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The 111th Congress has adjourned, and the 112th Congress will begin work this week. Before it finished for the year, Congress passed a flurry of bills, many of which the president has now signed into law.

Among them is Public Law 111-337, the Early Hearing Detection and Intervention Act of 2010. The law expands research and public health activities related to the early detection, diagnosis, and treatment of hearing loss in newborns and infants.

Passage of Public Law 111-337 cost the average U.S. family a little over $1.50.

Public Law 111-331 is the Truth in Caller ID Act of 2009. The new law prohibits caller identification services (Caller ID) from transmitting misleading or inaccurate information with the intent to defraud or cause harm.

Spending for and by the Federal Communications Commission to implement the new law will cost the average U.S. family about twenty cents each.

Public Law 111-324 reauthorized and amended “Johanna’s Law,” which spends funds on a campaign to increase the awareness and knowledge of health care providers and women with respect to gynecologic cancers.

The cost to the average U.S. family of Public Law 111-324 was about fifteen cents.

P.L. 111-337
The Early Hearing Detection and Intervention Act of 2010
Costs $1.64 per family

P.L. 111-331
The Truth in Caller ID Act of 2009
Costs $0.20 per family

P.L. 111-324
To reauthorize and enhance Johanna’s Law to increase public awareness and knowledge with respect to gynecologic cancers
Costs $0.15 per family

What People Think

The Early Hearing Detection and Intervention Act of 2010 50% For, 50% Against Vote on this Bill

The Truth in Caller ID Act of 2009 40% For, 60% Against Vote on this Bill

P.L. 111-324 42% For, 58% Against Vote on this Bill

Displayed below are new, updated, and passed items with their cost or savings per family.

New Items

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Updated Items

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Passed Items

P.L. 111-323
The Hoh Indian Tribe Safe Homelands Act
Costs $0.00 per family

P.L. 111-324
To reauthorize and enhance Johanna’s Law to increase public awareness and knowledge with respect to gynecologic cancers
Costs $0.15 per family

P.L. 111-325
The Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2009

P.L. 111-326
To designate the facility of the Federal Aviation Administration located at Spokane International Airport in Spokane, Washington, as the “Ray Daves Air Traffic Control Tower”

P.L. 111-327
The Bankruptcy Technical Corrections Act of 2010

P.L. 111-328
The Kingman and Heritage Islands Act of 2010

P.L. 111-329
The Airport and Airway Extension Act of 2010, Part IV

P.L. 111-330
To make technical corrections to provisions of law enacted by the Coast Guard Authorization Act of 2010

P.L. 111-331
The Truth in Caller ID Act of 2009
Costs $0.20 per family

P.L. 111-332
The National Foundation on Physical Fitness and Sports Establishment Act
Costs $0.00 per family

P.L. 111-333
The Longfellow House-Washington’s Headquarters National Historic Site Designation Act

P.L. 111-334
A bill to amend the Act of August 9, 1955, to authorize the Coquille Indian Tribe, the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians, the Confederated Tribes of the Coos, Lower Umpqua, and Siuslaw, the Klamath Tribes, and the Burns Paiute Tribe to obtain 99-year lease authority for trust land

P.L. 111-335
The Longline Catcher Processor Subsector Single Fishery Cooperative Act

P.L. 111-336
A bill to amend the Act of August 9, 1955, to modify a provision relating to leases involving certain Indian tribes

P.L. 111-337
The Early Hearing Detection and Intervention Act of 2010
Costs $1.64 per family

P.L. 111-338
The FOR VETS Act of 2010
Costs $0.00 per family

P.L. 111-339
A bill to require reports on the management of Arlington National Cemetery

P.L. 111-340
The Museum and Library Services Act of 2010

P.L. 111-341
The Criminal History Background Checks Pilot Extension Act of 2010

P.L. 111-342
The Preserving Foreign Criminal Assets for Forfeiture Act of 2010