Representative Steve Israel (D-NY-02)

Representative Steve Israel (D-NY-02)
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H.RES.671 Steve Israel 52 Cosponsors 5 points	Supporting the goals and ideals of National Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month. Passed/agreed to in House on Wednesday, September 24, 2008
H.R.7019 Steve Israel 5 Cosponsors 5 points	Middle Class College Tuition Tax Credit Expansion Act of 2008 To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to consolidate the current education tax incentives as one credit against income tax for qualified tuition and related expenses. Referred to House committee on Tuesday, September 23, 2008
H.R.7020 Steve Israel 4 Cosponsors 5 points	Elder Caregiver Support and Information Enhancement Act of 2008 To authorize additional appropriations for the family caregiver support program under the Older Americans Act of 1965, and for the National Clearinghouse for Long-term Care Information, for fiscal years 2009, 2010, and 2011. Referred to House committee on Tuesday, September 23, 2008
H.R.6989 Steve Israel 0 Cosponsors 5 points	To amend title 38, United States Code, to authorize the burial in a national cemetery of a parent of a deceased veteran when there is no eligible spouse or dependent of the veteran. Referred to House committee on Monday, September 22, 2008
H.R.6741 Steve Israel 0 Cosponsors 5 points	To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify and extend certain energy-related tax credits. Referred to House committee on Thursday, July 31, 2008

H.R.6240 Steve Israel 0 Cosponsors 5 points	Weekend Voting Act To change the date for regularly scheduled Federal elections and establish polling place hours. Referred to House committee on Wednesday, June 11, 2008
H.R.6094 Steve Israel 0 Cosponsors 5 points	World War II War Crimes Accountability Act of 2008 To hold the surviving Nazi war criminals accountable for the war crimes, genocide, and crimes against humanity they committed during World War II, by encouraging foreign governments to more efficiently prosecute and extradite wanted criminals. Referred to House committee on Tuesday, May 20, 2008
H.RES.1201 Steve Israel 17 Cosponsors 1 points	Expressing the grave concern of the House of Representatives for Hezbollah, Syria, and Iran's continued actions to undermine the legitimate Lebanese Government of Prime Minister Fuad Siniora, and their systematic violation of United Nations Security Council Resolutions 1559, 1680, 1701, and 1747. Referred to House committee on Thursday, May 15, 2008
H.R.6012 Steve Israel 0 Cosponsors 5 points	To require the Comptroller General to conduct a study of the consolidation of the refiners, importers, producers, and wholesalers of gasoline with the sellers of such gasoline at retail. Referred to House committee on Thursday, May 8, 2008
H.R.5823 Steve Israel 15 Cosponsors 5 points	To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow taxpayers to designate a portion of their income tax payment to provide assistance to homeless veterans, and for other purposes. Referred to House committee on Wednesday, April 16, 2008
H.RES.991 Steve Israel 45 Cosponsors 8 points	Recognizing the exceptional sacrifice of the 69th Infantry Regiment, known as the Fighting 69th, in support of the Global War on Terror. Passed/agreed to in House on Thursday, March 13, 2008
H.R.5585 Steve Israel 3 Cosponsors 5 points	Assuring and Improving Cancer Treatment Education and Cancer Symptom Management Act of 2008 To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide comprehensive cancer patient treatment education under the Medicare Program and to provide for research to improve cancer symptom management. Referred to House subcommittee on Tuesday, March 11, 2008
H.RES.992 Steve Israel 26 Cosponsors 1 points	Honoring the sacrifice of all mothers in the Armed Forces who have deployed to theaters of combat on behalf of the United States. Referred to House subcommittee on Friday, February 29, 2008
H.CON.RES.298 Steve Israel 1 Cosponsors 1 points	Expressing the Sense of Congress on the Humanitarian Crisis in Iraq. Referred to House committee on Thursday, February 14, 2008
H.R.5144 Steve Israel 0 Cosponsors 5 points	To suspend temporarily the duty on lightweight digital camera lenses. Referred to House committee on Monday, January 28, 2008
H.R.5145 Steve Israel 0 Cosponsors 5 points	To suspend temporarily the duty on digital zoom camera lenses. Referred to House committee on Monday, January 28, 2008
H.RES.904 Steve Israel 0 Cosponsors 1 points	Commending the Northport American Legion Post 694 located in Northport, New York, for raising funds for the Marine and Army combat units fighting in the Middle East, enabling them to purchase needed equipment. Referred to House subcommittee on Wednesday, January 23, 2008
H.R.5125 Steve Israel 1 Cosponsors 5 points	To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for a Medicare Advantage benchmark adjustment for certain local areas with VA medical centers and for certain contiguous areas. Referred to House subcommittee on Wednesday, January 23, 2008
H.R.3945 Steve Israel 0 Cosponsors 5 points	Clean Energy Partnership Act of 2007 To provide for the establishment by the Secretary of Energy of a program of Federal support for local governments and school districts to implement clean energy projects. Referred to House subcommittee on Tuesday, January 22, 2008
H.R.4511 Steve Israel 0 Cosponsors 5 points	To extend the temporary suspension of duty on certain electrical transformers. Referred to House committee on Wednesday, December 12, 2007
H.R.4512 Steve Israel 0 Cosponsors 5 points	To extend the temporary suspension of duty on certain electrical transformers. Referred to House committee on Wednesday, December 12, 2007
H.R.4513 Steve Israel 0 Cosponsors 5 points	To extend the temporary suspension of duty on certain 6-volt batteries. Referred to House committee on Wednesday, December 12, 2007
H.R.4514 Steve Israel 0 Cosponsors 5 points	To extend the temporary suspension of duty on certain 12-volt batteries. Referred to House committee on Wednesday, December 12, 2007
H.CON.RES.262 Steve Israel 4 Cosponsors 1 points	Expressing the sense of Congress regarding Saudi Arabia's policies relating to religious practice and tolerance, including Saudi Arabia's commitment to revise Saudi textbooks to remove intolerant and violent references. Referred to House committee on Thursday, November 15, 2007
H.R.4076 Steve Israel 0 Cosponsors 5 points	Counterfeit Drug Enforcement Act of 2007 To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to increase criminal penalties for the sale or trade of prescription drugs knowingly caused to be adulterated or misbranded, to modify requirements for maintaining records of the chain-of-custody of prescription drugs, to establish recall authority regarding drugs, and for other purposes. Referred to House committee on Monday, November 5, 2007
H.R.3925 Steve Israel 0 Cosponsors 5 points	To direct the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration to issue an order regarding secondary cockpit barriers. Referred to House subcommittee on Tuesday, October 23, 2007
H.CON.RES.231 Steve Israel 4 Cosponsors 1 points	Expressing the sense of Congress that the Government of the United States should submit to the Government of Iraq a draft bilateral status-of-forces agreement. Referred to House committee on Wednesday, October 10, 2007
H.R.3783 Steve Israel 5 Cosponsors 5 points	Trans Fat Truth in Labeling Act of 2007 To direct the Commissioner of Food and Drugs to revise the Federal regulations applicable to the declaration of the trans fat content of a food on the label and in the labeling of the food when such content is less than 0.5 gram. Referred to House subcommittee on Tuesday, October 9, 2007
H.RES.690 Steve Israel 37 Cosponsors 1 points	Expressing grave concern of the House of Representatives for Iran and Syria's continued and systematic violations of UN Resolutions 1701 and 1559. Referred to House committee on Thursday, September 27, 2007
H.R.3274 Steve Israel 7 Cosponsors 5 points	United States-China Energy Cooperation Act To authorize the Secretary of Energy to make grants to encourage cooperation between the United States and China on joint research, development, or commercialization of carbon capture and sequestration technology, improved energy efficiency, or renewable energy sources. Referred to House subcommittee on Friday, August 24, 2007
H.R.2274 Steve Israel 21 Cosponsors 5 points	Civil Reserve Air Fleet Missile Defense Pilot Program Act of 2007 To amend title 10, United States Code, to direct the Secretary of Defense to carry out a pilot program to determine the feasibility and desirability of equipping turbojet aircraft in the Civil Reserve Air Fleet with a missile defense system. Referred to House subcommittee on Thursday, June 28, 2007
H.R.1598 Steve Israel 1 Cosponsors 5 points	Servicemembers Credit Protection Act To amend the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act to protect the credit of servicemembers deployed to an overseas combat zone and to facilitate awareness of a servicemember's rights under such Act, and for other purposes. House committee/subcommittee actions on Thursday, June 21, 2007
H.R.2193 Steve Israel 7 Cosponsors 5 points	Animal Protection Accountability Improvement Act To amend the Animal Welfare Act to increase the penalties for violations of such Act, to prohibit the use of animals for marketing medical devices, and for other purposes. Referred to House subcommittee on Thursday, May 31, 2007
H.R.2437 Steve Israel 2 Cosponsors 5 points	To provide for the establishment of an energy efficiency and renewable energy finance and investment advisory committee. Referred to House subcommittee on Tuesday, May 22, 2007
H.R.2112 Steve Israel 5 Cosponsors 5 points	To amend the Energy Policy Act of 1992 to require the Federal Government to acquire not fewer than 50,000 plug-in hybrid electric vehicles. Referred to House subcommittee on Wednesday, May 16, 2007
H.R.2156 Steve Israel 7 Cosponsors 5 points	To require a clear accounting of the combat proficiency of the security forces of Iraq. Referred to House committee on Thursday, May 3, 2007
H.RES.258 Steve Israel 38 Cosponsors 1 points	Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that there should be established a National Autoimmune Diseases Awareness Month, and for other purposes. Referred to House subcommittee on Thursday, March 22, 2007
H.CON.RES.97 Steve Israel 3 Cosponsors 1 points	Expressing the sense of Congress that the Government of the United States should submit to the Government of Iraq a draft bilateral status-of-forces agreement by not later than September 1, 2007. Referred to House committee on Thursday, March 22, 2007
H.J.RES.37 Steve Israel 22 Cosponsors 5 points	Conferring honorary citizenship of the United States on Anne Frank. Referred to House subcommittee on Monday, March 19, 2007

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H.R.1746 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen 44 Cosponsors 0 points	Holocaust Insurance Accountability Act of 2007 To require disclosure of Holocaust-era policies by insurers and establish a federal cause of action for claims arising out of a covered policy. House Committee on Judiciary Granted an extension for further consideration endi... on Thursday, October 2, 2008
H.R.840 Julia Carson 85 Cosponsors 0 points	Homeless Emergency Assistance and Rapid Transition to Housing Act of 2007 To amend the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act to consolidate the housing assistance programs for homeless persons under title IV of such Act, and for other purposes. Placed on the Union Calendar on Thursday, October 2, 2008
H.R.2933 Gary Miller 106 Cosponsors 0 points	Civil War Battlefield Preservation Act of 2007 To amend the American Battlefield Protection Act of 1996 to extend the authorization for that Act, and for other purposes. Read twice on Thursday, October 2, 2008
H.CON.RES.255 Mike Ferguson 59 Cosponsors 0 points	Expressing the sense of Congress regarding the United States commitment to preservation of religious and cultural sites and condemning instances where sites are desecrated. Referred to Senate committee on Thursday, October 2, 2008
H.CON.RES.371 Robert Wexler 32 Cosponsors 1 points	Strongly supporting an immediate and just restitution of, or compensation for, property illegally confiscated during the last century by Nazi and Communist regimes. Referred to Senate committee on Thursday, October 2, 2008

H.R.6598 John Conyers 119 Cosponsors 0 points	Prevention of Equine Cruelty Act of 2008 To amend title 18, United States Code, to prohibit certain conduct relating to the use of horses for human consumption. House Committee on Agriculture Granted an extension for further consideration en... on Thursday, October 2, 2008
H.R.1424 Patrick Kennedy 270 Cosponsors 27 points	Paul Wellstone Mental Health and Addiction Equity Act of 2007 A bill to provide authority for the Federal Government to purchase and insure certain types of troubled assets for the purposes of providing stability to and preventing disruption in the economy and financial system and protecting taxpayers, to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide incentives for energy production and conservation, to extend certain expiring provisions, to provide individual income tax relief, and for other purposes. Passed/agreed to in Senate on Wednesday, October 1, 2008
H.R.1343 Gene Green 247 Cosponsors 0 points	Health Centers Renewal Act of 2007 To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide additional authorizations of appropriations for the health centers program under section 330 of such Act, and for other purposes. Presented to President on Tuesday, September 30, 2008
H.R.5975 Mike Arcuri 31 Cosponsors 6 points	To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 101 West Main Street in Waterville, New York, as the "Cpl. John P. Sigsbee Post Office". Presented to President on Tuesday, September 30, 2008
H.R.6199 Eliot Engel 28 Cosponsors 0 points	To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 245 North Main Street in New City, New York, as the "Kenneth Peter Zebrowski Post Office Building". Cleared for White House on Tuesday, September 30, 2008
H.R.6930 Jim Moran 18 Cosponsors 3 points	To amend title 10, United States Code, to authorize extended benefits for certain autistic dependents of certain retirees. Referred to House subcommittee on Tuesday, September 30, 2008
H.R.2631 Adam Schiff 5 Cosponsors 30 points	Nuclear Forensics and Attribution Act To strengthen efforts in the Department of Homeland Security to develop nuclear forensics capabilities to permit attribution of the source of nuclear material, and for other purposes. Passed/agreed to in Senate on Friday, September 26, 2008
H.R.7160 Gwen Moore 3 Cosponsors 3 points	To authorize United States participation in, and appropriations for the United States contribution to, an international clean technology fund, and for other purposes. Referred to House committee on Friday, September 26, 2008
H.R.758 Rosa DeLauro 222 Cosponsors 24 points	Breast Cancer Patient Protection Act of 2007 To require that health plans provide coverage for a minimum hospital stay for mastectomies, lumpectomies, and lymph node dissection for the treatment of breast cancer and coverage for secondary consultations. Received in the Senate on Thursday, September 25, 2008
H.RES.988 Jim Matheson 88 Cosponsors 0 points	Designating the month of March 2008 as "MRSA Awareness Month". Passed/agreed to in House on Thursday, September 25, 2008
H.R.6045 Peter Visclosky 170 Cosponsors 0 points	Bulletproof Vest Partnership Grant Act of 2008 To amend title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to extend the authorization of the Bulletproof Vest Partnership Grant Program through fiscal year 2012. House floor actions on Thursday, September 25, 2008
H.CON.RES.431 Stephanie Herseth Sandlin 10 Cosponsors 0 points	Supporting the goals and ideals of a Long-Term Care Awareness Week. Referred to House committee on Thursday, September 25, 2008
H.CON.RES.428 Steve Rothman 5 Cosponsors 0 points	Expressing the sense of Congress that the United Nations should take immediate steps to improve the transparency and accountability of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) in the Near East to ensure that it is not providing funding, employment, or other support to terrorists. Referred to House committee on Wednesday, September 24, 2008
H.R.7036 Nancy Boyda 6 Cosponsors 3 points	Elder Care Tax Credit Act of 2008 To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify the dependent care credit to take into account expenses for care of parents and grandparents who do not live with the taxpayer. Referred to House committee on Wednesday, September 24, 2008
H.RES.1361 Howard Berman 25 Cosponsors 1 points	Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the United States should lead a high-level diplomatic effort to ensure that the Durban Review Conference serves as a forum to review implementation of commitments made at the 2001 Durban Conference to combat all forms of racism by defeating the campaign by some members of the Organization of the Islamic Conference to divert the United Nation's Durban Review Conference from a review of problems in their own and other countries by attacking Israel, promoting anti-Semitism, and undermining the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Passed/agreed to in House on Tuesday, September 23, 2008
H.R.7009 Melissa Bean 5 Cosponsors 3 points	Family Work Flexibility Act of 2008 To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow employers a credit against income tax for the cost of telecommuting equipment and expenses. Referred to House committee on Tuesday, September 23, 2008
H.R.7010 Melissa Bean 7 Cosponsors 3 points	To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a refundable, advanceable tax credit for health insurance costs of individuals with COBRA continuation coverage by reason of termination of employment. Referred to House committee on Tuesday, September 23, 2008
H.R.7018 Jay Inslee 3 Cosponsors 3 points	21st Century Energy Technology Deployment Act To promote development of a 21st century energy system to increase United States competitiveness in the world energy technology marketplace, and for other purposes. Referred to House committee on Tuesday, September 23, 2008
H.R.6883 Maurice Hinchey 8 Cosponsors 3 points	National Commission to Study the Establishment of the National Museum of the American People Act of 2008 To establish a commission to study the establishment of the National Museum of the American People in Washington, DC, and for other purposes. Referred to House committee on Thursday, September 11, 2008
H.R.2452 Tim Bishop 57 Cosponsors 0 points	Raw Sewage Overflow Community Right-to-Know Act To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to ensure that publicly owned treatment works monitor for and report sewer overflows, and for other purposes. Referred to Senate committee on Friday, August 1, 2008
H.R.3021 Ben Chandler 140 Cosponsors 0 points	21st Century High-Performing Public School Facilities Act To direct the Secretary of Education to make grants to State educational agencies for the modernization, renovation, or repair of public school facilities, and for other purposes. Referred to Senate committee on Friday, August 1, 2008
H.R.6340 Nita Lowey 28 Cosponsors 27 points	To designate the Federal building and United States courthouse located at 300 Quarropas Street in White Plains, New York, as the "Charles L. Brieant, Jr., Federal Building and United States Courthouse". Passed/agreed to in Senate on Friday, August 1, 2008
H.R.6791 Brian Higgins 1 Cosponsors 3 points	National Cancer Fund Act of 2008 To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to increase Federal excise taxes on tobacco products and to dedicate the revenues from the increased taxes to the war on cancer. Referred to House committee on Friday, August 1, 2008
H.CON.RES.361 Janice Schakowsky 66 Cosponsors 0 points	Commemorating Irena Sendler, a woman whose bravery saved the lives of thousands during the Holocaust and remembering her legacy of courage, selflessness, and hope. Referred to Senate committee on Thursday, July 31, 2008
H.R.6720 Tim Bishop 10 Cosponsors 3 points	Natural Gas Strategy Act To establish the Commission on Comprehensive Strategies for the Placement of Natural Gas Infrastructure, and for other purposes. Referred to House committee on Thursday, July 31, 2008
H.R.6078 Ed Perlmutter 43 Cosponsors 0 points	GREEN Act of 2008 To encourage energy efficiency and conservation and development of renewable energy sources for housing, commercial structures, and other buildings, and to create sustainable communities. House committee/subcommittee actions on Thursday, July 31, 2008
H.RES.194 Steve Cohen 119 Cosponsors 3 points	Apologizing for the enslavement and racial segregation of African-Americans. Passed/agreed to in House on Tuesday, July 29, 2008
H.R.2140 Shelley Berkley 72 Cosponsors 3 points	Internet Gambling Study Act To provide for a study by the National Academy of Sciences to identify the proper response of the United States to the growth of Internet gambling. House committee/subcommittee actions on Monday, July 28, 2008
H.RES.1375 Judy Biggert 1 Cosponsors 0 points	Recognizing and supporting the goals and ideals of National Runaway Prevention Month. Referred to House committee on Thursday, July 24, 2008
H.R.6226 Brian Higgins 35 Cosponsors 3 points	To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 300 East 3rd Street in Jamestown, New York, as the "Stan Lundine Post Office Building". Referred to Senate committee on Wednesday, July 23, 2008
H.RES.1128 Dave Davis 50 Cosponsors 0 points	Expressing support of the goals and ideals of National Carriage Driving Month. Passed/agreed to in House on Tuesday, July 22, 2008
H.R.5949 Steve LaTourette 28 Cosponsors 0 points	Clean Boating Act of 2008 To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to address certain discharges incidental to the normal operation of a recreational vessel. Placed on the Union Calendar on Tuesday, July 22, 2008
H.R.6559 Eliot Engel 3 Cosponsors 3 points	OFS Act To require automobile manufacturers to ensure that not less that 80 percent of the automobiles manufactured or sold in the United States by each such manufacturer to operate on fuel mixtures containing 85 percent ethanol, 85 percent methanol, or biodiesel. Referred to House committee on Tuesday, July 22, 2008
H.R.6496 Alcee Hastings 11 Cosponsors 3 points	Iraqi Refugee and Internally Displaced Persons Humanitarian Assistance, Resettlement, and Security Act of 2008 To address the impending humanitarian crisis and potential security breakdown as a result of the mass influx of Iraqi refugees into neighboring countries, and the growing internally displaced population in Iraq, by increasing directed accountable assistance to these populations and their host countries, facilitating the resettlement of Iraqis at risk, and for other purposes. Referred to House committee on Tuesday, July 15, 2008