Category: Consumer complaints

Bills

109th Congress

Bill	Title
H R 22	To reform the postal laws of the United States.
H R 2862	An Act making appropriations for the Departments of Commerce and Justice, Science, and related agencies, for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2006, and for other purposes.
H R 310	To increase the penalties for violations by television and radio broadcasters of the prohibitions against transmission of obscene, indecent, and profane material, and for other purposes.
H R 3893	To expedite the construction of new refining capacity in the United States, to provide reliable and affordable energy for the American people, and for other purposes.
H R 458	An act to prevent the sale of abusive insurance and investment products tomilitary personnel.
H R 5252	To promote the deployment of broadband networks and services.

108th Congress

Bill	Title
H R 1	An act to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for a voluntary prescription drug benefit under the medicare program and to strengthen and improve the medicare program, and for other purposes.
H R 1474	To facilitate check truncation by authorizing substitute checks, to foster innovation in the check collection system without mandating receipt of checks in electronic form, and to improve the overall efficiency of the Nation's payments system, and for other purposes.
H R 2115	To amend title 49, United States Code, to reauthorize programs for the Federal Aviation Administration, and for other purposes.
H R 2420	To improve transparency relating to the fees and costs that mutual fund investors incur and to improve corporate governance of mutual funds.
H R 2622	To amend the Fair Credit Reporting Act, to prevent identity theft, improve resolution of consumer disputes, improve the accuracy of consumer records, make improvements in the use of, and consumer access to, credit information, and for other purposes.
H R 5011	To prevent the sale of abusive insurance and investment products to military personnel.
S 1	A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for a voluntary prescription drug benefit under the Medicare program and to strengthen and improve the Medicare program, and for other purposes.
S 1072	A bill to authorize funds for Federal-aid highways, highway safety programs, and transit programs, and for other purposes.
S 1753	An original bill to amend the Fair Credit Reporting Act in order to prevent identity theft, to improve the use of and consumer access to consumer reports, to enhance the accuracy of consumer reports, to limit the sharing of certain consumer information, to improve financial education and literacy, and for other purposes.

107th Congress

Bill	Title
H R 1408	To safeguard the public from fraud in the financial services industry, to streamline and facilitate the antifraud information-sharing efforts of Federal and State regulators, and for other purposes.
H R 3391	To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide regulatory relief and contracting flexibility under the Medicare Program.

106th Congress

Bill	Title
H R 10	To enhance competition in the financial services industry by providing a prudential framework for the affiliation of banks, securities firms, and other financial service providers, and for other purposes.
H R 1180	To amend the Social Security Act to expand the availability of health care coverage for working individuals with disabilities, to establish a Ticket to Work and Self-Sufficiency Program in the Social Security Administration to provide such individuals with meaningful opportunities to work, and for other purposes.
H R 1554	To amend the provisions of title 17, United States Code, and the Communications Act of 1934, relating to copyright licensing and carriage of broadcast signals by satellite.
H R 1907	To amend title 35, United States Code, to provide enhanced protection for inventors and innovators, protect patent terms, reduce patent litigation, and for other purposes.
H R 2723	To amend title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, title XXVII of the Public Health Service Act, and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to protect consumers in managed care plans and other health coverage.
H R 3113	To protect individuals, families, and Internet service providers from unsolicited and unwanted electronic mail.
H R 4680	To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for a voluntary program for prescription drug coverage under the Medicare Program, to modernize the Medicare Program, and for other purposes.
S 900	An Act to enhance competition in the financial services industry by providing a prudential framework for the affiliation of banks, securities firms, and other financial service providers, and for other purposes.

105th Congress

Bill	Title
H R 10	To enhance competition in the financial services industry by providing a prudential framework for the affiliation of banks, securities firms, and other financial service providers, and for other purposes.
H R 4250	To provide new patient protections under group health plans.
H R 6	To extend the authorization of programs under the Higher Education Act of 1965, and for other purposes.
S 1618	A bill to amend the Communications Act of 1934 to improve the protection of consumers against "slamming" by telecommunications carriers, and for other purposes.

104th Congress

Bill	Title
H R 1555	To promote competition and reduce regulation in order to secure lower prices and higher quality services for American telecommunications consumers and encourage the rapid deployment of new telecommunications technologies.
H R 2425	To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to preserve and reform the medicare program.
H R 2491	To provide for reconciliation pursuant to section 105 of the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 1996.
H R 3103	To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to improve portability and continuity of health insurance coverage in the group and individual markets, to combat waste, fraud, and abuse in health insurance and health care delivery, to promote the use of medical savings accounts, to improve access to long-term care services and coverage, to simplify the administration of health insurance, and for other purposes.
H R 3734	To provide for reconciliation pursuant to section 201(a)(1) of the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 1997.
S 1028	A bill to provide increased access to health care benefits, to provide increased portability of health care benefits, to provide increased security of health care benefits, to increase the purchasing power of individuals and small employers, and for other purposes.
S 652	An original bill to provide for a pro-competitive, de-regulatory national policy framework designed to accelerate rapidly private sector deployment of advanced telecommunications and information technologies and services to all Americans by opening all telecommunications markets to competition, and for other purposes.

103rd Congress

Bill	Title
H R 5110	To approve and implement the trade agreements concluded in the Uruguay Round of multilateral trade negotiations.
S 2351	An original bill to achieve universal health insurance coverage, and for other purposes.

102nd Congress

Bill	Title
H R 3490	To protect the public interest and the future development of interstate pay-per-call technology by providing for the regulation and oversight of the applications and growth of the pay-per-call industry, and for other purposes.
H R 3553	To amend and extend the Higher Education Act of 1965.
S 1150	A bill to reauthorize the Higher Education Act of 1965, and for other purposes.
S 12	A bill to amend title VI of the Communications Act of 1934 to ensure carriage on cable television of local news and other programming and to restore the right of local regulatory authorities to regulate cable television rates, and for other purposes.
S 792	A bill to reauthorize the Indoor Radon Abatement Act of 1988 and for other purposes.