1. H.R.273 : To eliminate the 2013 statutory pay adjustment for Federal employees.
Sponsor: Rep DeSantis, Ron [FL-6]
(introduced 1/15/2013) Cosponsors (48)
Committees: House Oversight and Government Reform
Latest Major Action: 2/15/2013
Passed/agreed to in House. Status: On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 261 - 154 (Roll no. 44).
Latest Action: 2/15/2013
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
2. H.R.741 :
To require the Secretary of Defense to develop and implement a plan to
provide chiropractic health care services and benefits for certain new
beneficiaries as part of the TRICARE program.
Sponsor: Rep Rogers, Mike D. [AL-3]
(introduced 2/15/2013) Cosponsors (1)
Committees: House Armed Services
Latest Major Action: 2/15/2013
Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
3. H.R.742 :
To amend the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the Commodity
Exchange Act to repeal the indemnification requirements for regulatory
authorities to obtain access to swap data required to be provided by
swaps entities under such Acts.
Sponsor: Rep Crawford, Eric A. "Rick" [AR-1]
(introduced 2/15/2013) Cosponsors (3)
Committees: House Agriculture; House Financial Services
Latest Major Action: 2/15/2013
Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the Committee on
Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on Financial Services, for
a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for
consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the
committee concerned.
4. H.R.743 :
To restore the application of the Federal antitrust laws to the
business of health insurance to protect competition and consumers.
Sponsor: Rep DeFazio, Peter A. [OR-4]
(introduced 2/15/2013) Cosponsors (1)
Committees: House Judiciary
Latest Major Action: 2/15/2013
Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
5. H.R.744 : To provide effective criminal prosecutions for certain identity thefts, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Wasserman Schultz, Debbie [FL-23]
(introduced 2/15/2013) Cosponsors (1)
Committees: House Judiciary
Latest Major Action: 2/15/2013
Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
6. H.R.745 : To reauthorize the Water Desalination Act of 1996.
Sponsor: Rep Napolitano, Grace F. [CA-32]
(introduced 2/15/2013) Cosponsors (22)
Committees: House Natural Resources; House Science, Space, and Technology
Latest Major Action: 2/15/2013
Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the Committee on
Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Science, Space,
and Technology, for a period to be subsequently determined by the
Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall
within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
7. H.R.746 : To provide small businesses with a grace period for a regulatory violation, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Bentivolio, Kerry L. [MI-11]
(introduced 2/15/2013) Cosponsors (12)
Committees: House Judiciary
Latest Major Action: 2/15/2013
Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
8. H.R.747 :
To amend the Military Selective Service Act to require the
registration of women with the Selective Service System in light of the
Department of Defense elimination of the rule excluding women from
direct ground combat assignments in the Armed Forces.
Sponsor: Rep Rangel, Charles B. [NY-13]
(introduced 2/15/2013) Cosponsors (1)
Committees: House Armed Services
Latest Major Action: 2/15/2013
Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
9. H.R.748 :
To require all persons in the United States between the ages of 18 and
25 to perform national service, either as a member of the uniformed
services or as civilian service in a Federal, State, or local government
program or with a community-based agency or community-based entity, to
authorize the induction of persons in the uniformed services during
wartime to meet end-strength requirements of the uniformed services, to
provide for the registration of women under the Military Selective
Service Act, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Rangel, Charles B. [NY-13]
(introduced 2/15/2013) Cosponsors (None)
Committees: House Armed Services
Latest Major Action: 2/15/2013
Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
10. H.R.749 : To amend the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act to provide an exception to the annual privacy notice requirement.
Sponsor: Rep Luetkemeyer, Blaine [MO-3]
(introduced 2/15/2013) Cosponsors (18)
Committees: House Financial Services
Latest Major Action: 2/15/2013
Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
11. H.R.750 :
To award posthumously a Congressional Gold Medal to Stewart Lee Udall
in recognition of his contributions to the Nation as hero for the
environment, a champion for conservation, a civil right activist, a
Native American crusader, and an advocate for the arts.
Sponsor: Rep Thompson, Mike [CA-5]
(introduced 2/15/2013) Cosponsors (1)
Committees: House Financial Services
Latest Major Action: 2/15/2013
Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
12. H.R.751 : To make supplemental appropriations for the Cops in Schools program for fiscal year 2013.
Sponsor: Rep Meadows, Mark [NC-11]
(introduced 2/15/2013) Cosponsors (6)
Committees: House Appropriations
Latest Major Action: 2/15/2013
Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on Appropriations.
13. H.R.752 :
To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for the
establishment of a drug-free workplace information clearinghouse, to
support residential methamphetamine treatment programs for pregnant and
parenting women, to improve the prevention and treatment of
methamphetamine addiction, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep McNerney, Jerry [CA-9]
(introduced 2/15/2013) Cosponsors (6)
Committees: House Energy and Commerce
Latest Major Action: 2/15/2013
Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
14. H.R.753 :
To prohibit the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of
Commerce from authorizing commercial finfish aquaculture operations in
the Exclusive Economic Zone except in accordance with a law authorizing
such action.
Sponsor: Rep Young, Don [AK]
(introduced 2/15/2013) Cosponsors (None)
Committees: House Natural Resources
Latest Major Action: 2/15/2013
Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
15. H.R.754 :
To resolve title issues involving real property and equipment acquired
using funds provided under the Alaska Kiln Drying Grant Program.
Sponsor: Rep Young, Don [AK]
(introduced 2/15/2013) Cosponsors (None)
Committees: House Agriculture
Latest Major Action: 2/15/2013
Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
16. H.R.755 : To award a Congressional Gold Medal to the World War II members of the Civil Air Patrol.
Sponsor: Rep McCaul, Michael T. [TX-10]
(introduced 2/15/2013) Cosponsors (1)
Committees: House Financial Services; House Administration
Latest Major Action: 2/15/2013
Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the Committee on
Financial Services, and in addition to the Committee on House
Administration, for a period to be subsequently determined by the
Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall
within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
17. H.R.756 : To advance cybersecurity research, development, and technical standards, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep McCaul, Michael T. [TX-10]
(introduced 2/15/2013) Cosponsors (7)
Committees: House Science, Space, and Technology
Latest Major Action: 2/15/2013
Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology.
18. H.R.757 :
To decrease the incidence of violent crimes against Indian women, to
strengthen the capacity of Indian tribes to exercise the sovereign
authority of Indian tribes to respond to violent crimes committed
against Indian women, and to ensure that perpetrators of violent crimes
committed against Indian women are held accountable for that criminal
behavior, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep McCollum, Betty [MN-4]
(introduced 2/15/2013) Cosponsors (5)
Committees: House Judiciary; House Natural Resources
Latest Major Action: 2/15/2013
Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the Committee on the
Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Natural Resources, for a
period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for
consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the
committee concerned.
19. H.R.758 : To prohibit the further extension or establishment of national monuments in Utah except by express authorization of Congress.
Sponsor: Rep Stewart, Chris [UT-2]
(introduced 2/15/2013) Cosponsors (5)
Committees: House Natural Resources
Latest Major Action: 2/15/2013
Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
20. H.R.759 :
To provide that a certain proposed rule published by the Office of
Federal Contract Compliance Programs shall have no force or effect
unless the Department of Labor is first certified to be in compliance
with such rule.
Sponsor: Rep Alexander, Rodney [LA-5]
(introduced 2/15/2013) Cosponsors (1)
Committees: House Oversight and Government Reform
Latest Major Action: 2/15/2013
Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
21. H.R.760 : To amend chapter 2 of title I of the United States Code to establish the style for amending laws.
Sponsor: Rep Amash, Justin [MI-3]
(introduced 2/15/2013) Cosponsors (None)
Committees: House Judiciary
Latest Major Action: 2/15/2013
Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
22. H.R.761 :
To require the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of
Agriculture to more efficiently develop domestic sources of the minerals
and mineral materials of strategic and critical importance to United
States economic and national security and manufacturing competitiveness.
Sponsor: Rep Amodei, Mark E. [NV-2]
(introduced 2/15/2013) Cosponsors (28)
Committees: House Natural Resources; House Judiciary
Latest Major Action: 2/15/2013
Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the Committee on
Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary,
for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case
for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of
the committee concerned.
23. H.R.762 :
To repeal title I of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
and to amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for cooperative
governing of individual health insurance coverage offered in interstate
commerce.
Sponsor: Rep Blackburn, Marsha [TN-7]
(introduced 2/15/2013) Cosponsors (14)
Committees: House Energy and Commerce; House Ways and Means; House Education and the Workforce
Latest Major Action: 2/15/2013
Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the Committee on Energy
and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and
Education and the Workforce, for a period to be subsequently determined
by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as
fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
24. H.R.763 : To repeal the annual fee on health insurance providers enacted by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
Sponsor: Rep Boustany, Charles W., Jr. [LA-3]
(introduced 2/15/2013) Cosponsors (6)
Committees: House Energy and Commerce; House Ways and Means
Latest Major Action: 2/15/2013
Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the Committee on Energy
and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a
period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for
consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the
committee concerned.
25. H.R.764 :
To amend the Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972 to require the
Secretary of Commerce to establish a coastal climate change adaptation
planning and response program, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Capps, Lois [CA-24]
(introduced 2/15/2013) Cosponsors (7)
Committees: House Natural Resources
Latest Major Action: 2/15/2013
Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
26. H.R.765 :
To authorize the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency
to establish a program of awarding grants to owners or operators of
water systems to increase resiliency or adaptability of the systems to
any ongoing or forecasted changes to the hydrologic conditions of a
region of the United States.
Sponsor: Rep Capps, Lois [CA-24]
(introduced 2/15/2013) Cosponsors (None)
Committees: House Transportation and Infrastructure; House Energy and Commerce; House Natural Resources
Latest Major Action: 2/15/2013
Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the Committee on
Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committees on
Energy and Commerce, and Natural Resources, for a period to be
subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration
of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee
concerned.
27. H.R.766 : To reduce the deficit by imposing a minimum effective tax rate for high-income taxpayers.
Sponsor: Rep Cicilline, David N. [RI-1]
(introduced 2/15/2013) Cosponsors (7)
Committees: House Ways and Means
Latest Major Action: 2/15/2013
Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
28. H.R.767 : To amend the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to modify the Pilot Project offices of the Federal Permit Streamlining Pilot Project.
Sponsor: Rep Cramer, Kevin [ND]
(introduced 2/15/2013) Cosponsors (3)
Committees: House Natural Resources
Latest Major Action: 2/15/2013
Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
29. H.R.768 : To amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to require the establishment of teacher evaluation programs.
Sponsor: Rep Davis, Susan A. [CA-53]
(introduced 2/15/2013) Cosponsors (1)
Committees: House Education and the Workforce
Latest Major Action: 2/15/2013
Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
30. H.R.769 :
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to permanently extend the
lower threshold for the refundable portion of the child tax credit and
to adjust the credit amount for inflation.
Sponsor: Rep DeLauro, Rosa L. [CT-3]
(introduced 2/15/2013) Cosponsors (72)
Committees: House Ways and Means
Latest Major Action: 2/15/2013
Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
31. H.R.770 :
To amend the South Carolina National Heritage Corridor Act of 1996 to
designate the management entity for the South Carolina National Heritage
Corridor, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Duncan, Jeff [SC-3]
(introduced 2/15/2013) Cosponsors (None)
Committees: House Natural Resources
Latest Major Action: 2/15/2013
Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
32. H.R.771 : To establish requirements for oil and gas leasing of areas of the Outer Continental Shelf off the coast of South Carolina.
Sponsor: Rep Duncan, Jeff [SC-3]
(introduced 2/15/2013) Cosponsors (5)
Committees: House Natural Resources
Latest Major Action: 2/15/2013
Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
33. H.R.772 : To promote peaceful and collaborative resolution of the South China Sea dispute.
Sponsor: Rep Faleomavaega, Eni F. H. [AS]
(introduced 2/15/2013) Cosponsors (2)
Committees: House Foreign Affairs; House Armed Services
Latest Major Action: 2/15/2013
Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the Committee on
Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, for
a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for
consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the
committee concerned.
34. H.R.773 :
To amend the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985
to exempt the Department of Defense from reduction under any order
issued to carry out a sequestration pursuant to section 251A.
Sponsor: Rep Forbes, J. Randy [VA-4]
(introduced 2/15/2013) Cosponsors (None)
Committees: House Budget
Latest Major Action: 2/15/2013
Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on the Budget.
35. H.R.774 : To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to establish small business start-up savings accounts.
Sponsor: Rep Gardner, Cory [CO-4]
(introduced 2/15/2013) Cosponsors (9)
Committees: House Ways and Means
Latest Major Action: 2/15/2013
Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
36. H.R.775 : To amend title 28, United States Code, to exempt election officials from Federal jury service.
Sponsor: Rep Griffith, H. Morgan [VA-9]
(introduced 2/15/2013) Cosponsors (8)
Committees: House Judiciary
Latest Major Action: 2/15/2013
Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
37. H.R.776 : To amend title 31, United States Code, to revise requirements related to assets pledged by a surety, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Hanna, Richard L. [NY-22]
(introduced 2/15/2013) Cosponsors (1)
Committees: House Judiciary; House Small Business
Latest Major Action: 2/15/2013
Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the Committee on the
Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Small Business, for a
period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for
consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the
committee concerned.
38. H.R.777 :
To amend title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 to
require a plaintiff to provide a defendant with an opportunity to
correct a violation of such title voluntarily before the plaintiff may
commence a civil action, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Hunter, Duncan D. [CA-50]
(introduced 2/15/2013) Cosponsors (11)
Committees: House Judiciary
Latest Major Action: 2/15/2013
Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
39. H.R.778 :
To modify the prohibition on recognition by United States courts of
certain rights relating to certain marks, trade names, or commercial
names.
Sponsor: Rep Issa, Darrell E. [CA-49]
(introduced 2/15/2013) Cosponsors (4)
Committees: House Judiciary
Latest Major Action: 2/15/2013
Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
40. H.R.779 :
To repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the
health care-related provisions in the Health Care and Education
Reconciliation Act of 2010 and to amend title 5, United States Code, to
establish a national health program administered by the Office of
Personnel Management to offer Federal employee health benefits plans to
individuals who are not Federal employees, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Issa, Darrell E. [CA-49]
(introduced 2/15/2013) Cosponsors (None)
Committees: House Energy and Commerce; House Ways and Means;
House Oversight and Government Reform; House Education and the
Workforce; House Natural Resources; House Judiciary; House Rules; House
Appropriations; House Administration
Latest Major Action: 2/15/2013
Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the Committee on Energy
and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means,
Oversight and Government Reform, Education and the Workforce, Natural
Resources, the Judiciary, Rules, Appropriations, and House
Administration, for a period to be subsequently determined by the
Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall
within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
41. H.R.780 :
To authorize Indian tribes to exercise jurisdiction over crimes of
domestic violence that occur in the Indian country of that tribe.
Sponsor: Rep Issa, Darrell E. [CA-49]
(introduced 2/15/2013) Cosponsors (7)
Committees: House Judiciary; House Natural Resources
Latest Major Action: 2/15/2013
Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the Committee on the
Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Natural Resources, for a
period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for
consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the
committee concerned.
42. H.R.781 : To amend title II of the Social Security Act to prohibit the inclusion of Social Security account numbers on Medicare cards.
Sponsor: Rep Johnson, Sam [TX-3]
(introduced 2/15/2013) Cosponsors (1)
Committees: House Ways and Means
Latest Major Action: 2/15/2013
Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
43. H.R.782 : To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the estate tax and retain stepped-up basis at death.
Sponsor: Rep Latta, Robert E. [OH-5]
(introduced 2/15/2013) Cosponsors (3)
Committees: House Ways and Means
Latest Major Action: 2/15/2013
Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
44. H.R.783 : To enhance diplomacy with Iran to peacefully prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Lee, Barbara [CA-13]
(introduced 2/15/2013) Cosponsors (10)
Committees: House Foreign Affairs
Latest Major Action: 2/15/2013
Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
45. H.R.784 :
To amend the Controlled Substances Act so as to exempt real property
from civil forfeiture due to medical-marijuana-related conduct that is
authorized by State law.
Sponsor: Rep Lee, Barbara [CA-13]
(introduced 2/15/2013) Cosponsors (3)
Committees: House Judiciary; House Energy and Commerce
Latest Major Action: 2/15/2013
Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the Committee on the
Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a
period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for
consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the
committee concerned.
46. H.R.785 : To prevent excessive speculation in energy commodities, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Markey, Edward J. [MA-5]
(introduced 2/15/2013) Cosponsors (17)
Committees: House Agriculture
Latest Major Action: 2/15/2013
Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
47. H.R.786 :
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to clarify that tar sands
are crude oil for purposes of the Federal excise tax on petroleum.
Sponsor: Rep Markey, Edward J. [MA-5]
(introduced 2/15/2013) Cosponsors (1)
Committees: House Ways and Means
Latest Major Action: 2/15/2013
Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
48. H.R.787 :
To greatly enhance America's path toward energy independence and
economic and national security, to rebuild our Nation's aging roads,
bridges, locks, and dams, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Murphy, Tim [PA-18]
(introduced 2/15/2013) Cosponsors (None)
Committees: House Natural Resources; House Judiciary; House
Energy and Commerce; House Rules; House Budget; House Transportation and
Infrastructure
Latest Major Action: 2/15/2013
Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the Committee on
Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary,
Energy and Commerce, Rules, the Budget, and Transportation and
Infrastructure, for a period to be subsequently determined by the
Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall
within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
49. H.R.788 :
To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to enter into an agreement
with the Battery Conservancy to construct and operate a performance
facility at Castle Clinton National Monument, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Nadler, Jerrold [NY-10]
(introduced 2/15/2013) Cosponsors (None)
Committees: House Natural Resources
Latest Major Action: 2/15/2013
Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
50. H.R.789 :
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to permanently extend the
tax treatment for certain build America bonds, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Neal, Richard E. [MA-1]
(introduced 2/15/2013) Cosponsors (14)
Committees: House Ways and Means
Latest Major Action: 2/15/2013
Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
51. H.R.790 :
To amend the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to require the disclosure
of the total number of a company's domestic and foreign employees.
Sponsor: Rep Peters, Gary C. [MI-14]
(introduced 2/15/2013) Cosponsors (2)
Committees: House Financial Services
Latest Major Action: 2/15/2013
Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
52. H.R.791 :
To amend titles I and II of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act
of 1965 to strengthen connections to early childhood education
programs, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Polis, Jared [CO-2]
(introduced 2/15/2013) Cosponsors (1)
Committees: House Education and the Workforce
Latest Major Action: 2/15/2013
Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
53. H.R.792 :
To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to clarify the Food
and Drug Administration's jurisdiction over certain tobacco products,
and to protect jobs and small businesses involved in the sale,
manufacturing and distribution of traditional and premium cigars.
Sponsor: Rep Posey, Bill [FL-8]
(introduced 2/15/2013) Cosponsors (13)
Committees: House Energy and Commerce
Latest Major Action: 2/15/2013
Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
54. H.R.793 :
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to impose an excise tax on
concealable firearms and to require the Attorney General to establish a
firearms buyback grant program.
Sponsor: Rep Sanchez, Linda T. [CA-38]
(introduced 2/15/2013) Cosponsors (18)
Committees: House Ways and Means; House Judiciary
Latest Major Action: 2/15/2013
Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the Committee on Ways
and Means, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a
period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for
consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the
committee concerned.
55. H.R.794 :
To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for
treatment of clinical psychologists as physicians for purposes of
furnishing clinical psychologist services under the Medicare Program.
Sponsor: Rep Schakowsky, Janice D. [IL-9]
(introduced 2/15/2013) Cosponsors (7)
Committees: House Energy and Commerce; House Ways and Means
Latest Major Action: 2/15/2013
Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the Committee on Energy
and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a
period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for
consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the
committee concerned.
56. H.R.795 :
To amend the National Labor Relations Act to modify the authority of
the National Labor Relations Board with respect to rulemaking, issuance
of complaints, and authority over unfair labor practices.
Sponsor: Rep Scott, Austin [GA-8]
(introduced 2/15/2013) Cosponsors (23)
Committees: House Education and the Workforce
Latest Major Action: 2/15/2013
Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
57. H.R.796 :
To require the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to
use the commercially available volume of cellulosic biofuel in setting
requirements for the renewable fuel program under the Clean Air Act, and
for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Sensenbrenner, F. James, Jr. [WI-5]
(introduced 2/15/2013) Cosponsors (None)
Committees: House Energy and Commerce
Latest Major Action: 2/15/2013
Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
58. H.R.797 :
To amend the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to clarify provisions
relating to the regulation of municipal advisors, and for other
purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Stivers, Steve [OH-15]
(introduced 2/15/2013) Cosponsors (2)
Committees: House Financial Services
Latest Major Action: 2/15/2013
Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
59. H.R.798 :
To reauthorize the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 to strengthen the
United States workforce investment system through innovation in, and
alignment and improvement of, employment, training, and education
programs, and to promote national economic growth, and for other
purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Tierney, John F. [MA-6]
(introduced 2/15/2013) Cosponsors (2)
Committees: House Education and the Workforce
Latest Major Action: 2/15/2013
Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
60. H.R.799 :
To provide exclusive funding to support fisheries and the communities
that rely upon them, to clear unnecessary regulatory burdens and
streamline Federal fisheries management, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Tierney, John F. [MA-6]
(introduced 2/15/2013) Cosponsors (6)
Committees: House Natural Resources
Latest Major Action: 2/15/2013
Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
61. H.R.800 :
To amend part B of title XVIII of the Social Security Act to exclude
customary prompt pay discounts from manufacturers to wholesalers from
the average sales price for drugs and biologicals under Medicare.
Sponsor: Rep Whitfield, Ed [KY-1]
(introduced 2/15/2013) Cosponsors (31)
Committees: House Energy and Commerce; House Ways and Means
Latest Major Action: 2/15/2013
Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the Committee on Energy
and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a
period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for
consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the
committee concerned.
62. H.R.801 :
To amend the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to make the shareholder
threshold for registration of savings and loan holding companies the
same as for bank holding companies.
Sponsor: Rep Womack, Steve [AR-3]
(introduced 2/15/2013) Cosponsors (3)
Committees: House Financial Services
Latest Major Action: 2/15/2013
Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
63. H.R.802 :
-- Private Bill; For the relief of Roberto Luis Dunoyer Mejia,
Consuelo Cardona Molina, Camilo Dunoyer Cardona, and Pablo Dunoyer
Cardona.
Sponsor: Rep Hunter, Duncan D. [CA-50]
(introduced 2/15/2013) Cosponsors (None)
Committees: House Judiciary
Latest Major Action: 2/15/2013
Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
64. H.CON.RES.15 :
Providing for a conditional adjournment of the House of
Representatives and a conditional recess or adjournment of the Senate.
Sponsor: Rep Sessions, Pete [TX-32]
(introduced 2/15/2013) Cosponsors (None)
Latest Major Action: 2/15/2013
Passed/agreed to in Senate. Status: Received in the Senate, considered, and agreed to without amendment by Unanimous Consent.
Latest Action: 2/15/2013
Message on Senate action sent to the House.
65. H.CON.RES.16 : Supporting the Local Radio Freedom Act.
Sponsor: Rep Conaway, K. Michael [TX-11]
(introduced 2/15/2013) Cosponsors (72)
Committees: House Judiciary
Latest Major Action: 2/15/2013
Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
66. H.CON.RES.17 : Expressing the sense of Congress that a day should be designated as "National Voting Rights Act Mobilization Day".
Sponsor: Rep Fudge, Marcia L. [OH-11]
(introduced 2/15/2013) Cosponsors (2)
Committees: House Oversight and Government Reform
Latest Major Action: 2/15/2013
Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
67. H.RES.65 :
Condemning the Government of North Korea for its flagrant and repeated
violations of multiple United Nations Security Council resolutions, for
its repeated provocations that threaten international peace and
stability, and for its February 12, 2013, test of a nuclear device.
Sponsor: Rep Royce, Edward R. [CA-39]
(introduced 2/13/2013) Cosponsors (20)
Committees: House Foreign Affairs
Latest Major Action: 2/15/2013
Passed/agreed to in House. Status: On motion to suspend the rules and
agree to the resolution, as amended Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3
required): 412 - 2 (Roll no. 45).
68. H.RES.72 : Supporting the goals and ideals of the Secondary School Student Athletes' Bill of Rights.
Sponsor: Rep Gerlach, Jim [PA-6]
(introduced 2/15/2013) Cosponsors (1)
Committees: House Education and the Workforce; House Energy and Commerce
Latest Major Action: 2/15/2013
Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the Committee on
Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committee on Energy
and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker,
in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the
jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
69. H.RES.73 :
Congratulating Emporia State University for 150 years of outstanding
service to the State of Kansas, the United States, and the world.
Sponsor: Rep Huelskamp, Tim [KS-1]
(introduced 2/15/2013) Cosponsors (None)
Committees: House Education and the Workforce
Latest Major Action: 2/15/2013
Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
70. H.RES.74 : Supporting the goals and objectives of Ireland's Presidency of the Council of the European Union.
Sponsor: Rep Keating, William R. [MA-9]
(introduced 2/15/2013) Cosponsors (7)
Committees: House Foreign Affairs; House Ways and Means
Latest Major Action: 2/15/2013
Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the Committee on
Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for
a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for
consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the
committee concerned.
71. H.RES.75 :
Recognizing 376 years of service of the National Guard and affirming
congressional support for a permanent Operational Reserve as a component
of the Armed Forces.
Sponsor: Rep Miller, Candice S. [MI-10]
(introduced 2/15/2013) Cosponsors (3)
Committees: House Armed Services
Latest Major Action: 2/15/2013
Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
72. H.RES.76 :
Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the United
States and the European Union should pursue a Transatlantic Trade and
Investment Partnership.
Sponsor: Rep Paulsen, Erik [MN-3]
(introduced 2/15/2013) Cosponsors (1)
Committees: House Ways and Means
Latest Major Action: 2/15/2013
Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
Showing posts with label school. Show all posts
Showing posts with label school. Show all posts
Sunday, February 17, 2013
Friday, February 1, 2013
Armed Guard Stops School Shooter After He Opened Fire at Atlanta Middle School
Jan. 31, 2013 10:06pm
Authorities stage at Price Middle school in Atlanta Thursday, Jan. 31, 2013, after a child was shot. Credit: AP
ATLANTA (AP) — A student opened fire at
his middle school Thursday afternoon, wounding a 14-year-old in the
neck before an armed officer working at the school was able to get the
gun away, police said.
Multiple shots were fired in the
courtyard of Price Middle School just south of downtown about 1:50 p.m.
and the one boy was hit, Atlanta Police Chief George Turner said. In the
aftermath, a teacher received minor cuts, he said.
The wounded boy was taken “alert,
conscious and breathing” to Grady Memorial Hospital, said police
spokesman Carlos Campos. Grady Heath System Spokeswoman Denise Simpson
said the teen had been discharged from the hospital Thursday night.
Campos said charges against the shooter were pending.
Police swarmed the school of about 400
students after reports of the shooting while a crowd of anxious parents
gathered in the streets, awaiting word on their children. Students were
kept at the locked-down school for more than two hours before being
dismissed.
Investigators believe the shooting was not random and that something occurred between the two students that may have led to it.
Schools Superintendent Erroll Davis said the school does have metal detectors.
“The obvious question is how did this
get past a metal detector?” Davis asked about the gun. “That’s something
we do not know yet.”
The armed resource officer who took the
gun away was off-duty and at the school, but police didn’t release
details on him or whether he is regularly at Price. Since 20 children
and six adults were shot to death at Sandy Hook Elementary School in
Connecticut in December, calls for armed officers in every school have
resonated across the country.
Hours after the Atlanta shooting,
several school buses loaded with children pulled away from the school
and stopped in front of a church about a half-block away. Parents tried
boarding the buses. Police who initially tried to stop the parents,
relented and screamed, “Let them off!” about the students.
Busses
arrive at a church carrying children from Price Middle school in
Atlanta on Thursday, Jan. 31, 2013, after a child was shot at the
school. Credit: AP
Authorities stage at Price Middle school in Atlanta Thursday, Jan. 31, 2013, after a child was shot. Credit: AP
Authorities
stage at Price Middle school in Atlanta Thursday, Jan. 31, 2013, after a
child was shot. A 14-year-old boy was wounded outside the school
Thursday afternoon and a fellow student was in custody as a suspect,
authorities said. No other students were hurt. Credit: AP
James Bolton was at work when his
sister called saying a teen had been shot at his son’s school and was in
the crowd as parents began swarming the fleet of buses.
“Move, I see my son, I see mine!” he
said, running up to embrace James Bolton Jr. “As long as I got this one
back I’m OK,” he said, holding his son’s head against his chest as
parents nearby frantically searched for their children.
Bolton Jr. said he was in class when
the intercom sounded and a school official announced the building was
under immediate lockdown.
“They told us we had to be quiet,”
Bolton told The Associated Press. “They said something went on in the
courtyard.” Bolton said he was unaware that anyone had been shot until a
reporter asked him about it.
Shakita Walker, whose daughter is an
eighth-grader at the school, said she received a text from her that
said, “Ma somebody’s shooting and somebody got shot.” Walker, who works
at another school, said she jumped in her car and was thinking “just
hurry up and get there.”
Walker said her daughter called to
tell her that they were being kept in the gymnasium, but she said she
was anxious to see her to make sure she was OK.
The fear and anxiety was palpable in the crowd, as one person yelled, “Does anyone know what happened?”
Superintendent Davis sympathized with
concerned parents who complained that it took too long for students to
be released from the building. He said emergency procedures were
followed according to protocol and school district officials would meet
Friday to review their response. Calls to the school district were not
immediately returned.
Mayor Kasim Reed condemned gun
violence in a statement shortly after the shooting and said counselors
were at the school to meet with students, faculty and family members.
“Gun violence in and around our
schools is simply unconscionable and must end,” Reed said. “Too many
young people are being harmed, and too many families are suffering from
unimaginable and unnecessary grief.”
Outside the school, Laquanda Pittman
said she still hasn’t heard from her sixth-grade son. She said she heard
the news of the shooting on TV and immediately came to the school.
“All types of stuff went through my
head. I’m wondering whether it was my child who got shot, is my child
OK, did he see what happened?” Pittman said.
She said she just wants to see her son.
“As a parent, you just think you can send your child to school and you hope they come home OK,” she said.
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/01/31/armed-guard-stops-school-shooter-after-he-opened-fire-at-atlanta-middle-school/
Thursday, January 24, 2013
Muslim Brotherhood group to 'connect all U.S. schools' Partners with State, Education departments on international initiative.
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Aaron Klein
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JERUSALEM – A Muslim Brotherhood-linked organization has partnered with the U.S. Department of Education and the State Department to facilitate an online program aiming to connect all U.S. schools with classrooms abroad by 2016.
Vartan Gregorian, a board member of the organization, the Qatar Foundation International, was appointed in 2009 to President Obama’s White House Fellowships Commission.
WND previously exposed
that Gregorian served as a point man in granting $49.2 million in
startup capital to an education-reform project founded by former Weather
Underground terrorist William Ayers and chaired by Obama.
Documentation shows Gregorian was central in Ayers’ recruitment of Obama to serve as the first chairman of the project, the Chicago Annenberg Challenge – a job in which Obama worked closely on a regular basis with Ayers.
The Muslim Brotherhood’s infiltration of Washington is exposed in “Muslim Mafia: Inside the Secret Underworld That’s Conspiring to Islamize America”
Obama also later said his job at the project qualified him to run for public office, as WND previously reported.
Connecting schools to fulfill Obama pledge
The Qatar Foundation International, or QFI, in 2011 partnered with the Department of State and the U.S. Department of Education to facilitate matchmaking between classrooms in the U.S. and international schools through something called the “Connect All Schools” project.
QFI, funded by the Qatari government, explains on its website the initiative was founded in response to Obama’s call in his June 2009 speech to the Arab world in Cairo, Egypt, to “create a new online network, so a young person in Kansas can communicate instantly with a young person in Cairo.”
QFI relates how more than 100 U.S. schools and organizations have already connected on the interactive website.
The stated goal of the initiative is to “connect every school in the U.S. with the world by 2016.”
This is not the QFI’s first foray into the U.S. education system.
WND reported last May the Qatar-based foundation awarded “Curriculum Grants” to seven U.S. schools and language organizations to “develop comprehensive and innovative curricula and teaching materials to be used in any Arabic language classroom.”
QFI, based in Washington, D.C., is the U.S. branch of the Qatar Foundation, founded in 1995 by Qatar’s ruling emir, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani.
Thani is still the group’s vice-chairman, while one of his three wives, Sheikha Moza bint Nasser, chairs the organization’s board.
Thani also launched Al Jazeera in 1996 and served as the television network’s chairman.
The Qatar foundation is close to the Muslim Brotherhood.
In January 2012, it launched the Research Center for Islamic Legislation and Ethics under the guidance of Tariq Ramadan, who serves as the center’s director.
Ramadan is the grandson of the notorious founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, Hassan al Banna. Ramadan was banned from the U.S. until 2010 when the Obama administration issued him a visa to give a lecture at a New York school.
QFI, meanwhile, named several institutions after Yusuf al-Qaradawi, one of the top leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood. Many regard Qaradawi as the de facto spiritual leader of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood.
The foundation instituted the Sheikh Yusuf Al Qaradawi Scholarships and in 2009 established a research center named the Qaradawi Center for Islamic Moderation and Renewal.
Qaradawi has personally attended scores of foundation events, including conferences at which he served as a keynote speaker.
Qaradawi achieved star status because of his regular sermons and interviews on Al Jazeera.
The Investigative Project on Terrorism documents Qardawi openly permitted the killing of American troops in Iraq and praised the “heroic deeds” of “Hamas, Jihad, Al-Aqsa Brigades and others.”
Obama, Ayers connection
Gregorian, president of Carnegie Corp. charitable foundation, was appointed by Obama in 2009 as a White House fellow. Born in Tabriz, Iran, Gregorian served for eight years as president of the New York Public Library and was also president of Brown University.
As Brown president, Gregorian served on the selection committee of the Annenberg Foundation, which funded Ayers’ Chicago Annenberg Challenge with a $49.2 million, 2-to-1 matching challenge grant over five years. Ayers was one of five founding members of the Annenberg Challenge who wrote to the Annenberg Foundation for the initial funding.
Steve Diamond, a political-science and law professor and a blogger who has posted on Obama, previously posted a letter from Nov. 18, 1994, in which Gregorian, serving as the point man on Annenberg’s selection committee, asked Ayers to “compose the governing board” of the Challenge’s collaborative project with “people who reflect the racial and ethnic diversity of Chicago.”
Ayers and other founding Challenge members then recruited Obama to serve as the project chairman.
WND was first to expose that Obama and Ayers used the project grant money to fund organizations run by radicals tied to Ayers, including Mike Klonsky, a former top communist activist who was a senior leader in the Students for a Democratic Society group, a major leftist student organization in the 1960s from which the Weathermen terror group later splintered.
National Review Online writer Stanley Kurtz examined the project archives housed at the Richard J. Daley Library at the University of Illinois at Chicago, finding Obama and Ayers worked closely at the project.
The documents obtained by Kurtz showed Ayers served as an ex-officio member of the board that Obama chaired through the project’s first year. Ayers also served on the board’s governance committee with Obama and worked with him to craft project bylaws, according to the documents.
Ayers made presentations to board meetings chaired by Obama. Ayers also spoke for the Chicago School Reform Collaborative before Obama’s board, while Obama periodically spoke for the board at meetings of the collaborative, the project documents reviewed by Kurtz show.
WND reported Obama and Ayers also served together on the board of the Woods Fund, a liberal Chicago nonprofit that granted money to far-left causes.
One of the groups funded by the Woods Fund was the Midwest Academy, an activist organization modeled after Marxist community organizer Saul Alinsky described as teaching tactics of direct action, confrontation and intimidation.
WND reported Jackie Kendall, executive director of the Midwest Academy, was on the team that developed and delivered the first Camp Obama training for volunteers aiding Obama’s campaign through the 2008 Iowa Caucuses.
Camp Obama was a two- to four-day intensive course run in conjunction with Obama’s campaign aimed at training volunteers to become activists to help Obama win the presidential election.
Obama scholar linked to ‘Ground Zero’ imam
Meanwhile, WND reported Gregorian is closely tied to the Muslim leaders behind the controversial Islamic cultural center to be built near the site of the Sept. 11 attacks.
Gregorian also serves on the board of the Sept. 11 Memorial and Museum. The museum is reportedly working with the American Society for Muslim Advancement, whose leaders are behind the mosque, to ensure the future museum will represent the voices of American Muslims.
“[The Sept. 11 museum will represent the] voices of American Muslims in particular, and it will honor members of other communities who came together in support and collaboration with the Muslim community on September 11 and its aftermath,” stated Daisy Khan, executive director of the society.
The Sept. 11 museum’s oral historian, Jenny Pachucki, is collaborating with the society to ensure the perspective of American Muslims is woven into the overall experience of the museum, according to the museum’s blog.
Khan’s husband, Feisal Abdul Rauf, is the founder of the society as well as chairman of Cordoba Initiative, which is behind the proposed mosque to be built about two blocks from the area referred to as Ground Zero.
With Gregorian at its helm, Carnegie Corp. is at the top of the list of society supporters on the Islamic group’s website.
Carnegie is also listed as a funder of both of the society’s partner organizations, Search for Common Ground and the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations. Gregorian was a participant in the U.N. body’s first forum, as was Rauf.
Rauf is vice chairman on the board of the Interfaith Center of New York, which honored Gregorian at an awards dinner in 2008.
World domination
Gregorian is the author of “Islam: A Mosaic, Not A Monolith.” According to a book review by the Middle East Forum, his book “establishes the Islamist goal of world domination.”
A chapter of the book, “Islamism: Liberation Politics,” quotes Ayatollah Khomeini: “Islam does not conquer. Islam wants all countries to become Muslim, of themselves.” Hassan al-Banna, founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, is quoted stating it “is the nature of Islam to dominate, not to be dominated, to impose its laws on all nations and to extend its power to the entire planet.”
Gregorian himself recommends for Muslims a system he calls “theo-democracy,” which he defines as “a divine democratic government” that, according to the book review, “would have a limited popular sovereignty under the suzerainty of Allah.”
With additional research by Danette Clark and Brenda J. Elliott
JERUSALEM – A Muslim Brotherhood-linked organization has partnered with the U.S. Department of Education and the State Department to facilitate an online program aiming to connect all U.S. schools with classrooms abroad by 2016.
Vartan Gregorian, a board member of the organization, the Qatar Foundation International, was appointed in 2009 to President Obama’s White House Fellowships Commission.
Documentation shows Gregorian was central in Ayers’ recruitment of Obama to serve as the first chairman of the project, the Chicago Annenberg Challenge – a job in which Obama worked closely on a regular basis with Ayers.
The Muslim Brotherhood’s infiltration of Washington is exposed in “Muslim Mafia: Inside the Secret Underworld That’s Conspiring to Islamize America”
Obama also later said his job at the project qualified him to run for public office, as WND previously reported.
Connecting schools to fulfill Obama pledge
The Qatar Foundation International, or QFI, in 2011 partnered with the Department of State and the U.S. Department of Education to facilitate matchmaking between classrooms in the U.S. and international schools through something called the “Connect All Schools” project.
QFI, funded by the Qatari government, explains on its website the initiative was founded in response to Obama’s call in his June 2009 speech to the Arab world in Cairo, Egypt, to “create a new online network, so a young person in Kansas can communicate instantly with a young person in Cairo.”
QFI relates how more than 100 U.S. schools and organizations have already connected on the interactive website.
The stated goal of the initiative is to “connect every school in the U.S. with the world by 2016.”
This is not the QFI’s first foray into the U.S. education system.
WND reported last May the Qatar-based foundation awarded “Curriculum Grants” to seven U.S. schools and language organizations to “develop comprehensive and innovative curricula and teaching materials to be used in any Arabic language classroom.”
QFI, based in Washington, D.C., is the U.S. branch of the Qatar Foundation, founded in 1995 by Qatar’s ruling emir, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani.
Thani is still the group’s vice-chairman, while one of his three wives, Sheikha Moza bint Nasser, chairs the organization’s board.
Thani also launched Al Jazeera in 1996 and served as the television network’s chairman.
The Qatar foundation is close to the Muslim Brotherhood.
In January 2012, it launched the Research Center for Islamic Legislation and Ethics under the guidance of Tariq Ramadan, who serves as the center’s director.
Ramadan is the grandson of the notorious founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, Hassan al Banna. Ramadan was banned from the U.S. until 2010 when the Obama administration issued him a visa to give a lecture at a New York school.
QFI, meanwhile, named several institutions after Yusuf al-Qaradawi, one of the top leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood. Many regard Qaradawi as the de facto spiritual leader of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood.
The foundation instituted the Sheikh Yusuf Al Qaradawi Scholarships and in 2009 established a research center named the Qaradawi Center for Islamic Moderation and Renewal.
Qaradawi has personally attended scores of foundation events, including conferences at which he served as a keynote speaker.
Qaradawi achieved star status because of his regular sermons and interviews on Al Jazeera.
The Investigative Project on Terrorism documents Qardawi openly permitted the killing of American troops in Iraq and praised the “heroic deeds” of “Hamas, Jihad, Al-Aqsa Brigades and others.”
Obama, Ayers connection
Gregorian, president of Carnegie Corp. charitable foundation, was appointed by Obama in 2009 as a White House fellow. Born in Tabriz, Iran, Gregorian served for eight years as president of the New York Public Library and was also president of Brown University.
As Brown president, Gregorian served on the selection committee of the Annenberg Foundation, which funded Ayers’ Chicago Annenberg Challenge with a $49.2 million, 2-to-1 matching challenge grant over five years. Ayers was one of five founding members of the Annenberg Challenge who wrote to the Annenberg Foundation for the initial funding.
Steve Diamond, a political-science and law professor and a blogger who has posted on Obama, previously posted a letter from Nov. 18, 1994, in which Gregorian, serving as the point man on Annenberg’s selection committee, asked Ayers to “compose the governing board” of the Challenge’s collaborative project with “people who reflect the racial and ethnic diversity of Chicago.”
Ayers and other founding Challenge members then recruited Obama to serve as the project chairman.
WND was first to expose that Obama and Ayers used the project grant money to fund organizations run by radicals tied to Ayers, including Mike Klonsky, a former top communist activist who was a senior leader in the Students for a Democratic Society group, a major leftist student organization in the 1960s from which the Weathermen terror group later splintered.
National Review Online writer Stanley Kurtz examined the project archives housed at the Richard J. Daley Library at the University of Illinois at Chicago, finding Obama and Ayers worked closely at the project.
The documents obtained by Kurtz showed Ayers served as an ex-officio member of the board that Obama chaired through the project’s first year. Ayers also served on the board’s governance committee with Obama and worked with him to craft project bylaws, according to the documents.
Ayers made presentations to board meetings chaired by Obama. Ayers also spoke for the Chicago School Reform Collaborative before Obama’s board, while Obama periodically spoke for the board at meetings of the collaborative, the project documents reviewed by Kurtz show.
WND reported Obama and Ayers also served together on the board of the Woods Fund, a liberal Chicago nonprofit that granted money to far-left causes.
One of the groups funded by the Woods Fund was the Midwest Academy, an activist organization modeled after Marxist community organizer Saul Alinsky described as teaching tactics of direct action, confrontation and intimidation.
WND reported Jackie Kendall, executive director of the Midwest Academy, was on the team that developed and delivered the first Camp Obama training for volunteers aiding Obama’s campaign through the 2008 Iowa Caucuses.
Camp Obama was a two- to four-day intensive course run in conjunction with Obama’s campaign aimed at training volunteers to become activists to help Obama win the presidential election.
Obama scholar linked to ‘Ground Zero’ imam
Meanwhile, WND reported Gregorian is closely tied to the Muslim leaders behind the controversial Islamic cultural center to be built near the site of the Sept. 11 attacks.
Gregorian also serves on the board of the Sept. 11 Memorial and Museum. The museum is reportedly working with the American Society for Muslim Advancement, whose leaders are behind the mosque, to ensure the future museum will represent the voices of American Muslims.
“[The Sept. 11 museum will represent the] voices of American Muslims in particular, and it will honor members of other communities who came together in support and collaboration with the Muslim community on September 11 and its aftermath,” stated Daisy Khan, executive director of the society.
The Sept. 11 museum’s oral historian, Jenny Pachucki, is collaborating with the society to ensure the perspective of American Muslims is woven into the overall experience of the museum, according to the museum’s blog.
Khan’s husband, Feisal Abdul Rauf, is the founder of the society as well as chairman of Cordoba Initiative, which is behind the proposed mosque to be built about two blocks from the area referred to as Ground Zero.
With Gregorian at its helm, Carnegie Corp. is at the top of the list of society supporters on the Islamic group’s website.
Carnegie is also listed as a funder of both of the society’s partner organizations, Search for Common Ground and the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations. Gregorian was a participant in the U.N. body’s first forum, as was Rauf.
Rauf is vice chairman on the board of the Interfaith Center of New York, which honored Gregorian at an awards dinner in 2008.
World domination
Gregorian is the author of “Islam: A Mosaic, Not A Monolith.” According to a book review by the Middle East Forum, his book “establishes the Islamist goal of world domination.”
A chapter of the book, “Islamism: Liberation Politics,” quotes Ayatollah Khomeini: “Islam does not conquer. Islam wants all countries to become Muslim, of themselves.” Hassan al-Banna, founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, is quoted stating it “is the nature of Islam to dominate, not to be dominated, to impose its laws on all nations and to extend its power to the entire planet.”
Gregorian himself recommends for Muslims a system he calls “theo-democracy,” which he defines as “a divine democratic government” that, according to the book review, “would have a limited popular sovereignty under the suzerainty of Allah.”
With additional research by Danette Clark and Brenda J. Elliott
Wednesday, January 23, 2013
Update on Connecticut Gun Control Legislation
I
got this from the Coalition of CT Sportsmen. If you don't like the NRA
or are already an NRA member you should join them as well as they focus
on CT gun rights and put a lot of pressure on Hartford to do right by
the rest of us.
Coalition of Connecticut Sportsmen
www.ctsportsmen.com/
How to Find Your Legislators: http://www.cga.ct.gov/asp/menu/cgafindleg.asp
For
those who are going to send to ALL members: click on the message TO ap,
copy the e-mails into the BCC message address section - required comma
or semi-colon between names are already there. We have included the
legislative webpage section in case there's any conflicts w/addresses. http://www.cga.ct.gov/
Gun Violence Prevention Working Group
There will be a public hearing focusing on school safety on Jan. 25 at 9:30 a.m., a gun safety hearing on Jan. 28 at 10 a.m., and a hearing on mental health issues Jan. 29 at 10 a.m., all in room 2C at the Legislative Office Building in Hartford. A fourth public hearing will be held by the task force at Newtown High School on Jan. 30 at 6 p.m.
Gun Safety Task Force subgroup
Gun Safety Public Hearing
Monday, Jan. 28, 2013
Legislative Office Building 10 a.m., Room 2C
Please contact members of the listed below. These are the main numbers so ask for the legislator's office. Monday, Jan. 28, 2013
Legislative Office Building 10 a.m., Room 2C
Senate Democrats 860-240-8600; Senate Republicans 860-240-8800
House Democrats 860-240-8500; House Republicans 860-240-8700
Sen. Martin Looney, Co-chair (D); Rep. Craig Miner, Co-chair (R); Rep. Gerald Fox III (D); Rep. Stephen Dargan (D); Rep. Bob Godfrey (D); Rep. Toni Walker (D); Rep. Rosa Rebimbas (R); Rep. Janice Giegler (R); Rep. Dan Carter (R); Sen. Eric Coleman (D); Sen. John Fonfara (D); Sen. Joan Hartley (D); Sen. John Kissel (R); Sen. Scott Frantz (R); Sen. Tony Guglielmo (R);Sen. Kevin Witkos (R).
looney@senatedems.ct.gov; Craig.Miner@housegop.ct.gov; Gerald.Fox@cga.ct.gov; Stephen.Dargan@cga.ct.gov; Bob.Godfrey@cga.ct.gov; Toni.Walker@cga.ct.gov; Rosa.Rebimbas@housegop.ct.gov; Janice.Giegler@housegop.ct.gov; dan.carter@housegop.ct.gov; Eric.Coleman@cga.ct.gov; Fonfara@senatedems.ct.gov; Hartley@senatedems.ct.gov; John.A.Kissel@cga.ct.gov; Scott.Frantz@cga.ct.gov; Anthony.Guglielmo@cga.ct.gov; Kevin.Witkos@cga.ct.gov;
Mental Health task force subgroup
Sen.
Toni Harp, Co-chair (D); Rep. Terrie Wood, Co-chair; Rep. Susan
Johnson; Rep. Cathy Abercrombie; Rep. Robert Megna (D); Rep. Betsy
Ritter; Rep. Prasad Srinivasan; Rep. DebraLee Hovey (R); Sen. Terry
Gerratana (D); Sen. Gayle Slossberg (D); Sen. Joe Crisco (D); Sen. Rob
Kane (R); Sen. Kevin Kelly (R); Sen. Joe Markley (R); Sen. Jason Welch
(R).
Harp@senatedems.ct.gov; Terrie.Wood@housegop.ct.gov; Susan.Johnson@cga.ct.gov; Catherine.Abercrombie@cga.ct.gov; Robert.Megna@cga.ct.gov; Elizabeth.Ritter@cga.ct.gov; prasad.srinivasan@housegop.ct.gov; DebraLee.Hovey@housegop.ct.gov; Gerrantana@senatedems.ct.gov; Slossberg@senatedems.ct.gov; http://www.senatedems.ct.gov/Cap/php-bin/form.mail/Crisco-mailform.php; Rob.Kane@cga.ct.gov; Joe.Markley@cga.ct.gov; Jason.Welch@cga.ct.gov;
School Safety Task Force subgroup
Rep. Andrew Fleischmann, Co-chair (D); Sen. Toni Boucher,
Co-chair (D); Rep. Roberta Willis (D); Rep. Patricia Widlitz (D); Rep.
Diana Urban (D); Rep. Tim Ackert (R); Rep. Tim LeGeyt (R); Rep. Whit
Betts (R);Rep. Mitch Bolinsky (R); Sen. Dante Bartolomeo Sen. Andrea Stillman
Sen. Beth Bye (D); Sen. Andrew Maynard (D); Sen. Art Linares (R);
Sen. Mike McLachlan (R); Sen. Kevin Witkos (R);
Andrew.Fleischmann@cga.ct.gov; tim.ackert@housegop.ct.gov; Tim.LeGeyt@housegop.ct.gov; whit.betts@housegop.ct.gov; Mitch.Bolinsky@housegop.ct.gov; Bye@senatedems.ct.gov; Maynard@senatedems.ct.gov; Art.Linares@cga.ct.gov; Michael.McLachlan@cga.ct.gov; Kevin.Witkos@cga.ct.gov;
The Need for communications to Legislators and Public Hearing participation! Play the video 2/3 down the page. http://www.cagv.org/wp/
Gun Bills to date
HB-5112 AN ACT CONCERNING THE DISCLOSURE OF THE NAMES AND ADDRESSES OF PERSONS HOLDING HANDGUN PERMITS. OPPOSE
HB-5165 AN ACT CONCERNING THE DEFENSE OF A PERSON'S HOME, MOTOR VEHICLE OR BUSINESS. SUPPORT
HB-5176 AN ACT CONCERNING THE APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS FOR A TEMPORARY STATE PERMIT TO CARRY A PISTOL OR REVOLVER. SUPPORT
HB-5179 AN ACT CONCERNING ACCESS TO THE INTERACTIVE VOICE RESPONSE SYSTEM OF THE SPECIAL LICENSING AND FIREARMS UNIT OF THE DIVISION OF STATE POLICE. SUPPORT
HB-5268 AN ACT REQUIRING THE MAINTENANCE OF LIABILITY INSURANCE BY FIREARM OWNERS AND ESTABLISHING A SALES TAX ON AMMUNITION. OPPOSE
HB-5269 AN ACT INCREASING THE PENALTY FOR CRIMINAL USE OF A FIREARM OR ELECTRONIC DEFENSE WEAPON. SUPPORT
HB-5377 AN ACT ESTABLISHING A TASK FORCE TO STUDY THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN THE USE OF PSYCHOTROPIC DRUGS, VIOLENT MEDIA AND MASS VIOLENCE. SUPPORT
HB-5452 AN ACT REQUIRING GUN OWNERS TO CARRY LIABILITY INSURANCE. OPPOSE
HB-5466 AN ACT CONCERNING THE INSTALLATION OF PANIC BUTTONS IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS. SUPPORT
HB-5468 AN
ACT REQUIRING THE LEGISLATIVE PROGRAM REVIEW AND INVESTIGATIONS
COMMITTEE TO STUDY THE FEASIBILITY OF A STATE-WIDE POLICY FOR SCHOOL
SECURITY STANDARDS. SUPPORT
SB-1 AN ACT CONCERNING THE PROTECTION OF CHILDREN, FAMILIES AND OTHER INDIVIDUALS FROM VIOLENCE. OPPOSE
SB-42 AN ACT CONCERNING THE CRIMINAL POSSESSION OF AMMUNITION. OPPOSE
SB-122 AN ACT CONCERNING RESTRICTIONS ON GUN USE. OPPOSE
SB-124 AN ACT BANNING LARGE CAPACITY AMMUNITION MAGAZINES. OPPOSE
SB-140 AN ACT CONCERNING LIABILITY INSURANCE FOR FIREARM OWNERS AND SALES TAX ON AMMUNITION. OPPOSE
S.B. No. 161 AN ACT CONCERNING THE REDUCTION OF GUN VIOLENCE, OPPOSE
PUBLIC SAFETY & SECURITY Members 2013-14
SENATORS HARTLEY, (Chair), 20th District; AYALA, (Vice Chair), 23rd; OSTEN, 19th.SENATOR GUGLIELMO, (Ranking Member), 35th District; WITKOS, 8th District.
REPRESENTATIVES DARGAN, (Chair), 115th District; VERRENGIA, (Vice Chair), 20th; ARCONTI, 109TH; BOUKUS, 22nd; CLEMONS, 124th; ESPOSITO, 116th; GONZALEZ, 3rd; HAMPTON, 16th; JUTILA, 37th; MIKUTEL, 45th; NICASTRO 79th; ORANGE, 48th; ROVERO, 51st;
REPRESENTATIVES GIEGLER, (Ranking Member), 138th District; BACCHIOCHI, 52nd; D'AMELIO, 71st; HWANG, 134th; KUPCHICK, 132nd; YACCARINO, 87th; ZUPKUS, 89th;
Hartley@senatedems.ct.gov; osten@senatedems.ct.gov; ayala@senatedems.ct.gov; Anthony.Guglielmo@cga.ct.gov; Kevin.Witkos@cga.ct.gov; Stephen.Dargan@cga.ct.gov; Joe.Verrengia@cga.ct.gov; David.Arconti@cga.ct.gov; Betty.Boukus@cga.ct.gov; Charles.Clemons@cga.ct.gov; Lou.Esposito@cga.ct.gov; Minnie.Gonzalez@cga.ct.gov; John.Hampton@cga.ct.gov; Ed.Jutila@cga.ct.gov; Steve.Mikutel@cga.ct.gov; Frank.Nicastro@cga.ct.gov; Linda.Orange@cga.ct.gov; Danny.Rovero@cga.ct.gov; Janice.Giegler@housegop.ct.gov; Penny.Bacchiochi@housegop.ct.gov; Anthony.DAmelio@housegop.ct.gov; Tony.Hwang@housegop.ct.gov; brenda.kupchick@housegop.ct.gov; dave.yaccarino@housegop.ct.gov; Lezlye.Zupkus@housegop.ct.gov;
Mailing Address: Public Safety and Security Committee, Room 3600, Legislative Office Building, Hartford, CT 06106 Phone: 860-240-0570
Judiciary Committee Members 2013-14
SENATORS COLEMAN, (Chair), 2nd District; DOYLE, (Vice Chair) 9th; BYE, 5th; MEYER, 12th ; MUSTO, 22nd; GERRATANA, 4th
SENATORS KISSEL, (Ranking Member), 7th District; KELLY, 21st; McLACHLAN, 24th; WELCH, 31st. REPRESENTATIVES FOX, (Chair), 146th District; RITTER, (Vice Chair) 1st; ALBIS, 99th; BARAM, 15th; BERGER, 73rd; CLEMONS, 124th; DILLON, 92nd; FLEXER, 44th; FOX, 148th; FRITZ, 90th; GODFREY, 110th; GONZALEZ, 3rd; GROGINS, 129th; HEWETT, 39th; HOLDER-WINFIELD, 94th; MCGEE, 5th; MORRIS, 140th; RILEY, 46th; SERRA, 33rd; TONG, 147th; VERRENGIA, 20th; WALKER, 93rd; WRIGHT, 41st.
REPRESENTATIVES REBIMBAS, (Ranking Member), 70th District; ADINOLFI,103d; BUCK-TAYLOR, 67th; CARPINO, 32d; HOVEY, 112th; KLARIDES, 114th; LABRIOLA, 131st; O'DEA, 125th; O'NEILL, 69th; SHABAN, 135th; SMITH, 108TH; WALKO, 150th;
Eric.Coleman@cga.ct.gov; Doyle@senatedems.ct.gov; Bye@senatedems.ct.gov; Gerrantana@senatedems.ct.gov; Meyer@senatedems.ct.gov; Musto@senatedems.ct.gov,John.A.Kissel@cga.ct.gov; Kevin.Kelly@cga.ct.gov; Michael.McLachlan@cga.ct.gov; Jason.Welch@cga.ct.gov; Gerald.Fox@cga.ct.gov; Matthew.Ritter@cga.ct.gov; James.Albis@cga.ct.gov; David.Baram@cga.ct.gov; Jeffrey.Berger@cga.ct.gov; Charles.Clemons@cga.ct.gov; Patricia.Dillon@cga.ct.gov; Mae.Flexer@cga.ct.gov; Dan.Fox@cga.ct.gov; Mary.Fritz@cga.ct.gov; Bob.Godfrey@cga.ct.gov; Minnie.Gonzalez@cga.ct.gov; Auden.Grogins@cga.ct.gov; Ernest.Hewett@cga.ct.gov; Gary.Holder-Winfield@cga.ct.gov; Brandon.McGee@cga.ct.gov; Bruce.Morris@cga.ct.gov; Emmett.Riley@cga.ct.gov ; Joseph.Serra@cga.ct.gov; William.Tong@cga.ct.gov; Joe.Verrengia@cga.ct.gov; Toni.Walker@cga.ct.gov; Elissa.Wright@cga.ct.gov; Rosa.Rebimbas@housegop.ct.gov; al.adinolfi@housegop.ct.gov; Cecilia.Buck-Taylor@housegop.ct.gov; christie.carpino@housegop.ct.gov; Themis.Klarides@housegop.ct.gov; David.Labriola@housegop.ct.gov; Tom.ODea@housegop.ct.gov; Arthur.ONeill@housegop.ct.gov; john.shaban@housegop.ct.gov; richard.smith@housegop.ct.gov; Stephen.Walko@housegop.ct.gov; Senator Gerratana 4th District http://www.senatedems.ct.gov/Gerratana.php
Mailing Address:
Joint Committee on Judiciary, Room 2500, Legislative Office Building, Hartford, CT 06106 Phone: 860-240-0530
Gunowner Activist Meeting
February 7
Discuss current firearms legislation. 7PM. Bristol F&G, 700 Beecher Rd, Wolcott CT 06716. All welcome. http://www.bristolfishgame.com/
Videotaped Coverage of legislative activities, including sessions. Live coverage as well as archived. http://www.ctn.state.ct.us/
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