Representative Jim McDermott (D-WA-07)

Representative Jim McDermott (D-WA-07)
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H.R.6893 Jim McDermott 1 Cosponsors 45 points	Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act of 2008 To amend parts B and E of title IV of the Social Security Act to connect and support relative caregivers, improve outcomes for children in foster care, provide for tribal foster care and adoption access, improve incentives for adoption, and for other purposes. Presented to President on Friday, September 26, 2008
H.R.2608 Jim McDermott 15 Cosponsors 50 points	SSI Extension for Elderly and Disabled Refugees Act An act to amend section 402 of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 to provide, in fiscal years 2009 through 2011, extensions of supplemental security income for refugees, asylees, and certain other humanitarian immigrants, and to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to collect unemployment compensation debts resulting from fraud. Passed/agreed to in Senate on Friday, August 1, 2008
H.R.6561 Jim McDermott 4 Cosponsors 5 points	Emergency Gasoline Assistance Act To increase funding of the block grant to States for social services, to provide for the increased funding to be used to provide a gasoline subsidy to certain low-income individuals, and for other purposes. Referred to House committee on Tuesday, July 22, 2008
H.R.6499 Jim McDermott 1 Cosponsors 5 points	Sensible Estate Tax Act of 2008 To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to reform the estate and gift tax. Referred to House committee on Tuesday, July 15, 2008
H.R.6501 Jim McDermott 2 Cosponsors 5 points	Investing in our Human Resources Act of 2008 To amend the Social Security Act to establish a trust fund with proceeds from the taxing of internet gambling to provide opportunities to individuals who are, or were, in foster care and individuals in declining sectors of the economy. Referred to House committee on Tuesday, July 15, 2008

H.R.6307 Jim McDermott 27 Cosponsors 30 points	Fostering Connections to Success Act To amend parts B and E of title IV of the Social Security Act to assist children in foster care in developing or maintaining connections to family, community, support, health care, and school, and for other purposes. Referred to Senate committee on Wednesday, June 25, 2008
H.R.6374 Jim McDermott 2 Cosponsors 5 points	American Shipping Reinvestment Act of 2008 To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the shipping investment withdrawal rules in section 955 and to provide an incentive to reinvest foreign shipping earnings in the United States. Referred to House committee on Wednesday, June 25, 2008
H.R.5749 Jim McDermott 36 Cosponsors 15 points	Emergency Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 2008 To provide for a program of emergency unemployment compensation. Read the second time on Friday, June 13, 2008
H.RES.1185 Jim McDermott 11 Cosponsors 5 points	Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that Congress should recognize the important contributions of Americans who serve as foster parents and, in doing so, unselfishly open their homes and family lives to children in need. Passed/agreed to in House on Tuesday, May 20, 2008
H.RES.1105 Jim McDermott 5 Cosponsors 1 points	Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives supporting Earth Hour 2008, and for other purposes. Referred to House subcommittee on Tuesday, April 15, 2008
H.R.5804 Jim McDermott 23 Cosponsors 5 points	Taxpayer Responsibility, Accountability, and Consistency Act of 2008 To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify the rules relating to the treatment of individuals as independent contractors or employees, and for other purposes. Referred to House committee on Tuesday, April 15, 2008
H.R.5705 Jim McDermott 7 Cosponsors 5 points	Clean Energy Partnership with India Act of 2008 To establish a commission to study methods for improving and promoting bilateral renewable energy cooperation between the United States and India, and for other purposes. Referred to House committee on Thursday, April 3, 2008
H.R.3905 Jim McDermott 22 Cosponsors 5 points	New Partnership for Development Act of 2007 To provide for an additional trade preference program for least developed countries, and for other purposes. Referred to House subcommittee on Tuesday, March 25, 2008
H.R.5523 Jim McDermott 0 Cosponsors 5 points	Internet Gambling Regulation and Tax Enforcement Act of 2008 To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to regulate and tax Internet gambling. Referred to House committee on Tuesday, March 4, 2008
H.R.5466 Jim McDermott 26 Cosponsors 5 points	Invest in KIDS Act To improve outcomes for vulnerable children by investing in families, improving accountability in the child welfare system, and finding safe, stable, and permanent homes for foster children. Referred to House committee on Thursday, February 14, 2008
H.R.5130 Jim McDermott 18 Cosponsors 5 points	To provide for the payment of interest on claims paid by the United States in connection with the correction of military records when a military corrections board sets aside a conviction by court-martial. Referred to House subcommittee on Monday, February 11, 2008
H.R.5237 Jim McDermott 2 Cosponsors 5 points	To amend the U.S. Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria Act of 2003. Referred to House committee on Wednesday, February 6, 2008
H.R.5059 Jim McDermott 0 Cosponsors 5 points	To amend the African Growth and Opportunity Act with respect to lesser developed countries. Referred to House subcommittee on Monday, January 28, 2008
H.R.5147 Jim McDermott 0 Cosponsors 5 points	To suspend temporarily the duty on gaiters of textile materials. Referred to House committee on Monday, January 28, 2008
H.R.4996 Jim McDermott 0 Cosponsors 5 points	To suspend temporarily the duty on modified steel leaf spring leaves. Referred to House committee on Wednesday, January 16, 2008
H.R.4997 Jim McDermott 0 Cosponsors 5 points	To extend the temporary suspension of duty on certain suspension system stabilizer bars. Referred to House committee on Wednesday, January 16, 2008
H.R.4934 Jim McDermott 49 Cosponsors 5 points	Emergency Unemployment Compensation Act of 2008 To provide for a program of emergency unemployment compensation, and for other purposes. Referred to House committee on Tuesday, January 15, 2008
H.R.4674 Jim McDermott 0 Cosponsors 5 points	To modify the provisions of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States relating to returned property. Referred to House committee on Thursday, December 13, 2007
H.R.4675 Jim McDermott 0 Cosponsors 5 points	To provide for duty free treatment for certain United States Government property returned to the United States. Referred to House committee on Thursday, December 13, 2007
H.R.3764 Jim McDermott 1 Cosponsors 5 points	Peace Corps Volunteers Tax Improvement Act of 2007 To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to suspend the 5-year period relating to the exclusion of gain on the sale of a principal residence during a period of service with the Peace Corps. Referred to House committee on Thursday, October 4, 2007
H.R.3730 Jim McDermott 1 Cosponsors 5 points	United States-India Interparliamentary Exchange Act of 2007 To establish a United States-India interparliamentary exchange group. Referred to House committee on Tuesday, October 2, 2007
H.R.3680 Jim McDermott 10 Cosponsors 5 points	Extension of Vital Tax Policy Act of 2007 To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend the deduction for State and local sales taxes. Referred to House committee on Thursday, September 27, 2007
H.RES.653 Jim McDermott 32 Cosponsors 1 points	Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the concept of nonviolence and the teachings of Gandhi remain relevant and instructive in today's world and the United States should take an active role in disseminating the message of nonviolence through education and public awareness. Referred to House committee on Monday, September 17, 2007
H.RES.607 Jim McDermott 23 Cosponsors 1 points	Extending best wishes to the people of India as they celebrate the 60th anniversary of India's independence from the British Empire. Referred to House committee on Thursday, August 2, 2007
H.R.3260 Jim McDermott 2 Cosponsors 5 points	To require the Secretary of the Treasury to modify regulations to provide that certain Federal subsidies shall not be considered a grant made with respect to a building or its operation for purposes of the low-income housing tax credit. Referred to House committee on Tuesday, July 31, 2007
H.RES.527 Jim McDermott 9 Cosponsors 5 points	Recognizing the month of November as "National Homeless Youth Awareness Month". Passed/agreed to in House on Wednesday, July 11, 2007
H.R.1819 Jim McDermott 29 Cosponsors 5 points	Congressional Commission on Civic Service Act To establish the Congressional Commission on Civic Service to study methods of improving and promoting volunteerism and national service, and for other purposes. Referred to House subcommittee on Monday, July 9, 2007
H.R.2607 Jim McDermott 1 Cosponsors 5 points	Internet Gambling Regulation and Tax Enforcement Act of 2007 To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to regulate internet gambling. Referred to House committee on Thursday, June 7, 2007
H.R.2233 Jim McDermott 11 Cosponsors 5 points	Unemployment Insurance Modernization Act To provide for special transfers of funds to States to promote certain improvements in State unemployment compensation laws. Referred to House subcommittee on Tuesday, May 15, 2007
H.R.2202 Jim McDermott 0 Cosponsors 5 points	Worker Empowerment Act To amend the Social Security Act to provide for wage insurance for dislocated workers. Referred to House committee on Tuesday, May 8, 2007
H.R.2181 Jim McDermott 0 Cosponsors 5 points	For the relief of Mohuiddin A. K. M. Ahmed. Referred to House committee on Thursday, May 3, 2007
H.RES.299 Jim McDermott 7 Cosponsors 5 points	Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that Congress should increase public awareness of child abuse and neglect and should continue to work with the States to reduce the incidence of child abuse and neglect through such programs as the Child Welfare Services and Promoting Safe and Stable Families programs. Passed/agreed to in House on Tuesday, April 24, 2007
H.R.1820 Jim McDermott 29 Cosponsors 5 points	Tax Equity for Health Plan Beneficiaries Act of 2007 To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend the exclusion from gross income for employer-provided health coverage for employees' spouses and dependent children to coverage provided to other eligible designated beneficiaries of employees. Referred to House committee on Thursday, March 29, 2007
H.R.1821 Jim McDermott 25 Cosponsors 5 points	Clean Renewable Energy for Public Power Act of 2007 To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify the rules relating to clean energy renewable bonds. Referred to House committee on Thursday, March 29, 2007
H.R.1200 Jim McDermott 17 Cosponsors 5 points	American Health Security Act of 2007 To provide for health care for every American and to control the cost and enhance the quality of the health care system. Referred to House subcommittee on Wednesday, March 28, 2007
H.R.1507 Jim McDermott 69 Cosponsors 5 points	Salmon Economic Analysis and Planning Act To ensure that proper information gathering and planning are undertaken to secure the preservation and recovery of the salmon and steelhead of the Columbia River Basin in a manner that protects and enhances local communities, ensures effective expenditure of Federal resources, and maintains reasonably priced, reliable power, to direct the Secretary of Commerce to seek scientific analysis of Federal efforts to restore salmon and steelhead listed under the Endangered Species Act of 1973, and for other purposes. Referred to House subcommittee on Friday, March 16, 2007
H.R.1386 Jim McDermott 88 Cosponsors 5 points	Child Support Protection Act of 2007 To repeal a provision enacted to end Federal matching of State spending of child support incentive payments. Referred to House subcommittee on Wednesday, March 14, 2007
H.R.1128 Jim McDermott 1 Cosponsors 5 points	To direct the Secretary of Defense to provide medical personnel of the Department of Veterans Affairs with access to information provided in the joint patient tracking application for the treatment of individuals at medical facilities of the Department of Veterans Affairs for injuries sustained while serving in Operation Iraqi Freedom or Operation Enduring Freedom. Referred to House subcommittee on Wednesday, March 14, 2007
H.R.1385 Jim McDermott 38 Cosponsors 5 points	EXTEND the Energy Efficiency Incentives Act of 2007 To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to improve and extend certain energy-related tax provisions, and for other purposes. Referred to House committee on Wednesday, March 7, 2007
H.R.949 Jim McDermott 0 Cosponsors 5 points	Duwamish Tribal Recognition Act To extend Federal recognition to the Duwamish Tribe, and for other purposes. Referred to House committee on Thursday, February 8, 2007
H.R.453 Jim McDermott 0 Cosponsors 5 points	Ending Subsidies for Big Oil Act of 2007 To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide that oil and gas companies will not be eligible for the effective rate reductions enacted in 2004 for domestic manufacturers. Referred to House committee on Friday, January 12, 2007

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H.R.3480 Chris Carney 43 Cosponsors 30 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.CON.RES.360 Barbara Lee 56 Cosponsors 3 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.6064 Lloyd Doggett 70 Cosponsors 18 points	National Silver Alert Act To encourage, enhance, and integrate Silver Alert plans throughout the United States, to authorize grants for the assistance of organizations to find missing adults, and for other purposes. Referred to Senate committee on Thursday, October 2, 2008
H.R.642 Stephanie Jones 101 Cosponsors 0 points	College Fire Prevention Act To establish the Honorable Stephanie Tubbs Jones Fire Suppression Demonstration Incentive Program within the Department of Education to promote installation of fire sprinkler systems, or other fire suppression or prevention technologies, in qualified student housing and dormitories, and for other purposes. Referred to Senate committee on Thursday, October 2, 2008
H.R.3402 Eliot Engel 14 Cosponsors 0 points	Calling Card Consumer Protection Act To require accurate and reasonable disclosure of the terms and conditions of prepaid telephone calling cards and services. Referred to Senate committee on Thursday, October 2, 2008

H.R.3174 Susan Davis 15 Cosponsors 0 points	Equal Justice for Our Military Act of 2007 To amend titles 28 and 10, United States Code, to allow for certiorari review of certain cases denied relief or review by the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces. Referred to Senate committee 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.1187 Lynn Woolsey 51 Cosponsors 0 points	Gulf of the Farallones and Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuaries Boundary Modification and Protection Act To expand the boundaries of the Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary and the Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuary, and for other purposes. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders 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.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.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.7233 Carolyn Maloney 5 Cosponsors 3 points	Family and Medical Leave Enhancement Act of 2008 To amend the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 to allow employees to take, as additional leave, parental involvement leave to participate in or attend their children's and grandchildren's educational and extracurricular activities and to clarify that leave may be taken for routine family medical needs and to assist elderly relatives, and for other purposes. Referred to House committee on Monday, September 29, 2008
H.RES.389 Donald Payne 50 Cosponsors 0 points	Supporting the goals and ideals of Malaria Awareness Day. Passed/agreed to in House on Saturday, September 27, 2008
H.R.923 John Lewis 81 Cosponsors 17 points	Emmett Till Unsolved Civil Rights Crime Act To provide for the investigation of certain unsolved civil rights crimes, and for other purposes. Presented to President on Friday, September 26, 2008
H.R.6950 Pete Stark 52 Cosponsors 24 points	Stephanie Tubbs Jones Gift of Life Medal Act of 2008 To establish the Stephanie Tubbs Jones Gift of Life Medal for organ donors and the family of organ donors. Received in the Senate on Friday, September 26, 2008
H.R.758 Rosa DeLauro 222 Cosponsors 24 points	Breast Cancer Patient Protection Act of 2007 To require that health plans provide coverage for a minimum hospital stay for mastectomies, lumpectomies, and lymph node dissection for the treatment of breast cancer and coverage for secondary consultations. Received in the Senate on Thursday, September 25, 2008
H.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.7090 Anna Eshoo 70 Cosponsors 3 points	Act to Save America's Forests To amend the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act of 1974 and related laws to strengthen the protection of native biodiversity and ban clearcutting on Federal land, to designate certain Federal land as Ancient forests, roadless areas, watershed protection areas, and special areas where logging and other intrusive activities are prohibited, to transfer administrative jurisdiction of Giant Sequoia National Monument to the National Park Service, to consider areas for inclusion in the National Park System, and for other purposes. Referred to House committee on Thursday, September 25, 2008
H.R.1464 Tom Udall 88 Cosponsors 0 points	Great Cats and Rare Canids Act of 2007 To assist in the conservation of rare felids and rare canids by supporting and providing financial resources for the conservation programs of nations within the range of rare felid and rare canid populations and projects of persons with demonstrated expertise in the conservation of rare felid and rare canid populations. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders on Wednesday, September 24, 2008
H.R.1497 Earl Blumenauer 67 Cosponsors 0 points	Legal Timber Protection Act To amend the Lacey Act Amendments of 1981 to extend its protections to plants illegally harvested outside of the United States, and for other purposes. Placed on the Union Calendar on Wednesday, September 24, 2008
H.R.3202 Chris Smith 29 Cosponsors 0 points	Foreign Service Overseas Pay Equity Act of 2007 To amend the Foreign Service Act of 1980 to extend comparability pay adjustments to members of the Foreign Service assigned to posts abroad, and to amend the provision relating to the death gratuity payable to surviving dependents of Foreign Service employees who die as a result of injuries sustained in the performance of duty abroad. Placed on the Union Calendar on Wednesday, September 24, 2008
H.R.7005 Charles Rangel 14 Cosponsors 15 points	Alternative Minimum Tax Relief Act of 2008 To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide alternative minimum tax relief for individuals for 2008. Received in the Senate on Wednesday, September 24, 2008
H.CON.RES.426 Maxine Waters 52 Cosponsors 0 points	Recognizing the 10th anniversary of the establishment of the Minority AIDS Initiative. Referred to House committee 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 33 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.R.6049 Charles Rangel 17 Cosponsors 36 points	Energy and Tax Extenders Act of 2008 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 Tuesday, September 23, 2008
H.RES.1314 Sander Levin 29 Cosponsors 3 points	Remembering the 75th anniversary of the Ukrainian Famine (Holodomor) of 1932-1933 and extending the deepest sympathies of the House of Representative to the victims, survivors, and families of this tragedy, and for other purposes. Passed/agreed to in House on Tuesday, September 23, 2008
H.RES.1381 Lucille Roybal-Allard 113 Cosponsors 0 points	Resolution expressing the sense of the House that there should be an increased public and private commitment prioritizing prevention and public health for all people in the United States. Passed/agreed to in House on Tuesday, September 23, 2008
H.RES.1484 Jim Cooper 10 Cosponsors 0 points	Recognizing Project HOPE for 50 years of exceptional service in improving and saving the lives of millions of children and adults in developing nations through humanitarian assistance and health education. Referred to House committee on Tuesday, September 23, 2008
H.R.998 Carolyn McCarthy 82 Cosponsors 1 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.RES.1374 Cathy McMorris Rodgers 8 Cosponsors 3 points