Representative Bob Brady (D-PA-01)

Representative Bob Brady (D-PA-01)
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H.CON.RES.435 Bob Brady 1 Cosponsors 5 points	Authorizing the use of Emancipation Hall on December 2, 2008, for ceremonies and activities held in connection with the opening of the Capitol Visitor Center to the public. Received in the Senate on Monday, November 17, 2008
H.R.5159 Bob Brady 1 Cosponsors 45 points	Capitol Visitor Center Act of 2008 To establish the Office of the Capitol Visitor Center within the Office of the Architect of the Capitol, headed by the Chief Executive Officer for Visitor Services, to provide for the effective management and administration of the Capitol Visitor Center, and for other purposes. Presented to President on Thursday, October 9, 2008
H.R.6296 Bob Brady 2 Cosponsors 45 points	To extend through 2013 the authority of the Federal Election Commission to impose civil money penalties on the basis of a schedule of penalties established and published by the Commission. Passed/agreed to in Senate on Thursday, October 2, 2008
H.R.6608 Bob Brady 1 Cosponsors 25 points	House Reservists Pay Adjustment Act of 2008 To provide for the replacement of lost income for employees of the House of Representatives who are members of a reserve component of the armed forces who are on active duty for a period of more than 30 days, and for other purposes. Received in the Senate on Friday, September 12, 2008
H.CON.RES.395 Bob Brady 1 Cosponsors 5 points	Authorizing the printing of an additional number of copies of the 23rd edition of the pocket version of the United States Constitution. Received in the Senate on Thursday, July 24, 2008

H.RES.1346 Bob Brady 0 Cosponsors 1 points	Recognizing that more than 160,000,000 people in India are considered untouchable and dehumanized by the caste system. Referred to House committee on Tuesday, July 15, 2008
H.CON.RES.307 Bob Brady 0 Cosponsors 10 points	Expressing the sense of Congress that Members' Congressional papers should be properly maintained and encouraging Members to take all necessary measures to manage and preserve these papers. Passed/agreed to in Senate on Friday, June 20, 2008
H.R.5972 Bob Brady 2 Cosponsors 5 points	United States Capitol Police Administrative Technical Corrections Act of 2008 To make technical corrections to the laws affecting certain administrative authorities of the United States Capitol Police, and for other purposes. House committee/subcommittee actions on Wednesday, May 7, 2008
H.R.5493 Bob Brady 2 Cosponsors 50 points	To provide that the usual day for paying salaries in or under the House of Representatives may be established by regulations of the Committee on House Administration. Passed/agreed to in Senate on Tuesday, May 6, 2008
H.RES.1068 Bob Brady 1 Cosponsors 5 points	Permitting active duty members of the Armed Forces who are assigned to a Congressional liaison office of the Armed Forces at the House of Representatives to obtain membership in the exercise facility established for employees of the House of Representatives. Passed/agreed to in House on Tuesday, April 15, 2008
H.RES.989 Bob Brady 0 Cosponsors 5 points	Dismissing the election contest relating to the office of Representative from the Thirteenth Congressional District of Florida. Passed/agreed to in House on Monday, February 25, 2008
H.R.513 Bob Brady 22 Cosponsors 30 points	National Heroes Credit Protection Act A bill to amend the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act to enhance the protection of credit ratings of members of the reserve component who serve on active duty in support of a contingency operation, and for other purposes. Referred to Senate committee on Tuesday, November 6, 2007
H.CON.RES.196 Bob Brady 2 Cosponsors 9 points	Authorizing the use of the rotunda and grounds of the Capitol for a ceremony to award the Congressional Gold Medal to Tenzin Gyatso, the Fourteenth Dalai Lama. Passed/agreed to in Senate on Wednesday, September 5, 2007
H.CON.RES.190 Bob Brady 1 Cosponsors 9 points	Authorizing printing of the brochure entitled "How Our Laws Are Made", the document-sized, annotated version of the United States Constitution, and the pocket version of the United States Constitution. Passed/agreed to in Senate on Wednesday, July 25, 2007
H.RES.478 Bob Brady 0 Cosponsors 5 points	Electing a member to the Joint Committee on Printing. Passed/agreed to in House on Tuesday, June 12, 2007
H.RES.459 Bob Brady 0 Cosponsors 5 points	Dismissing the election contest relating to the office of Representative from the Twenty-first Congressional District of Florida. Passed/agreed to in House on Tuesday, June 12, 2007
H.RES.461 Bob Brady 0 Cosponsors 5 points	Dismissing the election contest relating to the office of Representative from the Twenty-fourth Congressional District of Florida. Passed/agreed to in House on Tuesday, June 12, 2007
H.RES.462 Bob Brady 0 Cosponsors 5 points	Dismissing the election contest relating to the office of Representative from the Fourth Congressional District of Louisiana. Passed/agreed to in House on Tuesday, June 12, 2007
H.RES.463 Bob Brady 0 Cosponsors 5 points	Dismissing the election contest relating to the office of Representative from the Fifth Congressional District of Florida. Passed/agreed to in House on Tuesday, June 12, 2007
H.RES.460 Bob Brady 0 Cosponsors 5 points	Permitting official photographs of the House of Representatives to be taken while the House is in actual session on a date designated by the Speaker. Passed/agreed to in House on Wednesday, June 6, 2007
H.R.557 Bob Brady 2 Cosponsors 5 points	Vocational and Technical Entrepreneurship Development Act of 2007 To amend the Small Business Act to direct the Administrator of the Small Business Administration to establish a vocational and technical entrepreneurship development program. Referred to House committee on Thursday, January 18, 2007
H.R.5893 Bob Brady 1 Cosponsors 100 points	Library of Congress Sound Recording and Film Preservation Programs Reauthorization Act of 2008 To reauthorize the sound recording and film preservation programs of the Library of Congress, and for other purposes. Became Public Law No: 110-336 on Saturday, June 6, 1970
H.R.3690 Bob Brady 1 Cosponsors 95 points	U.S. Capitol Police and Library of Congress Police Merger Implementation Act of 2007 To provide for the transfer of the Library of Congress police to the United States Capitol Police, and for other purposes. Became Public Law No: 110-178 on Saturday, June 6, 1970
H.R.3571 Bob Brady 0 Cosponsors 100 points	To amend the Congressional Accountability Act of 1995 to permit individuals who have served as employees of the Office of Compliance to serve as Executive Director, Deputy Executive Director, or General Counsel of the Office, and to permit individuals appointed to such positions to serve one additional term. Became Public Law No: 110-164 on Saturday, June 6, 1970

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H.R.4131 Laura Richardson 70 Cosponsors 7 points	To designate a portion of California State Route 91 located in Los Angeles County, California, as the "Juanita Millender-McDonald Highway". Presented to President on Friday, October 10, 2008
H.CON.RES.214 Peter King 39 Cosponsors 0 points	Expressing the sense of Congress that the President should grant a posthumous pardon to John Arthur "Jack" Johnson for the 1913 racially motivated conviction of Johnson, which diminished his athletic, cultural, and historic significance, and tarnished his reputation. Referred to Senate committee on Thursday, October 2, 2008
H.R.3480 Chris Carney 43 Cosponsors 0 points	Let Our Veterans Rest in Peace Act of 2007 To direct the United States Sentencing Commission to assure appropriate punishment enhancements for those involved in receiving stolen property where that property consists of grave markers of veterans, and for other purposes. Passed/agreed to in Senate 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.5443 Ed Royce 51 Cosponsors 0 points	United States-Republic of Korea Defense Cooperation Improvement Act of 2008 To improve defense cooperation between the Republic of Korea and the United States. Referred to Senate committee on Thursday, October 2, 2008

H.R.3036 John Sarbanes 64 Cosponsors 0 points	No Child Left Inside Act of 2007 To reauthorize and enhance the National Environmental Education Act, and for other purposes. Referred to Senate committee on Thursday, October 2, 2008
H.CON.RES.386 Bill Sali 58 Cosponsors 0 points	Recognizing and celebrating the 232nd anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Referred to Senate committee on Thursday, October 2, 2008
H.CON.RES.360 Barbara Lee 56 Cosponsors 0 points	Recognizing the important social and economic contributions and accomplishments of the New Deal to our Nation on the 75th anniversary of legislation establishing the initial New Deal social and public works programs. Referred to Senate committee on Thursday, October 2, 2008
H.R.160 Rush Holt 21 Cosponsors 0 points	Revolutionary War and War of 1812 Battlefield Protection Act To amend the American Battlefield Protection Act of 1996 to establish a battlefield acquisition grant program for the acquisition and protection of nationally significant battlefields and associated sites of the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812, and for other purposes. Referred to Senate committee on Thursday, October 2, 2008
H.CON.RES.376 Ed Markey 50 Cosponsors 0 points	Congratulating the 2007-2008 National Basketball Association World Champions, the Boston Celtics, on an outstanding and historic season. Referred to Senate committee on Thursday, October 2, 2008
H.CON.RES.378 Barbara Cubin 55 Cosponsors 0 points	Expressing support for designation of September 6, 2008, as Louisa Swain Day. Passed/agreed to in Senate 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.2095 Jim Oberstar 94 Cosponsors 0 points	Federal Railroad Safety Improvement Act of 2007 To amend title 49, United States Code, to prevent railroad fatalities, injuries, and hazardous materials releases, to authorize the Federal Railroad Safety Administration, and for other purposes. Cleared for White House 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.6600 Lloyd Doggett 43 Cosponsors 15 points	Medicare Identity Theft Prevention Act of 2008 To amend title II of the Social Security Act to prohibit the inclusion of Social Security account numbers on Medicare cards. Received in the Senate 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.6098 Dave Reichert 9 Cosponsors 0 points	Personnel Reimbursement for Intelligence Cooperation and Enhancement of Homeland Security Act To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to improve the financial assistance provided to State, local, and tribal governments for information sharing activities, and for other purposes. Resolving differences -- House actions on Monday, September 29, 2008
H.R.7041 Chris Carney 13 Cosponsors 1 points	Laboratory Surge Capacity Preparedness Act To authorize the Secretary of Homeland Security to award grants on a competitive basis to regional biocontainment laboratories for maintaining surge capacity that can be used to respond to acts of bioterrorism or outbreaks of infectious diseases, and for other purposes. Referred to House subcommittee on Monday, September 29, 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.RES.135 Eddie Bernice Johnson 41 Cosponsors 3 points	Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that a National Historically Black Colleges and Universities Week should be established. Passed/agreed to in House on Friday, September 26, 2008
H.R.7115 Bobby Rush 6 Cosponsors 3 points	CAN DO Act of 2008 To require the Attorney General, through the Office of Justice Programs of the Department of Justice, to establish a 5-year competitive grant program to establish pilot programs to reduce the rate of occurrence of gun-related crimes in high-crime communities. Referred to House committee on Friday, September 26, 2008
H.R.7147 Jesse L. Jackson 11 Cosponsors 3 points	To amend the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to prohibit State election officials from accepting a challenge to an individual's eligibility to register to vote in an election for Federal office or to vote in an election for Federal office in a jurisdiction on the grounds that the individual resides in a household in the jurisdiction which is subject to foreclosure proceedings or that the jurisdiction was adversely affected by a hurricane or other major disaster, and for other purposes. Referred to House committee on Friday, September 26, 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.R.6045 Peter Visclosky 170 Cosponsors 12 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.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.RES.1421 Walter Jones 44 Cosponsors 0 points	Solemnly commemorating the 25th anniversary of the tragic October 1983 terrorist bombing of the United States Marine Corps Barracks in Beirut, Lebanon and remembering those who lost their lives and those who were injured. Passed/agreed to in House on Thursday, September 25, 2008
H.R.3815 Ed Perlmutter 13 Cosponsors 0 points	Homeland Security Open Source Information Enhancement Act of 2007 To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to require the Secretary of Homeland Security to make full and efficient use of open source information to develop and disseminate open source homeland security information products, and for other purposes. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders on Wednesday, September 24, 2008
H.RES.1000 Michael Doyle 58 Cosponsors 0 points	To commemorate the 250th Anniversary of the Naming of Pittsburgh as the culmination of the Forbes Campaign across Pennsylvania and the significance this event played in the making of America, in the settlement of the Continent, and in spreading the ideals of freedom and democracy throughout the world. Passed/agreed to in House on Wednesday, September 24, 2008
H.R.390 Tom Lantos 30 Cosponsors 18 points	Preservation of Records of Servitude, Emancipation, and Post-Civil War Reconstruction Act To require the establishment of a national database in the National Archives to preserve records of servitude, emancipation, and post-Civil War reconstruction and to provide grants to State and local entities to establish similar local databases. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders on Tuesday, September 23, 2008
H.R.2831 George Miller 92 Cosponsors 0 points	Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2007 To amend title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967, the Americans With Disabilities Act of 1990, and the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 to clarify that a discriminatory compensation decision or other practice that is unlawful under such Acts occurs each time compensation is paid pursuant to the discriminatory compensation decision or other practice, and for other purposes. Senate committee/subcommittee actions on Tuesday, September 23, 2008
H.RES.1227 Carolyn Maloney 39 Cosponsors 0 points	Condemning sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and calling on the international community to take immediate actions to respond to the violence. Passed/agreed to in House on Tuesday, September 23, 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.998 Carolyn McCarthy 82 Cosponsors 0 points	Civil Rights History Project Act of 2007 To direct the Librarian of Congress and the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution to carry out a joint project at the Library of Congress and the National Museum of African American History and Culture to collect video and audio recordings of personal histories and testimonials of individuals who participated in the Civil Rights movement, and for other purposes. Received in the Senate on Monday, September 22, 2008
H.R.2352 Steve Rothman 55 Cosponsors 0 points	School Safety Enhancements Act of 2007 To enhance the safety of elementary schools, secondary schools, and institutions of higher education. Received in the Senate on Monday, September 22, 2008
H.R.2343 Danny Davis 66 Cosponsors 0 points	Education Begins at Home Act To expand quality programs of early childhood home visitation that increase school readiness, child abuse and neglect prevention, and early identification of developmental and health delays, including potential mental health concerns, and for other purposes. House Committee on Armed Services Granted an extension for further consideration... on Friday, September 12, 2008
H.R.3114 Louise Slaughter 80 Cosponsors 0 points	National Women's Rights History Project Act To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to establish a commemorative trail in connection with the Women's Rights National Historical Park to link properties that are historically and thematically associated with the struggle for women's suffrage, and for other purposes. House committee/subcommittee actions on Thursday, September 11, 2008
H.R.6627 Jim Oberstar 8 Cosponsors 3 points	Smithsonian Institution Facilities Authorization Act of 2008 To authorize the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution to carry out certain construction projects, and for other purposes. Reported by the Committee on House Administration on Thursday, September 11, 2008
H.CON.RES.411 Dave Reichert 15 Cosponsors 0 points	Raising the awareness of the need for crime prevention in communities across the country and expressing support for designation of the week of October 2, 2008, through October 4, 2008, as "Celebrate Safe Communities" Week. Referred to House committee on Thursday, September 11, 2008
H.RES.1254 Eliot Engel 34 Cosponsors 0 points	Supporting the values and goals of the "Joint Action Plan Between the Government of the Federative Republic of Brazil and the Government of the United States of America to Eliminate Racial and Ethnic Discrimination and Promote Equality", signed by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Brazilian Minister of Racial Integration Edson Santos on March 13, 2008. Passed/agreed to in House on Tuesday, September 9, 2008
H.R.6686 Jerry McNerney 5 Cosponsors 3 points	COMBAT Act To amend title 37, United States Code, to increase the maximum monthly rate for the military special pay known as hostile fire pay, imminent danger pay, or hazardous duty pay, to increase the maximum monthly rate for the family separation allowance paid to deployed members of the Armed Forces, and to increase other special and incentive pays to recognize the service of members of the Armed Forces and encourage recruitment and retention. Referred to House subcommittee on Thursday, September 4, 2008
H.RES.1364 Geoff Davis 36 Cosponsors 0 points	Recognizing the persons who are serving or have served in the airborne forces of the Armed Forces. Referred to House subcommittee on Thursday, September 4, 2008
H.R.4255 Bob Filner 13 Cosponsors 0 points	United States Olympic Committee Paralympic Program Act of 2007 To amend title 38, United States Code, to authorize the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to provide assistance to the Paralympic Program of the United States Olympic Committee, and for other purposes. Referred to Senate committee on Friday, August 1, 2008
H.R.6826 Allyson Schwartz 42 Cosponsors 3 points	Home Health Care Planning Improvement Act of 2008 To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to ensure more timely access to home health services for Medicare beneficiaries under the Medicare Program. Referred to House committee on Friday, August 1, 2008
H.CON.RES.361 Janice Schakowsky 66 Cosponsors 3 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.6656 Debbie Wasserman Schultz 5 Cosponsors 3 points	Architect of the Capitol Appointment Act of 2008 To provide for the joint appointment of the Architect of the Capitol by the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the Majority Leader of the Senate, the Minority Leaders of the House of Representatives and Senate, and the chairs and ranking minority members of the committees of Congress with jurisdiction over the Office of the Architect of the Capitol, and for other purposes. Referred to House subcommittee on Thursday, July 31, 2008
H.CON.RES.407 Bill Pascrell 25 Cosponsors 0 points	Commemorating the 500th anniversary of the birth of Italian architect Andrea Palladio. Referred to House committee on Thursday, July 31, 2008
H.R.6730 Phil English 19 Cosponsors 3 points	Fort Presque Isle National Historic Site Act of 2008 To establish the Fort Presque Isle National Historic Site in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Referred to House committee on Thursday, July 31, 2008
H.RES.1143 Todd Platts 57 Cosponsors 0 points	Supporting the goals and ideals of the Apple Crunch and the Nation's domestic apple industry. Passed/agreed to in House on Thursday, July 31, 2008
H.RES.1324 Bart Stupak 35 Cosponsors 0 points	Requesting that the President focus appropriate attention on neighborhood crime prevention and community policing, and coordinate certain Federal efforts to participate in National Night Out, which occurs the first Tuesday of August each year, including by supporting local efforts and community watch groups and by supporting local officials, to promote community safety and help provide homeland security. Passed/agreed to in House 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.1405 John Shimkus 16 Cosponsors 0 points	Congratulating the Republic of Latvia on the 90th anniversary of its declaration of independence. Referred to House committee on Thursday, July 31, 2008
H.RES.415 Mike Honda 52 Cosponsors 0 points	Honoring Edward Day Cohota, Joseph L. Pierce, and other veterans of Asian and Pacific Islander descent who fought in the United States Civil War. Passed/agreed to in House on Wednesday, July 30, 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.