Representative Henry Waxman (D-CA-30)

Representative Henry Waxman (D-CA-30)
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H.R.6576 Henry Waxman 1 Cosponsors 30 points	Reducing Information Control Designations Act To require the Archivist of the United States to promulgate regulations regarding the use of information control designations, and for other purposes. Referred to Senate committee on Thursday, July 31, 2008
H.R.6575 Henry Waxman 1 Cosponsors 5 points	Over-Classification Reduction Act To require the Archivist of the United States to promulgate regulations to prevent the over-classification of information, and for other purposes. Placed on the Union Calendar on Wednesday, July 30, 2008
H.R.6388 Henry Waxman 18 Cosponsors 30 points	Government Accountability Office Improvement Act of 2008 To provide additional authorities to the Comptroller General of the United States, and for other purposes. Referred to Senate committee on Wednesday, July 30, 2008
H.R.6500 Henry Waxman 2 Cosponsors 5 points	Thrift Savings Plan Enhancement Act of 2008 To amend title 5, United States Code, to provide for the automatic enrollment of new participants in the Thrift Savings Plan, and for other purposes. Referred to House committee on Tuesday, July 15, 2008
H.R.5811 Henry Waxman 2 Cosponsors 30 points	Electronic Communications Preservation Act To amend title 44, United States Code, to require preservation of certain electronic records by Federal agencies, to require a certification and reports relating to Presidential records, and for other purposes. Referred to Senate committee on Thursday, July 10, 2008

H.R.3268 Henry Waxman 0 Cosponsors 5 points	Government Accountability Office Act of 2007 To make certain reforms with respect to the Government Accountability Office, and for other purposes. House committee/subcommittee actions on Thursday, March 13, 2008
H.CON.RES.306 Henry Waxman 3 Cosponsors 9 points	Permitting the use of the Rotunda of the Capitol for a ceremony as part of the commemoration of the days of remembrance of victims of the Holocaust. Passed/agreed to in Senate on Tuesday, March 11, 2008
H.R.5575 Henry Waxman 16 Cosponsors 5 points	Moratorium on Uncontrolled Power Plants Act of 2008 To require new coal-fired electric generating units to use state-of-the-art control technology to capture and permanently sequester carbon dioxide emissions, and for other purposes. Referred to House subcommittee on Tuesday, March 11, 2008
H.R.4993 Henry Waxman 1 Cosponsors 5 points	Vaccines for the Uninsured Adult Act of 2008 To amend the Public Health Service Act to increase the availability of vaccines, and for other purposes. Referred to House subcommittee on Thursday, February 28, 2008
H.R.4705 Henry Waxman 0 Cosponsors 5 points	Vaccines for the Uninsured Adult Act of 2008 To amend the Public Health Service Act to increase the availability of vaccines, and for other purposes. Referred to House subcommittee on Tuesday, February 5, 2008
H.R.4990 Henry Waxman 1 Cosponsors 5 points	Vaccines for Children Access Act of 2008 To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to include all public clinics for the distribution of pediatric vaccines under the Medicaid Program. Referred to House subcommittee on Wednesday, January 16, 2008
H.R.4991 Henry Waxman 1 Cosponsors 5 points	Vaccine Shortage Preparedness Act of 2008 To amend the Social Security Act, the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, and the Public Health Service Act to ensure a sufficient supply of vaccines, and for other purposes. Referred to House subcommittee on Wednesday, January 16, 2008
H.R.4992 Henry Waxman 2 Cosponsors 5 points	Medicare Improvement Act of 2007 To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for coverage of federally recommended vaccines under Medicare part B. Referred to House subcommittee on Wednesday, January 16, 2008
H.R.4702 Henry Waxman 0 Cosponsors 5 points	Vaccines for Children Access Act of 2008 To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to include all public clinics for the distribution of pediatric vaccines under the Medicaid Program. Referred to House subcommittee on Thursday, December 13, 2007
H.R.4703 Henry Waxman 0 Cosponsors 5 points	Vaccine Shortage Preparedness Act of 2008 To amend the Social Security Act, the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, and the Public Health Service Act to ensure a sufficient supply of vaccines, and for other purposes. Referred to House subcommittee on Thursday, December 13, 2007
H.R.4704 Henry Waxman 0 Cosponsors 5 points	Medicare Improvement Act of 2004 To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for coverage of federally recommended vaccines under Medicare part B. Referred to House subcommittee on Thursday, December 13, 2007
H.R.238 Henry Waxman 1 Cosponsors 50 points	To repeal a prohibition on the use of certain funds for tunneling in certain areas with respect to the Los Angeles to San Fernando Valley Metro Rail project, California. Passed/agreed to in Senate on Monday, December 3, 2007
H.R.4083 Henry Waxman 6 Cosponsors 5 points	Non-Prescription Drug Modernization Act of 2007 To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to provide for the amendment or repeal of monographs, to expand the Food and Drug Administration's authority to regulate drug advertising, and for other purposes. Referred to House committee on Tuesday, November 6, 2007
H.RES.759 Henry Waxman 59 Cosponsors 5 points	Recognizing the 40th Anniversary of the Mass Movement for Soviet Jewish Freedom and the 20th Anniversary of the Freedom Sunday Rally for Soviet Jewry on the Mall in Washington, D.C. Passed/agreed to in House on Tuesday, October 30, 2007
H.R.1254 Henry Waxman 15 Cosponsors 30 points	Presidential Library Donation Reform Act of 2007 To amend title 44, United States Code, to require information on contributors to Presidential library fundraising organizations. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders on Monday, October 22, 2007
H.RES.734 Henry Waxman 12 Cosponsors 5 points	Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives regarding the withholding of information relating to corruption in Iraq. Passed/agreed to in House on Tuesday, October 16, 2007
H.R.1108 Henry Waxman 215 Cosponsors 5 points	Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act To protect the public health by providing the Food and Drug Administration with certain authority to regulate tobacco products. House committee/subcommittee actions on Wednesday, October 3, 2007
H.R.3743 Henry Waxman 3 Cosponsors 5 points	To declare certain children's products containing lead to be banned hazardous substances. Referred to House subcommittee on Wednesday, October 3, 2007
H.J.RES.49 Henry Waxman 0 Cosponsors 5 points	Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services within the Department of Health and Human Services relating a cost limit for providers operated by units of government and other provisions under the Medicaid Program. Referred to House subcommittee on Tuesday, September 11, 2007
H.R.2635 Henry Waxman 14 Cosponsors 5 points	Carbon-Neutral Government Act of 2007 To reduce the Federal Government's contribution to global warming through measures that promote efficiency in the Federal Government's management and operations, and for other purposes. Placed on the Union Calendar on Friday, August 3, 2007
H.R.1255 Henry Waxman 14 Cosponsors 30 points	Presidential Records Act Amendments of 2007 To amend chapter 22 of title 44, United States Code, popularly known as the Presidential Records Act, to establish procedures for the consideration of claims of constitutionally based privilege against disclosure of Presidential records. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders on Wednesday, June 20, 2007
H.R.985 Henry Waxman 29 Cosponsors 30 points	Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act of 2007 To amend title 5, United States Code, to clarify which disclosures of information are protected from prohibited personnel practices; to require a statement in nondisclosure policies, forms, and agreements to the effect that such policies, forms, and agreements are consistent with certain disclosure protections, and for other purposes. Referred to Senate subcommittee on Wednesday, June 6, 2007
H.R.1111 Henry Waxman 42 Cosponsors 5 points	Kids Come First Act of 2007 To amend titles XIX and XXI of the Social Security Act to ensure that every uninsured child in America has health insurance coverage, and for other purposes. Referred to House subcommittee on Tuesday, June 5, 2007
H.R.2225 Henry Waxman 2 Cosponsors 5 points	West Los Angeles Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center Preservation Act of 2007 To direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to submit a report to Congress providing a master plan for the use of the West Los Angeles Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, California, and for other purposes. Referred to House subcommittee on Friday, May 11, 2007
H.R.2232 Henry Waxman 22 Cosponsors 5 points	Clarification of Federal Employment Protections Act To affirm that Federal employees are protected from discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and to repudiate any assertion to the contrary. Referred to House committee on Wednesday, May 9, 2007
H.CON.RES.66 Henry Waxman 6 Cosponsors 12 points	Permitting the use of the rotunda of the Capitol for a ceremony as part of the commemoration of the days of remembrance of victims of the Holocaust. Passed/agreed to in Senate on Monday, March 26, 2007
H.R.1590 Henry Waxman 150 Cosponsors 5 points	Safe Climate Act of 2007 To reduce greenhouse gas emissions and protect the climate. Referred to House subcommittee on Wednesday, March 21, 2007
H.R.1561 Henry Waxman 12 Cosponsors 5 points	Enhancing Drug Safety and Innovation Act of 2007 To amend the Public Health Service Act and the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to improve drug safety and oversight, and for other purposes. Referred to House subcommittee on Tuesday, March 20, 2007
H.R.1362 Henry Waxman 3 Cosponsors 30 points	Accountability in Contracting Act To reform acquisition practices of the Federal Government. Referred to Senate committee on Thursday, March 15, 2007
H.R.1432 Henry Waxman 1 Cosponsors 5 points	Preserve Access to Affordable Generics Act To prohibit brand name drug companies from compensating generic drug companies to delay the entry of a generic drug into the market. Referred to House subcommittee on Monday, March 12, 2007
H.RES.193 Henry Waxman 1 Cosponsors 1 points	Providing amounts for the expenses of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform in the One Hundred Tenth Congress. Referred to House committee on Friday, February 16, 2007
H.R.1038 Henry Waxman 28 Cosponsors 5 points	To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for the licensing of comparable and interchangeable biological products, and for other purposes. Referred to House subcommittee on Thursday, February 15, 2007
H.R.984 Henry Waxman 20 Cosponsors 5 points	Executive Branch Reform Act of 2007 To provide for reform in the operations of the executive branch. House committee/subcommittee actions on Wednesday, February 14, 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. Referred to House committee on Friday, August 1, 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.5683 Danny Davis 8 Cosponsors 27 points	Government Accountability Office Act of 2008 To make certain reforms with respect to the Government Accountability Office, and for other purposes. Passed/agreed to in Senate on Friday, August 1, 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.554 James McGovern 7 Cosponsors 0 points	Paleontological Resources Preservation Act To provide for the protection of paleontological resources on Federal lands, and for other purposes. House Committee on Judiciary Granted an extension for further consideration endi... on Friday, August 1, 2008

H.R.6826 Allyson Schwartz 39 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.6752 Frank Pallone 1 Cosponsors 3 points	Independent Drug Education and Outreach Act of 2008 To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide grants or contracts for prescription drug education and outreach for healthcare providers and their patients. Referred to House committee on Thursday, July 31, 2008
H.RES.1357 Doris Matsui 31 Cosponsors 1 points	Recognizing the significance of the 20th anniversary of the signing of the Civil Liberties Act of 1988 and the greatness of America in her ability to admit and remedy past mistakes and to recognize that there are other communities who may have suffered the mistakes of our government but have not received an apology and reparations. Passed/agreed to in House on Thursday, July 31, 2008
H.RES.1406 Hilda Solis 17 Cosponsors 0 points	Recognizing and supporting the work of Community Health Workers. Referred to House committee on Thursday, July 31, 2008
H.R.2192 Paul Hodes 44 Cosponsors 0 points	To amend title 38, United States Code, to establish an Ombudsman within the Department of Veterans Affairs. Referred to Senate committee on Wednesday, July 30, 2008
H.R.6680 Jose Serrano 25 Cosponsors 3 points	Community AIDS and Hepatitis Prevention Act To permit the use of Federal funds for syringe exchange programs for purposes of reducing the transmission of bloodborne pathogens, including HIV and viral hepatitis. Referred to House committee on Wednesday, July 30, 2008
H.RES.1370 Howard Berman 19 Cosponsors 1 points	Resolution calling on the Government of the People's Republic of China to immediately end abuses of the human rights of its citizens, to cease repression of Tibetan and Uighur people, and to end its support for the Governments of Sudan and Burma to ensure that the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games take place in an atmosphere that honors the Olympic traditions of freedom and openness. Passed/agreed to in House on Wednesday, July 30, 2008
H.RES.194 Steve Cohen 119 Cosponsors 0 points	Apologizing for the enslavement and racial segregation of African-Americans. Passed/agreed to in House on Tuesday, July 29, 2008
H.R.5501 Howard Berman 5 Cosponsors 30 points	To authorize appropriations for fiscal years 2009 through 2013 to provide assistance to foreign countries to combat HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria, and for other purposes. Presented to President on Friday, July 25, 2008
H.R.6600 Lloyd Doggett 40 Cosponsors 3 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. Referred to House committee on Thursday, July 24, 2008
H.RES.1361 Howard Berman 19 Cosponsors 0 points	Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the United States should lead a high-level diplomatic effort to defeat 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 Charter of Human Rights and to ensure that the Durban Review Conference serves as a forum to review commitments to combat all forms of racism. House committee/subcommittee actions on Thursday, July 24, 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.R.2933 Gary Miller 105 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. House committee/subcommittee actions on Thursday, July 10, 2008
H.R.5541 Nick Rahall 56 Cosponsors 0 points	Federal Land Assistance, Management and Enhancement Act To provide a supplemental funding source for catastrophic emergency wildland fire suppression activities on Department of the Interior and National Forest System lands, to require the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture to develop a cohesive wildland fire management strategy, and for other purposes. Referred to Senate committee on Thursday, July 10, 2008
H.R.3981 Brad Miller 57 Cosponsors 0 points	Preserve America and Save America's Treasures Act To authorize the Preserve America Program and Save America's Treasures Program, and for other purposes. Received in the Senate on Wednesday, July 9, 2008
H.R.5741 Madeleine Bordallo 14 Cosponsors 0 points	Shark Conservation Act of 2008 To amend the High Seas Driftnet Fishing Moratorium Protection Act and the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act to improve the conservation of sharks. Referred to Senate committee on Wednesday, July 9, 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.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.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. Referred to Senate committee on Friday, June 27, 2008
H.R.6052 Jim Oberstar 22 Cosponsors 0 points	Saving Energy Through Public Transportation Act of 2008 To promote increased public transportation use, to promote increased use of alternative fuels in providing public transportation, and for other purposes. Referred to Senate committee on Friday, June 27, 2008
H.CON.RES.384 Barbara Lee 16 Cosponsors 0 points	Supporting the goals and ideals of National HIV Testing Day, and for other purposes. Referred to House committee on Thursday, June 26, 2008
H.R.6381 Frank Pallone 66 Cosponsors 3 points	Medical Device Safety Act of 2008 To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act with respect to liability under State and local requirements respecting devices. Referred to House committee on Thursday, June 26, 2008
H.R.6411 Chris Murphy 6 Cosponsors 3 points	Strengthening Transparency and Accountability in Federal Spending Act of 2008 To strengthen transparency and accountability in Federal spending. Referred to House committee on Thursday, June 26, 2008
H.RES.1314 Sander Levin 27 Cosponsors 0 points	Remembering the 75th anniversary of the Ukrainian Famine-Genocide of 1932-1933 and extending the deepest sympathies of the House of Representatives to the victims, survivors, and families of this tragedy, and for other purposes. Referred to House committee on Thursday, June 26, 2008
H.R.5687 Bill Clay 1 Cosponsors 18 points	Federal Advisory Committee Act Amendments of 2008 To amend the Federal Advisory Committee Act to increase the transparency and accountability of Federal advisory committees, and for other purposes. Referred to Senate committee on Wednesday, June 25, 2008
H.R.6375 Pete Stark 10 Cosponsors 0 points	Healthy Transition Act of 2008 To provide assistance to adolescents and young adults with serious mental health disorders as they transition to adulthood. Referred to House committee on Wednesday, June 25, 2008
H.RES.1229 Greg Meeks 107 Cosponsors 3 points	Recognizing the achievements of America's high school valedictorians of the graduating class of 2008, promoting the importance of encouraging intellectual growth, and rewarding academic excellence of all American high school students. Passed/agreed to in House on Monday, June 23, 2008
H.CON.RES.350 Nick Rahall 36 Cosponsors 0 points	Expressing the sense of the Congress that the United States, through the International Whaling Commission, should use all appropriate measures to end commercial whaling in all of its forms, including scientific and other special permit whaling, coastal whaling, and community-based whaling, and seek to strengthen the conservation and management measures to facilitate the conservation of whale species, and for other purposes. Referred to Senate committee on Friday, June 20, 2008
H.R.4106 Danny Davis 9 Cosponsors 18 points	Telework Improvements Act of 2007 To improve teleworking in executive agencies by developing a telework program that allows employees to telework at least 20 percent of the hours worked in every 2 administrative workweeks, and for other purposes. Referred to Senate subcommittee on Thursday, June 19, 2008
H.CON.RES.337 Tom Allen 51 Cosponsors 5 points	Honoring Seeds of Peace for its 15th anniversary as an organization promoting understanding, reconciliation, acceptance, coexistence, and peace in the Middle East, South Asia, and other regions of conflict. Passed/agreed to in Senate on Wednesday, June 18, 2008
H.RES.1127 Gary Ackerman 35 Cosponsors 0 points	Resolution condemning the endemic restrictions on freedom of the press and media and public expression in the Middle East and the concurrent and widespread presence of anti-Semitic incitement to violence and Holocaust denial in the Arab media and press. Passed/agreed to in House on Wednesday, June 18, 2008
H.R.1553 Deborah Pryce 226 Cosponsors 0 points	Conquer Childhood Cancer Act of 2007 To amend the Public Health Service Act to advance medical research and treatments into pediatric cancers, ensure patients and families have access to information regarding pediatric cancers and current treatments for such cancers, establish a national childhood cancer registry, and promote public awareness of pediatric cancer. Received in the Senate on Monday, June 16, 2008
H.R.5912 John McHugh 7 Cosponsors 3 points	To amend title 39, United States Code, to make cigarettes and certain other tobacco products nonmailable, and for other purposes. Placed on the Union Calendar on Thursday, June 12, 2008
H.R.759 Eliot Engel 12 Cosponsors 3 points	To redesignate the Ellis Island Library on the third floor of the Ellis Island Immigration Museum, located on Ellis Island in New York Harbor, as the "Bob Hope Memorial Library". Senate floor actions on Wednesday, June 11, 2008
H.R.359 Hilda Solis 68 Cosponsors 0 points	Cesar Estrada Chavez Study Act To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a special resource study of sites associated with the life of Cesar Estarada Chavez and the farm labor movement.