Category: Supreme Court decisions

Bills

109th Congress

Bill	Title
H RES 340	Expressing the grave disapproval of the House of Representatives regarding the majority opinion of the Supreme Court in the case of Kelo et al. v. City of New London et al. that nullifies the protections afforded private property owners in the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment.

108th Congress

Bill	Title
H CON RES 414	Expressing the sense of the Congress that, as Congress recognizes the 50th anniversary of the Brown v. Board of Education decision, all Americans are encouraged to observe this anniversary with a commitment to continuing and building on the legacy of Brown.
H R 1115	To amend the procedures that apply to consideration of interstate class actions to assure fairer outcomes for class members and defendants, to outlaw certain practices that provide inadequate settlements for class members, to assure that attorneys do not receive a disproportionate amount of settlements at the expense of class members, to provide for clearer and simpler information in class action settlement notices, to assure prompt consideration of interstate class actions, to amend title 28, United States Code, to allow the application of the principles of Federal diversity jurisdiction to interstate class actions, 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 5006	Making appropriations for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2005, and for other purposes.
S 3	A bill to prohibit the procedure commonly known as partial-birth abortion.

107th Congress

Bill	Title
H R 2133	To establish a commission for the purpose of encouraging and providing for the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education.
S 27	A bill to amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide bipartisan campaign reform.

106th Congress

Bill	Title
H R 2084	Making appropriations for the Department of Transportation and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2000, and for other purposes.
H R 4577	Making appropriations for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2001, and for other purposes.
S 1593	A bill to amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide bipartisan campaign reform.
S 1692	A bill to amend title 18, United States Code, to ban partial birth abortions.

105th Congress

Bill	Title
H CON RES 284	Revising the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 1998, establishing the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 1999, and setting forth appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2000, 2001, 2002, and 2003.
H R 1544	To prevent Federal agencies from pursuing policies of unjustifiable nonacquiescence in, and relitigation of, precedents established in the Federal judicial circuits.
H R 2107	Making appropriations for the Department of the Interior and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1998, and for other purposes.
H R 2264	Making appropriations for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1998, and for other purposes.
H R 3892	To amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to establish a program to help children and youth learn English, and for other purposes.
H R 4274	Making appropriations for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and related agencies 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.
S 1061	An original bill making appropriations for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1998, and for other purposes.
S 2237	An original bill making appropriations for the Department of the Interior and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1999, and for other purposes.
S CON RES 86	An original concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal years 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, and 2003 and revising the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 1998.

104th Congress

Bill	Title
H R 2703	To combat terrorism.
H R 2854	To modify the operation of certain agricultural programs.
H R 3610	Making appropriations for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1997, and for other purposes.
H R 3755	Making appropriations for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and related agencies, for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1997, and for other purposes.
H R 4278	Making omnibus consolidated appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1997, and for other purposes.
H R 729	To control crime by a more effective death penalty.
S 1541	A bill to extend, reform, and improve agricultural commodity, trade, conservation, and other programs, and for other purposes.
S 735	A bill to prevent and punish acts of terrorism, and for other purposes.

103rd Congress

Bill	Title
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.
S 1657	A bill to reform habeas corpus procedures.

102nd Congress

Bill	Title
H R 1	To amend the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to restore and strengthen civil rights laws that ban discrimination in employment, and for other purposes.
S 1745	A bill to amend the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to strengthen and improve Federal civil rights laws, to provide for damages in cases of intentional employment discrimination, to clarify provisions regarding disparate impact actions, and for other purposes.

© The Washington Post Company