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1. H.CON.RES.420 : Expressing the sense of Congress regarding the need to re-weave America's social safety net to respond to the needs of the 21st century economy and labor market.
Sponsor: Rep McDermott, Jim [WA-7] (introduced 9/18/2008)      Cosponsors (None)
Committees: House Education and Labor
Latest Major Action: 9/18/2008 Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.

2. H.RES.299 : Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that Congress should increase public awareness of child abuse and neglect and should continue to work with the States to reduce the incidence of child abuse and neglect through such programs as the Child Welfare Services and Promoting Safe and Stable Families programs.
Sponsor: Rep McDermott, Jim [WA-7] (introduced 4/17/2007)      Cosponsors (7)
Committees: House Ways and Means
Latest Major Action: 4/24/2007 Passed/agreed to in House. Status: On motion to suspend the rules and agree to the resolution Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 411 - 0 (Roll no. 250).

3. H.RES.527 : Recognizing the month of November as "National Homeless Youth Awareness Month".
Sponsor: Rep McDermott, Jim [WA-7] (introduced 6/28/2007)      Cosponsors (9)
Committees: House Ways and Means
Latest Major Action: 7/11/2007 Passed/agreed to in House. Status: On motion to suspend the rules and agree to the resolution Agreed to by voice vote.

4. H.RES.607 : Extending best wishes to the people of India as they celebrate the 60th anniversary of India's independence from the British Empire.
Sponsor: Rep McDermott, Jim [WA-7] (introduced 8/2/2007)      Cosponsors (23)
Committees: House Foreign Affairs
Latest Major Action: 8/2/2007 Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.

5. H.RES.653 : Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the concept of nonviolence and the teachings of Gandhi remain relevant and instructive in today's world and the United States should take an active role in disseminating the message of nonviolence through education and public awareness.
Sponsor: Rep McDermott, Jim [WA-7] (introduced 9/17/2007)      Cosponsors (32)
Committees: House Oversight and Government Reform
Latest Major Action: 9/17/2007 Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.

6. H.RES.1105 : Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives supporting Earth Hour 2008, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep McDermott, Jim [WA-7] (introduced 4/14/2008)      Cosponsors (6)
Committees: House Energy and Commerce
Latest Major Action: 4/15/2008 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality.

7. H.RES.1185 : Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that Congress should recognize the important contributions of Americans who serve as foster parents and, in doing so, unselfishly open their homes and family lives to children in need.
Sponsor: Rep McDermott, Jim [WA-7] (introduced 5/8/2008)      Cosponsors (11)
Committees: House Ways and Means
Latest Major Action: 5/20/2008 Passed/agreed to in House. Status: On motion to suspend the rules and agree to the resolution Agreed to by voice vote.

8. H.R.453 : To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide that oil and gas companies will not be eligible for the effective rate reductions enacted in 2004 for domestic manufacturers.
Sponsor: Rep McDermott, Jim [WA-7] (introduced 1/12/2007)      Cosponsors (None)
Committees: House Ways and Means
Latest Major Action: 1/12/2007 Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.

9. H.R.949 : To extend Federal recognition to the Duwamish Tribe, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep McDermott, Jim [WA-7] (introduced 2/8/2007)      Cosponsors (None)
Committees: House Natural Resources
Latest Major Action: 2/8/2007 Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.

10. H.R.1128 : To direct the Secretary of Defense to provide medical personnel of the Department of Veterans Affairs with access to information provided in the joint patient tracking application for the treatment of individuals at medical facilities of the Department of Veterans Affairs for injuries sustained while serving in Operation Iraqi Freedom or Operation Enduring Freedom.
Sponsor: Rep McDermott, Jim [WA-7] (introduced 2/16/2007)      Cosponsors (1)
Committees: House Armed Services
Latest Major Action: 3/14/2007 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.

11. H.R.1200 : To provide for health care for every American and to control the cost and enhance the quality of the health care system.
Sponsor: Rep McDermott, Jim [WA-7] (introduced 2/27/2007)      Cosponsors (17)
Committees: House Energy and Commerce; House Ways and Means; House Oversight and Government Reform; House Armed Services
Latest Major Action: 3/28/2007 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.

12. H.R.1385 : To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to improve and extend certain energy-related tax provisions, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep McDermott, Jim [WA-7] (introduced 3/7/2007)      Cosponsors (38)
Committees: House Ways and Means
Latest Major Action: 3/7/2007 Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.

13. H.R.1386 : To repeal a provision enacted to end Federal matching of State spending of child support incentive payments.
Sponsor: Rep McDermott, Jim [WA-7] (introduced 3/7/2007)      Cosponsors (90)
Committees: House Ways and Means
Latest Major Action: 3/14/2007 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Income Security and Family Support.

14. H.R.1507 : To ensure that proper information gathering and planning are undertaken to secure the preservation and recovery of the salmon and steelhead of the Columbia River Basin in a manner that protects and enhances local communities, ensures effective expenditure of Federal resources, and maintains reasonably priced, reliable power, to direct the Secretary of Commerce to seek scientific analysis of Federal efforts to restore salmon and steelhead listed under the Endangered Species Act of 1973, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep McDermott, Jim [WA-7] (introduced 3/13/2007)      Cosponsors (69)
Committees: House Natural Resources
Latest Major Action: 3/16/2007 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, and Oceans.

15. H.R.1819 : To establish the Congressional Commission on Civic Service to study methods of improving and promoting volunteerism and national service, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep McDermott, Jim [WA-7] (introduced 3/29/2007)      Cosponsors (29)
Committees: House Education and Labor
Latest Major Action: 7/9/2007 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Healthy Families and Communities.

16. H.R.1820 : To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend the exclusion from gross income for employer-provided health coverage for employees' spouses and dependent children to coverage provided to other eligible designated beneficiaries of employees.
Sponsor: Rep McDermott, Jim [WA-7] (introduced 3/29/2007)      Cosponsors (119)
Committees: House Ways and Means
Latest Major Action: 3/29/2007 Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.

17. H.R.1821 : To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify the rules relating to clean energy renewable bonds.
Sponsor: Rep McDermott, Jim [WA-7] (introduced 3/29/2007)      Cosponsors (25)
Committees: House Ways and Means
Latest Major Action: 3/29/2007 Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.

18. H.R.2181 : -- Private Bill; For the relief of Mohuiddin A. K. M. Ahmed.
Sponsor: Rep McDermott, Jim [WA-7] (introduced 5/3/2007)      Cosponsors (None)
Committees: House Judiciary
Latest Major Action: 5/3/2007 Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.

19. H.R.2202 : To amend the Social Security Act to provide for wage insurance for dislocated workers.
Sponsor: Rep McDermott, Jim [WA-7] (introduced 5/8/2007)      Cosponsors (None)
Committees: House Ways and Means
Latest Major Action: 5/8/2007 Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.

20. H.R.2233 : To provide for special transfers of funds to States to promote certain improvements in State unemployment compensation laws.
Sponsor: Rep McDermott, Jim [WA-7] (introduced 5/9/2007)      Cosponsors (12)
Committees: House Ways and Means
Latest Major Action: 5/15/2007 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Income Security and Family Support.

21. H.R.2607 : To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to regulate internet gambling.
Sponsor: Rep McDermott, Jim [WA-7] (introduced 6/7/2007)      Cosponsors (1)
Committees: House Ways and Means
Latest Major Action: 6/7/2007 Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.

22. H.R.2608 : An act to amend section 402 of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 to provide, in fiscal years 2009 through 2011, extensions of supplemental security income for refugees, asylees, and certain other humanitarian immigrants, and to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to collect unemployment compensation debts resulting from fraud.
Sponsor: Rep McDermott, Jim [WA-7] (introduced 6/7/2007)      Cosponsors (15)
Committees: House Ways and Means; Senate Finance
Latest Major Action: Became Public Law No: 110-328 [GPO: Text, PDF]

23. H.R.3260 : To require the Secretary of the Treasury to modify regulations to provide that certain Federal subsidies shall not be considered a grant made with respect to a building or its operation for purposes of the low-income housing tax credit.
Sponsor: Rep McDermott, Jim [WA-7] (introduced 7/31/2007)      Cosponsors (2)
Committees: House Ways and Means
Latest Major Action: 7/31/2007 Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.

24. H.R.3427 : To prohibit the revocation of waivers of the competitive need limitation under the Generalized System of Preferences program unless certain conditions are met.
Sponsor: Rep McDermott, Jim [WA-7] (introduced 8/3/2007)      Cosponsors (4)
Committees: House Ways and Means
Latest Major Action: 8/9/2007 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.

25. H.R.3680 : To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend the deduction for State and local sales taxes.
Sponsor: Rep McDermott, Jim [WA-7] (introduced 9/27/2007)      Cosponsors (10)
Committees: House Ways and Means
Latest Major Action: 9/27/2007 Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.

26. H.R.3730 : To establish a United States-India interparliamentary exchange group.
Sponsor: Rep McDermott, Jim [WA-7] (introduced 10/2/2007)      Cosponsors (1)
Committees: House Foreign Affairs
Latest Major Action: 10/2/2007 Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.

27. H.R.3764 : To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to suspend the 5-year period relating to the exclusion of gain on the sale of a principal residence during a period of service with the Peace Corps.
Sponsor: Rep McDermott, Jim [WA-7] (introduced 10/4/2007)      Cosponsors (1)
Committees: House Ways and Means
Latest Major Action: 10/4/2007 Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.

28. H.R.3905 : To provide for an additional trade preference program for least developed countries, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep McDermott, Jim [WA-7] (introduced 10/18/2007)      Cosponsors (24)
Committees: House Ways and Means; House Foreign Affairs; House Financial Services
Latest Major Action: 3/25/2008 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Domestic and International Monetary Policy, Trade, and Technology.

29. H.R.4674 : To modify the provisions of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States relating to returned property.
Sponsor: Rep McDermott, Jim [WA-7] (introduced 12/13/2007)      Cosponsors (None)
Committees: House Ways and Means
Latest Major Action: 12/13/2007 Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.

30. H.R.4675 : To provide for duty free treatment for certain United States Government property returned to the United States.
Sponsor: Rep McDermott, Jim [WA-7] (introduced 12/13/2007)      Cosponsors (None)
Committees: House Ways and Means
Latest Major Action: 12/13/2007 Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.

31. H.R.4934 : To provide for a program of emergency unemployment compensation, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep McDermott, Jim [WA-7] (introduced 1/15/2008)      Cosponsors (50)
Committees: House Ways and Means
Latest Major Action: 1/17/2008 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Income Security and Family Support.

32. H.R.4996 : To suspend temporarily the duty on modified steel leaf spring leaves.
Sponsor: Rep McDermott, Jim [WA-7] (introduced 1/16/2008)      Cosponsors (None)
Committees: House Ways and Means
Latest Major Action: 1/28/2008 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.

33. H.R.4997 : To extend the temporary suspension of duty on certain suspension system stabilizer bars.
Sponsor: Rep McDermott, Jim [WA-7] (introduced 1/16/2008)      Cosponsors (None)
Committees: House Ways and Means
Latest Major Action: 1/28/2008 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.

34. H.R.5059 : To amend the African Growth and Opportunity Act with respect to lesser developed countries.
Sponsor: Rep McDermott, Jim [WA-7] (introduced 1/17/2008)      Cosponsors (None)
Committees: House Ways and Means
Latest Major Action: 1/28/2008 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.

35. H.R.5130 : To provide for the payment of interest on claims paid by the United States in connection with the correction of military records when a military corrections board sets aside a conviction by court-martial.
Sponsor: Rep McDermott, Jim [WA-7] (introduced 1/23/2008)      Cosponsors (18)
Committees: House Armed Services
Latest Major Action: 2/11/2008 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.

36. H.R.5147 : To suspend temporarily the duty on gaiters of textile materials.
Sponsor: Rep McDermott, Jim [WA-7] (introduced 1/28/2008)      Cosponsors (None)
Committees: House Ways and Means
Latest Major Action: 2/6/2008 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.

37. H.R.5237 : To amend the U.S. Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria Act of 2003.
Sponsor: Rep McDermott, Jim [WA-7] (introduced 2/6/2008)      Cosponsors (2)
Committees: House Foreign Affairs
Latest Major Action: 2/6/2008 Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.

38. H.R.5466 : To improve outcomes for vulnerable children by investing in families, improving accountability in the child welfare system, and finding safe, stable, and permanent homes for foster children.
Sponsor: Rep McDermott, Jim [WA-7] (introduced 2/14/2008)      Cosponsors (29)
Committees: House Ways and Means
Latest Major Action: 2/18/2008 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Income Security and Family Support.

39. H.R.5523 : To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to regulate and tax Internet gambling.
Sponsor: Rep McDermott, Jim [WA-7] (introduced 3/4/2008)      Cosponsors (None)
Committees: House Ways and Means
Latest Major Action: 3/4/2008 Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.

40. H.R.5705 : To establish a commission to study methods for improving and promoting bilateral renewable energy cooperation between the United States and India, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep McDermott, Jim [WA-7] (introduced 4/3/2008)      Cosponsors (7)
Committees: House Foreign Affairs
Latest Major Action: 4/3/2008 Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.

41. H.R.5749 : To provide for a program of emergency unemployment compensation.
Sponsor: Rep McDermott, Jim [WA-7] (introduced 4/9/2008)      Cosponsors (36)
Committees: House Ways and Means
House Reports: 110-607
Latest Major Action: 6/13/2008 Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 780 under authority of the order of the Senate of 06/12/2008.

42. H.R.5804 : To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify the rules relating to the treatment of individuals as independent contractors or employees, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep McDermott, Jim [WA-7] (introduced 4/15/2008)      Cosponsors (37)
Committees: House Ways and Means
Latest Major Action: 4/15/2008 Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.

43. H.R.6187 : To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 4244 University Way NE. in Seattle, Washington, as the "Jacob Lawrence Post Office Building".
Sponsor: Rep McDermott, Jim [WA-7] (introduced 6/4/2008)      Cosponsors (15)
Committees: House Oversight and Government Reform
Latest Major Action: 6/4/2008 Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.

44. H.R.6307 : To amend parts B and E of title IV of the Social Security Act to assist children in foster care in developing or maintaining connections to family, community, support, health care, and school, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep McDermott, Jim [WA-7] (introduced 6/19/2008)      Cosponsors (27)
Committees: House Ways and Means; Senate Finance
Latest Major Action: 6/25/2008 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Note: For further action, see H.R.6893, which became Public Law 110-351 on 10/7/2008.

45. H.R.6374 : To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the shipping investment withdrawal rules in section 955 and to provide an incentive to reinvest foreign shipping earnings in the United States.
Sponsor: Rep McDermott, Jim [WA-7] (introduced 6/25/2008)      Cosponsors (3)
Committees: House Ways and Means
Latest Major Action: 6/25/2008 Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.

46. H.R.6499 : To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to reform the estate and gift tax.
Sponsor: Rep McDermott, Jim [WA-7] (introduced 7/15/2008)      Cosponsors (1)
Committees: House Ways and Means
Latest Major Action: 7/15/2008 Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.

47. H.R.6501 : To amend the Social Security Act to establish a trust fund with proceeds from the taxing of internet gambling to provide opportunities to individuals who are, or were, in foster care and individuals in declining sectors of the economy.
Sponsor: Rep McDermott, Jim [WA-7] (introduced 7/15/2008)      Cosponsors (2)
Committees: House Ways and Means; House Education and Labor
Latest Major Action: 7/15/2008 Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Education and Labor, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

48. H.R.6561 : To increase funding of the block grant to States for social services, to provide for the increased funding to be used to provide a gasoline subsidy to certain low-income individuals, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep McDermott, Jim [WA-7] (introduced 7/22/2008)      Cosponsors (4)
Committees: House Ways and Means
Latest Major Action: 7/22/2008 Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.

49. H.R.6867 : To provide for additional emergency unemployment compensation.
Sponsor: Rep McDermott, Jim [WA-7] (introduced 9/10/2008)      Cosponsors (20)
Committees: House Ways and Means
Latest Major Action: Became Public Law No: 110-449 [GPO: Text, PDF]

50. H.R.6893 : To amend parts B and E of title IV of the Social Security Act to connect and support relative caregivers, improve outcomes for children in foster care, provide for tribal foster care and adoption access, improve incentives for adoption, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep McDermott, Jim [WA-7] (introduced 9/15/2008)      Cosponsors (1)
Committees: House Ways and Means
Latest Major Action: Became Public Law No: 110-351 [GPO: Text, PDF]

51. H.R.6941 : To amend title XI of the Social Security Act to provide for an improved method to measure poverty so as to enable a better assessment of the effects of programs under the Social Security Act, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep McDermott, Jim [WA-7] (introduced 9/18/2008)      Cosponsors (7)
Committees: House Ways and Means; House Oversight and Government Reform
Latest Major Action: 9/18/2008 Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

52. H.AMDT.962 to H.R.2857 Amendment established a temporary Congressional Commission on Civic Service within the Legislative Branch. The Commission would be tasked with making recommendations to Congress about how to improve opportunities for public service.
Sponsor: Rep McDermott, Jim [WA-7] (introduced 3/6/2008)      Cosponsors (None)
Latest Major Action: 3/6/2008 House amendment agreed to. Status: On agreeing to the McDermott amendment (A004) Agreed to by voice vote.

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