Bills Ron Paul has Sponsored in the 12th Congress

1. H.R.147: Prescription Drug Affordability Act – Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA) to repeal provisions restricting the importation of prescription drugs. Allows a person who meets applicable legal requirements to be an importer of prescription drugs upon application to the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS). Requires the Secretary to approve such an application if the drug meets all FFDCA requirements for admission into the United States, including that the drug has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and is not adulterated or misbranded.

Prohibits the Secretary from taking any action against any of the persons involved with the interstate sale of a prescription drug through an Internet site if: (1) the sale was made in compliance with FFDCA, the Controlled Substances Act, and applicable state laws; and (2) accurate information regarding compliance with such laws is posted on the Internet site.

Makes this Act effective one year after enactment, without regard to whether the Secretary has promulgated regulations.
Sponsor: Rep Paul, Ron [TX-14] (introduced 1/5/2011) Cosponsors (None)
Committees: House Energy and Commerce
Latest Major Action: 2/1/2011 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

2. H.R.148: To amend title II of the Social Security Act and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide prospectively that wages earned, and self-employment income derived, by individuals who are not citizens or nationals of the United States shall not be credited for coverage under the old-age, survivors, and disability insurance program under such title, and to provide the President with authority to enter into agreements with other nations taking into account such limitation on crediting of wages and self-employment income.
Sponsor: Rep Paul, Ron [TX-14] (introduced 1/5/2011) Cosponsors (None)
Committees: House Ways and Means
Latest Major Action: 1/14/2011 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Social Security.

3. H.R.149: Social Security Beneficiary Tax Reduction Act – Amends the Internal Revenue Code to repeal, effective January 1, 2011, the 1993 increase in income taxes on Social Security benefits.
Sponsor: Rep Paul, Ron [TX-14] (introduced 1/5/2011) Cosponsors (3)
Committees: House Ways and Means
Latest Major Action: 1/5/2011 Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.

4. H.R.150: Senior Citizens Tax Elimination Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to repeal the inclusion of any social security or tier I railroad retirement benefits in gross income.

Appropriates funds to cover reductions in transfers to the Social Security and Railroad Retirement Trust Funds resulting from the enactment of this Act. Expresses the sense of Congress against using tax increases to provide revenue necessary to carry out this Act.

Sponsor: Rep Paul, Ron [TX-14] (introduced 1/5/2011) Cosponsors (3)
Committees: House Ways and Means
Latest Major Action: 1/5/2011 Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.

5. H.R.151: Seniors’ Health Care Freedom Act of 2010 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to remove the affidavit requirement applicable to the use of private contracts with practitioners under Medicare.

Declares that no persons otherwise eligible for old-age benefits under Social Security shall be denied such benefits because of their voluntary refusal to participate in any part of the Medicare program.

Sponsor: Rep Paul, Ron [TX-14] (introduced 1/5/2011) Cosponsors (None)
Committees: House Ways and Means; House Energy and Commerce
Latest Major Action: 2/1/2011 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

6. H.R.219: Social Security Preservation Act of 2011 – Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act to require the Managing Trustee of the Board of Trustees of the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund and the Federal Disability Insurance Trust Fund (Social Security Trust Funds) to ensure that the annual surplus of the Social Security Trust Funds is invested in: (1) marketable interest-bearing obligations of the United States or obligations guaranteed by the United States; or (2) certificates of deposit in insured depository institutions. Outlines requirements for determining the annual surplus of the Trust Funds.

Prohibits disinvestment of Social Security Trust Fund amounts from public debt obligations, any refraining from making such investments, or any delay in making normal deposits in such Trust Funds for public debt limit-related purposes. Authorizes, with certain conditions, the sale of Social Security Trust Fund public debt obligations for the payment of cash benefits and administrative expenses.

Sponsor: Rep Paul, Ron [TX-14] (introduced 1/7/2011) Cosponsors (8)
Committees: House Ways and Means
Latest Major Action: 1/14/2011 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Social Security.

7. H.R.220: Identity Theft Prevention Act of 2011 – Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act and the Internal Revenue Code to prohibit using a Social Security account number except for specified Social Security and tax purposes. Prohibits the Social Security Administration from divulging the Social Security account number of an individual to any federal, state, or local government agency or instrumentality, or to any other individual.

Amends the Privacy Act of 1974 to prohibit any federal, state, or local government agency or instrumentality from requesting an individual to disclose his Social Security account number on either a mandatory or a voluntary basis.

Prohibits any two federal agencies or instrumentalities from implementing the same identifying number with respect to any individual (except as authorized by the Social Security Act).

Prohibits any federal agency from: (1) establishing or mandating a uniform standard for identification of an individual that is required to be used by any other federal or state agency, or by a private person, for any purpose other than that of conducting the authorized activities of the standard-establishing or -mandating federal agency; or (2) conditioning receipt of any federal grant, contract, or other federal funding on the adoption, by a state or local government, or by a state agency, of such a uniform standard.

Sponsor: Rep Paul, Ron [TX-14] (introduced 1/7/2011) Cosponsors (None)
Committees: House Ways and Means; House Oversight and Government Reform
Latest Major Action: 1/17/2011 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Social Security.

8. H.R.459: Federal Reserve Transparency Act of 2011 – Directs the Comptroller General to complete, before the end of 2012, an audit of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and of the federal reserve banks, followed by a detailed report to Congress.

Repeals specified limitations on such an audit.

Sponsor: Rep Paul, Ron [TX-14] (introduced 1/26/2011) Cosponsors (167)

Committees: House Oversight and Government Reform
Latest Major Action: 1/26/2011 Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.

9. H.R.953: Make College Affordable Act of 2011- Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow individual taxpayers a deduction from gross income for higher education expenses, including tuition and fees and reasonable living expenses while attending an institution of higher education, and for interest on certain education loans paid for the taxpayer, the taxpayer’s spouse, dependent, or grandchild.
Sponsor: Rep Paul, Ron [TX-14] (introduced 3/8/2011) Cosponsors (None)
Committees: House Ways and Means
Latest Major Action: 3/8/2011 Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.

10. H.R.954: Family Education Freedom Act of 2011 – Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a tax credit of up to $5,000 (adjusted for inflation after 2011) per student per year for the cost of attendance at any educational institution (including any private, parochial, religious, or home school) organized to provide elementary or secondary education, or both.
Sponsor: Rep Paul, Ron [TX-14] (introduced 3/8/2011) Cosponsors (None)
Committees: House Ways and Means
Latest Major Action: 3/8/2011 Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.

11. H.R.955: Professional Educators Tax Relief Act of 2011- Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow employees of prekindergarten, elementary, and secondary schools a tax credit of up to $3,000 (adjusted annually for inflation after 2011). Requires such employees to hold positions involving: (1) regular contact with students; and (2) the formulation or implementation of the educational program for the school.
Sponsor: Rep Paul, Ron [TX-14] (introduced 3/8/2011) Cosponsors (None)
Committees: House Ways and Means
Latest Major Action: 3/8/2011 Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.

12. H.R.956: Education Improvement Tax Cut Act – Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow: (1) a tax credit up to $5,000 per year (adjusted annually for inflation after 2011) for contributions to a school tuition organization which distributes at least 90 percent of its annual gross income for elementary and secondary school scholarships, and (2) a tax credit up to $5,000 per year (adjusted annually for inflation after 2011) for contributions to a school materials organization which distributes at least 90 percent of its annual gross income to elementary and secondary schools for materials and equipment for instruction and for extracurricular activities.
Sponsor: Rep Paul, Ron [TX-14] (introduced 3/8/2011) Cosponsors (1)
Committees: House Ways and Means
Latest Major Action: 3/8/2011 Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.

13. H.R.957: Teacher Tax Cut Act of 2011- Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide a tax credit of $3,000 for full-time elementary and secondary school teachers.
Sponsor: Rep Paul, Ron [TX-14] (introduced 3/8/2011) Cosponsors (None)
Committees: House Ways and Means
Latest Major Action: 3/8/2011 Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.

14. H.R.958: We the People Act – Prohibits the Supreme Court and each federal court from adjudicating any claim or relying on judicial decisions involving: (1) state or local laws, regulations, or policies concerning the free exercise or establishment of religion; (2) the right of privacy, including issues of sexual practices, orientation, or reproduction; or (3) the right to marry without regard to sex or sexual orientation where based upon equal protection of the laws.

Allows the Supreme Court and the federal courts to determine the constitutionality of federal statutes, administrative rules, or procedures in considering cases arising under the Constitution. Prohibits the Supreme Court and the federal courts from issuing any ruling that appropriates or expends money, imposes taxes, or otherwise interferes with the legislative functions or administrative discretion of the states.

Authorizes any party or intervener in matters before any federal court, including the Supreme Court, to challenge the jurisdiction of the court under this Act.

Provides that the violation of this Act by any justice or judge is an impeachable offense and a material breach of good behavior subject to removal.

Negates as binding precedent on the state courts any federal court decision that relates to an issue removed from federal jurisdiction by this Act or otherwise interfering with the legislative functions or administrative discretion of the states.

Sponsor: Rep Paul, Ron [TX-14] (introduced 3/8/2011) Cosponsors (None)
Committees: House Judiciary
Latest Major Action: 3/21/2011 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution.

15. H.R.1094: Federal Reserve Board Abolition Act – Abolishes the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and each federal reserve bank.

Repeals the Federal Reserve Act.

Sponsor: Rep Paul, Ron [TX-14] (introduced 3/15/2011) Cosponsors (None)

Committees: House Financial Services
Latest Major Action: 4/4/2011 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Domestic Monetary Policy and Technology.

16. H.R.1095: Freedom to Bank Act – Terminates any provision of federal law (other than the Internal Revenue Code) that subjects a consumer to a penalty for withdrawing or transferring funds from any transaction account or any savings or time deposit.

Declares that no creditor, depository institution, or credit union shall be required to provide periodic statements of account to a customer unless the customer has notified it of an election to receive such statements.

Requires such entities to establish a procedure for notifying customers of their right to elect to receive statements of account and the method for implementing such election.

Sponsor: Rep Paul, Ron [TX-14] (introduced 3/15/2011) Cosponsors (None)
Committees: House Financial Services
Latest Major Action: 4/4/2011 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit.

17. H.R.1096: Sanctity of Life Act of 2011 – Deems human life to exist from conception, without regard to race, sex, age, health, defect, or condition of dependency and requires that the term “person” include all such human life. Recognizes that each state has authority to protect the lives of unborn children residing in the jurisdiction of that state.

Amends the federal judicial code to remove Supreme Court and district court jurisdiction to review cases arising out of any statute, ordinance, rule, regulation, or practice, or any act interpreting such a measure, on the grounds that such measure: (1) protects the rights of human persons between conception and birth; or (2) prohibits, limits, or regulates the performance of abortions or the provision of public funds, facilities, personnel, or other assistance for abortions.

Makes this Act and the amendments made by this Act applicable to any case pending on, or commenced on or after, the date of enactment.

Sponsor: Rep Paul, Ron [TX-14] (introduced 3/15/2011) Cosponsors (None)
Committees: House Judiciary
Latest Major Action: 6/1/2011 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution.

18. H.R.1097: Complete and Permanent Property Tax Deduction Act of 2011 – Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) make the standard tax deduction for real property taxes permanent; and (2) repeal the dollar limitation on such deduction and the exclusion of foreign real property taxes.
Sponsor: Rep Paul, Ron [TX-14] (introduced 3/15/2011) Cosponsors (None)
Committees: House Ways and Means
Latest Major Action: 3/15/2011 Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.

19. H.R.1098: Free Competition in Currency Act of 2011- Repeals the federal law establishing U.S. coins, currency, and reserve notes as legal tender for all debts, public charges, taxes, and dues.

Prohibits any tax on any coin, medal, token, or gold, silver, platinum, palladium, or rhodium bullion issued by a state, the United States, a foreign government, or any other person. Prohibits states from assessing any tax or fee on any currency or other monetary instrument that is used in interstate or foreign commerce and that has legal tender status under the Constitution.

Repeals provisions of the federal criminal code relating to uttering coins of gold, silver, or other metal for use as current money and making or possessing likenesses of such coins. Abates any current prosecution under such provisions and nullifies any previous convictions.

Sponsor: Rep Paul, Ron [TX-14] (introduced 3/15/2011) Cosponsors (None)
Committees: House Financial Services; House Ways and Means; House Judiciary
Latest Major Action: 6/1/2011 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.

20. H.R.1099: Taxpayers’ Freedom of Conscience Act of 2011 – Prohibits a federal official from expending federal funds for any foreign or domestic population control or population planning program or family planning activity (including any abortion procedure).
Sponsor: Rep Paul, Ron [TX-14] (introduced 3/15/2011) Cosponsors (None)
Committees: House Foreign Affairs; House Energy and Commerce
Latest Major Action: 3/29/2011 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, and Human Rights.

21. H.R.1101: End the Mandate Act of 2011 – Repeals provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 that require individuals to maintain minimum essential health care coverage and require large employers to offer their full-time employees the opportunity to enroll in minimum essential coverage.
Sponsor: Rep Paul, Ron [TX-14] (introduced 3/15/2011) Cosponsors (None)
Committees: House Ways and Means; House Education and the Workforce
Latest Major Action: 4/4/2011 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.

22. H.R.1102: Affordable Gas Price Act – Declares without force or effect all provisions of existing federal law that prohibit spending appropriated funds to conduct oil or natural gas leasing and preleasing activities for any area of the Outer Continental Shelf.

Revokes all existing withdrawals by the President under the authority of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act.

Amends the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act to repeal: (1) the withdrawal of public lands within the Coastal Plain from entry or appropriation under federal mining or mineral leasing laws; and (2) the prohibition against the production, leasing, and development of oil and gas from the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR).

Amends the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 to shield from judicial review mandatory statements by certain federal officials regarding the environmental impact of federal actions upon the quality of the human environment.

Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) set forth additional incentives for investment in oil refineries; (2) suspend the tax on highway motor fuels when retail gasoline exceeds a certain benchmark; and (3) increase mileage reimbursement rates.

Authorizes the President to extend normal trade relations treatment to the products of the Russian Federation and Kazakhstan.

Sponsor: Rep Paul, Ron [TX-14] (introduced 3/15/2011) Cosponsors (None)
Committees: House Ways and Means; House Natural Resources
Latest Major Action: 3/17/2011 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.

23. H.R.1139: Tax Free Tips Act of 2011- Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exempt tips from the income tax, social security and railroad retirement taxes, unemployment taxes, and tax withholding. Defines “tips” as any gratuity provided to a salaried employee by a customer or client of the employer’s business.
Sponsor: Rep Paul, Ron [TX-14] (introduced 3/16/2011) Cosponsors (None)
Committees: House Ways and Means
Latest Major Action: 3/16/2011 Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.

24. H.R.1146: American Sovereignty Restoration Act of 2009 [sic]- Repeals the United Nations Participation Act of 1945 and other specified related laws. Directs the President to terminate U.S. participation in the United Nations (U.N.), including any organ, specialized agency, commission, or other affiliated body. Requires closure of the U.S. Mission to the United Nations.

Prohibits: (1) the authorization of funds for the U.S. assessed or voluntary contribution to the United Nations, (2) the authorization of funds for any U.S. contribution to any U.N. military operation, and (3) the expenditure of funds to support the participation of U.S. Armed Forces as part of any U.N. military or peacekeeping operation. Bars U.S. Armed Forces from serving under U.N. command.

Sponsor: Rep Paul, Ron [TX-14] (introduced 3/17/2011) Cosponsors (1)
Committees: House Foreign Affairs
Latest Major Action: 3/17/2011 Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.

25. H.R.1201: Thrift Savings Fund Improvement Act – Requires the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board to: (1) study the operation of existing precious metal funds to determine the best practices of such funds, (2) establish the Precious Metals Investment Fund incorporating the best practices of existing funds, and (3) make such Fund available to individuals participating in the Thrift Savings Plan. Requires that contributions to such Fund be invested in physical gold, silver, or platinum bullion.
Sponsor: Rep Paul, Ron [TX-14] (introduced 3/17/2011) Cosponsors (None)
Committees: House Oversight and Government Reform
Latest Major Action: 3/17/2011 Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.

26. H.R.1271: Agriculture Education Freedom Act – Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from the gross income of an individual any gain from the sale of any animal raised and sold by such individual as part of his or her participation in the 4-H program under the Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service of the Department of Agriculture, the Future Farmers of America, any tax-exempt similar organization, or any program of a tax-exempt educational organization.
Sponsor: Rep Paul, Ron [TX-14] (introduced 3/30/2011) Cosponsors (None)
Committees: House Ways and Means
Latest Major Action: 3/30/2011 Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.

27. H.R.1495: Gold Reserve Transparency Act of 2011 – Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to conduct a full assay, inventory, and audit of federal gold reserves, including an analysis of the sufficiency of the measures taken for their security.

Directs the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to review the results of the assay, inventory, audit, and analysis.

Sponsor: Rep Paul, Ron [TX-14] (introduced 4/12/2011) Cosponsors (None)
Committees: House Financial Services
Latest Major Action: 5/2/2011 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Domestic Monetary Policy and Technology.

28. H.R.1496: Federal Reserve Transparency Act – Directs the Comptroller General to complete, within 12 months after enactment of this Act, an audit of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and of the federal reserve banks, followed by a detailed report to Congress.
Sponsor: Rep Paul, Ron [TX-14] (introduced 4/12/2011) Cosponsors (None)
Committees: House Oversight and Government Reform
Latest Major Action: 4/27/2011 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Government Organization, Efficiency, and Financial Management.

29. H.R.1830: To authorize the interstate traffic of unpasteurized milk and milk products that are packaged for direct human consumption. – Prohibits any federal department, agency, or court from taking any action that would prohibit, interfere with, regulate, or otherwise restrict the interstate traffic of milk, or a milk product, that is unpasteurized and packaged for direct human consumption based on the determination that solely because the milk or milk product is unpasteurized, it is adulterated, misbranded, or otherwise in violation of federal law.
Sponsor: Rep Paul, Ron [TX-14] (introduced 5/11/2011) Cosponsors (None)
Committees: House Energy and Commerce
Latest Major Action: 5/13/2011 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

30. H.R.1831: Industrial Hemp Farming Act of 2011 – Amends the Controlled Substances Act to exclude industrial hemp from the definition of “marihuana.” Defines “industrial hemp” to mean the plant Cannabis sativa L. and any part of such plant, whether growing or not, with a delta-nine tetrahydrocannabinol concentration of not more than 0.3 percent on a dry weight basis. Deems Cannabis sativa L. to meet that concentration limit if a person grows or processes it for purposes of making industrial hemp in accordance with state law.
Sponsor: Rep Paul, Ron [TX-14] (introduced 5/11/2011) Cosponsors (26)
Committees: House Energy and Commerce; House Judiciary
Latest Major Action: 6/1/2011 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.

31. H.R.2044: Health Freedom Act – Prohibits the federal government from preventing the use of a claim describing any nutrient in a food or dietary supplement as mitigating, treating, or preventing any disease, disease symptom, or health-related condition unless, in a final order following a trial on the merits, a federal court finds clear and convincing evidence, based on qualified expert opinion and published peer-reviewed scientific research, that: (1) the claim is false and misleading in a material respect; and (2) there is no less speech-restrictive alternative to claim suppression that can render the claim non-misleading. Defines the term “material” to mean that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has identified a competent consumer survey demonstrating that consumers decided to purchase the food or dietary supplement based on the portion of the claim alleged to be false or misleading.

Revokes all FDA rules prohibiting nutrient-disease relationship claims.

Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA) to deem a food to be misbranded only when its label includes a claim adjudicated to be false and misleading under this Act. Removes limits on health claims on food provided for in the FFDCA.

Prohibits the government from preventing distribution of a publication concerning the sale of a food or dietary supplement unless: (1) it establishes that a claim contained in the publication names the specific food or supplement sold and represents that the food or supplement mitigates, treats, or prevents a disease; and (2) the claim is proven to be false and misleading in accordance with this Act.

Sponsor: Rep Paul, Ron [TX-14] (introduced 5/26/2011) Cosponsors (1)
Committees: House Energy and Commerce
Latest Major Action: 6/3/2011 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

32. H.R.2045: Freedom of Health Speech Act
Sponsor: Rep Paul, Ron [TX-14] (introduced 5/26/2011) Cosponsors (1)
Committees: House Energy and Commerce
Latest Major Action: 6/3/2011 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade.

33. H.R.2080: Evacuees Tax Relief Act of 2011 – Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow individual taxpayers to elect either a tax credit or tax deduction for up to $5,000 of their voluntary or mandatory evacuation expenses due to a disaster.
Sponsor: Rep Paul, Ron [TX-14] (introduced 6/1/2011) Cosponsors (None)
Committees: House Ways and Means
Latest Major Action: 6/1/2011 Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.

34. H.R.2262: Unemployment Assistance Act of 2011 – Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from gross income amounts distributed from tax-exempt retirement plans, health savings accounts, Roth individual retirement accounts (IRAs), and qualified tuition programs to pay for certain living, health care and education or job training expenses of a taxpayer during a period of unemployment not exceeding two years.
Sponsor: Rep Paul, Ron [TX-14] (introduced 6/21/2011) Cosponsors (None)
Committees: House Ways and Means
Latest Major Action: 6/21/2011 Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.

35. H.R.2263: Unemployed Tax Relief Act of 2011 – Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from the gross income of an employee who is separated from employment due to a reduction in force the last regular payment of wages prior to such separation and any severance pay received in connection with such separation. Exempts such wages and severance pay from employment-related taxation.

Requires transfers from the Treasury to employment-related trust funds to compensate for revenues lost by such trust funds due to this Act.

Sponsor: Rep Paul, Ron [TX-14] (introduced 6/21/2011) Cosponsors (None)
Committees: House Ways and Means
Latest Major Action: 6/21/2011 Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.

36. H.R.2438: American Traveller Dignity Act of 2011
Sponsor: Rep Paul, Ron [TX-14] (introduced 7/7/2011) Cosponsors (None)
Committees: House Judiciary
Latest Major Action: 7/7/2011 Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.

37. H.R.2613: Citizens Protection Act of 2011 – Repeals provisions of the federal criminal code that prohibit the possession of a firearm in a school zone.
Sponsor: Rep Paul, Ron [TX-14] (introduced 7/21/2011) Cosponsors (None)
Committees: House Judiciary
Latest Major Action: 7/21/2011 Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.

38. H.R.2614: The Entrepreneurship Tax Cut Act of 2011
Sponsor: Rep Paul, Ron [TX-14] (introduced 7/21/2011) Cosponsors (None)
Committees: House Ways and Means
Latest Major Action: 7/21/2011 Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.

39. H.R.2615: Second Amendment Protection Act of 2011 – Repeals the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act and the Federal Firearms License Reform Act of 1993. Restores and revives any provisions amended or repealed by such Acts as if such Acts had not been enacted.

Repeals provisions of the Internal Revenue Code and the federal criminal code distinguishing firearms used or suitable for sporting, recreational, or cultural purposes from firearms used generally.

Repeals the Child Safety Lock Act of 2005 and other provisions of the federal criminal code relating to gun storage and gun safety devices.

Sponsor: Rep Paul, Ron [TX-14] (introduced 7/21/2011) Cosponsors (None)
Committees: House Judiciary; House Ways and Means
Latest Major Action: 7/21/2011 Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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.

40. H.R.2616: Anti-Terrorism Act of 2011
Sponsor: Rep Paul, Ron [TX-14] (introduced 7/21/2011) Cosponsors (None)
Committees: House Transportation and Infrastructure; House Homeland Security
Latest Major Action: 7/25/2011 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Transportation Security.

41. H.R.2768: To cancel public debt held by the Federal Reserve System and to lower the public debt limit by an equal amount.
Sponsor: Rep Paul, Ron [TX-14] (introduced 8/1/2011) Cosponsors (None)
Committees: House Ways and Means
Latest Major Action: 8/1/2011 Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.

42. H.R.2769: Parental Consent Act of 2011
Sponsor: Rep Paul, Ron [TX-14] (introduced 8/1/2011) Cosponsors (2)
Committees: House Energy and Commerce; House Ways and Means; House Education and the Workforce
Latest Major Action: 8/1/2011 Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and Education and the Workforce, 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.

43. H.J.RES.50: Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relative to abolishing personal income, estate, and gift taxes and prohibiting the United States Government from engaging in business in competition with its citizens.

Constitutional Amendment – Prohibits the U.S. government from engaging in any business, professional, commercial, financial, or industrial enterprise except as specified in the Constitution.

Prohibits the constitution or laws of any state, or the laws of the United States, from being subject to the terms of any foreign or domestic agreement which would abrogate this amendment.

Requires any activities of the U.S. government which violate the intent and purposes of this amendment to be liquidated and the properties and facilities affected to be sold within three years from the date of ratification of this amendment.

Repeals the Sixteenth Amendment to the Constitution three years after ratification of this amendment and thereafter prohibits Congress from levying taxes on personal incomes, estates, and gifts.
Sponsor: Rep Paul, Ron [TX-14] (introduced 3/15/2011) Cosponsors (None)
Committees: House Judiciary
Latest Major Action: 3/15/2011 Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.

44. H.CON.RES.31: Expressing the sense of Congress that the President is required to obtain in advance specific statutory authorization for the use of United States Armed Forces in response to civil unrest in Libya.
Sponsor: Rep Paul, Ron [TX-14] (introduced 3/15/2011) Cosponsors (10)
Committees: House Foreign Affairs
Latest Major Action: 3/15/2011 Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.

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"When God sends a Ron Paul, I cannot vote for a Mitt Romney." ... a Mormon writes on TheReaganWing.com

Returning from Washington State Republican Party Credentials Committee Meeting in Moses Lake, I could no longer escape the conclusion. The GOP presidential nomination was predetermined. By Republican insiders, much as it was for John McCain.

The cheating IN the Washington State GOP convention credentials committee that convened at Moses Lake replicated much of the cheating they were supposed to be adjudicating. Slander, suppression of speech, and illegal procedures were dominant.

The State GOP, at the direction of Kirby Wilbur, has been acting on behalf of the Romney campaign to protect it from the corrective operation of rules, grossly manipulating the process and we will give it to you line-by-line.

I believe that it would take a miracle, now, to change the outcome. Despite the fact that I do not cease to work for that miracle, I will now begin to report on the lemming-like determination of Party insiders to seek their own destruction.

In November the voters will choose between two startlingly similar men with ironically contrasting images. Both men are tall and skinny, script-dependent, bookish and carry a long history of saying one thing and doing another. For those of you in Rio Linda that means “lying.”

But there are more substantive similarities. Both men had relatively short histories in government before seeking the Presidency. Both established telling adherence to similar principles in those short periods, one as a single-term Senator, the other as a single-term Governor.

Both were pro-abortion and pro-tax-funded abortion. Both supported and worked for gay rights and gay marriage. Both raised taxes, raised spending, supported greater gun control and worked to implement Agenda 21 land control.

Both men support the control of our currency by, and the embezzlement of every American’s property by, private bankers and have major funding from Goldman-Sachs.

Most visibly, both men spearheaded and passed government-controlled universal health care legislation, one destroying freedoms for Massachusetts, the other for all America.

Both men have attempted, astonishingly but not surprisingly, to assume the mantle of Ronald Reagan (though only one of them has had the honor of Kirby Wilbur, chair of the Washington State Republican Party literally sitting behind his literature table in 2012.) Both candidates (if they simply follow the course each has outlined) will lead us into much deeper financial crisis if elected in November.

How is it possible that the Republican Party has determined to run such an obvious imposter?

I will tell the Washington State part of that tale from a unique vantage point: from inside the conventions and caucuses, from first-hand observers and participants, from leaders and activists, from videos and affidavits.

This is a story that will change or destroy the Republican Party. For, if it will not change as an institution, the GOP cannot survive its own corruption.

This is a story of cheaters, Predators, and parliamentary clowns, of innocent sheep and useful idiots at every level of the Republican institution, but also of traitors in every Presidential campaign.

“Pay no attention…”

As a race, human beings are fatally flawed, universally in need of redemption.
The Republican Party has, in the past, offered itself as a means to redeem American Government, to return it to our founding principles, to the Constitution, small government and the rule of law. But the Party is now, itself, riddled with treachery and dry rot and is corrupt at the very top.

We must reform or perish.

The Reagan Wing will lift back the curtain and expose the secret manipulator of process behind it, the one who hates to be recorded.

As we examine our dark side, let us look to our Creator for that redemption and renewal; for I have become convinced there is no human power that can disentangle the convolutions of our corruption.

It is the intervention of the Almighty in the affairs of our Nation upon which we must now depend.

~ Doug Parris, June 2004

Just because you were once the most powerful nation on earth does not mean that you will always be the most powerful nation on earth. Every single year, hundreds of billions of dollars leaves the United States and goes to China. This enormous transfer of wealth has had a dramatic effect on both countries. In case you haven't noticed, many of our formerly great manufacturing cities such as Detroit are rotting away while shining new factories and skyscrapers are going up all over China. If you go into any major retail store today and start turning over products, you will find that hundreds of them have been made in China and that very few of them have been made in America. As a nation, we buy far, far more from China than they buy from us. As a result, China is absolutely swimming in cash and they have been looking for things to do with all that money. One thing that China has done is loan the U.S. government over a trillion dollars and this has given the Chinese a tremendous amount of leverage over us. China has also started to buy up businesses, real estate and natural resources all over America. This kind of "economic colonization" is similar to what China has already been doing in Africa, South America and Australia. The formula is actually very simple. We send them our money and then they use it to buy us. With each passing day China's ownership over America grows, and it is frightening to think about where all of this could end.

The following are 45 signs that China is colonizing America....

#1 It was recently announced that China’s Dalian Wanda Group has bought U.S. movie theater chain AMC Entertainment for a whopping 2.6 billion dollars. This deal represents China's biggest corporate takeover of a U.S. firm ever.

#2 Earlier this month, the Federal Reserve announced that it has given approval for banks owned by the Chinese government to buy stakes in U.S.-owned banks.

#3 A few days ago Reuters reported that China is now able to completely bypass Wall Street and purchase U.S. debt directly from the U.S. Treasury Department.

#4 A recent investigation by the U.S. Senate Committee on Armed Services found more than one million counterfeit Chinese parts in the Department of Defense supply chain. How in the world could we be so stupid?

#5 After being bailed out by U.S. taxpayers, General Motors is currently involved in 11 joint ventures with companies owned by the Chinese government. The price for entering into many of these "joint ventures" was a transfer of "state of the art technology" from General Motors to the communist Chinese.

#6 A Chinese company known as "Sino-Michigan Properties LLC" has purchased 200 acres of land near the town of Milan, Michigan. The goal is to build a "China City" with artificial lakes, a Chinese cultural center and hundreds of housing units for Chinese citizens.

#7 As I reported on recently, corporations controlled by the Chinese government have been rapidly buying up U.S. oil and gas deposits worth billions of dollars.

#8 Chinese investors have been gobbling up real estate all over New York City. The following is from a recent Forbes article....

According to a recent report in the New York Times, investors from China are “snapping up luxury apartments” and are planning to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on commercial and residential projects like Atlantic Yards in Brooklyn. Chinese companies also have signed major leases at the Empire State Building and at 1 World Trade Center, the report said.

#9 The Chinese are also doing huge real estate deals in cities in the middle part of the country. The following example is from an article in the Toledo Blade....

Dashing Pacific Group Ltd., which has already purchased the nearby Docks restaurant complex for $2.15 million, put its $3.8 million offer to buy the southern 69 acres at the Marina District in East Toledo back on the table for approval by Toledo City Council. Additionally, Dashing Pacific Chairman Yuan Xiaohong, in a letter signed in Hangzhou, said the firm wants a two-year option to buy the decommissioned Toledo Edison power plant property on the site.

#10 According to ABC News, major road and bridge projects all over the United States are being built by Chinese companies. Meanwhile, there are millions upon millions of blue collar American workers that cannot find jobs. The following is a brief excerpt from a recent ABC News article....

In New York there is a $400 million renovation project on the Alexander Hamilton Bridge.

In California, there is a $7.2 billion project to rebuild the Bay Bridge connecting San Francisco and Oakland.

In Alaska, there is a proposal for a $190 million bridge project.

These projects sound like steps in the right direction, but much of the work is going to Chinese government-owned firms.

"When we subsidize jobs in China, we're not creating any wealth in the United States," said Scott Paul, executive director for the Alliance for American Manufacturing.

#11 The new World Trade Center tower is going to include glass that has been imported from China.

#12 The new Martin Luther King memorial on the National Mall was made in China.

#13 Check out this incredible photo which contrasts the decline of Detroit over the years with the amazing rise of Shanghai, China.

#14 A couple of years ago, a large Chinese company was considering building "a 10,000- to 30,000-acre technology zone for industry, retail centers and homes" just south of Boise, Idaho.

#15 Our trade deficit with China in 2011 was $295.5 billion. That was the largest trade deficit that one country has had with another country in the history of the planet.

#16 In 2011, our trade deficit with China was 28 times larger than it was back in 1990 and more than 49,000 times larger than it was back in 1985.

#17 Back in 1998, the United States had 25 percent of the world’s high-tech export market and China had just 10 percent. Today, China's high-tech exports are more than twice the size of U.S. high-tech exports.

#18 America has lost more than a quarter of all of its high-tech manufacturing jobs over the past ten years.

#19 According to the Economic Policy Institute, America is losing half a million jobs to China every single year.

#20 The U.S. spends about 4 dollars on goods and services from China for every one dollar that China spends on goods and services from the United States. Does that sound like "fair trade" to you?

#21 While we allow Chinese goods to freely flood our shores, China just keeps slapping new tariffs on American-made goods. According to the New York Times, a Jeep Grand Cherokee that costs $27,490 in the United States costs about $85,000 in China thanks to all the tariffs.

#22 According to U.S. Representative Betty Sutton, an average of 23 manufacturing facilities a day closed down in the United States during 2010.

#23 The United States has lost an average of approximately 50,000 manufacturing jobs a month and more than 56,000 manufacturing facilities in the United States have been shut down since China joined the World Trade Organization in 2001.

#24 The United States has lost a staggering 32 percent of its manufacturing jobs since the year 2000.

#25 Between December 2000 and December 2010, 38 percent of the manufacturing jobs in Ohio were lost, 42 percent of the manufacturing jobs in North Carolina were lost and 48 percent of the manufacturing jobs in Michigan were lost.

#26 In 2010, China produced more than twice as many automobiles as the United States did.

#27 In 2010, China produced 627 million metric tons of steel. The United States only produced 80 million metric tons of steel.

#28 In 2010, China produced 7.3 million metric tons of cotton. The United States only produced 3.4 million metric tons of cotton.

#29 Today, China produces nearly twice as much beer as the United States does.

#30 85 percent of all artificial Christmas trees are made in China.

#31 China is now the number one producer of wind and solar power on the entire globe.

#32 Chinese solar panel production was about 50 times larger in 2010 than it was in 2005.

#33 Right now, China is producing more than three times as much coal as the United States does.

#34 China is now the number one supplier of components that are critical to the operation of U.S. defense systems.

#35 According to author Clyde Prestowitz, China's number one export to the U.S. is computer equipment. According to an article in U.S. News & World Report, during 2010 the number one U.S. export to China was "scrap and trash".

#36 According to Professor Alan Blinder of Princeton University, 40 million more U.S. jobs could be sent offshore over the next two decades.

#37 The United States had been the leading consumer of energy on the globe for about 100 years, but during the summer of 2010 China took over the number one spot.

#38 15 years ago, China was 14th in the world in published scientific research articles. But now, China is expected to pass the United States and become number one very shortly.

#39 China now awards more doctoral degrees in engineering each year than the United States does.

#40 China now possesses the fastest supercomputer on the entire planet.

#41 China now has the world's fastest train and the world's most extensive high-speed rail network.

#42 The Chinese economy has grown 7 times faster than the U.S. economy has over the past decade.

#43 The Chinese economy is projected to be larger than the U.S. economy by 2016.

#44 One economist is projecting that the Chinese economy will be three times larger than the U.S. economy by the year 2040.

#45 China now holds approximately 1.17 trillion dollars of U.S. government debt. If you were alive back when Jesus was born and you had spent a million dollars every single day since then, you still would not have spent that much money by now.

In compiling the statistics above, I relied heavily on two articles that I previously authored. You can find them here and here.

Please share this list with as many people as you can. It is imperative that the American people get educated about why our economy is falling apart and about why there are so few jobs.

Thanks to the foolishness of our politicians, today American workers have to compete directly for jobs with workers on the other side of the globe where it is legal to pay slave labor wages.

Do you want your standard of living to continue to descend toward the level of a communist worker making about a dollar an hour?

Do you want tens of millions of American workers to be unemployed indefinitely as millions of good jobs continue to leave this country?

If not, you better stand up and say something while you still can.

The greatest economy the world has ever seen is falling to pieces right in front of our eyes and most Americans are dead asleep.

Is there any hope for us?

The Threat The UN Poses To America Greater Than You Think

Why are SOCIALIST PROGRESSIVES of both political parties so hell-bent on surrendering our sovereignty as a nation to the United Nations? It is being reported that Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton are trying to give the United Nations the power to regulate the purchase and sale of arms and ammunition into and out of America. It has also been reported that Obama wants to turn our control of about a third of the world’s ocean area that we now patrol over to the United Nations. (The UN has done a bang up job of putting an end to piracy on the high seas, don’t you agree?) The Obama administration and some PROGRESSIVE judges would like to be able to bring in International Law to help determine American law cases……why?

What wisdom pours forth from the United Nations that we here in America, the freest thinkers in the world, need to tap into to solve our problems as well as those of the world? Somehow and somewhere, the United Nations has become this bastion of enlightenment to the PROGRESSIVE community, when in fact, the organization has taken major steps backwards. The United States pays the largest portion of the UN’s financing and operational costs.

The United States allowed the UN to be located on our sovereign territory (New York), even though diplomats continually flaunt our laws and snob their noses at us while in session. America has always been a major contributor to UN actions, serving along side the UN’s forces but maintaining our separate command and control as per LAW. No one has the authority to subordinate United States military forces under any other command unless specifically permitted by Congress. To my knowledge. it hasn’t happened…yet.

15 years ago, an American army medic named Michael New was dishonorably discharged because he refused to replace his American uniform flag with the emblem of the United Nations. Then-President Bill Clinton issued an executive order that ordered American forces to place themselves under UN command….New refused. There is new evidence that Clinton knew that his executive order was illegal. Michael New and his attorneys are currently appealing his discharge to the military. New, apparently isn’t the first military person to refuse to wear the UN logo. He is also not the first to either be dishonorably discharged or give up their commission for such a refusal.

What kind of insanity grips these PROGRESSIVES that they are so eager to give our sovereignty and power away to a less than dubious organization? If these people don’t want to keep America strong, then why do they run for political office? Every politician that runs for federal office takes an oath to our Constitution, not the UN charter! The United Nations has become nothing more than a sounding board for despots, dictators, and mad men. The United Nations’ impotence has been glaringly revealed in their inability to stop the slaughter in Syria, Libya, and Egypt.

The final truth is that we didn’t vote for any of those people in the United Nations; we DID, however, vote for the people in Washington D.C. to look out for America’s interest. If Obama and his minions are unwilling to abide by the will of the American people, then it is time for them to go. This is our country, and we the people will decide how it’s run, NOT the UN.