Category: International competitiveness

Bills

109th Congress

Bill	Title
H R 250	To establish an interagency committee to coordinate Federal manufacturing research and development efforts in manufacturing, strengthen existing programs to assist manufacturing innovation and education, and expand outreach programs for small and medium-sized manufacturers, and for other purposes.
H R 3057	An act making appropriations for the Department of State, foreign operations, and related programs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2006, and for other purposes.
H R 3283	To enhance resources to enforce United States trade rights.
H R 609	To amend and extend the Higher Education Act of 1965.
H RES 352	Providing that the House of Representatives will focus on removing barriers to competitiveness of the United States economy.
S CON RES 25	A concurrent resolution expressing the sense of Congress regarding the application of Airbus for launch aid.

108th Congress

Bill	Title
H J RES 2	Joint Resolution making consolidated appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2003, and for other purposes.
H R 1047	To amend the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to modify temporarily certain rates of duty, to make other technical amendments to the trade laws, and for other purposes.
H R 1588	To authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2004 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe personnel strengths for such fiscal year for the Armed Forces, and for other purposes.
H R 2738	To implement the United States-Chile Free Trade Agreement.
H R 2739	To implement the United States-Singapore Free Trade Agreement.
H R 3574	To require the mandatory expensing of stock options granted to executive officers, and for other purposes.
H R 3598	To establish an interagency committee to coordinate Federal manufacturing research and development efforts in manufacturing, strengthen existing programs to assist manufacturing innovation and education, and expand outreach programs for small and medium-sized manufacturers, and for other purposes.
H R 4818	Making appropriations for foreign operations, export financing, and related programs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2005, and for other purposes.
H R 4837	Making appropriations for military construction, family housing, and base realignment and closure for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2005, and for other purposes.
H R 4842	To implement the United States-Morocco Free Trade Agreement.
H R 5382	To promote the development of the emerging commercial human space flight industry, and for other purposes.
H R 766	To provide for a National Nanotechnology Research and Development Program, and for other purposes.
H RES 414	To encourage the People's Republic of China to fulfill its commitments under international trade agreements, support the United States manufacturing sector, and establish monetary and financial market reforms.
S 1050	An original bill to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2004 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe personnel strengths for such fiscal year for the Armed Forces, and for other purposes.
S 2677	A bill to implement the United States-Morocco Free Trade Agreement.
S 824	A bill to reauthorize the Federal Aviation Administration, and for other purposes.

107th Congress

Bill	Title
H CON RES 262	Expressing the sense of Congress that the President, at the WTO round of negotiations to be held at Doha, Qatar, from November 9-13, 2001, and at any subsequent round of negotiations, should preserve the ability of the United States to enforce rigorously its trade laws and should ensure that United States exports are not subject to the abusive use of trade laws by other countries.
H R 2506	Making appropriations for foreign operations, export financing, and related programs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2002, and for other purposes.
H R 2871	To reauthorize the Export-Import Bank of the United States, and for other purposes.
H R 3004	To combat the financing of terrorism and other financial crimes, and for other purposes.
H R 3005	To extend trade authorities procedures with respect to reciprocal trade agreements.
H R 3009	To extend the Andean Trade Preference Act, to grant additional trade benefits under that Act, and for other purposes.
H R 3162	To deter and punish terrorist acts in the United States and around the world, to enhance law enforcement investigatory tools, and for other purposes.
H R 4	To enhance energy conservation, research and development and to provide for security and diversity in the energy supply for the American people, and for other purposes.
H R 5011	Making appropriations for military construction, family housing, and base realignment and closure for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2003, and for other purposes.
H RES 513	Recognizing the historical significance and timeliness of the United States-Ireland Business Summit.
S 1372	A bill to reauthorize the Export-Import Bank of the United States.
S 1731	An original bill to strengthen the safety net for agricultural producers, to enhance resource conservation and rural development, to provide for farm credit, agricultural research, nutrition, and related programs, to ensure consumers abundant food and fiber, and for other purposes.

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 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 2415	To enhance security of United States missions and personnel overseas, to authorize appropriations for the Department of State for fiscal year 2000, and for other purposes.
H R 2465	Making appropriations for military construction, family housing, and base realignment and closure for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2000, and for other purposes.
H R 3194	Making consolidated appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2000, and for other purposes.
H R 434	An act to authorize a new trade and investment policy for sub-Sahara Africa, expand trade benefits to the countries in the Caribbean Basin, renew the generalized system of preferences, and reauthorize the trade adjustment assistance programs.
H R 4444	To authorize extension of nondiscriminatory treatment (normal trade relations treatment) to the People's Republic of China, and to establish a framework for relations between the United States and the People's Republic of China.
S 1059	An original bill to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2000 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe personnel strengths for such fiscal year for the Armed Forces, and for other purposes.
S 1205	An original bill making appropriations for military construction, family housing, and base realignment and closure for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2000, and for other purposes.
S 886	An original bill to authorize appropriations for the Department of State for fiscal years 2000 and 2001; to provide for enhanced security at United States diplomatic facilities; to provide for certain arms control, nonproliferation, and other national security measures; to provide for the reform of the United Nations; 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 CON RES 213	Expressing the sense of the Congress that the European Union is unfairly restricting the importation of United States agriculture products and the elimination of such restrictions should be a top priority in trade negotiations with the European Union.
H R 1273	To authorize appropriations for fiscal years 1998 and 1999 for the National Science Foundation, and for other purposes.
H R 1275	To authorize appropriations for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for fiscal years 1998 and 1999, and for other purposes.
H R 1385	To consolidate, coordinate, and improve employment, training, literacy, and vocational rehabilitation programs in the United States, and for other purposes.
H R 1853	To amend the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology Education Act.
H R 2400	To authorize funds for Federal-aid highways, highway safety programs, and transit programs, and for other purposes.
H R 2621	To extend trade authorities procedures with respect to reciprocal trade agreements, and for other purposes.
H R 3579	Making emergency supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1998, and for other purposes.
H R 3616	To authorize appropriations for fiscal year 1999 for military activities of the Department of Defense, to prescribe military personnel strengths for fiscal year 1999, and for other purposes.
H R 4101	Making appropriations for Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies programs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1999, and for other purposes.
H R 4328	Making omnibus consolidated and emergency appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1999, and for other purposes.
H R 4569	Making appropriations for foreign operations, export financing, and related programs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1999, and for other purposes.
S 1150	An original bill to ensure that federally funded agricultural research, extension, and education address high-priority concerns with national or multistate significance, to reform, extend, and eliminate certain agricultural research programs, and for other purposes.
S 1173	A bill to authorize funds for construction of highways, for highway safety programs, and for mass transit programs, and for other purposes.
S 2057	An original bill to authorize appropriations for the fiscal year 1999 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe personnel strengths for such fiscal year for the Armed Forces, and for other purposes.
S 2159	An original bill making appropriations for Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies programs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1999, and for other purposes.

104th Congress

Bill	Title
H R 1350	To amend the Merchant Marine Act, 1936 to revitalize the United States-flag merchant marine, and for other purposes.
H R 1561	To consolidate the foreign affairs agencies of the United States; to authorize appropriations for the Department of State and related agencies for fiscal years 1996 and 1997; to responsibly reduce the authorizations of appropriations for United States foreign assistance programs for fiscal years 1996 and 1997, and for other purposes.
H R 1868	Making appropriations for foreign operations, export financing, and related programs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1996, and for other purposes.
H R 1977	Making appropriations for the Department of the Interior and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1996, and for other purposes.
H R 2149	To reduce regulation, promote efficiencies, and encourage competition in the international ocean transportation system of the United States, to eliminate the Federal Maritime Commission, and for other purposes.
H R 2405	To authorize appropriations for fiscal years 1996 and 1997 for civilian science activities of the Federal Government, and for other purposes.
H R 2754	To approve and implement the OECD Shipbuilding Trade Agreement.
H R 2854	To modify the operation of certain agricultural programs.
H R 3005	To amend the Federal securities laws in order to promote efficiency and capital formation in the financial markets, and to amend the Investment Company Act of 1940 to promote more efficient management of mutual funds, protect investors, and provide more effective and less burdensome regulation.
H R 3136	To provide for enactment of the Senior Citizens' Right to Work Act of 1996, the Line Item Veto Act, and the Small Business Growth and Fairness Act of 1996, and to provide for a permanent increase in the public debt limit.
H R 3322	To authorize appropriations for fiscal year 1997 for civilian science activities of the Federal Government, and for other purposes.
H R 5	To curb the practice of imposing unfunded Federal mandates on States and local governments, to ensure that the Federal Government pays the costs incurred by those governments in complying with certain requirements under Federal statutes and regulations, and to provide information on the cost of Federal mandates on the private sector, and for other purposes.
H R 9	To create jobs, enhance wages, strengthen property rights, maintain certain economic liberties, decentralize and reduce the power of the Federal Government with respect to the States, localities, and citizens of the United States, and to increase the accountability of Federal officials.
H R 926	To promote regulatory flexibility and enhance public participation in Federal agency rulemaking and for other purposes.
S 1	A bill to curb the practice of imposing unfunded Federal mandates on States and local governments; to strengthen the partnership between the Federal Government and State, local and tribal governments; to end the imposition, in the absence of full consideration by Congress, of Federal mandates on State, local, and tribal governments without adequate funding, in a manner that may displace other essential governmental priorities; and to ensure that the Federal Government pays the costs incurred by those governments in complying with certain requirements under Federal statutes and regulations; and for other purposes.
S 219	A bill to ensure economy and efficiency of Federal Government operations by establishig a moratorium on regulatory rulemaking actions, and for other purposes.
S 343	A bill to reform the regulatory process, and for other purposes.
S 908	An original bill to authorize appropriations for the Department of State for fiscal years 1996 through 1999 and to abolish the United States Information Agency, the United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, and the Agency for International Development, and for other purposes.

103rd Congress

Bill	Title
H R 1964	To authorize appropriations for the Maritime Administration for fiscal year 1994, and for other purposes.
H R 2151	To amend the Merchant Marine Act, 1936, to establish the Maritime Security Fleet program, and for other purposes.
H R 2200	To authorize appropriations to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for research and development, space flight, control, and data communications, construction of facilities, research and program management, and Inspector General, and for other purposes.
H R 2401	To authorize appropriations for fiscal year 1994 for military activities of the Department of Defense, to prescribe military personnel strengths for fiscal year 1994, and for other purposes.
H R 2519	Making appropriations for the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1994, and for other purposes.
H R 2739	To amend the Airport and Airway Improvement Act of 1982 to authorize appropriations for fiscal years 1994, 1995, and 1996, and for other purposes.
H R 3254	To authorize appropriations for the National Science Foundation, and for other purposes.
H R 3450	To implement the North American Free Trade Agreement.
H R 3474	To reduce administrative requirements for insured depository institutions to the extent consistent with safe and sound banking practices, to facilitate the establishment of community development financial institutions, and for other purposes.
H R 3870	To promote the research and development of environmental technologies.
H R 4003	To authorize appropriations for fiscal year 1995 for certain maritime programs of the Department of Transportation, to amend the Merchant Marine Act, 1936, as amended, to revitalize the United States-flag merchant marine, and for other purposes.
H R 4301	An Act to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 1995 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense programs of hte Department of Energy, to prescribe personnel strenths for such fiscal year for the Armed Forces, and for other purposes.
H R 4426	An Act making appropriations for foreign operations, export financing, and related programs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1995, and for other purposes.
H R 4603	Making appropriations for the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and related agencies programs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1995, and making supplemental appropriations for these departments and agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1994, and for other purposes.
H R 5110	To approve and implement the trade agreements concluded in the Uruguay Round of multilateral trade negotiations.
H R 820	To amend the Stevenson-Wydler Technology Innovation Act of 1980 to enhance manufacturing technology development and transfer, to authorize appropriations for the Technology Administration of the Department of Commerce, including the National Institute of Standards and Technology, and for other purposes.
S 1275	An Act to facilitate the establishment of community development financial institutions, to provide consumer protections for high cost mortgages, to encourage investment in and lending to small businesses, to improve the regulation of depository institutions, and for other purposes.
S 1298	An Act to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 1994 for militray activities of the Department of Defense, for militray construction, and for defense programs of the Department of Energy, to prescribe personnel strengths for such fiscal year for the Armed Forces, and for other purposes.
S 1491	A bill to amend the Airport and Airway Improvement Act of 1982 to authorize appropriations, and for other purposes.
S 4	A bill to promote the industrial competitiveness and economic growth of the United States by strengthening and expanding the civilian technology programs of the Department of Commerce, amending the Stevenson-Wydler Technology Innovation Act of 1980 to enhance the development and nationwide deployment of manufacturing technologies, and authorizing appropriations for the Technology Administration of the Department of Commerce, including the National Institute of Standards and Technology, and for other purposes.

102nd Congress

Bill	Title
H CON RES 287	Setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for the fiscal years 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, and 1997.
H CON RES 292	Expressing the sense of the Congress with respect to United States participation in the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED).
H R 11	To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide tax incentives for the establishment of tax enterprise zones, and for other purposes.
H R 1989	To authorize appropriations for the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the Technology Administration of the Department of Commerce, and for other purposes.
H R 2508	To amend the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to rewrite the authorities of that Act in order to establish more effective assistance programs and eliminate obsolete and inconsistent provisions, to amend the Arms Export Control Act and to redesignate that Act as the Defense Trade and Export Control Act, to authorize appropriations for foreign assistance programs for fiscal years 1992 and 1993, and for other purposes.
H R 2608	Making appropriations for the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1992, and for other purposes.
H R 2621	Making appropriations for foreign operations, export financing, and related programs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1992, and for other purposes.
H R 2698	Making appropriations for Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies programs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1992, and for other purposes.
H R 2950	To develop a national intermodal surface transportation system, to authorize funds for construction of highways, for highway safety programs, and for mass transit programs, and for other purposes.
H R 3489	To reauthorize the Export Administration Act of 1979, and for other purposes.
H R 3553	To amend and extend the Higher Education Act of 1965.
H R 4484	To authorize appropriations for fiscal year 1993 for the Maritime Administration.
H R 4996	To extend the authorities of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation, and for other purposes.
H R 5100	To strengthen the international trade position of the United States.
H R 5231	To amend the Stevenson-Wydler Technology Innovation Act of 1980 to enhance manufacturing technology development and transfer, to authorize appropriations for the Technology Administration of the Department of Commerce, including the National Institute of Standards and Technology, and for other purposes.
H R 5678	Making appropriations for the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, and the Judiciary, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1993, and for other purposes.
H R 5739	To reauthorize the Export-Import Bank of the United States.
S 1150	A bill to reauthorize the Higher Education Act of 1965, and for other purposes.
S 1330	A bill to enhance the productivity, quality, and competitiveness of United States industry through the accelerated development and deployment of advanced manufacturing technologies, and for other purposes.
S 479	A bill to encourage innovation and productivity, stimulate trade, and promote the competitiveness and technological leadership of the United States.
S CON RES 106	An original concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal years 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, and 1997.