WashingtonWatch.com Digest – August 25, 2008
Posted by Jim Harper, August 25, 2008 at 10:00 am
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Senator Joseph Biden (D-DE) will be Senator Barack Obama’s (D-IL) vice presidential candidate. A post on the WashingtonWatch.com blog called “Senator Biden’s Priorities” takes a look at the legislative work of Senator Biden.
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Congress continues its August recess and will not return to Washington for a couple more weeks.
This week, the Democratic party convention in Denver will complete the process of selecting that party’s presidential nominee. Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) has indicated that his vice presidential candidate will be Senator Joseph Biden (D-DE).
Biden has been in the U.S. Senate for 35 years and has been an active legislator in the current Congress. We took a look at his overall record on the WashingtonWatch.com blog, and will examine a few key bills here.
A significant bill Biden introduced that has been passed into law is the Tom Lantos and Henry J. Hyde United States Global Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria Reauthorization Act of 2008.
The law will spend about $300 per U.S. family on assistance to foreign countries to combat HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria. (It was the House version that passed, but Biden sponsored it in the Senate.)
Biden also sponsored the Recidivism Reduction and Second Chance Act of 2007. The law continues a grant program to assist criminal offenders as they reenter their communities after serving their time. The law costs about $3.50 per U.S. family.
A bill Biden has introduced that has not yet passed is S. 3168, the International Development Association Replenishment Act of 2008. The bill would contribute funds to the International Development Association.
The IDA is a part of the World Bank that provides long-term, interest-free loans to the world’s 80 poorest countries, 39 of which are in Africa. The spending amounts to just under $34 per U.S. family.
S. 2731
The Tom Lantos and Henry J. Hyde United States Global Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria Reauthorization Act of 2008
Costs $298.60 per family
S. 1060
The Recidivism Reduction and Second Chance Act of 2007
Costs $3.49 per family
S. 3168
The International Development Association Replenishment Act of 2008
Costs $33.81 per family
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Displayed below are new, updated, and passed items with their cost or savings per family.
New Items
H.R. 263
The Cybersecurity Education Enhancement Act of 2007
Costs $0.09 per family
S. 3341
The Federal Financial Assistance Management Improvement Act of 2008
Costs $2.17 per family
S. 1933
The Small Community Drinking Water Funding Act
Costs $26.32 per family
S. 952
A bill to amend the Morris K. Udall Scholarship and Excellence in National Environmental and Native American Public Policy Act of 1992 to provide funds for training in tribal leadership, management, and policy, and for other purposes
Costs $0.04 per family
H.R. 5743
The Scientific Transformations through Advancing Research (STAR) Act
Costs $0.00 per family
S. 3155
The Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Reauthorization Act of 2008
Costs $19.51 per family
H.R. 6339
The Federal Employees Deserve to Volunteer on the Elections Act of 2008
Costs $0.73 per family
H.R. 6524
To authorize the Administrator of General Services to take certain actions with respect to parcels of real property located in Eastlake, Ohio, and Koochiching County, Minnesota, and for other purposes
Costs $0.00 per family
H.R. 6159
The Deafy Glade Land Exchange Act
Costs $0.00 per family
H.R. 6580
The Hubbard Act
Costs $0.05 per family
S. 3362
The SBIR/STTR Reauthorization Act of 2008
Costs $1.87 per family
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Updated Items
H.R. 404
The Federal Customer Service Enhancement Act
Costs $0.55 per family
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