Representative Allen Boyd (D-FL-02)

Representative Allen Boyd (D-FL-02)
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H.R.6294 Allen Boyd 10 Cosponsors 5 points	To provide for a comprehensive study by the National Research Council of the National Academies to assess the water management, needs, and conservation of the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River System. Referred to House subcommittee on Thursday, June 19, 2008
H.R.5899 Allen Boyd 9 Cosponsors 5 points	Iraq Shared Investment Act To require funding under the Iraq Security Forces Fund to be provided in the form of loans and to require the Government of Iraq to provide matching funds under the Commanders' Emergency Response Program to be used for agreed-upon purposes which enable military commanders in Iraq to respond to urgent humanitarian relief and reconstruction requirements. Referred to House committee on Thursday, April 24, 2008
H.R.1374 Allen Boyd 1 Cosponsors 30 points	To amend the Florida National Forest Land Management Act of 2003 to authorize the conveyance of an additional tract of National Forest System land under that Act, and for other purposes. Senate committee/subcommittee actions on Tuesday, April 22, 2008
H.CON.RES.243 Allen Boyd 4 Cosponsors 1 points	Supporting the efforts of the Iraq Neighbors Process Ministerial meeting and encouraging the ongoing engagement of the international community to stabilize Iraq and achieve peace in the Middle East. Referred to House committee on Monday, October 29, 2007
H.R.2650 Allen Boyd 0 Cosponsors 5 points	Restore the Apalachicola River Ecosystem Act To modify certain water resources projects for the Apalachicola, Chattahoochee, and Flint Rivers, Georgia, Florida, and Alabama. Referred to House subcommittee on Tuesday, June 12, 2007

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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.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.6338 Ron Klein 24 Cosponsors 5 points	To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 4233 West Hillsboro Boulevard in Coconut Creek, Florida, as the "Army SPC Daniel Agami Post Office Building". Cleared for White House on Tuesday, September 30, 2008
H.R.5265 Eliot Engel 123 Cosponsors 0 points	Paul D. Wellstone Muscular Dystrophy Community Assistance, Research, and Education Amendments of 2008 To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for research with respect to various forms of muscular dystrophy, including Becker, congenital, distal, Duchenne, Emery-Dreifuss facioscapulohumeral, limb-girdle, myotonic, and oculopharyngeal, muscular dystrophies. Presented to President on Tuesday, September 30, 2008
H.R.971 Anthony Weiner 189 Cosponsors 0 points	Community Pharmacy Fairness Act of 2007 To ensure and foster continued patient safety and quality of care by making the antitrust laws apply to negotiations between groups of independent pharmacies and health plans and health insurance issuers (including health plans under parts C and D of the Medicare Program) in the same manner as such laws apply to protected activities under the National Labor Relations Act. Placed on the Union Calendar on Sunday, September 28, 2008

H.R.758 Rosa DeLauro 222 Cosponsors 0 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.7028 John Tanner 1 Cosponsors 3 points	To limit United States assistance for infrastructure projects in Iraq, and for other purposes. Referred to House committee on Tuesday, September 23, 2008
H.CON.RES.163 Heather Wilson 104 Cosponsors 0 points	Expressing the sense of Congress in support of further research and activities to increase public awareness, professional education, diagnosis, and treatment of Dandy-Walker syndrome and hydrocephalus. Passed/agreed to in Senate on Monday, September 22, 2008
H.R.6772 Tim Mahoney 24 Cosponsors 0 points	To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1717 Orange Avenue in Fort Pierce, Florida, as the "CeeCee Ross Lyles Post Office Building". Received in the Senate on Monday, September 22, 2008
H.RES.1390 Dennis Cardoza 35 Cosponsors 0 points	Expressing support for the designation of a 4-H National Youth Science Day. Passed/agreed to in House on Monday, September 22, 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.4918 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen 24 Cosponsors 0 points	To name the Department of Veterans Affairs medical center in Miami, Florida, as the "Bruce W. Carter Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center". Passed/agreed to in Senate on Friday, August 1, 2008
H.RES.1332 Dennis Cardoza 36 Cosponsors 0 points	Recognizing the importance of connecting foster youth to the workforce through internship programs, and encouraging employers to increase employment of former foster youth. Passed/agreed to in House on Thursday, July 31, 2008
H.RES.896 Joe Baca 119 Cosponsors 0 points	Recognizing the need to pursue research into the causes, a treatment, and an eventual cure for primary lateral sclerosis, supporting the goals and ideals of Primary Lateral Sclerosis Awareness Month, and for other purposes. Passed/agreed to in House on Wednesday, July 30, 2008
H.RES.901 Ander Crenshaw 24 Cosponsors 3 points	Congratulating University of Florida Quarterback Timothy "Tim" Tebow for winning the Heisman Trophy and honoring both his athletic and academic achievements. Passed/agreed to in House on Tuesday, July 29, 2008
H.RES.984 Gabrielle Giffords 51 Cosponsors 0 points	Expressing support for the designation of July 26, 2008 as "National Day of the Cowboy". Passed/agreed to in House on Monday, July 14, 2008
H.RES.1260 Melissa Bean 100 Cosponsors 3 points	Supporting the goals and ideals of "National Internet Safety Month". Passed/agreed to in House on Wednesday, July 9, 2008
H.R.65 Mike McIntyre 216 Cosponsors 6 points	Lumbee Recognition Act To provide for the recognition of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina, and for other purposes. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders on Tuesday, July 8, 2008
H.R.4264 Jeff Miller 33 Cosponsors 7 points	To name the Department of Veterans Affairs spinal cord injury center in Tampa, Florida, as the "Michael Bilirakis Department of Veterans Affairs Spinal Cord Injury Center". Referred to Senate committee on Friday, June 27, 2008
H.RES.1231 Heath Shuler 66 Cosponsors 0 points	Supporting the goals and ideals of Vietnam Veterans Day and calling on the American people to recognize such a day. Passed/agreed to in House on Thursday, June 26, 2008
H.CON.RES.32 Jeff Miller 50 Cosponsors 0 points	Honoring the members of the United States Air Force who were killed in the June 25, 1996, terrorist bombing of the Khobar Towers United States military housing compound near Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. Passed/agreed to in Senate on Tuesday, June 24, 2008
H.RES.1302 John Tanner 46 Cosponsors 0 points	Honoring the life and mourning the death of John Berthoud, Ph.D. Referred to House committee on Tuesday, June 24, 2008
H.RES.1010 Joe Donnelly 46 Cosponsors 0 points	Recognizing the importance of manufactured housing in the United States. Passed/agreed to in House on Tuesday, June 10, 2008
H.RES.127 Don Young 51 Cosponsors 0 points	Recognizing and celebrating the 50th anniversary of the entry of Alaska in the Union as the 49th State. Passed/agreed to in House on Monday, June 9, 2008
H.R.3058 Peter DeFazio 43 Cosponsors 0 points	Public Land Communities Transition Assistance Act of 2007 To amend chapter 69 of title 31, United States Code, to provide full payments under such chapter to units of general local government in which entitlement land is located, to provide transitional payments during fiscal years 2008 through 2012 to those States and counties previously entitled to payments under the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act of 2000, and for other purposes. Failed of passage/not agreed to in House on Thursday, June 5, 2008
H.R.5898 Gus Bilirakis 84 Cosponsors 0 points	Silver Alert Grant Program Act of 2008 To authorize a grant program to help establish and improve State-administered notification systems to help locate missing individuals with Alzheimer's disease and other dementia-related illnesses, and for other purposes. Referred to House subcommittee on Tuesday, June 3, 2008
H.R.5552 Gabrielle Giffords 27 Cosponsors 3 points	Border Security Accountability Act of 2008 To require a report on the efforts of the United States Government to increase border security. House committee/subcommittee actions on Thursday, May 22, 2008
H.R.5787 Dennis Moore 10 Cosponsors 0 points	Federal Real Property Disposal Enhancement Act of 2008 To amend title 40, United States Code, to enhance authorities with regard to real property that has yet to be reported excess, and for other purposes. Referred to Senate committee on Thursday, May 22, 2008
H.CON.RES.334 Chris Shays 60 Cosponsors 1 points	Supporting the goals and objectives of a National Military Appreciation Month. Referred to Senate committee on Thursday, May 22, 2008
H.RES.1026 Sanford Bishop 80 Cosponsors 0 points	Recognizing the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Congressional Club. Passed/agreed to in House on Wednesday, May 21, 2008
H.R.2894 Dutch Ruppersberger 296 Cosponsors 0 points	Star-Spangled Banner and War of 1812 Bicentennial Commemorative Coin Act To require the Secretary of the Treasury to mint coins in commemoration of the bicentennial of the writing of the "Star Spangled Banner" and the War of 1812, and for other purposes. Referred to Senate committee on Monday, May 19, 2008
H.RES.1155 Mike Ross 33 Cosponsors 1 points	Honoring the recipients of the El Dorado Promise scholarship. Passed/agreed to in House on Tuesday, May 6, 2008
H.R.5942 Edolphus Towns 20 Cosponsors 0 points	National Trauma Center Stabilization Act of 2008 To ensure the continued and future availability of lifesaving trauma health care in the United States and to prevent further trauma center closures and downgrades by assisting trauma centers with uncompensated care costs, core mission services, emergency needs, and information technology. Referred to House subcommittee on Monday, May 5, 2008
H.R.5684 Stephanie Herseth Sandlin 43 Cosponsors 0 points	Veterans Education Improvement Act of 2008 To amend title 38, United States Code, to make certain improvements in the basic educational assistance program administered by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes. House committee/subcommittee actions on Wednesday, April 30, 2008
H.RES.578 Adam Putnam 55 Cosponsors 3 points	Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that there should be established a National Watermelon Month. Passed/agreed to in House on Tuesday, April 29, 2008
H.RES.49 Dave Camp 51 Cosponsors 0 points	Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that there should be established a National Letter Carriers Appreciation Day. Passed/agreed to in House on Tuesday, April 29, 2008
H.R.3192 Lincoln Davis 38 Cosponsors 3 points	Pregnant Women Support Act To provide for programs that reduce the need for abortion, help women bear healthy children, and support new parents. House committee/subcommittee actions on Friday, April 25, 2008
H.R.4836 Jay Inslee 23 Cosponsors 0 points	National Diabetes Coordinator Act of 2008 To reduce the incidence, progression, and impact of diabetes and its complications and establish the position of National Diabetes Coordinator. Referred to House subcommittee on Friday, April 25, 2008
H.CON.RES.323 Phil Gingrey 106 Cosponsors 0 points	Expressing Congressional support for the goals and ideals of National Health Care Decisions Day. Received in the Senate on Wednesday, April 23, 2008
H.R.5850 Jeff Miller 2 Cosponsors 3 points	Charter and Recreational Fishing Collective Marketing Act of 2008 To amend the Act entitled "An Act authorizing associations of producers of aquatic products" to include persons engaged in the fishery industry as charter boats or recreational fishermen, and for other purposes. Referred to House subcommittee on Tuesday, April 22, 2008
H.R.5825 Devin Nunes 237 Cosponsors 3 points	Hubbard Act To amend titles 5, 10, 37, and 38, United States Code, to ensure the fair treatment of a member of the Armed Forces who is discharged from the Armed Forces, at the request of the member, pursuant to the Department of Defense policy permitting the early discharge of a member who is the only surviving child in a family in which the father or mother, or one or more siblings, served in the Armed Forces and, because of hazards incident to such service, was killed, died as a result of wounds, accident, or disease, is in a captured or missing in action status, or is permanently disabled, and for other purposes. Referred to House committee on Wednesday, April 16, 2008
H.RES.1116 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen 24 Cosponsors 0 points	Honoring the life of Claude Denson Pepper, distinguished former Senator and Representative from Florida. Referred to House committee on Wednesday, April 16, 2008
H.RES.1110 Mark Kirk 77 Cosponsors 0 points	Condemning Hamas as a foreign terrorist organization responsible for the murders of 26 United States citizens. Referred to House committee on Wednesday, April 16, 2008
H.R.5036 Rush Holt 91 Cosponsors 3 points	Emergency Assistance for Secure Elections Act of 2008 To direct the Administrator of General Services to reimburse certain jurisdictions for the costs of obtaining paper ballot voting systems for the general elections for Federal office to be held in November 2008, to reimburse jurisdictions for the costs incurred in conducting audits or hand counting of the results of the general elections for Federal office to be held in November 2008, and for other purposes. Failed of passage/not agreed to in House on Tuesday, April 15, 2008
H.R.5606 Adam Schiff 37 Cosponsors 0 points	Child Protection Improvements Act of 2008 To amend the National Child Protection Act of 1993 to establish a permanent background check system. Referred to House subcommittee on Monday, April 14, 2008
H.R.5609 Sanford Bishop 49 Cosponsors 3 points	To provide for transitional health care for members of the Armed Forces separated from active duty who agree to serve in the Selected Reserve of the Ready Reserve. Referred to House subcommittee on Thursday, April 10, 2008
H.RES.1020 Peter Welch 60 Cosponsors 0 points	Recognizing the tremendous service that members of the Armed Forces have given to the Nation, especially those who have been wounded in combat. Passed/agreed to in House on Tuesday, April 8, 2008
H.R.2040 John Lewis 311 Cosponsors 0 points	Civil Rights Act of 1964 Commemorative Coin Act To require the Secretary of the Treasury to mint coins in commemoration of the semicentennial of the enactment of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Referred to Senate committee on Wednesday, April 2, 2008
H.R.5602 Brad Ellsworth 24 Cosponsors 0 points	Fair Share Act of 2008 To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and the Social Security Act to treat certain domestically controlled foreign persons performing services under contract with the United States Government as American employers for purposes of certain employment taxes and benefits. Referred to House committee on Thursday, March 13, 2008
H.R.5587 John Lewis 3 Cosponsors 0 points	To direct the Secretary of the Army to conduct a comprehensive study of long-term water management in the southeastern United States. Referred to House subcommittee on Wednesday, March 12, 2008
H.R.4088 Heath Shuler 153 Cosponsors 3 points	Border Law Enforcement Act To provide immigration reform by securing America's borders, clarifying and enforcing existing laws, and enabling a practical employer verification program. Motion to Discharge Committee filed by Mrs on Tuesday, March 11, 2008
H.RES.951 Scott Garrett 263 Cosponsors 0 points	Condemning the ongoing Palestinian rocket attacks on Israeli civilians by Hamas and other Palestinian terrorist organizations, and for other purposes. Passed/agreed to in House on Wednesday, March 5, 2008
H.RES.807 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen 24 Cosponsors 3 points	Honoring the life of Marjory Stoneman Douglas, champion of the Florida Everglades and founder of Florida's environmental movement. Passed/agreed to in House on Tuesday, March 4, 2008
H.RES.845 Alcee Hastings 17 Cosponsors 3 points	Recognizing the 60th anniversary of Everglades National Park. Passed/agreed to in House on Tuesday, March 4, 2008
H.RES.1018 Baron Hill 24 Cosponsors 0 points	Amending the Rules of the House of Representatives to establish the House Ethics Commission. Referred to House committee on Tuesday, March 4, 2008
H.RES.1017 Kirsten Gillibrand 10 Cosponsors 0 points	Expressing support for designation of the week before Thanksgiving as "Global Entrepreneurship Week" to inspire young people everywhere to embrace innovation, imagination, and creativity and to train the next generation of entrepreneurial leaders. Referred to House committee on Tuesday, March 4, 2008
H.R.3223 Tom Allen 15 Cosponsors 0 points	Keep Our Waterfronts Working Act of 2007 To amend the Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972 to establish a grant program to ensure coastal access for commercial and recreational fishermen and other water-dependent coastal-related businesses, and for other purposes. House committee/subcommittee actions on Thursday, February 28, 2008
H.R.4342 Vern Buchanan 24 Cosponsors 3 points	To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 824 Manatee Avenue West in Bradenton, Florida, as the "Dan Miller Post Office Building". Referred to Senate subcommittee on Wednesday, February 27, 2008
H.RES.995 Mario Diaz-Balart 38 Cosponsors 0 points	Commemorating the 12th anniversary of the 1996 shooting down of 2 unarmed Brothers to the Rescue civilian aircraft, licensed by the United States, by the Cuban regime. Referred to House committee on Monday, February 25, 2008
H.RES.931 Tom Feeney 70 Cosponsors 3 points	Expressing support for designation of February 17, 2008, as "Race Day in America" and highlighting the 50th running of the Daytona 500. Passed/agreed to in House on Wednesday, February 6, 2008
H.RES.934 Gene Green 53 Cosponsors 0 points	Congratulating the city of Baytown, Texas, on its 60th anniversary. Referred to House committee on Tuesday, January 22, 2008
H.R.3793 Jason Altmire 274 Cosponsors 0 points	Veterans Guaranteed Bonus Act of 2007 To amend title 37, United States Code, to require the continued payment to a member of the uniformed services who dies or is retired or separated under chapter 61 of title 10, United States Code, bonuses and similar benefits that the member was entitled to before the death, retirement, or separation of the member and would be paid if the member had not died, retired, or separated, to prohibit requiring the member to repay any portion of the bonuses or similar benefits previously paid, and for other purposes. Received in the Senate on Wednesday, December 19, 2007
H.RES.542 Ginny Brown-Waite 67 Cosponsors 0 points	Expressing the unconditional support of the House of Representatives for the members of the National Guard. Passed/agreed to in House on Tuesday, December 18, 2007
H.RES.881 John Tanner 57 Cosponsors 0 points	Honoring the life and mourning the death of John Berthoud, Ph.D. Referred to House committee on Monday, December 17, 2007
H.R.1236 Bill Clay 161 Cosponsors 0 points	To amend title 39, United States Code, to extend the authority of the United States Postal Service to issue a semipostal to raise funds for breast cancer research. Referred to Senate subcommittee on Wednesday, December 12, 2007
H.CON.RES.267 William Delahunt 81 Cosponsors 0 points	Calling on the President to commute the sentences of United States Border Patrol Agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean to time served. Referred to House committee on Thursday, December 6, 2007
H.R.4318 Joseph Crowley 45 Cosponsors 0 points	To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify the penalty on the understatement of taxpayer's liability by tax return preparers. Referred to House committee on Thursday, December 6, 2007
H.R.4204 Leonard Boswell 67 Cosponsors 3 points	Veterans Suicide Study Act To direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to conduct a study on suicides among veterans. Referred to House subcommittee on Friday, November 16, 2007
H.R.3461 Melissa Bean 43 Cosponsors 0 points	Safeguarding America's Families by Enhancing and Reorganizing New and Efficient Technologies Act of 2007 To establish a public awareness campaign regarding Internet safety. Referred to Senate committee on Wednesday, November 14, 2007
H.R.4154 George Miller 22 Cosponsors 18 points	To increase the insurance limitations on Federal insurance for bonds issued by the designated bonding authority for Historically Black Colleges and Universities capital financing. Referred to Senate committee on Wednesday, November 14, 2007
H.R.4188 Chris Van Hollen 32 Cosponsors 0 points	IDEA Fairness Restoration Act To amend the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act to permit a prevailing party in an action or proceeding brought to enforce the Act to be awarded expert witness fees and certain other expenses. Referred to House committee on Wednesday, November 14, 2007
H.R.767 Ron Kind 20 Cosponsors 18 points	Refuge Ecology Protection, Assistance, and Immediate Response Act To protect, conserve, and restore native fish, wildlife, and their natural habitats at national wildlife refuges through cooperative, incentive-based grants to control, mitigate, and eradicate harmful nonnative species, and for other purposes. Referred to Senate committee on Thursday, November 8, 2007
H.R.4116 Michael Burgess