3.0.0 554 2023-01-11T19:58:27Z 2023-01-11T19:58:27Z Senate S S 2007-02-12 110 ssfi00 Finance Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2007-02-12T22:32:20Z 2007-02-12 ssfi00 Finance Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. IntroReferral 2007-02-12 Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1855-1857) IntroReferral B00100 9 Library of Congress 2007-02-12 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress D000432 Sen. Dorgan, Byron L. [D-ND] BYRON DORGAN D ND LESLIE N Economics and Public Finance Accreditation (Medical care) Administrative fees Administrative procedure Administrative remedies Appropriations Armed Forces and National Security Auditing Australia Business records Canada Capital gains tax Caribbean area Checks Citizenship Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues Civil actions and liability Claims Commerce Competitive bidding Conflict of interests Congress Congressional reporting requirements Consumer education Continental shelf Contracts Corporation taxes Cost of living adjustments Courts of special jurisdiction Credit cards Crime and Law Enforcement Cuba Customs administration Damages Data banks Defective products Defense contracts Department of Defense Department of Health and Human Services Department of Homeland Security Department of the Interior Department of the Treasury Directories Disciplining of employees Dividends Drug advertising Drug approvals Drug industry Drugs Due process of law East Asia Education Electronic commerce Electronic data interchange Electronic funds transfers Electronic government information Employee rights Energy Environmental Protection Agency Europe European Union Evidence (Law) Expatriation Export controls Exports Federal Emergency Management Agency Federal Trade Commission Federal employees Federal officials Federal preemption Federal-state relations Fees Finance and Financial Sector Fines (Penalties) Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Foreign Trade and International Finance Foreign corporations Foreign tax credit Forfeiture Fraud Gas in submerged lands General Services Administration Gifts Government Operations and Politics Government contractors Government paperwork Government procurement Government publicity Government spending reductions Governmental investigations Gulf of Mexico Health Higher education Identification devices Immigration Import restrictions Imports Income tax Independent regulatory commissions Indexing (Economic policy) Infrastructure Infrastructure (Economics) Injunctions Intellectual property Interactive media International Affairs International broadcasting Internet Japan Judicial review Jurisdiction Labeling Latin America Law Legal fees Liability (Law) Licenses Lobbying Medical associations Medical education Medical records Medical tests Medicare Minimum tax New Zealand Oceania Office of Government Ethics Office of Management and Budget Office of Special Counsel Oil and gas leases Oil and gas royalties Oil well drilling Overhead costs Packaging Parties to actions Patent infringement Patents Petroleum in submerged lands Pharmaceutical research Pharmacies Pharmacists Physical examinations Prescription pricing Presidential appointments Price discrimination Product counterfeiting Profit Restrictive trade practices Right of privacy Science, Technology, Communications Security clearances Social Welfare State laws Sunset legislation Surety and fidelity Switzerland Tax deductions Tax deferral Tax exclusion Tax exemption Tax liens Tax rates Tax shelters Taxation of foreign income Telephone Television broadcasting User charges Web sites Whistle blowing Wholesale trade Economics and Public Finance 00 2007-02-12 Introduced in Senate 2007-03-09T20:59:12Z Act for Our Kids - Repeals the Television Broadcasting to Cuba Act.

Amends the Cuban Liberty and Democratic Solidarity (LIBERTAD) Act of 1996 to prohibit federal funding of television broadcasting to Cuba.

Terminates the U.S. Court of Federal Claims.

Requires federal agencies to reduce administrative expenses.

Eliminates the Medicare Advantage Regional Plan Stabilization (SLUSH) Fund.

Amends the federal criminal code to prohibit profiteering and fraud involving a contract or the provision of goods or services in connection with a war or military action.

Requires: (1) suspension and debarment of unethical contractors; (2) disclosure by federal agencies, upon request, to the appropriate committee chairman or ranking member of audit reports regarding federal contractors; and (3) public access to information on federal contractor penalties and violations through the Federal Procurement Data System website .

Amends the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 and federal armed forces law to prohibit awards of monopoly contracts exceeding $1 million.

Revises the Federal Acquisition Regulation to provide competition in multiple award contracts.

Sets forth prohibitions on contractor conflicts of interest.

Amends the Office of Federal Procurement Policy Act to prohibit former federal officials from accepting compensation from contractors or related entities.

Specifies minimum requirements for political appointees holding public contracting and safety positions.

Provides protection of certain disclosures of information by federal employees.

Pharmaceutical Market Access and Drug Safety Act of 2007 - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to revise requirements governing the importation of prescription drugs.

Establishes registration conditions for importers and exporters.

Declares that the resale in the United States of prescription drugs that were properly sold abroad is not patent infringement.

Provides for the sale of prescription drugs through an Internet site.

Prohibits the introduction of restricted transactions with unregistered foreign pharmacies into a payment system or the completion of such transactions using a payment system.

Instructs the Secretary of the Interior to agree to any lessee request to amend a lease issued for any Central and Western Gulf of Mexico (Gulf) tract during 1998 and 1999 to incorporate specified price thresholds applicable to royalty suspension provisions.

Reaffirms the authority of the Secretary to vary, based on the price of production from a lease, the suspension of royalties under specified leases on the Outer Continental Shelf.

Cites conditions for the issuance of new leases for oil or natural gas production in the Gulf.

Instructs the Secretary to establish conservation of resources fees for both producing and nonproducing federal oil and gas leases in the Gulf.

Prescribes restrictions on the transfer of such leases.

Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) repeal various tax cuts for millionaire taxpayers; (2) prescribe tax treatment for offshore shelters and expatriation; (3) restate the economic substance doctrine; (4) deny any deduction for certain fines, penalties, and other amounts relating to trade or business expenses; (5) impose a temporary emergency duty surcharge; and (6) provide for offshore oil and gas leasing in 181 Area of Gulf of Mexico.

Amends the Federal Reserve Act to require the Federal Reserve Bank to transfer specified surplus funds to the Treasury.

Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to make permanent the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) authority to auction licenses to use radio spectrum.

Freedom to Travel to Cuba Act of 2007 - Prohibits the President from regulating or prohibiting travel to or from Cuba by U.S. citizens or legal residents, or any of the transactions ordinarily incident to such travel.

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