108th Congress / Bills / S 1637

Title

A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to comply with the World Trade Organization rulings on the FSC/ETI benefit in a manner that preserves jobs and production activities in the United States, to reform and simplify the international taxation rules of the United States, and for other purposes.

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Categories (What are categories?)

Accounting | Administrative procedure | Affiliated corporations | Agricultural cooperatives | Agriculture | Aircraft | Alcoholic beverages | Aliens | Attorney-client privilege | Bank holding companies | Bank records | Bonds | Building construction | Business | Capital gains tax | Charitable contributions | Children | Commemorations | Commodity tax straddles | Communications | Computer software | Confidential communications | Congress | Congressional committees (Senate) | Congressional reporting requirements | Construction costs | Contracts | Copyright | Corporate reorganizations | Corporation taxes | Countervailing duties | Criminal justice | Customs administration | Department of the Treasury | Depreciation and amortization | Dispute settlement | Dividends | Drug industry | Dumping | Electric power plants | Electric power transmission | Electric utilities | Energy | Equipment and supplies | Excavation | Excise tax | Executive departments | Expatriation | Exports | Feeds | Finance | Financial services | Fines (Penalties) | Food | Foreign corporations | Foreign exchange rates | Foreign investments | Foreign tax credit | Fraud | Free trade | Futures trading | Gambling | Gas companies | Hepatitis | Historic sites | Holding companies | Housing | Housing finance | Humanities | Immigration | Income tax | Injunctions | Insurance companies | Insurance premiums | Intellectual property | Interest | International finance | Internet | Inventories | Investors | Law | Leases | Licenses | Limitation of actions | Livestock | Losses | Lumber trade | Marketing of farm produce | Medical care | Medicine | Minimum tax | Motion pictures | Partnerships | Patents | Punitive damages | Real estate investment trusts | Reforestation | Reinsurance | Rent | Residential rehabilitation | Securities | Senate Finance | Sentences (Criminal procedure) | Ships | Small business | Small business investment companies | Sports | Stockholders | Stocks | Tax administration | Tax credits | Tax deductions | Tax evasion | Tax exclusion | Tax penalties | Tax preparers | Tax rates | Tax returns | Tax shelters | Tax-exempt securities | Taxation | Taxation of foreign income | Technology | Telecommunication | Television | Timber sales | Trade | Trademarks | Transportation | User charges | Vaccines | Withholding tax

Votes on this bill

Date	Chamber	Result	Vote
5/11/04	Senate	Passed	Session 2, roll call 91: On Passage of the Bill S. 1637 As Amended; Jumpstart Our Business Strength (JOBS) Act
5/11/04	Senate	Rejected	Session 2, roll call 90: On the Amendment Hollings Amdt. No. 3134; To strike the international tax provisions that are unrelated to the FSC/ETI repeal and eliminate the phase-in of the deduction for qualified production activities income.
5/11/04	Senate	Rejected	Session 2, roll call 89: On the Amendment McCain Amdt. No. 3129; To strike provisions relating to energy tax incentives.
5/5/04	Senate	Agreed to	Session 2, roll call 84: On the Amendment Allard Amdt. No. 3118; To provide for a brownfields demonstration program for qualified green building and sustainable design projects, and for other purposes.
5/5/04	Senate	Agreed to	Session 2, roll call 83: On the Motion to Table Motion To Table Dorgan Amdt. No. 3110; To provide for the taxation of income of controlled foreign corporations attributable to imported property, and for other purposes.
5/5/04	Senate	Rejected	Session 2, roll call 82: On the Amendment Graham (FL) Amdt. No. 3112; To strike the deduction relating to income attributable to United States production activities and the international tax provisions and allow a credit for manufacturing wages, and for other purposes.
5/5/04	Senate	Rejected	Session 2, roll call 81: On the Amendment Breaux Amdt. No. 3117; To limit the amount of deferred foreign income that can be repatriated at a lower rate.
5/4/04	Senate	Agreed to	Session 2, roll call 79: On the Amendment Harkin Amdt. No. 3107; To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to clarify provisions relating to overtime pay.
5/4/04	Senate	Agreed to	Session 2, roll call 78: On the Amendment Gregg Amdt. No. 3111; To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to clarify provisions relating to overtime pay.
3/4/04	Senate	Agreed to	Session 2, roll call 32: On the Amendment Dodd Amdt. No. 2660, as modified and amended; To protect United States workers from competition of foreign workforces for performance of Federal and State contracts.
3/3/04	Senate	Agreed to	Session 2, roll call 31: On the Amendment Hatch Amdt. No. 2647: as amended; To extend and modify the research credit.