Representative Brian Bilbray (R-CA-50)

Representative Brian Bilbray (R-CA-50)
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H.RES.1306 Brian Bilbray 52 Cosponsors 1 points	Recognizing the dedication and honorable service of members of the National Guard who are serving or have served in Operation Jump Start. Referred to House subcommittee on Wednesday, July 16, 2008
H.R.2649 Brian Bilbray 1 Cosponsors 45 points	To make amendments to the Reclamation Projects Authorization and Adjustment Act of 1992. Referred to Senate committee on Wednesday, May 21, 2008
H.R.4524 Brian Bilbray 0 Cosponsors 5 points	To suspend temporarily the duty on certain cathode ray tubes. Referred to House committee on Thursday, December 13, 2007
H.R.4017 Brian Bilbray 9 Cosponsors 5 points	Community Action Rebuilding Effort Act of 2007 To authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to provide that, in the case of leave-based donation programs with respect to the California wildfires, cash payments made by employers to qualifying charities in exchange for forgone employee leave will not be treated as income to participating employees and will be deductible by the employers as business expenses or charitable contributions. Referred to House committee on Wednesday, October 31, 2007
H.R.3613 Brian Bilbray 0 Cosponsors 5 points	To amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to make improvements relating to students with disabilities. Referred to House committee on Thursday, September 20, 2007

H.RES.446 Brian Bilbray 7 Cosponsors 5 points	Honoring the life and accomplishments of Astronaut Walter Marty Schirra and expressing condolences on his passing. Passed/agreed to in House on Wednesday, June 6, 2007
H.R.2362 Brian Bilbray 10 Cosponsors 5 points	To reduce the duty on certain golf club components. Referred to House subcommittee on Wednesday, May 30, 2007
H.R.1733 Brian Bilbray 7 Cosponsors 5 points	Appropriations Transparency Act of 2007 To prohibit the inclusion of earmarks in conference reports that were not in the House- or Senate-passed bills. Referred to House committee on Wednesday, March 28, 2007
H.R.909 Brian Bilbray 7 Cosponsors 5 points	Safe Water Improvement and Modernization Act of 2007 To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act and the Beaches Environmental Assessment and Coastal Health Act of 2000 to authorize appropriations for activities to improve the quality of coastal recreation waters, and for other purposes. Referred to House subcommittee on Friday, February 9, 2007

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H.R.6034 James McGovern 31 Cosponsors 0 points	To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide for relief to surviving spouses and children. Placed on the Union Calendar on Friday, October 3, 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.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.CON.RES.429 Mike Conaway 55 Cosponsors 3 points	Recognizing the importance of the United States wine industry to the American economy. Referred to Senate committee on Thursday, October 2, 2008
H.R.5265 Eliot Engel 123 Cosponsors 3 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.6073 Virginia Foxx 18 Cosponsors 0 points	To provide that Federal employees receiving their pay by electronic funds transfer shall be given the option of receiving their pay stubs electronically. Cleared for White House on Tuesday, September 30, 2008
H.R.6192 Walter Jones 9 Cosponsors 1 points	Illegal Alien Crime Reporting Act of 2008 To make payments by the Department of Homeland Security to a State contingent on a State providing the Federal Bureau of Investigation with certain statistics, to require Federal agencies, departments, and courts to provide such statistics to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and to require the Federal Bureau of Investigation to publish such statistics. Referred to House subcommittee on Monday, September 29, 2008
H.R.1532 Gene Green 58 Cosponsors 0 points	Comprehensive Tuberculosis Elimination Act of 2007 To amend the Public Health Service Act with respect to making progress toward the goal of eliminating tuberculosis, and for other purposes. Received in the Senate on Thursday, September 25, 2008
H.R.5477 Adam Schiff 50 Cosponsors 0 points	To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 120 South Del Mar Avenue in San Gabriel, California, as the "Chi Mui Post Office Building". Passed/agreed to in Senate on Friday, August 1, 2008
H.R.6813 Steve King 55 Cosponsors 3 points	To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to clarify that wages paid to unauthorized aliens may not be deducted from gross income, and for other purposes. Referred to House committee on Friday, August 1, 2008
H.R.3851 John Carter 8 Cosponsors 0 points	Non-Citizen Enforcement Act of 2007 To amend various laws imposing criminal penalties to double the maximum penalty for illegal aliens who commit those crimes, and for other purposes. Referred to Senate committee on Thursday, July 31, 2008
H.RES.1151 John Duncan 25 Cosponsors 0 points	Congratulating the University of Tennessee women's basketball team for winning the 2008 National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I Women's Basketball Championship. Passed/agreed to in House on Thursday, July 31, 2008
H.R.2490 Gus Bilirakis 15 Cosponsors 0 points	To require the Secretary of Homeland Security to conduct a program in the maritime environment for the mobile biometric identification of suspected individuals, including terrorists, to enhance border security. Referred to Senate committee on Wednesday, July 30, 2008
H.RES.1279 Lee Terry 46 Cosponsors 0 points	Recognizing the Special Olympics' 40th anniversary. Passed/agreed to in House on Wednesday, July 30, 2008
H.R.6090 Darrell Issa 6 Cosponsors 3 points	To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to eliminate the diversity immigrant program and to re-allocate those visas to certain employment-based immigrants who obtain an advanced degree in the United States. Referred to House subcommittee on Monday, July 28, 2008
H.RES.1262 Darrell Issa 49 Cosponsors 0 points	Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the Secretary of Commerce should use all reasonable measures to ensure that every person is counted in the 2010 decennial census. House committee/subcommittee actions on Wednesday, July 16, 2008
H.RES.1327 Devin Nunes 30 Cosponsors 3 points	Congratulating the 2008 National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I Baseball Champions, the Fresno State Bulldogs, on an outstanding and historic season. Passed/agreed to in House on Tuesday, July 15, 2008
H.CON.RES.299 Ed Markey 106 Cosponsors 0 points	Supporting the goals and ideals of National Cystic Fibrosis Awareness Month. Passed/agreed to in House on Tuesday, July 15, 2008
H.CON.RES.369 Mark Souder 13 Cosponsors 0 points	Honoring the men and women of the Drug Enforcement Administration on the occasion of its 35th anniversary. Referred to Senate committee on Tuesday, July 15, 2008
H.RES.1325 Patrick McHenry 51 Cosponsors 1 points	Honoring the life of Jesse Alexander Helms, Jr., distinguished former Senator from North Carolina. Passed/agreed to in House on Thursday, July 10, 2008
H.RES.1328 Todd Platts 88 Cosponsors 0 points	Supporting the goals and ideals of National Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month. Referred to House committee on Wednesday, July 9, 2008
H.R.3195 Steny Hoyer 253 Cosponsors 15 points	ADA Restoration Act of 2007 To restore the intent and protections of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. Read the second time 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.RES.353 Elijah Cummings 101 Cosponsors 0 points	Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that there should be an increased commitment supporting the development of innovative advanced imaging technologies for prostate cancer detection and treatment. Passed/agreed to in House on Thursday, June 26, 2008
H.RES.1315 Michael McCaul 26 Cosponsors 0 points	Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Referred to House committee on Thursday, June 26, 2008
H.R.6070 John Carter 69 Cosponsors 0 points	Military Spouses Residency Relief Act To amend the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act to guarantee the residency of spouses of military personnel. House committee/subcommittee actions on Thursday, June 26, 2008
H.R.6394 Gabrielle Giffords 12 Cosponsors 0 points	Border Health Care Relief Act of 2008 To amend the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 to extend Federal reimbursement of emergency health services furnished to undocumented aliens, and for other purposes. Referred to House committee on Thursday, June 26, 2008
H.R.6367 Kevin Brady 30 Cosponsors 3 points	To provide an exception to certain mandatory minimum sentence requirements for a law enforcement officer who uses, carries, or possesses a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence committed while pursuing or apprehending a suspect. Referred to House committee on Wednesday, June 25, 2008
H.RES.1283 Lee Terry 78 Cosponsors 1 points	Expressing heartfelt sympathy for the victims and their families following the tornado that hit Little Sioux, Iowa, on June 11, 2008. Passed/agreed to in House on Tuesday, June 24, 2008
H.R.6259 Bob Filner 3 Cosponsors 0 points	Huntington's Disease Parity Act of 2008 To require the Commissioner of Social Security to revise the medical criteria for evaluating disability in a person diagnosed with Huntington's Disease and to waive the 24-month waiting period for Medicare eligibility for individuals disabled by Huntington's Disease. Referred to House subcommittee on Tuesday, June 17, 2008
H.R.5940 Bart Gordon 30 Cosponsors 18 points	National Nanotechnology Initiative Amendments Act of 2008 To authorize activities for support of nanotechnology research and development, and for other purposes. Referred to Senate committee on Friday, June 6, 2008
H.R.3916 Ralph Hall 25 Cosponsors 3 points	To provide for the next generation of border and maritime security technologies. Reported on Wednesday, June 4, 2008
H.RES.1180 Dave Reichert 7 Cosponsors 3 points	Resolution recognizing the efforts and contributions of outstanding women scientists, technologists, engineers, and mathematicians in the United States and around the world. Passed/agreed to in House on Wednesday, June 4, 2008
H.R.5924 Robert Wexler 21 Cosponsors 0 points	Emergency Nursing Supply Relief Act To provide relief for the shortage of nurses in the United States, and for other purposes. Referred to House subcommittee on Tuesday, June 3, 2008
H.CON.RES.134 Albert Wynn 88 Cosponsors 0 points	Expressing the sense of the Congress that there should be established a Bebe Moore Campbell National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month to enhance public awareness of mental illness, especially within minority communities. Referred to Senate committee on Monday, June 2, 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.2885 Paul Kanjorski 28 Cosponsors 0 points	Credit Monitoring Clarification Act To amend the Credit Repair Organizations Act to clarify the applicability of certain provisions to credit monitoring services, and for other purposes. House committee/subcommittee actions on Tuesday, May 20, 2008
H.RES.789 Michele Bachmann 63 Cosponsors 4 points	Honoring public child welfare agencies, nonprofit organizations and private entities providing services for foster children. Passed/agreed to in House on Wednesday, May 14, 2008
H.R.6026 Jerry Lewis 147 Cosponsors 0 points	Clean Global War on Terror Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2008 Making emergency supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2008, and for other purposes. Referred to House committee on Tuesday, May 13, 2008
H.R.1512 Linda Sanchez 60 Cosponsors 0 points	To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide for compensation to States incarcerating undocumented aliens charged with a felony or two or more misdemeanors. Referred to Senate committee on Monday, May 12, 2008
H.R.5794 Kevin Brady 70 Cosponsors 3 points	Federal Sunset Act of 2008 To provide for the periodic review of the efficiency and public need for Federal agencies, to establish a Commission for the purpose of reviewing the efficiency and public need of such agencies, and to provide for the abolishment of agencies for which a public need does not exist. Referred to House subcommittee on Monday, May 12, 2008
H.RES.1091 Don Young 112 Cosponsors 1 points	Honoring the life, achievements, and contributions of Charlton Heston and extending its deepest sympathies to the family of Charlton Heston for the loss of such a great generous man, husband, and father. Passed/agreed to in House on Wednesday, May 7, 2008
H.R.5984 Roscoe Bartlett 121 Cosponsors 0 points	Clean Energy Tax Stimulus Act of 2008 To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for the limited continuation of clean energy production incentives and incentives to improve energy efficiency in order to prevent a downturn in these sectors that would result from a lapse in the tax law. Referred to House committee on Wednesday, May 7, 2008
H.RES.1122 Marilyn Musgrave 112 Cosponsors 0 points	Recognizing Armed Forces Day. House committee/subcommittee actions on Thursday, May 1, 2008
H.RES.1165 Ted Poe 17 Cosponsors 0 points	Honoring the life and accomplishments of the actor Jimmy Stewart and the contributions he made to the Nation on the 100th anniversary of his birth. Referred to House committee on Tuesday, April 29, 2008
H.RES.1079 Ruben Hinojosa 59 Cosponsors 0 points	Supporting the goals and ideals of Financial Literacy Month 2008, and for other purposes. Passed/agreed to in House on Tuesday, April 29, 2008
H.R.5728 Shelley Capito 7 Cosponsors 3 points	Border Fence Trust Fund Act of 2008 To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow individual taxpayers to designate a portion of income taxes to fund the improvement of barriers at the United States border, and for other purposes. Referred to House subcommittee on Monday, April 28, 2008
H.R.5760 Ginny Brown-Waite 15 Cosponsors 0 points	Child Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008 To reauthorize the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006, and for other purposes. Referred to House subcommittee on Monday, April 28, 2008
H.RES.981 Tammy Baldwin 103 Cosponsors 0 points	Recognizing March 6, 2008, as the first-ever World Glaucoma Day, established to increase awareness of glaucoma, which is the second leading cause of preventable blindness in the United States and worldwide. Passed/agreed to in House on Tuesday, April 22, 2008
H.R.5839 Steve Buyer 12 Cosponsors 1 points	Safeguarding America's Pharmaceuticals Act of 2008 To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to improve the safety of drugs. Referred to House subcommittee on Thursday, April 17, 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.R.5629 Anna Eshoo 34 Cosponsors 0 points	Pathway for Biosimilars Act To amend the Public Health Service Act to establish a pathway for the licensure of biosimilar biological products, and for other purposes. Referred to House subcommittee on Monday, April 14, 2008
H.R.5769 Phil Gingrey 36 Cosponsors 1 points	SMASH Act of 2008 To direct the Federal Trade Commission to revise the Telemarketing Sales Rule to explicitly prohibit the sending of a text message containing an unsolicited advertisement to a cellular telephone number listed on the national do-not-call registry. Referred to House subcommittee on Monday, April 14, 2008
H.R.5759 Paul Broun 38 Cosponsors 3 points	English as the Official Language Act of 2008 To amend title 4, United States Code, to declare English as the national language of the Government of the United States, and for other purposes. Referred to House committee on Thursday, April 10, 2008
H.RES.838 Thaddeus McCotter 80 Cosponsors 0 points	Welcoming His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI on his first apostolic visit to the United States. Passed/agreed to in House on Wednesday, April 9, 2008
H.R.5752 Bill Sali 32 Cosponsors 1 points	To provide for the security of United States passports, and for other purposes. Referred to House committee on Wednesday, April 9, 2008
H.R.5731 Elton Gallegly 39 Cosponsors 0 points	Secure the Capitol Act To prohibit offices of the legislative branch from entering into a contract for the provision of goods or services within the Capitol Complex with any contractor who does not participate in the basic pilot program for employment eligibility verification, and for other purposes. Referred to House committee on Tuesday, April 8, 2008
H.R.4847 Harry Mitchell 28 Cosponsors 0 points	United States Fire Administration Reauthorization Act of 2007 To reauthorize the United States Fire Administration, and for other purposes. Referred to Senate committee on Friday, April 4, 2008
H.R.5695 Ginny Brown-Waite 10 Cosponsors 3 points	Noncitizen Voting Prevention Act of 2008 To amend the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 to require applications for voter registration with respect to elections for Federal office to include a statement that an alien who falsely claims to be a citizen of the United States is deportable under the Immigration and Nationality Act, and for other purposes. Referred to House committee on Thursday, April 3, 2008
H.RES.1005 Tom Davis 51 Cosponsors 0 points	Supporting the goals and ideals of Borderline Personality Disorder Awareness Month. Passed/agreed to in House on Tuesday, April 1, 2008
H.CON.RES.302 Kay Granger 124 Cosponsors 0 points	Supporting the observance of Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month, and for other purposes. Referred to Senate committee on Tuesday, April 1, 2008
H.R.5646 Paul Broun 48 Cosponsors 3 points	Protecting the Second Amendment and Hunting Rights on Federal Lands Act of 2008 To protect the second amendment rights of individuals to carry firearms and ammunition in units of the National Park System and the National Wildlife Refuge System and to require that hunting activities be a land use in all management plans for Federal land to the extent that such use is not clearly incompatible with the purposes for which the Federal land is managed. Referred to House subcommittee on Tuesday, March 18, 2008
H.R.5568 Sam Graves 3 Cosponsors 0 points	Start Building a Real Fence Act of 2008 To amend the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 to clarify requirements relating to the construction of a physical fence along the southwest border, and for other purposes. Referred to House subcommittee on Tuesday, March 18, 2008
H.R.5641 Thaddeus McCotter 9 Cosponsors 0 points	IRA Assistance Act of 2008 To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to permit hardship loans from certain individual retirement plans. Referred to House committee on Friday, March 14, 2008
H.R.5596 Ken Calvert 15 Cosponsors 0 points	To extend the basic pilot program for employment eligibility confirmation. Referred to House committee 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.CON.RES.315 Joe Wilson 111 Cosponsors 0 points	Supporting the idea that coalition victory in Iraq is possible. Referred to House committee on Tuesday, March 11, 2008
H.RES.1037 Steve Kagen 5 Cosponsors 0 points	Expressing the need for enhanced public awareness of Hidradenitis Suppurativa, and for the support of the designation of a National Hidradenitis Suppurativa Awareness Month. Referred to House subcommittee on Tuesday, March 11, 2008
H.R.5534 Raul Grijalva 76 Cosponsors 0 points	Bear Protection Act of 2008 To amend the Lacey Act Amendments of 1981 to extend its protections to bears illegally harvested for their viscera in the same manner as with respect to prohibited wildlife species, and for other purposes. House committee/subcommittee actions on Tuesday, March 11, 2008
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