FOREIGN INVESTMENTS

Amendments

Africa: welcome leaders to U.S.-Africa Leaders’ Summit and trade ministers to Forum of the African Growth Opportunity Act (H. Res. 699), H7238 [1AU]

Bills and resolutions

Africa: welcome leaders to U.S.-Africa Leaders’ Summit and trade ministers to Forum of the African Growth Opportunity Act (see H. Res. 699), H7184 [31JY]

Business and industry: eliminate incentives for corporations to hold accumulated earnings offshore, invest in domestic infrastructure, and provide international tax reform (see H.R. 5857), H9302 [11DE]

Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S.: provide for a net benefit review of any transaction between U.S. and foreign companies (see H.R. 5581), H7884 [18SE]

Dept. of Homeland Security: make U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services EB–5 regional center program permanent (see H.R. 4659), H4064 [13MY]

Immigration: reform EB–5 immigrant investor visa program (see H.R. 4178), H2256 [6MR]

New Zealand: include in the list of foreign states whose nationals are eligible for admission into the U.S. as E–1 and E–2 nonimmigrants if U.S. nationals are treated similarly by New Zealand (see S. 2048), S1174 [26FE]

Taxation: end tax deferrals on profits accumulated offshore and terminate deferral of active income of controlled foreign corporations (see H.R. 5443), H7433 [10SE]

——— exclude dividends from controlled foreign corporations from the definition of personal holding company income for purposes of the personal holding company rules (see H.R. 4589), H3939 [7MY]

——— exempt certain stock of real estate investment trusts from the tax on foreign investment in U.S. real property interests (see H.R. 5487), H7617 [16SE]

——— lower Federal tax on earnings of U.S. companies with foreign operations (see H.R. 5883), H9303 [11DE]

Letters

Dept. of the Treasury economic impact study of U.S. bank reporting requirements for interest paid to nonresident aliens: Bill Hampel, Credit Union National Association and Brian Branch, World Council of Credit Unions, Inc., H6183 [14JY]

Press releases

Commander—Keep Senate Bill Focused on Vets: American Legion, S1159 [26FE]

Remarks in House

Africa: welcome leaders to U.S.-Africa Leaders’ Summit and trade ministers to Forum of the African Growth Opportunity Act (H. Res. 699), H7237–H7239 [1AU], E1305 [1AU]

Dept. of the Treasury: Inspector General for Tax Administration funding to study economic impact of U.S. bank reporting requirements for interest paid to nonresident aliens through reductions in IRS enforcement funding, H6182, H6183 [14JY]

Government regulations: include existing Dept. of the Treasury rule on U.S. bank reporting requirements relative to interest on deposits paid to nonresident aliens in any regulatory freeze, H6182 [14JY]

Iran: impose and expand sanctions for violations of interim Joint Plan of Action on nuclear weapons or failure to reach final agreement, H2011 [27FE], H2094–H2096 [28FE], H8065–H8067 [18NO], E800 [21MY]

——— impose and expand sanctions for violations of interim Joint Plan of Action on nuclear weapons or failure to reach final agreement (S. 1881), H8288 [3DE]

IRS: reform reporting requirements for U.S. citizens living abroad, H6265 [15JY]

OPIC: reauthorize programs, H3927 [7MY]

Remarks in Senate

Iran: deny request to extend deadline for interim Joint Plan of Action on nuclear weapons and seek congressional approval on any removal of sanctions, S4596–S4598 [17JY]

——— impose and expand sanctions for violations of interim Joint Plan of Action on nuclear weapons or failure to reach final agreement, S1027 [25FE], S1134, S1140, S1151–S1160, S1167 [26FE], S1187–S1191, S1193–S1196, S1201, S1205, S1209 [27FE]

——— impose and expand sanctions for violations of interim Joint Plan of Action on nuclear weapons or failure to reach final agreement (S. 1881), S322 [14JA], S804–S806 [6FE], S4484–S4486 [15JY]

New Zealand: include in the list of foreign states whose nationals are eligible for admission into the U.S. as E–1 and E–2 nonimmigrants if U.S. nationals are treated similarly by New Zealand (S. 2048), S1176 [26FE]

Taxation: proposed merger of Pfizer Inc., and AstraZeneca PLC relative to treatment of existing inversions by corporations to avoid the U.S. corporate tax by reincorporating in a foreign country, S2932–S2935 [13MY]

Reports filed

Global Investment in American Jobs Act: Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation (Senate) (H.R. 2052) (S. Rept. 113–252), S5507 [10SE]

Texts of

H. Res. 699, welcome leaders to U.S.-Africa Leaders’ Summit and trade ministers to Forum of the African Growth Opportunity Act, H7238 [1AU]