 points
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A bill to enhance the functioning and integration of formerly homeless veterans who reside in permanent housing, and for other purposes.
Referred to Senate committee on Wednesday, October 31, 2007
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S.2238
5 points
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A bill to amend the National Dam Safety Program Act to establish a program to provide grant assistance to States for the rehabilitation and repair of deficient dams.
Referred to Senate committee on Thursday, October 25, 2007
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S.2138
5 points
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A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to establish within the Department of Veterans Affairs the position of Assistant Secretary for Acquisition, Logistics, and Construction, and for other purposes.
Referred to Senate committee on Thursday, October 4, 2007
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S.2090
5 points
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A bill to protect privacy and security concerns in court records.
Referred to Senate committee on Tuesday, September 25, 2007
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S.2091
5 points
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A bill to increase the number of the court's active judges.
Referred to Senate committee on Tuesday, September 25, 2007
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S.CON.RES.12
6 points
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A concurrent resolution supporting the goals and ideals of a National Medal of Honor and to celebrate and honor the recipients of the Medal of Honor on the anniversary of the first award of that medal in 1863.
Referred to House subcommittee on Tuesday, September 25, 2007
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S.1728
5 points
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A bill to amend the National Parks and Recreation Act of 1978 to reauthorize the Na Hoa Pili O Kaloko-Honokohau Advisory Commission.
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders on Monday, September 17, 2007
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S.2057
5 points
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A bill to reauthorize the Merit Systems Protection Board and the Office of Special Counsel, to modify the procedures of the Merit Systems Protection Board and the Office of Special Counsel, and for other purposes.
Referred to Senate committee on Monday, September 17, 2007
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S.2025
5 points
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A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to clarify the eligibility criteria for special monthly pension.
Referred to Senate committee on Thursday, September 6, 2007
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S.2026
5 points
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A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, chapter 11, to clarify that an award of benefits based on a regulatory presumption established pursuant to 28 U.S.C. section 1116 after September 30, 2002, cannot be made effective earlier than the date the regulatory presumption was established; and to clarify that the presumption of herbicide exposure provided by 38 U.S.C. section 1116(f) applies only to veterans who served in Vietnam on land or on Vietnam's inland waterways and not to those who served only in waters offshore or in airspace above.
Referred to Senate committee on Thursday, September 6, 2007
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S.2027
5 points
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A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, chapter 5, to authorize the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to establish and promote programs and activities honoring veterans and to authorize the next of kin of a deceased veteran to wear the veteran's awards and decorations under certain circumstances.
Referred to Senate committee on Thursday, September 6, 2007
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S.1233
5 points
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A bill to provide and enhance intervention, rehabilitative treatment, and services to veterans with traumatic brain injury, and for other purposes.
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders on Wednesday, August 29, 2007
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S.423
5 points
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A bill to increase, effective as of December 1, 2007, the rates of compensation for veterans with service-connected disabilities and the rates of dependency and indemnity compensation for the survivors of certain disabled veterans.
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders on Tuesday, July 24, 2007
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S.1757
5 points
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A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to extend or make permanent certain authorities for veterans' benefits, and for other purposes.
Referred to Senate committee on Tuesday, July 10, 2007
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S.1676
5 points
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A bill to extend eligibility for certain Federal benefits to citizens of the Freely Associated States.
Referred to Senate committee on Thursday, June 21, 2007
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S.1345
5 points
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A bill to affirm that Federal employees are protected from discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and to repudiate any assertion to the contrary.
Referred to Senate subcommittee on Wednesday, June 6, 2007
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S.1511
5 points
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A bill to promote the development and use of marine and hydrokinetic renewable energy technologies, and for other purposes.
Referred to Senate committee on Thursday, May 24, 2007
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S.1421
5 points
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A bill to provide for the maintenance, management, and availability for research of assets of Air Force Health Study.
Referred to Senate committee on Thursday, May 17, 2007
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S.1384
5 points
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A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to repeal authority for adjustments to per diem payments to homeless veterans service centers for receipt of other sources of income, to extend authorities for certain programs to benefit homeless veterans, and for other purposes.
Referred to Senate committee on Monday, May 14, 2007
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S.RES.150
5 points
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A resolution expressing the sense of the Senate that public servants should be commended for their dedication and continued service to the Nation during Public Service Recognition Week, May 7 through 13, 2007.
Passed/agreed to in Senate on Wednesday, May 2, 2007
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S.1270
5 points
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A bill to amend title IV of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to require the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, in the case of airline pilots who are required by regulation to retire at age 60, to compute the actuarial value of monthly benefits in the form of a life annuity commencing at age 60.
Referred to Senate committee on Wednesday, May 2, 2007
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S.1252
5 points
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A bill to amend title 10, United States Code, to provide for uniformity in the awarding of disability ratings for wounds or injuries incurred by members of the Armed Forces, and for other purposes.
Referred to Senate committee on Monday, April 30, 2007
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S.1215
5 points
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A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to extend and improve certain authorities of the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes.
Referred to Senate committee on Wednesday, April 25, 2007
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S.1176
5 points
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A bill to require enhanced disclosure to consumers regarding the consequences of making only minimum required payments in the repayment of credit card debt, and for other purposes.
Referred to Senate committee on Friday, April 20, 2007
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S.1133
5 points
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A bill to provide additional protections for recipients of the earned income tax credit.
Referred to Senate committee on Tuesday, April 17, 2007
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S.1074
5 points
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A bill to provide for direct access to electronic tax return filing, and for other purposes.
Referred to Senate committee on Thursday, March 29, 2007
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S.RES.126
5 points
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A resolution designating April 2007 as "Financial Literacy Month".
Passed/agreed to in Senate on Tuesday, March 27, 2007
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S.714
5 points
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A bill to amend the Animal Welfare Act to ensure that all dogs and cats used by research facilities are obtained legally.
Referred to Senate committee on Wednesday, February 28, 2007
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S.671
5 points
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A bill to exempt children of certain Filipino World War II veterans from the numerical limitations on immigrant visas.
Referred to Senate committee on Friday, February 16, 2007
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S.643
5 points
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A bill to amend section 1922A of title 38, United States Code, to increase the amount of supplemental insurance available for totally disabled veterans.
Referred to Senate committee on Thursday, February 15, 2007
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S.320
5 points
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A bill to provide for the protection of paleontological resources on Federal lands, and for other purposes.
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders on Thursday, February 15, 2007
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S.451
5 points
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A bill to establish a National Foreign Language Coordination Council.
Referred to Senate committee on Wednesday, January 31, 2007
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S.RES.55
1 points
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An original resolution authorizing expenditures by the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
Referred to Senate committee on Wednesday, January 31, 2007
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S.394
5 points
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A bill to amend the Humane Methods of Livestock Slaughter Act of 1958 to ensure the humane slaughter of nonambulatory livestock, and for other purposes.
Referred to Senate committee on Thursday, January 25, 2007
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S.383
5 points
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A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to extend the period of eligibility for health care for combat service in the Persian Gulf War or future hostilities from two years to five years after discharge or release.
Referred to Senate committee on Wednesday, January 24, 2007
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S.332
5 points
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A bill to amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to clarify the investigative authorities of the privacy officer of the Department of Homeland Security, and for other purposes.
Referred to Senate committee on Thursday, January 18, 2007
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S.259
1 points
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A bill to authorize the establishment of the Henry Kuualoha Giugni Kupuna Memorial Archives at the University of Hawaii.
Referred to Senate committee on Thursday, January 11, 2007
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S.68
1 points
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A bill for the relief of Vichai Sae Tung (also known as Chai Chaowasaree).
Referred to Senate committee on Thursday, January 4, 2007
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S.550
100 points
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A bill to preserve existing judgeships on the Superior Court of the District of Columbia.
Became Public Law No: 110-201 on Saturday, June 6, 1970
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30 points
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In the nature of a substitute.
Amendment SA 4824 agreed to in Senate by Unanimous Consent on Tuesday, June 3, 2008
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