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WashingtonWatch.com Digest – January 10, 2011

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On the Blog: Health Care Law Repeal, Controlling Congressional Pay

More than 300 bills were introduced last week, the first week of the new Congress. A couple of subjects got special attention in the new crop of bills: repealing the new health care law and controlling congressional pay.

Read about it—and see the bills—in a post entitled: 112th Congress Begins: Health Care Law Repeal & Congressional Pay Control.

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Due to the tragic attack on Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) Saturday, Congress has postponed its schedule. Our condolences go to the families of those killed, and we wish a speedy recovery to the injured.

The bill originally scheduled for debate this week was H.R. 2, The Repealing the Job-Killing Health Care Law Act. The bill would repeal Public Law 111-148, often called “Obamacare.”

No cost estimate for H.R. 2 is available.

H.R. 2
The Repealing the Job-Killing Health Care Law Act

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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. 111-343
To require the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation to fully insure Interest on Lawyers Trust Accounts

P.L. 111-344
The Omnibus Trade Act of 2010

P.L. 111-345
The Restore Online Shoppers’ Confidence Act

P.L. 111-346
The Helping Heroes Keep Their Homes Act of 2010

P.L. 111-347
The James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act of 2009
Costs $74.88 per family

P.L. 111-348
The Shark Conservation Act of 2009

P.L. 111-349
To establish a pilot program in certain United States district courts to encourage enhancement of expertise in patent cases among district judges

P.L. 111-350
To enact certain laws relating to public contracts as title 41, United States Code, “Public Contracts”

P.L. 111-351
The Pre-Disaster Mitigation Act of 2009
Costs $6.29 per family

P.L. 111-352
The Government Efficiency, Effectiveness, and Performance Improvement Act of 2009
Costs $0.69 per family

P.L. 111-353
The FDA Food Safety Modernization Act
Saves $0.09 per family

P.L. 111-354
The Indian Pueblo Cultural Center Clarification Act
Costs $0.00 per family

P.L. 111-355
To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1332 Sharon Copley Road in Sharon Center, Ohio, as the “Emil Bolas Post Office”

P.L. 111-356
The Northern Border Counternarcotics Strategy Act of 2010

P.L. 111-357
The National Wildlife Refuge Volunteer Improvement Act of 2010
Costs $0.08 per family

P.L. 111-358
The America COMPETES Reauthorization Act of 2010
Costs $583.78 per family

P.L. 111-359
To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 331 1st Street in Carlstadt, New Jersey, as the “Staff Sergeant Frank T. Carvill and Lance Corporal Michael A. Schwarz Post Office Building”

P.L. 111-360
To exclude an external power supply for certain security or life safety alarms and surveillance system components from the application of certain energy efficiency standards under the Energy Policy and Conservation Act

P.L. 111-361
To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 47 East Fayette Street in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, as the “George C. Marshall Post Office”

P.L. 111-362
To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 47 South 7th Street in Indiana, Pennsylvania, as the “James M. ‘Jimmy’ Stewart Post Office Building”

P.L. 111-363
To designate the Little River Branch facility of the United States Postal Service located at 140 NE 84th Street in Miami, Florida, as the “Jesse J. McCrary, Jr. Post Office”

P.L. 111-364
The Diesel Emissions Reduction Act of 2010
Costs $0.03 per family

P.L. 111-365
To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 655 Centre Street in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, as the “Lance Corporal Alexander Scott Arredondo, United States Marine Corps Post Office Building”

P.L. 111-366
The Real Estate Jobs and Investment Act of 2010

P.L. 111-367
To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 5003 Westfields Boulevard in Centreville, Virginia, as the “Colonel George Juskalian Post Office Building”

P.L. 111-368
To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 111 North 6th Street in St. Louis, Missouri, as the “Earl Wilson, Jr. Post Office”

P.L. 111-369
The Access to Criminal History Records for State Sentencing Commissions Act of 2010

P.L. 111-370
To direct the Administrator of General Services to convey a parcel of real property in Houston, Texas, to the Military Museum of Texas, and for other purposes

P.L. 111-371
The Local Community Radio Act of 2010

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